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<blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 3960204" data-attributes="member: 1210"><p><strong>Dramatis Personae</strong></p><p></p><p>Who are our heroes?</p><p></p><p>It’s a question we may as well start answering early on, as we’ll need to answer it some time. And it’s sometimes, somewhat ambiguous what makes a “hero”, but these are <em>our</em> heroes- our party of adventurers, our pcs and allies- and let’s leave it at that, shall we?</p><p></p><p>They are not all famous in all the same places, or for all the same things, but they’re all famous in their own arenas. They are none of them to be underestimated. They are slayers of beings of god-like power, enders of empires, names that will be remembered for thousands of years. </p><p></p><p>For those of you that would just like names and a brief idea of class and level, think 23rd-30th level. And I try to make the class pretty clear right away. The names are bolded; if the background bores you, just skip it. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Let’s start with the two who would be emperors. </p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Thrush,</span></strong> the foremost of swordsman of his age, is a fighter, pure and simple and deadly. He could probably kill an entire army single-handedly with that greatsword of his. He isn’t all that bright, but he figures that an emperor is as smart as all of his advisors put together. Thrush was an army man first, in the Forinthian army, and later an adventurer on the island of Pesh. But his adventures there led his party and him into Bile Mountain. They were skilled and savvy enough to win their way past monsters, traps and tricks to the top; but once there, they were trapped. The party fought the Bile Lords at first, but when they realized that the Bile Lords were trapped there, too, Thrush elected to surrender at the last, after his allies were dead, and agreed to work for the Bile Lords. About a decade later, when our heroes were making their own forays into Bile Mountain, they, too, won their way to the top level. Thrush served as an example, a warning and a bodyguard- but the Bile Lords did not anticipate the man’s need for companionship. Sybele seduced him, and has been with him (loosely, for she is a slut) ever since. Together, the party figured a way out of Bile Mountain, defeated the Bile Lords and have traveled together ever since. Recently, some of the party’s other members have put the idea in his head that he should become the next emperor of Forinthia, and he has decided that sounds pretty good! Thrush is an npc straight-up fighter who is permanently <em>enlarged</em> (a common theme in the party). </p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Dorn Wankerman</span></strong> came into the party as the cohort of one of the pcs, Gerontius. He’s a member of the faction called the Xaositechts, out of the planar city of Sigil. Wankerman is a most impressive figure, being permanently <em>enlarged</em>. He has focused on a combination of spear-related and charge-related feats and abilities, plus the Xaositecht prestige class from the <em>Planar Handbook</em>. Wankerman also has the Bullywug Breakdance homebrewed tactical feat. Since one of his treasure picks from the fight with the Arrows of Law was the <em>rod of the Dark Emperor,</em> he has decided to make a play for the throne of the Dark Empire of far-off Strogass. </p><p></p><p>The interesting thing about both would-be emperors is that they are npcs, and that both of their attempts at becoming emperors were instigated by pcs. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Then we have <strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Horbin the MFKG Holy</span></strong>, an epic cleric who has recently become the Bishop of Western Dorhaus and gone into semi-retirement. However, as he is headquartered in the Halls of Healing in the city of Var, where our heroes spend a great deal of time, there is no doubt that we’ll be seeing a lot of him. Horbin’s adventuring history goes far back, to a party of orcs from Valonia that traveled all the way to Dorhaus by accident, where they briefly tickled the Temple of Elemental Evil for a brief period. These early encounters were formative for Horbin, as he would later oppose the Temple of Elemental Evil again when nigh-epic. He also traveled on a ship of strange, mechanical design; it was covered by mechanical insects as big as a small dog, but they were inactive. Until, that is, Horbin and his companions accidentally reactivated them. They ended up fleeing the metal ship as it sank into the ocean to begin some strange kind of transformation. A few years later, Horbin met up with the original members of the current party and joined forces for, among other things, their first foray into Bile Mountain. During this period, the party had several clashes with forces of Law, during which it was made crystal clear that Horbin’s clerical powers would not function against Galadorians. Eventually, the party overthrew and destroyed the Temple of Elemental Evil and collapsed its foul elemental nodes, hopefully forever.