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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LairdRuari" data-source="post: 388918" data-attributes="member: 7821">Laird Ruari Von Christensen, Captain Vallorean Legions, Decorated Hero of ValloreaI, Laird Ruari Von Christensen, Captain of the Vallorean Legions, Decorated Hero of Vallorea, Blessed and Holy Palladin of Ulrich(30th lvl), and one of the slayers of the Great Black Wyrm do hereby offer greetings and sulutations to all Lords and Ladies of En World!  I have been reading this thread with great interest and decided to offer my update as the assault has begun!!    My troops consisted of 147 1st lvl infantry equipped with masterwork chainmail, large shields, and bastard swords; 11 2nd lvl rangers with mty. comp. longbows and +1 arrows; 12 3rd lvl barbarians with greataxes and hvy. picks; and my staff consisting of 5-20th lvl rangers, fighters, and paladins equipped with much less mundane items.  The Empire has launched a surprise assault with myself and my forces included against the Citadel as a disorienting move against our enemy.  While Mallaran pours his troops to the defense of his citadel the bulk of our legions are making for the cities (the real prize).      We executed the assault utilizing our glorious Vallorean flying warships to overcome any wards against teleportation into the Citadel.  In a swift manuever we caught our enemy off-balance, but since we could only initially transport half a legion we were quickly outnumbered and taking heavy casualties.  The remaining legion and a half were to be teleported to the ships and the dropped over the LZ.  Things were going OK in spite of our losses until Mallaran unleashed a surprise of his own! I was busy charging down Fire Giants when several of our warships vaporized to grey ash midair.  It was a Great Black Wyrm from another plane unleashed upon my comrades and I in all of its foul wickedness!!  Ulrich help us it was consuming everything in sight!!  I called upon Ulrich for His mighty blessing and spun my steed for a run at this abomination of evil lest it consume all that I hold dear!  I was peppered with Meteor swarms and showered with vile arrows from enemy wizards and archers.  I was within Ulrich's glory(death) several times(lost 3 fate points) before I even reached the vile Wyrm and plunged my sword into its gizzard with a holy and righteous smite.  The beast roared in all its fury seeking to turn me and my steed to ash, but Ulrich had granted me favor so my reflexes were swift to avoid his putrid emanations from his nostrils.  Then the Lady Rhiannon vexed the beast with some of her powerful magiks, and I readied another strike for the glory of Ulrich and Vallorea.  It was a mighty struggle, but with but a few breaths of sweet life in my lungs victory was granted and the heroes of Vallorea had slain one of Mallaran's mightiest weapons.  Re-inforcements are now able to safely arrive, we have secured a major LZ in the Citadel including a tower that housed a regiment of Mallaran's Knights.  My forces are cut by 40%, I lost some brave men, but we are now moving for a clash with the Beastmen forces guarding the Crystal Pyramid.    I am certain that Shark will give you a further update as the battle unfolds.  Shark and I have been friends since 1989.  Baron Ruari Von Christensen was created around 1994 when Shark finally talked me into playing Rollmaster with him.  It was alot of tedious work that I still hate, but his imagination and storymaking abilities coupled with his amusing characterizations held my interest and made playing a D20 game fun in spite of the tedious work involved.  Shark's world has always been historically correct, detailed, multi-faceted, and VERY LETHAL!!  Don't expect your Clerics to have access to resurrection spells in Shark's world as he takes maniacal glee in "rule-zeroing" that spell as well as a host of other's he hates.  We as players had to threaten mutiny to un-rule-zero restoration spells and only at a high GP/XP cost!!  Ruari has been subjected to Drow torture and breeding farms, vampires, masochistic prison guards, nymphomaniacal Chaos priestessess, etc.  Evil in Shark's world is to the core, and good such as Ruari would make Billy Graham proud.  Each are crusaders for thier own cause with a fervor.    Thank you for listening and I apologize if I strayed a bit off-track.  I posted this because Shark has been after me to comment as one of his regular players, so all of you Lords and Ladies could get another perspective than his.  The battle for the Citadel is an intense one and a bit of a learning experience for me.  Ruari was near 20th lvl when Shark switched to playing 3rd edition D&D, and he was do to marry his elven maid he had been betrothed to.  While waiting on Epic rules to come out Ruari enjoyed a long honeymoon with his bride before being called back to the legions.  That was 1997, so I am re-aquainting myself with him.  For one Ruari had no Paladin spells that I recall in Rollmaster and now he has all to lvl 4, and Epic abilities/feats to learn.  Anyway, I will try to visit now and then if you want me to post more.  Thanks again for listening and I highly recommend everyone to purchase Shark's upcoming modules as they are published.  I guaranty that you will find much enjoyment and adventure within!!Laird Ruari</blockquote>

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