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Topic: Save The Princess recruitment
Subject: Yup
Loved it too. Then again a new game would be nice too.
A Vidarak fighter. That ok with you, Alacrity?
Posted on 2009-12-12 at 21:44:29.
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Topic: Save The Princess recruitment
Subject: Yeppah
Oooh yeah, baby. Count me in!
I've already made one Drannese character for Cap's game and could use that if the game never takes off. Then again, since I'm hoping Cap'n Lou returns soon, I'll create another one instead.
Dunno, maybe a warrior?
Posted on 2009-12-12 at 20:59:07.
Edited on 2009-12-12 at 21:06:09 by Raven
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Topic: Santa Claus Letters
Subject: Bah!
Of course Santa exists. When you people come to visit Finland, you simply cannot miss the Santa Claus' Village on the Arctic Circle.
Oh and here's a nice little video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsMvSNCneM8
Posted on 2009-12-08 at 08:11:05.
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Topic: RDInnsider - The March Issue Is Here!
Subject: Yay
*gives another hug to Meri*
Oi, no face-licking while I'm hugging her, Eol!
Posted on 2009-12-02 at 08:57:52.
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Topic: Not Really a Game, But...it COULD Be
Subject: Streenz
Whaa? No one else done backgrounds for a character? Post people! They're fun to read.
Posted on 2009-12-02 at 06:51:03.
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Topic: Hey - nice newsletter :)
Subject: Woohoo
*gives Merideth a BIG hug*
Posted on 2009-12-02 at 06:47:37.
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Topic: Favorite Non-Standard RPG
Subject: Thank you for your cooperation
Please report to the nearest termination center immediately... I forgot all about Paranoia. That one was really good fun. We used to have the books and adventures. Wonder what happened to them....
Posted on 2009-12-01 at 19:15:56.
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Topic: Favorite Non-Standard RPG
Subject: :)
Sounds good to me! 
Posted on 2009-11-30 at 08:23:54.
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Topic: Favorite Non-Standard RPG
Subject: Hmm...
I'm guessing Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay isn't what you're looking for? Would RIFTS do? If not WFRP, then I'd say it's RIFTS or Delta Green.
Posted on 2009-11-29 at 19:27:51.
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Topic: Not Really a Game, But...it COULD Be
Subject: Mael
A bit of background for Mael son of Eon, an Aasimar fighter/priest. Not necessarily the best for I've never compared backgrounds that way, but I've grown to like Mael.
Mael’s mother, Akiko Takenabu, comes from Kozakura on the world of Faerun. Akiko worked as a priestess of Amaterasu (a manifestation of Lathander in Kara-Tur), the goddess of Sun, in a small village of a ninja-clan near the town of Renkyu. Her father Mataharu was the leader of the village and the clan, but was killed on an assignment long before Mael was born. Though the position of the leader was beyond her skills, Akiko did inherit Mataharu’s beautiful Katana.
The ninjas of the Waturi-clan were specialized in spying and sabotage instead of assassination. They served the Daimyo of Renkyu, who in turn was a supporter of the Emperor. Daimyo Narahito used the Waturi to gather information about the neighboring states and their lords, who were loyal to the Shogun instead of the Emperor. Naturally the competing Daimyos also used ninjas of their own to do the same.
But then came a time, when the lords of the provinces surrounding Renkyo formed an evil alliance to overcome the more powerful Narahito. To accomplish their goal they engaged the services of three Wu-Jen magicians and the notorious Iga-ninjas.
The Iga-clan stormed the Waturi village during a rainy night intending to take their victims completely by surprise. Fortunately the Waturi spies had gotten wind of the attack and the whole clan was ready to fight when the enemy came. The attackers were more proficient in open field combat, but the Waturi managed to use the darkness and shadows to their advantage. So the battle turned out to be evenly matched.
