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+ | ======The Story so far====== | ||
+ | Go back to the [[Session reports|Session report index]] | ||
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+ | =====Chapter the First: Where in the World is Wang?===== | ||
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+ | ====Session One==== | ||
+ | Sunday, 15th May, 12.30 \\ | ||
+ | Game date - 5th of March 3250 | ||
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+ | This is why Frieherr (or Baron) Alden hired [[..: | ||
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+ | Meanwhile, [[..: | ||
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+ | Luckily, along comes a bard named [[Cadmus|Cadmus]], | ||
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+ | Along comes [[Team Alden|Team Alden]] and they all get together under what anyone would class as " | ||
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+ | Red, named by Cadmus, and now shaped to appear like a midget relative of his, wearing the uniform of one of Wang's guards (which made Team Alden quite suspicious - almost overcoming the "PC glow". Possibly they are just too polite to interrogate strangers in a forest), wanders off to have a look at a wandering band of centuars. These centaurs were in the way the previous day when Team Alden wanted to follow Wang's tracks, but were now camped further south. Caution (because it is well known the centaurs despise humanoids) and a quick count of the 4 to 1 odds, delayed the further tracking of Wang until a more opportune time. | ||
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+ | It was then that everyone discovered Red's inquisitive nature, and the maximum level of unluck he had bought for his character (" | ||
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+ | ==GM Synopsis== | ||
+ | [[GM's Session 1 Report|GM' | ||
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+ | ====Session two==== | ||
+ | Sunday, 12th June, 12.30 \\ | ||
+ | Game date - 7th of March 3250 | ||
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+ | In the morning, that's what they did, spending many a long intercharacter discussion on the odds of centaurs-to-humanoids, | ||
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+ | Tim's troop of nomadic centaurs mentioned these monsters having attacked a fellow centaur tribe in the past. And that tribe being wiped out. So it came as no suprise to the PCs as they continued east, that they started coming across warning markings made by centaurs " | ||
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+ | Making camp, they took more precautions than usual, and included some fortifications. Possibly becuase they had spotted an orange/red shape shadowing them. I think they suspected it was a plot significant monster (possibly because I don't believe in random encounters). | ||
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+ | Wandering into camp came a young man, fleeing a caravan that had been attacked by a group of these monsters. The caravan was doing illegal trade between Kartar and the Duchy of Irolo, and Alden had his suspicions that this man may be the missing traitorous heir to the Mark. They placed him in the centre of the camp and kept watch. During this time, Red decided to "come out of the midget" | ||
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+ | Further along that night, Baron (I'm not a Mage) Alden chanted (Religiously, | ||
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+ | Next day, the strange young man lead Team Alden northwards towards where his caravan was attacked. But then he tried to make a break for it, and was shot at by one of the guards. Losing his pretend form, the stranger turned into a Rakshasa. But a rather small and starved one - who had just the time to change shape before Thodric cleft him (and there was much rejoicing). | ||
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+ | Red scouted ahead and discovered an entire tribe of Rakshasa, so prudently, Team Alden left the forest. | ||
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+ | After further " | ||
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+ | ====Session Three==== | ||
+ | Sunday, 26th June, 12.30 \\ | ||
+ | Game date - 9th of March 3250 | ||
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+ | After camping for another day, the forest became strangely normal. Which intrigued Thodric. | ||
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+ | Alden managed to examine the McGuffin and came to the conclusion it was a mind transferrance device, that had malfunctioned. Wang's mind was in Red's body and vice versa. The cut lengths of hair that connect the main crystal to the anodes, that transfer the different apects of a mind from one body to another, would need to be replaces. They were made of the tail hair of a unicorn. | ||
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+ | Once again Red wandered up near the monster camp - and discovered many tracks. | ||
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+ | Getting the rest of the party there, Thodric gave the tracks a profession once-over. Felines, many of them. Going east. | ||
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+ | They set forth again on horseback, eventually coming within sight of the group of some 30 or so felines - all appearing identical, except for one holding a staff. The Rakshasa have decided to infiltrate Kartar. With the help of a Rakshasa mind in a feline body, and therefore not prone to change shape when he loses consciousness, | ||
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+ | But the party has caught them in the open, have superior weapons, a devout religious man who is sure a holy item of his will act very much like a spell cast by one of those damned illegal mages if he but chants and gestures with it, and horses. The horse archer guards are up for it, and the page boys with the pack ponies are left behind. | ||
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+ | After a false casting (ahem) use of the holy item, Alden does eventually target it in the centre of the monsters, causing them to scatter, one third coming towards them, one third away, and one third caught to take the effect - which stuns them and eventually knocks many of the unconscious with hoards of biting insects. | ||
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+ | The Rakshasa left, including the feline (Wang) with the staff, charge the party - only to be cut down with bow fire (Strangely enough, guardsman Albrecht kept hitting them in the groin, causing major damage) - truly demonstrating the need for armour. Five of them made it to Thodric, who, using nearly all of his endurance (and therefore becoming heavily fatigued) managed to lay about himself with multiple attacks. During the charge, Cadmus shot the feline in the leg. The feline fell to the ground, bleeding - and after the battle was over, was discovered to be dead. | ||
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+ | Red was only slightly miffed he wouldn' | ||
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+ | ====Session Four==== | ||
