Sunday, 22 April 2007

Session 1: regathering at Ost-in-Eidhil

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Created on 2007-04-22 16:10:45.

2007-04-22

Stuart Gilmour: 12:56:58
testing...
Ember: 12:57:09
fwaff
Stuart Gilmour: 12:57:14
right
Stuart Gilmour: 12:57:38
so I sent 4 things to both of you...
Stuart Gilmour: 12:57:43
1. your character sheet
Stuart Gilmour: 12:57:48
2. a map of middle earth
Stuart Gilmour: 12:57:52
3. a list of spells
Stuart Gilmour: 12:57:56
4. a list of treasure to sell
Stuart Gilmour: 12:58:02
which Ember may not have received
Stuart Gilmour: 12:58:10
So Emily you have a list of cleric spells
Stuart Gilmour: 12:58:18
Emma has a list of wizard spells
Stuart Gilmour: 12:58:28
the character sheets are in Excel
Ember: 12:58:31
got em
Stuart Gilmour: 12:58:33
there are many worksheets
Stuart Gilmour: 12:58:56
#1, "Picture", is your picture
Stuart Gilmour: 12:59:07
#2, skills and abilities
Stuart Gilmour: 12:59:15
is your abilities and skills
Stuart Gilmour: 12:59:29
you may need to use the arrows on the bottom left of the spreadsheet to view all the different sheets
Stuart Gilmour: 12:59:59
#3, feats languages adn abilities, should describe all your special crazinesses
Stuart Gilmour: 13:00:15
#4, Equipment and magic items, self explanatory
Stuart Gilmour: 13:00:23
then you have 2 magic sections
Stuart Gilmour: 13:00:41
a section on campaign notes
Stuart Gilmour: 13:00:53
I think Oryndiel's contains info about a stash of group treasure which needs to be sold...
Stuart Gilmour: 13:01:08
then there is a sheet for your mount (wiht picture)
Stuart Gilmour: 13:01:18
and a sheet for your famimliar, and your animal companion if you have one
Stuart Gilmour: 13:01:29
so Emma's sheet should have a ferret on it
Stuart Gilmour: 13:01:37
you there Emily?
Emily: 13:01:56
am now, sorry
Stuart Gilmour: 13:01:59
1 minor point of major importance is:
Stuart Gilmour: 13:02:15
in your power point box (in the magic sheet)
Stuart Gilmour: 13:02:21
and your hit point box (in teh skills and abilities sheet)
Stuart Gilmour: 13:02:30
don't delete the values written there
Stuart Gilmour: 13:02:39
rather, you should put your current scores in the boxes which say "current scores"
Stuart Gilmour: 13:03:01
If you do delete things, i have the originals here
Ember: 13:03:13
Hai!Group treasure includes .... emerald (4100 gp), Bloodstone (50 gp), Amber (65 gp), Full plate armour (1000gp), Banded mail armour (400gps), heavy steel shield of fortification (1200 gps)
Emily: 13:03:15
haha mmk
Ember: 13:03:28
Hallooo Lotho old chap!
Stuart Gilmour: 13:03:52
the list of "treasure to sell" which i sent includes information about the skyship, some stuff you need to sell, and some books and spell books which Ryu needs to discuss
Emily: 13:03:53
hello .. erm, i forget yer name
Stuart Gilmour: 13:04:00
(Oryndiel...)
Stuart Gilmour: 13:04:20
Now, emily, you are about to explain to Emma what happened to you and Ryu in Emma's absence
Stuart Gilmour: 13:04:23
and vice versa
Emily: 13:04:28
..
Stuart Gilmour: 13:04:39
so I should just mention what happened to you after you finished the last adventure and where you are now
Stuart Gilmour: 13:04:45
so here goes...
Stuart Gilmour: 13:05:03
after you found the Skyship in the Dwarven kingdom, you wandered down to Rivendell to do some research
Stuart Gilmour: 13:05:05
on how to use it
Stuart Gilmour: 13:05:31
in Rivendell you heard that Oryndiel had gone south with a band of elven Fascists to reclaim teh ancient kingdom of Eregion
Ember: 13:05:43
bravo!
Stuart Gilmour: 13:05:48
so you thought, "aye, that elf was good for a lark, I'll go catch up"
Stuart Gilmour: 13:06:05
and you and Ryu sailed your new skyship to Ost-in-Eidhil, a ruined city in Eregion
Stuart Gilmour: 13:06:31
whereat, after a day of hanging in teh sky above town, Oryndiel flew up to your ship on a hippogriff
Stuart Gilmour: 13:06:50
and said (and I quote) "Halloooo Lotho old chap!"
Ember: 13:07:53
Havin' a bit of de ja vu now, lads.
Stuart Gilmour: 13:07:56
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/MM35_gallery/MM35_PG153b.jpg
Stuart Gilmour: 13:08:04
this picture is a hippogriff
Stuart Gilmour: 13:08:08
are you there Emily?
Emily: 13:08:18
yep
Stuart Gilmour: 13:08:30
righty ho!
Stuart Gilmour: 13:08:55
so perhaps Lotho would like to explain to Oryndiel - over a point of vile ale I've no doubt - exactly how he came to be in possession of a rather elegant skyship?
Emily: 13:09:48
Hello Oryndiel, how goes?
Emily: 13:09:57
like to come aboard for a pint?
Ember: 13:10:11
Do you have Baby-cham?
Ember: 13:10:48
Togs away, I'm on board, me old pally!
Emily: 13:10:56
ummmm... i don't think so, but we can go find a baby so you can make one if you like?
Stuart Gilmour: 13:11:05
wow... it's just like old times!
Ember: 13:11:11
Fine by me, Lothy ol chap.
Emily: 13:11:35
so... you know these parts better than I, ... where will we find one?
Stuart Gilmour: 13:11:53
are you two trying to put off describing your historical experiences?
Stuart Gilmour: 13:11:57
the vile ale got to you did it?
Emily: 13:12:19
that was my excuse .. yes...
Ember: 13:12:23
Aye, recap, O Hallowed Master. I have not but a clue of what happened is sessions past.
Emily: 13:12:28
so you want to know what i've been up to?
Stuart Gilmour: 13:12:39
yep
Ember: 13:12:39
I'm all ears (pointy).
Stuart Gilmour: 13:12:54
Lotho?
Stuart Gilmour: 13:12:55
do I need to do it?
Emily: 13:13:16
I'm afraid I've been drinking so much lately, I can't remember much other than throwing up over the side of this sturdy ship
Stuart Gilmour: 13:13:27
right
Stuart Gilmour: 13:13:28
well
Stuart Gilmour: 13:13:37
here's the story then (in brief, for I have forgotten some too)
Stuart Gilmour: 13:13:40
it's been a year!
Stuart Gilmour: 13:14:05
after Oryndiel left you to join the fascist brotherhood, you returned to the dodgy magician to whom you had originally returned that box
Stuart Gilmour: 13:14:21
you may recall that it turned out he was evil, and he sent you after another magic item which was in the box
Stuart Gilmour: 13:14:45
particularly, he wnated you to find a lost Dwarven kingdom adn steal from therein the plans of their lightning rail, and also the contents of their treasury
Stuart Gilmour: 13:14:57
only it turned out that he was involved in having them destroyed in the first place
Stuart Gilmour: 13:15:10
while there you found your mighty-powerful Mornign Star (the "Star of the Underheavens")
Stuart Gilmour: 13:15:13
which, incidentally
Stuart Gilmour: 13:15:19
a team of Good Dwarves was looking for
Stuart Gilmour: 13:15:22
so you killed them too
Stuart Gilmour: 13:15:24
nice one, that
Stuart Gilmour: 13:15:30
then you killed a mind flayer:
Emily: 13:15:32
oops
Ember: 13:15:35
Dwarf murderer!
Stuart Gilmour: 13:15:53
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/MM35_gallery/MM35_PG187.jpg
Stuart Gilmour: 13:15:57
(that's a mind flayer)
Stuart Gilmour: 13:16:04
and stumbled on various treasure, including a skyship
Emily: 13:16:13
it was an sccident, like you haven't killed things you shouldn't have Oryndiel
Stuart Gilmour: 13:16:20
which was strangely embedded inside the viewing gallery of the Dwarven kingdom
Ember: 13:16:31
Hee hee! Golly, he looks a bit Davy Jones, don't he?
Stuart Gilmour: 13:16:33
this skyship was actually the lost skyship of a race of beings claled Githyanki
Stuart Gilmour: 13:16:36
(give me a mo)
Stuart Gilmour: 13:16:56
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/MM35_gallery/MM35_PG128.jpg
Stuart Gilmour: 13:17:02
a race of Astral slavers adn general all out bastards
Stuart Gilmour: 13:17:08
who you had the good fortune not to meet
Stuart Gilmour: 13:17:16
their swords have the property of Vorpalness
Ember: 13:17:19
Narsty parsties.
Stuart Gilmour: 13:17:23
that is, they sever a limb every time they hit you
Stuart Gilmour: 13:17:28
they also have a ferocious commitment to dieting
Stuart Gilmour: 13:17:31
on their slaves
Emily: 13:17:35
(not to meet so far)
Ember: 13:17:39
Cripes!
Stuart Gilmour: 13:17:45
incidentally they were once, many millenia ago
Stuart Gilmour: 13:17:50
slaves of the mind flayers
Stuart Gilmour: 13:17:53
coincidence or not, I ask ?
Stuart Gilmour: 13:18:02
that they were both present in this Dwarven kingdom?
Stuart Gilmour: 13:18:02
anyway,
Stuart Gilmour: 13:18:08
you may also recall that there were some wererats
Ember: 13:18:22
as opposed to were-nutria?
Stuart Gilmour: 13:18:25
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/MM35_gallery/MM35_PG173.jpg
Stuart Gilmour: 13:18:28
(the little one at the back)
Stuart Gilmour: 13:18:52
who were evil dwarves who had allowed the mind flayer into the caverns (at the behest of your erstwhile employer) and then fled
Stuart Gilmour: 13:18:55
or something like that
Stuart Gilmour: 13:18:59
the details elude me
Stuart Gilmour: 13:19:01
so anyway
Stuart Gilmour: 13:19:05
the adventure ended there
Stuart Gilmour: 13:19:12
in the attached document you have information about what your ship can do
Emily: 13:19:18
yes, so I stole the evil employer's ship....
Stuart Gilmour: 13:19:24
you had to go to Rivendell to research its origins
Stuart Gilmour: 13:19:29
(you killed your employer, as one does)
Stuart Gilmour: 13:19:35
(and I htink Ryu has his spell book)
Emily: 13:19:43
oh, good on us
Stuart Gilmour: 13:19:46
which is also in the document "treasure to sell" which I emailed you
Stuart Gilmour: 13:19:47
so anyway
Stuart Gilmour: 13:19:53
the ship currently is able to
Stuart Gilmour: 13:19:55
1. levitate
Emily: 13:20:00
that would have been a fight waiting to happen
Stuart Gilmour: 13:20:01
2. navigate
Stuart Gilmour: 13:20:02
3. teleport
Stuart Gilmour: 13:20:32
teleportation requires either a rather nasty navigation skill check, or you can use your ship's navigation powers to mark a point to which you can teleport in future
Ember: 13:20:38
does this mean we have a ship? Like in Red Dwarf? Or Firefly? Huzzah!
Emily: 13:20:40
.. and Ryu can do all that?
Stuart Gilmour: 13:20:52
teleportation, however, requires gemstones worth 1000gps per 100km teleported
Stuart Gilmour: 13:21:07
these gemstones are consumed in the teleportation process,a nd turned into glass
Stuart Gilmour: 13:21:13
later you may also be able to use the souls of humans
Stuart Gilmour: 13:21:16
we will get to that...
Stuart Gilmour: 13:21:32
Ryu has navigation skills; you have boat pilot skills (check your "skills and abilities" sheet)
Stuart Gilmour: 13:21:41
your ship gains new powers when you reach 11th level
Stuart Gilmour: 13:21:56
Questions?
Stuart Gilmour: 13:22:22
I had a picture of the ship but it is embedded in a 9Mb document
Stuart Gilmour: 13:22:24
can't yet find one online
Ember: 13:22:37
do we have a supply of fuel gemstones at the mo?
Stuart Gilmour: 13:22:44
um
Stuart Gilmour: 13:22:50
have a look in your treasure sheets to see the answer to that
Stuart Gilmour: 13:23:01
yes, in response to your unspoken thoughts, Oryndiel
Stuart Gilmour: 13:23:04
it is expensive
Emily: 13:23:13
not that i can see
Stuart Gilmour: 13:23:43
you have a 4100 gp emerald
Stuart Gilmour: 13:23:52
that will get you from Gondor to the Grey havens, ,most likely
Emily: 13:24:37
can't see that in my treasure list
Stuart Gilmour: 13:24:47
Emma copied and pasted earlier
Stuart Gilmour: 13:24:49
it's above
Stuart Gilmour: 13:24:52
Emma has had half a chu-hi though
Stuart Gilmour: 13:24:57
so sense has been vanquished
Ember: 13:25:23
so, as I see it, the skyship is rather expensive when we need to use special skills?
Ember: 13:25:30
like invisibility and the like?
Stuart Gilmour: 13:25:30
yep
Stuart Gilmour: 13:25:34
but the levitation is free
Stuart Gilmour: 13:25:42
and you can then use normal sailing to travel
Stuart Gilmour: 13:25:46
it's easy like that
Ember: 13:25:50
 so we have to be frugal with the gems then.
Stuart Gilmour: 13:25:54
yep
Ember: 13:25:56
Okie-doke.
Stuart Gilmour: 13:25:57
or loot a lot of dwarves
Ember: 13:26:13
here tis again :Current stash of group treasure: emerald (4100 gp), Bloodstone (50 gp), Amber (65 gp), Full plate armour (1000gp), Banded mail armour (400gps), heavy steel shield of fortification (1200 gps)
Emily: 13:26:26
went back for it
Stuart Gilmour: 13:26:29
right
Stuart Gilmour: 13:26:33
so, now,
Stuart Gilmour: 13:26:42
Oryndiel will (ove ra second pint of vile ale)
Stuart Gilmour: 13:26:47
explain to Lotho why, exactly
Stuart Gilmour: 13:26:51
she is hanging out with Elven fascists
Stuart Gilmour: 13:26:57
(is there any other sort, I hear the hobbit ask)
Stuart Gilmour: 13:27:01
and riding a hippogriff
Ember: 13:27:24
through the mists of memory, all I remember is that I'm helping them set up a repubic for Elvish Sorts ...
Ember: 13:27:40
... I helped some lizard men and they gave me a bunch of hippogriffs ...
Ember: 13:28:01
... and my companion, Drake, a Friar Tuck type of bloke, helped me out a bit too.
Ember: 13:28:24
(saved me from some snaggle-toothed arachnid)
Stuart Gilmour: 13:28:34
indeed
Stuart Gilmour: 13:28:46
There is a small group of elves who aim to reclaim the kingdom of Eregion
Stuart Gilmour: 13:29:05
if we look at our map of middle earth
Stuart Gilmour: 13:29:07
it is located
Stuart Gilmour: 13:29:21
