Adventure in the Open Skies: The Liralen Irregulars (Eberron, Updated 5/10)
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Update #22: Breaking and Entering
Ruel completes his Sleep spell a second before the man can speak, and both he and his companion collapse, sound asleep under the wizard’s enchantment. After a hasty signal, Elisa begins bashing on the glass. Her first strike fractures it, the second shatters a gaping hole in it, and the third wrecks it utterly in a shower of small shards. She and Alexandre burst inside and engage the zombies, who continue to mindlessly pick at the glass encrusted floor of the quarry. However, as Elisa whirls her mace inches from one zombie’s head and Alexandre jabs his elven thinblade into another, only to have it spiderweb an encasing fragment of glass and skitter aside, they turn to claw at the pair of them.
“Two more guards coming from the doorway on your left!” Dox calls out from his perch on the wall, leveling a shot at another crossbow wielding man approaching the scene of the disturbance. He grunts as it pierces his chainmail.
Audric maneuvers inside the doorway and fires a shot from his heavy crossbow at the same guard, but he brings up his shield in time to deflect the bolt. Loki surges past the monk and takes up a defensive stance, focusing his mental energies on boosting his vitality, and a rush of Vigor courses through him. The female guardswoman draws an exquisite blade and charges him, but her strike is deflected off of his whirling greataxe. Her partner rushes in as well, swinging his flail, but it too clatters off the head of the half-giant’s axe as he twists it in a backswing, chipping a large statue nearby.
On the opposite side of the doorway, Elisa and Alexandre ward off blows from both zombies. Alexandre scowls and drops his thinblade, drawing his own recently requisitioned flail. Swinging it hard, he pummels the zombie and large fragments of its glass coating shatter, drawing a moan it and a gasp from the two Irregulars, as the zombie’s stench assails them at full force. Elisa finds success too, as her second blow is better aimed, completely shattering the zombie’s glassy shell and driving shards deep into the staggering undead miner’s side.
From above Dox tries to find a better vantage to fire from, but as he moves forward he slips and loses his balance, falling hard onto the wooden beam and causing it to crack and splinter ominously. Digging his fingers into the slippery, glass encrusted beam, he manages to hold on and the beam holds his weight. Beneath him, Audric maneuvers around the injured guardsman while ducking under a blow from his flail and slams his fist hard into his side, only to have his strike foiled by the guard’s chainmail. Taking advantage of the distraction, Loki sidesteps and brings his greataxe around in a powerful sweep that opens a massive rent in the guardsman’s chainmail, flesh and ribcage, dropping him with a heavy thump. He brings the greataxe around in time to deflect another strike from the woman, as she maneuvers with him to avoid being flanked between him and Audric.
A short burst of pearly light announces the summoning of a Celestial Giant Fire Beetle. Ruel grins as it skitters forward to attack, though a swipe of claws is deflected off the woman’s shield. Ruel fires his crossbow into the furious melee, but misses badly as he tries to correct his shot for to avoid harming his allies.
Alexandre grunts as one of the zombies breaks his guard, tearing its claws across his cheek. Scowling and bleeding, he drops his flail and, in a display of remarkable grace, he rolls right between the legs of the zombie, springing to his feet with rapier and dagger in hand. However, his feet slide at the last minute on a smooth section of glass and his attack goes wide of the confused undead. Elisa let’s her mace fall and draws her greatsword, swinging it in a powerful arc deep the other zombie’s side. She curses as the blade catches in its fractured ribcage, but she manages to yank the blade free of its corpulent flesh and bring the blade up back to ward off its’ answering strikes. Above them, Dox manages to straddle the beam and shoots an arrow at one of the zombies, which lodges in its shoulder but does not seem to slow it down any.
Recovering from his surprise at the sudden appearance of the summoned beetle, Audric maneuvers in to re-flank the female guard, spinning as he delivers a roundhouse kick, which the guardswoman only avoids by sharply swinging her head back at the last second. Once again Loki capitalizes on the distraction and his greataxe makes unfettered contact with her skull, the greataxe getting the better of the exchange as the woman drops, quite dead.
