(IR) Announcing a New Strategic Roleplaying Campaign of Epic Proportions!

[William Ronald]

I will have to try to answer most of thequestions and related issues tomorrow, as I have to be somewhere in about an hour. However, I will lend Edena a hand. Eclavdra's home city of Erelhei-Cinlu is in the Vault of the Drow under the Hellfurnaces, and the Epic Level Handbook has a mention of a ome for her in the Crystalmists. So, the Hellfurnaces and Crystalmists would be logical locations for drow cities and fit porevious World of Greyhawk descriptions. Also, the giants still rule Geoff in the LGG, so you may want to claim that as a surface domain run by the drow and their allies.

I will be offline until tomorrow afternoon. However, you can e-mail me at williamwronald@aol.com.

Serpenteye -- You might think of trying a recruiting thread over at Nutkinland. There are some people who have been in the IR over there. I also did my mass e-mail of previous IR players. Hopefully, some will show up.

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

To everyone in the 5th IR

I will attempt to obtain an e-mail.
I will do this as quickly as I can. It will take a few days.
IF I CANNOT CREATE AN E-MAIL, I WILL SAY SO.

William, thank you for helping Serpenteye! It is greatly appreciated!

The City of Greyhawk and the Bright Lands, are still unclaimed.

I am trying to be of assistance in this IR, appreciating what it like to run one.
I have compiled a list of the Players similar to Rikandur's list, and will post it here for all to see. I hope nobody is offended by this!
I am doing this merely to aid in clarity, and to clarify in my own mind who is playing what and who. This is what I did in the 3rd IR.

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THE 5TH IR

Created and run by SERPENTEYE

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GUILTY PUPPY'S 5TH IR MAP (in it's current guise)

http://www.rowf.net/ir/maptest/map-edit.php

OTHER GREYHAWK/OERTH MAP URLS

Close-in maps: http://www.sodabob.com/roleplay/dnd/Maps/
Overview map: http://www.sodabob.com/roleplay/dnd...eteflanaess.gif
Large-scale map: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/5878/gridgeo.gif
Large-scale map: http://members.aol.com/cathbhadhx/tsroerth.gif
Large-scale map: http://www.sodabob.com/roleplay/dnd/Maps/oerthlarge.gif

Map links from William's Map and Other Campaign Resources Post (note that some links are broken)

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/5878/wogmaps.html
Greyhawk Maps: http://www.thewatchman.de/spidersweb/oerik.htm
Oerth and Greyhawk maps: http://www.sodabob.com/roleplay/Campaigns/GreyhawkMaps/
Oerth map: http://members.aol.com/cathbhadhx/tsroerth.gif
Oerik Continent: http://www.highprogrammer.com/alan/...p/supermap.html
World of Greyhawk Map: http://www.arrantdestiny.com/maps.htm
Greyhawk Maps: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/5878/wogmaps.html
(One shows latitude.)
Living Greyhawk Maps: http://ca.geocities.com/kanisl/
World of Greyhawk Maps: http://talmeta.net/maps/wog.htm

MAUDLIN'S FINAL MAP FROM THE 3RD IR

http://users.pandora.be/maudlin/Greyhawk.jpg


PLAYERS AND THEIR INFORMATION

ANABSTERCORIAN
PC: The Great and Terrible Mnemesi, Low-Epic (21-30) Half-Fiend Cleric with the Ontic Template created by Sepulchrave to describe Soneillon.
Powers: The Cult of Tharizdun, the Cult of Elemental Evil
Color on map: unknown
Territories on map: unknown

OR:

PC: Eli Tomorast (also known as Eli the Demon-handed), Leader of the Seekers, neutral evil wizard, fiend-binder specialist
Powers: The Seekers (adventuring company), House Maure (home of the forsaken House Maure, a cabal of Warlocks descended from Suel refugees of the Rain of Colorless Fire) (Both groups are Infilitrator factions)
Color on map: unknown
Territories on map: unknown

OR BOTH

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CREAMSTEAK
PC: Yugthulgon, Master of the Staff of Ancient Penumbra
Powers: Beholder Dominions (Dominion of the Poisoned Eye, Flesh Reborn, Consuming Eye), Illithid Dominions (The Collective Overminds), cults associated with the above, servitors, slaves, thralls, voidminds, enslaved abberations and undead, and allied psionic demons and undead.
Color on map: unknown
Territories on map: None. Based in the darkest coldest depths of the underdark.