However, while the fight was still raging strong, the Wu-Jen helping the Iga-clan combined their terrible powers to open a portal to the deepest of hells. The evil sorcerers used their magic to summon four terrifying demons of the netherworld to turn the tide of the battle. Safe inside a protecting circle, they commanded the monsters to destroy the Waturi-clan.
The demons (three Balors and a Marilith, as Akiko later found out), turned the fight into a massacre. The chaotic and evil creatures were strong willed and did not confine to killing only the enemies of the Wu-Jen, but the Iga-ninjas as well. Laughing maniacally, the magicians watched as their pets murdered anything that moved, until one Iga tried to run away and join the wizards inside the protecting sphere. The man almost made it before the Marilith caught up with him. With the last of his strength, the ninja reached across the circle of salt and broke it.
Meanwhile Akiko followed the orders of the high priest of Amaterasu and led the elderly and the children into the safety of the temple’s basement before returning upstairs to observe the situation.
By then the demons had torn the Wu-Jen to pieces. They were getting bored slaughtering the ninjas, when they smelled the fear of the innocent children from within the temple. Following the command of the Marilith, one of the horned Balors struck down the heavy doors of the sanctuary with a single blow of its clawed fist.
High priest Eiji told Akiko to pray for help and moved to stop the demons. Holder of great power himself, the priest called for Amaterasu to banish the horrible monsters from the village, but the Marilith only laughed as it ripped the man’s head from his shoulders. Akiko had closed her eyes and tried to shut the terrible scream outside while concentrating on her plea. Finishing the prayer, Akiko opened her eyes to face her death. As her final action, the young priestess promised her life in sacrifice if her God would spare the lives of the children, and then cut her own throat with a knife.
The call in all its desperation carried the plea all the way across the universe to the plane of Elysium where Amaterasu – Lathander heard her cry. So pleased by the unselfishness of his servant was the Morninglord, that he sent his winged warrior Lord Eon on Faerun to help Akiko’s people.
As the tanto fell from dying Akiko’s hand, a bright light filled the temple blinding the demons and the woman. Taking advantage of the moment of surprise, the enormous Aasimon knelt beside Akiko in time to see the fear on her face turn into a smile as she let out her final breath. The pity for the mortal became terrifying anger and Lord Eon turned to face the demons of hell.
Drawing his blazing Dawn Blade, the angel launched himself from the floor and with a single strike cut a surprised Balor into two. Screaming in rage, the remaining hell spawns attacked the hated servant of light with berserk ferocity. But they stood no chance. They could not penetrate the Solar’s defenses once. The fight only took a breath and was over before the bloody knife stopped rolling on the floor.
Lord Eon was taken by the woman’s sacrifice to such degree, that as he returned from the mortals’ domain to the Outer Plane home of the Sun God on Elysium, he took Akiko’s body with him, knowing very well he was doing so against the will of his master. Kneeling before the God, Eon asked for a punishment for his actions from Lathander, but still declared his intention of bringing the self-sacrificial woman back to life.
The Morninglord appeared to consider the matter for a moment, though Eon could not know it for sure. For even the greatest champion of Good could not completely understand what gods really were and how they operated. Lathander is great in his mercy and Lord Eon was one of his most favorite servants. Turning his gaze at the lifeless Kozakuran, the Lord of Dawn himself willed her to live again.
But the Solar had still crossed the will of his master and had to be punished. Neither Lord Eon nor the woman was ever to enter the Prime Material plane again, and Akiko was to serve Lathander for the rest of her life, which on Elysium meant all eternity. Such was the ruling of the Morninglord.
As almost any woman would have, Akiko eventually fell in love with Lord Eon. The angelic being’s beauty was beyond anything any mortal could imagine and his heart was warm, kind and loving –Eon was everything she could dream of. Marriage was unheard of amongst the immortal beings serving Lathander. Though capable of loving, it would have been impossible for Eon to concentrate his feelings towards a single person. But he did share some of his love with Akiko and as an outcome of their union, a son – Mael – was born.
