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Topic: New Forgotten Realms Game(just checking interest)
Subject: I think she means
that she intends to multiclass in the future.
I'll play... If you're still looking.
Posted on 2008-05-20 at 15:40:02.
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Topic: The Legacy of the Shade Lord
Subject: Outside the Broken Tankard, Sodgrove
The bartender Yissu scarcely has time to turn his head before the pale elf vaults down the steps and out the door. His eyes follow her out, and then a crashing from upstairs again causes him to whirl around just in time to be spun back around by a half shaven and wet Torigad bolting past him. Tellanth calmly takes a step to the window and peers out, then leans out pretty far and looks right.
Just as Snowlily bursts out of the door with Torigad right behind, a charcoal skinned elf zips past, dropping her backpack and bedroll by the door of the inn without slowing down.
Ixion curses from within the inn and steps out, fresh battle scar on his face.
Just about everyone is slightly disoriented for a moment except T'puuli. Coming from a well lit and warm tavern into a very dark rainy and cold environment will have that effect. As all eyes turn to the south of the village, it is certain that the source of the screaming is coming from that burning barn. T'puuli is closest, then Snowlily, then Torigad, then Ixion, then Tellanth as he is still inside and technically brings up the rear.
((Post in any order... I'm going to try an idea I had... determining order of initiative by reply order... I will reply again whenever everyone replies in character... that seems to be the most compelling method to ensure speedy combats. I'll wait up to 24 hours before continuing, but if everyone posts before then, I'll reply faster.
Posted on 2008-05-20 at 14:22:53.
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Topic: Legacy of the Shade Lord Q&A
Subject: Ok,
I have a question for you guys.
Would you have a problem with me making your characters say things sometimes, like an explanation here or a description of knowledge there, or would you rather have me pm you the info and have you filter your own comments?
Posted on 2008-05-20 at 04:06:59.
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Topic: The Legacy of the Shade Lord
Subject: The Broken Tankard
Sodgrove
((Slight of hand successful on both attempts. No one saw anything.))
The morning grows long, and soon it is leaning toward noon. The sun slips behind the great moon Dosojin. All grows dark. the maids light the table lamps, and the male minstrel pulls out his mandolin, ostensibly to play a song. Perhaps that one about the light in the sudden darkness, a catchy tune about forbidden lovers being caught during an eclipse.
((just as a heads up, eclipses happen all the time here. The sun moves across the sky in a day but the moons take months to do the same thing. On a daily basis, the moons don't seem to move at all. There is an eclipse almost once a day during some seasons, and two or three times a day in winter.))
All is quiet for a moment.
In the distance, a woman screams. The sound came from outside the inn.
((everyone hears the woman scream, even from upstairs. These thatched roofs are warm, but don't block sound well.))
Posted on 2008-05-19 at 19:16:47.
Edited on 2008-05-19 at 19:23:51 by Shaithis
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Topic: Hi all.
Subject: A little late...
Welcome to the Inn! And to think I should have been the first to welcome y'all here. But now that I finally got ya here, it is now the time for the gaming. Much tomfoolery, shenanigans and arse-whooping (in the biblical d&d sense) shall ensue.
I've known szordrin and whitinator for about seven years now. They are awesome players. A fine addition to any game... and who knows, maybe I could run that battlestar game now...
Posted on 2008-05-19 at 18:54:47.
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Topic: The Legacy of the Shade Lord
Subject: A discourse on being
The barmaid comes around and drops off a pile of eggs and bacon and more bread. A pair of halflings from the kitchen comes by with fresh milk and chickery coffee smelling of roasted pecans and almonds.
Tellanth, off by himself, is also served by a serving girl. She brings him coffee and fresh fruit. After tending to him, she comes by the "main table" during this almost heated exchange and offers fruit.
Posted on 2008-05-19 at 02:23:22.
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Topic: The Legacy of the Shade Lord
Subject: Downstairs
The maids return with piles of fresh bread and an enormous bowl of scrambled eggs matched by a rack of bacon and sausage cutlets. The maids bring breakfast for the new arrival as well, as serving boys take care of his baggage.
