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<blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 4141809" data-attributes="member: 8530"><p><strong>Module 105: “Return of the Rod of the Seven Parts” (20 Year Anniversary Module). Night Three of Elven, April 7, 2002, Game # 810. </strong> </p><p></p><p><u>Cast of Characters</u></p><p>Duegar, male dwarf fighter </p><p>Isaiah, male human cleric </p><p>Kharole, female elf magic-user </p><p>Lannon, male dwarf thief </p><p>Mark, male half-elf ranger </p><p>Serita, female half-elf druid </p><p>Shamus O’Doggerel, male human fighter </p><p></p><p></p><p>March 27, 1019:</p><p></p><p>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. </p><p></p><p>The second team is preparing to depart. As it is comprised of high-level Silver Moon members the team is informally dubbed ‘the big guns.’ As some of them have not adventured together before Ilma's suggest that the team spend a few minutes to reacquaint themselves with each other before she whisks them away. </p><p></p><p>Most of the characters know each other, but Duegar and Isaiah had not met before. Duegar gives him a brief explanation, stating that he is from the Dwarven Clan of the Pickled Herring. Isaiah begins a long-winded explanation of who he is. After about five minutes Duegar pulls a cinnamon bun out of his backpack and shoves it into Isaiah’s mouth. </p><p></p><p>Serita begins to harass Ilma, who decides to transport them all to their destination in order to shut her up. They arrive in an open plain, with hills and mountains in the distance. Serita continues to press Ilma for details about the rod, and its current location. Ilma is unspecific in her answers and Serita sarcastically yelling “You’re a big bloody help!” </p><p></p><p>“What should we do now?” Mark inquires. Duegar asks “Can you get us breakfast?” She ignores him, and he walks over to her and tugs on one of her wings, saying “Hey, I was asking about breakfast.” She yells at him “Don’t touch the wings, you dirty little man,” and waves her fingers at him. He and all of his possession instantly become clean and spotless, with a shiny gleam coming off of all metallic objects. He screams, yelling “Nobody does something like that to one of the Clan of the Pickled Herring.” She replies “Keep it up, and I’ll bring your fish back to life. Look, I don’t have time for this, I still have other groups to transport.”</p><p></p><p>“OK, where exactly are we?” Isaiah asks. She replies “On the continent to your west, not far from the Lieberkrantz group, but thirty-seven years back in time.” “WHAT!, exactly what is this you’ve committed us for!” Serita yells. Isaiah says “Ignore her, Ilma, we trust you.” Serita yells “This stupid blind faithful idiot doesn’t speak for me.” Ilma says “The rod piece you are looking for is nearby, at an evil temple that is still being constructed. There is a man nearby who will assist you.” Duegar continues to harass Ilma, so she follows through on her threat, bringing his fish back to life and also allowing it to breathe air. She then departs.</p><p></p><p>Duegar complains about still needed breakfast, and begins to dump and pull a variety of breakfast foods out of his pack. As some of it looks very similar to food they saw him stuff in there five months earlier they decide to pass. They then notice that with Ilma’s ‘cleanliness’ spell on him the stale and moldy food suddenly becomes fresh again as he touches it. Despite this, since he has still touched it, they opt to pass. </p><p></p><p>A man approaches, introducing himself as Shamus O’Doggerel. “How do you do, Mr. O’Doggerel” Isaiah states. “Call me Shamus,” the man replies in a thick Irish accent. “And how did you come to be here?” Serita asks. He tells of an angel that appeared before him, which the group interprets as Ilma. He says that he has seen this temple being constructed from a distance, and can lead them in that direction. </p><p></p><p>Duegar continues to complain about his “Curse of Cleanliness”, saying that it was totally unnecessary, as he had a bath just half-a-year earlier. Lannon replies “I know, I bathed with you” (at the Mitsubishi family guest pool). “I dinna think I wan’a hear bout that” states Shamus. “Are you sure you want to admit to having done anything with him?” Serita asks Lannon. Upon reflection, Lannon says “OK, I can neither confirm or deny it.” </p><p></p><p>They asks Shamus about where he is from. He mentions coming from a far away land, where everyone was dirt poor, and how he is in no big hurry to get back there. He mentions having spent some time with a group of adventurers