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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 640" data-attributes="member: 63"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>Break Period One:</strong></span></p><p></p><p>If you haven't stopped reading yet, please take a break now and get something to eat or drink, do ten sit-ups, and wait at least an hour before coming back.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Storytelling Notes:</strong></p><p>Welcome back. People who also read Sagiro's Storyhour might have noticed the familiar name Dranko Coaltongue. Originally in my world, I had just a generic 'Orc King,' but recently I decided to fit Lord Coaltongue into my world. It's a long story, and it's not directly related to this story in any way. Well, almost none. Okay, more than you'd think, but you won't recognize them now. So it's a long story. Wanna hear it?</p><p></p><p>We paused from gaming last August when all of us went off to college (except Bhurisrava's player, who was a year behind us in High School). Anyway, I went to Emory University in Atlanta, where I got a new group of players. I decided to try something new, so I set the game 3000 years in the past of my current game world, figuring that it would force me to flesh out my current game. </p><p></p><p>The party in Atlanta consisted of:</p><p></p><p><strong>Deorn Stormrunner</strong>, warrior-priest of the sea god Marlin, a big guy fond of a drink and armed with a great falchion. He stands a sturdy 6' tall, and he pledges his weapon to any cause he feels is just, trusting that Marlin will guide him. He is the last of his family, and his family was the last of the followers of Marlin. Christianity has recently come into conflict with the old religions, leaving Deorn with a quest no one may want to accept.</p><p></p><p><strong>Stanely Deadtree</strong>, a man whose family was saved by chickens one day, whose life was changed when he saw a vision of what he claims was Zorok, the Three-Headed Chicken God of Everything. Stanely was none-too-bright, but he had a knack for learning fighting styles, and once he saw a group of Taranesti Elves fighting with two weapons. Thus, Stanely is a master warrior, standing about 6'4" and with the brain of chicken, but armed with a brutal longsword-shortsword combo.</p><p></p><p><strong>Aurana Kiirodel</strong>, an Elvish wizardress from Ycengled Phuurst, the last forest inhabited by Elves. Aurana is a Shahalesti, or 'Light' Elf, but she doesn't hold the same bitterness for humans or for the Taranesti, or 'Dark' Elves. Over the past few hundred years the various human kingdoms have driven the Elves out of their old woodlands and into Ycengled, driving together both the Light and Dark Elves, two races which less than a millenium ago had all but ruled the world. Aurana is a classic Elvish beauty, frail, with long black hair, pale skin, and amber eyes.</p><p></p><p><strong>Malek Valri</strong>, a human from the town of Ventnor, just outside the borders of Ycengled Phuurst. Malek was raised in a middle-class merchant family, and has his own store, but when he was younger he became infatuated with robbery. He saw a robber break into their house, and instead of waking everyone up, he followed the thief back to his hide-out. The guildmaster caught the teenage spy, but decided to train him instead of killing him. Thus, every few nights Malek goes out and steals from the people who steal from his shop, just to keep his talents sharp.</p><p></p><p><strong>Pinchook Magook</strong>, a gnomish Druid from the Jispen caravans. Pinchook travels extensively, and is currently stopped in Ventnor, buying supplies for a few months. She has two pet ferrets and pet wolf who protect her cute, smiling face.</p><p></p><p><strong>Rhuarc</strong>, a half-human, half-Taranesti Elvish scout who works often for locals in and around Ventnor. He's not much liked, and has a reputation as a loner with a sour disposition. The rumor is that his father was a knight named Galad, who was seduced by a Dark Elvish sorceress. Galad's fellow knights tried to free him from the charm, but the seductress magically forced him to fight, and Galad died in the battle. Soon thereafter the Dark Elf summoned a demon to kill the other knights, but the fiend claimed her soul as payment. Rhuarc grew up as a waif and later a thief, eventually becoming a tracker who prefers to have nothing to do with either humans or Elves.</p><p></p><p>It is approximately one hundred years after the birth of the Messiah, seventy years after his death. In Ventnor, the local church was burgularized the night before, and mysteriously the only thing taken were the crosses. Every one of nearly 300 crosses were stolen in the middle of the night, from wooden crosses on the side of pews, to candle-holders used to read by at night, to the elaborate silver cross in the pastor's room.</p><p></p><p>One of the church's priests, an Elf named Nicolai, hires local experts to help him track down the thieves and return the crosses to the church. He hires Stanely and Deorn as muscle, Rhuarc as a tracker. He also asked his friend Aurana, who was visiting him, to come along as a favor, just for safety's sake. Local shopkeeper Malek Valri volunteered his help, confessing privately that he has experience in theft. Finally, the pet ferret of a visiting nature priestess was found torn to pieces in the church, apparently by some type of vicious animal. </p><p></p><p><strong>Stop reading here if you ever think I might get around to writing this out in full storyhour format.</strong></p><p></p><p>The party eventually finds out that the crosses were stolen by a group of Taranesti Elves, part of a cult who believes that "a darkness is about to come into the world in the form of the brilliant sun." The Dark Elves believe they have very little time, and so they desperately use the stolen crosses, plus hundreds of other holy symbols, to form a makeshift summoning circle to summon a demon, which they intend to question about the nature of the coming darkness.