Copperheads: Betrayal and Strange Runes and Burning Dead, oh my (short update 02/12)
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Blarths Story
Don't know if this is the right place for it but here's Blarths background for anyone interested.
If there is a better place please move it and give me the location and I'll post a link.
STORY OF BLARTH
Blarth is the child of an Orc named Araus, his father and a Human named Taleis his Mother.
Araus was a well-known mercenary and fought in many battles and wars, leading the troops of his employers and often doing special missions in which he worked solo.
His Mother Taleis, was an infamous thief and con-woman and was well known for ripping off the rich and famous in various well known cities around the Seldarn Empire using different plots and schemes.
His parents first met when Taleis was finally captured in the city of Ownet and was extradited to Naiga. Araus was chasing a bounty placed on the head of one of the guards who happened to be escorting Taleis to Naiga. Araus attacked the caravan, slaying all the guards and freed Taleis from her captivity.
With nowhere to go Taleis decided to follow Araus and they became a lethal duo. Two years later Blarth was born.
Over the years Blarth followed his parents around Seldarn and its nearby Kingdoms while his Mother and Father taught him their skills however they would never let him partake in any of their mercenary work until Araus was fully confident of Blarths skills
Then one day Taleis fell sick. Araus left in search of a healer and left Blarth to guard Taleis.
Little did they know that they had been tracked by a Ranger Mercenary named “Sned” who was seeking the bounty placed on Taleis’s head.
Sned easily outclassed Blarth in swordsmanship and stole off with Taleis. When Araus returned and discovered what had happened he was fuming at Blarths attempt to defend his mother. Araus then sped off in pursuit of Sned and that was the last that Blarth ever saw of his father.
He was abandoned and left in the forest where he was still badly injured from the battle with Sned. Blarth nearly died but his will to survive and the need to appease for the loss of his mother drove him on.
For three years he lived in the forest living off the land the best that he could. Then one day as he was hunting for food he heard the sounds of a fierce battle in a nearby valley.
His curiosity fed him and he had haste to the nearby valley. He came across the leftover remains of a large battle. A sole survivor he found called Rufis the Bold. Blarth took Rufis to his home in the mountains and nursed Rufis back to health as best that he could.
Rufis was a soldier and follower of Celestial Warden Martak, Commander of the Soldiers of Justice and St Cuthbert’s right hand man and taught Blarth all he knew of his religion and taught him how to use the powers of the mind. Rufis even suggested that if Blarth show Martak how great a warrior he could be that maybe St Cuthbert would bring his parents back.
Several months past and even though Rufis’s wounds had healed, he was never fully right and passed away to an unknown disease.
Blarth taking up Rufis’s idea then went forth to prove his worth to Martak and earn a place next to St Cuthbert.
Don't know if this is the right place for it but here's Blarths background for anyone interested.
If there is a better place please move it and give me the location and I'll post a link.
STORY OF BLARTH
Blarth is the child of an Orc named Araus, his father and a Human named Taleis his Mother.
Araus was a well-known mercenary and fought in many battles and wars, leading the troops of his employers and often doing special missions in which he worked solo.
His Mother Taleis, was an infamous thief and con-woman and was well known for ripping off the rich and famous in various well known cities around the Seldarn Empire using different plots and schemes.
His parents first met when Taleis was finally captured in the city of Ownet and was extradited to Naiga. Araus was chasing a bounty placed on the head of one of the guards who happened to be escorting Taleis to Naiga. Araus attacked the caravan, slaying all the guards and freed Taleis from her captivity.
With nowhere to go Taleis decided to follow Araus and they became a lethal duo. Two years later Blarth was born.
Over the years Blarth followed his parents around Seldarn and its nearby Kingdoms while his Mother and Father taught him their skills however they would never let him partake in any of their mercenary work until Araus was fully confident of Blarths skills
Then one day Taleis fell sick. Araus left in search of a healer and left Blarth to guard Taleis.
Little did they know that they had been tracked by a Ranger Mercenary named “Sned” who was seeking the bounty placed on Taleis’s head.
Sned easily outclassed Blarth in swordsmanship and stole off with Taleis. When Araus returned and discovered what had happened he was fuming at Blarths attempt to defend his mother. Araus then sped off in pursuit of Sned and that was the last that Blarth ever saw of his father.
He was abandoned and left in the forest where he was still badly injured from the battle with Sned. Blarth nearly died but his will to survive and the need to appease for the loss of his mother drove him on.
For three years he lived in the forest living off the land the best that he could. Then one day as he was hunting for food he heard the sounds of a fierce battle in a nearby valley.
His curiosity fed him and he had haste to the nearby valley. He came across the leftover remains of a large battle. A sole survivor he found called Rufis the Bold. Blarth took Rufis to his home in the mountains and nursed Rufis back to health as best that he could.
Rufis was a soldier and follower of Celestial Warden Martak, Commander of the Soldiers of Justice and St Cuthbert’s right hand man and taught Blarth all he knew of his religion and taught him how to use the powers of the mind. Rufis even suggested that if Blarth show Martak how great a warrior he could be that maybe St Cuthbert would bring his parents back.
Several months past and even though Rufis’s wounds had healed, he was never fully right and passed away to an unknown disease.
Blarth taking up Rufis’s idea then went forth to prove his worth to Martak and earn a place next to St Cuthbert.
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Clockwork Golem
Friday, August 25th, 508 AF, continued
There is little of interest in the first two rooms of the mine. The first seems to be a storage area, while the second is a larger cavern. Halgo gives the wall's a cursory glance before judging that any digging in the area was several decades old, to say the least.
