Silver Moon
Adventurer
Module 105: “Return of the Rod of the Seven Parts”
(20 Year Anniversary Round Robin Module). Night One, March 24, 2002, Game # 808.
March 27, 1019:
Twelve weeks of character time have passed since the prior game, and Lannon's player has reached his 100th birthday. Narg's player says “He’s a dwarf, isn’t that like being six to a human?”
It is early morning, shortly after dawn, and the vast majority of the party are still sleeping in their beds. Ilma, the winged warrior maiden of Yon (Ukko) appears in the rooms of most characters, wakes them, and instructs them to “Get your things, there is not much time.” She then waves her sword above their heads, and they teleport away.
She next appears at Patrick’s Sculpture Shop in Eldamar City, getting most of the Da’Bears team. As Eric and Ryan are both familiar with who she is they tell the others to comply. Ilma then makes similar visits to the City of Chunming, the Chinese land near the biosphere, the caves of Liebercrantz, and a few other places on the world.
The party find themselves on another plane, which many presume to be the elemental plane of air, as most of what surrounds them is sky and clouds. They are standing on some type of light-blue colored surface, solid enough to stand on but with a spongy feel to it. In addition to Ilma there are a total of forty-one present, including the majority of the members of the Silver Moon and Da’Bears adventuring teams. Also present are several past associates of theirs: the dwarf Duegar, former ship crewmember Toshiro Mitsubishi, the owl Hengeyokai Min-Mae, the falcon Hengeyokai Syrendel, and the human spaceman Ron Luther X5-0135 (last seen twelve years earlier).
Narg turns to Ilma and asks “OK, why are we all here?” Ilma begins “As some of you may recall, a little over a year ago there was a cosmic crisis, where the deities were temporarily separated from their followers by a mystical barrier. The deities were prevented from breaching this barrier to stop the cause of this at its source, so a team of mortals from the Silver Moon were sent to accomplish this task (Module #95, “Grey Gold Finale”). Your team brought with you the powerful artifact, the Rod of the Seven Parts, but it failed to reach the destination with you.”
“Yeah,” states Alton “It blew up, and killed that Bok Choi kid who was holding it.” “But he turned out to have been a spy for Mordenkainen, so I guess that was OK,” comment Cassie. Narg is flabbergasted, saying “What! You guys blew up the Rod!” Blake (the other one present who had also been on that mission) lamely tells Narg “Sorry.”
Ilma interrupts “No, the Rod was not destroyed, you had just been erroneously told that. It was unable to breach the barrier because of its link to the gods.” Cassie ponders “I wonder how my crown got through?” Ilma does not answer.
Ilma continues “Let me read you a brief history of that Artifact.” She draws a scroll from a pocket inside her cloak, and reads "The Wind Dukes of Aaqu are the legendary creators of this artifact. It is said that they constructed the Rod to use in the great battle of Pesh where Chaos and Law contended. There, the Rod was shattered and its parts scattered, but the enchantments on the item were such that nothing could actually destroy it.”
She rolls up the scroll, stating “That was what happened this time as well. When the rod hit the barrier it disassembled, the impact of which killed the boy holding it, and the seven pieces then shot off in different directions to seven different locations on a variety of worlds. That was fine as far as Yon (Ukko) was concerned, as each piece of the rod is powerless without until attached to its adjacent pieces. However, that changed an hour ago.” “An hour ago?” exclaims Lannon.
Ilma continues “Yes, that changed an hour ago, when a high priest of…” The DM then turns to the Co-DM to ask for the evil deities name. The Co-DM exclaims “Oops, I knew I forgot something. How about ‘Her Dread Majesty, Oxnard, Demigoddess of Headcheese and Dish Water!’?” That idea does not fly. “You’ve obviously never been offered Headcheese,” the Co-DM states. He is then handed a copy of Deities and Demigods, thumbing through and eventually choosing Kiputytto, the Goddess of sickness and mother of the plague, of the Finnish Pantheon. It is decided that this deity will work, but that since the name is hard to pronounce, they’ll keep the name Oxnard.
Continuing yet again, “That changed an hour ago, when a high priest of Oxnard, the Finnish Goddess of sickness and mother of the plague, found one of the rod pieces. This priest contacted his deity to find out what it was. We fear that it will now be only a matter of time before they seek to obtain the other pieces of the rod and join them together. I am forbidden from interfering in the affairs of mortals, except for to counter the interference of evil deities, and so am now free to act. I have brought you all together so that you can form six different teams, who I will then send to the locations of the other six pieces of the rod to obtain them.”
Narg says “Listen Ilma, that’s all fine, but it’s still real early in the morning. Do you think that you could maybe send somebody out for Starbucks?” Mojo turns to Narg and says “Of course it’s early in the morning. When the bards write the story you want it to say that it began at dawn. Who wants to hear an epic battle story that begins at tea time.”