</p><p></p><p>The demon gets loose and rampages across the countryside, but eventually the party slays it. In the aftermath they learn that the demon-summoning cult of Dark Elves were actually puppets being used by a high ranking Dark Elvish council member. The Light Elves held most of the power, and did not want to go to war with the humans to again expand their realm, so the Dark Elf wanted to have the demon create a fair amount of chaos, cast blame on his fellow Dark Elves, and then incite enough public fervor that a civil war could possibly leave him in charge. </p><p></p><p>The party gets involved in said civil war, but manages to expose the leader before it gets too far, and without its chief instigator the conflict quickly dies off. In backlash, the Light Elves decide to send out peace emmissaries to the nearby human empires, with the PCs accompanying them. All the party members are given gifts in thanks for their service. Deorn receives a tome of knowledge about Marlin, Stanely gets a pair of magical swords (a longsword that is coated with tar, and shortsword that scatters feathers as you swing it), Aurana and Pinchook are inducted into the all-women Order of the Golden Dragon (which is named for Psiana, an old Gold Dragon who defends the Elves), Malek receives Elven Chain and a Cloak of Elvenkind, and Rhuarc is given a gift that was created by his mother before she died--a strange, magical black scimitar.</p><p></p><p>On the trip with the good will caravan, they learn that a group of Orcs started scouring the countryside a few days earlier. Eventually they find out the Orcs are looking for them, and through a series of coincidences they end up getting captured by the leader of one tribe of Orcs, a half-Orc named Dranko Coaltongue. Dranko also captured Trilla, the baby daughter of the Dragon Psiana, and uses her as a hostage to lure out the great Gold. He has gathered a huge congress of Orc chiefs, and plans to prove his strength by slaying a Gold Dragon that has hounded Orckind for centuries.</p><p></p><p>The reason Coaltongue wanted the party is because every creature that was exposed to the fiend the Dark Elves summoned gain strange magical powers. He also knows that enough the baby dragon was nearby when the demon was first summoned, and it has already been heavily tainted. If she is exposed to much more, she'll die. Dranko trusts that Psiana knows this, and he knows that it will draw out the Dragon at the right place and time.</p><p></p><p>The party had to decide. Aurana had the spell to summon a demon, but not one to control it. If they refuse to summon the demon, the Orcs will kill them and hire another mage to cast the spell, but if Aurana does summon it, the young Dragon will die, and Coaltongue (who has already shown himself not to be a nice half-man) will be triumphant. However, they have to make their decision, and it is one that eventually led to the greatest change in the balance of power in the history of the world.</p><p></p><p>What that decision was will have to wait until I have time to do it justice. Give me another five or six months, maybe.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 640, member: 63"] [size=3][b]Break Period One:[/b][/size] If you haven't stopped reading yet, please take a break now and get something to eat or drink, do ten sit-ups, and wait at least an hour before coming back. [b]Storytelling Notes:[/b] Welcome back. People who also read Sagiro's Storyhour might have noticed the familiar name Dranko Coaltongue. Originally in my world, I had just a generic 'Orc King,' but recently I decided to fit Lord Coaltongue into my world. It's a long story, and it's not directly related to this story in any way. Well, almost none. Okay, more than you'd think, but you won't recognize them now. So it's a long story. Wanna hear it? We paused from gaming last August when all of us went off to college (except Bhurisrava's player, who was a year behind us in High School). Anyway, I went to Emory University in Atlanta, where I got a new group of players. I decided to try something new, so I set the game 3000 years in the past of my current game world, figuring that it would force me to flesh out my current game. The party in Atlanta consisted of: [b]Deorn Stormrunner[/b], warrior-priest of the sea god Marlin, a big guy fond of a drink and armed with a great falchion. He stands a sturdy 6' tall, and he pledges his weapon to any cause he feels is just, trusting that Marlin will guide him. He is the last of his family, and his family was the last of the followers of Marlin. Christianity has recently come into conflict with the old religions, leaving Deorn with a quest no one may want to accept. [b]Stanely Deadtree[/b], a man whose family was saved by chickens one day, whose life was changed when he saw a vision of what he claims was Zorok, the Three-Headed Chicken God of Everything. Stanely was none-too-bright, but he had a knack for learning fighting styles, and once he saw a group of Taranesti Elves fighting with two weapons. Thus, Stanely is a master warrior, standing about 6'4" and with the brain of chicken, but armed with a brutal longsword-shortsword combo. [b]Aurana Kiirodel[/b], an Elvish wizardress from Ycengled Phuurst, the last forest inhabited by Elves. Aurana is a Shahalesti, or 'Light' Elf, but she doesn't hold the same bitterness for humans or for the Taranesti, or 'Dark' Elves. Over the past few hundred years the various human kingdoms have driven the Elves out of their old woodlands and into Ycengled, driving together both the Light and Dark Elves, two races which less than a millenium ago had all but ruled the world. Aurana is a classic Elvish beauty, frail, with long black hair, pale skin, and amber eyes. [b]Malek Valri[/b], a human from the town of Ventnor, just outside the borders of Ycengled Phuurst. Malek was raised in a middle-class merchant