in the area called Hollin
Stuart Gilmour: 13:29:25
West of the Misty Mountains
Stuart Gilmour: 13:29:34
North of Dunland
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and bordered to the South by the Glanduin
Stuart Gilmour: 13:30:02
and to the West by the river Loudwater
Stuart Gilmour: 13:30:05
where these two rivers meet is Tharbad
Stuart Gilmour: 13:30:13
the old city that was once the capital of all this area
Stuart Gilmour: 13:30:18
and where you guys adventured together before
Stuart Gilmour: 13:30:29
(recall teh tower, and the ambush you set there, and the subsequent slaughter?)
Stuart Gilmour: 13:30:39
Eregion was
Stuart Gilmour: 13:30:40
in the 2nd Age
Ember: 13:30:42
Aye aye, good times.
Stuart Gilmour: 13:30:46
(i.e. about 2000years ago)
Stuart Gilmour: 13:30:50
An Elven Kingdom
Stuart Gilmour: 13:30:54
but it was ravaged by Sauron
Stuart Gilmour: 13:30:58
and fell into ruin
Stuart Gilmour: 13:31:11
after his final and complete and utter destruction (?...)
Stuart Gilmour: 13:31:22
Sauron's forces fled from their various layers
Stuart Gilmour: 13:31:25
sorry
Stuart Gilmour: 13:31:26
lairs
Stuart Gilmour: 13:31:34
and many of the elves left Middle Earth
Stuart Gilmour: 13:31:37
however, some elves
Stuart Gilmour: 13:31:41
have gotten a bit...
Stuart Gilmour: 13:31:43
stern...
Stuart Gilmour: 13:32:02
and think that they should stay in Middle earth and reclaim their old stomping grounds while the humans are still recovering from teh war of the ring
Stuart Gilmour: 13:32:11
particularly, the Dunlendings to the South have been weak since the war
Stuart Gilmour: 13:32:27
and so the elves see a chance to reclaim land which previously would have been under heavy threat from teh Dunlendings
Stuart Gilmour: 13:32:36
they asked young Oryndiel to help out
Stuart Gilmour: 13:32:38
and she did
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running little errands for them
Emily: 13:32:42
so where are we now? in comparision to Hollin?
Stuart Gilmour: 13:33:02
See the little marshy patch at the confluence of the two rivers?
Stuart Gilmour: 13:33:18
just East of the edge of that marshy patch, where the river first jags upwards
Stuart Gilmour: 13:33:23
is the ruin of Ost-in-Eidhil
Stuart Gilmour: 13:33:25
currently being rebuild
Stuart Gilmour: 13:33:26
t
Stuart Gilmour: 13:33:32
that's where you are
Stuart Gilmour: 13:33:50
Emily
Stuart Gilmour: 13:34:02
if you follow the Misty Mountains north from hollin you will come to Rivendell
Stuart Gilmour: 13:34:07
just north of Rivendell are the trollshaws
Emily: 13:34:09
mmk
Stuart Gilmour: 13:34:18
that is where you did all the Dwarfy kingdom adventuring
Stuart Gilmour: 13:34:22
and slaughtering of good dwarves
Stuart Gilmour: 13:34:25
betraying of employers
Stuart Gilmour: 13:34:31
stealing of ancient treasures
Stuart Gilmour: 13:34:34
despoiling of tombs
Stuart Gilmour: 13:34:59
stealing of other people's slaveships
Ember: 13:35:13
and puking on them from above
Stuart Gilmour: 13:35:21
from said sturdy ship
Stuart Gilmour: 13:35:24
btw
Stuart Gilmour: 13:35:29
since I don't have a picture to show you yet
Stuart Gilmour: 13:35:41
I should say that githyanki ships are as torturously slender and graceful as they are
Stuart Gilmour: 13:35:44
so your ship is long and slim
Stuart Gilmour: 13:35:47
two-masted
Stuart Gilmour: 13:35:50
made of white bone
Ember: 13:36:05
Does it have a figurehead of some willowy seamaid?
Stuart Gilmour: 13:36:08
from some impossibly large creature (have I mentioned how BIG everything is on the Astral Plane, hence this ship comes?)
Emily: 13:36:11
... and with stuff carved all over it
Stuart Gilmour: 13:36:14
Yes
Stuart Gilmour: 13:36:18
but it's not a seamaid
Stuart Gilmour: 13:36:22
it's a Mind Flayer's head
Stuart Gilmour: 13:36:24
carved in ebony
Ember: 13:36:28
Noice.
Stuart Gilmour: 13:36:33
with ruins all over it
Stuart Gilmour: 13:36:42
this doubles as a battering ram
Stuart Gilmour: 13:36:43
btw
Stuart Gilmour: 13:36:50
the ship has 3 decks
Stuart Gilmour: 13:36:58
all rather narrow and low-ceilinged
Stuart Gilmour: 13:37:04
despite the githyanki's height
Emily: 13:37:09
so was it made by the mind flayers or their slaves?
Stuart Gilmour: 13:37:10
the bottom deck is a slave hold
Stuart Gilmour: 13:37:20
the githyanki made it
Stuart Gilmour: 13:37:25
and after freeing themselves from slavery ....
Stuart Gilmour: 13:37:28
became slavers
Stuart Gilmour: 13:37:30
so it goes
Stuart Gilmour: 13:37:44
they hate mind flayers with an absolute passion
Stuart Gilmour: 13:37:58
greater than even the passion of hobbits who have seen mind flayers eating dwarves brains
Emily: 13:38:02
i'll get on well with them then :)
Stuart Gilmour: 13:38:06
(btw Emma, I should mention that Mind Flayers eat brains)
Ember: 13:38:15
EEK!
Stuart Gilmour: 13:38:26
well, if being enslaved and forced to do horrible things forever counts as "getting on well"
Stuart Gilmour: 13:38:32
anyway
Stuart Gilmour: 13:38:41
so if Githyanki see your ship they will want to talk
Stuart Gilmour: 13:38:42
and then slay
Stuart Gilmour: 13:38:45
if Mind Flayers see your ship
Stuart Gilmour: 13:38:49
they will want to attack
Stuart Gilmour: 13:38:49
and then eat
Stuart Gilmour: 13:38:52
brains
Stuart Gilmour: 13:39:08
It would be advisable therefore to always have a few spare potions of Freedom of Movement hanging about
Emily: 13:39:12
why would Githyanki want to talk?
Stuart Gilmour: 13:39:26
they will think you are Githyanki when they see your ship
Stuart Gilmour: 13:39:31
then they will get a bit peeved
Stuart Gilmour: 13:39:38
because iether you are a very fat, very short githyanki, Lotho
Stuart Gilmour: 13:39:40
or a dirty thief
Stuart Gilmour: 13:39:44
and either class of being must die
Ember: 13:39:54
*eep*
Stuart Gilmour: 13:39:58
they aren't forgiving of divergence from racial norms
Stuart Gilmour: 13:40:06
I should remind you Lotho
Stuart Gilmour: 13:40:19
that the Mind Flayer you met was piss weak but for one mighty power, which was its ability to paralyse you using its mind
Stuart Gilmour: 13:40:28
and then suck out your brains at its leisure
Emily: 13:40:39
mm, i think i recall being paralysed more than once
Stuart Gilmour: 13:40:40
which is why you probably want to always have a potion of freedom of movement hanging about
Stuart Gilmour: 13:40:52
even hobbits need a bit of brain
Emily: 13:40:59
note: i don't seem to have any "freedom from movement" potions or spells atm
Stuart Gilmour: 13:41:04
well
Stuart Gilmour: 13:41:09
that's convenient
Stuart Gilmour: 13:41:15
this brings us to the issue of selilng stuff
Stuart Gilmour: 13:41:25
I will give you a brief description of Ost in Eidil
Stuart Gilmour: 13:41:36
and then you can tell me what stuff you want to sell, and if you want to buy anything
Stuart Gilmour: 13:41:44
So,
Stuart Gilmour: 13:42:08
Ost-in-Eidhil lies on a small rise just North of hte Glanduin river, where it makes a sudden hairpin bend away from Dunland.
Stuart Gilmour: 13:42:33
The original buildings of Ost in eidhil mostly collapsed a thousand years ago, but some of their bases remained
Stuart Gilmour: 13:42:40
and are now bieing rebuilt by Elves and Dwarves
Stuart Gilmour: 13:42:44
the Dwarves come from Moria
Stuart Gilmour: 13:42:46
and other such places
Stuart Gilmour: 13:43:12
The original buildings were tall, graceful towers rising impossibly high, and surmounted by many walkways, balconies and minarets
Stuart Gilmour: 13:43:25
very splendid Flash Gordon-esque sort of graceful architecture
Stuart Gilmour: 13:43:44
Around the old city of Ost in Eidhil
Stuart Gilmour: 13:43:50
lies a large expanse of ruined stone buildings,
Stuart Gilmour: 13:43:56
which are currently being rebuilt
Stuart Gilmour: 13:43:59
and are interspersed with tents
Stuart Gilmour: 13:44:01
wood huts
Emily: 13:44:02
flash gordon is graceful?
Stuart Gilmour: 13:44:06
and other temporary accomodation
Stuart Gilmour: 13:44:14
no, the towers in the movei were
Ember: 13:44:15
do they sell postcards?
Stuart Gilmour: 13:44:17
from memory
Stuart Gilmour: 13:44:19
no they don't
Stuart Gilmour: 13:44:33
around the outside of Ost-in-Eidhil is a new, modern stone wall
Stuart Gilmour: 13:44:40
large enough to defend but built quite quickly
Stuart Gilmour: 13:44:43
so not quite castle-like
Stuart Gilmour: 13:44:55
there are two entrances, one ot the West (towards the marshes)
Stuart Gilmour: 13:45:01
and one to the North
Stuart Gilmour: 13:45:06
there is also a river dockyards
Stuart Gilmour: 13:45:11
which is heavily guarded and fortified
Emily: 13:45:20
guarded by whom?
Stuart Gilmour: 13:45:23
in the middle of the rise in the centre is a large, graceful castle, mostly rebuilt
Stuart Gilmour: 13:45:29
by elves, Dwarves and Human mercenaries
Stuart Gilmour: 13:45:34
there are many Dwarves in Ost-in-Eidhil
Stuart Gilmour: 13:45:42
mostly stonemasons or warriors
Stuart Gilmour: 13:45:58
Oryndiel has an apartment in one of the towers ofthe castle, a graceful and slender tower
Stuart Gilmour: 13:46:03
her apartment is on two levels,
Stuart Gilmour: 13:46:14
connected by a spiral staircase which ascends the outside of the tower
Ember: 13:46:19
Oh, I forgot about that. will have to water the potplants!
Stuart Gilmour: 13:46:29
and is lined on the outside by glass walls with filigrees of silver to hold them in place
Stuart Gilmour: 13:46:34
very much like something from teh Louis Tiffany museum
Stuart Gilmour: 13:46:44
the pot plants are from the forest of Mirkwood
Stuart Gilmour: 13:46:48
and are a little creepy
Stuart Gilmour: 13:46:56
the whole apartment sways in the breeze
Emily: 13:47:02
meep
Stuart Gilmour: 13:47:03
and has a commanding view of Dunland
Ember: 13:47:07
Yes, I'll never forget when one "interfered" with the housemaid.
Stuart Gilmour: 13:47:16
(there is no such thing as tectonic plate theory in Middel Earth)
Stuart Gilmour: 13:47:20
it's hard to find good help, eh
Stuart Gilmour: 13:47:26
anyway
Stuart Gilmour: 13:47:39
so to the South of the river is DUnland, over which your ship and Oryndiel's apartment look
Stuart Gilmour: 13:47:46
you can see the smoke of very distant towns
Emily: 13:47:54
so the lack of theory explaining them, means theres no earthquakes?
Stuart Gilmour: 13:47:59
I should remind you both that some itme ago you adventured there
Stuart Gilmour: 13:48:02
yes, no earthquakes
Stuart Gilmour: 13:48:04
except from teh spell
Stuart Gilmour: 13:48:10
which you will learn many years from now
Stuart Gilmour: 13:48:13
it's a good spell
Stuart Gilmour: 13:48:15
anyway..
Stuart Gilmour: 13:48:24
so you adventured in South Dunland, recovering a Dunlending chieftain's axe
Stuart Gilmour: 13:48:36
he told you in brief about a new Dunland leader, called "the Dark Chieftain"
Emily: 13:48:37
1 qn: I'm 4th level cleric, so can cast level 3 spells right?
Stuart Gilmour: 13:48:43
level 2 I think
Stuart Gilmour: 13:48:45
gimme a mo, I'll check
Stuart Gilmour: 13:48:51
just let me finish this explanation
Emily: 13:48:56
..k
Stuart Gilmour: 13:48:56
so you heard about this Dark Chieftain
Ember: 13:49:01
right
Stuart Gilmour: 13:49:06
who has been growing in power and is slowly uniting the Dunlendings into one kingdom
Stuart Gilmour: 13:49:19
the elves in Eregion think that next year (after the witner)
Stuart Gilmour: 13:49:30
he may have the requisite power to reclaim Eregion for Dunland
Stuart Gilmour: 13:49:41
so they ahve two plans (only one of which they have made clear)
Stuart Gilmour: 13:49:45
plan 1 (the publicly available plan)
Stuart Gilmour: 13:49:54
is to fortify Eregion and fight them off
Stuart Gilmour: 13:49:59
or come to an arragement
Stuart Gilmour: 13:50:03
plan 2 (the sneaky one)
Stuart Gilmour: 13:50:12
is to rile up the Dunlendings agains the Rohirrim
Stuart Gilmour: 13:50:25
and try and get them to invade Rohan to reclaim their ancestral lands
Stuart Gilmour: 13:50:38
thus giving you guys another 5 or 10 years to claim Eregion
Stuart Gilmour: 13:50:45
but that's by the by
Stuart Gilmour: 13:50:58
for now, you have a few days' hard earned rest, in which you can sell shit
Emily: 13:51:09
 (I want to find out when I'll be able to use level 4 spells... there's a "freedom of movement" one)
Stuart Gilmour: 13:51:09
so look at the document I sent, and also at your list of stuff, and decide what to sell
Emily: 13:51:41
are any of the other stones useful to us (i.e. the ship)?
Stuart Gilmour: 13:51:44
you can currenlty use level 2 spells. level 4 spells become available when you are a 7th level cleric
Stuart Gilmour: 13:51:52
all gemstones are useful on the ship
Emily: 13:51:54
bah humbug
Stuart Gilmour: 13:52:05
so you can use 20 50gp stones or 1 1000gp stone
Stuart Gilmour: 13:52:08
it makes no odds
Stuart Gilmour: 13:52:16
note that
Stuart Gilmour: 13:52:22
the whole gem is consumed
Stuart Gilmour: 13:52:30
so don't use the 4100 gp gem until you need to do 4000 gps of stuff
Stuart Gilmour: 13:52:37
however
Stuart Gilmour: 13:52:44
you don't need to use all the 4000 gps at once
Stuart Gilmour: 13:52:49
so you stuff the gem in te furnace, as it were
Stuart Gilmour: 13:52:57
and it stays there until all 4000 gps are used up
Ember: 13:52:59
there's all this shite we can sell Irregular pearl (10gps)


