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<blockquote data-quote="jonrog1" data-source="post: 576413" data-attributes="member: 189"><p><em>(DM’s Note: Just setting up the campaign/world model before we launch in. I think it’s an excellent example of how the Scarred Lands setting is defined enough to give you structure, but loose enough to customize considerably … The following essentially sums up the <strong>Angry Monkey Scarred Lands Campaign</strong>, is for Scarred Lands rabid fans to see the changes, and can certainly be skipped. Jump to the first chapter post.)</em></p><p></p><p>In the previous campaign, the young Mithril bar waitress <strong>Anadale</strong> was discovered to have a rather convoluted heritage. The gleaming city once housed one of the Royal Families of Vesh, destroyed by the Penumbral Lords. That particular point of the city’s past has been generally covered up by the Coreanic Church and the Mithril paladins.</p><p></p><p>The ragtag Royal bloodline continued underground. A conspiracy called <strong> The Third Eye </strong> protected the dwindling family. The Mithril Royals schemed and plotted, angled for allies, and generally behaved like the fringe players they were.</p><p></p><p>Inexplicably, someone considered them a menace. After several attempts on the living heir’s life, the Third Eye sent the girl – infant Anadale – to live in Canterhaven.</p><p></p><p>Canterhaven was a charming little fiefdom hewn by sheer force of will from the lands north of the Hornsaw and south of the mountains. The popular Lord and Lady could produce no issue. Anadale arrived, was claimed as their daughter in order to protect her identity. The Lord was a cousin of the Mithril bloodline, so he took this burden on gladly. Anadale grew up to be a fine young noble, trained in sword and bow, beloved by her people.</p><p></p><p>Then the vampires came.</p><p></p><p>In a horrible twist, Canterhaven found itself overrun not by its own enemies in the Hornsaw but by Anadale’s enemies – enemies she herself was completely unaware of. A Vampire Army took over Canterhaven, slew the Lord of the Manor, the Lady disappeared, and Anadale escaped by the skin of her teeth, riding hard and fast as the only home she’d ever known burned behind her. And, in one of those bizarre twists of fate Enkili so seems to favor, sixteen year-old Anadale fled to the largest but most isolated city she could find on Ghelspad – Mithril.</p><p></p><p>There, while bar-wenching, Anadale met her boon companions during a bar fight: <strong> Roscoe Tosscobble</strong>, a halfling blessed with painful, epileptic visions from Corean; <strong> Jastra</strong>, the blindingly brilliant but emotionally detached elven mage from Vera-Tre; and <strong>Khal Khalandurrin</strong>, the genially homicidal dwarven caver.</p><p></p><p>Over the next few years they: </p><p></p><p>--fought tentacle-spewing prostitutes</p><p>-- defeated priapic drug-crazed priests of Corean</p><p>-- uncovered a conspiracy of decay in Emil Derigesh’s Coreanic church</p><p>--rescued children from a hag’s hut after gobbling down enchanted buckets of filth</p><p></p><p>-- discovered a lost Ubantu temple while fighting off a thousand angry monkeys</p><p>--defeated a Slarecian plot utilizing a Khadum-blood based drug</p><p>--picked up <strong>Rip</strong>, a human planar-displaced duelist from a land called “Virginia”</p><p>-- allied with <strong>Krug</strong>, the half-orc martial artist who’d come to realize the orcs would never triumph over the human forces (“Gruumsch is good. Gruumsch is great. Gruumsch is not handing out fireballs.”)</p><p>-- crossed the Blood Steppes while dodging vampiric hit squads</p><p>-- ended a small civil war fueled by lycanthropes, and nearly died in their mountain-spire lair</p><p>-- founded a small resistance in Canterhaven after curing the psychic ills of a town called Bellhold</p><p>-- defeated a ghost-dragon in his other-dimensional lair</p><p>-- negotiated peace between the lizardfolk of the northern Hornsaw and the humans</p><p>-- traveled back in time to stop the destruction of a demonic temple</p><p>-- explored a lost underground colony wiped out by gorgons</p><p>-- discovered a secret weapon in a town destroyed by the bio-clockwork horrors of a mad mage</p><p>-- and finally – with the aid of a squad of Hollow Knights – struck at the temple of the Vampire Lord of Canterhaven as he attempted to shift the entire kingdom into a realm the Vera-Tre elves called “Ravenloft”.</p><p></p><p>With Canterhaven restored, Anadale returned to Mithril. Roscoe Tosscobble was now plainly a chosen of Corean, almost at the level of Herald. They rooted out the Slarecian corruption in the Coreanic Church, and Derigesh stepped down to allow Roscoe to reluctantly take the lead of the organization. Part of the bargain of covering the whole thing up was Anadale’s ascension to the restored throne of Mithril.</p><p></p><p>The Royal bloodline was restored. Canterhaven was liberated. A trade route stretched across southern Vera-Tre, extending the elves’ healing touch into the blighted lands of the Blood Steppes. The Church of Corean was purified. </p><p></p><p>It was the classic, well-deserved end to an epic campaign by true heroes.