Strahd's "RttToEE"

Strahd_Von_Zarovich · 5th August 2006, 04:54 PM

Players
1. Rhun - Korbryn Rivenshield, of the Dwurfolk of the Lortmils, Dwarf Male Fighter 4
2. Voadam - Miltiades inquisitor of Rao, Male Oeridian Human cleric 5
3. Stonegod - Thandis "The Kid" Ornth, Male human (Oeridian) scout 3/fighter 2
4. s@squ@tch - Lenuran of Lortmills, Male Gnome Bard 5
5. Defcon - Ithiken Naru, Male High Elf Sorcerer 5

Strahd_Von_Zarovich · 5th August 2006, 04:55 PM

NPC List in Hommlet

Edirion's letter

folded letter of the Mad priest Festrath

Excerpts from the Journal of Geynor Ton

I do not claim to understand fully the workings of the Great Church and the Masters of All-Consumption. Thier alliance with these foul-smelling brutes is one that surprises me. I had assumed that we were the favored of the Dark Lord. Who are these scaly beast men to tell us what to do? No matter. Soon we'll leave this accused town and I won't be cooped up in this flourmill with the creature.

Annihilation takes you Hommlet! I've not enjoyed my brief stay here. The food from the inn brought by Chatrilon was very good, however. Venison cured very nicely. What is that seasoning? Perhaps when we’ve slain all the people of this place, I can discover the secrets of its preparation. Great will be that day. Praise to the Elder Elemental Eye!

Just as the Doomdreamers proclaimed, the Dark Obelisk is here, under a pool in a cave. We discovered that below the pool was a shaft with a false bottom, sealed for many years. Once penetrated, the pool drained down into a wondrous cave pulsating with the power of our revered Master of Masters. O great day!

Apparently, the water from the stream above was diverted into the shaft, to fill up the pool and hide the cave from unworthy eyes! Truly the Dark God inspired such a wondrous plan, although it surely was carried out only after his unjust imprisonment. Yours shall be the name we proclaim, Dark Lord, once we have breathed new life into your most deserved worship. Once you are free all shall be set right, and those who deserve it most shall meet their cruel, cruel fate. Blessed destruction!

I marvel at the skill of our enlightened predecessors who constructed the Obelisk to honor and commune with the Dark Lord. Those must have been wonderful, heady days in which to live. Under the leadership of Master Thaque, we shall recover the relics of our lost heritage. Praise the Elder Elemental Eye!

Alas! Foul beast! What fate has befallen us? It must be a test sent to us from beyond – we must now go on without the leadership of Master Thaque, may his soul rest with the Dark God in the cold embrace of dissolution now and forevermore. Oh, wicked, cruel fate – I seek not your judgment in the claws of some dragon!

But Gungash is also dead. I hated him – he stole my lunch two days ago, and it was an excellent boiled egg and some of Tashi’s delicious spice bread. Take his soul, Dark Lord, and crush it beneath your contemptuous heel.

It appears that we are trapped here for a time. Festrath cannot convince the Gnolls to attack the beast together-not after what happened two days ago. I think the dragon laughs at us. A grand joke, beast, but one that you’ll pay for with your very soul! Now Festrath hides with the Obelisk and the creature. We will continue our work here, but eventually we shall run out of food. Perhaps we shall have to live as the lovely ghouls do here. Or perhaps Gnoll flesh can be flavored in some way so as to make it palatable.

Chatrilon came here to warn us, it seems a bunch of adventurers proclaiming to be heroes found the place and defeated the dragon. We heard nothing from priestess Gren who watch some of the relics in the upper room. Garrik is dead and most of his Gnolls, two were left to protect the portcullis against invasion, we are going to leave in two days, and we must claim all the relics, seal the holy chamber and leave the foul, dead infested place.