The zombies and the Irregulars continue to trade blows, the zombies showing no discernable signs of frustration as all of their attacks miss, but Alexandre cursing progressively louder and more colorfully as he somehow misses a shambling zombie with both rapier and dagger. Elisa has no trouble bringing her greatsword around to hack into the zombie’s side a second time, this time rending straight through its ribs and into the zombie Alexandre’s zombie, the former dropping while the later oozes pus and bile out of its abdomen.
Above both melees both Ruel and Dox trade looks as the celestial beetle vanishes abruptly. “So, maybe we should just wait up here for them to get us down?” Dox quips. Ruel nods and reloads his crossbow.
Below, Audric takes the moment to investigate further into the room, but two more guardsmen running inside interrupt him. They draw their weapons as they spot the unarmed monk, but they do not notice Loki until he is bearing down on them. The half-giant’s greataxe sings again, and another guardsman goes down in a crumpled heap. His partner wastes no time sputtering off curses and turning tail to run, but as he emerges into the open quarry, he loses his footing on the solid sheet of thick glass coating the ground and collapses with yet more panicked cursing.
“I’m going to take this one down myself!” Alexandre barks as he whirls back around the zombie, retrieving his flail and smashing the zombie’s leg in with the weapon. Its leg bends but does not buckle and it claws ineffectually at him once more. Elisa smiles and slides behind it, bringing her blade down in an overhand arc that plows deep into its back, severing its spine and dropping it face first as Alexandre skitters back out of the way.
“I called that one!” Alexandre glares at Elisa, striding over to the two guards still comatose and slumbering.
Elisa smirks and shakes her head, “We should probably knock ‘em out and tie them up.”
Alexandre frowns darkly, “I’m killing one.” His thinblade is through one of the guardsman’s throats before she can open her mouth to protest.
“Hey! What part of discretion don’t you understand?” Elisa screams.
“Oh yeah, you know all about discretion!” Alexandre retorts.
“If you two do not show some discretion, you are going to wake up that other guard,” Ruel remarks from above. Both glare at the wizard, but Elisa leans down and bashes the pommel of her greatsword into the sleeping mans head. “There, now he won’t wake up.”
Meanwhile, oblivious to all talk of discretion, Loki charges down the fallen guardsman, taking a flying leap at him to avoid the glassy surface of the quarry. The greataxe comes down into the man’s stomach, as Loki manages to find purchase on the slippery glass as he lands. The desperate man spasms and reflexively flails at Loki, but is unable to harm him. Audric runs up and delivers a swift kick to the man’s throat, ending his pain.
“Nice kick,” Loki offers.
Audric looks at the half-giant with a raised eyebrow before sweeping his gaze across the broken buildings of the quarry and the smooth flat of glass covering the ground. “We should take this corpse back to the map room, I do not think anyone else heard us, but…”
“There’s bound to be another pair of them walking this way eventually,” Loki nods. “I’ll take the shoulders, you get the legs.”
They return the body and Loki retrieves Ruel and Dox from the ceiling. Dox and most of the rest of the Irregulars search the bodies of the dead men. “They have two sets of identification papers and one identifies them with the Emerald Claw… that’s not good. The other must be a cover.” Dox reports as he searches the man’s pockets for loose change.
“This sword and this shield look very fine; I think they might have more value than the rest.” Ruel remarks as he inspects the female. He carefully sheathes the sword within the Handy Haversack and tosses the shield to Loki, who slings it over his back.
Audric stands in the center of the room, looking at a massive bas-relief set in red marble on the floor of the fairly intact room. “Might this be the map we are looking for?”
***
Elisa moves to join Ruel, Audric and Loki as they inspect the map, Alexandre is about to follow along when Dox’s hand grips his arm tightly. The changling is grinning, “I have a great idea!”
“Eh?”