</p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Baron Lillamere of House Drelvin</span></strong> is the nephew of an old, and now dead, party member, Drelvin the Archer. Lillamere is a sorcerer and a baron; as such, he is taking levels in an epic prestige class I am creating for him called the eldritch liege. Originally, he, Inoke, Veil (another recently-deceased character eaten by artifact possession) and Gerontius were a band of high-level adventurers that came into contact with the rest of our heroes during a battle against giants in the ruins of a city on Dorhaus near where Lillamere’s fief, Brelana, now is. The two parties joined forces, and it’s been excellent going ever since. In addition to sorcerer levels, Lillamere has taken the argent savant route, specializing in force spells. </p><p></p><p>The other from Lillamere’s old party that remains with the current group include <strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Gerontius,</span></strong> a halfling rogue/invisible blade mean guy with a dagger. Thanks to the touch of Chaos, Gerontius has the air subtype and can fly, and he also speaks in an outrageous French accent because of Chaos. Ahh, Chaos. His skin and hair and eyes are paler than any normal halfling’s, shading to blue. Gerontius is probably the best person alive on Cydra with a dagger, and his skill at bluffing is so incredible that he can probably succeed at lying to many gods. Gerontius has recently made it a point to champion the halflings of Valonia, who are under siege by the Valonian orcs allied with Law. </p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Inoke,</span></strong> a warmind who began as a psychic warrior and used to be a barbarian as well (before he shifted to Lawful alignment) was a party member until recently, but his defection to the Arrows of Law and the final battle with the Arrows has left the rest of the party disenchanted with Inoke. They are not yet certain as to his disposition after the finale of the fight with the Arrows. Inoke is big and burly, vaguely Samoan in appearance (he’s from the Parrot Isles). He wears a strange, cat-shaped helm that is a relic of the ancient Miloxi Empire, an empire of tabaxi (cat-people). Inoke is incredibly formidable; the “Inoke Special” (which is a charge benefiting from <em>psionic lion’s charge</em> with all of Inoke’s special attack po0wers in full swing) was sufficient to kill Asmodeus himself in a single round of melee! Now his fate and his future are unknown. Will we see more of Inoke, or is he dead already? Well, I took the time to write a paragraph about him, so that should tell you something, anyway.</p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Sybele</span></strong> is a “big girl”- a warrior of chaos/fighter/psion who has grown to large size via Chaos’ powers. She was blonde and buxom when she was normal-sized; now that she has grown, her bust has become truly tremendous. She is a burly warrior, favoring both a humungous greatsword and a bow almost as tall as herself. However, she is also quite a lover. She originally adventured on Tirchond, fighting with the revolutionaries against Forinthian occupation. She has been with the current party since it formed before their first trip to Bile Mountain, fought Asmodeus and the Arrows of Law, had a daughter who was threatened with death by Marius when she attacked the Arrows, and is the consort of Thrush, though not a very faithful one. Whenever he is not present, Sybele is rubbing up against someone else- probably a very dangerous thing to do, as Thrush is both jealous and short-tempered. However, he seems to see no wrong in Sybele no matter what she does. She has three kids- Jezebel, the half-dragon child she was given by the steel dragon Kel, and a pair of twins by Thrush. The touch of Chaos has affected her in odd ways- for example, she cannot remember peoples’ names, even her own. </p><p></p><p>Recently, the party has been joined by a half-slaad wilder named <strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Jibber Junior.