Good morning FAWTLY Folk. Definitely NOT a happy Thursday. I was finally starting to feel better from a cold I had caught before Halloween. Then last night...BAM! Throat started feeling scratchy, etc, etc.
Otherwise, got two books from Amazon yesterday! WOOT!!!
One is by Brian Lumley - Iced on Aran, the 4th book in his Dreamlands series. Dreamlands as in HPL's Dreamlands. Been meaning to get that book for a long time.
The second book is call High Opp - a previously unpublished Frank Herbert novel! DOUBLE WOOT!!! I probably should have taken the time to include a few more Herbet books I don't own yet, but I wanted to get the order in and didn't want to wait until I got home to double check the books I had there. A while back I was in a used bookstore (sadly now closed) in the mall and picked up few Herbert books, but couldn't remember which ones.
I really hope it's 9th grade algebra. I mostly remember that. If it's calc, I reeeeeally hope they've got an altruist in the class who doesn't mind helping.
CJ has been having some RL troubles lately. He is getting caught up on them, but just like everything, catching up takes a while. I have been VERY proud of how well CJ has been handling things.
Good morning FAWTLY Folk. Definitely NOT a happy Thursday. I was finally starting to feel better from a cold I had caught before Halloween. Then last night...BAM! Throat started feeling scratchy, etc, etc.
Stoopid co-worker who came to work sick.
I've been saying it for a long time now: Thursdays baaaad! And not the good kind of bad.
It was the Will-o-Wisp at the Lizardfolk camp in Rivers Run Red, the one they think is the spirit of their ancestor. It attacked them. In the fight, Scint's Oracle got a crit on it with an Eldritch Bolt, turned it to stone, and it shattered in front of the whole tribe.
So yeah, accident, but a merited one. He started the fight. Mostly.
CJ has been having some RL troubles lately. He is getting caught up on them, but just like everything, catching up takes a while. I have been VERY proud of how well CJ has been handling things.
So yeah, accident, but a merited one. He started the fight. Mostly.
My PCs handled it a little more directly, being angry over the macguffin. The antagonists were warned to NEVER violate their lands, and then they left.
So yeah, accident, but a merited one. He started the fight. Mostly.
My PCs handled it a little more directly, being angry over the macguffin. The antagonists were warned to NEVER violate their lands, and then they left.
Spoiler:
My party was pretty ticked too, but were originally planning to talk it out with them, and negotiate for the kid's release - they'd killed a hydra earlier in the day, and were still carrying around two of its heads, and were going to offer a trade. Vesket seemed pretty okay with the offer at first. Then the Wisp ordered Vesket to kill them, so the Spymistress opened fire on Vesket, and the whole thing exploded into a brawl.
My party actually managed to turn Vesket against the thing.
How it went:
Necromancer: "If this is truly a spirit of your ancestor, why is the floating skull shaped like that of a man and not of a lizard?"
I rolled a Sense Motive check for Vesket just for the hilarious way of solving the situation. The successful roll led to a crit killing the Will-o-Wisp.
However, Vesket didn't let them stay for long. He's playing up the strong and stoic leader, and it can be seen by how how glared at the party despite them helping out.
The description specifically does say it took the form of a lizardfolk skull - I even managed to dig up a picture of a dragon skull colored green to use for my token in MapTool for him - but that's a hilarious catch. Maybe it slipped up and switched to a human skull shape when it saw human prey? ;)
Still hilarious. Good on them for catching it and getting Vesket on their side.
Anyway, I imagine my group will fix things up now that it's beaten
Spoiler:
and, due to an error on my part last session, Vesket's not as dead as we thought he was, so they might be able to recover from this without too much further conflict.
Of course, when they get back to town, it'll be almost time for Grigori to show up...
My party has given him a LOT of ammunition. Making deals with a Worg then having sudden wolf attacks immediately after his territory is annexed, running off in the second month of the kingdom's existence then starting prep for building an army when they come scurrying back, the Magister's a pyromaniac who talks to his sword, starting a mine in the winter just before a blizzard hits...
On the other hand, the Duchess is a Diplomancer Extraordinaire. So it'll be close.