Tapestry (600 gps)

+1 light mace,x2

Oil of bless weapons (all weapons do holy damage for 1 hour)

Scroll (charm person, Touch of Idiocy, Enlarge Person)

+1 Full Plate, x2

Masterwork Chain Armour

Exploding bullets (5) (2d6 damage on all within 10’; DC 17 for half damage)



Stuart Gilmour: 13:53:01
so it's never eally wasted
Ember: 13:53:12
so we could sell all htis and keep the gems for fuel
Emily: 13:53:19
haha, enlarge person
Emily: 13:53:28
i want to keep Touch of Idiocy
Stuart Gilmour: 13:53:30
Ember, do you want to learn those spells and add them to your spellbook
Stuart Gilmour: 13:53:33
Lotho
Stuart Gilmour: 13:53:37
you can't use Touch of Idiocy
Emily: 13:53:47
awww
Stuart Gilmour: 13:53:54
oh btw
Stuart Gilmour: 13:53:58
your ship ahs a captain's cabin
Stuart Gilmour: 13:54:02
in which the tapestry could hang
Emily: 13:54:14
why would we want to hang it?
Stuart Gilmour: 13:54:17
and Lotho, you can use a sling, so you might find those exploding bullets useful
Stuart Gilmour: 13:54:20
art sweety darling, art
Emily: 13:54:21
it is special, or good for hiding behind?
Ember: 13:54:24
enlarge person, enlarge ember, enlarge member. All a bit rude, really.
Emily: 13:54:30
pft, I'm a hobit
Emily: 13:54:32
bb
Stuart Gilmour: 13:54:34
someone's paying attention...
Ember: 13:54:36
does the tapestry have any magical qualities? 
Stuart Gilmour: 13:54:40
nah
Stuart Gilmour: 13:54:46
but it's a good quality Druzhak
Stuart Gilmour: 13:54:54
he was a Dwarven abstract artist of 400 years ago
Stuart Gilmour: 13:55:25
(there is no other sort of Dwarven artist, except a movement of "Dwarven realism" which is like the Socialist Realist sculptures, only shorter)
Ember: 13:55:32
ok, I bagsy the charm person spell
Stuart Gilmour: 13:55:42
alright
Emily: 13:55:52
can't you do that anyway?
Stuart Gilmour: 13:55:54
do you want to do some spellcraft checks to see if you can add any of those spells to your spellbooks?
Stuart Gilmour: 13:56:05
Yes, she's not paying attention
Ember: 13:56:15
I need all the charisma I can get, little boy.
Emily: 13:56:21
haha
Ember: 13:56:35
Eden's here!!!
Emily: 13:56:38
*drinks to that*
Ember: 13:56:39
Late, of course.
Emily: 13:56:54
wellwell
Stuart Gilmour: 13:56:56
I have added Mr. Lynkster
Emily: 13:57:12
emma appears offline, and lynkster appears questionable.
lynkster: 13:57:19
Am I late?
Stuart Gilmour: 13:57:20
he is certainly that
Stuart Gilmour: 13:57:21
yep
Stuart Gilmour: 13:57:22
very
Stuart Gilmour: 13:57:24
like 2 hours
lynkster: 13:57:45
Whoops. It says 1pm.
Emily: 13:57:53
where does it say that?
Ember: 13:58:02
nanni?
Stuart Gilmour: 13:58:09
nani?
lynkster: 13:58:13
Time of start
Ember: 13:58:18
I'm invisible in case my daddums tries to chat me ;)
Stuart Gilmour: 13:58:22
it's 2pm here Eden
Stuart Gilmour: 13:58:26
which means that it's 3pm where you are
Stuart Gilmour: 13:58:35
you are in Sydney right?
lynkster: 13:58:42
Yep
Stuart Gilmour: 13:58:44
anyway
Emily: 13:58:47
... nominally
Stuart Gilmour: 13:58:48
we have been talkingshit for an hour
Ember: 13:58:55
poo bum and wee
Stuart Gilmour: 13:58:57
so you haven't missed much
lynkster: 13:59:05
Sorry! I thought we were meant to start at 3pm (3pm here
Stuart Gilmour: 13:59:11
so do you guys want to sell all the stuff in the list that is not gems?
Stuart Gilmour: 13:59:25
including the tapestry?
Emily: 13:59:31
well, i can't learn the spells can I?
Emily: 13:59:42
I think we should perhaps keep the tapestry
Stuart Gilmour: 13:59:46
no
Emily: 13:59:48
and what about the bless weapons oil?
Stuart Gilmour: 13:59:50
Ryu and Oryndiel can
Emily: 13:59:52
and exploding bullets?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:00:03
the bless weapons oil is probably only relevant if you have no magic weapons
Stuart Gilmour: 14:00:03
so cool
Emily: 14:00:26
i have a magic morningstar, anyone else want a blessed weapon?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:00:37
I think everyone has a magic weapon
Stuart Gilmour: 14:00:42
Eden
Stuart Gilmour: 14:00:52
you should have in your email
Stuart Gilmour: 14:00:56
a character sheet
Ember: 14:00:57
Exploding bullets sound novel. Why don't we snaffle them up, keep the gems and other baggsied things, and sell the rest
Stuart Gilmour: 14:01:00
a list of treasure to sell
Stuart Gilmour: 14:01:11
which includes a spell book you found and may want to ransack to improve your own spellbook
Stuart Gilmour: 14:01:12
a map of middle earth
Emily: 14:01:15
cept does anyone have a gun for the bullets?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:01:17
and a list of wizard spells
Stuart Gilmour: 14:01:20
Lotho!
Stuart Gilmour: 14:01:23
bullets are for a sling!
Emily: 14:01:29
oh
Stuart Gilmour: 14:01:33
sheessh...
Stuart Gilmour: 14:01:44
all nerds are meant to know that...
Stuart Gilmour: 14:01:47
So Eden
Stuart Gilmour: 14:01:58
you need to go check your character sheet
Stuart Gilmour: 14:02:04
you will see you have many worksheets in it
Emily: 14:02:12
do i hvaI don't appear to have a sling
Ember: 14:02:16
so let's keep bullets, tapestry, gems, and shop the rest.
Stuart Gilmour: 14:02:19
each contains separate details about your characters
Stuart Gilmour: 14:02:20
okay
Stuart Gilmour: 14:02:22
Lotho
Stuart Gilmour: 14:02:23
slings are cheap
Stuart Gilmour: 14:02:27
like, 1gp
lynkster: 14:02:30
yesss... looks like I was reading my work email which said 4pm Oz time
lynkster: 14:02:43
And then there's the gmail which said 1pm Oz time.
Stuart Gilmour: 14:02:51
yes, they would have been ,
Stuart Gilmour: 14:02:52
like
Stuart Gilmour: 14:02:54
start and finish times
Stuart Gilmour: 14:02:56
anyway
Stuart Gilmour: 14:03:01
let's discuss that over beer at another time shall we
Stuart Gilmour: 14:03:06
in the meantime...
Emily: 14:03:06
.. so it's all stuart's fault :)
Ember: 14:03:22
Let's buy slings and that floaty spell thingy.
Emily: 14:03:26
okay
Stuart Gilmour: 14:03:29
who wants to do the Appraise check to work out what the +1 maces are worth, and the +1 armour
Stuart Gilmour: 14:03:29
?
Emily: 14:03:30
.. floaty spell?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:03:32
floaty spell?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:03:36
someone's been on the chu-hi
Stuart Gilmour: 14:03:46
Freedom of Movement?
Emily: 14:03:48
what do you ahve to roll?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:03:53
2d10
Stuart Gilmour: 14:03:55
and add them up
Ember: 14:03:56
Oh, yes, that's the one ...
Stuart Gilmour: 14:04:00
Eden, do you have dice?
lynkster: 14:04:16
Physical dice? No.
Emily: 14:04:18
11/20
Stuart Gilmour: 14:04:26
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/20040517a
Stuart Gilmour: 14:04:29
use htat link
Stuart Gilmour: 14:04:32
11/20?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:04:36
do you mean you rolled 11?
Emily: 14:04:39
yes
Stuart Gilmour: 14:04:41
And the total is 20?
Emily: 14:04:51
unless that
Emily: 14:04:57
s not 2x10
Stuart Gilmour: 14:05:14
okay kids, brief note for hte not-quite-nerdy-enough
Stuart Gilmour: 14:05:16
2d10 means
Stuart Gilmour: 14:05:20
roll 2 10 sided dice
Stuart Gilmour: 14:05:20
and add them up
Stuart Gilmour: 14:05:28
so 2d8 = roll 2 8 sided dice
Stuart Gilmour: 14:05:29
and add them up
Stuart Gilmour: 14:05:30
etc.
Stuart Gilmour: 14:05:33
So Em
Emily: 14:05:35
yes, so the total is out of 20 bah
Stuart Gilmour: 14:05:38
yep
Stuart Gilmour: 14:05:40
cool
Stuart Gilmour: 14:05:48
so now can you add your appraise total to that?
Emily: 14:06:04
14
Stuart Gilmour: 14:06:07
you can find it in "skills and abilities", in the skills table, it is 3
Stuart Gilmour: 14:06:07
oh
Stuart Gilmour: 14:06:08
thanks
Stuart Gilmour: 14:06:21
that means that each suit of armour is worth 8000gps
Stuart Gilmour: 14:06:29
now who wants to roll forthe maces?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:06:48
anyone...
Stuart Gilmour: 14:06:49
anyone..
Ember: 14:06:54
ok me
Stuart Gilmour: 14:07:07
Ember has volunteered to roll for the maces
Stuart Gilmour: 14:07:09
but has no dice
Stuart Gilmour: 14:07:14
and is now scrambling around the house squealing
Stuart Gilmour: 14:07:19
give us a moment please!
Stuart Gilmour: 14:07:43
Eden
Stuart Gilmour: 14:07:48
do you understand your character sheet?
lynkster: 14:07:53
No
Stuart Gilmour: 14:07:59
right
lynkster: 14:08:03
I'm completely nonplussed.
Stuart Gilmour: 14:08:07
working from left to right
Stuart Gilmour: 14:08:11
you should have a worksheet called "Picture"
Emily: 14:08:13
(why arn't we using voice btw?)
Stuart Gilmour: 14:08:17
which has a picture of you
Stuart Gilmour: 14:08:19
this is easier Lotho
Stuart Gilmour: 14:08:20
I think
Ember: 14:08:28
too echoey methinks
Stuart Gilmour: 14:08:28
then you should have "skills and abilities"
Stuart Gilmour: 14:08:40
if you can't find those sheets
lynkster: 14:08:45
oh my. He's hot.
Stuart Gilmour: 14:08:48
use the left-pointing arrow on the bottom left of the sheet
Stuart Gilmour: 14:08:49
oh right
Stuart Gilmour: 14:08:53
you found it
Stuart Gilmour: 14:08:56
Emma has found her dice
Ember: 14:09:17
8
Stuart Gilmour: 14:09:22
plus your appraise skill?
Ember: 14:09:28
erm..
Stuart Gilmour: 14:09:32
(in the skills and abilities worksheet)
Stuart Gilmour: 14:09:35
(in the skills table)
Stuart Gilmour: 14:09:38
first on the list
Ember: 14:10:18
11
Stuart Gilmour: 14:10:19
okay
Stuart Gilmour: 14:10:26
so the maces are worht 6000gps each
Stuart Gilmour: 14:10:28
good roll there
Stuart Gilmour: 14:10:39
so you sell them, you get a totla of ... 28000gps
Emily: 14:10:57
ccan't detect sarcasm so well this way
Emily: 14:11:08
so who writes that down?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:11:09
plus the rest should be another 2600 gps for the stuff Ember had