</span></strong> He is the progeny of Jibber, a singing slaad that the party encountered just before their first trip to Bile Mountain. As an anarchic initiate, JJ (as Jibber Junior is commonly called) was a big fan of the party’s work for Chaos, intentional or not. When the party called for allies to fight the Arrows of Law in a Xaositecht get together in Sigil, he joined them eagerly. He has proven quite useful, though often it seems that only sheer dumb luck saves him from destruction. </p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Alcar</span></strong> was a cleric/fighter of a heretical sect of Galadorians from Gorel who was elevated to angel status as a reward for a job well done against the menace of the ancient lich E-Krektor and the clockwork horrors. Called the Angel of Food, he had a <em>backpack of infinite food</em> that he would dispense blessings from nearly constantly. However, he subsequently got into trouble with his angelic superiors in the Heavenly Bureaucracy, and his backpack was taken away. He was then sent back to Cydra, where he first met up with several of the members of the party that were later to storm Bile Mountain, including Sybele, while they were guarding the dragon eggs that he had been sent to destroy. In the ensuing standoff, the party managed to stave Alcar off through a combination of their ally Kel, the steel dragon, and diplomacy by Alcar’s old friend Sun Si. Later, Alcar joined the party to attack Bile Mountain, only to die within the place’s dungeons. However, Horbin later brought him back to life with a <em>true resurrection</em>. Alcar’s relationship with the church degenerated over time. From his beginnings as a heretic of Gorel, he was derided as heterodox at best. His temple, periodically besieged by the demon lord Dagon, did not perform the rituals in proper Forinthian, instead using the vernacular. There was edification of fire, rather than the more pure light. And there was the matter of his superiors refusing to allow him to see Galador on demand. Eventually, Alcar foreswore his service to Galador and took up the mantle of champion of one of the new gods- Bless, the lord of lost causes and hopeless quests. Now his white and gold have been traded in for the grey of his new god. </p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Lester</span></strong>, the Elementalist, head of the Temple of Elemental Good, the Angel of Adventure, is an elementalist/warrior of chaos with a smattering of prestige class dips, including divine oracle, contemplative, and paraelementalist. (Elementalist is a homebrewed Cydran base class.) With his gills and bat wings, he clearly shows the mark of Chaos. More importantly, he is trying to become a god: the god of adventure and adventurers. And his pedigree as an adventurer is pretty darn good: among other things, he has fought the Angel of the Apocalypse Fuligin, who depopulated Dorhaus for over a century; traveled back in time to a previous multiverse; destroyed Felenga, the Dark One, a second Angel of the Apocalypse; overcome the Tomb of Horrors, and followed Acererak’s twisted path all the way to the Fortress of Conclusion (well, or at least been returned to life near the end of it); thrown down the Temple of Elemental Evil, not once, but twice; killed Imix, the Prince of Evil Elemental Fire creatures; slain Asmodeus, Lord of Hell; and overthrown Law itself to win the Great War of Ethics for Chaos! Oh, sure, it wasn’t all him by himself, but whatever. Swarthy, currently wearing his hair in cornrows, wearing dark-tinted spectacles, Lester is the epitome of cool... and of adventure. </p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Orbius, the Eye of Boccob,</span></strong> is Lester’s cohort: a diviner/divine oracle. He met Lester years ago on a pirate ship (rumor has it that one day, there may be a story hour post about this) and has accompanied him loyally ever since. Orbius is a compelling argument as to why diviners should require two opposed schools, just like everyone else: yeah, they need to invest time and money in divinations first, but the party is devastating effective, because they know everything there is to know about their enemies, their lairs, their situations and (if they want to) their love lives.</p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Blazier</span></strong>, another member of the Xaositecht faction (if not prestige class) is another recent addition, joining the party at about the same time as JJ. He is a sorcerer/metamagician and a gnome. He feels that Horbin sold out when he accepted the position of Bishop of West Dorhaus, which is ironic, since Blaze is the replacement pc for Horbin, since he’s semi-retired (or at least, trying to be). <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Chakar</span></strong> is a monk on the path to personal perfection. There are times when he is uncertain as to which path to take (as when his monk status and his dwarven nature were conflicted over whether to drink beer), but on the whole, he has found and followed his path. Chakar has been tutored by the Perfect Master Pan Lo, and has begun taking levels in the Perfect Master epic prestige class that I crafted for him.