Fubar focuses on the tengu to detect evil......
Rather than speaking after concentrating fubar instead sheaths his sword and waits.
Andreas approaches the mounted birdman cautiously. The paladin attempts to look nonthreatening, but his is unwilling to leave his glaive and leaves the weapon at rest on his shoulder.
Tengu have attacked the human settlement at the foot of the mountains. A building was set aflame, and people were killed. Items, relics recovered from the Frostlands, were stolen; we seek their return.
"Young tengu lacking in leadership went to retrieve artifacts from human thieves"
"My grandfather found the first artifact in the ice and from it a message setting the tengu on the path to finding other pieces in the ice. Even now a great beast from the ice is awakened and building this place."
"My grandfather worked on this vision to free the tengu, my father worked on this and I have spent my life to free the tengu from areas around the humans"
The human who claimed the artifacts as his own stated they were found in the ice, not stolen. We have little reason to disbelieve his claims, but I will not deny the possibility that he had taken what rightfully belonged to your kind.
That said, tengu attacked and killed innocents uninvolved in the acquisition of the artifacts. Andreas has some difficulty uttering the word "innocent"; the Scions may not have been directly involved; but he still doesn't trust the organization. Of these facts there is no doubt, and it leads one to question the truth of your claims.
Andreas pauses before continuing, allowing time for the weight of his words to sink in. If the artifacts are truly yours, we shall not pursue them any further. But you must be able to demonstrate the truth of your story. I trust you can do so?
The winged serpent curls up on the ice behind the elder tengu.
"Demonstrate to me your proof?"
The elder looks pleased with himself.
"I ask you to turn away"
"Bother us no more"
"Go and seek your truth human truth from humans."
"The truth lies where the iron man was found."
"Where was the iron man found?" K asks politely.
Diplomacy
It lies with you, not us, to prove the truth of you claims. If such proof is buried in the ice fields, show it to us. Provide us an escort. Consider it a sign of good faith.
If you will not, we insist that you return that which was taken. We will only leave you after we have the artifacts in hand, or you provide evidence they are rightfully yours.
The tengu notices Caydee...
"The iron man was found by the tengu, till a group of humans came into the frostlands their purposes unknown, and drove the tengu away from the site. They worked to free the iron giant, but first they took the source from it."
"The tengu have one of the iron giants not like the man and we dragged it toward this place. Once the lost tengu returned with the source, the iron giant was resurrected and built this city for the tengu."
Then turns back to Andreas
"I can bring the giant out of the fortress and let you see that long have the tengu worked for this day, or return to our ancestral home and see for yourselves where the first iron giant sat."
The winged serpent uncoils intself behind the tengu. The tengu mounts the serpent and prepares to depart.
"Wait here. I will send the iron giant to the entry way of the fortress and you can decide to stay or to go."
"I say we stay and see this iron giant," Caydee says quietly to the rest of the group.
A few minutes pass after the winged serpent and the tengu fly for the icy fortress and disappear behind a distant peak. A large metal giant rolling on several long tubes, almost like a rock being quarried and moved by placing logs in front of it comes into view.
The metal giant has two arms and several potrusions along its back...
A flash of red comes from the protrusion on the right side just beside the head, the red hits the water in the distance causing some of the water to steam.
For the party
1. return to investigate the tengu claims
2. assault the fortress
3. return to obtain reinforcements then #2
4. wait and capture a tengu when it leaves the fortress
5. sneak into the fortress and locate said guilty tengus
6. anything else that comes to mind..........
I can also send layout of the fortress to whoever needs it along with the idea concerning the ancient artifacts and the value of the pieces.
As DM I tried to balance moving forward with PC participation assuming in decision instances that if three players made a choice that was the direction it went.
Cay looks appraisingly at the giant. "The tengu haven't made much trouble before now, and I wouldn't feel right about attacking without knowing who's in the right. I say we investigate their claims."
Andreas nods. Lets stay put until the speaker, or another, returns. We can ask again for a guide. I certainly don't want to be wandering across the ice without one this time of year. Or any time of the year, for that matter; the cold is rather harsh for one used to a warmer climate.
The machine quickly returns to the caverns within the icy fortress.
Soon a lone tengu walks along the way pulling a cart behind him. he goes slowly frequently checking the cargo....