“There’s not a lot of blood on this one that you killed, and this one is unconscious, let’s disguise ourselves as them! We can scout around while they figure out that map and make sure there’s no more trouble waiting!”
Alexandre cants his head then smirks, slapping the rogue on the back, “Aye, good thinkin’ Dox! The rest can figure that map out without us.”
The pair divulges the two Emerald Claw soldiers of armor, clothing and identification papers. They tie up the unconscious soldier and deposit both him and his dead companion back in the canyon the Irregulars entered from.
***
Ruel bends to inspect the Cyre portion of the map. “It is unlabeled, but there are small marks… here and here, mostly in what used to be Cyre. Interesting.”
Audric, Loki and Elisa inspect three pairs of statues in the room, “A dragon and a lion in red marble, a wolf and a falcon in white marble, and a knight and a gryphon in black. What do you make of that?” Loki muses out loud, bending to kick some debris away from the base of the lion’s statue.
Ruel looks up and considers, “Perhaps the white statues hold a clue to the location of Whitehearth… though Fintan made lots of remarks about ‘red’, and we are in Rose Quarry… perhaps if, well… oh! There were lots of references to stone eyes! Perhaps we should inspect the eyes of the statues!”
Elisa taps a finger against the white wolf’s eyes, “Looks normal to me.”
“I do not see anything unique about the eyes, but there is a circular plate also made of black marble on the floor here.” Audric announces as he sweeps his foot across broken glass and bits of charred wood and blackened rock.
“Here as well, a red plate,” Loki adds from the opposite side of the room.
“Oh yeah, there’s a white one here,” Elisa taps it with her foot, shaking her head. “Well, what’s it mean?”
“Where is Dox? He should take a look at them.” Ruel lightly flicks a fleck of glass from a depression in the map.
A chainmail clad-hand clasps Ruel’s shoulder, and the wizard wheels to see a grinning Emerald Claw soldier standing over him. “Oh sh--!” Ruel falls back, reaching for his dagger.
Dox laughs, “It’s just me Ruel! Hey, why are you so jumpy?”
Behind him, clad less expertly in Emerald Claw attire, Alexandre guffaws and soon the whole group shares a laugh at the wizard’s expense. (1)
“If you are quite done playing dress up, take a look at those statues. We should see if there is anything hidden on them,” Ruel sourly suggests as the laughter dies down to a few chuckles.
“Right, on it!” Dox clambers awkwardly in his borrowed chainmail over to each statue, inspecting them closely. After awhile he shakes his head, “They look like normal statues to me.”
“Maybe you should use that See Invisibility scroll Ruel,” Loki sighs and folds his arms.
Ruel frowns, “Perhaps, but the spell would not last forever and I would rather make certain we are in the right place. Let us wait fifteen minutes and I can prepare Detect Magic. If there are any illusory effects, I should be able to discern them.”
“And while you are doing that, Alexandre and I will scout around!” Dox pipes in cheerfully.
“Just be careful and do not stray too far,” Audric cautions.
“Yeah, yeah, we won’t,” Alexandre and Dox are already moving out of the room.
Ruel lays out several lengths of parchment over the map, nodding with a smile, “This should work. Loki, can you find a bit of charred wood or coal and make a rubbing of the Cyre portion of this map while I prepare my spell?” Loki nods while the wizard moves to a corner, removing a crystalline spellshard from his pack and focusing intently upon it.
***
“Where to first?” Alexandre asks.
“Let’s take a look at all the mining over there,” Dox points out one of the remaining larger structures that’s still mostly intact south of the map room.
The pair of disguised Irregulars walk up to the northern entrance to the room. Dox strides confidently inside while Alexandre peers in from around the corner. Inside skeletons and zombies are exhuming more dwarven corpses to bolster the ranks of the Emerald Claw’s undead workforce. Two bored looking soldiers stand watch over their activities. Spotting Dox, one nudges his companion and the two of them turn and leave out of the south entrance.