</p><p></p><p>The party has many other allies, including Mabrack the storm giant wizard, but for now, those are the party and most closely associated npcs. And that’s it for the introductory stuff- the next post should be an actual story hour update. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> (Hopefully later tonight!)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="the Jester, post: 3960204, member: 1210"] [b]Dramatis Personae[/b] Who are our heroes? It’s a question we may as well start answering early on, as we’ll need to answer it some time. And it’s sometimes, somewhat ambiguous what makes a “hero”, but these are [i]our[/i] heroes- our party of adventurers, our pcs and allies- and let’s leave it at that, shall we? They are not all famous in all the same places, or for all the same things, but they’re all famous in their own arenas. They are none of them to be underestimated. They are slayers of beings of god-like power, enders of empires, names that will be remembered for thousands of years. For those of you that would just like names and a brief idea of class and level, think 23rd-30th level. And I try to make the class pretty clear right away. The names are bolded; if the background bores you, just skip it. :) Let’s start with the two who would be emperors. [b][size=5]Thrush,[/size][/b] the foremost of swordsman of his age, is a fighter, pure and simple and deadly. He could probably kill an entire army single-handedly with that greatsword of his. He isn’t all that bright, but he figures that an emperor is as smart as all of his advisors put together. Thrush was an army man first, in the Forinthian army, and later an adventurer on the island of Pesh. But his adventures there led his party and him into Bile Mountain. They were skilled and savvy enough to win their way past monsters, traps and tricks to the top; but once there, they were trapped. The party fought the Bile Lords at first, but when they realized that the Bile Lords were trapped there, too, Thrush elected to surrender at the last, after his allies were dead, and agreed to work for the Bile Lords. About a decade later, when our heroes were making their own forays into Bile Mountain, they, too, won their way to the top level. Thrush served as an example, a warning and a bodyguard- but the Bile Lords did not anticipate the man’s need for companionship. Sybele seduced him, and has been with him (loosely, for she is a slut) ever since. Together, the party figured a way out of Bile Mountain, defeated the Bile Lords and have traveled together ever since. Recently, some of the party’s other members have put the idea in his head that he should become the next emperor of Forinthia, and he has decided that sounds pretty good! Thrush is an npc straight-up fighter who is permanently [i]enlarged[/i] (a common theme in the party). [b][size=5]Dorn Wankerman[/size][/b] came into the party as the cohort of one of the pcs, Gerontius. He’s a member of the faction called the Xaositechts, out of the planar city of Sigil. Wankerman is a most impressive figure, being permanently [i]enlarged[/i]. He has focused on a combination of spear-related and charge-related feats and abilities, plus the Xaositecht prestige class from the [i]Planar Handbook[/i]. Wankerman also has the Bullywug Breakdance homebrewed tactical feat. Since one of his treasure picks from the fight with the Arrows of Law was the [i]rod of the Dark Emperor,[/i] he has decided to make a play for the throne of the Dark Empire of far-off Strogass. The interesting thing about both would-be emperors is that they are npcs, and that both of their attempts at becoming emperors were instigated by pcs. :) Then we have [b][size=5]Horbin the MFKG Holy[/size][/b], an epic cleric who has recently become the Bishop of Western Dorhaus and gone into semi-retirement. However, as he is headquartered in the Halls of Healing in the city of Var, where our heroes spend a great deal of time, there is no doubt that we’ll be seeing a lot of him. Horbin’s adventuring history goes far back, to a party of orcs from Valonia that traveled all the way to Dorhaus by accident, where they briefly tickled the Temple of Elemental Evil for a brief period. These early encounters were formative for Horbin, as he would later oppose the Temple of Elemental Evil again when nigh-epic. He also traveled on a ship of strange, mechanical design; it was covered by mechanical insects as big as a small dog, but they were inactive. Until, that is, Horbin and his companions accidentally reactivated them. They ended up fleeing the metal ship as it sank into the ocean to begin some strange kind of transformation. A