Lord Eon’s mission was to travel through all the Planes doing Lathander’s bidding. And though he was a being of goodness, more often than not it meant killing and destroying servants of evil. And more often than not, the Champion of Light was worlds away from his master’s domain on Elysium. Therefore the burden of bringing up the child was left completely on Akiko’s shoulders.
Mael did not meet his father before his second birthday and even after that saw him only a few times a year. Though unaware of the fact in his youth, Mael was not the sole offspring of Lord Eon. But Akiko’s son was the youngest and very dear to Eon.
Akiko spend most of her days working at the temple and Mael went everywhere with her. His days went by helping his mother and the other priests in their daily chores. In the evenings Akiko taught her son the things he was really interested in – Kozakuran habits, history of her family, reading and writing, and naturally the teachings of Lathander as well. And at the age of three Mael began taking lessons in martial arts from her mother. The daily practice sessions included both unarmed and armed combat as well as swordplay.
Every time Lord Eon returned home from his crusades on the Outer Planes, he spent a few days alone with his youngest son. The father told Mael stories about the justness and compassion of their lord Lathander as well as about his own travels across the multitude of worlds. He also took great care in explaining the differences between the teachings of the Morning Lord and other gods. And little by little the boys love and respect for both his father and his God grew.
Lord Eon did also offer his own personal input into Mael’s combat training. For even though Akiko was an extremely skilled fighter, Eon still had millennia worth experience more of battles against beings of all kind. The father’s lessons were more practical than theoretical unlike the tuition the mother was giving. And whilst training with his father, Mael quickly learned how to better find weaknesses in someone’s defense. One of Lord Eon’s basic teachings was: “It doesn’t matter how or with what you attack, if you know the gaps in the enemy’s guard.” Already at the age of ten Mael won a match against his mother with wooden practice katanas or bokkens.
On one of the days when Mael was practicing kenjutsu with his father, Lord Eon felt something was bothering the boy and saw that his thoughts were somewhere else. He lowered his bokken – which looked like a twig in his big hands (for Eon is nearly nine feet tall in his natural form) – and watched the young Aasimar with love-filled eyes. “Is there something troubling your mind, my son?”, the winged warrior asked and willed his frame to become somewhat smaller.
“Father…”, Mael began warily. “I have learned very much about the teachings of our Lord and can feel them take effect inside my heart, but one thing is indeed troubling me…” The boy raised his gaze to look into the most beautiful eyes he knew to exist. “Father, I do not know what Lord Lathander looks like.”
The Solar looked at the boy with a knowing smile on his face, nodded to himself and replied: “I have been expecting this, my son. Living in a god’s vicinity can at the same time feel both enlightening and bothersome – wonderful and terrifying. The greatest power one can ever imagine is so close you can literally touch it, but yet it is eons away. I once felt the same as you do now, Mael… As to what the Morninglord looks like, there is no single answer, for our Lord appears as whatever each of his children wishes to see him. To one he may be a being of the purest sunlight, to another a gigantic unearthly beautiful man or woman and to others even a regular human.”
Eon touched the boy’s cheek softly and smiled. “I cannot tell you what the Sunlord looks like, you must one day see for yourself.”
Posted on 2009-11-27 at 20:30:26.
Edited on 2009-12-01 at 07:16:54 by Raven
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Topic: Happy Thanksgiving
Subject: Well
Yeah, have a nice day everyone - yesterday, today, tomorrow.
As long as you keep coming to our lovely Inn, you're bound to have happy days whether you planned for it or not. 
Thanks, Olan and everyone for making the Inn what it is today!
There, my thanks given. And I can do it again any day, should it be required. 
Posted on 2009-11-27 at 11:15:28.
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Topic: hi
Subject: Right
Alright, alright. I'll have to do it since everyone else has forgotten to warn you. Remember the first and foremost rule at the Inn. (well not really, but nearly so anyway)
Whatever you do, DO NOT FEED THE GRUGG. The Grugg is hairy, it is ugly and it eats anything. It lurks in the woods and it.. it is said that it sings - especially so when someone has given it food.