Dox walks back to Alexandre, “Come on let’s, follow them!”
The two of them try to move stealthily along the northern wall to follow the progress of the departing soldiers, though only the undead mining behind them give any real chance of moving without the horrid racket of their borrowed armor being overheard. As they reach the corner of the building, they watch the two soldiers reach the collection of tents and campfires that marks the Emerald Claw base of operations. A minute passes, and a second pair of soldiers head out north from the camp.
“I wonder what they are doing,” Dox muses. “Maybe it’s a shift change?”
Alexandre’s eyes bulge, “They’ll find our handiwork in the map room! Quick, we have to cut them off!”
***
(1): While Dox and Alexandre's players were working on their disguise idea, I was busy trying to figure out the map. When Tmaas dropped one of the new (at the time) Emerald Claw soldier minis right next to Ruel, both player and character were equally panicked.
Ruel completes his Sleep spell a second before the man can speak, and both he and his companion collapse, sound asleep under the wizard’s enchantment. After a hasty signal, Elisa begins bashing on the glass. Her first strike fractures it, the second shatters a gaping hole in it, and the third wrecks it utterly in a shower of small shards. She and Alexandre burst inside and engage the zombies, who continue to mindlessly pick at the glass encrusted floor of the quarry. However, as Elisa whirls her mace inches from one zombie’s head and Alexandre jabs his elven thinblade into another, only to have it spiderweb an encasing fragment of glass and skitter aside, they turn to claw at the pair of them.
“Two more guards coming from the doorway on your left!” Dox calls out from his perch on the wall, leveling a shot at another crossbow wielding man approaching the scene of the disturbance. He grunts as it pierces his chainmail.
Audric maneuvers inside the doorway and fires a shot from his heavy crossbow at the same guard, but he brings up his shield in time to deflect the bolt. Loki surges past the monk and takes up a defensive stance, focusing his mental energies on boosting his vitality, and a rush of Vigor courses through him. The female guardswoman draws an exquisite blade and charges him, but her strike is deflected off of his whirling greataxe. Her partner rushes in as well, swinging his flail, but it too clatters off the head of the half-giant’s axe as he twists it in a backswing, chipping a large statue nearby.
On the opposite side of the doorway, Elisa and Alexandre ward off blows from both zombies. Alexandre scowls and drops his thinblade, drawing his own recently requisitioned flail. Swinging it hard, he pummels the zombie and large fragments of its glass coating shatter, drawing a moan it and a gasp from the two Irregulars, as the zombie’s stench assails them at full force. Elisa finds success too, as her second blow is better aimed, completely shattering the zombie’s glassy shell and driving shards deep into the staggering undead miner’s side.
From above Dox tries to find a better vantage to fire from, but as he moves forward he slips and loses his balance, falling hard onto the wooden beam and causing it to crack and splinter ominously. Digging his fingers into the slippery, glass encrusted beam, he manages to hold on and the beam holds his weight. Beneath him, Audric maneuvers around the injured guardsman while ducking under a blow from his flail and slams his fist hard into his side, only to have his strike foiled by the guard’s chainmail. Taking advantage of the distraction, Loki sidesteps and brings his greataxe around in a powerful sweep that opens a massive rent in the guardsman’s chainmail, flesh and ribcage, dropping him with a heavy thump. He brings the greataxe around in time to deflect another strike from the woman, as she maneuvers with him to avoid being flanked between him and Audric.
A short burst of pearly light announces the summoning of a Celestial Giant Fire Beetle. Ruel grins as it skitters forward to attack, though a swipe of claws is deflected off the woman’s shield. Ruel fires his crossbow into the furious melee, but misses badly as he tries to correct his shot for to avoid harming his allies.
