Topic: Dying of the Light
Subject: And so it begins....
Temple of the Morninglord, Clerks Ward. Sigil
Stepping through the beautiful old doors of the inner sanctum, Mael took a deep breath and mentally prepared himself for the onslaught he knew would be coming. Illuminator Bascilicus was an old man and the only thing apparently giving him pleasure these days was chastising those he worked with. Not that it really botherd Mael. He'd known the High Priest for a very long time and knew that deep inside, Giuliano was not a malevolent person. The old man did not revel in the unhappiness of others. It was just his way of saying how he appreciated the company or the work of the people around him. Mael had learned over the years, thet the old priest was not very good in expressing his feelings - or more likely, he'd been taught it was a weakness to let everyone know how he felt about things.
Despite the scolding he got, Mael couldn't help the smile creeping on his lips. The blue-eyed son of a Solar was truly fond of the elder man. There had always been a kind of father and son type of relationship between them and even if their ranks (if there was such a thing as a hierarchy outside the temples of Lathander) weren't really relative in any way, Mael sincerely respected the Illuminator for all the work the man had done and for his life-long devotion to their God. Definitely in the case of some other church, some other religion, it might be argued that a son of a mighty servant of a god like Lord Eon would easily outrank a common priest. But it was not the way of Lathander to put his followers into positions of inequality. Naturally people of all kind need leaders to uphold some kind of an order, but Mael had always been taught a believer is a believer, no matter what his role in life was. Then again he was not even certain Giuliano knew who his father was. They'd never spoken about it and Mael had never felt like sharing the knowledge with him.
It had only been a couple months since he's last meeting with Master Bascilicus, but it might well have been years. To an Aasimar the years pass somewhat slower than a human, but Mael was not immortal in the same way as the elves were on the prime world of Faerun. Due to the ancient blood running in his veins he would get older a great deal slower than the next man and while back home in Eronia, the Morning Lord's domain on Elysium, the aging seemed to be even slower. People did not seem to die of old age in the vicinity of the greatest of gods.
But the Illuminator had gained years in the 89 days Mael had been away. He looked so frail and tired that the tall warrior almost expected him to collapse on the cold floor any moment. And the smell... The whole room smelled like death. Not the kind of terrible rotting smell of corpses, but the kind very ill people smell of... A promise of a death not too far away. It took all of Mael's willpower not to let his feelings show. He wanted to tell the old man to step aside, let others handle the running of the temple, to enjoy what was left of his life while he still could. But he knew better. Giuliano Bascilicus would never retire. He would die doing what had been doing most of his adult life - serving the Morning Lord. Therefore Mael let it go and knelt down beside his friend with a warm smile and bowed deep. "It is very good to see you too, revered Illuminator. I apologize for the state of my garments. I will see to it right away when we are done."
As master Bascilicus began to explain the current events in Sigil, the tall, muscular priest slowly sat up and carefully removed his sheathed Katana from his belt and laid it on floor beside him. Weapons weren't really allowed in the temple and especially not inside the holier parts such as the Inner Sanctum, but Mael had never offered to leave the sword in holding and no one had ever questioned Mael's right to carry weapon openly.
It took no more than the Illuminator's first sentence to kill the whatever was left of Mael's good mood. The sound of Vladimir Tesch's name had a bad ring to it. He didn't like the man and never had. To Mael Tesch seemed like a bully of man who'd gotten too much too easily and liked to misuse the power he'd gained over the years. He was a Fated to the bone and lived to the nick names the factions members have gained with their actions - Taker, Heartless, Coldblood. Vladimir Tesch was one of those rich people who claimed that they deserved everything they've got; that they'd worked hard for all the jink. But the truth was never that clear. No one made it so well with honest work.
Giuliano must've seen the look on Mael's face despite the condition of his venerable eyes as he cleared his throat before carrying on telling the younger Dawn Priest of the ill-fate of Tesch's shipment of grain. The sharp blue eyes widened a bit as heard of a fellow believer, but he swallowed the question and kept his mouth shut for the meanwhile.
When the old man sat up and looked Mael in the eye, the Aasimar forced the smile back on his lips. “As the most experienced warrior available to our temple in these troubled times, will you do us the honour of representing Lathander upon this difficult matter?”, the Illuminator asked with dry voice. “After all, he’s one of us. And then there are formalities to attend to.”
Mael gave Lord Bascilicus another bow, though not as deep this time and more as an answer than a greeting or a sign of respect. "You know how I feel about Vladimir Tesch. Were his business not in such an important role considering the survival of the people of this city, I would be quick to turn the berk over to the Hard Heads for all the acts of evil he has committed. By the light! I would not be surprised to find out that he is behind the robbery himself only to make his product ever more expensive no matter the effect it has on the poor cagers."
With a sigh quite unlike him, Mael nodded again and then looked Giuliano in the eye. "You also know my answer, old friend. Otherwise you would not even have bothered to ask. You always were a canny cutter."
Posted on 2009-10-15 at 11:02:41.
