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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 8843556" data-attributes="member: 508"><p>In tonight's "Ghourmand Vale" adventure, we were sent looking for a missing member of an elven delegation, an archer called Captain Oakcrown that our own archer, Chaevaris, seemed to know and dislike. In fact, Chaevaris asked to be called by a different name while we were looking for him and insisted on wearing a hood during the mission. When we got to the area of the forest in which he was last seen, we encountered a frightened raccoon running as fast as it could away from a longbow hunter; the hunter turned out to be Captain Oakcrown and the raccoon a wildshaped elven druid. Oakcrown, apparently not liking the odds now that the druid had four allies, took off, and we tracked him to a cabin in the woods two miles away. The druid warned us there was an elf woman in the cabin who could <em>charm</em> people to do her bidding. My sorcerer sent his grackle familiar scouting around the cabin, and he discovered Oakcrown hiding in a tree near the cabin and the elven woman and a male elven bard inside the cabin.</p><p></p><p>We made our plans: I loaded up my familiar with a <em>touch of idiocy</em> spell and had my <em>unseen servant,</em> Ogilvy, smash the glass from a window pane, so my grackle could fly in and deliver the touch spell to the elf woman while I blasted her with a charge from my <em>wand of magic missile</em>. In the meantime, our halfling rogue pushed open the front door and lobbed a spear at the woman while our half-elf paladin charged her. It was there we found out they'd anticipated our attack and made plans: my grackle was blasted by a <em>magic missile</em> spell from an invisible elven sorcerer and the paladin overcame the bard's <em>hideous laughter</em> spell and a <em>charm</em> attempt from the woman. The paladin used a smite evil on the woman, we ganged up on her (hoping the others, who weren't evil - the paladin checked - would snap out of it if we killed her), while Chaevaris and Oakthron sniped each other with arrows outside. Eventually, we killed the woman (who turned out to be a foxwoman with game stats updated from 1E to 3.5) and the others "woke" out of their charm effects as we'd hoped. We even rescued an elven girl in the basement of the cabin, who the foxwoman had planned to turn into a lycanthrope and raise as her own, and we uncovered a rather nice load of treasure hidden in her "fox den."</p><p></p><p>But the big shocker was Oakcrown, who continued shooting at Chaevaris (who shot right back at him), until we made them stop. Chaevaris told him "It's definitely off!" and Oakcrown agreed, saying he should have known better than to have dealings with low-born rabble, and after insisting on explanations we got them all right: Chaevaris, whom we'd all assumed this whole time was a rather androgynous male elf, was in fact female and her family had arranged her marriage to Oakcrown, an archer who had trained with the family. Chaevaris, not wanting anything to do with an arranged marriage, took off from Greyhawk by signing onto a 19-day caravan to Ghourmand Vale in our first adventure, thinking to flee the situation. Oakcrown hadn't taken being ditched like that very well, which had fostered a hatred for his former intended. And the other two PCs felt terrible for having assumed Chaevaris was a guy this whole time; I cleverly covered myself by pretending I'd known all along but assumed she had a good reason for trying to pass herself off as a male and simply played along. (In reality I'd figured it out when my son, who plays Chaevaris, provided me with a minimal version of "his" backstory and I filled in the missing bits - that, plus the image he'd chosen for Chaevaris had looked pretty feminine in the face.) But this whole time, when writing up the Story Hour version of our adventures, I've studiously avoided using any pronouns at all when describing Chaevaris, so when the "big reveal" eventually occurred it would all still be accurate.</p><p></p><p>Johnathan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richards, post: 8843556, member: 508"] In tonight's "Ghourmand Vale" adventure, we were sent looking for a missing member of an elven delegation, an archer called Captain Oakcrown that our own archer, Chaevaris, seemed to know and dislike. In fact, Chaevaris asked to be called by a different name while we were looking for him and insisted on wearing a hood during the mission. When we got to the area of the forest in which he was last seen, we encountered a frightened raccoon running as fast as it could away from a longbow hunter; the hunter turned out to be Captain Oakcrown and the raccoon a wildshaped elven druid. Oakcrown, apparently not liking the odds now that the druid had four allies, took off, and we tracked him to a cabin in the woods two miles away. The druid warned us there was an elf woman in the cabin who could [i]charm[/i] people to do her bidding. My sorcerer sent his grackle familiar scouting around the cabin, and he discovered Oakcrown hiding in a tree near the cabin and the elven woman and a male elven bard inside the cabin. We made our plans: I loaded up my familiar with a [i]touch of idiocy[/i] spell and had my [i]unseen servant,[/i] Ogilvy, smash the glass from a window pane, so my grackle could fly in and deliver the touch spell to the elf woman while I blasted her with a charge from my [i]wand of magic missile[/i]. In the meantime, our halfling rogue pushed open the front door and lobbed a spear at the woman while our half-elf paladin charged her. It was there we found out they'd anticipated our attack and made plans: my grackle was blasted by a [i]magic missile[/i] spell from an invisible elven sorcerer and the paladin overcame the bard's [i]hideous laughter[/i] spell and a [i]charm[/i] attempt from the woman. The paladin used a smite evil on the woman, we ganged up on her (hoping the others, who weren't evil - the paladin checked - would snap out of it if we killed her), while Chaevaris and Oakthron sniped each other with arrows outside. Eventually, we killed the woman (who turned out to be a foxwoman with game stats updated from 1E to 3.5) and the others "woke" out of their charm effects as we'd hoped. We even rescued an elven girl in the basement of the cabin, who the foxwoman had planned to turn into a lycanthrope and raise as her own, and we uncovered a rather nice load of treasure hidden in her "fox den." But the big shocker was Oakcrown, who continued shooting at Chaevaris (who shot right back at him), until we made them stop. Chaevaris told him "It's definitely off!" and Oakcrown agreed, saying he should have known better than to have dealings with low-born rabble, and after insisting on explanations we got them all right: Chaevaris, whom we'd all assumed this whole time was a rather androgynous male elf, was in fact female and her family had arranged her marriage to Oakcrown, an archer who had trained with the family. Chaevaris, not wanting anything to do with an arranged marriage, took off from Greyhawk by signing onto a 19-day caravan to Ghourmand Vale in our first adventure, thinking to flee the situation. Oakcrown hadn't taken being ditched like that very well, which had fostered a hatred for his former intended. And the other two PCs felt terrible for having assumed Chaevaris was a guy this whole time; I cleverly covered myself by pretending I'd known all along but assumed she had a good reason for trying to pass herself off as a male and simply played along. (In reality I'd figured it out when my son, who plays Chaevaris, provided me with a minimal version of "his" backstory and I filled in the missing bits - that, plus the image he'd chosen for Chaevaris had looked pretty feminine in the face.) But this whole time, when writing up the Story Hour version of our adventures, I've studiously avoided using any pronouns at all when describing Chaevaris, so when the "big reveal" eventually occurred it would all still be accurate. Johnathan [/QUOTE]
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