Stuart Gilmour: 14:11:11
then
Ember: 14:11:41
shall I record it in a Kitty Log?
Ember: 14:11:56
I can be the Kitty Tracker if ye like.
Emily: 14:12:19
we selling the 10gp pearl, and the bless weapons oil?
Ember: 14:12:58
aye, unless Ryu wants it. he suits pearl.
Stuart Gilmour: 14:13:03
yep
lynkster: 14:13:05
Ok.
lynkster: 14:13:08
?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:13:10
510 for that plus the masterwork armour
lynkster: 14:13:25
What?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:13:25
so the total amount you have should be 31110 gps
Stuart Gilmour: 14:13:29
that's a lot of money!
Stuart Gilmour: 14:13:32
Eden
Stuart Gilmour: 14:13:38
various treasure which either you and Emily
Stuart Gilmour: 14:13:38
or emma
Stuart Gilmour: 14:13:41
had accrued
Emily: 14:13:42
you wanna keep it Oryndiel?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:13:46
has been listed and is now being sold
lynkster: 14:13:57
Am I taking the pearl now or have I missed the point?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:14:04
I think itw as just sold
Stuart Gilmour: 14:14:07
it was worht 10gps
Stuart Gilmour: 14:14:25
If you look at the list of "treasure to sell" (in the word document that came with your email)
Stuart Gilmour: 14:14:40
you will see you have a spellbook you looted from some poor unfortunate dead shmuck
Ember: 14:14:44
pearl was taken by the man at the back.
lynkster: 14:14:45
just saw it. How much of this list is still here?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:14:51
all of it
Stuart Gilmour: 14:14:54
I mean
Stuart Gilmour: 14:14:57
all of the spells
Emily: 14:14:59
and the scrolls? oryndiel or ryu gonna learn/keep them?
Ember: 14:15:03
and the ship
Ember: 14:15:12
scrolls are gone too methinks
Stuart Gilmour: 14:15:15
so if you want any of those spells in your spell list, you can take them
Stuart Gilmour: 14:15:21
Oryndiel has the scrolls
Stuart Gilmour: 14:15:24
that list is now empty
lynkster: 14:15:37
So the treasure list is empty now?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:15:41
yep
Emily: 14:15:48
cept for tapestry and exploding bullets
Stuart Gilmour: 14:15:50
but you got the spellbook (it was yours from the last adventure)
Stuart Gilmour: 14:15:58
you get to take spells from it and put them in your spellbook
Stuart Gilmour: 14:16:08
tapestry goes in teh captains cabin
lynkster: 14:16:15
Ok. I'll go do that then shall I?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:16:15
explodign bullets go to Lotho
Stuart Gilmour: 14:16:18
okay
Ember: 14:16:22
okaysies.
Stuart Gilmour: 14:16:32
so in your character sheet you should see a "Divine Magic" worksheet
Stuart Gilmour: 14:16:42
that contains your spell list
Ember: 14:16:44
And I got the Charm Person (Scrolly Thing).
lynkster: 14:16:48
yessum
Stuart Gilmour: 14:16:57
any spells in the spellbook you stole which are not in the spellbook you own
Stuart Gilmour: 14:16:59
can be transferred
Stuart Gilmour: 14:17:01
BUT
Stuart Gilmour: 14:17:03
you need to do a spellcraft check
lynkster: 14:17:19
Do I roll dice?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:17:21
aye
lynkster: 14:17:28
d210?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:17:31
you can use the die rolly thingy in the link above
Stuart Gilmour: 14:17:33
2d10
Stuart Gilmour: 14:17:36
+ spellcraft total
Stuart Gilmour: 14:17:39
this applies to Ember too
lynkster: 14:17:53
Bugger. I rolled a 10.
Stuart Gilmour: 14:18:00
add your spellcraft skill
Stuart Gilmour: 14:18:10
and tell me what spell it is for BEFORE you roll the dice
lynkster: 14:18:39
Intelligence = spellcraft?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:18:47
on your skills and abilities worksheet
Stuart Gilmour: 14:18:49
bottom left
Stuart Gilmour: 14:18:51
in teh skills table
Stuart Gilmour: 14:18:54
the s section
Stuart Gilmour: 14:18:57
should be spellcraft
Ember: 14:19:04
20 - engorge member, I mean, enlarge person
Stuart Gilmour: 14:19:04
it's more than your intelligence
Stuart Gilmour: 14:19:07
the total is there
Stuart Gilmour: 14:19:13
on the right
lynkster: 14:19:22
hee.
Stuart Gilmour: 14:19:24
Oryndiel just added Engorge Member to her spellbook
Ember: 14:19:26
Bravo! I got the enlarge person spell. Here's to a bigger me.
lynkster: 14:19:37
Total is 8.
Stuart Gilmour: 14:20:18
You rolled 10 and got 8?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:20:26
your spellcraft skill should be a little better htan -2!
lynkster: 14:21:17
It says on my sheet that the total is 8.
lynkster: 14:21:19
I rolled 10.
Stuart Gilmour: 14:21:21
oh right
Ember: 14:21:21
I got 21 for Touch of Idiocy.
Stuart Gilmour: 14:21:25
so then you get 18 in total
Stuart Gilmour: 14:21:35
Oryndiel has learnt Touch of Idiocy, and can add it to her spellbook
Ember: 14:21:52
fwaffsmudgeonpffftttt?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:21:56
Oryndiel, those two spells are now wiped from teh scroll, but it retains teh Charm PErson spell. So you have s croll of Charm Person
Stuart Gilmour: 14:22:04
and don't touch yourself with that spell on you!!
Stuart Gilmour: 14:22:14
So Eden, which spell was that 18 for?
Emily: 14:22:16
btw, in the group treasure with the stones, we also have 2 armours and a shield
lynkster: 14:22:18
whoops. Too late. Heeheh
Stuart Gilmour: 14:22:26
yep, they're sold already
Stuart Gilmour: 14:22:31
mastework chain and a shield of fortification
Ember: 14:22:42
Like, ewww.
Stuart Gilmour: 14:23:08
So Eden, whcih spell was it for?
Emily: 14:23:17
oh ... so how much did we get?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:23:25
1200 for the shield
Stuart Gilmour: 14:23:28
300 for the armour
Stuart Gilmour: 14:23:33
it's already included in that total
Stuart Gilmour: 14:23:38
fo 31110
Emily: 14:23:41
no, altogether.. i thought you said it was only 31000 or something
Stuart Gilmour: 14:23:42
Eden?
Emily: 14:23:48
nm
lynkster: 14:23:49
I was actually going to go through all the spells, but looks like that's not right?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:23:50
altogether you got 31110
Ember: 14:24:00
Jackpot!
Stuart Gilmour: 14:24:09
no you can have any of the spells that are in the list but not in your spellbook already
Emily: 14:24:12
but,
Stuart Gilmour: 14:24:15
so for example on that list is
Stuart Gilmour: 14:24:32
Detect Secret Doors
Stuart Gilmour: 14:24:43
you can take that from the Spell book and add it to your own spellbook
Stuart Gilmour: 14:24:46
if you can roll over 17
Stuart Gilmour: 14:24:50
what's up Lotho?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:24:53
someone rob you?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:25:06
Eden?
lynkster: 14:25:14
Detect doors
Stuart Gilmour: 14:25:17
okay
Stuart Gilmour: 14:25:20
add it ot your spellbook
Stuart Gilmour: 14:25:21
so
lynkster: 14:25:21
I'll take that thanks Jerry.
Stuart Gilmour: 14:25:25
Arcane Magic worksheet
Stuart Gilmour: 14:25:27
Level 1
Stuart Gilmour: 14:25:29
add
Stuart Gilmour: 14:25:32
"Arcane Magic"
Stuart Gilmour: 14:25:35
sorry
Stuart Gilmour: 14:25:38
Detect secret doors
Stuart Gilmour: 14:25:40
to the level 1 list
lynkster: 14:25:50
done.
Stuart Gilmour: 14:25:55
okay
Stuart Gilmour: 14:25:57
next spell?
lynkster: 14:26:13
I thought I had burning hands beforE?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:26:23
if so, it can't be taken from the spellbook
Stuart Gilmour: 14:26:36
whatever is left in the spellbook after you are finished can be used as a scroll
Stuart Gilmour: 14:26:41
we will get to that next
lynkster: 14:26:44
Oh wait I do.
Emily: 14:26:46
I don't remember you ever using it Ryu
Stuart Gilmour: 14:26:50
so what is the next spell you want to learn
Stuart Gilmour: 14:26:51
?
lynkster: 14:26:58
I've used it before, on several ratties
Stuart Gilmour: 14:27:13
so what is the next spell you want to learn?
lynkster: 14:27:21
Jump
Stuart Gilmour: 14:27:29
right! roll
lynkster: 14:27:39
Wow. A "1".
lynkster: 14:27:54
No wait.
Stuart Gilmour: 14:28:15
you can't roll a 1 on 2d10
Stuart Gilmour: 14:28:42
Eden?
lynkster: 14:28:53
13.
lynkster: 14:28:59
I forgot to hit the button twice
Stuart Gilmour: 14:29:03
is that with your spellcraft skill added on or not?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:29:33
Eden?
lynkster: 14:29:35
That would make it... 13 + 8 = 21.
Stuart Gilmour: 14:29:36
Right
Stuart Gilmour: 14:29:41
you learnt that spell
Stuart Gilmour: 14:29:43
add it to the list
Stuart Gilmour: 14:29:45
and choose the next one
Stuart Gilmour: 14:30:07
Eden?
lynkster: 14:30:10
only Level 2 spells now
lynkster: 14:30:14
got the other two
Emily: 14:30:24
while he does that, this thing says need to be 8th level to levitate the ship... none of us are 8th level anything are we?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:30:32
some of you are
Stuart Gilmour: 14:30:35
I think Oryndiel is
Stuart Gilmour: 14:30:46
so are you Lotho
Stuart Gilmour: 14:30:50
Eden?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:30:56
are you with us?
lynkster: 14:31:04
Hey Em, if you use that Touch of Idiocy attack, should it called a "Spazz Attack"? Sorry - I'll try Melf's
Stuart Gilmour: 14:31:10
okay
Stuart Gilmour: 14:31:10
roll
Emily: 14:31:14
so i can add my cleric and theif levels?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:31:18
yeah
Stuart Gilmour: 14:31:23
AD&D is a game of many levels
lynkster: 14:31:23
6 + 8 = 14
Stuart Gilmour: 14:31:25
right
lynkster: 14:31:28
melf's
Stuart Gilmour: 14:31:39
with your spellcraft?
lynkster: 14:31:42
yep
Stuart Gilmour: 14:31:44
okay
Stuart Gilmour: 14:31:55
you don't learn that spell, and the disc on which it is written crumbles to dust
Stuart Gilmour: 14:32:01
next
lynkster: 14:32:13
disguise self
Stuart Gilmour: 14:32:20