The characters then all split up into six separate teams (listed here in the order that they will be played during the next six weeks):
The first team is the one to which Ilma says Ron Luther X5-0135 will be needed, which is then informally dubbed the ‘weirdo team’ with Guy throwing in Alton, followed by the three Henegyokai. Other characters are added, with the final team being comprised of Alton, Dennismore, Ebony, Lono, and Timothy from the Silver Moon, and past associates Min-Mae, Ron Luther and Syrendel.
The second team is comprised of high-level Silver Moon members Isaiah, Kharole, Lannon, Mark, Narg and Serita, plus past associate Duegar. This team being informally dubbed ‘the big guns’.
The third team is comprised of the Da’Bears members Bitsey, Dani, Eric, Ryan and Troyan. Given the presence of Alyssa, Bitsey and Dani the nickname becomes ‘the team with annoying teenage girls’.
The fourth team is comprised of the other high-level Silver Moon members Blip, Blake, Cassie-Andra, Jerry, Kim-Sung, Mojo and Toshiro. This team is informally dubbed ‘the other big guns’.
The fifth team is comprised of the mid-level Silver Moon members Aradyn, Freyland, Fiona, Guice, and Vincenzo. The Da’Bears leader Opal Silversteel decides to accompany this team. No informal nickname is thought up for this team (but we’ll work on it).
The sixth team is comprised of the Da’Bears members of Benedict and Patrick. As Ilma indicates that the assignment for this team would be the most survivable for lower level characters, the newly recruited 2nd level Silver Moon members Ailsheir and Hiroshi choose to also accompany this team. Since several of these are low level characters, and four have never really been played before as PCs they are informally nicknamed ‘the new guys’.
They then divide up party magic. Narg insists that the team with the teenage girls get one of the Rings of Regeneration because “If I let my fiancé's daughter Dani get killed a month before my wedding….well…I don’t want to think the consequences.” The other Ring is kept with the second team. Several of the lower level characters are given various protection devices that the party recently acquired. The three bags of holding are passed out to the second, third and fifth teams. The party prepare to depart. Ilma's suggest that each team spend a few minutes to reacquaint themselves with each other before she whisks them away.
Note - As this Round Robin module involves all PC's I've included this link to another thread that has the character descriptions:
http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=38410
(20 Year Anniversary Round Robin Module). Night One, March 24, 2002, Game # 808.
March 27, 1019:
Twelve weeks of character time have passed since the prior game, and Lannon's player has reached his 100th birthday. Narg's player says “He’s a dwarf, isn’t that like being six to a human?”
It is early morning, shortly after dawn, and the vast majority of the party are still sleeping in their beds. Ilma, the winged warrior maiden of Yon (Ukko) appears in the rooms of most characters, wakes them, and instructs them to “Get your things, there is not much time.” She then waves her sword above their heads, and they teleport away.
She next appears at Patrick’s Sculpture Shop in Eldamar City, getting most of the Da’Bears team. As Eric and Ryan are both familiar with who she is they tell the others to comply. Ilma then makes similar visits to the City of Chunming, the Chinese land near the biosphere, the caves of Liebercrantz, and a few other places on the world.
The party find themselves on another plane, which many presume to be the elemental plane of air, as most of what surrounds them is sky and clouds. They are standing on some type of light-blue colored surface, solid enough to stand on but with a spongy feel to it. In addition to Ilma there are a total of forty-one present, including the majority of the members of the Silver Moon and Da’Bears adventuring teams. Also present are several past associates of theirs: the dwarf Duegar, former ship crewmember Toshiro Mitsubishi, the owl Hengeyokai Min-Mae, the falcon Hengeyokai Syrendel, and the human spaceman Ron Luther X5-0135 (last seen twelve years earlier).
Narg turns to Ilma and asks “OK, why are we all here?” Ilma begins “As some of you may recall, a little over a year ago there was a cosmic crisis, where the deities were temporarily separated from their followers by a mystical barrier. The deities were prevented from breaching this barrier to stop the cause of this at its source, so a team of mortals from the Silver Moon were sent to accomplish this task (Module #95, “Grey Gold Finale”). Your team brought with you the powerful artifact, the Rod of the Seven Parts, but it failed to reach the destination with you.”
“Yeah,” states Alton “It blew up, and killed that Bok Choi kid who was holding it.” “But he turned out to have been a spy for Mordenkainen, so I guess that was OK,” comment Cassie. Narg is flabbergasted, saying “What! You guys blew up the Rod!” Blake (the other one present who had also been on that mission) lamely tells Narg “Sorry.”