Map Key

Strahd_Von_Zarovich · 5th August 2006, 04:55 PM

Experience: Level 5 to 6 (15000) Level 4 to 5 (10000)
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100 xp each - Gathering information with roleplaying. (Miltiades/Thandis/Korbryn Only)
350 xp each - Defeating the blue dragon in the moathouse.
275 xp each - Defeating The Gray Ooze.
225 xp each - For Finishing the First level of the moathouse and because the DM is a kind person.
360 xp each - Gnoll Guards on the staircasr chamber.
160 xp each - for Defeating the Ghast in the jail hall.
420 xp each - Human Priestess and Skeletones.
658 xp each - For defeating the Gnoll's ambush.
450 xp each - Defeating Cockatrice.
1102 xp each - Assassins in the Welcome wench. (Miltiades/Thandis/Ithiken Only)
100 xp (Thandis/Miltiades) / 120 xp (Korbryn/Ithiken) - Destroying Ghouls.
150 xp (Thandis/Miltiades/Ithiken) / 160 xp (Korbryn/Lenuran) - Destroying Ghast.
60 xp each - Killing the Two patrolling Gnolls.
100 xp (Thandis/Miltiades/Ithiken) / 120 xp (Korbryn/Lenuran) - glyph disabled.
300 xp (Thandis/Miltiades/Ithiken) / 320 xp (Korbryn/Lenuran) - Festrah the Mad Priest.
150 xp (Thandis/Miltiades/Ithiken) / 160 xp (Korbryn) - Killing the summoned Grell.
200 xp (Lenuran) - Visiting the black spherical room of the dark room and make it alive.
320 xp (Thandis/Miltiades/Ithiken) / 350 xp (Korbryn/Lenuran) - Killing the blue dragon.
450 xp (Thandis/Miltiades/Ithiken/Korbryn) / 480 xp (Lenuran) - Waterside Hostel, Nulb, destroying Wat the ghost.
960 xp (Thandis/Miltiades/Ithiken/Korbryn) / 980 xp (Lenuran) - Defeating the hobgoblins of the temple.

Strahd_Von_Zarovich · 5th August 2006, 04:56 PM

Loot + party equipment:
Gnoll Guards in the Moathouse Dungeon - ~~72 gold~~.

Excavated Relics (Room #24) (Female Priest) - Ochre robes, 3 potions, ~~MW Morningstar, splint armor, large steel shield, light crossbow, 10 bolts, 20 gold coins, 20 silver coins, holy symbol.~~ Torch of revealing and 3 Incense of dream, A black scepter with violet gems, and a black metal tube.

Gnoll's Ambush - ~~Full plate, MW Great Axe~~, ~~+1 magical studded leather armor~~, ~~MW longsword, MW short sword~~, Brooch of shielding(Thandis), ~~clw potion~~

Assassins loot – ~~4 scrolls (1 protection from elements fire, 3 clw),~~ Necklace of prayer beads (2 blessing), ~~mw rapier~~, ~~2 feather tokens (bird),~~ Brooch of shielding, ~~holy symbol (obex),~~ Ring of mind shielding.

Ceremonial relics from the cave #34A – Bead of force , set of silver chimes, bronze brazier and three chunks of incense, skin-covered black drum.

Cleric's Quarters #30 – ~~two ceramic liquid vials, two scrolls~~, six tindertwigs, ~~a sheaf of papers with “G.T” letters scribed on the binding.~~

Up the shaft #32 – ~~small statue, +1 Rapier, +1 buckler, wand of invisibility, 60 gold, 15 silver,~~ Cloak of resistance +1.

The Big cave with the mad priest – Pearl of power (level 1), potion, ~~23 gold coins, gem worth 20 gold.~~

Temple of Elemental Evil ruins (The Hobgoblin tribe) - 142 gold coins on bodies of fallen hobgoblins. Treasure room: 845 copper, 698 silver, 572 gold.
small iron box witth 10 bloodstones in silk padding (50 gold each), A bolt of cloth with gold embroidery (100 gold), A suit of full plate. golden flagon with obsidian inlays (200 gold), Silver platter (75 gold), painting of green dragon (120 gold), 6 smokesticks, flask of holy water.