The waitress smiles at the dusty traveler and says,
"I believe the Housekeeper has two rooms left, milord. Come with me, I'll take you to her." She leads Tellanth upstairs where the housekeeper is inspecting the maids' rounds, making sure fresh sheets and towels and toiletries come around.
The Housekeeper greets Tellanth warmly and leads him to the end of the hall... room 6.
((Speaking of which, Ixion is room 3, Torigad is room 5, and Snowlily is room 1. Room 4 is empty and room 2 must be the bards. There are no other rooms.))
The conversation and eating lasts well into the morning...
Posted on 2008-05-18 at 16:41:34.
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Topic: The Legacy of the Shade Lord
Subject: Downstairs
The bartender smiles and nods to the pale skinned elf.
"Of course. Right away." He takes other orders and returns to the bar.
The two musicians, finished packing their equipment, sit down at a table near the pile of equipment. A serving maid tends to them, smiling and laughing with them. The male bard asks the maid a question, and she turns and looks in the party's general direction and laughs, then answers him.
A maid lights a fire in the fireplace. It looks to be chilly and rainy today.
Posted on 2008-05-18 at 00:17:34.
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Topic: The Legacy of the Shade Lord
Subject: Downstairs
The sixteenth day of Elmonth, morning
Sodgrove, southern East Rose
Yissu, the bartender, sees Ixion and Snowlily come downstairs and motions them over.
"Ahh, good morning friends, are you hungry? We have eggs, bacon and real bread, not that unleavened grobesh up in East Rose. We also have oatmeal and real milk."
He cleans off the table at which you were sitting last night and flips a chair back right and offers it to one of you.
Posted on 2008-05-17 at 21:42:37.
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Topic: The Legacy of the Shade Lord
Subject: Downstairs
The two musicians are picking up equipment from the night before, speaking quietly with their human companion. They do not look as if they have slept yet.
The mead hall is in a state of recovery from the night before. Locals lie where they passed out, some on tables, some curled up on the floor. Must have been a heck of a party.
The bartender and his maids are trying to clean around the sleeping guests.
The housekeeper tells Ixion that a bath will be brought up to his room if he wishes, and informs him that she's seen neither of his companions yet.
Posted on 2008-05-17 at 19:01:18.
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Topic: The Legacy of the Shade Lord
Subject: Ok NOW its a new day.
The Sixteenth day of Elmoth, morning
Sodgrove, southern East Rose
The evening was far more late than anyone had suspected. Torigad Snowlily and Ixion, both exhausted from their recent travels, soon found themselves fast asleep in their respective rooms. Dawn comes early, and the adventurers sleep in until almost 9 AM. The night was restful, and at lest one of you has not had this much sleep in months, possibly years.
The smell of cooking bacon and fresh bread is on the morning air, mixed in with the normal animal and mud smells of a village.
It is lightly raining.
((Ok, now its a new day. I will advance the time every real day, whether folk have posted or not, but I will try to just advance from morning, to noon and night each per 24 hours. This seems reasonable, questions or comments pm me.))
Posted on 2008-05-17 at 17:07:58.
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Topic: Legacy of the Shade Lord Q&A
Subject: Sorry guys
Yeah, things are taking off kind of slowly, and I apologize. Hammer and I are still working out his character, and Oko is constrained by timeframe and is still "hammering" out her character too. I am also currently in almost hostile negotiations with two other potential players... one has already made his character, but as yet has not made a profile here.
Whenever you wish to use a skill, either include it in double parenthesis:
((Hey DM, I want to use Sense Motive on Torigad, I think he's hiding something))
Or send me a pm if you'd rather be less obvious about it.
Also, yes, always leave room in the threads for folk to interrupt you, or stop you before you leave, etc. So the best thing I've found to do is make an exit take two posts.
Announce your intent to leave the room
"Ixion, weary of these foolish persons, stands and heads for the door."
