Thomas Hobbes
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Capellan said:
!Since it seems obligatory at this point... Noooooo!
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In Hextor's Name (Completed 22 Oct 2004)
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!Since it seems obligatory at this point... Noooooo!
Lela
First Post
Capellan said:
Padre, while your players attest that you're not evil and I am obliged to believe them, I see that you let the cards fall where they may. I've always respected that.
Cap, I think Kull is an excellent example of how to play a LN character. Lawful Neutral doesn't mean Lawful Stupid.
This is actually what happened:Capellan said:
We gained access to the front door by cleverly disguising ourselves as bad green guys and using the halfling as a "prisoner". Once they let us in, we discovered that there was a portcullis past the front door with lots of bad green guys behind it who fired at us. We got through the door and killed them. Kull was convinced that a messenger was sent out and proceeded to leave. Brodnak called him a big wuss to no effect, so we decided to hastily reconoiter the top floor leaving the Saltmarsh contingent and Zalichs raven Poe to guard and act as a warning.
We succeeded in clearing out the top floor pretty quickly, but were slightly injured so decided to hole up in a secret room that hadn't been discovered by the bad green guys. We assumed they hadn't found it because it was full of exciting loot, which they surely would have taken otherwise.
It was while we were holed up in the secret room that Poe the raven started empathically letting Zalich know that he was scared. Zalich ran off to "save" his raven, and not wanting the little tike to get snotted, we went with him.
We arrived in the front room to be confronted by a lot of dead Saltmarshers and a lot of live bad green guys. Brodnak was held by the shaman and rendered useless throughout the fight as I had to watch my compatriots die one by one. He was a very angry and very still barbarian.
For the record, Poe flew away and survived.
If we stayed in the secret room and waited for the furore to die down, we probably would have been fine.
There is some good to come out of this though... We will be getting another point of view from my new character, Gnorric the Wizard!
Mathew_Freeman
Adventurer
See what happens when you are not strong in faith? 
Hopefully the new recruits will be more impressive to Kull's eyes. He can't exactly be more dismissive of them, after all.
Hopefully the new recruits will be more impressive to Kull's eyes. He can't exactly be more dismissive of them, after all.
Joshua Randall
Legend
If I were one of the other players, I'd be pissed that Kull survived and my character didn't. However as I am not one of the other players I can laugh out loud at their foolishness!
[Nelson] Hah, hah! [/Nelson]
[Nelson] Hah, hah! [/Nelson]
Thomas Hobbes
First Post
Well, personally, I'm rather sad they all bit the dust (as sad as one can be about Story Hour characters, but you know...). Can't say Kull did the wrong thing, though. And if he had bought it too, then we wouldn't be offered his unique perspective anymore.
Lazybones
Adventurer
I just read this entire story during a particularly slow afternoon at work.
I was enjoyable, an interesting contrast to CotRE. The Kull character is compelling and the format of the entries as reports to a superior is just brilliant. I find that I do not care the slightest what happens to the other characters (which is just as well, given what happened). I haven't been so focused on one character since Wulf's story hour.
My only suggestion: don't give away the "ending" in the first post. I found myself waiting for the TPK all the way through the story, and when it finally came, it was quite anti-climatic.
I'd be interesting to hear more OOC perspective on that event. In particular, Kull's outright refusal to continue into the complex. It sounds like one of those things that can kill a game, but from what's been said your group is taking it with a rather more prosaic attitude.
And wasn't he in nominal command of the Saltmarsh contingent? This is the thing that throws it for me, why would a general order his troops into what he perceived as certain death?
I was enjoyable, an interesting contrast to CotRE. The Kull character is compelling and the format of the entries as reports to a superior is just brilliant. I find that I do not care the slightest what happens to the other characters (which is just as well, given what happened). I haven't been so focused on one character since Wulf's story hour.
My only suggestion: don't give away the "ending" in the first post. I found myself waiting for the TPK all the way through the story, and when it finally came, it was quite anti-climatic.
I'd be interesting to hear more OOC perspective on that event. In particular, Kull's outright refusal to continue into the complex. It sounds like one of those things that can kill a game, but from what's been said your group is taking it with a rather more prosaic attitude.
And wasn't he in nominal command of the Saltmarsh contingent? This is the thing that throws it for me, why would a general order his troops into what he perceived as certain death?