italic = magical

stonegod · 5th August 2006, 05:31 PM

Thandis "The Kid" Ornth

Background

Appearance and Personality

Tonks · 5th August 2006, 07:39 PM

Lenuran of Lortmills

Background

Growing up in the gnomish community of Lortmills, Lenuran seemed to spend all of his free time with a book in his hand. He was fascinated by the power of the written word and as soon as he finished one book, he begged his family to supply him with another. Soon he was borrowing books from everyone in the village and when he encountered a writing that he did not understand; he did not rest until that too had been mastered. His family still held high hopes for him, as it seemed that even with his obsession with books there was nothing in the gnomish culture that he was not partially good at doing. On the eve of his fortieth birthday, he surprised those gathered at his surprise party by having his sister tell everyone there that he had “stepped out” for a short walk and would be back soon. This short walk took him nearly the span of the northern regions of Oerth and forty years to finish.

When he returned to Lortmills, Lenuran’s brown hair was prematurely streaked with gray and he carried himself with an ease that instantly earned him coy smiles by many of the gnomish women, both married and single. From a comfortable seat in the inn over the course of the next three months, Lenuran told of the fierce battle he had witnessed between the glacier dwarves to the far North and the wicked frost giant who sought to enslave their village. He spoke of his time aboard a privateer vessel where he earned his keep by tracking the stars to keep them on course and of the wonders of the open sea. His tales of living with the noble wood elves in their secluded tree homes drew skeptical looks from his relatives until he showed them the fine elvish mesh shirt and nearly weightless shield they had given him when they parted ways.

Everyone assumed that Lenuran’s wandering days were behind him and that like a respectable gnome he would settle down and take a wife, but the one story that Lenuran had not told his family was that his fate no longer was his to control as it was bound to a legend he was chasing.

Twenty years ago, Lenuran apprenticed to the Royal Scribe and was given the task of making sense of the fragmented documents concerning a place known as the Temple of Evil. The details were vague, but Lenuran was able to gather that a small band of strangers had stormed the temple and disrupted a great evil there, but shortly afterwards they all seemed to vanish into thin air.

Jotting down the few notes on who they were, Lenuran began tracking the legendary people down to find out what truly happened, but despite his best effort, his search brought only dead ends upon dead ends.

Returning to Lenuran to rest and weigh the options before him, he received a letter from the Court telling him of the need for another gathering to venture to the Temple once more. As he was still in service to the Crown, albeit on an extended leave of absence from his Scribe duties, Lenuran packed his bag quickly and disappeared into the night once more.

Appearance and Personality

Voadam · 6th August 2006, 02:00 AM

Spoiler:

Land Outcast · 6th August 2006, 02:20 AM

Eliron Redilameri, Battledancer of The Protector

Edirion's Steed (Nightwind)

Background(unfinished)

Highfolk(personal note)

Located in the northwestern portion of the continent of the Flanaess, on the world of Oerth, the area now known as Highfolk has long been the source of many conflicts, grand adventures, and stories of heroism down through the years. Elves and humans battle Iuz's forces in the Vesve Forest on the eastern edge of the region; farther to the west, peaceful farmers harvest the land in the verdant earth called the Highvale; to the south, the town of Highfolk moderates the activities of both peace and war, and keeps diplomatic contacts with its allies, Veluna and Furyondy. The region of Highfolk is a wild land, parts untamable to many, a peaceful land, full of the beauty of nature, and a dangerous land, with the forces of evil ever present, looking to destroy the harmony and hard-fought freedoms that the people of the region enjoy.

The city of Highfolk is ruled by the human elected mayor, Tavin Ersteader, and is the center for politics with the region. Only about ten percent of the population is human (mostly concentrated in the city and valley of the Velverdyva), with eighty percent of the population being elves. High and Sylvan elves predominate, though there is a small minority of Grey Elves. The people of Highfolk hold their freedom highly, and their fealty to the elven lord Kashafen Tamarel is couched in guarantees of personal liberty. The few humans tend to worship Elohnna, Obad-Hai, the Oeridian sky/agricultural gods, or Trithereon.

