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<blockquote data-quote="Tizbiz" data-source="post: 7083406" data-attributes="member: 6874057"><p><span style="color: #0000ff">I was worried how to forge an Eladrin princess and a Deva from Crilisyr into a functional team and was almost annoyed when both players agreed that they would have avoided contact with each other as much as possible.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">I compared the RHC responsibilities and the strong points of the players and came up with the following sidequest.</span></p><p></p><p>Mr. Carlyle reads his favorite high society gossip rag and finds a announcement of a science competition sponsored by the museum of natural history and a Mr. Guy Goodson who is a business partner to his former lord Vantrys. He decides to visit the competition because he has nothing to do on sunday and it might be a notable high society event worth watching.</p><p></p><p>At the same time Auryn Galadin gets a visit by her good friend Nymeia who is a student of biology and botany at the pardwright university. Nymeia is terribly nervous about her thesis being nominated by the museum of natural history´s science competition and Auryn offers her companionship during the presentation.</p><p></p><p>In the sunday morning both players independently visit the science competition and watch the gathering of some philanthropic high society members including the sponsor Guy Goodson and crown prosecutor Starke and his rather indifferent son Tyler Starke. </p><p></p><p>The nominees include Auryns dear human friend Nymea, the half-elf Julia Fymarsö and the young female minotaur Wolmi Heffanita. All the nominees are students of the pardwright university.</p><p></p><p>Auryn Galadin and Gabriel Carlyle meet each other as they observe the gathering and awkward moments pass while they speak about what they do in their free time.</p><p></p><p>They both seem relieved as the museum curator announces the nominees and each of them shows a short presentation of their thesis. Then the committee members announce Wolmi Heffanita as the winner of the competition.</p><p></p><p>During the presentation Auryn observes similarities between her friends Thesis and the one of Julia Fymarsö. She immediately suspects that her friends research data has been stolen and dislikes Julia Fymarsö especially as she has seen her to be very unfriendly to her young attendant girl.</p><p></p><p>Mr. Carlyle senses that the curator is very uneasy when he announces the winner and recalls Mr. Goodson looking for business opportunities in Ber and Wolmi Heffanita being the young niece of the berian ambassador Heffanita in Slate.</p><p></p><p>While they exchange their findings the gathering is disturbed by docker drunkards shouting abuse at the nobles and industrialists and the two RHC constables intervene to diffuse the situation peacefully.</p><p></p><p>The gathering concludes with the winner Wolmi Heffanita announcing that she is going to use the prize money to sponsor an journey to recreate a famous expedition to the border of risur. She invites the other nominees to accompany her on this journey.</p><p></p><p>In the evening Mr. Carlyle retreats to his favorite cigar club and expects to read newspapers at an uneventful gathering of gentlemen. His evening is disturbed by the club sponsoring an elven artist singer event. To his amazement the unearthly beautiful voice belongs to his fellow constable Auryn Galadin who he recognises despite her artistic mask. After the event they share a glas of spirits and find that the gathering is not as awkward as the initially expected. The gentleman Gabriel offers her to see her safely to her home and both find that they have been living in stray river for years unknown to each other.</p><p></p><p>The next day they are called to Inspector Delft´s Office. He tells them that they have an assignment because he needs someone with some scientific knowledge and good manners to guard an expedition from the pardwright university. They are expected to return the berian ambassador´s niece safely after the journey.</p><p></p><p>Curator Hans Weber instructs them that they will pose as guides and helpers and that they are expected to organise the journey.</p><p></p><p>To their relief most of the ancients expeditions way can be traveled by train to Bole and there is even a private train along the border. They find information about the ancient expedition and remember that there were rumor´s about the members dying in accidents or even curses. There is even an rumor of one Mr. Starke bringing back a notebook of the expedition but at the museum of nature history they are told that this notebook is believed to be lost.</p><p></p><p>They investigate the private mine which owns the train and find Lord Vantrys owning a share of the stock of this business.</p><p></p><p>They organise provisions and Gabriel easily secures his Lords permission to use the private train.