And then wait for a reasonable amount of time and then leave.
"Ixion goes outside and yadda yadda yadda..."
However, we have a game here where there will be some posters taking longer than others.. some will only be posting once a day, so when the game actually starts moving, you frequent posters may want to slow down a little bit. Although, if all you're gonna do is minor stuff and roleplay amongst the group, I don't see there being a problem there. Some people are just more talkative...
But I do want to point out how enormoursly entertaining the Ixion-Torigad dynamic is to watch unfold here...
Posted on 2008-05-17 at 16:57:21.
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Topic: The Legacy of the Shade Lord
Subject: Oops
(OOC: ignore my last post. That will happen after you go to bed. Also please describe yourselves to each other.)
Posted on 2008-05-15 at 20:36:33.
Edited on 2008-05-15 at 20:37:47 by Shaithis
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Topic: The Legacy of the Shade Lord
Subject: A new day
The Sixteenth day of Elmoth, morning
Sodgrove, southern East Rose
The evening was far more late than anyone had suspected. Torigad and Ixion, both exhausted from their recent travels, soon found themselves fast asleep in their respective rooms. Dawn comes early, and both adventurers awaken shortly after, perhaps 7:45 AM.
The smell of cooking bacon and fresh bread is on the morning air, mixed in with the normal animal and mud smells of a village.
It is lightly raining.
Posted on 2008-05-15 at 19:30:02.
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Topic: The Legacy of the Shade Lord
Subject: Torigad
Yissu looks at you in surprise.
"M'lord, it would be suicide to go alone... there could be a hundred of them! Dirty little Kobold things... only, they aren't just kobolds, if you know what I mean." He winks at you in solemn truth.
A handful more people, young people this time, rush into the tavern and take the closest table to the stage. The bartender's nose wrinkles at them, and his expression takes on an air of mirthful frustration at the teens. His eyes glaze over for a moment as he watches them, and slowly continues, watching the children enjoy the musicians.
"Their scales are a bright blue. They come in the night and steal horses, cattle, sheep, goats, whatever they can get their hands on. Small folk been takin' to keeping their one or two animals in the house with 'em. They come from the... southwest... just outside of town.
"We haven't had any troops here for about twelve years. They just up and left one day. Something about stopping a rebellion in East Rose... Anyway, since then, they haven't seen fit to return, and we've had to fend for ourselves. Precious few here left able to hold a sword, most of the youth leave once their folks let 'em go. And all manner of creatures afoot out there."
Posted on 2008-05-15 at 16:31:43.
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Topic: The Legacy of the Shade Lord
Subject: Ixion Po
Upstairs in the Broken Tankard
The housekeeper's eyes widen slightly at the sight of the gold. Now you have her attention.
"Yes, my lord. Absolutely. No, I understand completely. I'll have them lashed to the tether post outside if I have to. But you will not be disturbed, lord."
She nods emphatically and curtseys out of your way once the gold is in her hand.
Torigad
The bartender falls quiet, waiting for Torigad's reply. The musicians do not. They breaK into another song, a soothing melody that coalesces into an old fight song from East Rose back during the war with Six Towers.
Posted on 2008-05-15 at 15:28:23.
Edited on 2008-05-15 at 15:28:50 by Shaithis
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Topic: The Legacy of the Shade Lord
Subject: Ixion Po
Fifteenth day of Elmonth
Sodgrove, Southern East Rose
The Housekeeper nods stiffly.
"But of course, my lord. Right this way."
She leads Ixion upstairs to a corner bedroom. The door plaque announces it to be room number 3.
"Here we are, my lord. Clean towels in the closet. I can have the boys bring up a copper tub if you like." She eyes Ixion closely, taking in the human.
You hear music playing again below.
Posted on 2008-05-15 at 03:09:40.
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Topic: The Legacy of the Shade Lord
Subject: The half of the fun
Fifteenth day of Elmonth, evening
Sodgrove, East Rose
The bartender, Yissu, stares at Torigad in awe, touching his moustache thoughtfully. He laughs heartily and speaks.
