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<blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 4160936" data-attributes="member: 8530"><p><strong>Module 105: “Return of the Rod of the Seven Parts” (20 Year Anniversary Module). Night Four of Nine, April 14, 2002, Game # 811. "Doin' the Time Slide"</strong> </p><p></p><p><u>Cast of Characters </u> </p><p>Bitsey, female half-elf 2nd Edition bard </p><p>Dani, female half-elf fighter/magic-user </p><p>Eric, male elf fighter/cleric </p><p>Ryan, male elf thief </p><p>Troyan, male elf ranger </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 third team is preparing to depart. It is comprised of five members of the Da’Bears team, all of which had also previously adventured with the Silver Moon. As some of them have not adventured together as a team before Ilma's suggest that the team spend a few minutes to reacquaint themselves with each other before they go. After a few minutes of both Bitsey and Dani rambling on, as teenage girls are known to do, Eric looks towards Ilma and says “I’ll get you for this.” </p><p></p><p>Ilma whisks them away, depositing them in a weedy field. The group moves out toward a road running along by some trees, heading in the direction where they hear distant noises. As they walk Dani starts relating some of her knowledge about life, learned from her mentors Silas and Kharole. Eric concludes, “Those two should never have been allowed to influence an impressionable child. He ponders about how her mother would allow that.” Troyan answers “What? You expect good judgement from Vallessa? She’s marrying Narg!” “Good point” Eric answers. </p><p></p><p>Troyan and Eric then get into a debate as to which of them is in command, each deferring to the other. Eric says he doesn’t want the job because he does not get paid enough for the aggravation. Bitsey volunteers, which prompts Troyan to reluctantly accept the position. Eric decides that he should actually be the leader. Troyan objects, until Eric says, “You can be the Assistant Leader.” “Do I get a hat?” Troyan answers. “No!” yells Eric. “I think you should give him a hat?” Dani answers. Bitsey adds “Yeah, with the words Assistant Leader across the top.” The girls then get into a discussion on making this hat. </p><p></p><p>As his first ‘command’ responsibility Eric tells the two girls of the importance of remaining quiet. This causes the two girls to go into a lengthy discussion about how they can be quiet. Eric states “Messenger of Ukko or not, I’ll still get her for this.” “I though it was only Zeus who tried to get all of the females?” Bitsey comments. “That’s not what I meant!” Eric replies. </p><p></p><p>They see a series of cabins ahead of them, and approach. A human woman looks out and tells them “Go away, go away, go away!” “Why?” Eric answers. The woman starts to yell “HELP! HELP!” Other men approach, carrying gardening implements as weapons. Eric tells the others “Don’t attack, be diplomatic.” One human yells out to the elven party “What are you pointy-ears doing around here? Your kind aren’t supposed to be here.” Dani answers “Hey! My father’s a human.” </p><p></p><p>Eric explains to the man how he is a cleric of Zeus. The human does not care, and says that they don’t belong there. Troyan explains that “Ukko is a human deity, and a servant of his brought us here.” The men look like they are about to attack, and Eric suggests to his party that they retreat. </p><p></p><p>They head back in the direction of the woods, soon running into a human druid, who gestures for them to approach. “What is it that you are looking for?” the druid asks. Apprehensively, Bitsey answers “The truth.” “The truth can get you in trouble” the druid replies, introducing himself as Murdock. Bitsey points to Eric, saying “This is Mr. Eric. He is our leader.” Dani adds “And Mr. Troyan is the Assistant Leader, although he still doesn’t have the hat yet.” “We’re working on it,” Bitsey answers. Dani then points to the third elf, saying “And that’s Ryan. Don’t ask him to do anything or you might get blown up.” </p><p></p><p>The Druid comments “You people aren’t from around here are you?” “No,” Eric replies. Murdock says “Well, the humans around these parts don’t like elves.” He explains how elves live far to the west, and that over the centuries there have been disputes between the races over land. He tells them they are in the Oriane Barony. Dani says “Orion? Aren’t Orions those black cookies with white cream in the middle?” “No, those are Moon Pies,” Troyan answers. </p><p></p><p>Murdock leads them to a swamp, where he says he witnessed a magical wand falling onto a rock island in the center, and then disappearing in a time eddy. Dani asks “Are you sure it was a rod and not a spacecraft carrying an infant? I once heard a story about that.” Murdoch explains that there are “Time Eddies” throughout the area of the swamp, and the rod most likely fell into another time. He tells them to go to the hill at the center of the swamp, that being where the rod fell. </p><p></p><p>As they approach the swamp Troyan says that he used to live in one. “And you weren’t afraid of it?” Bitsey asks. “I never said that,” Troyan answers. Eric asks for more information about these ‘time eddies’. Murdock explains that time isn’t a constant in this area, and that the one he saw shortly after the rod landed flashed several times, both before and apparently after the current time. </p><p></p><p>The group begins