go
Stuart Gilmour: 14:32:22
roll
lynkster: 14:32:26
16 + 8 = 24
lynkster: 14:32:32
with spellcraft
Stuart Gilmour: 14:32:35
okay, you learnt it, add the spell to your book
lynkster: 14:32:54
whispering wind
Stuart Gilmour: 14:32:59
okay, roll
lynkster: 14:33:06
17 + 8 = 25
Stuart Gilmour: 14:33:10
learnt, add
Stuart Gilmour: 14:33:12
next?
lynkster: 14:33:26
that's it
Stuart Gilmour: 14:33:31
right
lynkster: 14:33:35
oh wait. can I do lkv 3?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:33:36
there are 3rd level spells in the book
lynkster: 14:33:38
lv 3?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:33:42
you can't cast lvl 3 spells yet
Stuart Gilmour: 14:33:47
so to learn them will require that you roll over 26
Emily: 14:33:52
.. did you do lvl 2, protection from arrows?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:33:55
i.e. will be really hard
Stuart Gilmour: 14:34:06
so you should probably keep them and wait until you gain the power to use level 3 spells before you learn them
lynkster: 14:34:12
I've got protection from arrows already thanks
lynkster: 14:34:17
ok
Stuart Gilmour: 14:34:18
So now Eden
lynkster: 14:34:27
yes dungeon master?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:34:36
all the spells which remain in the list can be treated as a scroll, i.e. you can cast them directly from the stolen spellbook
lynkster: 14:34:49
anyone else want them?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:34:49
so you should write it down on your character sheet in the Magic Items section
Stuart Gilmour: 14:34:54
no one else can have them
Stuart Gilmour: 14:34:59
that's not how magic items work
lynkster: 14:35:01
mine. My precious.
Stuart Gilmour: 14:35:07
okay,
Stuart Gilmour: 14:35:09
so right that down
Stuart Gilmour: 14:35:14
Emma has written the money down
lynkster: 14:35:17
done.
Stuart Gilmour: 14:35:23
Lotho wants to buy some potions of freedom of movement
Stuart Gilmour: 14:35:37
and you probably need to hire a crew for your ship, which will take a few days
Stuart Gilmour: 14:35:57
if you want a safe crew for your ship, you need to hire a lot of people. see the document
Emily: 14:36:22
so is the ship mainly how we're going to get around ?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:36:32
at times you may have to go by other means
Stuart Gilmour: 14:36:35
but it will be a lot quicker
Emily: 14:36:36
can you do without your hippothings oryndiel?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:36:44
and it has an excellent escape mechanism
Emily: 14:36:46
then we need a safe crew
Stuart Gilmour: 14:36:48
i.e. the tleeport
Stuart Gilmour: 14:36:53
so you need to hire all those people
Stuart Gilmour: 14:36:58
how much will that cost, Oryndiel?
Ember: 14:37:14
give me a tick
Emily: 14:38:29
why can't we just get slaves? after all, it is a slave ship
Ember: 14:38:38
190gp per month
Emily: 14:38:53
assuming we can navigate/levitate etc
Ember: 14:38:56
is there room for hippogriffs, can they be tethered?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:39:06
aye, there is room for 2 horses in the cargo hold
Ember: 14:39:09
Could be useful in an outside "probe" 
Stuart Gilmour: 14:39:18
1 freedom of movement potion will cost 750gps
Stuart Gilmour: 14:39:22
how many do you want to buy?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:39:24
1 each?
Emily: 14:39:28
yes
Emily: 14:39:29
3
Stuart Gilmour: 14:39:33
okay
Emily: 14:39:34
maybe 4...
Emily: 14:39:41
?
Ember: 14:39:43
Okay, I want to take the two hippogriffs with us in the stables.
Stuart Gilmour: 14:39:52
okay, Emma, could you reduce the party gold by perhaps 3000gps
Ember: 14:40:01
aye aye
Stuart Gilmour: 14:40:03
to account for 4 freedom of movement potions and the crew
Emily: 14:40:08
eep
Emily: 14:40:16
freedom of movement is expensive
Stuart Gilmour: 14:40:17
I don't think at this stage you need to worry about buying other equipment
Stuart Gilmour: 14:40:18
but
Stuart Gilmour: 14:40:26
you should knock 500gps off your total gold
Stuart Gilmour: 14:40:28
to account for
Stuart Gilmour: 14:40:34
food expenses
Stuart Gilmour: 14:40:37
various equipment
Stuart Gilmour: 14:40:39
for the ship
Emily: 14:40:46
do we have that much left from the kitty ?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:40:49
materials for the crew to live in (e.g. hammocks)
Stuart Gilmour: 14:40:59
and a small rail-mounted ballista for the front fo the ship
Stuart Gilmour: 14:41:02
just in case...
lynkster: 14:41:17
It's like buying a car with optional extras...
Emily: 14:41:22
notes the ballista
Emily: 14:41:28
cept we stole it
lynkster: 14:41:37
oh yea
Ember: 14:41:37
We now have 27,910.
Stuart Gilmour: 14:41:48
and it has the optional extra of teleportation
Ember: 14:41:49
gold pieces (not the chocolate coin variety)
Stuart Gilmour: 14:41:51
speaking of which
Emily: 14:41:52
okay, i guess that's still alot :)
Stuart Gilmour: 14:42:17
do you think perhaps you shoul dbuy a couple of 1000 gps of gems
Stuart Gilmour: 14:42:29
as cover against the possibility of needign to make a sudden teleportation?
Emily: 14:42:34
we we have one freedom of movement potion each, who wants the extra one?
Emily: 14:42:40
and yes, gems, definately.
Stuart Gilmour: 14:42:49
and perhaps Ryu needs to use his navigation skills to mark the location of Ost in Eidhil, so you can teleport back to it
Emily: 14:42:51
we can always sell them again right?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:42:53
yep
Stuart Gilmour: 14:42:55
at a loss
Stuart Gilmour: 14:42:57
of course
Stuart Gilmour: 14:43:09
so who wants the extra Freedom fo Movement?
Emily: 14:43:14
well, what kind of distances are we travilling from here?
Emily: 14:43:19
me! ;)
Stuart Gilmour: 14:43:23
it'll be no more than 100kms
Stuart Gilmour: 14:43:30
so maybe the current gem stock is sufficient?
Ember: 14:43:34
FoM goes to the short man in the hat!
Emily: 14:43:35
yes
Stuart Gilmour: 14:43:37
okay Lotho, note your 2 thing
Stuart Gilmour: 14:43:42
hat?
lynkster: 14:43:43
Yea I'll do what Stu says about nav whatever
Stuart Gilmour: 14:43:47
okay
Stuart Gilmour: 14:44:06
Eden in your character sheet you should have the skill Profession (navigation)
Stuart Gilmour: 14:44:14
use it now please, to mark in the ship a nav-point
Stuart Gilmour: 14:44:16
as it were
Stuart Gilmour: 14:44:24
we shall call them "mystical embolations"
Stuart Gilmour: 14:44:27
for lack of a better term
Stuart Gilmour: 14:44:35
this mystical embolation shall be placed at Ost in Eidhil
Stuart Gilmour: 14:44:41
in future if you need to, you can teleport the ship back to it
Stuart Gilmour: 14:44:43
handy
lynkster: 14:44:59
right. I'll note that I've done... that.. thing.
Stuart Gilmour: 14:44:59
if you like you don't need to roll fo rit
Stuart Gilmour: 14:45:12
since you aren't under threat
Stuart Gilmour: 14:45:13
so it is done
Stuart Gilmour: 14:45:19
in future you can telport th eship back here
lynkster: 14:45:23
Yay.
Stuart Gilmour: 14:45:38
btw everyone, this means that Ryu is your navigator.
Stuart Gilmour: 14:45:40
If he dies
Stuart Gilmour: 14:45:47
no-one can teleport the ship
Emily: 14:45:49
we're screwed?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:45:55
though you can fly it normally
Emily: 14:45:55
bugger, can neither of us do it?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:46:05
incidentally, Lotho, you are the pilot
Stuart Gilmour: 14:46:06
because
Stuart Gilmour: 14:46:13
Ryu is not quite high enough level to levitate the ship
Ember: 14:46:28
What a bottomer!
Stuart Gilmour: 14:46:32
I'm not sure if I gave Lotho navigate skill
Stuart Gilmour: 14:46:50
right
Ember: 14:46:56
And I can't tell my arse from my elbows. Better look after yerself, Ryu!
Stuart Gilmour: 14:46:56
are there any other arrangements to be made?
Ember: 14:47:11
Are we buying gems now then?
Emily: 14:47:15
and why cnope, i don't have navigate
lynkster: 14:47:16
Ember: oh shit.
Ember: 14:48:09
Gems are 1000 gps each, we have 27, 910. How many shall we get, kids?
lynkster: 14:48:27
what are the gems for again?
Ember: 14:48:37
to fuel the ship
Stuart Gilmour: 14:48:38
they power hte teleport power of the skyship
Stuart Gilmour: 14:48:46
also later on, it's self-powered movement ability
Ember: 14:48:49
special precious skills, that is
Stuart Gilmour: 14:48:49
invisibility
Stuart Gilmour: 14:48:50
etc.
Ember: 14:49:00
most impotent!
lynkster: 14:49:00
hmm. 27 would be good.
Emily: 14:49:08
heh, 2
Stuart Gilmour: 14:49:12
perhaps 2 is better
Stuart Gilmour: 14:49:17
you laready have that 4000gps gem
Ember: 14:49:20
my lucky number is 3.
Ember: 14:49:22
How about 3?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:49:23
Idon't expect you to be using them a lot
Emily: 14:49:28
we're not going further than 100k, for which we'd only need 1000 gps
Stuart Gilmour: 14:49:33
until the dragons come, anyway
lynkster: 14:49:39
Dragons?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:49:43
did I say that?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:49:44
oops
Ember: 14:49:46
or dragoons?
lynkster: 14:49:54
Or drag goons.
Stuart Gilmour: 14:49:56
well
Stuart Gilmour: 14:49:58
2 or 3?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:50:00
gems
Stuart Gilmour: 14:50:02
Imean?
Emily: 14:50:03
3
lynkster: 14:50:07
3
Ember: 14:50:16
OK, I'll knock it off the kitty then chaps
Stuart Gilmour: 14:50:27
and right the gem totals in the campaign notes or your gems box or something
Stuart Gilmour: 14:50:41
maybe since Ryu is the navigator he should record the gems?
Ember: 14:51:07
So, now we have 24, 910 in the kitty.
Stuart Gilmour: 14:51:15
that's a goodly whack of money
Emily: 14:51:16
Ryu:
lynkster: 14:51:23
What do I call them?
Emily: 14:51:26
emerald (4100 gp),


