GlassEye
Adventurer
Franko
Franko bounces around the camp eventually being drawn out into the nearby forest. He moves parallel to the stream that flows along the side of the serpent mound. Finally, he comes to a small, stagnant pool filled with the wriggling black bodies of tadpoles. He stares and stares mesmerized by the frenetic movements. Strangely if he unfocuses his eyes he can very nearly see the wriggling as words.
Then Franko loseses his balance and topples into the pool. Or rather, through the pool. He sits up, water soaking his breeches and dripping from his hair, somehow still in the pool and yet somewhere else as well. A chorus of frogs sits in front of him croaking the same refrain over and over.
"Bo bug bu bilz! Bo bug bu bilz! Bobugbubilz!"
In the darkness beyond (wait, wasn't it morning when he left?) two gleaming amphibian eyes the size of wagon wheels stare at him. The frog chorus serves as the giant frog's voice and what they have to say is simple: they offer him an exchange of power.
If he accepts Franko has vague memories of masses of frogs, strange rites, and finally of being gulped down by the giant frog and reawakening, soaked, in the pool. If Franko chooses not to accept then the chorus of frogs becomes maddeningly loud and he is gulped down by the giant frog (not a pleasant memory in either case) and awakes in the mucky pool.
Hank
Hank's experience in summoning a patron is much different than Franko's. The words of his prayer book blur into a haze of white light and when he looks up he is confronted by the judging stares of three women. He feels they are weighing the worth of his soul and it is with great relief that they nod as one. Their voices ring like the music of the spheres when they make their offer to Hank:
"We seek champions to strive against the diabolic powers, wicked gods, and forces of the outer dark that seek to tear the skein of order and undo the work of creation. Do our work and know that you serve the Three Fates!"
[sblock=OOC]I'll get an update for the whole party up as soon as I can. ENWorld has been extremely difficult lately...
Scott, accepting either of those as patrons has the same base effect (since both Franko and Hank made the same roll): You make contact with your patron and receive a mark of the patron on your face. You can cast the invoke patron spell 1/day at a +1 bonus to the spell check. When it is cast, you become indebted to your patron and they will call in the debt at some point in the future.
Hank: Just above the bridge of his nose Hank receives a small tattoo of a pair of scizzors (open), the mark of Atropos, one of the Three Fates.
Franko: Receives a large black spot like from a leopard frog. The spot seems to be in a different place on Franko's face every morning.
Note: You don't have to accept either patron; you can reject the patron with no ill effect but the week will still be gone with no chance to try again.[/sblock]
Franko bounces around the camp eventually being drawn out into the nearby forest. He moves parallel to the stream that flows along the side of the serpent mound. Finally, he comes to a small, stagnant pool filled with the wriggling black bodies of tadpoles. He stares and stares mesmerized by the frenetic movements. Strangely if he unfocuses his eyes he can very nearly see the wriggling as words.
Then Franko loseses his balance and topples into the pool. Or rather, through the pool. He sits up, water soaking his breeches and dripping from his hair, somehow still in the pool and yet somewhere else as well. A chorus of frogs sits in front of him croaking the same refrain over and over.
"Bo bug bu bilz! Bo bug bu bilz! Bobugbubilz!"
In the darkness beyond (wait, wasn't it morning when he left?) two gleaming amphibian eyes the size of wagon wheels stare at him. The frog chorus serves as the giant frog's voice and what they have to say is simple: they offer him an exchange of power.
If he accepts Franko has vague memories of masses of frogs, strange rites, and finally of being gulped down by the giant frog and reawakening, soaked, in the pool. If Franko chooses not to accept then the chorus of frogs becomes maddeningly loud and he is gulped down by the giant frog (not a pleasant memory in either case) and awakes in the mucky pool.
Hank
Hank's experience in summoning a patron is much different than Franko's. The words of his prayer book blur into a haze of white light and when he looks up he is confronted by the judging stares of three women. He feels they are weighing the worth of his soul and it is with great relief that they nod as one. Their voices ring like the music of the spheres when they make their offer to Hank:
"We seek champions to strive against the diabolic powers, wicked gods, and forces of the outer dark that seek to tear the skein of order and undo the work of creation. Do our work and know that you serve the Three Fates!"
[sblock=OOC]I'll get an update for the whole party up as soon as I can. ENWorld has been extremely difficult lately...
Scott, accepting either of those as patrons has the same base effect (since both Franko and Hank made the same roll): You make contact with your patron and receive a mark of the patron on your face. You can cast the invoke patron spell 1/day at a +1 bonus to the spell check. When it is cast, you become indebted to your patron and they will call in the debt at some point in the future.
Hank: Just above the bridge of his nose Hank receives a small tattoo of a pair of scizzors (open), the mark of Atropos, one of the Three Fates.
Franko: Receives a large black spot like from a leopard frog. The spot seems to be in a different place on Franko's face every morning.
Note: You don't have to accept either patron; you can reject the patron with no ill effect but the week will still be gone with no chance to try again.[/sblock]