to wander into the swamp and toward the hill. Dani begins a conversation about the training that she received from her Uncle Silas, about how broadswords are the only type of sword that a real fighter uses. Eric tells her that her Uncle Silas has the brains of a turnip, so not to take anything he says too seriously, adding that both her mother and her mother’s fiancé Narg use longswords. </p><p></p><p>The area has unusual vibrations and place where light is bending, that the party concludes must be a time eddy. They pass through one of these as they proceed. They near the hill, which is essentially a small island in the center of the swamp. They see a bunch of cavemen approaching. “Maybe we should talk to them,” Bitsey says, with Dani adding her thoughts to that idea. Eric, who has now about had it with the teenagers, says “Yeah, I can check to see if they have any openings with their group. It can’t be any worse than this.” </p><p></p><p>The cavemen move closer. With them is a human in more modern clothing. The head caveman grunts out a few syllables, sounding something like "Urg! Krak't blog zuk?". “Og says ‘Who are you and what are you doing here?’” the more modern man asks. Troyan replies with the same question to them, while Dani enthusiastically says “Da’Bears,” and begins to tell about their team until Eric tells her to shut up. Eric explains about looking for the magical stick. The man hasn’t seen it, explaining how he wound up falling through a time eddy, and was adopted by the cavemen. This leads to a side discussion of various movies and television shows about cavemen. </p><p></p><p>The group continues toward the hill, and is attacked by a group of lizardmen, looking for “things to eat.” The party fights back, one taking a bite out of Ryan. The group kills three of the lizardmen, and gets past the remainder by scampering up the hill in a fighting retreat. One of the lizardmen seems to be a cleric, who casts a hold on Dani, Eric and Troyan, which makes the conclusion of the battle problematic for the others. </p><p></p><p>Bitsey enlarges her dog and tells it to go "protect" Dani, so the dog knocks Dani into the mud and stands over her. Ryan gets bit again, and Troyan gets hit, which does not knock him from the hold. Tim fails Troyan’s next three saves as well. The lizardman leader yells, “Time!” and they disappear into the water. The group manages to get away, with Bitsey complaining about the fact they she got drenched with water in the process. </p><p></p><p>They go through yet another time eddy (apparently the one the lizardmen were yelling about), finding themselves in a 20th century world, in a parking lot filled with hundreds of parked cars. They then see a large building ahead, with a sign indicating that a concert is taking place for the band “Out-of-Sync”. The sign also indicates that the concert is sold out. </p><p></p><p>The group chooses to avoid the main entrance, filled with hundreds of screaming teenage girls, and try to get into the building through the staff entrance. Bitsey suggests using the Liebercrantz Group’s old stand-by plan of sneaking in as the bands. “Yeah, that always worked for Mellie,” Troyan comments. Dani passes out her extra musical intruments to the others, a piccolo, flute and clarinet. They are stopped by security guards, who take one look at their attire, and say “The Xena/Hercules Con was last weekend.” </p><p></p><p>Bitsey explains that their clothing are their costumes, as they are part of the entertainment. The security guards don’t buy that for one instant, and won’t let them in, telling them that a group of kids with woodwinds would not be part of the boy-band rock group, and anyhow, where are their security passes? Dani tries to say that they aren’t part of the band, that they were hired for a private performance at a party following the concert, and their manager hasn’t brought them their passes yet, but the guards don’t buy that one either, telling them “Nice try, now get lost kids.” Eric tries to pick up and carry in some equipment, also without success. Troyan suggests just killing the guards, but the others veto that idea. </p><p></p><p>The group retreats, and discusses alternative ways to get in. Only then does Ryan speak up (!) and remind the group that they have a bag of holding. Bitsey then points out that she can cast an invisibility spell. The others get into the bag of holding, and she invisibly gets into the building, past the guards. Wandering around backstage, she tries to figure out where a rod would have wound up at a concert. She checks the drums, and sure enough it is mixed in with a bunch of extra drumsticks in a pocket hanging from one of the drums. However, the drummer is right there, checking the setup of his kit. She waits until he is distracted by one of the workers, then she takes the rod, and exits the building, returning to the parking lot with the others. </p><p></p><p>They travel back through the time eddy, winding up in a field with the hill behind them. Moving toward them are a couple of tanks. “What are those things?” Dani asks. Troyan says “Like Alton’s jeep, only bigger.” The tanks begin firing at our group (fortunately, they have bad aim) and then a figure standing in a hatch in one of the tanks points his finger at the group, and something hurts Eric. Thaty person then yells in pain and shouts at someone inside the tank, "Why didn't you figure out how to use this thing?" Dani tries shooting an