family, and has his own store, but when he was younger he became infatuated with robbery. He saw a robber break into their house, and instead of waking everyone up, he followed the thief back to his hide-out. The guildmaster caught the teenage spy, but decided to train him instead of killing him. Thus, every few nights Malek goes out and steals from the people who steal from his shop, just to keep his talents sharp. [b]Pinchook Magook[/b], a gnomish Druid from the Jispen caravans. Pinchook travels extensively, and is currently stopped in Ventnor, buying supplies for a few months. She has two pet ferrets and pet wolf who protect her cute, smiling face. [b]Rhuarc[/b], a half-human, half-Taranesti Elvish scout who works often for locals in and around Ventnor. He's not much liked, and has a reputation as a loner with a sour disposition. The rumor is that his father was a knight named Galad, who was seduced by a Dark Elvish sorceress. Galad's fellow knights tried to free him from the charm, but the seductress magically forced him to fight, and Galad died in the battle. Soon thereafter the Dark Elf summoned a demon to kill the other knights, but the fiend claimed her soul as payment. Rhuarc grew up as a waif and later a thief, eventually becoming a tracker who prefers to have nothing to do with either humans or Elves. It is approximately one hundred years after the birth of the Messiah, seventy years after his death. In Ventnor, the local church was burgularized the night before, and mysteriously the only thing taken were the crosses. Every one of nearly 300 crosses were stolen in the middle of the night, from wooden crosses on the side of pews, to candle-holders used to read by at night, to the elaborate silver cross in the pastor's room. One of the church's priests, an Elf named Nicolai, hires local experts to help him track down the thieves and return the crosses to the church. He hires Stanely and Deorn as muscle, Rhuarc as a tracker. He also asked his friend Aurana, who was visiting him, to come along as a favor, just for safety's sake. Local shopkeeper Malek Valri volunteered his help, confessing privately that he has experience in theft. Finally, the pet ferret of a visiting nature priestess was found torn to pieces in the church, apparently by some type of vicious animal. [b]Stop reading here if you ever think I might get around to writing this out in full storyhour format.[/b] The party eventually finds out that the crosses were stolen by a group of Taranesti Elves, part of a cult who believes that "a darkness is about to come into the world in the form of the brilliant sun." The Dark Elves believe they have very little time, and so they desperately use the stolen crosses, plus hundreds of other holy symbols, to form a makeshift summoning circle to summon a demon, which they intend to question about the nature of the coming darkness. The demon gets loose and rampages across the countryside, but eventually the party slays it. In the aftermath they learn that the demon-summoning cult of Dark Elves were actually puppets being used by a high ranking Dark Elvish council member. The Light Elves held most of the power, and did not want to go to war with the humans to again expand their realm, so the Dark Elf wanted to have the demon create a fair amount of chaos, cast blame on his fellow Dark Elves, and then incite enough public fervor that a civil war could possibly leave him in charge. The party gets involved in said civil war, but manages to expose the leader before it gets too far, and without its chief instigator the conflict quickly dies off. In backlash, the Light Elves decide to send out peace emmissaries to the nearby human empires, with the PCs accompanying them. All the party members are given gifts in thanks for their service. Deorn receives a tome of knowledge about Marlin, Stanely gets a pair of magical swords (a longsword that is coated with tar, and shortsword that scatters feathers as you swing it), Aurana and Pinchook are inducted into the all-women Order of the Golden Dragon (which is named for Psiana, an old Gold Dragon who defends the Elves), Malek receives Elven Chain and a Cloak of Elvenkind, and Rhuarc is given a gift that was created by his mother before she died--a strange, magical black scimitar. On the trip with the good will caravan, they learn that a group of Orcs started scouring the countryside a few days earlier. Eventually they find out the Orcs are looking for them, and through a series of coincidences they end up getting captured by the leader of one tribe of Orcs, a half-Orc named Dranko Coaltongue. Dranko also captured Trilla, the baby daughter of the Dragon Psiana, and uses her as a hostage to lure out the great Gold. He has gathered a huge congress of Orc chiefs, and plans to prove his strength by slaying a Gold Dragon that has hounded Orckind for centuries. The reason Coaltongue wanted the party is because every creature that was exposed to the fiend the Dark Elves summoned gain strange magical powers. He also knows that enough the baby dragon was nearby when the demon was first summoned, and it has already been heavily tainted. If she is exposed to much more, she'll die. Dranko trusts that Psiana knows this, and he knows that it will draw out the Dragon at the right place and time. The party had to decide. Aurana had the spell to summon a demon, but not one to control it. If they refuse to summon the demon, the Orcs will kill them and hire another mage to cast the spell, but if Aurana does summon it, the young Dragon will die, and Coaltongue (who has already shown himself not to be a nice half-man) will be triumphant. However, they have to make their decision, and it is one that eventually led to the greatest change in the balance of power in the history of the world. What that decision was will have to wait until I have time to do it justice. Give me another five or six months, maybe. [/QUOTE]
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