</p><p></p><p>(The young Lord was visibly agitated by his unexpected visitor and touched his arm fondly during this visit but Gabriel cluelessly ignored his Lords not so platonic love interests.)</p><p></p><p>As they do not know the wilderness they seek out a druid whom Auryn knows from her Vekeshi contacts. (she does not tell Gabriel because even the very moderate vekeshi of Flint are mistakenly known as murderous terrorists) The grumpy druid agrees to accompany them as they agree to help her to make medicine for the poor.</p><p></p><p>Some days later the expedition gathers his members at the Flint Train Station and the constables are shocked to see Julia Fymarsö commanding several porters to carry a lot of trunks and unnecessary equipment. After a heated discussion they manage to board the train just in time.</p><p></p><p>During a short stop somewhere along the way they encounter a pair of pickpockets. Auryn chases them but sees that she must return to the departing train.</p><p></p><p>During the journey Julia is amazed that her Guide is a Mr. Carlyle and tells Gabriel that she is actually engaged to a Mr. Carlyle from Danor. Gabriel recalls his Brother Stillin relocating to Danor and the family being involved in the Avery Coast trains.</p><p></p><p>The party arrives in Bole and secures their places at the private train where they are treated unexpetedly well. (Mr Carlyle remains still completely clueless that Lord Vantrys arranged for their special treatment.)</p><p></p><p>At the mine they get the best accommodation the small mining community has to offer and the next morning they finally embark on their more dangerous part of the journey.</p><p></p><p>A few days pass with Julia complaining about the difficult journey and her aching feet. The party reaches the place that the ancient expedition where traveling to and settles for a base camp. The next day they find crude walls and a kind of neatly tended garden. Some of the plants move away and the constables quickly negotiate with the vegepygmies who rush to defend their garden.</p><p></p><p>Auryn wins the hearts and minds of the plant people by exchanging seeds from her own small garden in Flint.</p><p></p><p>(My players are hellbent to avoid a fight because they feel they are officials of risur and they both tend to use their luck and diplomatic skills really good. Getting these plant people as allies granted them a very unmolested journey till the tomb because the plant people secretly secured their way.)</p><p></p><p>Mr. Carlyle largely ignores the visibly interested efforts of Nymeia to get to know him.</p><p></p><p>(Poor Nymeia always gets a rebuff when she invites this gentleman later in Flint.)</p><p></p><p>The next day Wolmi Heffaniti suggest a route deeper into the backcountry and to the party´s amazement she seems to predict how to navigate the wilderness. Once their suspicion is raised Gabriel and Auryn catch the ambassadors niece consulting a small ancient notebook. They confront her about it and reveal her possessing the lost records of the rumored Mr. Starke. Wolmi claims that she got it legally from a trader visiting Ber and that it points to an ancient Tomb of her ancestors. She wants to retrieve a Symbol from that tomb to gain more prestige in Ber and to convince her Uncle the ambassador to give her a greater degree of freedom in her life.</p><p></p><p>Wolmi claims that she knows the Rituals to open the Tomb without releasing its curse. Reluctantly the constables agree to search for the tomb.</p><p></p><p>The party journeys to the tomb and find the way completely matching the information in the records. They find a slope with an buried entrance which can be opened by digging. Near the entrance Auryn finds the droppings of a young black bear.</p><p></p><p>Uneasy they open the tomb an find a crude sarcophagus which they open with the rituals that Wolmi has provided. Inside they find a minotaur skeleton wearing a gold necklace with geometrical symbols and a not matching magical stone hammer with very ancient tribal symbols.</p><p></p><p>Wolmi takes the valuable proof of her ancestry and leaves the old tomb while Gabriel decides to attune himself to the tomb because he wants to know more.</p><p></p><p>(Gabriels player missed the part which would have told him that his speak with dead feat does only work 24 ours after a creatures death. But i wanted to drop a clue for his efforts.)</p><p></p><p> The tribal chieftains spirit answers his summons and tells him that one of his symbols of office was taken from his enemies. Then he begs him to defend his descendant from danger.</p><p></p><p>The constables hear the girls crying for help and soon engage a very angry black bear who is fighting a wounded Druid in front of the cave. They fight the bear who leaves his bite and claw marks all over the soon unconscious Gabriel till Auryn manages to knock him out. (not Gabriel … the bear)</p><p></p><p>The party quickly retreats and journeys largely uneventfully back to Bole and then to Flint.