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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 6040469" data-attributes="member: 508"><p><strong>ADVENTURE 23 - KAZMIRA'S REVENGE</strong></p><p></p><p>PC Roster: <p style="margin-left: 20px">Akari, elven paladin of Hieroneous</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> Cal Trop, human cleric of Kord</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> Chalkan, half-elf ranger/cleric of Corellon Larethian</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> Delphyne Babelberi, human witch (wizard)</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> Feron Dru, half-elf druid</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> Rale Bodkin, human rogue</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> Slayer, half-orc barbarian</p><p></p><p>Immediately upon returning to Guild Headquarters, Old Clem saw to the quartering the horses in the attached stables while the others raced back to their living quarters. Cal was the first to meet them, and greeted them with a warm hello.</p><p></p><p>"Where's Gareth?" asked Rale. "Did he turn her in yet? How much was the reward?"</p><p></p><p>"I have no idea what you're talking about," replied Cal. "Turn who in? What reward?"</p><p></p><p>"Forget it," responded Rale. "Gareth will know what we're talking about. Where is he?"</p><p></p><p>"No idea," replied Feron, walking in from the kitchen. "I haven't seen him in several days."</p><p></p><p>"Me neither," admitted Cal.</p><p></p><p>Neither had Chalkan. Neither had any of the Guild pages who ran about doing tasks for those who ran the Guild. This was getting to be very disturbing; not only had nobody seen Gareth in the past couple of days, but nobody was aware that the group had used Akari's Guild ring to "bink" in Kazmira the Magpie, all bound and trussed and ready to be turned in for a sizable reward for certain acts of thievery she had perpetrated amongst very high-profile businessmen in Greyhawk City. And worst of all, Gareth's room - once Rale had picked the lock to gain access - had been emptied of all of his personal possessions. It looked like Gareth had left the Adventurers Guild for good, possibly taking Kazmira with him. Or had she somehow overpowered him? But then why was his stuff missing?</p><p></p><p>There was only one thing to do. They needed a way to scry on either Gareth, or Kazmira, or both. "This is an Adventurers Guild!" grumbled Rale in exasperation. "Surely somebody around here has a <em>crystal ball</em> or something!"</p><p></p><p>Somebody did. The team went scrambling around to the other Wings, and a wizard from Wing Seven had a <em>crystal ball</em> she was willing to let Wing Three borrow for the day. Feron, being the only one among the team with any scrying experience, was the logical choice to use it.</p><p></p><p>"Who shall I concentrate on?" she asked the group at large. After some consideration, it was jointly decided that Gareth made more sense, since they had known him longer and he offered a better chance of success as a result.</p><p></p><p>Feron concentrated on Gareth, rubbing her hands over the <em>crystal ball</em>. "I see something..." she said, and as the others watched, an image started to form in the glass sphere. The rest of the group crowded around, eager to see.</p><p></p><p>It was Gareth, as seen from behind and a bit above. He was running, his right hand held in the left hand of a woman running at his side. It was hard to tell from the back, but she was the right height to possibly be Kazmira. Then she turned and looked directly at the viewers - or so it seemed; actually she was no doubt picking up on the magical sensor which was following them above head height, through which the <em>crystal ball</em> was showing their images - then turned away and concentrated on running. That quick glance was enough to confirm that it was, in fact, Kazmira. She must have said something to Gareth (sadly, the <em>crystal ball</em> was image-only, no audio, but beggars couldn't be choosers), for he turned around and looked up as well, but she brought his attention back to the task at hand and they turned their backs on the sensor and concentrated on running.</p><p></p><p>"Where are they?" asked Rale, eager to find them at once. Delphyne released both Iggy and Nocturna, asking them to fly above the city and see if they could spot Gareth.</p><p></p><p>"I can't tell," answered Feron, shaking her head in frustration. They're on cobblestones, I can tell that much. I'd bet they're still here in the city somewhere...."</p><p></p><p>As the group watched, the two slowed their running and approached a booth by a small bridge over a narrow rivulet of water. Gareth opened a coin purse and removed several coins, passed them to the man behind the booth, and received two tickets in return. Then the two took hands again and resumed running, this time over the small bridge and into what looked like a well-maintained park.