Alexandre grunts as one of the zombies breaks his guard, tearing its claws across his cheek. Scowling and bleeding, he drops his flail and, in a display of remarkable grace, he rolls right between the legs of the zombie, springing to his feet with rapier and dagger in hand. However, his feet slide at the last minute on a smooth section of glass and his attack goes wide of the confused undead. Elisa let’s her mace fall and draws her greatsword, swinging it in a powerful arc deep the other zombie’s side. She curses as the blade catches in its fractured ribcage, but she manages to yank the blade free of its corpulent flesh and bring the blade up back to ward off its’ answering strikes. Above them, Dox manages to straddle the beam and shoots an arrow at one of the zombies, which lodges in its shoulder but does not seem to slow it down any.
Recovering from his surprise at the sudden appearance of the summoned beetle, Audric maneuvers in to re-flank the female guard, spinning as he delivers a roundhouse kick, which the guardswoman only avoids by sharply swinging her head back at the last second. Once again Loki capitalizes on the distraction and his greataxe makes unfettered contact with her skull, the greataxe getting the better of the exchange as the woman drops, quite dead.
The zombies and the Irregulars continue to trade blows, the zombies showing no discernable signs of frustration as all of their attacks miss, but Alexandre cursing progressively louder and more colorfully as he somehow misses a shambling zombie with both rapier and dagger. Elisa has no trouble bringing her greatsword around to hack into the zombie’s side a second time, this time rending straight through its ribs and into the zombie Alexandre’s zombie, the former dropping while the later oozes pus and bile out of its abdomen.
Above both melees both Ruel and Dox trade looks as the celestial beetle vanishes abruptly. “So, maybe we should just wait up here for them to get us down?” Dox quips. Ruel nods and reloads his crossbow.
Below, Audric takes the moment to investigate further into the room, but two more guardsmen running inside interrupt him. They draw their weapons as they spot the unarmed monk, but they do not notice Loki until he is bearing down on them. The half-giant’s greataxe sings again, and another guardsman goes down in a crumpled heap. His partner wastes no time sputtering off curses and turning tail to run, but as he emerges into the open quarry, he loses his footing on the solid sheet of thick glass coating the ground and collapses with yet more panicked cursing.
“I’m going to take this one down myself!” Alexandre barks as he whirls back around the zombie, retrieving his flail and smashing the zombie’s leg in with the weapon. Its leg bends but does not buckle and it claws ineffectually at him once more. Elisa smiles and slides behind it, bringing her blade down in an overhand arc that plows deep into its back, severing its spine and dropping it face first as Alexandre skitters back out of the way.
“I called that one!” Alexandre glares at Elisa, striding over to the two guards still comatose and slumbering.
Elisa smirks and shakes her head, “We should probably knock ‘em out and tie them up.”
Alexandre frowns darkly, “I’m killing one.” His thinblade is through one of the guardsman’s throats before she can open her mouth to protest.
“Hey! What part of discretion don’t you understand?” Elisa screams.
“Oh yeah, you know all about discretion!” Alexandre retorts.
“If you two do not show some discretion, you are going to wake up that other guard,” Ruel remarks from above. Both glare at the wizard, but Elisa leans down and bashes the pommel of her greatsword into the sleeping mans head. “There, now he won’t wake up.”
Meanwhile, oblivious to all talk of discretion, Loki charges down the fallen guardsman, taking a flying leap at him to avoid the glassy surface of the quarry. The greataxe comes down into the man’s stomach, as Loki manages to find purchase on the slippery glass as he lands. The desperate man spasms and reflexively flails at Loki, but is unable to harm him. Audric runs up and delivers a swift kick to the man’s throat, ending his pain.
“Nice kick,” Loki offers.
Audric looks at the half-giant with a raised eyebrow before sweeping his gaze across the broken buildings of the quarry and the smooth flat of glass covering the ground. “We should take this corpse back to the map room, I do not think anyone else heard us, but…”
“There’s bound to be another pair of them walking this way eventually,” Loki nods. “I’ll take the shoulders, you get the legs.”