Bloodstone (50 gp),

Amber (65 gp),

3 x 1000gp
Emily: 14:51:36
gems
Stuart Gilmour: 14:51:38
Ryu cna choose the form of the 3 1000gps gems
Stuart Gilmour: 14:51:42
diamond, ruby, etc.
Emily: 14:51:44
or "ship movey thingies"
Stuart Gilmour: 14:51:45
doesn't matter
Stuart Gilmour: 14:51:49
they all turn to glass when they're done
lynkster: 14:52:08
Obsidian diamonds. How's that?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:52:11
good
Stuart Gilmour: 14:52:23
so now
Stuart Gilmour: 14:52:26
we are ready to begin
Stuart Gilmour: 14:52:28
at last
Ember: 14:52:34
I need to go to the lave!
Ember: 14:52:40
only joking :)
Ember: 14:52:48
let's commence ...
Stuart Gilmour: 14:52:51
Okay, are we all ready?
Ember: 14:52:56
hai!
Emily: 14:52:56
i'm worried about bob :(
lynkster: 14:52:58
yes!
Stuart Gilmour: 14:53:01
how so?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:53:06
what's up with the littel blighter?
Emily: 14:53:24
he's flying around again, and he's got a bloody stump for a thumb
Stuart Gilmour: 14:53:30
ow!
Emily: 14:53:35
so i cringe every time he lands
Stuart Gilmour: 14:53:41
do you need ot go check on him?
Emily: 14:53:49
no
Ember: 14:53:52
(Eden - Lotho has a cute birdie that goes tweet)
lynkster: 14:53:53
Who is this?
lynkster: 14:53:55
aaah
Stuart Gilmour: 14:53:56
right
lynkster: 14:53:58
awwww
Stuart Gilmour: 14:53:59
shall we begin?
Ember: 14:54:04
hai!
lynkster: 14:54:12
RIDE FOR RUIN!! ONWARDS
Stuart Gilmour: 14:54:38
there will come a day when your dice shall break! But it is not this day! nerds of the west, to glory!
Emily: 14:54:38
k
Stuart Gilmour: 14:54:44
Right
Stuart Gilmour: 14:54:59
After you have been carousing in Ost-in-Eidhil for 5 days, a tall and mysterious Elf
Stuart Gilmour: 14:55:06
(who happens to be well known to Oryndiel)
Ember: 14:55:11
oo err...
Stuart Gilmour: 14:55:12
comes to visit in Oryndiel's apartments
lynkster: 14:55:17
slut!
Ember: 14:55:26
*blushes*
Stuart Gilmour: 14:55:34
You are all seated on her balcony sipping elven mead when he is shown in by the Housemaid
Ember: 14:55:46
(with a plant up her jacksie)
Stuart Gilmour: 14:55:50
He introduces himself to Lotho and Ryu as "Firiolena"
Stuart Gilmour: 14:55:54
Firiolena
Stuart Gilmour: 14:56:03
is the elf who is in charge of Ost in Eidhil
Stuart Gilmour: 14:56:12
and the chap who gives Oryindiel her tasks
Stuart Gilmour: 14:56:22
He is typically Elf-tall, maybe 7' and very skinny
Ember: 14:56:33
*swoons*
lynkster: 14:56:34
looks yaoi?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:56:40
He is wearing a robe of golden silk, and has silver hair that falls to his shoulders
Stuart Gilmour: 14:56:46
so maybe a little yaoi
lynkster: 14:56:53
ew
Stuart Gilmour: 14:56:54
he has a scimitar belted at his waist, however
Stuart Gilmour: 14:57:18
and although he is courteous to you, he seems  quite business like in his demeanour.
Stuart Gilmour: 14:57:29
Having greeted you, he asks
Emily: 14:57:37
*me glances up at the pompus looking thing and returns to the mead*
Stuart Gilmour: 14:57:52
"Would the two of you, Lotho and Ryu, care to join Oryndiel in assisting our fledgling kingdom?"
Stuart Gilmour: 14:58:05
Your wonderful ship of the skies would be of much assistance to us
Ember: 14:58:15
*I rearrange my tresses and ponce about a bit*
Stuart Gilmour: 14:58:18
as would your undoubtedly formidable fighting skills
Emily: 14:58:35
hrrmm
lynkster: 14:58:37
*ryu been the strong silent type, says little, betrays little emotion*
Stuart Gilmour: 14:58:49
he waits a moment for you both to look glum
Stuart Gilmour: 14:58:52
and then says
Stuart Gilmour: 14:59:11
"I understand a little of hobbit life, Mr. Sandybanks, so I shall take that grunt as murmured assent."
Stuart Gilmour: 14:59:15
As for you, Honourable Ryu
Stuart Gilmour: 14:59:22
Perhaps my question has insulted you?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:59:36
I do not wish to impugn your loyalty to your friends by even asking unnecessary questions
Stuart Gilmour: 14:59:41
I shall take your silence as assent
Emily: 14:59:49
*clears throat* why would I want to help a group of elves
Emily: 14:59:50
?
Stuart Gilmour: 14:59:58
Ah...
Stuart Gilmour: 14:59:59
he pauses
Stuart Gilmour: 15:00:04
Well,...
Stuart Gilmour: 15:00:11
Elves have always been the friends of your race
Emily: 15:00:17
oryndiel has told me little of what you do and I dont see how it could be of interest to me
Emily: 15:00:29
s/and/but
Stuart Gilmour: 15:00:30
and when this kingdom is established and strong, perhaps there will be a place within it ...
Stuart Gilmour: 15:00:36
for...
Stuart Gilmour: 15:00:49
those who could represent the Shire and the interests of hobbit kind here
Stuart Gilmour: 15:00:51
also
Stuart Gilmour: 15:01:07
perhaps there would be a place for a churc devoted to your capricious gods?
Emily: 15:01:09
*hrms with interest*
Stuart Gilmour: 15:01:22
In any case,
Stuart Gilmour: 15:01:25
if you do not wish to join us
Stuart Gilmour: 15:01:37
I shall bid you good day, and return with the gifts I brought here to my Castle
Stuart Gilmour: 15:01:38
...
Emily: 15:01:44
I didn't say that..
Stuart Gilmour: 15:01:45
he pauses, as if about to bow himself out...
Stuart Gilmour: 15:01:53
oh
Ember: 15:01:55
Come now, Lotho, the chap means well.
Emily: 15:02:08
but you have to agree, one usually wants to know who and what they're agreeing to join
Stuart Gilmour: 15:02:13
"well, perhaps I should stay then?"
lynkster: 15:02:23
And who they are fighting against.
Stuart Gilmour: 15:02:27
YOu would merely be agreeing to work for a time with a kingdom of elves
Emily: 15:02:29
here
Stuart Gilmour: 15:02:33
a nascent kingdom forming in our ancestral home
Stuart Gilmour: 15:02:40
with the intention of reclaiming it
Stuart Gilmour: 15:02:50
and eeking out an existence devoted to Good, Freedom and Law
Emily: 15:02:56
elves don't generally need hobbit help for those sorts of tasks
Emily: 15:03:01
form my experience
Stuart Gilmour: 15:03:08
Well, these are unusual times my friend
Stuart Gilmour: 15:03:19
and the world has changed since the different races isolatedhtemselves from one another
Stuart Gilmour: 15:03:28
we of Eregion view other races as our allies and friends
Stuart Gilmour: 15:03:44
and look to our friends for assistance in defending freedom in these dark times
Emily: 15:03:45
who then is the enemy?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:03:53
the Orcs in the mountains, of course
Stuart Gilmour: 15:04:02
remnant forces of Sauron
Emily: 15:04:03
... of course
Stuart Gilmour: 15:04:08
who have gathered there
Stuart Gilmour: 15:04:14
Also we are concerned about the Dunlendings
Stuart Gilmour: 15:04:23
though we are not at war with them, and hope to forge treaties in time
Stuart Gilmour: 15:04:33
So you will join us?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:04:45
There are no secret pledges or dishonourable societies
Emily: 15:04:52
looks to Ryu to see what his response will be
Stuart Gilmour: 15:04:58
you merely need to agree to help us when we ask
Stuart Gilmour: 15:05:05
[btw how do you do those little tings?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:05:07
]
Stuart Gilmour: 15:05:13
/looks askance?
Emily: 15:05:15
"/me doe sstuff"
lynkster: 15:05:18
As long as the others agree, I have no problens.
Stuart Gilmour: 15:05:19
nods
Ember: 15:05:25
I'm already in.
Emily: 15:05:46
looks fondly at his mead
Ember: 15:05:50
tosses back hair
Stuart Gilmour: 15:05:58
well then
Emily: 15:06:04
is there anything urgent?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:06:15
Firiolena takes a seat, and clicks his fingers
lynkster: 15:06:16
how thedo you do those things
lynkster: 15:06:26
I mean, the action things.
Stuart Gilmour: 15:06:29
a Dwarf walks in
Stuart Gilmour: 15:06:32
dragging a case
Emily: 15:06:34
type /me blah
Stuart Gilmour: 15:06:35
and lays it before you
Ember: 15:06:48
lays what?
Emily: 15:06:53
it
Stuart Gilmour: 15:06:54
Firiolena opens it, and pulls out a bolt of silk, which he puts aside
Emily: 15:06:55
IT
Ember: 15:06:56
fook, oops.
Stuart Gilmour: 15:07:04
he looks askance at Oryndiel
lynkster: 15:07:05
ah, thanks Lotho
Stuart Gilmour: 15:07:24
and pulls out a smaller case, of sandalwood embossed with silver. From it he pulls out an amulet
Stuart Gilmour: 15:07:26
This,
Stuart Gilmour: 15:07:28
he says
Stuart Gilmour: 15:07:31
is proof against poison.
Stuart Gilmour: 15:07:38
Which of you is least resistant to poison?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:07:59
The amulet sparkles with light reflecting from 4 pearls embedded in a silver disc
Emily: 15:08:03
(um, is it a skill?)
Stuart Gilmour: 15:08:20
[to see if you are good or bad at resisting poison, look in"skills and abilities", and find saving throws]
Stuart Gilmour: 15:08:26
you want the fortitude save
Stuart Gilmour: 15:08:31
this will add 1 to your fortitude save
Emily: 15:08:48
7
Stuart Gilmour: 15:08:49
it's just above the "skills" table
lynkster: 15:08:50
Mine will be 6
Emily: 15:09:28
oryndiels?
Ember: 15:09:32
4
Stuart Gilmour: 15:09:44
so will Ember ask for it?
Emily: 15:09:46
haha, give the pretty pendant to the woman
Stuart Gilmour: 15:09:52
Oryndiel's a boy I think
Stuart Gilmour: 15:09:54
from memory
Emily: 15:09:57
oh
lynkster: 15:09:59
A bit yaoi?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:10:04
elf, gotta be
lynkster: 15:10:05
still fits :)
Ember: 15:10:10
I'm of a weak constitution, say I, so it must be mine.
Stuart Gilmour: 15:10:20
"Okay", says Firriolena, and hands it over to oryndiel
Emily: 15:10:23
so are we all male?
lynkster: 15:10:36
Funny how we only find out now. :D
Stuart Gilmour: 15:10:42
[write it in magic items, then put a 1 in the amgic colmn of that save]
Emily: 15:10:52
(find out = realise/remember)
Stuart Gilmour: 15:11:05
next he pulls out a pair of finely tooled leather boots, and says
Ember: 15:11:22
(aye, a pretty boy I am)
Stuart Gilmour: 15:11:23
"These improve one's power to move silently in even the most unsuited of environments"
Emily: 15:11:34
pft, who needs boots for that
Stuart Gilmour: 15:11:43
they adjust their size automatically to suit the size of the wearer
lynkster: 15:11:54
[is this dexterity?]
Stuart Gilmour: 15:11:54
who should wish to wear such boots?
Ember: 15:11:57
(Aside - Lotho, are ye a clumsy one? I cannae recall)
Stuart Gilmour: 15:12:05
[no it's move silently]
Emily: 15:12:08
(it's skill: move silently)
Emily: 15:12:24
my total is 11
lynkster: 15:12:26
7 for me
Stuart Gilmour: 15:12:37
Finally Firiolena pulls out a belt of string entwined with silver crosses
Stuart Gilmour: 15:12:41
"This,"he says
Stuart Gilmour: 15:12:48
"when worn against the skin"
Stuart Gilmour: 15:12:57
grants the wearer additional power over undead
Emily: 15:13:01
oryndiel, what's your move silently?
Emily: 15:13:15
additional? meaning you need to have the power to start with?
Ember: 15:13:19
(my m.s. is 12, so Ryu should take the silent socks)
Stuart Gilmour: 15:13:20
aye
Stuart Gilmour: 15:13:26
Ryu gets the boots
lynkster: 15:13:41
takes the boots gravely with a slight bow
Emily: 15:13:51
they oryndiel gets the string methinks
Stuart Gilmour: 15:13:58
what?!!!!!
Stuart Gilmour: 15:14:06
you're a cleric, Lotho
Stuart Gilmour: 15:14:11
it's your special power!!!
Emily: 15:14:33
it is?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:14:42
"Turn Undead, 4 times a day"
Stuart Gilmour: 15:14:45
look in your special abilities
Stuart Gilmour: 15:14:48
you've used it before!
Stuart Gilmour: 15:14:52
This string will take that up to 5
Stuart Gilmour: 15:14:54
times a day
Ember: 15:14:57
Lotho bags the fancy string, then.
lynkster: 15:14:58
"If undead persists, please see your doctor."
Stuart Gilmour: 15:15:07
that would be .. UndeaTH
Stuart Gilmour: 15:15:13
Okay, so
lynkster: 15:15:18
*crackly lightning*
Emily: 15:15:23
and where do I see this, capability?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:15:30
write in your character sheet, belt of turning - 1 extra turn per day
Stuart Gilmour: 15:15:36
it's in your special abilities list
Emily: 15:15:53
oh
Stuart Gilmour: 15:16:00
and Ryu, add the "boots of stealth", "+1 to move silently"
lynkster: 15:16:01
decorates his new shoes with red ribbons
Stuart Gilmour: 15:16:11
You put the 1 in the magic column of your move silently skill
Stuart Gilmour: 15:16:17
it should add automatically to the total
Stuart Gilmour: 15:16:19
okay?
lynkster: 15:16:25
done
Stuart Gilmour: 15:16:33
everyone cool?
lynkster: 15:16:39
icy.
Ember: 15:17:19
gives frosty glare to Ryu for bad punning.
Stuart Gilmour: 15:17:24
Lotho?
Emily: 15:18:05
yes
Stuart Gilmour: 15:18:07
Okay.
Stuart Gilmour: 15:18:12
Firiolena then sighs, and says
Stuart Gilmour: 15:18:27
"I am afraid I cannot afford you much time to rest on your laurels, Oryndiel, for I have a new task for you"
Ember: 15:18:42
"I await your instructions."
Stuart Gilmour: 15:18:47
Aha.
Stuart Gilmour: 15:18:57
Well, then I shall explain the task.
Ember: 15:19:09
Right-e-o.
Stuart Gilmour: 15:19:22
It would appear that a small tribe of Orcs encamped in the Eastern Mountains near the source of the Glanduin has been terrorising some nearby Dunlending villages
Stuart Gilmour: 15:19:28
this in itself would be of no concern to us
Stuart Gilmour: 15:19:43
except that the Orc band is very small, and has never been very strong
Stuart Gilmour: 15:19:50