Edited on 2009-10-15 at 11:42:14 by Raven
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Topic: incoming baby!
Subject: Hooray!
Congratulations Olan and Donna! Good to hear everything's ok. Do give little Jonah the tiniest of all hugs from the Finnish dude!
Posted on 2009-10-13 at 06:11:28.
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Topic: RDI stats
Subject: Very liberal?
I'm not sure you Canadians even now the meaning of liberal.  If you guys are very liberal, then what does that make us Finns? Too liberal? 
Posted on 2009-10-07 at 21:45:05.
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Topic: dodge the tumbleweeds!
Subject: Yeppah
I agree with Eol. Come now newbies. Introduce yourselves. Make yourselves really a part of our community. We are friendly and welcoming folk and we very much like to see new people join our not so little group of enthusiastic gamers, artist and whatever.
First and foremost we all love the Inn and the Inn would not be the same without its members. So fresh blood is always welcome. Please join us in the games and outside of them. Make the Inn a second home for yourselves too.
- Raven
Posted on 2009-10-07 at 21:43:11.
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Topic: Lolkat's super special art request thread
Subject: ngh
Argh! Next time make the preview smaller. You'll scare the kids!
Here I've been telling my daughters, that the Gruggster will get them if they won't eat their carrots. So far it's been a fairly useless threat without a picture of the hairy man of the woods. Now... Now I've got something to back the threat up with. Muahahahah!!
Posted on 2009-09-26 at 04:59:05.
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Topic: RDI stats
Subject: heh
Now, if I triple my visits, I'll make Finland number four on the list right behind USA, Canada and UK. Though I'm fairly sure I'm not the only person from the whole of Finland to stumble upon the Inn, I probably do generate most of the traffic between the site and our little country.
Posted on 2009-09-26 at 04:55:37.
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Topic: Completely off topic help needed
Subject: Hmm
1. Stop listening to Addy
2. Keep on using Macs
3. Well, dunno grab a brew or something 
Posted on 2009-09-23 at 13:31:39.
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Topic: The Return of Yana
Subject: Yayzers!
Welcome back Yana! You were missed.
Oh and if you start to feel too cozy sitting by the fire, there's always room for you in our little hot tub party. 
Posted on 2009-09-19 at 04:31:57.
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Topic: I'll make my own RPG, with blackjack, and hookers!
Subject: Nice
Sounds a lot like the game a buddy of mine designed some er... 16-18 years ago, but never even tried to get it published. There were different races, but no classes. As usual, the races had bonuses or reductions on different abilities, which in turn effected skills.
Skills were the central part of the game's engine. Everything was based on a skill, including magic and combat skills. Sounds a lot like a number of games out there, but there were differences even though I cannot really remember them anymore.
One major aspect the game had was however, the complete lack of written spells. Magic was a skill/power used to generate effects, to accomplish something. Therefore in combat situation a character skilled in the art of magic would not simply throw a few magic missiles at the attackers. He might instead decide to try and create magical arrows from the energies around him and launch them at the attacker.
What made things difficult, was that my friend wanted vocal components for the spell-like effects ie. we had to come with incantations every time we wanted to use magic. I think it was possible to do magic tricks without them, but the chances of success were far lower. Not that the odds were too good to start with.
Posted on 2009-09-18 at 09:59:21.
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Topic: RDI Party Game
Subject: Coolness
No, no relation. But still can't really give myself any excuse not to buy one.
Posted on 2009-09-14 at 09:46:41.
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Topic: a random topic
Subject: Huh?
Where's everybody gone all of a sudden? My post is still the latest one to Common Room and that was three days ago!! Post ya people! Talk to me! And if not me, talk to each other, talk to Olan. Write something! Don't let me die of boredom at work. Give me something to look forward to!
Oh. LD#8 is out. Never ye mind my rambling...
Posted on 2009-08-25 at 05:34:24.
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Topic: Facebook
Subject: You stalker you
Sounds nice, Alacrity. I'll sure be looking forward to it.
Posted on 2009-08-22 at 04:33:04.
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Topic: Your summer activities
Subject: yeah
Good question, Skari. What did I do this summer? Where did the summer go already? I had four weeks of holiday or well three and a half, but didn't get much done. Strange.
We didn't even go much anywhere. Just a quick week's trip to our cottage and to Stockholm, but that's about it. The weirdest thing. Had such big plans on renovating the house, but only managed to do complete the toilet paint job.
There's a tiny lake some 200 meters/yards from our house and since the weather was really nice most of the summer (or at least my time off work) we spent a few days on the beach although I'm not too keen on just lying on the sand in the sun.
I guess most of the days went by watching our little girls playing with the boys from nextdoor. For some reason I'm not looking forward on them all growing 7-10 years older.
Posted on 2009-08-22 at 04:31:43.
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Topic: Lolkat's super special art request thread
Subject: Coolness
Very, very nice of you indeed. i like our dear Alacrity, would love to see the CWWLLO party fleshed out.
Posted on 2009-08-21 at 15:35:30.