Ilma interrupts “No, the Rod was not destroyed, you had just been erroneously told that. It was unable to breach the barrier because of its link to the gods.” Cassie ponders “I wonder how my crown got through?” Ilma does not answer.
Ilma continues “Let me read you a brief history of that Artifact.” She draws a scroll from a pocket inside her cloak, and reads "The Wind Dukes of Aaqu are the legendary creators of this artifact. It is said that they constructed the Rod to use in the great battle of Pesh where Chaos and Law contended. There, the Rod was shattered and its parts scattered, but the enchantments on the item were such that nothing could actually destroy it.”
She rolls up the scroll, stating “That was what happened this time as well. When the rod hit the barrier it disassembled, the impact of which killed the boy holding it, and the seven pieces then shot off in different directions to seven different locations on a variety of worlds. That was fine as far as Yon (Ukko) was concerned, as each piece of the rod is powerless without until attached to its adjacent pieces. However, that changed an hour ago.” “An hour ago?” exclaims Lannon.
Ilma continues “Yes, that changed an hour ago, when a high priest of…” The DM then turns to the Co-DM to ask for the evil deities name. The Co-DM exclaims “Oops, I knew I forgot something. How about ‘Her Dread Majesty, Oxnard, Demigoddess of Headcheese and Dish Water!’?” That idea does not fly. “You’ve obviously never been offered Headcheese,” the Co-DM states. He is then handed a copy of Deities and Demigods, thumbing through and eventually choosing Kiputytto, the Goddess of sickness and mother of the plague, of the Finnish Pantheon. It is decided that this deity will work, but that since the name is hard to pronounce, they’ll keep the name Oxnard.
Continuing yet again, “That changed an hour ago, when a high priest of Oxnard, the Finnish Goddess of sickness and mother of the plague, found one of the rod pieces. This priest contacted his deity to find out what it was. We fear that it will now be only a matter of time before they seek to obtain the other pieces of the rod and join them together. I am forbidden from interfering in the affairs of mortals, except for to counter the interference of evil deities, and so am now free to act. I have brought you all together so that you can form six different teams, who I will then send to the locations of the other six pieces of the rod to obtain them.”
Narg says “Listen Ilma, that’s all fine, but it’s still real early in the morning. Do you think that you could maybe send somebody out for Starbucks?” Mojo turns to Narg and says “Of course it’s early in the morning. When the bards write the story you want it to say that it began at dawn. Who wants to hear an epic battle story that begins at tea time.”
The characters then all split up into six separate teams (listed here in the order that they will be played during the next six weeks):
The first team is the one to which Ilma says Ron Luther X5-0135 will be needed, which is then informally dubbed the ‘weirdo team’ with Guy throwing in Alton, followed by the three Henegyokai. Other characters are added, with the final team being comprised of Alton, Dennismore, Ebony, Lono, and Timothy from the Silver Moon, and past associates Min-Mae, Ron Luther and Syrendel.
The second team is comprised of high-level Silver Moon members Isaiah, Kharole, Lannon, Mark, Narg and Serita, plus past associate Duegar. This team being informally dubbed ‘the big guns’.
The third team is comprised of the Da’Bears members Bitsey, Dani, Eric, Ryan and Troyan. Given the presence of Alyssa, Bitsey and Dani the nickname becomes ‘the team with annoying teenage girls’.
The fourth team is comprised of the other high-level Silver Moon members Blip, Blake, Cassie-Andra, Jerry, Kim-Sung, Mojo and Toshiro. This team is informally dubbed ‘the other big guns’.
The fifth team is comprised of the mid-level Silver Moon members Aradyn, Freyland, Fiona, Guice, and Vincenzo. The Da’Bears leader Opal Silversteel decides to accompany this team. No informal nickname is thought up for this team (but we’ll work on it).
The sixth team is comprised of the Da’Bears members of Benedict and Patrick. As Ilma indicates that the assignment for this team would be the most survivable for lower level characters, the newly recruited 2nd level Silver Moon members Ailsheir and Hiroshi choose to also accompany this team. Since several of these are low level characters, and four have never really been played before as PCs they are informally nicknamed ‘the new guys’.
They then divide up party magic. Narg insists that the team with the teenage girls get one of the Rings of Regeneration because “If I let my fiancé's daughter Dani get killed a month before my wedding….well…I don’t want to think the consequences.” The other Ring is kept with the second team. Several of the lower level characters are given various protection devices that the party recently acquired. The three bags of holding are passed out to the second, third and fifth teams. The party prepare to depart. Ilma's suggest that each team spend a few minutes to reacquaint themselves with each other before she whisks them away.
Note - As this Round Robin module involves all PC's I've included this link to another thread that has the character descriptions:
http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=38410
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