</p><p></p><p>"Got it!" yelled Rale, upon spotting a trio of cavorting monkeys behind the bars of a cage. "That zoo place! Where we sold the rust monster!"</p><p></p><p>"Lord Henway's!" followed up Delphyne. "How soon can we get there?"</p><p></p><p>"Hold on!" interrupted Feron, still concentrating on the image in the globe before her. "They're doing something!"</p><p></p><p>"I'll bet she's dominated him or charmed him or something," replied Akari. "Can tieflings do that?"</p><p></p><p>"What are they doing?" asked Chalkan.</p><p></p><p>Kazmira had crawled past a safety chain and approached a large cage. She reached her hand into the cage, and a hand reached out at her. Three other hands gripped the bars of the cage, each nearly the size of that of an ogre. Kazmira slipped a ring off of her finger and slid it over one of the ogre-sized fingers of the hand reaching from the darkness of the cage. Then, she looked straight at the magical sensor through which the members of Wing Three were observing, and blew them all a kiss. Gareth looked straight at the sensor, and slowly raised his middle finger towards the viewers as Kazmira gave the ring on the unknown creature's hand a familiar double-tap.</p><p></p><p>The ogrish hand disappeared...</p><p></p><p>...and suddenly, there was a half-fiend girallon standing in the middle of Wing Three's communal living room.</p><p></p><p>This was an angry half-fiend girallon, one willing to vent its confusion at the sudden change in scenery and its anger over years of captivity on the assembled group of adventurers within view. It gave a mighty roar and leapt at the group, four powerful arms outstretched and ready to rend. There were frantic grabs for weapons while the spellcasters fired off a few quick spells. Fortunately for the group, even an enraged half-fiend girallon was little match for a band of seven seasoned adventurers, and before long it was dead.</p><p></p><p>Akari stepped over the body and pulled a metal band off of its finger. It immediately shrunk to a slightly smaller size, and Akari peeked at the inside of the band at the letters carved within, then quietly slipped it onto his finger.</p><p></p><p>"I got my Guild ring back," he replied.</p><p></p><p> - - - </p><p></p><p>This adventure came about by a wonderful confluence of events. I had no way of foreseeing that the group would take Kazmira alive, and then decide to "bink" her back to Headquarters using Akari's Guild ring. But after thinking through the possible consequences, I realized the following: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Logan was not really interested in running Gareth as a character any more, realizing his general uselessness in combat.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The rest of the group, in deciding which of Logan's characters to run during his absence, invariably chose to run Akari over Gareth.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">That meant that Gareth had been stuck on "backup duty" for months on end, while Akari got to go out on all the cool adventures. That couldn't but help cause a bit of resentment on Gareth's part against the rest of the party.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I imagine Kazmira, upon "binking" naked and bound into the Wing Three living room and finding only an astonished Gareth there, would have the presence of mind to talk her way into getting Gareth to free her. After all, she could offer Gareth a lifetime of adventures with her, robbing from those who didn't deserve their riches. Didn't that sound better than waiting forever in a living room to replace an elven paladin who never needed replacing? (Plus, hot naked tiefling. That couldn't have hurt her chances any.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">This was an opportunity too good to pass up: I could, in one fell swoop, ditch the unwanted Gareth, create a recurring villain in Kazmira, and pull an unexpected betrayal on the party that would have them hating Gareth with a white-hot fury.</li> </ul><p>So I did it, and it worked just as expected. I had PCs swearing blood oaths on Gareth's life. I had PCs coming up with ways they could track the two down. (After they had sent the half-fiend girallon to Wing Three's living room, the two must have activated some anti-scrying devices, because the <em>crystal ball</em> didn't pick them up after that.) And I had happy and active players heavily involved in my campaign world. All in all, it was a pretty good deal for a short adventure that involved one combat heavily lopsided in the PCs' favor.