Against the Storm Part II: Luskan

[DM_Matt]

I cannot move on with the regular campaign or introduce anyone until I know who is joining, becuase I need to be able to work in new players (or not) at this point in the story or it will become difficult. Among other reasons, there are events that the characters wil soon discover have occurred during their journey that new players could have a role in.

Thus, I need to know who among GoldenEagle, Timothy, maddman75 and Leopold would like to join (If you want to join but dont quite have time to submit a character yet, thats still OK).

Depending on the number who want to join, I might intro them into the main party quickly OR have them operating separately for a time.

 

[GoldenEagle]

Posted same thing to OOC thread. I am in. (if you'd like )

GE

 

[dead_radish]

*pausing for decisions*

 

[Leopold]

DM_Matt: As i am not that familiar with Psionics (i would LOVE to play a githyanki psionwarrior though possible??!) would a druid of this earth mother be acceptable?

See i have NEVER EVER played a druid and i figured why the hell not give it a whirl. Hell i'll go off on a limb and create an human druid to try it out. No ECL's, no PrC's, straight up pure druid...

 

[DM_Matt]

DM_Matt: As i am not that familiar with Psionics (i would LOVE to play a githyanki psionwarrior though possible??!) would a druid of this earth mother be acceptable?

See i have NEVER EVER played a druid and i figured why the hell not give it a whirl. Hell i'll go off on a limb and create an human druid to try it out. No ECL's, no PrC's, straight up pure druid...

A githyanki psiwar is possible. Just come up with a good reasons why he is where he is doung what he is doing.

A straight-up druid will work, too, but of a differnt god than the earth mother, who is the primal, evil earth mother as in Gaea of Greek myth (not the modern pagan one) and Tiamat of babylonian myth.

 

[dead_radish]

And might I suggest http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24892&perpage=40#newpost that thread for character discussions, just for organizations sake?

 

[DM_Matt]

Yes, indeed you may (and you did). Good idea.

 

[DM_Matt]

[Ok, I think I can move the action a bit and still intro Eagle and leopold when they are completed. so here goes.]

You came ashore by exploiting a weak point in the naval patrols, climbing up upon the docks as the night patrol moved in and the day patrol moved out.

Amid the hustle and bustle of sailors, more military than usual due to the change-over in progress, but many civilian as well, you hear talk of a battle that occurred the night before. From what you can glean, it appears taht the Kraken's ship was spotted by a pair of patrol boats. After it did not respond to calls to halt for inspection, it was fired upon, and exploded and sank about a minute into the fighting. Apparently it was reletively far out to sea, beucase you neither saw nor heard a battle or a fire.

There are many inns, particularly downscale ones, in the dock district, but the two largest and most prominent are the Black Unicorn (the rather upscale establishment that you saw the drow at) and the comfortable, homey, and well-kept Hogarth's Hall, accross the street.

Inland from the dock district is the merchants' district, which boasts almost any kind of shop imaginable as well as a Red Wizard's Enclave.

The dock and merchants' district actually extend all around the city, with the dock district turning into a place for warehouses and merchant shops (thus blurring into the merchants' district) when the actual docks end.

Beyond the merchant's district is the wall of Old Luskan, now nearly complete being renovated for defensive use against a possible invasion from the sea. After that, Luskan is shaped more like a pie rather than in concentric circles, with various residential districts, many with their own sets of shops, and the manufacturing district, where good are made for export, mostly armanents and other equiptment for Storm's hordes. In the center of this pie-like mass is the an area dominated by govenment buildings, includig Castle Luskan and the Host Tower, a gigantic stone tree of unknown origion that is used as a base for a powerful and independant (but nominally loyal to Luskan) guild of mages known as the Arcane Brotherhood.

Around the outside of Luskan are two great concentric walls, with ample towers and garrisons to defend the city.

 

[reapersaurus]

OOC: How suspicious-looking would our party be? The half-orcs could probably pass, but what are the other races represented? Isn't Elone an elf? And he have a human or two... Could they, or would they, have to disguise themselves?

After it did not respond to calls to halt for inspection, it was fired upon, and exploded and sank about a minute into the fighting. Apparently it was reletively far out to sea, beucase you neither saw nor heard a battle or a fire.

"Sound like we were lucky to sneak in when we did - this place all suited up for war, and they not talking before shooting..."

If the discussion gets 'round eventually to where to stay, Ubaar votes for Hogarth's Hall.

Depending on how much they have to sneak around or spend efforts disguising themselves, Ubaar will shortly push for the infiltration of the Temple of Gond - in his infinite intelligence, he'd get across the obvious - "It'd be pretty hard to loot Gond's smarty-invention after we blow Umberlee's place up.

Or would it be easier to...?"
Ubaar thinks for a second - which is a rare sight to see.

 

[DM_Matt]

Race-wise: Luskan is a human city, although it is allied with Storm. Some of his minions are in Luskan of course, but humans are still the norm.

Only Elone would seem out of place is not disguised.