Founded thousands of years ago, Highfolk was the "Western Watch" of the elves, to keep an eye on the Suel and Baklunish Empires. It suffered heavily from attacks during the brutal wars with Vecna, but found unlooked-for assistace from some Oeridian tribes that had fled east from the Suel and Baklunish. They maintained their independence from the Great Kingdom of Aerdy and befriended Furyondi and Veluna when they broke free of the Great Kingdom. The Elves of the immense Vesve forest have recognized the threat of Iuz, and have supplied their archers and knights to the cause. Iuz has roused dark races and given them greater strength to contend with the elves.

Variant Fighter

Planned for future:
Continue Fighter...
Level 6: Dodge, Improved Combat Expertise (Complete Warrior)
Level 8: Defensive Strike (Complete Warrior)

Rhun · 7th August 2006, 04:43 PM

Korbryn Rivenshield, of the Dwurfolk of the Lortmils
Lawful Neutral Dwarf Male Fighter 6

Background/Appearance/Personality

Background
Although still a young dwarf, Korbryn has seen his fare share of battles. Hailing from the southernmost portion of the Lortmils, Korbryn and his clan have had ample opportunity to prove their valor against humanoids and giants from the nearby Pomarj.

When the stories of Korbyrn’s battle prowess reached the ears of the dwarven kings, they summoned him to their halls to test for the honor of joining their personal guard. The tests consisted of a series of combat against other worthies, and a series of endurance tests as well. When the testing was completed, Korbryn found was offered the honor of serving, and dutifully took his place among the elite defenders of the dwarven kings.

When the call came for the dwarf lords to send a representative to Verbobonc, Korbyrn was quickly chosen from amongst the guard. While not a diplomat, Korbryn is a loyal, courageous dwarf who will speak plainly, and put the needs of the dwarves before his own personal concerns.

Appearance
Korbryn is tall for a dwarf, at 4’ 5” in height. He is powerful of build, with a weight of about 190 pounds, most of it solid muscle. He has long blonde hair and a long blonde beard, both of which he wears braided with fine silver chain. His face is badly scarred down the left side, where an ogre’s club has mangled his visage, though he tries to hide the worst of this with his facial hair. His voice is grating and always sounds hoarse.

The fighter is almost always found in his well-polished plate armor, and dresses in the leathers and wools favored by his people, in shades of blues and grays. While most dwarves are fond of wearing jewelry and precious metals, Korbryn disdains this practice. His clothes are generally worn and travel stained, but his armor and weapons are always clean and freshly oiled. He wears a collection of goblin, gnoll and orc ears around his neck, and a fine set of matching blue boots and gloves...crafted from the hide of a blue dragon. In full battle gear, Korbryn is quite the sight to behold…wielding a sword that is larger than himself, and with enough weapons strapped to himself to outfit a troop of dwarves.

Personality
Quiet and taciturn, Korbryn rarely speaks. He prefers to let his actions speak for themselves. He is gruff and ill tempered, and is brutally honest, whether those listening to his words will like them or not.

Korbryn is not a smith or a miner, as are most of his kin. He is a warrior, first and foremost. He was trained to fight and defend his people, and he sees that as his only duty. Anyone that he deems a threat to the dwarves of the Lortmils will find Korbryn to be a most implacable foe. He is practical and methodical, and fully confident in his fighting prowess. Although a disciplined and honorable warrior, he is not above using dirty tricks to carry the day…

Stats

Kafkonia · 7th August 2006, 05:44 PM

Llewellyn Mourner
"Elf Wizard In Progress"

Stats

Background

Appearance

Voadam · 7th August 2006, 06:02 PM

Miltiades has augment summoning, stats for summoned creatures below

Summon Monster I

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Celestial Dog

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Celestial Fire Beetle

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Celestial Owl

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Summon Monster II

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Celestial Giant Bee

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Celestial Bombardier Beetle

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Summon Monster III

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Celestial Bison

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Air Elemental Small

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DEFCON 1 · 5th October 2006, 05:31 PM

