OOC Kingdom of Ashes VI (Welcome to the Springer Dimension)

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

Sorry running behind on things, but as for this comment. Not sure what Liz/Justice has said on it, but I was and am just going on the fact that previously the old heroes keyed things to blood, very specific blood. Goldenblade is Quarions blood line, so that would be the most obvious one should he have keyed it to anyones. Probably doesn't have anything that would actually help the situation, but thought process remains the same for a just in case type of event.

As for who has seen Dara: Kareth and L'aurel both saw the blue figure in Oceanus, but only know it has somethign to do with someone Archonus knows well and happily. And I thought with the whole asking questions and such Arhconus finally metioned Dara after the bluestar left and we were talkign about getting info on Quarion... Did he actually not? Do we, the circle, or do we not know about Dara goldenblade and her association with Archonus?

Also, what I was getting at is - a few weeks ago, Kennon typed something when talking about the "switch" that made me *think* that it was keyed to the blood of the Goldenblades. I made a bunch of posts about it... and then, Kennon corrected me and said that I just read it incorrectly.

So, though it doesn't mean that the ward is not linked to the blood of the Goldenblades, it doesn't make it seem very probable, either.

 

[Laurel]

So Gertie likes to change ? into . I am finding I like to subjectively change nagatives into positives and the other way around.

The most recent case being that a regular longbow one can not use while mounted; however as I am sure you all care to know, Composite longbow's are NOT too unweildy. They can be used while mounted! This makes no sense, but SRD and Players both agree. Before I was placing a random no in the composite longbow description and thus thought only shortbows could be used....
Hey it may not help us much for the adventuring, but the idea was for her to a mounted archer type and I still like it so going for that

 

[Laurel]

Okay so on to more important things-

So the room we are in now has one other door or only the door we came through? (and two grates I know)

Going over to the grates (one upstream first then floating dowstream) can we see anything through the grates?

We also now know that the stream isn't secluded to one level- does the river tunnel look man-made or natural?

 

[The_Universe]

So Gertie likes to change ? into . I am finding I like to subjectively change nagatives into positives and the other way around.

The most recent case being that a regular longbow one can not use while mounted; however as I am sure you all care to know, Composite longbow's are NOT too unweildy. They can be used while mounted! This makes no sense, but SRD and Players both agree. Before I was placing a random no in the composite longbow description and thus thought only shortbows could be used....
Hey it may not help us much for the adventuring, but the idea was for her to a mounted archer type and I still like it so going for that

The reason for this is that a composite longbow is not as - well - long as a regular longbow. Real longbows of the non-composite variety were commonly made of single strips of yew or birch, treated and strung to be used exclusively by foot soldiers. A longbow of this type could be anywhere from 6-7ft. high when unstrung, and probably not less than 5 feet from tip to tip when ready to be pulled.

Composite longbows (and composite bows in general) are a product of a whole different kind of engineering track. Rather than made of wood, composite bows of the long- and short- varieties were often made of bone (and in the modern day plastic and metal). Longbows of this type tend to have a greater "natural" curve, even when unsrung, which means that they're reasonably less unweildy from horseback (or eagleback, as the case here seems to be).

The famed Welsh Longbow is a non-composite. The Saracen Bow is a composite longbow, while the bows used by the Mongols were composite shortbows (in D&D terms - in real life, they're harder to categorize).

 

[The_Universe]

Okay so on to more important things-

So the room we are in now has one other door or only the door we came through? (and two grates I know)

Going over to the grates (one upstream first then floating dowstream) can we see anything through the grates?

We also now know that the stream isn't secluded to one level- does the river tunnel look man-made or natural?

There's the door you entered through, another door directly across from it, and two grates that lead from the room. Facing the closed door, if you look to the grate on your right, you'll a torrent of water coming down off of a narrow falls, dumping into a large pool outside the great. The water flowing through this room appears to be runoff from that pool. The grate on the left reveals another strong flow of water, heading directly away from the grate. There's probably a duct or something below this room that's overflowed, which is why the water flows through here, now. The flow turns sharply downward not far after the left grate, and disappears.

The river appears to be a combination of natural features (like the falls and pool to the right) and dwarf-made features (the duct, the worked walls of the river on the level above).

 

[Laurel]

Timeline

Since this was asked at the last game, and I didn't have an answer I ask to make sure we are all on the same day.

Sticking to the T+1/AD+1 timeline, we met the Bluestar on day +19.
So we are now on +20? We stayed for a few hours and rested in Sylvanus before teleporting to KB (where we are now) iirc

 

[The_Universe]

Sure - you're AD+20 days. That works for me. Soon, it will be AD+21.

 

[The_Universe]

In fact, let's have it be AD+21, now. Midnight has passed in the world above.

 

[Laurel]

In fact, let's have it be AD+21, now. Midnight has passed in the world above.

Just to be a pain since I didn't write it down, and then really I will leave this alone! What hour/time would say it was that we met up with the dolly cadaver?

 

[The_Universe]

around 8pm? It doesn't matter. It can be whatever time you want it to be.