Heroes, Inc - Heroic Mercs in FR OOC Thread

[Steve Gorak]

As for a name....Guards R Us.

I am sure there is a snappy waterdeep location name we can use, but I know nothing of this town.

How about: The obsidian shield, the shadowbane shield, the grey council (we walk between the light and the darkness... ) other suggestions?

Also, I'm thinking about acquiring the Leadership feat (yeah, I know, that's not what I said before but meh, it just looks too cool to pass up).

Anyways, maybe I could mold the followers to fit the various roles or our little organisation. We'll be a bunch of 13th level characters, that sounds like a pretty solid decision making body for a good-doing organisation. I'd imagine followers would want to join this...

Alternatively, maybe we just teamed up and we're still working on integrating everybody in a seemless team.

What do y'all think?

Cheers,

SG

 

[Eltern]

I like the idea that we're a newly formed group of well-respected heroes that don't know each other personally. So Steve and Hyp, since you're both the Leadership folks, how about you two sat down one day and decided to set up a do-gooders organization, combining your command infrastructures? Then you set out invitations to hero/adventurers such as ourselves to join you with the esteemed goal of spreading right and good.

Here's a spin that I, personally, would love: It's a clandestine organization. While we are all respectable individuals, we're in Forgotten Realms and we're not epic level. Therefore, we are not legends. We are known only in certain circles. The "Some name involving shields" is a secret, because to be high-profile would mean the Bad Guys (tm) would know about us, and so factor us into their plans. Being secretive gives us the element of surprise.

So this night of partying may be the Grey Shields/Shields of Shadow/whatever at only a week old.

This also brings up the question of funding. It could be that the regular folks, the followers from Leadership, are really just informants and minor servants. They have their day jobs, but have connections with "the Good Guy Mob." As for us Boardmembers, their are two routes:

1. Certain Waterdeep officials, lords, and whatnot know about us. This night is the first night we've actually been employed, however covertly. Peregion hired us for protection, and Aleena doesn't even know we're guarding her. So we have the drive to not screw this up, as we don't want our first customer review to be a bad one.

2. We do things out of the kindness of our hearts, and earn cash the normal adventuring way: Kill baddies and take their stuff So both Peregion and Aleena don't what we're doing.

Either way works for me. I just would like the PCs to still be very unfamiliar with each other, so we have room for character interaction and development.

 

[kirinke]

How about.... The Gray Legion?

 

[Keia]

High ranking people wouldn't just hire a new company - I would think that we've existed for a while - even if some of the members are new.

 

[Hawkeye]

How about.... The Gray Legion?

There is already a group in Waterdeep called the Gray Hands. They are a sort of special forces group for the city of Waterdeep.

Hawkeye

 

[Eltern]

High ranking people wouldn't just hire a new company - I would think that we've existed for a while - even if some of the members are new.

So we're all newly-hired midlevel management?

 

[Hypersmurf]

Anyways, maybe I could mold the followers to fit the various roles or our little organisation. We'll be a bunch of 13th level characters, that sounds like a pretty solid decision making body for a good-doing organisation. I'd imagine followers would want to join this...

That's sort of what I've done.

I've got a half-dozen clerics for Good Works, a dozen rangers for muscle, and a slew of rogues, experts, and the odd bard for administration, PR, and intelligence-gathering.

-Hyp.

 

[kirinke]

Here's one, based on a name book
The order of Saint Celestyne

 

[DM_Matt]

To be this big and successful and to get all the proper authorizations to let so much raw power be concentrated in private (and non-noble) hands requires that things be relatively above-board and known to the lords.

I like the idea that a couple characters (perhaps those with leadership) founded the organization, and when they brought in people of similar power, they had to grant them partner status rather than hiring them as simple employees.

 

[Eltern]

Ah, Waterdeep: Too bucolic to have trolls walking the streets, cosmopolitan enough to already have secretive vigilante organizations.

Hmm...so how old are we, then? I mean, we're being hired as body guards for the Lord of Waterdeep! That sounds like big name business. We must be pretty established. :\ Ah well, -I'll- be new to the team

Though I may be beating the "lets be new to this" horse beyond death, is there any chance that the as-yet-to-be-named organization recently changed hands to those of Steve and Hyp?