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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 1480244" data-attributes="member: 8530">Module #125 - Game #1 - 4/11/04Chapter One, “Putting The Band Back Together”, January 14th 1020:It has been a quiet three months since the Silver Moon Adventurers helped rid the world of the Kadtanach and its invading army of monsters (Module #120, “Beast of Burden”).    The adventuring team has kept pretty much to itself (largely due to the four intervening modules being with the gaming group’s two other campaigns).   The druid Serita has been spending much of the time in the city of Jawltorn, supervising the construction of the city’s new hospital    A heavy winter has also set in, with major storms in early November and weekly storms thereafter. The harbor on Silver Moon Island iced over in early December, preventing the arrival and departure of ships.   As such, there have been very few visitors on the island.  So it came as a bit of a surprise on this brisk January day when an old human wizard accompanied by a female centaur teleported onto the street outside of Jerry’s Tavern.   The centaur thanked her companion for the ride and he teleported away.   She entered the tavern.  Jerry, the gnome proprietor of the establishment, recognized her as Brianna, a cleric of Mileiki who belongs to he adventuring team known as The Elucidators.    Brianna finds herself a table, moving aside a chair, orders up a meal and a bottle of wine.   After the meal she seeks and is granted permission to travel to the Silver Moon School several miles inland.   She arrives at the school and is greeted by the Headmistress of the school.  Headmistress Jamie is the twin sister of one of Brianna’s teammate, a monk named Ji-Do-Kwan.    They enter the parlor of the main house and Jamie’s cleric husband Vincenzo joins them.Brianna gives her the good news, that former Silver Moon Adventurer Ji-Do-Kwan and his wife Lynne have become parents.   As both had each been twins Jamie asks, “How many?”  Brianna replies, “Too many.   It seems that our Viking teammate has his dwarven sidekick gave the newlyweds a bottle of wine last spring, which they had spiked with a fertility potion.   Do you know what happens when you add fertility to two people already inclined towards multiplicity?  You get five!”    Vincenzo comments, “Quintuplets!  The most we’ve ever gotten is twins.  I guess we’d better plan on those five joining the school in a few years.”Jamie says, “I hope those fighters was punished for their practical joke.”  Brianna replies, “Indeed they have been.  Our team leader did not appreciate what they did, and spent over ten hours lecturing them.”  “About what I’d expect from a cleric of Ukko,” Vincenzo comments.  She says, “He then assigned them to handle all of the overnight feedings and changings.”  Vincenzo states, “So what.  They’ll just give the kids booze until they fall sleep.”  She answers, “Not with Lynne’s brother supervising them.   They have the night shift while the parents have the day shift.  I came to give you the news and also to see if I can hang out here for the next several months.  I’m not overly fond of human babies that cry day and night.”  The good news travels quickly around the Island, with Cassie commenting, “It sounds like the Elucidators will be out of commission for the indefinite future.   The Queen assigned three of her Lordholdings to that team.   Any guesses who she’ll call instead if something comes up?”   Cassie’s speculation proves to be accurate, as five weeks later Mojo will receive a call from the Queen on his magical corkscrew/bottle opener/communication device.  February 17th , 1020:Narg and Vallessa’s child is due to be born.  They have temporarily moved into a room at Jerry’s Inn to be near the midwife Jamie and the clerics for the birth.  The inn is also in close proximity to the Tavern for the celebration to follow.    Mojo enters the tavern this day and approaches a table where Cassie, Jamie, Narg and Vincenzo are seated.   Mojo announces, “I just heard from Queenie.   The Dragonstalkers are tied up and the Elucidators are out of action, so she needs to have us head back up to the Kralt Lordholding for a mission.  Apparently that guy who pretended to be the gnoll god is still hanging out in the area causing trouble.”   Narg blurts out “Great! Let’s Go!”  Jamie gives him an icy stare and says, “NO!  You’re not going anywhere Narg!”    He replies, “But the Queen needs us!”   She says, “She needs people whose wives will not be giving birth any day now!”    Vincenzo tells Narg, “You’re not going to win this one.”  Mojo tells Narg, “See you later.  I’ll tell you how it all turns out.”   Narg replies, “Like hell you will.  You’re the Godfather.  If I have to stay here then so do you.”   Mojo says, “But the Queen…”   Cassie interrupts, “The Queen wants a team to go on this mission.  The team doesn’t have to include either of you.  I’ll lead it, you stay here.” She then asks Mojo if she can borrow his communication device.  He says, “No, it’s mine.  I’m going to be needing it.”  “Fine, be that way,” she states and exits the tavern.   Narg turns to his companion and says, “You’re planning to talk to the Queen again?.”  Mojo replies, “Nah, but I’ll be needing the corkscrew and bottle opener.  You will too, hours of labor are nothing to sit through while sober.”   Cassie decides to bring along the others from the previous Kralt mission, contacting both Alton and Mark to accompany her.   Alton insists on having her cast a “Reduce” spell on his motorcycle and placing it inside one of the three Bags of Holding.   He says, “I could have really used it last time and don’t want to be caught short again.”  The monk Purge has long since left the Island, so Cassie decides to fill his spot on the team with his female human monk protégé Luekia.   She is a very unique individual and belongs to a rather reclusive order.  She wears gloves, a birka and hooded cloak that cover everything except for her eyes.  Like Mark, she had participated on a prior mission requiring aquatic transformation (Module #83, “Chariots of Water”) and can assume an aquatic form when triggered by a Dispel Magic spell.  She has spent the better part of the past year trying to avoid a half-orc party member who has fallen in love with her, and quickly volunteers to go along when asked. Cassie decides to bring along the dwarf Lannon on the mission.  He is the party’s most experienced thief, although in many ways he is really just a frustrated fighter whose low strength didn’t warrant his going into the fighting profession.    She rounds out the team with Timothy, a tall and very quiet human cleric of Ukko, who was also one of the founding members of the Silver Moon Adventures.  Timothy and Luekia each make arrangements to have their pegasi looked after while they are away.   Luekia also arranges to have an Invisibility spell cast onto her. The six adventurers assemble back at Jerry’s Tavern, having gathered together the necessary supplies for the mission.   Surprisingly, both Mojo and Narg are not around to see them off.  Jerry, Jamie, Vincenzo and Vallessa wish them well, as Cassie’s five teammates climb into two of the three Bags of Holding.   She picks up the bags and then teleports away to the Monastery of the Kralt Lordholder.</blockquote>

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