but it has defeated several Dunlending war bands
Stuart Gilmour: 15:20:05
Further, it is attacking villages and farms in order to steal food (and slaves, of course)
Emily: 15:20:18
do you know what their advantage is?
Ember: 15:20:19
frowns and strokes chin in thoughtful manner
lynkster: 15:20:22
eyes narrows in anger
Stuart Gilmour: 15:20:28
it is strange that an Orc band so hungry it has to steal food is also able to defeat Dunlending war bands
Stuart Gilmour: 15:20:36
we think they ahve an advantage, as you suggest Lotho
Stuart Gilmour: 15:20:41
but we don't know what it is
Stuart Gilmour: 15:20:45
we want you to go and find it
Stuart Gilmour: 15:20:53
and steal it, kill it, or destroy it
Stuart Gilmour: 15:20:55
also
Stuart Gilmour: 15:21:07
we are worried that the Dark Chieftain may also realise that they have an advantage
Stuart Gilmour: 15:21:31
we want you to find out what the advantage is and neutralise it before he finds a way to take advantage of it
Emily: 15:21:32
um, Dark Chieftain?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:21:36
head of the Dunlendings
Stuart Gilmour: 15:21:40
discussed extensively above
lynkster: 15:21:51
Have we?
Ember: 15:22:02
Do the attacks take place at night?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:22:04
he takes an interest in problems on the borders, because it is an opportunity for him to prove how loyal and ferocious he is
Stuart Gilmour: 15:22:07
night and day
Stuart Gilmour: 15:22:11
but mostly night
Stuart Gilmour: 15:22:15
Orcs do not like daytime much
Stuart Gilmour: 15:22:27
You can fly your ship there quickly, and then hide it and scout the area to find out what is happening
Emily: 15:22:36
do you know of any surviving witnesses?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:22:40
If you discover they have a monster aiding them, you must kill it
Stuart Gilmour: 15:22:49
we have heard of some people surviving the attacks
Stuart Gilmour: 15:22:53
they may be in local villages
Emily: 15:22:55
.. or master it
Stuart Gilmour: 15:23:05
if hteir advantage is an item of some kind, you must steal or destroy it
lynkster: 15:23:12
Should we expect some trouble from the Dark Chieftain
lynkster: 15:23:14
?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:23:18
if they are hiding a secretly larger army than we know about
Stuart Gilmour: 15:23:21
you must rush back to warn us
Stuart Gilmour: 15:23:30
Ii do not expect the Chieftain would come in person
Stuart Gilmour: 15:23:34
hope for your sakes he does not
Emily: 15:23:49
why? he's only a Dunlending... ?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:23:51
But he may send a large or more powerful force to capture or kill whatever is giving these Orcstheir advantage
Stuart Gilmour: 15:23:59
He is inded, only a Dunlending
Stuart Gilmour: 15:24:14
contemplates the power of a 20th level Barbarian Dunlending with half demon powers
Emily: 15:24:22
haha, oh
Stuart Gilmour: 15:24:36
no-one knows the truth about the Dark Chieftain
Stuart Gilmour: 15:24:43
but he has great power to sway others to his cause
Stuart Gilmour: 15:24:48
and is undefeated in battle
Ember: 15:24:56
A shady character, he seems.
Stuart Gilmour: 15:25:00
It is saidthat he can control wolves, and his mother was a demon
Stuart Gilmour: 15:25:13
some say that he consumed his firstborn child to gain power over dark forces
lynkster: 15:25:19
Long indeed, is the reach of the foul and fallen.
Ember: 15:25:24
Like Baby-cham?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:25:35
and that his axe was carved from the bones of a living dragon
Stuart Gilmour: 15:25:48
Thusly, ,do some call him "Dragon Axe"
Stuart Gilmour: 15:25:54
nods sagely: All these things are true
Stuart Gilmour: 15:26:13
Firiolena stands
Stuart Gilmour: 15:26:17
"I must away, to council"
Stuart Gilmour: 15:26:20
Will you do this thing for me?
Emily: 15:26:34
sure, sounds like a blast
lynkster: 15:26:38
also stands.
Ember: 15:26:44
We will do our utmost. (Ignore my friend here.)
Ember: 15:27:05
gives a low respectful bow. Then ponces about.
lynkster: 15:27:12
Though we Easterlings have been of Sauron's army, we bear no love now for the dark.
Stuart Gilmour: 15:27:21
Thank you very much. I look forward to your successful return
lynkster: 15:27:34
bows
Stuart Gilmour: 15:27:35
[the less said ofthat the better, Ryu]
Emily: 15:27:37
scowls at Oryndiel and offers a hand to Firio
Stuart Gilmour: 15:27:54
Firiolena bows to Lotho and takes his proferred hand (from a great and superior height)
Ember: 15:28:03
(is he going to kiss it?)
Stuart Gilmour: 15:28:19
"I am sure it will be a pleasure to have a representative of such a brave race to bolster Oryndiel's work"
Emily: 15:28:31
nod/bows
Stuart Gilmour: 15:28:35
Then he swirls his silk robe and leavs
lynkster: 15:28:40
ooooh.
Stuart Gilmour: 15:28:41
leaves
Stuart Gilmour: 15:28:45
so
Stuart Gilmour: 15:28:54
is it to the batmobile, and up the Glanduin to fame and glory?
lynkster: 15:29:27
What says you, mine swishy brethren?
Ember: 15:29:28
Tally-ho, then, lads?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:29:39
Lotho?
Ember: 15:29:49
To the ship, mateys?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:29:52
back in a mo
Ember: 15:30:02
Stuart is weeing.
lynkster: 15:30:09
hehe. thanks Emma.
Ember: 15:30:10
(but not right here)
Emily: 15:30:16
goodo
lynkster: 15:30:20
Ron's asleep right here
Ember: 15:30:33
Let's all snipe about the DM behind his back.
Ember: 15:30:38
snipe snipe snipe
lynkster: 15:30:46
He exposed himself to us!!
Ember: 15:30:49
snipes some more
Emily: 15:30:52
speaking of... if we go off shippingright now, how long will it be before we get to leave these nerdy creatures for today?
Ember: 15:31:24
(Stuart has returned from the lav)
Stuart Gilmour: 15:31:30
what?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:31:36
we will finish in half an hour right?
Ember: 15:31:42
*clears throat* nowt.
Emily: 15:31:43
okay
Stuart Gilmour: 15:31:50
so
Stuart Gilmour: 15:31:54
to the ship and away up the Glanduin,
Emily: 15:31:55
i just thought if we started something we might not be able to stop for a bit
Stuart Gilmour: 15:32:06
well, probably
lynkster: 15:32:07
sorry. my fault
Stuart Gilmour: 15:32:18
so we could stop now if you like
Emily: 15:32:24
thats okay, I had time to have bkfast/lunch
Ember: 15:32:27
Let's just hove into areas orcish, and have a wee gander.
Stuart Gilmour: 15:32:33
alrighty
Emily: 15:32:34
half an hr is okay,m but i leave then nomatter where we are
Stuart Gilmour: 15:32:39
cool
Ember: 15:32:48
brillo-pads.
Stuart Gilmour: 15:32:54
we shall stop before then if it looks like an unavoidable confrontation which will stretch past Lotho's bedtime
lynkster: 15:32:55
huzzah.
Emily: 15:33:10
(parent-time)
Emily: 15:33:15
so, i get to pilot
Stuart Gilmour: 15:33:20
so you retire to the ship, cast off the mainstays and keelhaul the rapscallions, me hearties, and sail off over Ost-in-Eidhil
Emily: 15:33:21
puts on his pilot cap
Stuart Gilmour: 15:33:29
the ship rises gracefully to just below the level of the clouds
Stuart Gilmour: 15:33:42
and then you sail with the wind along a course just north of teh Glanduin river
Stuart Gilmour: 15:33:55
(which you can see winding its way east on your maps)
Ember: 15:33:59
polishes the brass wheel and other nautical knobs
Emily: 15:34:05
it's rather like a pirate cap, but is a brilliant green and sports a beautiful blue feather
Stuart Gilmour: 15:34:19
ahead of you the Misty Mountains gleam in the sunlight, and the Glanduin sparkles far below
Stuart Gilmour: 15:34:30
to your south are stretches of open grassland, scattered with thick green forests
Stuart Gilmour: 15:34:37
and occaisonal dunlending settlements
Stuart Gilmour: 15:34:44
North of the river lie the wastelands of Eregion
Stuart Gilmour: 15:34:53
a mixture of scrub heaths, and small patches of forest
Stuart Gilmour: 15:34:57
with occasional ruins in between
Stuart Gilmour: 15:35:19
It takes 2 days to reach teh headwaters of the Glanduin, where the misty mountains spring from the earth in a great snowy rampart
Stuart Gilmour: 15:35:31
it is dark and cloudy about their peaks as you approach the area, so your ship has to descend
Stuart Gilmour: 15:35:48
you drift over a huge forest, which stretches up into the valleys and foothills of the mountains
Stuart Gilmour: 15:36:09
to the south in clearings of the forest are small settlements, and you can see in the distance that the easternmost settlements are partially destroyed
Stuart Gilmour: 15:36:26
in that area, the forest thins out and teh foothills of the mountains only have low scrub covering them
Stuart Gilmour: 15:36:32
it is from there that the Orcs come
Stuart Gilmour: 15:36:36
where shall you go first?
Emily: 15:37:00
where looks like they have a pub?
Ember: 15:37:01
check out the destroyed settlements for clues?
lynkster: 15:37:03
The tall one says that some survive and are in the villages. Shall we ask them?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:37:14
the villages would have a pub
Ember: 15:37:19
Aye, let's ask the witnesses
Ember: 15:37:22
and have an ale
Stuart Gilmour: 15:37:29
there is only one destroyed settlement, a small one really close to the foothills
Stuart Gilmour: 15:37:38
there are a couple of partly damaged settlements closer to teh dunland
Stuart Gilmour: 15:37:46
do you wish to go to them first?
Emily: 15:37:56
the partially damaged ones, yes
lynkster: 15:37:57
Partially destroyed?
lynkster: 15:37:59
yes
Ember: 15:38:03
OK.
Ember: 15:38:10
Let
Ember: 15:38:17
 Let's put on our walking boots.
lynkster: 15:38:27
i've got red ribbons on mine.
Stuart Gilmour: 15:38:29
okay, so you drift your ship towards one of these towns, cruising over a couple of ruined farms and coming to rest near a small stream just outside the town's walls
Emily: 15:38:29
where can we leave the ship?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:38:44
it is a fairly poor, dirt little collection of hovels
Emily: 15:38:47
will the ship be safe alone?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:38:48
clustered around a small square
Stuart Gilmour: 15:38:53
the ship has a crew of 27
Stuart Gilmour: 15:39:00
it's unlikely to be in too much trouble
Stuart Gilmour: 15:39:05
especially a km up
Emily: 15:39:08
yeah, but they're so lowly paid, as if they'd put up much of a fight
Emily: 15:39:13
oh, good
Emily: 15:39:18
i um, can't fly though
Stuart Gilmour: 15:39:19
actually it can't be a km up
Stuart Gilmour: 15:39:26
you gusy are needed to raise it
Stuart Gilmour: 15:39:28
however
Ember: 15:39:32
hippogriffs?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:39:34
if you double hteir pay they might defend it
Stuart Gilmour: 15:39:59
they certainly can't steal it!
lynkster: 15:40:05
is that an option or an observation? :)
Ember: 15:40:10
shall we shove a hippogriff between our well-toned thighs and go down-diddly-down?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:40:18
there's only one hippogriff
Stuart Gilmour: 15:40:20
you will have to land the ship for now
Emily: 15:40:26
i thought there were 2
Ember: 15:40:32
me too
Emily: 15:40:38
2 too
Stuart Gilmour: 15:40:42
there are 2, good point
Emily: 15:40:43
okay,
lynkster: 15:40:43
me 3
Emily: 15:40:44
lands
Stuart Gilmour: 15:40:55
so you ride down, leaving the boat hovering 100 m up.
Emily: 15:40:57
lands not too gracefully
Stuart Gilmour: 15:40:59
how's that?
Emily: 15:41:03
hey, i'm still getting used to this thing
Emily: 15:41:13
thought it couldn't levitate without us
Ember: 15:41:19
cajoles as Lotho lands arse over tit
lynkster: 15:41:26
jumps from ship and gracefully swings his way down the trees using the branches
Stuart Gilmour: 15:41:27
you can leave it fixed to levitate
Stuart Gilmour: 15:41:32
just can't go down and tehn have it go up again.
Stuart Gilmour: 15:41:34
i think
Stuart Gilmour: 15:41:43
fucking poncy monks
Emily: 15:41:43
oh
Ember: 15:41:57
nimbly hops down and files his nails whilst waiting for the others.
Stuart Gilmour: 15:41:58
anyway, so you ride the hippogriffs down, and walk on them to the town
lynkster: 15:42:08
Fear my leet skillz
Stuart Gilmour: 15:42:23
as you approach, 3 Dunlending warriors come out of the gate, looking about nervously and pointing crossbows at you
Stuart Gilmour: 15:42:37
"stop there!" They yell in harshly accented Westron
lynkster: 15:42:38
[who speaks for us?]
Emily: 15:42:51
stops and faces them, eyebrow raised
Stuart Gilmour: 15:42:56
I think in theory that Lotho is the charmer?
Ember: 15:43:05
I have terrible social skills.
Emily: 15:43:05
yes gentlemen?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:43:10
"Who are you, and what do you want?"
Stuart Gilmour: 15:43:29
"there's bin trouble hereabouts o'late, we dun need no more o'same!"
Emily: 15:43:33
we might ask the same of you, since you are the ones interested in us
Stuart Gilmour: 15:43:38
"so speak yer name and peace!"
Stuart Gilmour: 15:43:52
"No smart lips, little'un" the dunlending yells
Emily: 15:43:54
relax, at the moment we're simply looking for a pub. I'm lotho, this is Oryndiel and Ryu
Stuart Gilmour: 15:43:57
"we been under attack these last days"
Stuart Gilmour: 15:44:05
Aye?
Emily: 15:44:08
so I hear ... Orcs?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:44:10
He lowers his crossbow
Stuart Gilmour: 15:44:14
"How'd you hear?"
Emily: 15:44:25
bad news travels fast
Ember: 15:44:34