arrow, but it just bounces harmlessly off a tank. The group decides that this is too dangerous to stick around. They scream for Ilma, who arrives and pops them out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silver Moon, post: 4160936, member: 8530"] [B]Module 105: “Return of the Rod of the Seven Parts” (20 Year Anniversary Module). Night Four of Nine, April 14, 2002, Game # 811. "Doin' the Time Slide"[/B] [U]Cast of Characters [/U] Bitsey, female half-elf 2nd Edition bard Dani, female half-elf fighter/magic-user Eric, male elf fighter/cleric Ryan, male elf thief Troyan, male elf ranger 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 third team is preparing to depart. It is comprised of five members of the Da’Bears team, all of which had also previously adventured with the Silver Moon. As some of them have not adventured together as a team before Ilma's suggest that the team spend a few minutes to reacquaint themselves with each other before they go. After a few minutes of both Bitsey and Dani rambling on, as teenage girls are known to do, Eric looks towards Ilma and says “I’ll get you for this.” Ilma whisks them away, depositing them in a weedy field. The group moves out toward a road running along by some trees, heading in the direction where they hear distant noises. As they walk Dani starts relating some of her knowledge about life, learned from her mentors Silas and Kharole. Eric concludes, “Those two should never have been allowed to influence an impressionable child. He ponders about how her mother would allow that.” Troyan answers “What? You expect good judgement from Vallessa? She’s marrying Narg!” “Good point” Eric answers. Troyan and Eric then get into a debate as to which of them is in command, each deferring to the other. Eric says he doesn’t want the job because he does not get paid enough for the aggravation. Bitsey volunteers, which prompts Troyan to reluctantly accept the position. Eric decides that he should actually be the leader. Troyan objects, until Eric says, “You can be the Assistant Leader.” “Do I get a hat?” Troyan answers. “No!” yells Eric. “I think you should give him a hat?” Dani answers. Bitsey adds “Yeah, with the words Assistant Leader across the top.” The girls then get into a discussion on making this hat. As his first ‘command’ responsibility Eric tells the two girls of the importance of remaining quiet. This causes the two girls to go into a lengthy discussion about how they can be quiet. Eric states “Messenger of Ukko or not, I’ll still get her for this.” “I though it was only Zeus who tried to get all of the females?” Bitsey comments. “That’s not what I meant!” Eric replies. They see a series of cabins ahead of them, and approach. A human woman looks out and tells them “Go away, go away, go away!” “Why?” Eric answers. The woman starts to yell “HELP! HELP!” Other men approach, carrying gardening implements as weapons. Eric tells the others “Don’t attack, be diplomatic.” One human yells out to the elven party “What are you pointy-ears doing around here? Your kind aren’t supposed to be here.” Dani answers “Hey! My father’s a human.” Eric explains to the man how he is a cleric of Zeus. The human does not care, and says that they don’t belong there. Troyan explains that “Ukko is a human deity, and a servant of his brought us here.” The men look like they are about to attack, and Eric suggests to his party that they retreat. They head back in the direction of the woods, soon running into a human druid, who gestures for them to approach. “What is it that you are looking for?” the druid asks. Apprehensively, Bitsey answers “The truth.” “The truth can get you in trouble” the druid replies, introducing himself as Murdock. Bitsey points to Eric, saying “This is Mr. Eric. He is our leader.” Dani adds “And Mr. Troyan is the Assistant Leader, although he still doesn’t have the hat yet.” “We’re working on it,” Bitsey answers. Dani then points to the third elf, saying “And that’s Ryan. Don’t ask him to do anything or you might get blown up.” The Druid comments “You people aren’t from around here are you?” “No,” Eric replies. Murdock says “Well, the humans around these parts don’t like elves.” He explains how elves live far to the west, and that over the centuries there have been disputes between the races over land. He tells them they are in the Oriane Barony. Dani says “Orion? Aren’t Orions those black cookies with white cream in the middle?” “No, those are Moon Pies,” Troyan answers. Murdock leads them to a swamp, where he says he witnessed a magical wand falling onto a rock island in the center, and then disappearing in a time eddy. Dani asks “Are you sure it was a rod and not a spacecraft carrying an infant? I once heard a story about that.” Murdoch explains that there are “Time Eddies” throughout the area of the swamp, and the rod most likely fell into another time. He tells them to go to the hill at the center of the swamp, that being where the rod fell. As they approach the swamp Troyan says that he used to live in one. “And you weren’t afraid of it?” Bitsey asks. “I never said that,” Troyan answers. Eric asks for more information about these ‘time eddies’. Murdock explains that time isn’t a constant in this area, and that the one he saw shortly after the rod landed flashed several times, both before and apparently after the current time. The group begins to wander into the swamp and toward the hill. Dani begins a conversation about the training that