Soon enough he arrives at the crank toward the fortress and cranks the bridge and the party to his side.
"I am called Siemu, I have brought this cart of potions and oils such that as an offering of good faith and a favor to ask of you."
"Each of you may select a potion or oil from this cart or tell me what you need and I will locate it here.....In exchange you promise not to tell others where the tengu are or to return here without cause."
The machine quickly returns to the caverns within the icy fortress.
Soon a lone tengu walks along the way pulling a cart behind him. he goes slowly frequently checking the cargo....
Soon enough he arrives at the crank toward the fortress and cranks the bridge and the party to his side.
"I am called Siemu, I have brought this cart of potions and oils such that as an offering of good faith and a favor to ask of you."
"Each of you may select a potion or oil from this cart or tell me what you need and I will locate it here.....In exchange you promise not to tell others where the tengu are or to return here without cause."
Caydee nods subtly to the rest of the group, indicating that she thinks they should comply.
The tengu considers you....
"The offer was carefully made, not to forget or ignore murder or any other such things, but to not return without proof of a wrong, as I said before without cause."
"As it is now few tengu have gotten any rest we just barely made the trek across the frozen wastes to get here, most have suffered the journay, the labor of carrying our things and the cold that came."
"Here at long last we have found a place of peace and rest away from the humans..."
"Some considered killing you as you spent the night outside but Ezonner would not allow it, as it is not his nature, he rightly holds the count of our peoples deaths 108 tengu have died at human hands in the history of our people, what is your claim of the opposite."
"Is there a potion or oil I can interest you in..."
cure light wounds
endure elements
magic weapon
pass without trace
bless weapon
With a courtious nod to the tengu, Cay goes over and selects a potion of cure light wounds.
Andreas accepts a vial, nodding his thanks as he does so. My friend speaks true; you say your kind found the trek here to be difficult. It would only be more so for, should we set out to search for the site of the giant's discovery without guidance.
Fubar accepts a potion and scratches his head....
"So we are gonna go back tah where we came from?"
The tengu fotress sits on the ice floe far from Camlin's gorge....
Use your late perception check
DC 13
You realize that likely the fortress will be difficult to find once the major tracks of the tengu fade and the stalking wolves are gone.
Siemu consider for a moment your need for a guide....
"I have something that will help you in locating the area."
He leaves quickly and returns with a small wooden chest.
"I hope that one day you can return this to me or at least get another one. Let me show you how it operates...."
Astrolabe
Source Adventurer's Armory 5
This device consists of a flat disc upon which two other discs are mounted. The mounted discs can rotate on a central axis, allowing them to spin and move as days pass. The bottom disc represents the latitude of the user; an astrolabe is useless if the user is outside the preset latitude. The upper disc represents the sky, and is filled with astronomical features. Anyone can be shown how to use an astrolabe at night to determine the date and time (which takes 1 minute). When using an astrolabe, you can make a Survival check using your Intelligence modifier instead of your Wisdom modifier to avoid becoming lost.
"I tell you this as well as far as we are out right now, this place is shifting beneath our feet moving further from Camlin's gorge and deeper into the ocean of ice."
"The journey of the Tengu from the world of men has actually just begun as even now we move further into this ocean of ice."
"Ezonner believes that one day in the middle of the floe we shall be and stay, very far away from this place even."
The next time the group confers, Caydee says, "I believe the greater evil would be to risk killing for a misundersating, than risk missing a chance to avenge my townfolk."
I am thinking a couple of 2nd level PC's that took off after the party and meets the party shortly!
Does anyone want to set up the recruiting thread?
Who wants to DM?
I am thinking a couple of 2nd level PC's that took off after the party and meets the party shortly!
Does anyone want to set up the recruiting thread?
Who wants to DM?
I guess I could DM.
It is up to you on who takes over Obsidian Portal.....
If no one else steps forward you can e-mail it to me....
fhoneyc@hotmail.com
There is alot of good information there.....
Go ahead and start the recruitment thread!
Looks like we have at least one interested already!!
As you get ready to leave the tengu a bitter storm blows in and the temperatures quickly drop.
The tengu invite you into the entry of the icy fortress
and
you sing songs till the storm passes....
I am waiting on that to happen...
I would think everyone could use GM rights over on obsidian portal...
Right now I do not have it.
Obsidian portal seems to be working......