(4th IR) What does your character write?

[Bugbear]

TO BUGBEAR

Luskan and Luruar are enemies.
You cannot take them both as sponsors: it must be one or the other.

The orcs consider your works incomplete, Bugbear. They want to embellish them with the 'truth', as the orcs see the truth.
The orcs want the world to know that the Descendents of the Worms of the Earth are still around, and powerful, that their history is resplendent with glory and conquest, and that theirs is a mighty civilization.

The dwarves, want to banish historical myths concerning them and stop the stereotypes that are running amok concerning dwarves.
Some dwarves see your books as a way to create a bridge to the other races, making peace with the elves, greater unity with the gnomes, and greater trade and commerce with humanity.
Also, the dwarves want their histories - great and also rather tragic - to be showcased. The great and the foolish, the best and the worst ... hopefully, with a slant towards the better things they have done.
Dwarves are just ... well, interested in books, in writing, in knowledge!

Very well, then I will accept the sponsership of Luskan and the Dwarves of the North. Furthermore I will begin a more through investigation into the anceint connection between the Dwarves and the Goblins. Since the Dwarves seem open to the idea that the two races may be related (or at least haven't openly refuted the claim)perhaps the discovering the truth of this will at long last make possible peace negotiations between the two races.

(BTW Edena, time to ask the question which allways gets asked: Does this FR use the great wheel cosmology or the one presented in the FRCS? )

 

[Bugbear]

Savage Races Vol III: Kobolds
By Hannover Fist, loremaster

1: Dragon Blooded? An exploration into the supposed connection between Kobolds and Dragons.
2: Survival and Treachery: The nature of Kobold socitey and it's interations with other races.
3: A kobold Warren Explored (With Maps!) A detailed guide to a Kobold Lair
4: Are Baby Kobolds Evil?
5: Kobold Mythology
6: A Guide to the Kobold Language

From chapter one of Savage Races Vol III: Kobolds, by Hannover Fist
Perhaps it because they are the weakest of the the Humaniods or because they are reptilian by nature. However there is little evedence that Kobolds and Dragons are in any way related. Perhaps they feel that their own insignifigance would be thwarted by loudly proclaming dragon ancestry. The Dragons of course do little to dampen this beleif, instead using it to their own purposes. Cheap and loyal labor is hard to find, after all...

From chapter three:
The Kobold warren was infested with traps. Pit traps, spring traps, gas traps, magicial and mechanical traps of all kinds. There were even traped traps, such as the obvious crossbow and trip wire trap located near the southeast passage. Easily noticed. When the intreped explorer goes to disable the mechanism, he sets off the three hidden crossbows (with poisoned bolts) which were...

 

[Janos Audron]

Yes, I accept Thay's offer.

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

TO SERPENTEYE

Hey there, my old friend! Welcome to the 4th IR (I swear, it is actually working. It's a miracle!)

SERPENTEYE (Author Alarah Gomenei Noble 10, Bard 40, bardic prestige class #1 10, bardic prestige class #2 5, Sorcerer 13 Archmage 5, Incantatrix 10) POSTED:

The Productive Economy
a guide to Practical Economic Theory
(etc.)

You have offers of sponsorship from:

Calimshan, Amn, Tethyr, Lantan, the Vilhon Reach, Chessenta, Unther, the Thayvian-Halruaan Alliance, Thesk, Murghom, Dambrath, Luirien, Ulgarth, Sembia, the Dwarves of the North, the Dwarves of the Great Rift, the Dwarves of the Old South, the Gnomes of Faerun, Hillsfar, Zhentil Keep, Luskan, Westgate, Baldur's Gate, Skullport, the Dalelands, Impiltur, the Great Dale, Damara, Vaasa, Luruar, the Silver Marches, and even the Free Peoples of the Moonshaes. The Ffolk of the Moonshaes would also sponsor you.
(Var the Golden would sponsor you, but they are already taken. Ditto Waterdeep.)

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

TO JANOS AND TO ALL IN THE IR:

Very well.

Thay is now a sponsor of Janos. They are effectively allied with Evermeet, the Church of Shar, and the Church of Bane.

Halruaa refuses to go along with this, and breaks off it's alliance with Thay.

However, the Shade now offer to sponsor you as well, Janos.

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

TO FORSAKEN ONE

The Cults of Moander and Ghaunadaur want to know NOW whether or not you will take their sponsorship.
The others maintain their offers to you as well.

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

TO BUGBEAR

Noted. Luskan and the Dwarves of the North are now your sponsors, Bugbear.

King Obold is incensed, and offers to sponsor anyone who will denounce Bugbear, who he sees as a traitor (believe it or not!)

Bugbear, the Dwarves of the Old South, and the Dwarves of the Great Rift, are also offering their sponsorship.
Do you accept?

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

Yours Truly, who has been at this for over 3 hours without a break, and is tired, heads offline for now.

 

[Bugbear]

TO BUGBEAR

Noted. Luskan and the Dwarves of the North are now your sponsors, Bugbear.

King Obold is incensed, and offers to sponsor anyone who will denounce Bugbear, who he sees as a traitor (believe it or not!)

Bugbear, the Dwarves of the Old South, and the Dwarves of the Great Rift, are also offering their sponsorship.
Do you accept?

Why would Obould see Hannover Fist as a traitor? He's not an orc (perish the thought!) Although he did disguise him self as one while living among them. Perhaps that is where he got his misinformation.

Hannover Fist accepts the sponsorship of the Gold Dwarves of the south and of the Great Rift.

Hannover Fist: HUMAN 15th level Diviner/ 10th Level Loremaster.
Alignment Lawful Neutral
Specializing in Planar Studies, Anthropology, Lingustics, and Theology.
Hobbies include cooking and writing bad poetry

 

[Creamsteak]

TO CREAMSTEAK

Halruaa (PL 15) is offering to be a co-sponsor (you'd have a second Sponsor) of your books, Creamsteak.
Why Halruaa is making this offer, is unclear.
When Dambrath (PL 14) learns of this offer by Halruaa, Dambrath offers to become a co-sponsor of your works, Creamsteak, assuming you will not accept Halruaa's offer.

Both Amn (PL 4) and Tethyr (PL 3) are offering to be co-sponsors of your works, Creamsteak. This assumes you choose only one of these nations, and refuse the offer from Halruaa and counteroffer from Dambrath.

STATEMENT:

Halruaa and Thay ally. Whoever gets the sponsorship of one, gets the sponsorship of both.
They will sponsor anyone opposed to Kalanyr and those apparently sympathetic to his works (that is, William.)
TO ALL IN THE IR

Thay (PL 15 now) offers it's sponsorship to ANYONE (it does not matter who) who will tear down, slander, distort, and otherwise make a fool out of Janos.
In Thay, anyone caught with one of Jano's books is slowly tortured to death (although the higher level wizards eagerly read every one, hoping to exploit some advantage against other Red Wizards, after this is over.)

Halruaa again offers it's sponsorship to anyone opposed to Janos.
And when Halruaa does, Dambrath again makes it's counteroffer - it will sponsor that person, if he will not accept help from Halruaa.

I tell Halruaa and Thay that they can hire me out and purchase my tomes as a military leader, all I require is their sponsorship with my publication.

I will accept Dambrath as a co-sponsor, and Amn. I also tell Tethyr that it would be in their best interests to become an ally of Amn during the coming times.