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Topic: Tommorrow's Women's MMA Fight
Subject: errr
I'm not at sure, I'm comfortable with the idea of two girls beating, kicking or choking each other... But whatever rocks your boat, Tann.
Training martial arts for personal well-being or for self-defense is one thing, but I've never been too keen on any combat "sport" be it boxing or wrestling or whatever.
Posted on 2009-08-15 at 04:32:16.
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Topic: So who was your first?
Subject: Oh boy
First character... Now that's a tough one. Though not quite as old as some of these grey-haired people in here, it's still been a while. Guessing a year here... I'd say it was around 1986 or -87 making me 13-14 yrs old. (We weren't fortunate enough in Finland to get the games in the stores in here much earlier.)
Oh I now suddenly remembered a neighbor kid asking my mom to bring him the trio of Ad&d books (1st ed ofc) a few years earlier from London, but him being three years older than me, I never was accepted to take part in the fun.
So my first character was probably in M.E.R.P. or Traveller. Can't remember which one. Actually it must've been MERP since I didn't know the guy running the Traveller game at that time. But try as I may, I cannot come up with more details for the character. Were I forced to guess, I'd say he was an elf and probably a ranger, but really can't remember.
The first one I can remember was one I created a few months later. He was a Wolfen Long Bowman (yes it is long bowman, not longbow man or longbowman) called... called... Hell! can't remember even him. But it was a campaign not created by our DM, but an older friend of his, and boy was it good! Always loved Palladium RPG btw. Excellent game.
First one with a name? It was Dungeons and Dragons: Basic Rules Set 1 (I know, since I checked from the web) The second red box with a red dragon fighting a warrior or something. (Larry Elmore's art ofc) The campaign or probably a single adventure was a simple dungeon with nasties inside.
My character was Gortag the dwarf (the name is still in use in WoW, though no longer a dwarf, but a troll instead) He was the only good character in a group of evils and hence didn't last long.
I can remember the four characters entering a room, a bedroom of sorts, and the group's thief attempted to pocket a ring he found from a drawer. Gortag noticed the attempt and naturally didn't like it at all. He challenged the rogue with the issue and the foolish human denied everything. Angered beyond control, the first level dwarf threw an unarmed punch at the rogue and killed him on the spot... Not exactly a good character's behavior, I know.
Well in the end the rest of the group got out, but on the way home met a Carrion Crawler (if my memory doesn't fail me) and Gortag got paralyzed by it. Well the evil mage in the group cast a Sleep spell on both my character and the monster. (not sure if it should've worked on the CC) Then he and the eevil fighter killed us both.
Posted on 2009-07-07 at 19:16:14.
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Topic: Goodnight, sweet prince(ss).
Subject: Yeah well
I have to admit, that I felt more sad to hear of Farah's passing than Jacko's. Well perhaps sad isn't really the word since I knew neither of them. Oh well, whatever the case, let them both rest in peace.
Posted on 2009-06-26 at 18:19:35.
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Topic: Hi
Subject: This is getting out of hand... :)
Oh and remember, what ever you do: Never feed the Gruggster!
Posted on 2009-06-22 at 07:02:44.
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Topic: Hi
Subject: Welcome, welcome
For once I am the first of the staff members to welcome a newcomer to our wonderful community. Yay!
So, be most welcome to the Red Dragon Inn, Hawkwind! I am sure that you like so many before you, will find a game or few to play or perhaps to run in here. Roam around and have a peek here and there. And if at some point you have a question or three, don't hesitate to ask me, the rest of the staff or well... basicly anyone. We're a happy and helpful lot in here.
Once again, welcome!
Posted on 2009-06-21 at 06:15:25.
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Topic: service outage
Subject: Yaysah!
We're back! Coolness. Don't worry Olan, I'm sure everyone is simply relieved and happy to see our most favorite site back online. I for one am. Yay!
Posted on 2009-06-17 at 04:35:58.
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Topic: Dungeons & Dragon: Wrath of the Dragon God
Subject: yeah right
Wouldn't hold my breath waiting for that to happen, if I were you.
Posted on 2009-06-10 at 19:09:46.
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Topic: It's coming!
Subject: Nasty
Boss, you're eeevil!
Posted on 2009-06-10 at 18:34:44.
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Topic: Dungeons & Dragon: Wrath of the Dragon God
Subject: Hmmm
I remember vaguely starting to watch the movie, but for one reason or another I don't think I ever finished it. Mayhaps it sucked too much? Then again I knew beforehand that it wouldn't exactly be Cannes-stuff, so the disappointment shouldn't have been too bad. Who knows... Maybe I'll need to dig the flick out from some pile of forgotten films.
Posted on 2009-06-10 at 05:11:45.
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Topic: YeOlde Vacation
Subject: Niice
Vacation would be nice. Wait a minute! I am on vacation! But only for a week. *sigh* The real vacation is still far away.
Posted on 2009-06-09 at 17:51:58.
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Topic: It's coming!
Subject: Yay
Still waiting patiently here... well not so patiently, but still waiting.
Posted on 2009-06-09 at 17:46:51.
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