</p><p></p><p>Finally, for those of you wondering how Akari's ring was able to have "binked" the half-fiend girallon to Wing Three when it had already been used up in "binking" a bound Kazmira there earlier, there was a simple - and aggravating - explanation: Gareth had disguised himself as Akari (using his <em>hat of disguise</em>) and had the ring recharged by the Guild wizards who deal with such issues. As an added insult to injury, Gareth (as Akari) had the price of the recharge added to Akari's account. When Akari went to go get the ring recharged, he was told he had to pay for the last recharge before they'd do so again. <em>That</em> didn't do anything to endear Gareth to Akari in any way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richards, post: 6040469, member: 508"] [b]ADVENTURE 23 - KAZMIRA'S REVENGE[/b] PC Roster: [INDENT]Akari, elven paladin of Hieroneous Cal Trop, human cleric of Kord Chalkan, half-elf ranger/cleric of Corellon Larethian Delphyne Babelberi, human witch (wizard) Feron Dru, half-elf druid Rale Bodkin, human rogue Slayer, half-orc barbarian[/INDENT] Immediately upon returning to Guild Headquarters, Old Clem saw to the quartering the horses in the attached stables while the others raced back to their living quarters. Cal was the first to meet them, and greeted them with a warm hello. "Where's Gareth?" asked Rale. "Did he turn her in yet? How much was the reward?" "I have no idea what you're talking about," replied Cal. "Turn who in? What reward?" "Forget it," responded Rale. "Gareth will know what we're talking about. Where is he?" "No idea," replied Feron, walking in from the kitchen. "I haven't seen him in several days." "Me neither," admitted Cal. Neither had Chalkan. Neither had any of the Guild pages who ran about doing tasks for those who ran the Guild. This was getting to be very disturbing; not only had nobody seen Gareth in the past couple of days, but nobody was aware that the group had used Akari's Guild ring to "bink" in Kazmira the Magpie, all bound and trussed and ready to be turned in for a sizable reward for certain acts of thievery she had perpetrated amongst very high-profile businessmen in Greyhawk City. And worst of all, Gareth's room - once Rale had picked the lock to gain access - had been emptied of all of his personal possessions. It looked like Gareth had left the Adventurers Guild for good, possibly taking Kazmira with him. Or had she somehow overpowered him? But then why was his stuff missing? There was only one thing to do. They needed a way to scry on either Gareth, or Kazmira, or both. "This is an Adventurers Guild!" grumbled Rale in exasperation. "Surely somebody around here has a [i]crystal ball[/i] or something!" Somebody did. The team went scrambling around to the other Wings, and a wizard from Wing Seven had a [i]crystal ball[/i] she was willing to let Wing Three borrow for the day. Feron, being the only one among the team with any scrying experience, was the logical choice to use it. "Who shall I concentrate on?" she asked the group at large. After some consideration, it was jointly decided that Gareth made more sense, since they had known him longer and he offered a better chance of success as a result. Feron concentrated on Gareth, rubbing her hands over the [i]crystal ball[/i]. "I see something..." she said, and as the others watched, an image started to form in the glass sphere. The rest of the group crowded around, eager to see. It was Gareth, as seen from behind and a bit above. He was running, his right hand held in the left hand of a woman running at his side. It was hard to tell from the back, but she was the right height to possibly be Kazmira. Then she turned and looked directly at the viewers - or so it seemed; actually she was no doubt picking up on the magical sensor which was following them above head height, through which the [i]crystal ball[/i] was showing their images - then turned away and concentrated on running. That quick glance was enough to confirm that it was, in fact, Kazmira. She must have said something to Gareth (sadly, the [i]crystal ball[/i] was image-only, no audio, but beggars couldn't be choosers), for he turned around and looked up as well, but she brought his attention back to the task at hand and they turned their backs on the sensor and concentrated on running. "Where are they?" asked Rale, eager to find them at once. Delphyne released both Iggy and Nocturna, asking them to fly above the city and see if they could spot Gareth. "I can't tell," answered Feron, shaking her head in frustration. They're on cobblestones, I can tell that much. I'd bet they're still here in the city somewhere...." As the group watched, the two slowed their running and approached a booth by a small bridge over a narrow rivulet of water. Gareth opened a coin purse and removed several coins, passed them to the man behind the booth, and received two tickets in return. Then the two took hands again and resumed running, this time over the small bridge and into what looked like a well-maintained park. "Got it!" yelled Rale, upon