They return the body and Loki retrieves Ruel and Dox from the ceiling. Dox and most of the rest of the Irregulars search the bodies of the dead men. “They have two sets of identification papers and one identifies them with the Emerald Claw… that’s not good. The other must be a cover.” Dox reports as he searches the man’s pockets for loose change.
“This sword and this shield look very fine; I think they might have more value than the rest.” Ruel remarks as he inspects the female. He carefully sheathes the sword within the Handy Haversack and tosses the shield to Loki, who slings it over his back.
Audric stands in the center of the room, looking at a massive bas-relief set in red marble on the floor of the fairly intact room. “Might this be the map we are looking for?”
***
Elisa moves to join Ruel, Audric and Loki as they inspect the map, Alexandre is about to follow along when Dox’s hand grips his arm tightly. The changling is grinning, “I have a great idea!”
“Eh?”
“There’s not a lot of blood on this one that you killed, and this one is unconscious, let’s disguise ourselves as them! We can scout around while they figure out that map and make sure there’s no more trouble waiting!”
Alexandre cants his head then smirks, slapping the rogue on the back, “Aye, good thinkin’ Dox! The rest can figure that map out without us.”
The pair divulges the two Emerald Claw soldiers of armor, clothing and identification papers. They tie up the unconscious soldier and deposit both him and his dead companion back in the canyon the Irregulars entered from.
***
Ruel bends to inspect the Cyre portion of the map. “It is unlabeled, but there are small marks… here and here, mostly in what used to be Cyre. Interesting.”
Audric, Loki and Elisa inspect three pairs of statues in the room, “A dragon and a lion in red marble, a wolf and a falcon in white marble, and a knight and a gryphon in black. What do you make of that?” Loki muses out loud, bending to kick some debris away from the base of the lion’s statue.
Ruel looks up and considers, “Perhaps the white statues hold a clue to the location of Whitehearth… though Fintan made lots of remarks about ‘red’, and we are in Rose Quarry… perhaps if, well… oh! There were lots of references to stone eyes! Perhaps we should inspect the eyes of the statues!”
Elisa taps a finger against the white wolf’s eyes, “Looks normal to me.”
“I do not see anything unique about the eyes, but there is a circular plate also made of black marble on the floor here.” Audric announces as he sweeps his foot across broken glass and bits of charred wood and blackened rock.
“Here as well, a red plate,” Loki adds from the opposite side of the room.
“Oh yeah, there’s a white one here,” Elisa taps it with her foot, shaking her head. “Well, what’s it mean?”
“Where is Dox? He should take a look at them.” Ruel lightly flicks a fleck of glass from a depression in the map.
A chainmail clad-hand clasps Ruel’s shoulder, and the wizard wheels to see a grinning Emerald Claw soldier standing over him. “Oh sh--!” Ruel falls back, reaching for his dagger.
Dox laughs, “It’s just me Ruel! Hey, why are you so jumpy?”
Behind him, clad less expertly in Emerald Claw attire, Alexandre guffaws and soon the whole group shares a laugh at the wizard’s expense. (1)
“If you are quite done playing dress up, take a look at those statues. We should see if there is anything hidden on them,” Ruel sourly suggests as the laughter dies down to a few chuckles.
“Right, on it!” Dox clambers awkwardly in his borrowed chainmail over to each statue, inspecting them closely. After awhile he shakes his head, “They look like normal statues to me.”
“Maybe you should use that See Invisibility scroll Ruel,” Loki sighs and folds his arms.
Ruel frowns, “Perhaps, but the spell would not last forever and I would rather make certain we are in the right place. Let us wait fifteen minutes and I can prepare Detect Magic. If there are any illusory effects, I should be able to discern them.”
“And while you are doing that, Alexandre and I will scout around!” Dox pipes in cheerfully.
“Just be careful and do not stray too far,” Audric cautions.
“Yeah, yeah, we won’t,” Alexandre and Dox are already moving out of the room.