</p><p></p><p><em>Next: What Happens to Happy Endings in the Scarred Lands …</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jonrog1, post: 576413, member: 189"] [I](DM’s Note: Just setting up the campaign/world model before we launch in. I think it’s an excellent example of how the Scarred Lands setting is defined enough to give you structure, but loose enough to customize considerably … The following essentially sums up the [b]Angry Monkey Scarred Lands Campaign[/b], is for Scarred Lands rabid fans to see the changes, and can certainly be skipped. Jump to the first chapter post.)[/I] In the previous campaign, the young Mithril bar waitress [b]Anadale[/b] was discovered to have a rather convoluted heritage. The gleaming city once housed one of the Royal Families of Vesh, destroyed by the Penumbral Lords. That particular point of the city’s past has been generally covered up by the Coreanic Church and the Mithril paladins. The ragtag Royal bloodline continued underground. A conspiracy called [b] The Third Eye [/b] protected the dwindling family. The Mithril Royals schemed and plotted, angled for allies, and generally behaved like the fringe players they were. Inexplicably, someone considered them a menace. After several attempts on the living heir’s life, the Third Eye sent the girl – infant Anadale – to live in Canterhaven. Canterhaven was a charming little fiefdom hewn by sheer force of will from the lands north of the Hornsaw and south of the mountains. The popular Lord and Lady could produce no issue. Anadale arrived, was claimed as their daughter in order to protect her identity. The Lord was a cousin of the Mithril bloodline, so he took this burden on gladly. Anadale grew up to be a fine young noble, trained in sword and bow, beloved by her people. Then the vampires came. In a horrible twist, Canterhaven found itself overrun not by its own enemies in the Hornsaw but by Anadale’s enemies – enemies she herself was completely unaware of. A Vampire Army took over Canterhaven, slew the Lord of the Manor, the Lady disappeared, and Anadale escaped by the skin of her teeth, riding hard and fast as the only home she’d ever known burned behind her. And, in one of those bizarre twists of fate Enkili so seems to favor, sixteen year-old Anadale fled to the largest but most isolated city she could find on Ghelspad – Mithril. There, while bar-wenching, Anadale met her boon companions during a bar fight: [b] Roscoe Tosscobble[/b], a halfling blessed with painful, epileptic visions from Corean; [b] Jastra[/b], the blindingly brilliant but emotionally detached elven mage from Vera-Tre; and [b]Khal Khalandurrin[/b], the genially homicidal dwarven caver. Over the next few years they: --fought tentacle-spewing prostitutes -- defeated priapic drug-crazed priests of Corean -- uncovered a conspiracy of decay in Emil Derigesh’s Coreanic church --rescued children from a hag’s hut after gobbling down enchanted buckets of filth -- discovered a lost Ubantu temple while fighting off a thousand angry monkeys --defeated a Slarecian plot utilizing a Khadum-blood based drug --picked up [b]Rip[/b], a human planar-displaced duelist from a land called “Virginia” -- allied with [b]Krug[/b], the half-orc martial artist who’d come to realize the orcs would never triumph over the human forces (“Gruumsch is good. Gruumsch is great. Gruumsch is not handing out fireballs.”) -- crossed the Blood Steppes while dodging vampiric hit squads -- ended a small civil war fueled by lycanthropes, and nearly died in their mountain-spire lair -- founded a small resistance in Canterhaven after curing the psychic ills of a town called Bellhold -- defeated a ghost-dragon in his other-dimensional lair -- negotiated peace between the lizardfolk of the northern Hornsaw and the humans -- traveled back in time to stop the destruction of a demonic temple -- explored a lost underground colony wiped out by gorgons -- discovered a secret weapon in a town destroyed by the bio-clockwork horrors of a mad mage -- and finally – with the aid of a squad of Hollow Knights – struck at the temple of the Vampire Lord of Canterhaven as he attempted to shift the entire kingdom into a realm the Vera-Tre elves called “Ravenloft”. With Canterhaven restored, Anadale returned to Mithril. Roscoe Tosscobble was now plainly a chosen of Corean, almost at the level of Herald. They rooted out the Slarecian corruption in the Coreanic Church, and Derigesh stepped down to allow Roscoe to reluctantly take the lead of the organization. Part of the bargain of covering the whole thing up was Anadale’s ascension to the restored throne of Mithril. The Royal bloodline was restored. Canterhaven was liberated. A trade route stretched across southern Vera-Tre, extending the elves’ healing touch into the blighted lands of the Blood Steppes. The Church of Corean was purified. It was the classic, well-deserved end to an epic campaign by true heroes. [I]Next: What Happens to Happy Endings in the Scarred Lands …[/I] [/QUOTE]
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