who lived in a strange teleporting castle, but how very little time was spent on adventures with most of their time just being getting drunk. Biz, who had played in the same D&D variant system group where Tim played Shamus, asks if the reference made was about the characters or the players. “Both,” Tim replies. </p><p></p><p>They ask Shamus what he knows about the temple. His information is very spotty, but he thinks that they have something to do with worshipping an evil horned devil. He says that the temple radiates evil, which Isaiah begins to sense as they get closer. Shamus says that the Rod piece that they are looking for fell out of the sky and crashed through the roof of the structure. </p><p></p><p>They decide to try the direct approach, soon running into a few orcs. Lannon tells the orcs “My name is Lannon, you killed my clan, prepare to die.” The orc leader just looks indifferently towards him, and replies “No conversions tonight. Come back tomorrow.” The homicidal dwarf charges into the orc, slaying it. The orcs run away, with Lannon yelling after them “Come back here, you’re not dead yet.” The orcs charge towards others, yelling “The coverts are attacking.” Lannon rapidly pursues, charging into them with a vengeance. One of the players comments that “Should we hold up the 1-800 number to let people know where to order the Dwarf-O-Matic”. </p><p></p><p>Duegar chooses to join Lannon in the carnage, and wanders into the fray, yelling to the dwarves that “For you this will be a death worse than fate.” The party notices that none of the blood and guts flying from Duegar’s weapons attach to his spotless armor and person. One orc yells out “Stop, this is my first day.” “And your last day,” Lannon adds, cleaving it in two. The battle ends, and the rest of the party approach the two dwarves. They conclude that the orcs were part of the castle construction detail. They can now get a closer look at the structure, which is massive, and close to completion. </p><p></p><p>Serita contemplates changing into a bird and flying inside the building to look for it. Shamus asks “What exactly are you trying to do?” She answers “Trying to get myself a rod.” Lannon mutters to Mark “Yeah, Kindor’s”. Serita replies “I’m working on that too.” They see a large contingent of orcs leaving the building, the work day having apparently ended. </p><p></p><p>Duegar gets impatient, and heads towards the building on his own, climbing up some of the scaffolding. Serita charges after him, telling him to be careful and wait for them. “Why should I?” he answers. “Consider it the voice of reason.” she answers. “Awfully high pitched voice to be that,” he replies. She says that he’ll get himself killed. He replies “Maybe not with this curse on me, only I can’t get bloody.” She replies “But you can still die. It would just be a clean death.”</p><p></p><p>She suggest he get into the Bag of Holding, and she will go get the stick. He says he’ll continue on his own. The others get into the bag, and it is given to Lannon to use his Boots of Spider Climbing to get the others up onto the structure, and find the hole where the rod fell through. </p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, Duegar is stopped by a workman, who asks “What are you doing” He replies “Looking for mortar cracks.” “Who’s your supervisor?” the workman asks. “I don’t know his name, he mumbled it.” the dwarf answers. “What did he look like?” the man asks. Duegar replies “Big, green, bad breath.” “Oh, Ed,” the guy answers. “So what are you doing now?” the workman asks. “Cleaning this,” answers Duegar, putting his ‘Curse of Cleanliness’ to use by rubbing a rusty piece of metal, which then becomes shiny. Kris declares “He’s Brasso”.</p><p></p><p>The workman orders him to go get his supervisor. Duegar goes to investigate other areas, but Serita catches up to him and convinces him to return. Serita decides to ask a squirrel for more information, which Tim gets far too much enjoyment out of, answering all questions from the perspective of a nervous squirrel who is interested in finding food.</p><p></p><p>It becomes quitting time at the temple, and the remaining workmen all leave. Since the place appears deserted the party decides to try the direct approach, and go through the main door. As they approach the door swings open and a voice commands them to “Come In.” The group debates entering. They enter, with Lannon declaring “We’re from the Silver Moon. The only way to make us go away is to give us what we want.” </p><p></p><p>Inside is a being known as Dark Lieberkrantz, a being that of all Silver Moon members present only Isaiah has any knowledge of (and even that is rather vague and inaccurate). Isaiah mentions to the others “I think that he’s basically the evil twin of the guy who founded the Lieberkrantz Caves.”