DEMON ATHIEST
PC: unknown
Power: The Shadow Guild (has the Infiltrator Trait)
Color on map: unknown
Territories on map: unknown
PC?s PL: unknown
PL: unknown

DEVILISH
PC: unknown
Powers: Acererak/Tomb of Horrors, Valley of the Mage, Blackmoor, the Cold Marshes
Color on map: unknown
Territories on map: as above

MR DRACO (It is unclear if Mr. Draco is playing)
PC: unknown
Power: unknown
Color on map: unknown
Territories on map: unknown

EDENA OF NEITH
PC: Vesharess Eclavdra
Power: The Drow Dirty Dozen (12 drow cities united as a nation, led by the city of Erelhei-Cinlu in the Vault of the Drow), servitor races, assorted servitor monsters, assorted servitor undead
Color on map: Violet
Territories on map: Mounds of Dawn, West Dim Forest, Little Hills, Jerlea Shores, Tangles, Celene Hills, Western Gnatmarch, Onnwal Headlands, Denzac Isle, Hraak Forest, Edgefield, Hestmark Peaks - each represents a Province held by a nearby Underdark Drow City
Vesharess Eclavdra?s PL: unknown to me yet
PL: unknown to me yet

ELUVAN
PC: unknown
Power: Shepherds in Darkness (secret organization with Infiltrator Trait, based in Greyhawk), unknown amount of Devil support
Color on map: unknown
Territories on map: unknown

FORSAKEN ONE
PC: Unknown
Powers: Troll/Sahuagin Druocracy, the Ice Elves of the Adri (?)
Color on map: unknown
Territories on map: A large peninsula region unnamed off-map, unspecified waters both on and offmap, Hempmonaland, the Troll-Fens, the Adri Forest

GNOMEWORKS (It is unclear if Gnomeworks is playing)
PC: unknown
Powers: unknown
Color on map: unknown
Territories on map: unknown

GUILT PUPPY: MAPMAKER OF THE 5TH IR
PC: unknown
Powers: The Scarlet Brotherhood
Color on map: unknown
Territories on map: as above

JAMES HEARD
PC: unknown
Powers: The Nations of the Mare Mysticum (the Elven Lands, Elvanian Forest, Kingdom of the Marches.), Marchwards (Half-elven nation on northern border of Empire of Lynn)
Color on map: Not applicable
Territories on map: Large off-map nations

KNIGHT OTU
PC: unknown
Powers Cult of Ashardalon, the Great Kingdom, Northern Aerdi, United Kingdom of Ahlissa, Rel Astra, the Sea Barons
Color on map: unknown
Territories on map: as above

PAXUS ASCLEPIUS
PC: unknown
Powers: The Pomarj, the Crystalmists, the Jotens, the Hellfurnaces, the Griff Mountains, the Raker Mountains, the Dreadwood
Color on map: Yellow
Territories on map: as above

RIKANDUR AZEBOL
PC: Iuz the Old, Demigod, human half-fiend Cleric 26th level, Assassin 20th level
Powers: The Empire of Iuz, the Horned Society, the Bandit Kingdoms, Tenh, Stonehold
Color on map: unknown
Territories on map: as above

THOMAS HOBBES
PC: unknown
Powers: The Lendore Isles, Celene, the Church of Tritherion (The Alliance of ?Those Who Do Not Wish to be Eaten? or ?The Inedible League? ), possible control of the Theocracy of the Pale
Color on map: unknown
Territories on map: as above

VENUS
PC: unknown
Powers: Upper Khanate, Lower Khanate, Orcreich
Color on map: Not Applicable
Territories on map: All territories are off-map

WILLIAM
PC: unknown
Powers: The Baklunish Confederation (Zeif, Tusmit, Ekbir, Ket, Ull, the Plains of the Paynims, the Dry Steppes (Spirit Empire of Garnak and Istivar if Serpenteye allows it), the lands of the Tiger Nomads, the lands of the Wolf Nomads, the Ullsprue Mountains, the Barrier Peaks, the Janasib Islands, the Qayah-Bureis Islands, the Araphad Islands)
Color on map: unknown
Territories on map: as above

XAEL
PC: unknown
Powers: Circle of Eight, Highfolk, the Vesve Forest, the Yatil Mountains
Color on map: unknown
Territories on map: as above

ZELDA THEMELIN
PC: unknown
Powers: unknown
Color on map: unknown
Territories on map: unknown

 

[Zelda Themelin]

Ok, I'd like to join, if you can come up with some less tactical position, mostly characters. Or backing someone else up.

If you want me that is.

ah, forget

E-mail: zelda@dlc.fi

 

[Anabstercorian]

Who are Eli Tomorast, the Seekers, and House Maure, you may ask?

Let me tell you...

The Seekers are, simply put, an adventuring company. A very large, very successful one! Though they act under the official profession of 'antique dealers', 'historians of ancient ruins', and similarly scholarly titles, they are in truth more looters, explorers, and treasure hunters along the line of Indiana Jones. Like Indi, however, they do have their scholarly streak - it's not uncommon for one of their member groups to spend some time exploring and reporting on a 'find' after it's been appropriately looted, delving in to the history and significance of it's contents.

