Against the Shadows VII - A Faded Glory Story Hour (Re-Updated - 5/17)

[Lela]

Re: We played today.

Once again the Shovels of Glynden discover new and amusing ways to become personally acquainted with pits!

I'll leave the telling of the tale to Old One, but I will say this much ... this ain't over till the mute lady sings.

The Shovels of Glynden? Well, that definatally makes for some interesting dinner conversation at the very least. Hmmm.

 

[Tortoise]

Re: Re: We played today.

The Shovels of Glynden? Well, that definatally makes for some interesting dinner conversation at the very least. Hmmm.

Shovels is the nickname we gave ourselves a long time back (while burying yet another fellow Glynden resident).

We figured after a death toll that included ...

a militia member in the first session
Garrick and Marcus Tiro a session or two later
a few groomsmen and two daughters of a wealthy land holder
a henchman of Thomas the Bull (member of the Swords of Glynden) we found after he'd been ambushed by gnolls

... the name seems to fit.

We've almost maintained the tradition by nearly losing the life of Kothric while he was under our care, and with Rose and Sextus both getting killed and miraculously brought back to life.

Even our "players only" yahoogroup is titled Shovels of Glynden.

 

[Thorntangle]

That is a great name for your group. It's subtle and in-jokey like all really good group names.

I also guess it's better than The Pit Divers

 

[Tortoise]

That is a great name for your group. It's subtle and in-jokey like all really good group names.

I also guess it's better than The Pit Divers

It's also our way of making fun of the other adventuring group from Glynden. The group of spoiled rich kids who call themselves the Swords of Glynden are the very same people who as children used to pick on Marcus, Garrick, and others. We've taken their pretentious self-naming and turned it on it's ear.

 

[Lela]

They used to pick on Garrick?!?

Anger rising!

 

[Darklone]

Well, I hope the next encounter with the swords of glynden will be more satisfying to you guys...

Quintus sister is still with one of them, right?

 

[Tortoise]

Well, I hope the next encounter with the swords of glynden will be more satisfying to you guys...

Quintus sister is still with one of them, right?

Well, unless something goes wrong (something almost always goes wrong), the next time we see them, we'll have horses too, which elevates us a bit closer to their status from a "wealthy people own horses standpoint" since horses aren't cheap.

To the best of our knowledge when we left Glynden to come to Oar, one of the Scipio sisters was indeed living in the compound of one of the Swords.

The Bros. Scipio seem to see this as bad, but perhaps if they play their cards right it would give us someone on the inside who could provide us with enough info to help us upstage them at some point.

 

[Darklone]

I see, Old One never said only Quintus was a scheming one...

 

[Corey]

The Bros. Scipio seem to see this as bad, but perhaps if they play their cards right it would give us someone on the inside who could provide us with enough info to help us upstage them at some point.

Quintus says: "Rowan, you pig. Sabrina is my sister, not some pawn in your game to up the Swords. Forget Maxima and scamper back into the woods, treehugger."

Q and Orsen, the Sword Sabrina is living with, have a bad history. This includes Orsen refusing to help rescue Quitus's cousins from R.

After this last session, Q leveled (6th lvl, thank you). I'm picking up a clairvoyance/clairaudience for long distance spying purposes. Nan's Tavern and such places are first on my list.

Corey

 

[Tortoise]

Quintus says: "Rowan, you pig. Sabrina is my sister, not some pawn in your game to up the Swords. Forget Maxima and scamper back into the woods, treehugger."

Corey

Hah! I'd rather be a tree hugging tree climber than a back stabbing social climber any day! So there!

Good choice for spells there Q. We can certainly use some intelligence gathering capabilities to help us through things. So far we've been relying on second hand information.

Say, do ya think Maxima would have a problem if Rowan brought Drusilla back home? Are there anti-bigamy laws in Glynden?