spotting a trio of cavorting monkeys behind the bars of a cage. "That zoo place! Where we sold the rust monster!" "Lord Henway's!" followed up Delphyne. "How soon can we get there?" "Hold on!" interrupted Feron, still concentrating on the image in the globe before her. "They're doing something!" "I'll bet she's dominated him or charmed him or something," replied Akari. "Can tieflings do that?" "What are they doing?" asked Chalkan. Kazmira had crawled past a safety chain and approached a large cage. She reached her hand into the cage, and a hand reached out at her. Three other hands gripped the bars of the cage, each nearly the size of that of an ogre. Kazmira slipped a ring off of her finger and slid it over one of the ogre-sized fingers of the hand reaching from the darkness of the cage. Then, she looked straight at the magical sensor through which the members of Wing Three were observing, and blew them all a kiss. Gareth looked straight at the sensor, and slowly raised his middle finger towards the viewers as Kazmira gave the ring on the unknown creature's hand a familiar double-tap. The ogrish hand disappeared... ...and suddenly, there was a half-fiend girallon standing in the middle of Wing Three's communal living room. This was an angry half-fiend girallon, one willing to vent its confusion at the sudden change in scenery and its anger over years of captivity on the assembled group of adventurers within view. It gave a mighty roar and leapt at the group, four powerful arms outstretched and ready to rend. There were frantic grabs for weapons while the spellcasters fired off a few quick spells. Fortunately for the group, even an enraged half-fiend girallon was little match for a band of seven seasoned adventurers, and before long it was dead. Akari stepped over the body and pulled a metal band off of its finger. It immediately shrunk to a slightly smaller size, and Akari peeked at the inside of the band at the letters carved within, then quietly slipped it onto his finger. "I got my Guild ring back," he replied. - - - This adventure came about by a wonderful confluence of events. I had no way of foreseeing that the group would take Kazmira alive, and then decide to "bink" her back to Headquarters using Akari's Guild ring. But after thinking through the possible consequences, I realized the following:[list][*]Logan was not really interested in running Gareth as a character any more, realizing his general uselessness in combat. [*]The rest of the group, in deciding which of Logan's characters to run during his absence, invariably chose to run Akari over Gareth. [*]That meant that Gareth had been stuck on "backup duty" for months on end, while Akari got to go out on all the cool adventures. That couldn't but help cause a bit of resentment on Gareth's part against the rest of the party. [*]I imagine Kazmira, upon "binking" naked and bound into the Wing Three living room and finding only an astonished Gareth there, would have the presence of mind to talk her way into getting Gareth to free her. After all, she could offer Gareth a lifetime of adventures with her, robbing from those who didn't deserve their riches. Didn't that sound better than waiting forever in a living room to replace an elven paladin who never needed replacing? (Plus, hot naked tiefling. That couldn't have hurt her chances any.) [*]This was an opportunity too good to pass up: I could, in one fell swoop, ditch the unwanted Gareth, create a recurring villain in Kazmira, and pull an unexpected betrayal on the party that would have them hating Gareth with a white-hot fury.[/list]So I did it, and it worked just as expected. I had PCs swearing blood oaths on Gareth's life. I had PCs coming up with ways they could track the two down. (After they had sent the half-fiend girallon to Wing Three's living room, the two must have activated some anti-scrying devices, because the [i]crystal ball[/i] didn't pick them up after that.) And I had happy and active players heavily involved in my campaign world. All in all, it was a pretty good deal for a short adventure that involved one combat heavily lopsided in the PCs' favor. Finally, for those of you wondering how Akari's ring was able to have "binked" the half-fiend girallon to Wing Three when it had already been used up in "binking" a bound Kazmira there earlier, there was a simple - and aggravating - explanation: Gareth had disguised himself as Akari (using his [i]hat of disguise[/i]) and had the ring recharged by the Guild wizards who deal with such issues. As an added insult to injury, Gareth (as Akari) had the price of the recharge added to Akari's account. When Akari went to go get the ring recharged, he was told he had to pay for the last recharge before they'd do so again. [i]That[/i] didn't do anything to endear Gareth to Akari in any way. [/QUOTE]
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