Ithiken Naru
Neutral Good High Elf Sorcerer 5

Stats:

Code:

Name:       Ithiken Naru
Class:      Sorcerer
Race:       High Elf
Size:       Medium
Gender:     Male
Alignment:  Neutral Good    

Str: 10 +0  (2p.)     Level:    5     XP: 10000
Dex: 18 +4 (10p.)     BAB:     +2     HP: 19
Con: 12 +1  (6p.)     Grapple: +2
Int: 10 +0  (2p.)     Speed:   30'
Wis: 12 +1  (4p.)     Init:    +8
Cha: 17 +3 (10p.)

                      Base  Armor  Shield  Dex  Size  Misc
Armor: 22              10     +4     +4     +4   +0    --
Touch: 18
Flat:  18

                      Base  Mod  Misc
Fort: +2               +1    +1   --
Ref:  +5               +1    +4   --
Will: +5               +4    +1   --

Weapon                Attack  Damage  Critical
Rapier                 +2     1d6       18-20
Shortbow               +6     1d6       x3

Languages: Common, Elf

Abilities:
Immunity to magical sleep
Low-light vision
+2 racial bonus to Listen, Spot, and Search checks
+2 racial bonus to Enchantment Saves
Proficiency with longsword, rapier, longbow, shortbow

Feats: Alertness, Improved Initiative

Skill Points: 16      Max Ranks: 8/4

Skills:               Ranks  Mod  Misc
Appraise +3             0     +0   +3  (familiar)
Balance +4              0     +4
Bluff +3                0     +3
Climb +0                0     +0
Concentration +9        8     +1
Diplomacy +3            0     +3
Disguise +3             0     +3
Escape Artist +4        0     +4
Forgery +0              0     +0
Gather Information +3   0     +3
Heal +1                 0     +1
Hide +4                 0     +4
Intimidate +4           0     +4
Jump +0                 0     +0
Listen +5               0     +1   +4  (feat/elf)
Move Silently +4        0     +4
Ride +4                 0     +4
Search +2               0     +0   +2
Sense Motive +1         0     +1
Sleight of Hand +4      0     +4
Spellcraft +8           8     +0
Spot +5                 0     +1   +4  (feat/elf)
Survival +1             0     +1
Swim +0                 0     +0
Tumble +4               0     +4
Use Rope +4             0     +4

Spells Known:
0th (6) - Daze, Disrupt Undead, Detect Magic, Mage Hand, Open/Close, Read Magic 
1st (4) - Floating Disk, Magic Missile, Shield, Bigby's Tripping Hand
2nd (2) - Invisibility, Bigby's Warding Hand

Spells Per Day: 0th (6) / 1st (7) / 2nd (5)
[Spells Remaining: 6/7/5]

Bigby's Tripping Hand: Medium range / Reflex save negates / Force spell
Trip attack causing no AoO
Attack bonus: +11 (caster level + CHA modifier + 2 for STR of hand [14] + 1 / 3 caster levels)

Bigby's Warding Hand: Medium range / 1 round per level duration [5] / Force spell
Target makes a STR check vs DC 15 each round (Base 12 + CHA modifier)
Failure: target moves at half-speed, new check made each round

Familiar: Yernn
Raven familiar
+3 to Appraise checks
Speaks Elvish

Equipment:                       Cost
Bedroll                           1sp     
Belt Pouches (2)                  2gp    
Flint & Steel                     1gp     
Lantern, Hooded                   7gp     
Oil (3)                           3sp     
Rations (4 days)                  2gp     
Waterskin                         1gp     
Whetstone                         2cp
Parchment (4)     

Rapier                           20gp  
Shortbow                         30gp  
Arrows (40)                       2gp    

Wand of Mage Armor [44]         750gp
Wand of Magic Missile 3rd [32] 2250gp
Handy Haversack                2000gp
Potion of Cure Mod x1           600gp
Potion of Blur                  300gp
Brooch Of Shielding

Appearance:

History:

It is never easy to gain an audience to the wizard Bigby… even less so to study underneath him. It requires extreme patience and diligence to finally work your way into his good graces, and your skills at tapping and using the eldritch force is of the highest priority. All of the archmage’s “hand” spells make use of eldritch force, and he demands that his students be proficient in it too. Ithiken has been studying and using that force since his birth, his sorcerous abilities coming to him almost from the crib. As part of a family of arcane casters… his parents knew that he had to nurture his magical abilities from the earliest point, and thus Ithiken was “floating” on magical force even before he knew how to walk.