Eli Tomorast is a member. Recently, he became the leader. This is a dangerous thing.

Eli Tomorast is a wizard, specializing in fiend-binding, known as Eli the Demon-handed for the fiendish grafts he has in place of hands. He has long been studying the long-crumbled Maure Castle, the home of the forsaken House Maure, a cabal of Warlocks descended from Suel refugees of the Rain of Colorless Fire. Recently he unearthed secrets there, secrets so potent he rocketed to the top of the Seekers hierarchy. Though his rule is absolute, the Seekers as a whole remain more or less free to act as they will.

Eli is Neutral/Neutral Evil. His malevolence is passive - he seeks power for himself, and revenge against those who have wronged him, but his wisdom, intelligence, and charisma drive him to great deeds that inspire awe, terror, and admiration in those around him.

The Seekers and House Maure are an Infiltrator faction, with a focus on Elite/Epic PL as opposed to Standard PL. If they manage to seize significant territory (as they may), this could change quickly.

Eli Tomorast
Wiz 22. Artifacts: Tome of the Black Heart, Demonhands, Sword of the Ebon Flame

More information about Eli Tomorast, the Seekers, and House Maure can be found in Dungeon Magazine #112, the 30th anniversary issue.

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

Hey there, Zelda. Nice to see you!
I want you in. Yes! By all means.

A number of powers are unclaimed. Back on the last page, Serpenteye lists them. Some are formidable powers. Check the map links in my long post above, to see where they are.

And welcome back!

Edena_of_Neith

 

[Creamsteak]

Hey Edena, it doesn't bother me, but some people don't want thier email addresses listed in a form that's as easy to read as that. I'd recommend, at the very least, replacing all @ with some series of symbols like "$##$" and replacing all of the dots with something entirely different like "*#*". If you have some kind of text editor other than a raw notepad, use control-f, then use find and replace to replace the symbols in the email addys or something.

Also, I accidently called the "Staff of Ancient Penumbra" the staff of Illsensine. My bad, but with my magical mod powers I'm editing it into your post.

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In spirit of the usual epic clout of the characters in the IR:

The background for my faction is that the sudden absence of the dieties on Oerth (and the loss of the connection to Illsensine) resulted in a sudden break in the Illithids, thier slaves, and virtually the entire structure of society. My PC (Yugthulgon) is an amalgamation of three high "priests" of the illithids enclaves. By amalgamation, I mean that Yug'rig'noth (egoist), Thul'hur'mca (shaper), and the enslaver Istigon (telepath) were litterally bound to one single body. As such Yugthulgon has 12 tentacles instead of 4. He has 6 eyes instead of two. This aberrant emissary that was created to take control of the chaos is completely and totally nuts for what it's worth.

Yugthulgon (also called virtually any combination of the three original names at different times) killed perhaps 80% of the Mind Flayers on Oerth, mostly those of the three other psionic disciplines. However, he certainly made it a point to excercise his new power to destroy anyone with objections to his new rule. The combined Flayer-deaths, slave split off, and lack of a god to glue it together basically destroyed whatever empire they retained on Oerth.

Weakened, beaten, and otherwise crippled, Yugthulgon went in search of an artifact of his diety in order to perhaps revive some degree of unity (and end the slaughter of his own race). He recovered the Staff of Ancient Penumbra from its prison of over a thousand Githzerai monks, fists of Zouken, and illithid slayers. This made more enemies than one could have ever predicted.

So, following this, Yug united the remaining flayers (though at only 25% strength at best). In an effort that would be called blasphemy (and certainly was, resulting in some additional flayer deaths), Yug agreed to treat some of the "lesser" races like Beholders and certain demons/undead as equals.

Now, with allies in tow, Yug has quitely bided his time, watching as Technology is developed by the surface above. Yug firmly believes that technology serves some eldritch purpose which sealed out the gods, and possibly even magic and psionic power later. Because of this, Yug sees this "power" in a very negative way, and has slowly been building his armies of war to do two things: Subjugate those who were offered "equality" but rejected it, and to COMPLETELY destroy both the demons who brought the tech, and thier technology.

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

I will erase the e-mails from the list altogether.
I'll keep a private list for myself, but not post a public one.

I'm really not sure what the etiquette is on e-mails. So, instead of guessing, I'm removing the e-mails altogether. I don't want to offend anyone.

 

[Eluvan]

I don't think he missed you.

Whoops... guess it was me who missed him. And I have much less of an excuse. Sorry to be a bother...

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

To Serpenteye

Serpenteye, how long do we have until the start of the IR?

 

[Airwhale]

Are you still accepting players? This seems *really* cool.