</p><p></p><p>Wolmi is very pleased and promises that she will give the records back to the Starke descendants in a few month.</p><p></p><p>Auryn and Gabriel discuss their journey and both think that they wouldn't mind to work together in the future.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tizbiz, post: 7083406, member: 6874057"] [COLOR=#0000ff]I was worried how to forge an Eladrin princess and a Deva from Crilisyr into a functional team and was almost annoyed when both players agreed that they would have avoided contact with each other as much as possible. I compared the RHC responsibilities and the strong points of the players and came up with the following sidequest.[/COLOR] Mr. Carlyle reads his favorite high society gossip rag and finds a announcement of a science competition sponsored by the museum of natural history and a Mr. Guy Goodson who is a business partner to his former lord Vantrys. He decides to visit the competition because he has nothing to do on sunday and it might be a notable high society event worth watching. At the same time Auryn Galadin gets a visit by her good friend Nymeia who is a student of biology and botany at the pardwright university. Nymeia is terribly nervous about her thesis being nominated by the museum of natural history´s science competition and Auryn offers her companionship during the presentation. In the sunday morning both players independently visit the science competition and watch the gathering of some philanthropic high society members including the sponsor Guy Goodson and crown prosecutor Starke and his rather indifferent son Tyler Starke. The nominees include Auryns dear human friend Nymea, the half-elf Julia Fymarsö and the young female minotaur Wolmi Heffanita. All the nominees are students of the pardwright university. Auryn Galadin and Gabriel Carlyle meet each other as they observe the gathering and awkward moments pass while they speak about what they do in their free time. They both seem relieved as the museum curator announces the nominees and each of them shows a short presentation of their thesis. Then the committee members announce Wolmi Heffanita as the winner of the competition. During the presentation Auryn observes similarities between her friends Thesis and the one of Julia Fymarsö. She immediately suspects that her friends research data has been stolen and dislikes Julia Fymarsö especially as she has seen her to be very unfriendly to her young attendant girl. Mr. Carlyle senses that the curator is very uneasy when he announces the winner and recalls Mr. Goodson looking for business opportunities in Ber and Wolmi Heffanita being the young niece of the berian ambassador Heffanita in Slate. While they exchange their findings the gathering is disturbed by docker drunkards shouting abuse at the nobles and industrialists and the two RHC constables intervene to diffuse the situation peacefully. The gathering concludes with the winner Wolmi Heffanita announcing that she is going to use the prize money to sponsor an journey to recreate a famous expedition to the border of risur. She invites the other nominees to accompany her on this journey. In the evening Mr. Carlyle retreats to his favorite cigar club and expects to read newspapers at an uneventful gathering of gentlemen. His evening is disturbed by the club sponsoring an elven artist singer event. To his amazement the unearthly beautiful voice belongs to his fellow constable Auryn Galadin who he recognises despite her artistic mask. After the event they share a glas of spirits and find that the gathering is not as awkward as the initially expected. The gentleman Gabriel offers her to see her safely to her home and both find that they have been living in stray river for years unknown to each other. The next day they are called to Inspector Delft´s Office. He tells them that they have an assignment because he needs someone with some scientific knowledge and good manners to guard an expedition from the pardwright university. They are expected to return the berian ambassador´s niece safely after the journey. Curator Hans Weber instructs them that they will pose as guides and helpers and that they are expected to organise the journey. To their relief most of the ancients expeditions way can be traveled by train to Bole and there is even a private train along the border. They find information about the ancient expedition and remember that there were rumor´s about the members dying in accidents or even curses. There is even an rumor of one Mr. Starke bringing back a notebook of the expedition but at the museum of nature history they are told that this notebook is believed to be lost. They investigate the private mine which owns the train and find Lord Vantrys owning a share of the stock of this business. They organise provisions and Gabriel easily secures his Lords permission to use the private train. (The young Lord was visibly agitated by his unexpected