He grew up sheltered, being the youngest of eight children… but he was never without a helping hand when he had problems with his arcane studies. Throughout his childhood and early years his progression was remarkable, and as he approached young adulthood, his reputation preceded him and several less known wizards inquired about his interest in becoming an apprentice. Ithiken certainly considered all of his options, but determined for himself that with his particular speciality in the arcane arts… only the wizard Bigby would truly be able to open up the world of being a force-caster to him.

Of course… it is certainly a lucky thing that Ithiken is a long-living elf… because he was not accepted immediately. Quite the contrary, he had to wait twenty-five years until he was finally taken in by the aging wizard to begin his advanced studies. But throughout that entire time he never gave up hope, and the day he was finally let into Bigby’s study was the greatest day of his life.

It is now several years later and the intensive training is over and done. Ithiken now acts as a liason to the wizard Bigby, and puts his arcane focus to a practical use… going out and performing whatever services the wizard needs him to do. He currently finds himself in the village of Hommlet as the newest representative of the Circle of Eight.

Strahd_Von_Zarovich · 24th March 2007, 07:20 PM

s@squ@tch · 20th July 2007, 06:54 AM

Lenuran of Lortmills

Background

Growing up in the gnomish community of Lortmills, Lenuran seemed to spend all of his free time with a book in his hand. He was fascinated by the power of the written word and as soon as he finished one book, he begged his family to supply him with another. Soon he was borrowing books from everyone in the village and when he encountered a writing that he did not understand; he did not rest until that too had been mastered. His family still held high hopes for him, as it seemed that even with his obsession with books there was nothing in the gnomish culture that he was not partially good at doing. On the eve of his fortieth birthday, he surprised those gathered at his surprise party by having his sister tell everyone there that he had “stepped out” for a short walk and would be back soon. This short walk took him nearly the span of the northern regions of Oerth and forty years to finish.

When he returned to Lortmills, Lenuran’s brown hair was prematurely streaked with gray and he carried himself with an ease that instantly earned him coy smiles by many of the gnomish women, both married and single. From a comfortable seat in the inn over the course of the next three months, Lenuran told of the fierce battle he had witnessed between the glacier dwarves to the far North and the wicked frost giant who sought to enslave their village. He spoke of his time aboard a privateer vessel where he earned his keep by tracking the stars to keep them on course and of the wonders of the open sea. His tales of living with the noble wood elves in their secluded tree homes drew skeptical looks from his relatives until he showed them the fine elvish mesh shirt and nearly weightless shield they had given him when they parted ways.

Everyone assumed that Lenuran’s wandering days were behind him and that like a respectable gnome he would settle down and take a wife, but the one story that Lenuran had not told his family was that his fate no longer was his to control as it was bound to a legend he was chasing.

Twenty years ago, Lenuran apprenticed to the Royal Scribe and was given the task of making sense of the fragmented documents concerning a place known as the Temple of Evil. The details were vague, but Lenuran was able to gather that a small band of strangers had stormed the temple and disrupted a great evil there, but shortly afterwards they all seemed to vanish into thin air.

Jotting down the few notes on who they were, Lenuran began tracking the legendary people down to find out what truly happened, but despite his best effort, his search brought only dead ends upon dead ends.

Returning to Lenuran to rest and weigh the options before him, he received a letter from the Court telling him of the need for another gathering to venture to the Temple once more. As he was still in service to the Crown, albeit on an extended leave of absence from his Scribe duties, Lenuran packed his bag quickly and disappeared into the night once more.

Appearance and Personality