+ | Sunday 24th July 2005 \\ | ||
+ | Current Game date - 12th of March 3250 | ||
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+ | The bodies of the beasts were gathered together and burned, extra special care taken to make sure that Wang's body left no identifying parts. Red took all of Wang's possessions and now is considerably rich - in Kartaran money. Having it converted to local currency may be somewhat problematical considering the somewhat paranoid nature of the Duchy of Irolo at this time. | ||
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+ | The party travelled back as fast as they could to the Duchy' | ||
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+ | Various campfires were noticed off to the south. Alden saw one more than the others. Strangely enough, even when asleep it nagged at his mind - giving him a troubled night and a headache in the morning. | ||
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+ | In the morning Alden saw two sun rises. The normal one, and one from the south. It was a blazing magical disturbance, | ||
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+ | The various high priests in the army were hurling magic, after magic at him - fireballs, lightning blasts, high winds, everything they could muster. Which he ignored. He appeared to be travelling to the northeast, the army was there to make sure he caused to problems with the Duchy of Irolo - and possibly to kill him if they could. | ||
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+ | They continued past Team Alden, who was, in this case, far less interesting. Whether they do anything when they go past the ashes of the Rakshasa or how they return to the Duchy is left as an exercise for the active imagination of the paranoid. | ||
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+ | Sometime later Team Alden approaced the fortified and patrolled borders of the Uckermark - to be greated by one of their roving patrol captains. Alden himself made sure that any suspicious items were in a field of unsuspiciousness while they passed to borders - to stay with the Baron Uckermark as befits a noble. | ||
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+ | The Baron Uckermark, a fairly politically naive elderly man - with a new young wife who just happens to be a cousin of the current Marquessa. Cadmus even entertained those present whilst the two Barons discussed politics and Baron Bovo Minheim von Uckermark had his assurances that Alden' | ||
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+ | Thodric made mention of the Corpsemaster of Uckermark, but in general just lurked in the background, out of sight - too common to entertain thoughts of talking with the nobility, perhaps - and seeing to the quartering of Alden' | ||
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+ | Red left his quarters during the night to sleep out of sight of potential gossiping servants who would not likely take kindly to the appearance of an 8 foot two headed monster in their castle. He did try to track down Cadmus, who had left earlier to go bar crawling, and catch up on Bard-gossip but unfortunately - due to a lack of interest in tracking the meandering path of a dedicated drinker through the quite numerous amount of pubs in the town (and the lack of any memory of a town's layout) - Red was not present when Cadmus was mugged. | ||
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+ | Bit of a blow that - at that stage Cadmus was still carrying the McGuffin. He lost it, as well as much money to a number of brigands who were intelligent enough to attack him AFTER he was completely off his face on beer and ale. | ||
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+ | This sad news was brought back to the castle the next day and started a side quest of inquiry into the disappearing McGuffin. The local constabulary were able to recommend the interrogation of a blacksmith near the docks area based on the description given by Cadmus. However the blacksmith proved unhelpful - as his son, the one most likely to be able to commit a violent crime, due to age, had gone missing. The blacksmith himself had not committed a crime for several years. | ||
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+ | Meantime Cadmus and Red were questioning the various patrons of the bars that Cadmus had visited previously, although no further information on who stole Red's brain has yet been forthcoming. Nor indead who has Thodric' | ||
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+ | ==GM Synopsis== | ||
+ | [[GM's Session 4 Notes|GM' | ||
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+ | ====Session Five==== | ||
+ | Sunday, 21st August, 12.30 \\ | ||
+ | Game date - 20th of March 3250 | ||
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+ | The McGuffin having been lost through tragic luck, the party sallied forth in various guises to retrieve it. The Baron and his grunty bodyguard (Arrgh, name? Something the Bald... :) threatened a poor, unpreposessing, | ||
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+ | Unfortunately, | ||
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+ | Cadmus, knowing some people who knew some people who might, possibly, have some slight chance of knowing some other people who could just possibly know things, set about contacting his contacts. They said they would get back to him. There was nothing to do then but wait, and the Baron, having been away from home for far too long, needed to settled some affairs, thus we rode back to his city, discussing various things--namely Cadmus' | ||
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+ | We stayed at a port town for some days. Red, that bastion of strength and multiple forms, got a job that, much to his disgust, paid sod-all. Cadmus continued happily sponging off the Baron, as did his bodyguard, who, however, actually had to pretend to work. At least he got paid a substantial amount, and then spent a substantial time looking through items he could suddenly afford, often with exclamations of joy. :) Cadmus was contacted by some men, and, having obtained from the Baron some money to purchase what they claimed to have for him, set off to see if the McGuffin had been found. The Baron did some business, as did Red, and I think Bodyguard(Damn, | ||
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+ | During the day, smoke was seen over the docks. The Baron immediately sprang into action, ordering fire-chains to be set up. Fortunately, | ||
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+ | Many hours later, Cadmus returned, tired, despite his mighty thews, from bearing a wooden box. Once it was levered open, inside we found a blood-soaked rag wrapped around the McGuffin, though the gems were missing. The blood was soon explained by the presence of a head-the owner' | ||
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+ | The next day we rode back to the Baron' | ||
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+ | '' | ||
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+ | Go back to the [[Session reports|Session report index]] | ||
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