BrOp's Age of Worms Adventure Path (OOC)

[Branding Opportunity]

I'm updating the first post of this thread with some more background information for the town and environs of Diamond Mine. I'll also post some suggestion for possible PC involvement with these places and people.

 

[Branding Opportunity]

"Points of Interest in Diamond Lake" added to the first post in this thread.

 

[Branding Opportunity]

Here are some background ideas for you to consider, which are specific to the town of Diamond Lake.

Someone: Just as an idea, the Emporium is always on the lookout for charismatic exhibitors with a magical trick up their sleave - the flashier the better. Or you might also be affiliated with a street gang that frequent the Feral Dog (see first post) or might be in the employ of one of the mine managers. After all, everyone needs to make money somehow.

Bront: You might consider changing your background a bit, and apprentice yourself to Allustan (see first post). He's the most powerful wizard, and lived in Sharn for many years himself.

Knight Otu & Candide: Rogues are right at home nearly anywhere in Diamond Lake, but espeically in vice dens like the Emporium or the Midnight Salute. Each of the mine managers sponsors at least one gang of toughs, making a rogue PC a great point of contact with the town's seedy underworld. Or if you really want a challenge, make yourself a gofer for Balabar Smenk, the most powerful, and most notorious mine manager in town.

lotuseater: No dwarves call Diamond Lake home, though a few live there. Most have some sort of business with the Greysmere Covenant (a minor trade guild with connections to the Mror Holds), perhaps as a guard, negotiator, or even a magical advisor. As for being a cleric, the town has temples dedicated to Dol Arrah, the Church of the Silver Flame, Balinor and the Blood of Vol.

Ranger Rick & D20Dazza & Captain Tagon: Warforged are still relatively rare in Diamond Lake, and are therefore not yet seen as threats to the local human workforce, the way they are in Sharn. There is a local community not too far from Diamond Lake, called the Bronzewood Lodge, which is mostly composed of Druids and Rangers, and includes many shifters as well.

Ranger Rick: Benazel the Alchemist who works at the Smelting House is probably the most powerful artificer in Diamond Lake. He overseas the rituals and reagents necessary for the smeling process and makes a minor fortune selling potions from his first-floor office.

Erekose13: As far as you know there are no psionic practioners in Diamond Lake.

 

[Bront]

Here are some background ideas for you to consider, which are specific to the town of Diamond Lake.

Bront: You might consider changing your background a bit, and apprentice yourself to Allustan (see first post). He's the most powerful wizard, and lived in Sharn for many years himself.

Ranger Rick: Benazel the Alchemist who works at the Smelting House is probably the most powerful artificer in Diamond Lake. He overseas the rituals and reagents necessary for the smeling process and makes a minor fortune selling potions from his first-floor office.

K, I'd probably still have to leave for sharn at some point, but I can appretice to him for a bit. Some of what I want to learn, he can't teach me (The changeling levels). Maybe I went with him to the U for a bit.

 

[Branding Opportunity]

A way that the adventure could begin would be if you of you worked (or stole from) the offices of one of the mining managers. There, you could have come across an old map which listed the location of an unknown burial cairn, located near an abandoned mine. Everything other tomb in the vicity is pretty empty, having been cleaned out over the centuries. Remember that the goblinoid empires stretch back thousands of years, and there were civilizations even before that.

What I am saying is that someone one of you came into possesion of this map, and is now organizing people he knows and trusts to go explore it.

 

[Bront]

Pak, what have you been up to? *tap tap tap goes the foot*

 

[Candide]

*innocent look* Whaat?

 

[lotuseater]

pak seems a good choice to me for the job of map holder.

 

[Someone]

Someone: Just as an idea, the Emporium is always on the lookout for charismatic exhibitors with a magical trick up their sleave - the flashier the better. Or you might also be affiliated with a street gang that frequent the Feral Dog (see first post) or might be in the employ of one of the mine managers. After all, everyone needs to make money somehow.

hm, Rial´s repertoire is quite limited, so the show would get old quite quickly, and I don´t think a guy with crazed eyes, psychotic smile, and powers of more than dubious origins would be a good entertainer anyway.

That would make him a reasonably good enforcer and local boogeyman, however. After all, he has a reasonably good score in Intimidate, and by the books can scare most low level npcs with ease. But I don´t see him being employed or easy to control, so maybe he´s been tumbling from employer to employer in those years. He could be currently employed by one of the managers, or seeing that I have a couple cure potions in my inventory, we could say that Benazel the alchemist recently considered to have someone able to keep unwanted visitors at bay.

 

[Branding Opportunity]

I'd like to begin the adventure right near the mouth of the Whispering Cairn (now that one of you has the map) so we can get right into it. That means that folks should look over their character sheet to see if they have all the equipment they might want for a dungeon crawl, as you won't be starting in town.