Ruel lays out several lengths of parchment over the map, nodding with a smile, “This should work. Loki, can you find a bit of charred wood or coal and make a rubbing of the Cyre portion of this map while I prepare my spell?” Loki nods while the wizard moves to a corner, removing a crystalline spellshard from his pack and focusing intently upon it.
***
“Where to first?” Alexandre asks.
“Let’s take a look at all the mining over there,” Dox points out one of the remaining larger structures that’s still mostly intact south of the map room.
The pair of disguised Irregulars walk up to the northern entrance to the room. Dox strides confidently inside while Alexandre peers in from around the corner. Inside skeletons and zombies are exhuming more dwarven corpses to bolster the ranks of the Emerald Claw’s undead workforce. Two bored looking soldiers stand watch over their activities. Spotting Dox, one nudges his companion and the two of them turn and leave out of the south entrance.
Dox walks back to Alexandre, “Come on let’s, follow them!”
The two of them try to move stealthily along the northern wall to follow the progress of the departing soldiers, though only the undead mining behind them give any real chance of moving without the horrid racket of their borrowed armor being overheard. As they reach the corner of the building, they watch the two soldiers reach the collection of tents and campfires that marks the Emerald Claw base of operations. A minute passes, and a second pair of soldiers head out north from the camp.
“I wonder what they are doing,” Dox muses. “Maybe it’s a shift change?”
Alexandre’s eyes bulge, “They’ll find our handiwork in the map room! Quick, we have to cut them off!”
***
(1): While Dox and Alexandre's players were working on their disguise idea, I was busy trying to figure out the map. When Tmaas dropped one of the new (at the time) Emerald Claw soldier minis right next to Ruel, both player and character were equally panicked.
hbarsquared
Quantum Chronomancer
I love the way you incorporate the random accidents you might have at the game table into your sessions. From the lovenote to the Emerald Claw mini: they always make sense, and are always good for a laugh!
PhoenixAsh
First Post
Update #23: A Battery of Bad Bluff Checks
Well, I had hoped to get another full update done before I leave on vacation tomorrow morning, but thanks to a plumbing mishap in my kitchen, I don't think its going to happen. I won't leave you completely high and dry (pardon the pun), so here is a small prelude to the next update.
Haiiro and Jeremy_dnd thank you for the kind words, feedback is always wonderful. As Pflume says, it only gets better... at least our games do. I'll be doing my best to portray them well.
My next update won't be until after June 18th when I'm back from California.
***
“Somebody help me get out of this armor!” Alexandre roars as he runs into the map room, struggling to shrug off his heavy chainmail.
Dox scampers in behind him, panting, “More guards are coming!” Audric quickly moves over to help Alexandre out of his borrowed chainmail, while Elisa and Loki ready their weapons. Loki moves over to the northern entrance of the room, sliding back against the white wolf statue.
“Try and get them to come through here Dox,” Loki nods to the passage before him.
“Er, right! I’ll try… if I can’t convince them to go away.” The changling steps through the doorway, taking a deep breath. Behind him Ruel grumbles darkly as he retakes his feet, breaking off his meditation.
Approaching the doorway outside the map room, two of the Emerald Claw soldiers look at Dox closely, “Where are the miners?”
He tries to lie smoothly, “Somebody, er… grabbed ‘em for another purpose.”
“Garret didn’t say nothing about them being moved,” the soldier replies, his face darkening, “Nicholas, are you getting them to do your work again?”
Dox grins, “Yeah… you caught me!”
The soldier grins slowly, clearing his throat, “Well, I should probably tell Garret. Unless you can give me a good reason not to, of course.”
While Dox fumbles in his coin pouch, the other soldier nudges his companion, nodding to a noticeable bloodstain on the glass-encrusted surface. His partner shoots a suspicious look at Dox, “Hey, what happened here?”
“There was a little accident…” Dox begins.
The soldiers draw their flails.
“Oh hey, there’s something strange in here!” Dox hastily interjects, retreating swiftly into the map room.
