IC The Thirteenth Moon: Night of the Blood Moon

[Scott DeWar]

Nadia thinks for a few moments recalling what Lady Riena told her
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"Say," she begins as soon as she returns again from the storefront, "do you remember that nice young lady I introduced you to last week when she came by the store? A Miss Feliss Del'Denion, she was called. Think she was looking for a necklace for a party. Right proper lady. Knew her colors anyway. Wore a beautiful gown of blue accented with white truffle and a bit of jewelry. Good taste. Anyway, I hear the girl's gone a'missing. Disappeared along with all the rest on the night of the Blood Moon. Bloody shame. Mr. Denion is such a nice fellow. Sells beautiful little trinkets and such."
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"Comrad Riena introduced me to Lady Del'Denionilich When the lady look for necklace for new year's party. She wore blue gown with white truffle, little jewlery." She nods her head to affirm herself that she had it right.

 

[airwalkrr]

"If I am not mistaken, then Denion's friend, Cassa Faer has offered a reward for the safe return of Feliss. Friends in high places are good to have I know she had the address of the last place Feliss was seen and I imagine she gave it to you. You might wish to start your investigation there. Or perhaps you could visit the home of her suitor in Northedge." Mandyran explains

 

[airwalkrr]

OOC: I was hoping for a little more in the way of character introductions before proceeding, but I will assume for now that your characters have a basic level of trust in each other based on Mandyran's recommendation. Since you have yet to designate a party leader, I put it to a vote. Will you investigate the scene of the crime first or visit the home of the missing suitor? In the event of a tie, Mandyran will offer his personal recommendation.

 

[kinem]

"It might be better to check out the suitor's home first" Brad muses. "If the two were captured, he may have been the target."

 

[Scott DeWar]

"Hrm. Who is this suitor you speak of? What is known of him?"

 

[Herobizkit]

Soranda looks directly at the Warforged with a quizzical look on her face.

"I was not aware that Warforged were anything except bodyguards or warriors. Are there others like you?"

Vigil slowly turns his head to face Soranda, a motion that is made eerie by the lack of animation from any other part of his body.

"The Silver Flame is united in the pursuit and destruction of evil. No other Forged serves this purpose."

To the group discussion, Vigil adds, "Efficient procedure requires careful examination of the crime scene before it is compromised."

 

[Graybeard]

Soranda

Soranda nods at the Warforged.

"I mean no insult. I was merely curious. I have spent the past several years in a monastery so my knowledge of current events is somewhat limited. I believe we need to look at the crime scene first before it is disturbed more than it already is. Then we should talk to this suitor to see if they have any thoughts on the reasons for the disappearance."

 

[Moon_Goddess]

"I agree we should search the crime scene before asking question, otherwise we might not know the right questions to ask" says Alise

 

[airwalkrr]

"Hrm. Who is this suitor you speak of? What is known of him?"

"Well, my young lady," Mandyran begins, "Perhaps you were not present for the conversation, but Denion's daughter was being courted by a young man from Upper Northedge. I don't know a whole lot about him, aside from the fact that his family is considered respectable. He was apparently escorting Miss del'Denion* to the party where she was last seen. He has also apparently gone missing. Perhaps a coincidence, but I am doubtful such is the case."

"In any event, it seems most of you believe it to be well worth your time to investigate the scene of the crime first, and I must concur," Mandyran continues. "However, it might be best for you to wait for morning as it is getting late. Please come back and meet here on the morrow. In the meantime, I will see if I can scrounge up some basic supplies to assist you."

OOC: For those of you recently joining the party, you may assume the following information here has been shared with you by other members of the party. That's all I have time for tonight. If you have any special preparations to make before heading out, shopping to do or mentors to consult, post them now. I will take care of that in the next post and introduce you to the scene of the crime as well.

 

[Scott DeWar]

OOC: For those of you recently joining the party, you may assume the following information here has been shared with you by other members of the party. That's all I have time for tonight. If you have any special preparations to make before heading out, shopping to do or mentors to consult, post them now. I will take care of that in the next post and introduce you to the scene of the crime as well.

OOC: if the word "here"was supposed to be a link, it seems broken

 

[airwalkrr]

OOC: Try this

 

[Scott DeWar]

OOC: that one worked!

After the details of the dissapearence are given, Nadia sits thinking.

Though it is very important to return to the party, with there being a party there, the scene is already been compromised. Still, there may be some person who has seen detail now erased. Come, we go!!

 

[airwalkrr]

OOC: I just don't have the energy to expend on running this campaign at the moment. It seems I was overly ambitious with trying to run the various sub-plots and I think people have gotten confused or distracted from the main plot. I will try a simpler Eberron-based campaign again in the near future.

 

[Moon_Goddess]

OOC: I just don't have the energy to expend on running this campaign at the moment. It seems I was overly ambitious with trying to run the various sub-plots and I think people have gotten confused or distracted from the main plot. I will try a simpler Eberron-based campaign again in the near future.

I have been here in the wings kinda waiting but I will admit I did get confused.

 

[Scott DeWar]

*sigh*
*whimper*

 

[airwalkrr]

[MENTION=49929]Scott DeWar[/MENTION], I know you've been keeping up with the campaign very well, but I just felt like things have gotten too discontinuous. We lost a few people after EN World went down, and it seems others got lost in the details. If there is interest, I might reboot the campaign, not from the very start, but from the beginning of the current story arc, to give all characters a chance to speak with Cassa Faer. I may need to do a little more "railroading" than I initially intended with this campaign though to help keep people apprised of what is going on. I was hoping to run this as more of an open world or sandbox campaign, but I am not sure that was working out the way I had hoped.

 

[Herobizkit]

I'd say if you were running a solo or "buddy"/2 player game, it would have worked fine. I've found that sandboxes require entirely too much back prep and almost never work with more than three players. Add in the infrequency of posts and just the way the boards don't keep optimized organization of posts... it was a valiant effort.

In the future, if you'd like to try this again, I'd suggest running an off-site wiki to keep track of things. Having a visual map, fr'ex, with little counters on who's where would have been of massive help in this run. Maybe a little calendar and clock, too.

 

[Scott DeWar]

calender and clock for this game would have been great for this particular game!

 

[Moon_Goddess]

Well then the question is, would airwalker be interesting in Saving this game, take time off rebuild with what we think is needed, streamline and start over

 

[kinem]

ooc: airwalkrr, thanks for running the game. I hope it will continue in some form. I understand about trying something overambitious; I have done that myself.

To help keep track in a multi-arc game it might be helpful to state the location of the action at the beginning of each post along with a list of who's present.