</p><p></p><p>The villain asks them “How far in the future are you from?” Lannon answers “That would be telling.” “That’s why I asked,” the villain replies, “What’s with you adventuring groups? Don’t they make them any smarter in the future?” Duegar yells out “I know all, I follow the Pickled Herring.” Dark Lieberkrantz does not appear very impressed by that statement, telling him “Don’t be impetuous” </p><p></p><p>“We’re not here to fight you, we just came to get the Rod. It is useless to you without the other pieces,” Isaiah states. “This Rod here?” Dark Lieberkrantz asks, holding it. Isaiah casts a Locate Object spell to confirm that this is the real Rod, telling the others that it is. </p><p></p><p>Lannon moves closer, and Dark Lieberkrantz conjures up an Air Elemental to stop him, yelling “Stay back you little Sh**” Serita yells “Leave him alone. He may be a little Sh**, but he’s OUR little Sh**.” Lannon moves back towards the party. </p><p></p><p>Dark Lieberkrantz shakes his head, and mutters “Too many times. I’m tired of this dance.” Kharole says “Hey, nobody came here to dance.” The villain says “You complete the circle again.” “What is he talking about?” Duegar asks. Isaiah interjects “You’re powerful, but we’re good at what we do too.” The villain continues to mutter to himself, barely paying any attention to the members of the Silver Moon, and stating “Yes, yes, we can meet again as before. What does it matter?” He then sets down the rod on the altar before him, and says “Take it. It matters not.” </p><p></p><p>Lannon carefully picks it up, using gloves and a cloth to not touch it directly. The altar then erupts in flames, and the temple begins to crumble. The party makes a hasty exit, with Dark Lieberkrantz yelling after them “Rush to your doom fools…complete the circle. We will just rebuild again, as before.” He then twists himself into a knot and vanishes. Serita comments “Funky weirdness follows us too often.”</p><p></p><p>As the party exits the entire structure erupts in massive flames and collapses. They call for Ilma, but nothing happens. Isaiah suggest that being an evil temple they maybe have to get a distance from it before she can appear. </p><p></p><p>They hurry back to the hillside that they arrived from. Once they are a distance from the structure, when Ilma arrives and whisks them away.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silver Moon, post: 4141809, member: 8530"] [B]Module 105: “Return of the Rod of the Seven Parts” (20 Year Anniversary Module). Night Three of Elven, April 7, 2002, Game # 810. [/B] [U]Cast of Characters[/U] Duegar, male dwarf fighter Isaiah, male human cleric Kharole, female elf magic-user Lannon, male dwarf thief Mark, male half-elf ranger Serita, female half-elf druid Shamus O’Doggerel, male human fighter March 27, 1019: 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. The second team is preparing to depart. As it is comprised of high-level Silver Moon members the team is informally dubbed ‘the big guns.’ As some of them have not adventured together before Ilma's suggest that the team spend a few minutes to reacquaint themselves with each other before she whisks them away. Most of the characters know each other, but Duegar and Isaiah had not met before. Duegar gives him a brief explanation, stating that he is from the Dwarven Clan of the Pickled Herring. Isaiah begins a long-winded explanation of who he is. After about five minutes Duegar pulls a cinnamon bun out of his backpack and shoves it into Isaiah’s mouth. Serita begins to harass Ilma, who decides to transport them all to their destination in order to shut her up. They arrive in an open plain, with hills and mountains in the distance. Serita continues to press Ilma for details about the rod, and its current location. Ilma is unspecific in her answers and Serita sarcastically yelling “You’re a big bloody help!” “What should we do now?” Mark inquires. Duegar asks “Can you get us breakfast?” She ignores him, and he walks over to her and tugs on one of her wings, saying “Hey, I was asking about breakfast.” She yells at him “Don’t touch the wings, you dirty little man,” and waves her fingers at him. He and all of his possession instantly become clean and spotless, with a shiny gleam coming off of all metallic objects. He screams, yelling “Nobody does something like that to one of the Clan of the Pickled Herring.” She replies “Keep it up, and I’ll bring your fish back to life. Look, I don’t have time for this, I still have other groups to transport.” “OK, where exactly are we?” Isaiah asks. She replies “On the continent to your west, not far from the Lieberkrantz group, but thirty-seven years back in time.” “WHAT!, exactly what is this you’ve committed us for!” Serita yells. Isaiah says “Ignore her, Ilma, we trust you.” Serita yells “This stupid blind faithful idiot doesn’t speak for me.” Ilma says “The rod piece you are looking for is nearby, at an evil temple that is still being constructed. There is a man nearby who will assist you.” Duegar continues to harass Ilma, so she follows through on her threat, bringing his fish back to life and also allowing it to breathe air. She then departs. Duegar complains about still needed breakfast, and begins to dump and pull a variety of breakfast foods out of his pack. As some of it looks very similar to food they saw him stuff in there five months earlier they decide to pass. They then notice that with Ilma’s ‘cleanliness’ spell on him the stale and moldy food suddenly becomes fresh again as he touches it. Despite this, since he has still touched it, they opt to pass. A man approaches, introducing himself as Shamus O’Doggerel. “How do you do, Mr. O’Doggerel” Isaiah states. “Call me Shamus,” the man replies in a thick Irish accent. “And how did you come to be here?” Serita asks. He tells of an angel that appeared before him, which the group interprets as Ilma. He says that he has seen this temple being constructed from a distance, and can lead them in that direction. Duegar continues to complain about his “Curse of Cleanliness”, saying that it was totally unnecessary, as he had a bath just half-a-year earlier. Lannon replies “I know, I bathed with you” (at the Mitsubishi family guest pool). “I dinna think I wan’a hear bout that” states Shamus. “Are you sure you want to admit to having done anything with him?” Serita asks Lannon. Upon reflection, Lannon says “OK, I can neither confirm or deny it.” They asks Shamus about where he is from. He mentions coming from a far away land, where everyone was dirt poor, and how he is in no big hurry to get back there. He mentions having spent some time with a group of adventurers who lived in a strange teleporting castle, but how very little time was spent on adventures with most of their time just being getting drunk. Biz, who had played in the same D&D variant system group where Tim played Shamus, asks if the reference made was about the characters or the players. “Both,” Tim replies. They ask Shamus what he knows about the temple. His information is very spotty, but he thinks that they have something to do with worshipping an evil horned devil. He says that the temple radiates evil, which Isaiah begins to sense as they get closer. Shamus says that the Rod piece that they are looking for fell out of the sky and crashed through the roof of the structure. They decide to try the direct approach, soon running into a few orcs. Lannon tells the orcs “My name is Lannon, you killed my clan, prepare to die.” The orc leader just looks indifferently towards him, and replies “No conversions tonight. Come back tomorrow.” The homicidal dwarf charges into the orc, slaying it. The orcs run away, with Lannon yelling after them “Come back here, you’re not dead yet.” The orcs charge towards others, yelling “The coverts are attacking.” Lannon rapidly pursues, charging into them with a vengeance. One of the players comments that “Should we hold up the 1-800 number to let people know where to order the Dwarf-O-Matic”. Duegar chooses to join Lannon in the carnage, and wanders into the fray, yelling to the dwarves that “For you this will be a death worse than fate.” The party notices that none of the blood and guts flying from Duegar’s weapons attach to his spotless armor and person. One orc yells out “Stop, this is my first day.” “And your last day,” Lannon adds, cleaving it in two. The battle ends, and the rest of the party approach the two dwarves. They conclude that the orcs were part of the castle construction detail. They can now get a closer look at the structure, which is massive, and close to completion. Serita contemplates changing into a bird and flying inside the building to look for it. Shamus asks “What exactly are you trying to do?” She answers “Trying to get myself a rod.” Lannon mutters to Mark “Yeah, Kindor’s”. Serita replies “I’m working on that too.” They see a large contingent of orcs leaving the building, the work day having apparently ended. Duegar gets impatient, and heads towards the building