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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8669708" data-attributes="member: 6790260"><p>We've recently switched to the "Chronicles" mechanic rather than Bonds, so that's still up in the air at present. Most of the bonds were between party members though.</p><p></p><p>As for the party's alignments, we've tweaked things a little, but they are as follows...</p><p>Bard: Reveal corruption or oppose oppression.</p><p>Battlemaster: Outwit a formidable opponent or discover a crafty strategy.</p><p>Fighter: Defeat a worthy opponent, or share my take of the spoils. (Player just NPC-retired his former character, so this could change.)</p><p>Spellslinger: Bring a criminal to justice, or advance my art.</p><p></p><p>Other considerations...</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Bard's girlfriend is a relatively high-ranking officer in the Day Watch. (After the old Sultan went mad and was eventually killed by an insurrection, the "city guard" stuff was split off from the Army, into the Day Watch, Night Watch, and Palace Guard.) Bard's girlfriend is more or less 3rd in command of the Day Watch, in part because the party called on aid from the Day Watch and it proved essential for protecting citizen welfare. She was the one who formally deputized the party to perform a welfare check on Mrs. Benali's residence, since they'd found some evidence of minor burglary while checking out the house the first time.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Battlemaster is, <em>formally</em> speaking, still part of the Sultana's Army, but she has personally assigned him to work with the party to deal with various issues, in part because she thinks he is a good fit for the mission, and in part because this allows her a great deal of flexibility in diplomatic terms. (Since he's formally in the Army, but "assigned" to freelance adventurer duties, when he succeeds it's a diplomatic coup for Al-Rakkah, and when he screws up, it's his fault. She genuinely believes he'll succeed, but he's aware of the responsibility he has.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Fighter has literally just joined the party in the last two sessions, after the Druid (soft) retired to go study how to be a Safiqi priest. New Fighter is not much of a "big picture" guy, though that may change under the party's influence. Ex-military, retired after the insurrection (roughly a decade ago), got his pension and took his extended family out to a settlement on a semi-nearby tropical island. Now they're comfortable and cared for, he's been drawn into opposing a semi-Lovecraftian cult the party has fought (which is what drew him to them.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Spellslinger is sort of semi-retired from her former job as a kind of wandering sheriff-type bringing criminals to justice, a little on the older side (late 40s/early 50s) and mostly focused on discovering what secrets this new land has to offer to her style of mixed gunsmith-spellcraft arts. There's a bit of combat engineer in there as well.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Shen does not actually know who the black dragon is in the city. If he did, he'd prepare for an immediate assault, try to catch the black dragon by surprise, and kill them as soon as possible (as was the sentence for their crimes in the past). Likewise, Shen is keeping his identity as a gold dragon secret, because the black dragon would either flee or attempt the same thing (try to kill Shen in a surprise attack). So Mrs. Benali, as far as the party is aware, only knows that Shen is a powerful and well-respected priest from a foreign land, present in the city for unspecified religious duties (read: the priests in Al'Rakkah found out they have a dragon problem and called in a foreign expert*, who ended up being a dragon himself.)</li> </ul><p>*Normally, the Safiqi are loath to call on anyone outside the Tarrakhuna, or even outside their own, but to their great relief, they've discovered that the religion of Yuxia <em>also</em> reveres a singular monotheistic creator deity. The translated Yuxian name for this deity is the August Jade Emperor, which the Safiqi interpret as just being a facet of the One that isn't widely known in the Tarrakhuna at this time. For his part, Shen certainly seems to believe that his deity and the One are the same being, his faith just has a more expansive idea of what beings are part of that deity's servants/retinue.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 8669708, member: 6790260"] We've recently switched to the "Chronicles" mechanic rather than Bonds, so that's still up in the air at present. Most of the bonds were between party members though. As for the party's alignments, we've tweaked things a little, but they are as follows... Bard: Reveal corruption or oppose oppression. Battlemaster: Outwit a formidable opponent or discover a crafty strategy. Fighter: Defeat a worthy opponent, or share my take of the spoils. (Player just NPC-retired his former character, so this could change.) Spellslinger: Bring a criminal to justice, or advance my art. Other considerations... [LIST] [*]The Bard's girlfriend is a relatively high-ranking officer in the Day Watch. (After the old Sultan went mad and was eventually killed by an insurrection, the "city guard" stuff was split off from the Army, into the Day Watch, Night Watch, and Palace Guard.) Bard's girlfriend is more or less 3rd in command of the Day Watch, in part because the party called on aid from the Day Watch and it proved essential for protecting citizen welfare. She was the one who formally deputized the party to perform a welfare check on Mrs. Benali's residence, since they'd found some evidence of minor burglary while checking out the house the first time. [*]The Battlemaster is, [I]formally[/I] speaking, still part of the Sultana's Army, but she has personally assigned him to work with the party to deal with various issues, in part because she thinks he is a good fit for the mission, and in part because this allows her a great deal of flexibility in diplomatic terms. (Since he's formally in the Army, but "assigned" to freelance adventurer duties, when he succeeds it's a diplomatic coup for Al-Rakkah, and when he screws up, it's his fault. She genuinely believes he'll succeed, but he's aware of the responsibility he has.) [*]The Fighter has literally just joined the party in the last two sessions, after the Druid (soft) retired to go study how to be a Safiqi priest. New Fighter is not much of a "big picture" guy, though that may change under the party's influence. Ex-military, retired after the insurrection (roughly a decade ago), got his pension and took his extended family out to a settlement on a semi-nearby tropical island. Now they're comfortable and cared for, he's been drawn into opposing a semi-Lovecraftian cult the party has fought (which is what drew him to them.) [*]The Spellslinger is sort of semi-retired from her former job as a kind of wandering sheriff-type bringing criminals to justice, a little on the older side (late 40s/early 50s) and mostly focused on discovering what secrets this new land has to offer to her style of mixed gunsmith-spellcraft arts. There's a bit of combat engineer in there as well. [*]Shen does not actually know who the black dragon is in the city. If he did, he'd prepare for an immediate assault, try to catch the black dragon by surprise, and kill them as soon as possible (as was the sentence for their crimes in the past). Likewise, Shen is keeping his identity as a gold dragon secret, because the black dragon would either flee or attempt the same thing (try to kill Shen in a surprise attack). So Mrs. Benali, as far as the party is aware, only knows that Shen is a powerful and well-respected priest from a foreign land, present in the city for unspecified religious duties (read: the priests in Al'Rakkah found out they have a dragon problem and called in a foreign expert*, who ended up being a dragon himself.) [/LIST] *Normally, the Safiqi are loath to call on anyone outside the Tarrakhuna, or even outside their own, but to their great relief, they've discovered that the religion of Yuxia [I]also[/I] reveres a singular monotheistic creator deity. The translated Yuxian name for this deity is the August Jade Emperor, which the Safiqi interpret as just being a facet of the One that isn't widely known in the Tarrakhuna at this time. For his part, Shen certainly seems to believe that his deity and the One are the same being, his faith just has a more expansive idea of what beings are part of that deity's servants/retinue. [/QUOTE]
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