So, what happened here?
Emily: 15:44:37
and we're not so fond of Orcs
Stuart Gilmour: 15:44:37
a second dunlending mutters to teh first, who says
Stuart Gilmour: 15:44:47
"We really shn't let you in, suhs"
Stuart Gilmour: 15:44:51
"Defense 'n all."
Stuart Gilmour: 15:44:55
"you gotta have a good reason"
Emily: 15:45:00
i'm sorry?
Emily: 15:45:16
by whose orders?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:45:25
[lotho, this is a situation where you have to tell me what tactic you will use to sweet talk your way in, and then make a diplomacy check]
Ember: 15:45:33
(shall we pay 'em a bribe?)
lynkster: 15:46:11
[let's see what Lotho comes up with]
Stuart Gilmour: 15:46:11
taps his fingers, waiting for Lotho's suggestion
Emily: 15:46:23
(well, they're dunlendings, so we can't tell em much right? incase it gets back to the dark cheif person?)
Stuart Gilmour: 15:46:29
aye
Stuart Gilmour: 15:46:37
but you can come up with something I'm sure
Stuart Gilmour: 15:46:40
bein' the diplomat and all
Stuart Gilmour: 15:46:47
e.g. "we're treasure hunters eager for a fight"
Ember: 15:46:50
( we could say we're here to trade things they might need, like food?)
Emily: 15:46:51
dons his diplomatic hat
Stuart Gilmour: 15:46:52
"an orc ate my mother"
Stuart Gilmour: 15:46:53
etc.
lynkster: 15:47:04
[an orc ate my mother too!]
Stuart Gilmour: 15:47:14
[no, your mother was an orc!
Stuart Gilmour: 15:47:16
]
lynkster: 15:47:29
[and yours smelt of elderberries!]
Stuart Gilmour: 15:47:36
looks askanc e at that diplomatic hat, which is notbeing used
Stuart Gilmour: 15:47:46
Lotho?
lynkster: 15:48:05
[pssst - tell them we're a bunch of testosterone adventurers]
Emily: 15:48:06
um
lynkster: 15:48:11
[who are looking for a challenge]
Emily: 15:48:29
what trouble can a hobbit and a couple of dwarves do?
lynkster: 15:48:48
[I'm.... I'm not a dwarf]
Emily: 15:48:53
oops, elves
lynkster: 15:48:59
[um... nope]
Emily: 15:49:05
oh, whatever then
Stuart Gilmour: 15:49:05
[is that your tactic lotho?]
Ember: 15:49:06
[shall we offer them a sweetner, like giving them weapons or summick? we can say we'll return to the ship and get them later]
Emily: 15:49:10
yes
Emily: 15:49:25
we are simply looking for a drink and a hearty meal
Stuart Gilmour: 15:49:29
so lotho, please lay out your argument briefly, and then make a diplomacy roll
Emily: 15:49:46
what do i hve to roll?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:49:51
2d10
lynkster: 15:49:52
[we're here to bed your wimmin
Stuart Gilmour: 15:49:54
plus diplomacy
lynkster: 15:49:58
!]
Stuart Gilmour: 15:50:01
slaps lynkster with a sausage
Emily: 15:50:08
besides, as if we could get anything by you fine boys
Stuart Gilmour: 15:50:21
okay roll
Emily: 15:50:46
21
Stuart Gilmour: 15:50:56
"well, I can see as you mean no harm and all..."
Stuart Gilmour: 15:51:01
so you can come in for a meal and a drink
Stuart Gilmour: 15:51:06
but ye'll nay stay the night
Emily: 15:51:12
aw
Stuart Gilmour: 15:51:17
not wi'em gawky bird-horses snapping at yer heels
Stuart Gilmour: 15:51:32
me bruvva runs the crooked crow tavern
Emily: 15:51:43
whats the time?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:51:46
ye go there and tell 'em I vouched for ye, and 'll join ye in an hour u 2
Stuart Gilmour: 15:51:50
it's afternoon
Emily: 15:51:56
ok
Stuart Gilmour: 15:51:58
you would have maybe 4 hours before dark to get in some ales and chattin'
Emily: 15:52:04
nods
Stuart Gilmour: 15:52:09
okay
Emily: 15:52:12
much obliged
Stuart Gilmour: 15:52:30
so you wander in to the town, and find yourselves in a rundown and smelly little village, typical of dunlending outposts
Stuart Gilmour: 15:52:43
sadly, half of it has been burnt and damaged, and a haybarn and some fields destroyed
Ember: 15:52:44
applies peg to nose
lynkster: 15:52:50
wrinkles his nose
Stuart Gilmour: 15:52:58
there is also a gibbet hanging in the middle of the town, with 2 orcs hanging from it
Stuart Gilmour: 15:53:06
and a smell of burnt flesh lingers over the town.
Emily: 15:53:12
walks up to the orcs
Stuart Gilmour: 15:53:16
from the burial pit for their own dead
Stuart Gilmour: 15:53:26
what does Lotho do to these Orcs?
Emily: 15:53:39
walks around them, examining-like
Stuart Gilmour: 15:53:46
looking for anything in particular?
lynkster: 15:54:02
do we roll?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:54:07
dunno
Stuart Gilmour: 15:54:12
what's Lotho looking for?
Ember: 15:54:21
all worthy items would've been stripped, I spose
Emily: 15:54:27
just anything abnormal
Stuart Gilmour: 15:54:30
aye
Stuart Gilmour: 15:54:33
nothing abnormal Lotho
Stuart Gilmour: 15:54:56
their tribe appears to be a pair of crossed fangs, painted on their faces with pigs blood
Stuart Gilmour: 15:55:00
charming creatures, really
Emily: 15:55:11
how long dead are they?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:55:17
2 days
Stuart Gilmour: 15:55:20
about
Stuart Gilmour: 15:55:29
they're not Uruk Hai
Stuart Gilmour: 15:55:33
ie not special orcs
Emily: 15:55:36
turns his back and looks for the pub
Stuart Gilmour: 15:55:40
just your average scungy creature
Stuart Gilmour: 15:55:53
okay, so you head to the crooked crow, where you are greeted at the door by the two patrons and the tavern owner
Stuart Gilmour: 15:55:58
it's a small town, not much happens.
Stuart Gilmour: 15:56:22
the tavern owner asks you to post your hippogriffs back at the town square, which you do, and then gives you all some fairly good quality ale "on the 'ouse, for travellers and all'
Emily: 15:56:24
greetings, we were advised you have good ale and digestable meals
Stuart Gilmour: 15:56:28
he doesn't have food to spare
Stuart Gilmour: 15:56:41
"sorry folks, ain't got no bread, only a little meat and there ain't much of that"
Emily: 15:56:56
why?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:56:57
Orcs took most ofour supplies, and what little is left we're sellin' on in the next few days
lynkster: 15:57:00
is vegetarian, so that is fine.
Emily: 15:57:20
sellin on?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:57:24
this 'eres a big problem for us, if we don't get them Orcs slain by Autumn they could take our harvest this year
Emily: 15:57:28
don't you all need it here?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:57:38
need the money from sellin' our latest crops to get some mercenaries in and help us fight these orcs
Emily: 15:57:55
ah, difficult orcs are they?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:58:06
the towns around here are forming up our few fightin' men and sending 'em to Catherm, South East of here
Stuart Gilmour: 15:58:16
should send a big band of warriors up against 'em in the next few days
Emily: 15:58:23
don't seem right them sucessfully attacking a well-guarded town like this
Stuart Gilmour: 15:58:28
aye little chap, they've bin mighty raucous and dangerous
Stuart Gilmour: 15:58:46
that's what we'd a thought, but they seem to come from all sides at once. And people are saying .... things
Emily: 15:58:56
... what kind of things?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:58:59
sayin' as how...
Emily: 15:59:08
... I have an interest in orc-killing myself...
Stuart Gilmour: 15:59:20
well... see... it ain't just orcs you'd be a killin'
Stuart Gilmour: 15:59:24
if what people says is true
Emily: 15:59:36
some other beast a friend of the orc?
Stuart Gilmour: 15:59:39
me, I weren't there to know, and it were dark and the attack happened so fast, maybe what people says is all rot
Stuart Gilmour: 15:59:43
that's what I think
Emily: 15:59:56
 .. tell me,.. what is it people are saying?
Stuart Gilmour: 16:00:05
well, crazy stuff.
Stuart Gilmour: 16:00:15
Ask about if you like, I ain't of a mind to repeat such stupid rumours.
Emily: 16:00:27
oh, but when it comes to orcs, nothing is too stupid..
Stuart Gilmour: 16:00:29
Just 'cause we cain't beat some orcs, ain't no call to mekkin' up tall stories
Stuart Gilmour: 16:00:31
...
Emily: 16:00:33
in my experience
Stuart Gilmour: 16:00:43
[this is a hint for all of you to do some gather information checks]
Emily: 16:00:59
[hrm?]
Stuart Gilmour: 16:01:10
check your character sheet, it's a skill
lynkster: 16:01:11
[I've got 0]
Stuart Gilmour: 16:01:14
you're all crap at it
lynkster: 16:01:24
[yes. yes I am.]
Ember: 16:01:37
(I got 6. blah!)
Emily: 16:01:42
yes
Emily: 16:01:50
roll 2d10?
Stuart Gilmour: 16:01:52
aye
Emily: 16:02:04
18
lynkster: 16:02:09
9
Stuart Gilmour: 16:02:21
well, Lotho, you were able to make something of the conversation after all.
Stuart Gilmour: 16:02:39
You learn from a seedy chap in the back of the bar that the rumour going about is that the orc badn was small
Emily: 16:02:41
is there anyone else in the room?
Stuart Gilmour: 16:02:45
but it was bolstered in numbers considerably
Stuart Gilmour: 16:02:51
by a large squad of skeletal Dwarves
Stuart Gilmour: 16:02:58
the dead walked, and slaughtered as they did so
Emily: 16:03:03
are they so rare here?
Stuart Gilmour: 16:03:10
if you don't believe it, check the town of Ergrel, near the foothills
Stuart Gilmour: 16:03:16
completely destroyed it was ...
Stuart Gilmour: 16:03:26
but maybe some o' them undead was crushed in the battle
Emily: 16:03:27
by these dwarves?
Stuart Gilmour: 16:03:30
Lotho...
Stuart Gilmour: 16:03:33
did you mean to ask
Stuart Gilmour: 16:03:41
"Are skeletal dwarves rare?"
Emily: 16:03:44
if undead are rare, yes
Stuart Gilmour: 16:03:47
aye
Stuart Gilmour: 16:03:57
I'd be thinkin' that skeletal dwarves are particularly rare
Stuart Gilmour: 16:04:06
they would have to be ... created.. from a dwarven cemetery
Emily: 16:04:11
why dwarves particularly?
Stuart Gilmour: 16:04:13
Dwarves live a long time and bury their dead deep underground
Emily: 16:04:18
oh
Stuart Gilmour: 16:04:23
"That," says your contact
Stuart Gilmour: 16:04:27
"be a mystery to usall"
Stuart Gilmour: 16:04:47
and the weirdness o'it be the reason as them folks like this 'ere tavern's boss don't believe what they 'ears
Stuart Gilmour: 16:05:00
now could all of you make a spot check please
Emily: 16:05:04
so who is going to try and fight these dwarves/orcs
Emily: 16:05:06
?
Stuart Gilmour: 16:05:10
2d10 + spot
Stuart Gilmour: 16:05:16
aye, that's a question that is
Stuart Gilmour: 16:05:19
innit?
Emily: 16:05:30
15
Stuart Gilmour: 16:05:30
we be fieldin' a large squad to fight the orcs in the next few days
lynkster: 16:05:32
17
Emily: 16:05:37
yes
Stuart Gilmour: 16:05:38
find their nest and hunt 'em down
Ember: 16:05:57
20
Emily: 16:06:01
but given the rumours, will anyone from the villages around here be joining the squad?
Stuart Gilmour: 16:06:03
Em, it's 4pm
Stuart Gilmour: 16:06:06
so we should probably stop
Emily: 16:06:09
i know
Stuart Gilmour: 16:06:12
"aye" says the cahp
Stuart Gilmour: 16:06:19
me own son be joinin' t'morra
Emily: 16:06:26
brave man
Stuart Gilmour: 16:06:30
indeed,
Stuart Gilmour: 16:06:32
says the chap
Stuart Gilmour: 16:06:41
You guys aren't able to learn any more than that, I"m afraid
Stuart Gilmour: 16:06:47
you're kicked out of the tavern 2 hours later.
Stuart Gilmour: 16:06:55
and can return to the ship.
Stuart Gilmour: 16:07:00
We should probably end there, eh?
Stuart Gilmour: 16:07:01
Emily?
Emily: 16:07:02
to sleep
Emily: 16:07:04
yup
Stuart Gilmour: 16:07:08
okay folks
Ember: 16:07:10
And have a pot of elderflower tea.
Stuart Gilmour: 16:07:11
can we do this again soon?
Stuart Gilmour: 16:07:16
it was muchly fun!
lynkster: 16:07:33
yes
Emily: 16:07:36
mm, as long as Mr finch doesn't have another injury
Stuart Gilmour: 16:07:45
I'm sure the events are not related
Ember: 16:07:47
'Twas funsome  (giggle) 
Stuart Gilmour: 16:07:51
so shall we arrange by email?
Emily: 16:07:51
i don't have many plans for the next while
Emily: 16:07:54
yup
Stuart Gilmour: 16:08:04
I would like to do it in, say, 2 weeks, but Emma would prefer 4 I think
lynkster: 16:08:19
wasn't there another?
Stuart Gilmour: 16:08:24
another?
Emily: 16:08:26
well, you tell us when you two are available, and we'll try and find a coimmon time
Emily: 16:08:31
another person
Stuart Gilmour: 16:08:32
okay, we'll discuss over email.
lynkster: 16:08:34
another player
Ember: 16:08:36
emailifications ahoy! sounds fine.
Stuart Gilmour: 16:08:37
oh him
Stuart Gilmour: 16:08:39
we'll see about that
Emily: 16:08:49
bye
Ember: 16:08:52
btw may 13th is mother's day so could be busy for family stuff for some ppl
lynkster: 16:08:58
bye Emily
Stuart Gilmour: 16:09:08
oh, and just for the record, here is my email:
Stuart Gilmour: 16:09:09
Okay, Sunday 22nd it is, Leon`s character is not available for this session. We will play from 1pm - 5pm Australian time, which is 12-4 Japan time.
lynkster: 16:09:17
Right.
lynkster: 16:09:20
Sorry again.
Stuart Gilmour: 16:09:23
hrmph
Ember: 16:09:27
btw
Stuart Gilmour: 16:09:27
anyway
Ember: 16:09:32
great blogging, eden
Stuart Gilmour: 16:09:33
3 or 4 weeks time
Ember: 16:09:35
enjoyed muchly
lynkster: 16:09:40
thanks Emma
lynkster: 16:09:51
you'll have to send us a notice closer to the date
Ember: 16:10:00
are you going to "wake up Ron" now?
Stuart Gilmour: 16:10:06
hey Eden
Ember: 16:10:10
:* 
Stuart Gilmour: 16:10:12
do you know if there is some way to save these chats?
Stuart Gilmour: 16:10:19
that's a really weird face Emma!
lynkster: 16:10:35
hehe
lynkster: 16:10:36
um
lynkster: 16:10:40
let me see
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