few years later, Horbin met up with the original members of the current party and joined forces for, among other things, their first foray into Bile Mountain. During this period, the party had several clashes with forces of Law, during which it was made crystal clear that Horbin’s clerical powers would not function against Galadorians. Eventually, the party overthrew and destroyed the Temple of Elemental Evil and collapsed its foul elemental nodes, hopefully forever. [b][size=5]Baron Lillamere of House Drelvin[/size][/b] is the nephew of an old, and now dead, party member, Drelvin the Archer. Lillamere is a sorcerer and a baron; as such, he is taking levels in an epic prestige class I am creating for him called the eldritch liege. Originally, he, Inoke, Veil (another recently-deceased character eaten by artifact possession) and Gerontius were a band of high-level adventurers that came into contact with the rest of our heroes during a battle against giants in the ruins of a city on Dorhaus near where Lillamere’s fief, Brelana, now is. The two parties joined forces, and it’s been excellent going ever since. In addition to sorcerer levels, Lillamere has taken the argent savant route, specializing in force spells. The other from Lillamere’s old party that remains with the current group include [b][size=5]Gerontius,[/size][/b] a halfling rogue/invisible blade mean guy with a dagger. Thanks to the touch of Chaos, Gerontius has the air subtype and can fly, and he also speaks in an outrageous French accent because of Chaos. Ahh, Chaos. His skin and hair and eyes are paler than any normal halfling’s, shading to blue. Gerontius is probably the best person alive on Cydra with a dagger, and his skill at bluffing is so incredible that he can probably succeed at lying to many gods. Gerontius has recently made it a point to champion the halflings of Valonia, who are under siege by the Valonian orcs allied with Law. [b][size=5]Inoke,[/size][/b] a warmind who began as a psychic warrior and used to be a barbarian as well (before he shifted to Lawful alignment) was a party member until recently, but his defection to the Arrows of Law and the final battle with the Arrows has left the rest of the party disenchanted with Inoke. They are not yet certain as to his disposition after the finale of the fight with the Arrows. Inoke is big and burly, vaguely Samoan in appearance (he’s from the Parrot Isles). He wears a strange, cat-shaped helm that is a relic of the ancient Miloxi Empire, an empire of tabaxi (cat-people). Inoke is incredibly formidable; the “Inoke Special” (which is a charge benefiting from [i]psionic lion’s charge[/i] with all of Inoke’s special attack po0wers in full swing) was sufficient to kill Asmodeus himself in a single round of melee! Now his fate and his future are unknown. Will we see more of Inoke, or is he dead already? Well, I took the time to write a paragraph about him, so that should tell you something, anyway. [b][size=5]Sybele[/size][/b] is a “big girl”- a warrior of chaos/fighter/psion who has grown to large size via Chaos’ powers. She was blonde and buxom when she was normal-sized; now that she has grown, her bust has become truly tremendous. She is a burly warrior, favoring both a humungous greatsword and a bow almost as tall as herself. However, she is also quite a lover. She originally adventured on Tirchond, fighting with the revolutionaries against Forinthian occupation. She has been with the current party since it formed before their first trip to Bile Mountain, fought Asmodeus and the Arrows of Law, had a daughter who was threatened with death by Marius when she attacked the Arrows, and is the consort of Thrush, though not a very faithful one. Whenever he is not present, Sybele is rubbing up against someone else- probably a very dangerous thing to do, as Thrush is both jealous and short-tempered. However, he seems to see no wrong in Sybele no matter what she does. She has three kids- Jezebel, the half-dragon child she was given by the steel dragon Kel, and a pair of twins by Thrush. The touch of Chaos has affected her in odd ways- for example, she cannot remember peoples’ names, even her own. Recently, the party has been joined by a half-slaad wilder named [b][size=5]Jibber Junior.