"You're a braver soul than I. What with the horrible creatures eatin' the livestock, we might not make it to planting time, much less to harvest in Summer. Dreadful little beasties, too."
The two musicians suddenly speed up the playing, with eyes closed, and begin singing a long note in unison. The wall behind them comes to life as the shadows begin twisting and mixing with some kind of moving image on the back wall and ceiling. The two elves' voices undulate between harmony and dissonance, without either drawing a breath. Soon they reach a crescendo, a maddening pulse and tempo,breathing life into the dull crowd. Suddenly the song breaks apart, shattering into millions of pieces, leaving behind a rather innovative rendition of an ancient dwarven folk song between a dwarven princess and a "steel dragon". The display on the wall depicts swooping and wheeling dragons in silhouette.
"These guys are good," the bartender says at the end of the song. The room cheers them and pound the tables with fists and utensils, and goes back to their drinking and socializing.
"Thank you! We're Die Kind. Tip your waitress." The male minstrel shouts to the room after the pounding subsides.
Posted on 2008-05-14 at 21:12:57.
Edited on 2008-05-14 at 21:18:00 by Shaithis
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Topic: Legacy of the Shade Lord Q&A
Subject: The Calendar
The year is 310 days long.
The seasons and weather are determined by which moons are in the sky. There are three moons and they move about the earth very slowly. The three moons are called Dosojin, the Fisher's moon, which appears blue in the sky. Magratha the Traveler's Moon, it appears green and blue. Then there's Saye, the Coming Dragon. It appears like a black orb with cracks all over its surface, the cracks bright red and orange, the color of lava. Stories passed down from the ancients tell us that this is the home of the dragons. Long ago, the moon Saye was close to the earth, and it passed close enough for the dragons to cross over into this realm.
There are eight months, each 35 days long.
Spring is 70 days long and generally consists of springlike weather after a very violent thaw that almost always leads to flash floods in East Rose and Norcross, and even Bizzuks. Six Towers is usually completely functional, due to architectural precautions: every building in the whole lake area is on stilts. Spring has two moons in the sky, Dosojin and Magratha. Spring has two months, Ironar and Elmonth.
Overspring is 70 days long and has very warm weather for a normal spring of the specific climate. Flora and fauna flourish during this time, and in Overspring the majority of crops are grown. Overspring has one moon, Magratha. It also has two months, Oakorn and Mapleus.
First Stillness is 10 days long, where the three moons are aligned as far apart as they can get. There is no wind, no tide, and almost all activity stops. Travel is probably best during a stillness on land, but impossible without rowers on water. Only Magratha is visible in the sky.
Summer is 70 days and is filled with blistering heat and lots of rain. None of the moons are visible during the entire season, and maybe that has something to do with the heat. Summers are periods of intense growth for plantlife and a period of relative dormancy for animals, except nocturnal ones and lizardlike creatures, which also flourish at this time. Again, there are two months, Teakun and Pecanor.
Second Stillness is 10 days long and again, the moons are aligned opposite each other. Again, no wind and no tide. The temperature always drops during a Stillness, but in this Stillness, all the moons are visible just above the horizon, and the temperature drops more than on other Stillnesses.
Winter is 70 days long, and the temperature continues to drop as the three moons rise int he sky as they slowly spiral around the horizon. All winter long the moons periodically eclipse the sun. This is referred to as the White Blinking, in reference to the effect these periodic eclipses have on the local temperature. However, two of the moons slink off towards the end of the season, leaving Dosojin in the sky again and heralding the Third Stillness. There are two months in winter as well, Cedarom and Sprucus.
Third Stillness is 10 days long and cold, and the temperature drops steadily in those days. No wind, no tides. Again, travel is relatively easy on land during this time. However, it is very dangerous to go outside at this time, as it is extremely cold in most climates. Even in the deserts of Devil's Spire, the temperature stays below freezing the whole time. Only Magratha and Saye are visible.
