Insight's "The Isle of Dread" - Chapter One
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Leif
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OOC: Not quite sure I remember, but weren't we on an errand at one point to get that map? I seem to recall visiting a seedy little shop for that purpose, but being distracted by bad guys and fleeing into the sewers. Or something like that, maybe?
Shayuri is usually most excellent about either remembering these things or else combing through old posts to find the needed info, but who knows for sure which it is, besides the dragon-avatared ENWorlder in question here.
Shayuri is usually most excellent about either remembering these things or else combing through old posts to find the needed info, but who knows for sure which it is, besides the dragon-avatared ENWorlder in question here.
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Insight
Adventurer
That sounds about right. As I recall, you guys learned that the map had been purchased by someone mysterious. That was where the trail went dead due to combat.
If Shayuri cannot come up with it, I'll dig around to find out where it stands.
When the group, with Questor's help and with all precautions taken to avoid pursuit and overhearing, finds a place to stop and talk, Astra says to the good captain Barbarossa, "We seek the Isle. That's how we learned of you, and came to track you down. We don't have the map, but we have a good idea where it is."
"The bad news is that a dwarf with money, influence, and a certain lack of ethics that believes you owe him money is currently looking for it as well. In the sewers dwarf captives dig searching for a fragment of the vase you inscribed the map on. A fragment large enough that the map may be intact on it."
"So, if I understand the situation, we must find it first."
Astra was not a genius, but she knew hunting...and hunting a shard of pottery was similar to hunting anything else. Focus on the target, and awareness of the environment.
"The bad news is that a dwarf with money, influence, and a certain lack of ethics that believes you owe him money is currently looking for it as well. In the sewers dwarf captives dig searching for a fragment of the vase you inscribed the map on. A fragment large enough that the map may be intact on it."
"So, if I understand the situation, we must find it first."
Astra was not a genius, but she knew hunting...and hunting a shard of pottery was similar to hunting anything else. Focus on the target, and awareness of the environment.
Insight
Adventurer
Playing Catch-Up
The group recalls the following (this was all revealed in the prior 24 hours - if you can believe it!)
You all met up at the Hog's Breath Inn in the Upswallow District of Specularum. There, you ran into two or three important characters. The first was Raef Boloum, the half-elven proprietor of a bookstore located adjacent to the tavern. The second was Captain Rex, the former captain of the Dastard. He knew Rory Barbarossa and gave you some information about Barbarossa's ship of employ, the Lussiter. Finally, you met the gnome, Flerrian Kagel, who seemed nuts, but whom you found out later was also a member of the Lussiter's crew.
Raef Boloum told you that someone from the Veiled Society, whom you found out later was Vas-Hathath, was asking questions about a map of the Isle of Dread. Rory can confirm that it was this Vas-Hathath who had him captured and taken to the compound. In the sewers, you met up with the dwarves Rake Stormstone and Grunder Spikeshorn, who told you that they had been sent to find a peculiar clay jar painted orange and black. Inside this jar, Barbarossa had supposedly painted the map to the Isle of Dread.
You know the following about the crew of the Lussiter. The captain was Max Roundbottom and Barbarossa was his navigator. The gnome, Flerrian Kagel, had some unspecified role on the ship. This ship traveled to the Isle of Dread but never landed there. Barbarossa made his map while the ship circumnavigated the island.
You still have the opportunity to meet Captain Rex at Shanty's End, a seaside establishment where the heroes should be free of the Veiled Society. Captain Rex supposedly had more information about Barbarossa and the Isle of Dread. Also, he was expecting the heroes to help him find Nell, his former first mate, whom he had "lost" to Captain Roundbottom in some game of chance.
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The group recalls the following (this was all revealed in the prior 24 hours - if you can believe it!)
You all met up at the Hog's Breath Inn in the Upswallow District of Specularum. There, you ran into two or three important characters. The first was Raef Boloum, the half-elven proprietor of a bookstore located adjacent to the tavern. The second was Captain Rex, the former captain of the Dastard. He knew Rory Barbarossa and gave you some information about Barbarossa's ship of employ, the Lussiter. Finally, you met the gnome, Flerrian Kagel, who seemed nuts, but whom you found out later was also a member of the Lussiter's crew.
Raef Boloum told you that someone from the Veiled Society, whom you found out later was Vas-Hathath, was asking questions about a map of the Isle of Dread. Rory can confirm that it was this Vas-Hathath who had him captured and taken to the compound. In the sewers, you met up with the dwarves Rake Stormstone and Grunder Spikeshorn, who told you that they had been sent to find a peculiar clay jar painted orange and black. Inside this jar, Barbarossa had supposedly painted the map to the Isle of Dread.
You know the following about the crew of the Lussiter. The captain was Max Roundbottom and Barbarossa was his navigator. The gnome, Flerrian Kagel, had some unspecified role on the ship. This ship traveled to the Isle of Dread but never landed there. Barbarossa made his map while the ship circumnavigated the island.
You still have the opportunity to meet Captain Rex at Shanty's End, a seaside establishment where the heroes should be free of the Veiled Society. Captain Rex supposedly had more information about Barbarossa and the Isle of Dread. Also, he was expecting the heroes to help him find Nell, his former first mate, whom he had "lost" to Captain Roundbottom in some game of chance.
Insight
Adventurer
To Sea!
This is the final sequence of Chapter One. In it, the heroes must find a way to get to the Isle of Dread. Plain and simple.
This begins the quest, "To Sea!". This will be handled as a modified skill challenge.
State what you want to do and make a relevant skill check. The DC of the skill check will depend on what it is your character is trying to do.
SUCCESSES: None
Success Point: The heroes have acquired some map to the Isle of Dread and have hired a ship to sail there.
FAILURES: None
Failure Point: The Veiled Society catches up to the heroes before they can set sail.
This is the final sequence of Chapter One. In it, the heroes must find a way to get to the Isle of Dread. Plain and simple.
This begins the quest, "To Sea!". This will be handled as a modified skill challenge.
State what you want to do and make a relevant skill check. The DC of the skill check will depend on what it is your character is trying to do.
SUCCESSES: None
Success Point: The heroes have acquired some map to the Isle of Dread and have hired a ship to sail there.
FAILURES: None
Failure Point: The Veiled Society catches up to the heroes before they can set sail.
Insight
Adventurer
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