[/size][/b] He is the progeny of Jibber, a singing slaad that the party encountered just before their first trip to Bile Mountain. As an anarchic initiate, JJ (as Jibber Junior is commonly called) was a big fan of the party’s work for Chaos, intentional or not. When the party called for allies to fight the Arrows of Law in a Xaositecht get together in Sigil, he joined them eagerly. He has proven quite useful, though often it seems that only sheer dumb luck saves him from destruction. [b][size=5]Alcar[/size][/b] was a cleric/fighter of a heretical sect of Galadorians from Gorel who was elevated to angel status as a reward for a job well done against the menace of the ancient lich E-Krektor and the clockwork horrors. Called the Angel of Food, he had a [i]backpack of infinite food[/i] that he would dispense blessings from nearly constantly. However, he subsequently got into trouble with his angelic superiors in the Heavenly Bureaucracy, and his backpack was taken away. He was then sent back to Cydra, where he first met up with several of the members of the party that were later to storm Bile Mountain, including Sybele, while they were guarding the dragon eggs that he had been sent to destroy. In the ensuing standoff, the party managed to stave Alcar off through a combination of their ally Kel, the steel dragon, and diplomacy by Alcar’s old friend Sun Si. Later, Alcar joined the party to attack Bile Mountain, only to die within the place’s dungeons. However, Horbin later brought him back to life with a [i]true resurrection[/i]. Alcar’s relationship with the church degenerated over time. From his beginnings as a heretic of Gorel, he was derided as heterodox at best. His temple, periodically besieged by the demon lord Dagon, did not perform the rituals in proper Forinthian, instead using the vernacular. There was edification of fire, rather than the more pure light. And there was the matter of his superiors refusing to allow him to see Galador on demand. Eventually, Alcar foreswore his service to Galador and took up the mantle of champion of one of the new gods- Bless, the lord of lost causes and hopeless quests. Now his white and gold have been traded in for the grey of his new god. [b][size=5]Lester[/size][/b], the Elementalist, head of the Temple of Elemental Good, the Angel of Adventure, is an elementalist/warrior of chaos with a smattering of prestige class dips, including divine oracle, contemplative, and paraelementalist. (Elementalist is a homebrewed Cydran base class.) With his gills and bat wings, he clearly shows the mark of Chaos. More importantly, he is trying to become a god: the god of adventure and adventurers. And his pedigree as an adventurer is pretty darn good: among other things, he has fought the Angel of the Apocalypse Fuligin, who depopulated Dorhaus for over a century; traveled back in time to a previous multiverse; destroyed Felenga, the Dark One, a second Angel of the Apocalypse; overcome the Tomb of Horrors, and followed Acererak’s twisted path all the way to the Fortress of Conclusion (well, or at least been returned to life near the end of it); thrown down the Temple of Elemental Evil, not once, but twice; killed Imix, the Prince of Evil Elemental Fire creatures; slain Asmodeus, Lord of Hell; and overthrown Law itself to win the Great War of Ethics for Chaos! Oh, sure, it wasn’t all him by himself, but whatever. Swarthy, currently wearing his hair in cornrows, wearing dark-tinted spectacles, Lester is the epitome of cool... and of adventure. [b][size=5]Orbius, the Eye of Boccob,[/size][/b] is Lester’s cohort: a diviner/divine oracle. He met Lester years ago on a pirate ship (rumor has it that one day, there may be a story hour post about this) and has accompanied him loyally ever since. Orbius is a compelling argument as to why diviners should require two opposed schools, just like everyone else: yeah, they need to invest time and money in divinations first, but the party is devastating effective, because they know everything there is to know about their enemies, their lairs, their situations and (if they want to) their love lives. [b][size=5]Blazier[/size][/b], another member of the Xaositecht faction (if not prestige class) is another recent addition, joining the party at about the same time as JJ. He is a sorcerer/metamagician and a gnome. He feels that Horbin sold out when he accepted the position of Bishop of West Dorhaus, which is ironic, since Blaze is the replacement pc for Horbin, since he’s semi-retired (or at least, trying to be). :) [b][size=5]Chakar[/size][/b] is a monk on the path to personal perfection. There are times when he is uncertain as to which path to take (as when his monk status and his dwarven nature were conflicted over whether to drink beer), but on the whole, he has found and followed his path. Chakar has been tutored by the Perfect Master Pan Lo, and has begun taking levels in the Perfect Master epic prestige class that I crafted for him. The party has many other allies, including Mabrack the storm giant wizard, but for now, those are the party and most closely associated npcs. And that’s it for the introductory stuff- the next post should be an actual story hour update. :) (Hopefully later tonight!) [/QUOTE]
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