Currently, the season is Spring, fifteenth day of Elmonth.
Posted on 2008-05-14 at 19:59:18.
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Topic: The Legacy of the Shade Lord
Subject: Torigad
Yissu started at your comment and stared at you in amazement.
"You're going to go back out there? Have you not heard what roams outside these gates? You're lucky you even made it here... where are you from, anyway?"
The bartender refills your mug and waits for your answer.
The two musicians begin playing a very interesting warm up melody, involving some brilliantly played mandolin and a drum beat with a double back beat that becomes part of the room's architecture. The flavor of the music mixes well with the food.
Posted on 2008-05-14 at 19:19:11.
Edited on 2008-05-14 at 21:16:55 by Shaithis
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Topic: The Legacy of the Shade Lord
Subject: Torigad
The two musicians were elves, a man and a woman, the woman setting up a series of large drums, the man tuning a rather ornate mandolin or somesuch stringed instrument. Strangest thing, whenever the man plays a note, you taste cherries. Then he twists the key on the end of the string and the cherries twists into kiwis.
The man is probably five and a half feet tall, and maybe 150 pounds. His skin is a goldish color, his hair is stark white, and his eyes are a vivid green you can see from here. He is dressed in a very expensive formal coat and tails, his voluminous silk neck dressing, as it only could be described, cascades down the front of his shirt like a waterfall.
The girl is perhaps only five feet, and a very curvy five feet it is. Her skin is the color of the skin of a ripe peach, her hair color could only be described as honey, and it is incredibly long, braided up in a very professional and formal style. Her dark blue silk evening gown is augmented by a gemstone necklace with the largest emerald you've ever seen and earrings made more for the operas of Bizzuks than the mud streets of Sodgrove. She looks up when her partner speaks to her and smiles at Torigad coyly.
The bartender returns shortly with a pile of pork kebabs on a plate and a refill for your mead.
"Are ye expecting company, m'lord?" he asks, noting that you appear ready for battle.
You could swear that the shadows caused by the fireplace moved in time with the music. The male bard notices you watching and smiles friendly-like, leaning towards the girl and saying something to her in a strange broken language.
Posted on 2008-05-14 at 19:01:36.
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Topic: The Legacy of the Shade Lord
Subject: Torigad
The bartender wanders into the back with orders for the cook as the two minstels begin tuning their instruments.
A couple of long bearded human locals enter, curly blonde beards well groomed for a friday night in Spring. Soon Spring will become Overspring, and then the Stillness.
Posted on 2008-05-14 at 18:23:07.
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Topic: The Legacy of the Shade Lord
Subject: Torigad
The bartender chuckles nervously, and decides not to point out the obvious.
"Yissu Kimessi, at your service, m'lord. I run the Broken Tankard mead hall. Anything else I can get you, you just let me know. We have pork ribs and kebabs if you're hungry..."
Posted on 2008-05-14 at 17:57:59.
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Topic: The Legacy of the Shade Lord
Subject: Torigad
SODGROVE, SOUTHERN EAST ROSE
The bartender slides a pint mug into Torigad's reach and offers him some pipe tobacco.
"Welcome to Sodgrove, stranger. My name's Yissu. What can I call you?" He smiles at the dark skinned dwarf, trying his best not to appear unsettled by his odd presence.
Posted on 2008-05-14 at 17:28:27.
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Topic: Legacy of the Shade Lord Q&A
Subject: Start
You come in individually in order of how you post. If you already came in, then you see the next people come in, and you can reply with a welcome or whatever.
I guess I should have made this more clear earlier.
I am going to go 24 hours with time updates.
Please include a location stamp when posting. Once you get together, you'll be on the same time frame, so time stamps will only be necessary when the party is split up (perish the thought!).
Post as often as you like, but it is polite to take turns. But again, post as often as you like. In 24 hours I will advance the story, but I will also roleplay with npc's if you talk to them.
Posted on 2008-05-14 at 16:03:37.
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