As Dox backs into the map room, whispering, “It’s me, it’s me, it’s me…” as loud as he dares, Loki raises his greataxe. The first Emerald Claw soldier doesn’t see the half-giant until his axe is arching down…
Well, I had hoped to get another full update done before I leave on vacation tomorrow morning, but thanks to a plumbing mishap in my kitchen, I don't think its going to happen. I won't leave you completely high and dry (pardon the pun), so here is a small prelude to the next update.
Haiiro and Jeremy_dnd thank you for the kind words, feedback is always wonderful. As Pflume says, it only gets better... at least our games do. I'll be doing my best to portray them well.
My next update won't be until after June 18th when I'm back from California.
***
“Somebody help me get out of this armor!” Alexandre roars as he runs into the map room, struggling to shrug off his heavy chainmail.
Dox scampers in behind him, panting, “More guards are coming!” Audric quickly moves over to help Alexandre out of his borrowed chainmail, while Elisa and Loki ready their weapons. Loki moves over to the northern entrance of the room, sliding back against the white wolf statue.
“Try and get them to come through here Dox,” Loki nods to the passage before him.
“Er, right! I’ll try… if I can’t convince them to go away.” The changling steps through the doorway, taking a deep breath. Behind him Ruel grumbles darkly as he retakes his feet, breaking off his meditation.
Approaching the doorway outside the map room, two of the Emerald Claw soldiers look at Dox closely, “Where are the miners?”
He tries to lie smoothly, “Somebody, er… grabbed ‘em for another purpose.”
“Garret didn’t say nothing about them being moved,” the soldier replies, his face darkening, “Nicholas, are you getting them to do your work again?”
Dox grins, “Yeah… you caught me!”
The soldier grins slowly, clearing his throat, “Well, I should probably tell Garret. Unless you can give me a good reason not to, of course.”
While Dox fumbles in his coin pouch, the other soldier nudges his companion, nodding to a noticeable bloodstain on the glass-encrusted surface. His partner shoots a suspicious look at Dox, “Hey, what happened here?”
“There was a little accident…” Dox begins.
The soldiers draw their flails.
“Oh hey, there’s something strange in here!” Dox hastily interjects, retreating swiftly into the map room.
As Dox backs into the map room, whispering, “It’s me, it’s me, it’s me…” as loud as he dares, Loki raises his greataxe. The first Emerald Claw soldier doesn’t see the half-giant until his axe is arching down…
Oh yeah. When Dox's player replied "Uh, I had a little accident with the zombies." He said it in a tone reminiscent of the kid who just put their baseball through the neighbors window. Sometimes it's hard to get the bad guys moving when you're laughing.
jeremy_dnd - glad you don't mind some of the table accidents. My plans go awry quite often. We have a lively group of players who come up with some very unexpected tactics from time to time.
Have a great vacation PhoenixAsh!
jeremy_dnd - glad you don't mind some of the table accidents. My plans go awry quite often. We have a lively group of players who come up with some very unexpected tactics from time to time.
Have a great vacation PhoenixAsh!
MavrickWeirdo
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Time for a Bump
LordVyreth
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Well, we're well past June 18th, so where's our next update? 
I agree that this a very good SH so far. Out of curiosity, what level are the PCs at this point in the SH? Still level/ECL 2? Did you add them to the Rogue's gallery?
Speaking of which, I know the campaign is more about role-playing than combat and the combat usually involves NPCs over monsters, but if you want some help with new monsters, I'd be happy to offer my services. I've made a ton of new monsters for my campaign and I've worked with Wizadru for his SH as well. Let me know if you're interested.
I agree that this a very good SH so far. Out of curiosity, what level are the PCs at this point in the SH? Still level/ECL 2? Did you add them to the Rogue's gallery?
Speaking of which, I know the campaign is more about role-playing than combat and the combat usually involves NPCs over monsters, but if you want some help with new monsters, I'd be happy to offer my services. I've made a ton of new monsters for my campaign and I've worked with Wizadru for his SH as well. Let me know if you're interested.
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