on his own, climbing up some of the scaffolding. Serita charges after him, telling him to be careful and wait for them. “Why should I?” he answers. “Consider it the voice of reason.” she answers. “Awfully high pitched voice to be that,” he replies. She says that he’ll get himself killed. He replies “Maybe not with this curse on me, only I can’t get bloody.” She replies “But you can still die. It would just be a clean death.” She suggest he get into the Bag of Holding, and she will go get the stick. He says he’ll continue on his own. The others get into the bag, and it is given to Lannon to use his Boots of Spider Climbing to get the others up onto the structure, and find the hole where the rod fell through. Meanwhile, Duegar is stopped by a workman, who asks “What are you doing” He replies “Looking for mortar cracks.” “Who’s your supervisor?” the workman asks. “I don’t know his name, he mumbled it.” the dwarf answers. “What did he look like?” the man asks. Duegar replies “Big, green, bad breath.” “Oh, Ed,” the guy answers. “So what are you doing now?” the workman asks. “Cleaning this,” answers Duegar, putting his ‘Curse of Cleanliness’ to use by rubbing a rusty piece of metal, which then becomes shiny. Kris declares “He’s Brasso”. The workman orders him to go get his supervisor. Duegar goes to investigate other areas, but Serita catches up to him and convinces him to return. Serita decides to ask a squirrel for more information, which Tim gets far too much enjoyment out of, answering all questions from the perspective of a nervous squirrel who is interested in finding food. It becomes quitting time at the temple, and the remaining workmen all leave. Since the place appears deserted the party decides to try the direct approach, and go through the main door. As they approach the door swings open and a voice commands them to “Come In.” The group debates entering. They enter, with Lannon declaring “We’re from the Silver Moon. The only way to make us go away is to give us what we want.” Inside is a being known as Dark Lieberkrantz, a being that of all Silver Moon members present only Isaiah has any knowledge of (and even that is rather vague and inaccurate). Isaiah mentions to the others “I think that he’s basically the evil twin of the guy who founded the Lieberkrantz Caves.” The villain asks them “How far in the future are you from?” Lannon answers “That would be telling.” “That’s why I asked,” the villain replies, “What’s with you adventuring groups? Don’t they make them any smarter in the future?” Duegar yells out “I know all, I follow the Pickled Herring.” Dark Lieberkrantz does not appear very impressed by that statement, telling him “Don’t be impetuous” “We’re not here to fight you, we just came to get the Rod. It is useless to you without the other pieces,” Isaiah states. “This Rod here?” Dark Lieberkrantz asks, holding it. Isaiah casts a Locate Object spell to confirm that this is the real Rod, telling the others that it is. Lannon moves closer, and Dark Lieberkrantz conjures up an Air Elemental to stop him, yelling “Stay back you little Sh**” Serita yells “Leave him alone. He may be a little Sh**, but he’s OUR little Sh**.” Lannon moves back towards the party. Dark Lieberkrantz shakes his head, and mutters “Too many times. I’m tired of this dance.” Kharole says “Hey, nobody came here to dance.” The villain says “You complete the circle again.” “What is he talking about?” Duegar asks. Isaiah interjects “You’re powerful, but we’re good at what we do too.” The villain continues to mutter to himself, barely paying any attention to the members of the Silver Moon, and stating “Yes, yes, we can meet again as before. What does it matter?” He then sets down the rod on the altar before him, and says “Take it. It matters not.” Lannon carefully picks it up, using gloves and a cloth to not touch it directly. The altar then erupts in flames, and the temple begins to crumble. The party makes a hasty exit, with Dark Lieberkrantz yelling after them “Rush to your doom fools…complete the circle. We will just rebuild again, as before.” He then twists himself into a knot and vanishes. Serita comments “Funky weirdness follows us too often.” As the party exits the entire structure erupts in massive flames and collapses. They call for Ilma, but nothing happens. Isaiah suggest that being an evil temple they maybe have to get a distance from it before she can appear. They hurry back to the hillside that they arrived from. Once they are a distance from the structure, when Ilma arrives and whisks them away. [/QUOTE]
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