visitor and touched his arm fondly during this visit but Gabriel cluelessly ignored his Lords not so platonic love interests.) As they do not know the wilderness they seek out a druid whom Auryn knows from her Vekeshi contacts. (she does not tell Gabriel because even the very moderate vekeshi of Flint are mistakenly known as murderous terrorists) The grumpy druid agrees to accompany them as they agree to help her to make medicine for the poor. Some days later the expedition gathers his members at the Flint Train Station and the constables are shocked to see Julia Fymarsö commanding several porters to carry a lot of trunks and unnecessary equipment. After a heated discussion they manage to board the train just in time. During a short stop somewhere along the way they encounter a pair of pickpockets. Auryn chases them but sees that she must return to the departing train. During the journey Julia is amazed that her Guide is a Mr. Carlyle and tells Gabriel that she is actually engaged to a Mr. Carlyle from Danor. Gabriel recalls his Brother Stillin relocating to Danor and the family being involved in the Avery Coast trains. The party arrives in Bole and secures their places at the private train where they are treated unexpetedly well. (Mr Carlyle remains still completely clueless that Lord Vantrys arranged for their special treatment.) At the mine they get the best accommodation the small mining community has to offer and the next morning they finally embark on their more dangerous part of the journey. A few days pass with Julia complaining about the difficult journey and her aching feet. The party reaches the place that the ancient expedition where traveling to and settles for a base camp. The next day they find crude walls and a kind of neatly tended garden. Some of the plants move away and the constables quickly negotiate with the vegepygmies who rush to defend their garden. Auryn wins the hearts and minds of the plant people by exchanging seeds from her own small garden in Flint. (My players are hellbent to avoid a fight because they feel they are officials of risur and they both tend to use their luck and diplomatic skills really good. Getting these plant people as allies granted them a very unmolested journey till the tomb because the plant people secretly secured their way.) Mr. Carlyle largely ignores the visibly interested efforts of Nymeia to get to know him. (Poor Nymeia always gets a rebuff when she invites this gentleman later in Flint.) The next day Wolmi Heffaniti suggest a route deeper into the backcountry and to the party´s amazement she seems to predict how to navigate the wilderness. Once their suspicion is raised Gabriel and Auryn catch the ambassadors niece consulting a small ancient notebook. They confront her about it and reveal her possessing the lost records of the rumored Mr. Starke. Wolmi claims that she got it legally from a trader visiting Ber and that it points to an ancient Tomb of her ancestors. She wants to retrieve a Symbol from that tomb to gain more prestige in Ber and to convince her Uncle the ambassador to give her a greater degree of freedom in her life. Wolmi claims that she knows the Rituals to open the Tomb without releasing its curse. Reluctantly the constables agree to search for the tomb. The party journeys to the tomb and find the way completely matching the information in the records. They find a slope with an buried entrance which can be opened by digging. Near the entrance Auryn finds the droppings of a young black bear. Uneasy they open the tomb an find a crude sarcophagus which they open with the rituals that Wolmi has provided. Inside they find a minotaur skeleton wearing a gold necklace with geometrical symbols and a not matching magical stone hammer with very ancient tribal symbols. Wolmi takes the valuable proof of her ancestry and leaves the old tomb while Gabriel decides to attune himself to the tomb because he wants to know more. (Gabriels player missed the part which would have told him that his speak with dead feat does only work 24 ours after a creatures death. But i wanted to drop a clue for his efforts.) The tribal chieftains spirit answers his summons and tells him that one of his symbols of office was taken from his enemies. Then he begs him to defend his descendant from danger. The constables hear the girls crying for help and soon engage a very angry black bear who is fighting a wounded Druid in front of the cave. They fight the bear who leaves his bite and claw marks all over the soon unconscious Gabriel till Auryn manages to knock him out. (not Gabriel … the bear) The party quickly retreats and journeys largely uneventfully back to Bole and then to Flint. Wolmi is very pleased and promises that she will give the records back to the Starke descendants in a few month. Auryn and Gabriel discuss their journey and both think that they wouldn't mind to work together in the future. [/QUOTE]
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