Greyhawk - Return of the Slavelords!

[Karl Green]

Heroes of the Grey Mark
Scotley—Verrick human male rogue/wizard
Someone – Norbac Odrog half-orc male cleric of Trithereon
Braggi dwarf fighter

Heroes of the Past...
wysiwyg – Lorien Eldamar human male ranger
djrdjmsqrd – Defrel human male rogue/fighter
Rayex – Geenaa the Furious human female barbarian
Johnsemlak – Philo Jurament human male paladin

OLD Rogues Gallery

NEW Rogues Gallery

The continues the tales of the Return of the Slavelords and
Part 2 Bright City, Dark Hearts
Part 3 (the present game) the Siege of Bright Tower


The year is 591, seven years after the Greyhawk Wars. The Great Northern Crusade has reclaimed a small part of the Shield Lands, but much of the lands surrounding Greyhawk have been and continue to be devastated by war (almost everyone around Greyhawk saw a great deal of war). Greyhawk is strong and flexing its muscle within the area, taking over much of the once independent cities of Safeton and Hardby, patrolling into the Carrion Hills and the Misty Marshes, the Gnarly Woods, the foot-hills of the Abbor-Alz and the northern edges of the Blight Desert. Her mariners patrol the Wholly Bay, fighting the Humanoid pirates of the southern Wild Coast.

You are all minor local heroes of this area (the Greyhawk region, also called the Grey Mark and the River Del, although you can be from almost anywhere, you have spend some time adventuring in this area). You may or may not know each other, that is up to you; and whether or not you have adventured together. Within the last two weeks you received letters of invitations (or in case Geenaa, the messengers read it to her) on fine parchment, with the seal of a Hawk over a Throne of Wood (the Order of the Throne, or the Throne Knights) that read…

Hail and Well Meet, Heroes of the Grey Mark
May it never be said that the courageous undertake of valor for the hope of reward nor the righteous seek purity, and thus may aspersions of evil never fall upon thy name. But, as ye know to well, the rewards of virtue are painful and cold.

Our advisors, through wisdom and sagacity, have proclaimed thy actions good and virtuous, thy adventures and deeds have done for the wealth of the good people of the Grey Mark and beyond. Those so noble as yourselves will grace and ornament the presence of any gathering. We beseech you to kindly honor us with your presence during the Feast of Goodglow to honor the longest day of the year, and the Spring Solstice of Pelor at my estate, Minaryn Castle.

Dame Messalina of Hardby
Order of the Throne

Hardby has seen better days, and there is a ‘not so secret’ power struggle between the Gynarchy (the traditional female ruling family of the city), Greyhawk (that runs the city as a de facto military camp) and the Merchants Alliance (who play both parties off each other). Dame Messalina is known for sponsoring adventurous expeditions into various “lost” lands, military strikes against orcs and raiders from the Bright Desert, scouting missions into the southern parts of the Wild Coast, etc. She is not part of the Gynarchy, and has some ties to Greyhawk, hence she is somewhat distrusted by all the groups vying for power.

The Feast of Goodglow is a fairly minor holiday and festival for most people, but it is fairly important to both Pelor and St. Cuthbert.

More to come…

 

[Scotley]

Excellent, I dug out an old copy of from the ashes to refresh my memory. I look forward to your take on the "state of the world".

Scotley

 

[Karl Green]

bump with updates... more to come

also a note - I see your character really changed a bit there djrdjmsqrd he looks good though (but no cool picture)

 

[Karl Green]

Most everyone is very close so I think I will start the PbP gaming action today. I was going to ask if anyone had any objections to me "adding" a bit to your characters OR if you wanted to. You all came to the attention of the Lady within the last 6 months so I was thinking about some past adventure that you might have had (some of you together)...

So I was thinking about...
1. an evil cult (Erythnul) that some of the characters uncovered in Greyhawk in or around Assassins' End - the cannibals to this dread god of slaughter were found to be operating here by some of the party. They were throwing parties to some of the poor in the area that were actually dark festivals to their god, mixing in human flesh with the normal food, etc. The few brave heroes exposed the cult leader and killed him along with a number of the cult followers.
2. another group of heroes uncovered a Necromancer in the Gnarly Forest that was building an Undead army to attack and overrun the town of Tricaster. The group was able to get past the evil ones defenses and destroy the item that he was using to create and control so many Undead. The Necromancer fled, but lost almost all of his books and magical items
3. someone else was scouting in the buffer zone with the Orcish Empire of the Pomarj and was able to warn Wyvernen and Safeton about an Orcish Host that was building up to make a bit raid into the area and was able to defend against them.

Etc. If you can think up any that would be cool with me also

 

[Scotley]

Verrick Ardmore Human Rogue/Wizard

I have no objections to you adding glory to Verrick's past. I already alluded to some bandit bashing in his background. If anyone else would like to have been in on that with him they are more than welcome. Perhaps we can add a few details? Verrick would be honored to have fought alongside [okay more likely from behind ] any of the Hero's of the Greymark. Loren is already riding with Verrick to the party. Did we bash some bandits together?

I'm thinking that the Gnarley Necromancer incident would be a good fit for Verrick. Who else was in on that great deed? You mention that the Necromancer lost his spell books, any chance Verrick got to add a couple new necromantic spells to his collection??? Philo and Norbac would be great undead slayers [re-slayers?] Did we battle the Necromancer together?

Its not unlikely that he could have stumbled across the Orcish hosts in his wandering, but I don't want to steal too much glory.

Thanks to Wysiwyg I discovered that Verrick is short nine skill points, so I'll do a little editing and be ready for action.

Scotley

 

[Someone]

Philo and Norbac would be great undead slayers [re-slayers?] Did we battle the Necromancer together?

With Norbac´s charisma, undead are more likely to be amused than turned, but yeah, I can´t think right now on a better common background than that.

 

[Karl Green]

Posted Part 1 over in Playing the Game. Go ahead and introduce your characters as you think they would arrive.

 

[djrdjmsqrd]

Yuo...

Thank you...working on finding one.

djordje

 

[Scotley]

I looked at the various old greyhawk stuff I have around and I didn't find any detailed maps of the Hardby area; although, there is a city map in an old dragon. The links I posted are at least as good as anything I could scan and post.

Scotley

 

[Scotley]

I have good news and bad news. The good news is my wife gave birth to our son this afternoon. The bad news is my posting may be a little off for a few days. Karl, feel free to auto-pilot if I'm holding things up.

Scotley