Raven, your every day (hairy and ugly) moderator.
Posted on 2009-11-26 at 18:59:07.
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Topic: Yes, I'm back
Subject: Nice
That's pure coolness... Sounds a bit like my Interrail trip in 1990. O.o Jeesh! That's lifetime ago. Although I didn't get to spend quite that long traveling. Only 4 weeks or so. Wish I could go again.
Posted on 2009-11-24 at 20:44:53.
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Topic: Yes, I'm back
Subject: Hear hear!
Good to have you back, Cap'n.
Posted on 2009-11-24 at 20:30:29.
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Topic: Where's Vorrioch?
Subject: Where's Vorrioch?
Hi,
Has anybody heard of Vorrioch lately? Seems to me he's been away for more than a month without any notice. While I really would like to continue playing his Planescape game, I'm more worried than anxious.
So if there are any RL friends of James in here, please let us know if everything's ok with him.
Posted on 2009-11-19 at 08:47:05.
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Topic: I find this funny
Subject: :)
Yes well. To us on the old continent these lawsuits on your side of the big A seem ridiculous to say the least. Apparently there's no such thing as common sense when it comes to paying for damage caused by the misuse of a product.
Two options pop to my mind right away: either people on the NA continent are really, really, really stupid. This option I _don't_ buy even if the level of general education may be lower than that in Finland. Education doesn't go hand in hand with common sense. Then again putting a cat into a microwave oven to dry it would imply the person in question is incredibly stupid. Same could be said about the Winnebago driver ofc.
Option 2: The law is incredibly stupid. Even if people would be paid for doing absolutely foolish things, the compensation should be reasonable, not related to a company's revenue allowing these million class compensations.
Posted on 2009-11-16 at 08:07:00.
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Topic: Pedo Edhel?
Subject: Well done Ayrn
Ayrn beat me to it. You know the rules of the Inn, Merideth... Whatever you do, do not feed the Gruggster.
I've found the elven dictionary more than useful myself a number of times. Especially when I was playing a Syl paladin in Brom's game. Boy, was he a cool character in a marvelous game.
Posted on 2009-11-11 at 19:43:02.
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Topic: Greetings
Subject: Hah!
Whatever you do, don't feed the Grugg!
Posted on 2009-11-08 at 10:12:55.
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Topic: I'm Collecting Birthdays!!
Subject: Catch!
I'd prefer beer and beer. But on my birthday (December 23rd -73), I'll go for a coffee and a whole lotta fudge. And chocolate. And liquorice. And cake....
Posted on 2009-11-05 at 11:09:58.
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Topic: Star wars in concert
Subject: Not available in here...
Cuulness! Would be a bit expensive though to fly all the way from Finland just to see the show.
Posted on 2009-11-02 at 08:36:48.
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Topic: RDI Stats 2009
Subject: The tub!
Aye, bring back the hot tub! I guess it ended at about the same time, when Alacrity found out about the Raven screensaver Vanadia had on her PC. 
Posted on 2009-10-31 at 10:37:30.
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Topic: Dying of the Light Q&A
Subject: Raven is
... still here.
Posted on 2009-10-29 at 08:20:26.
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Topic: RDI Stats 2009
Subject: heh
Yeah, all except mine.
Posted on 2009-10-28 at 19:33:03.
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Topic: RDI Stats 2009
Subject: Wohoo! 8th position!
Damn those Swedes! Need to hire people from Finland to drop by every now and then.
Posted on 2009-10-28 at 08:54:12.
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Topic: Dying of the Light Q&A
Subject: Lookin' goooood!
Posted I have as well. Boy, oh boy I'm itching to see more posts. (no pressure people, never mind me)
Posted on 2009-10-16 at 06:28:22.
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