she received from her Uncle Silas, about how broadswords are the only type of sword that a real fighter uses. Eric tells her that her Uncle Silas has the brains of a turnip, so not to take anything he says too seriously, adding that both her mother and her mother’s fiancé Narg use longswords. The area has unusual vibrations and place where light is bending, that the party concludes must be a time eddy. They pass through one of these as they proceed. They near the hill, which is essentially a small island in the center of the swamp. They see a bunch of cavemen approaching. “Maybe we should talk to them,” Bitsey says, with Dani adding her thoughts to that idea. Eric, who has now about had it with the teenagers, says “Yeah, I can check to see if they have any openings with their group. It can’t be any worse than this.” The cavemen move closer. With them is a human in more modern clothing. The head caveman grunts out a few syllables, sounding something like "Urg! Krak't blog zuk?". “Og says ‘Who are you and what are you doing here?’” the more modern man asks. Troyan replies with the same question to them, while Dani enthusiastically says “Da’Bears,” and begins to tell about their team until Eric tells her to shut up. Eric explains about looking for the magical stick. The man hasn’t seen it, explaining how he wound up falling through a time eddy, and was adopted by the cavemen. This leads to a side discussion of various movies and television shows about cavemen. The group continues toward the hill, and is attacked by a group of lizardmen, looking for “things to eat.” The party fights back, one taking a bite out of Ryan. The group kills three of the lizardmen, and gets past the remainder by scampering up the hill in a fighting retreat. One of the lizardmen seems to be a cleric, who casts a hold on Dani, Eric and Troyan, which makes the conclusion of the battle problematic for the others. Bitsey enlarges her dog and tells it to go "protect" Dani, so the dog knocks Dani into the mud and stands over her. Ryan gets bit again, and Troyan gets hit, which does not knock him from the hold. Tim fails Troyan’s next three saves as well. The lizardman leader yells, “Time!” and they disappear into the water. The group manages to get away, with Bitsey complaining about the fact they she got drenched with water in the process. They go through yet another time eddy (apparently the one the lizardmen were yelling about), finding themselves in a 20th century world, in a parking lot filled with hundreds of parked cars. They then see a large building ahead, with a sign indicating that a concert is taking place for the band “Out-of-Sync”. The sign also indicates that the concert is sold out. The group chooses to avoid the main entrance, filled with hundreds of screaming teenage girls, and try to get into the building through the staff entrance. Bitsey suggests using the Liebercrantz Group’s old stand-by plan of sneaking in as the bands. “Yeah, that always worked for Mellie,” Troyan comments. Dani passes out her extra musical intruments to the others, a piccolo, flute and clarinet. They are stopped by security guards, who take one look at their attire, and say “The Xena/Hercules Con was last weekend.” Bitsey explains that their clothing are their costumes, as they are part of the entertainment. The security guards don’t buy that for one instant, and won’t let them in, telling them that a group of kids with woodwinds would not be part of the boy-band rock group, and anyhow, where are their security passes? Dani tries to say that they aren’t part of the band, that they were hired for a private performance at a party following the concert, and their manager hasn’t brought them their passes yet, but the guards don’t buy that one either, telling them “Nice try, now get lost kids.” Eric tries to pick up and carry in some equipment, also without success. Troyan suggests just killing the guards, but the others veto that idea. The group retreats, and discusses alternative ways to get in. Only then does Ryan speak up (!) and remind the group that they have a bag of holding. Bitsey then points out that she can cast an invisibility spell. The others get into the bag of holding, and she invisibly gets into the building, past the guards. Wandering around backstage, she tries to figure out where a rod would have wound up at a concert. She checks the drums, and sure enough it is mixed in with a bunch of extra drumsticks in a pocket hanging from one of the drums. However, the drummer is right there, checking the setup of his kit. She waits until he is distracted by one of the workers, then she takes the rod, and exits the building, returning to the parking lot with the others. They travel back through the time eddy, winding up in a field with the hill behind them. Moving toward them are a couple of tanks. “What are those things?” Dani asks. Troyan says “Like Alton’s jeep, only bigger.” The tanks begin firing at our group (fortunately, they have bad aim) and then a figure standing in a hatch in one of the tanks points his finger at the group, and something hurts Eric. Thaty person then yells in pain and shouts at someone inside the tank, "Why didn't you figure out how to use this thing?" Dani tries shooting an arrow, but it just bounces harmlessly off a tank. The group decides that this is too dangerous to stick around. They scream for Ilma, who arrives and pops them out. [/QUOTE]
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