Ptolus: Midwood - "The Dark Waters of Moss Pond"

[bissichan]

Hee hee hee! Did everyone know that there was no Tiberius?

Emmerson was completely blindsided.

 

[Gnome Quixote]

As was Bufer. Sweet jeebus in a smoking birchbark canoe! You rat bastards!!

It really casts everything that follows in a whole different light, don't it?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It really casts everything that follows in a whole different light, don't it?

Given everything that follows, it really raises Renraw from a Baltar pastiche to a Shakespearean villain, especially since, if he knew how it all would turn out, he'd probably have done it anyway.

 

[Gnome Quixote]

In keeping with gnomish tradition, and their general obsession with names, it's become a practice for Bufer to be assigned a new one by one of the other characters during the course of each adventure, either inadvertantly or otherwise.

This adventure's name was actually one I'd wanted to give Bufer from the outset, although it was Renraw who gave me the justification for it:

Malpractice is a name Bufer adopted shortly after the adventure in Fibber's Cairn, inadvertantly given to him by Renraw Kem. Incensed by Bufer's refusal to heal him on the grounds that he was teaching Kem an object lesson, Kem insisted to anyone who would listen that he would have sued the cleric for malpractice, had be been a "real doctor". Though he'd never heard the word before (and wasn't quite sure what it meant), Bufer liked the sound of it, and added the name as a remembrance of his first true test as a servant of Garl Glittergold.

Henceforth he is known as Ebuferpaly Whitethatch Malpractice Potentloins...at least until the next adventure.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The second Midwood adventure began on April 25, 2006. It's nothing I had planned on, but Renraw's scheme created an apparent plot hook for the group, and about half of them wanted to pursue it. So now, I had the prospect of people sitting around in the snow, waiting for a fictious bandit to show up and meet up with his cronies.

I waited longer than I probably should have for the conspirators to do anything to throw the rest of the group a bone before deciding to do something to keep everyone entertained. Who else, I wondered, might show up at Fibber's Cairn?

And the snowball Renraw had rolled downhill thus turns into an avalanche even faster, especially when the idealistic Bufer and dangerously heroic Emmerson get swept up in events.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Emus can read because, at second level, he multiclassed as a barbarian 1/druid 1. Other choices that will make a powergamer cringe are yet to come.

 

[Emus Graymullet]

Emus can read because, at second level, he multiclassed as a barbarian 1/druid 1. Other choices that will make a powergamer cringe are yet to come.

Totally! Emus eventually got an animal companion, and Handle Animal is both a Barbarian and a Druid class skill!

Oh. You meant that other thing.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The note in the cairn? Also a fabrication by Tock and Renraw. Goblin Falls is the village at the base of the road leading down from the Anvil Plateau, and is the closest settlement to the borders of the barony in the Duchy of Southerly.

 

[Trench]

Did you edit out the kobold rumors Whiz?

BLASPHEMY! Come now!

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

There's no way they could have been made to work under ENWorld's "Eric's grandma" standard.