On the far end of the second cavern, they find a narrow corridor. It's a cramped tunnel, little more than eight or nine feet accross, and it continues on beyond the limit of their light. Yip points quietly to something moving in the murky shadows, and Geoffrey nods. The kobold crawls forward, keeping low to the floor, and returns in the space of a few moments.
"Well?" Geoffrey asks.
"Intersection. Heads piled in centre," Yip tells. "Three heads, piled up. Yip see two goblin heads, one elf. Beetles crawl over, make move."
"Severed heads?" Halgo asks. Yip nods.
"Think their dangerous?" Goeffrey asks. Halgo shrugs, his knowledge of necromancy not vast enough to provide an answer.
"Blarth find out," blarth grunts. He draws his sword and walks forward.
As soon as he's withing three paces, the eyes of all three heads roll open and flare at him. Blarth pauses for a moment, and the heads open their mouth and let out an ear-splitting scream. Blarth lets out a warcry in response and swings his sword. The pile of heads falls apart, the elven head at the top flying down the corridor.
Blarth's companions are at his side in the space of seconds, weapons at the ready.
"What in hell is that?" Geoffrey demands.
"Some kind of alarm system," Halgo explains, holding his hands over his ears. The heads keep screaming, their cries echoing along the narrow corridor. Blarth and Geoffrey start smashing at the heads at their feet, silencing them as the skulls crumble beneath their blows.
"What that?" Yip asks, pointing. Everyone looks, and they can see something glimmering in the light of the Geoffrey's sunrod. It rests next to the still screaming elf head, about three feet from Blarth's legs. Blarth picks up the head and the glimmering object. After taking a few moments to stuff a rag in the mouth of the screaming head and stow it in a sack, Blarth holds the gleaming object in his hand and shows it to the others. It's an gold earring, shaped to look like a tiny trumpet.
"Came off elf head," he tells the others. "Blarth saw flash when Blarth hit."
"Blarth want it?" Geoffrey asks.
Blarth shrugs, and pushes the earring through his ear. There's a momentary blur in his hearing afterwards, as though his ear is blocked with wax. Blarth contemplates this for a few seconds, then shrugs it off as an afteraffect of peircing his own ear. Before he can conteplate things further, Geoffrey nudges him and points down one of the narrow side-passages.
"That way," the cleric says. Blarth nods and leads the way into the gloom.
There is little of interest in the first two rooms of the mine. The first seems to be a storage area, while the second is a larger cavern. Halgo gives the wall's a cursory glance before judging that any digging in the area was several decades old, to say the least.
On the far end of the second cavern, they find a narrow corridor. It's a cramped tunnel, little more than eight or nine feet accross, and it continues on beyond the limit of their light. Yip points quietly to something moving in the murky shadows, and Geoffrey nods. The kobold crawls forward, keeping low to the floor, and returns in the space of a few moments.
"Well?" Geoffrey asks.
"Intersection. Heads piled in centre," Yip tells. "Three heads, piled up. Yip see two goblin heads, one elf. Beetles crawl over, make move."
"Severed heads?" Halgo asks. Yip nods.
"Think their dangerous?" Goeffrey asks. Halgo shrugs, his knowledge of necromancy not vast enough to provide an answer.
"Blarth find out," blarth grunts. He draws his sword and walks forward.
As soon as he's withing three paces, the eyes of all three heads roll open and flare at him. Blarth pauses for a moment, and the heads open their mouth and let out an ear-splitting scream. Blarth lets out a warcry in response and swings his sword. The pile of heads falls apart, the elven head at the top flying down the corridor.
Blarth's companions are at his side in the space of seconds, weapons at the ready.
"What in hell is that?" Geoffrey demands.
"Some kind of alarm system," Halgo explains, holding his hands over his ears. The heads keep screaming, their cries echoing along the narrow corridor. Blarth and Geoffrey start smashing at the heads at their feet, silencing them as the skulls crumble beneath their blows.
"What that?" Yip asks, pointing. Everyone looks, and they can see something glimmering in the light of the Geoffrey's sunrod. It rests next to the still screaming elf head, about three feet from Blarth's legs. Blarth picks up the head and the glimmering object. After taking a few moments to stuff a rag in the mouth of the screaming head and stow it in a sack, Blarth holds the gleaming object in his hand and shows it to the others. It's an gold earring, shaped to look like a tiny trumpet.
"Came off elf head," he tells the others. "Blarth saw flash when Blarth hit."
"Blarth want it?" Geoffrey asks.
Blarth shrugs, and pushes the earring through his ear. There's a momentary blur in his hearing afterwards, as though his ear is blocked with wax. Blarth contemplates this for a few seconds, then shrugs it off as an afteraffect of peircing his own ear. Before he can conteplate things further, Geoffrey nudges him and points down one of the narrow side-passages.
"That way," the cleric says. Blarth nods and leads the way into the gloom.
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It not fall out of Blarth ear!!! Blarth can't do that mind trick yet!!
Say.. this wouldn't have come out of the Khest Campaign by any chance... like the time we had the evil dragon summoning flute that summoned every evil dragon in a 100 mile radius.. only to summon one too many and have one of them belly flop on Justice the Barbarian??? LOL
Say.. this wouldn't have come out of the Khest Campaign by any chance... like the time we had the evil dragon summoning flute that summoned every evil dragon in a 100 mile radius.. only to summon one too many and have one of them belly flop on Justice the Barbarian??? LOL
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