Rel's Faded Glory III: Glory Reborn (FINAL UPDATE 6/22 - SHE'S DONE, BABY!!)

[Elder-Basilisk]

Wohoo. I look forward to hearing whether they do or whether they die. And I want to find out what happens to Brother Lucius Capito. It would appear that he has been predestined for failure by the DM but that remains to be seen.

 

[Rel]

And I want to find out what happens to Brother Lucius Capito. It would appear that he has been predestined for failure by the DM but that remains to be seen.

Don't be so sure of that. I had grown quite fond of Lucius Capito by this point in the campaign. He and I went through a lot together. I wouldn't just doom him to failure out of hand.

Or would I?

 

[Tony Vargas]

I think it's a little odd that the priest who's chosen the 'shield' role is striking at the heart of the enemy, while the 'mace' is hunkered down in a fort... am I missing something?

I'm guessing they'll end up on opposite sides, that the defense Marcus has chosen will end up being defending the tribesmen against his own people, because the empire ends up playing into the hands of Bane...

 

[Rel]

I think it's a little odd that the priest who's chosen the 'shield' role is striking at the heart of the enemy, while the 'mace' is hunkered down in a fort... am I missing something?

You are missing nothing and this is an astute observation that was not lost on the players during the campaign. I won't give any further hints right now except to say that Marcus' player got a chance to make his choice first with the only foregone conclusion being that Capito would assume the role that he did not (though the player didn't know that at the time).

And I didn't push the players toward "striking at the heart of the enemy".

Make of that what you will. But this question and many others will be answered in full by the end of the campaign.

 

[Belen]

Rockin updates. I was wondering though, was Brutus awakened?


Can't wait to see more.

Dave

 

[Riggs]

Huh? oh

Beautiful...absolutely beautiful
I'm glad someone around here posts comments to my Story Hour...
*throws a yeti at his players*
yeah, yeah...i'll keep updating...

*ducks yeti*
What? I'm just sitting here reading and not mentioning the internet-lagging, brain-numbing possibilities of a Lucy Liu/Monica Bellucci love child!

I can also imagine Marius failing miserably at a "scared straight" meeting for those that want to consort with devil women.

"Ahh, and you just don't want to go there because it's really not worth--Well It's probably not worth your....well...Freakin go for it! It's better than you think! I mean, ah, don't do drugs."

 

[Speaks With Stone]

I thought I'd add in a little more on the Scipio side.

During the Suevi meeting where Scipio made his appearance, Speaks With Stone basically insulted Relmar and called him a coward. Relmar withheld his troops from the Winter War as he saw it as a concern for the other tribes. So he now has the biggest warband. He was making a play for control of all of the tribes (at least that was Speaks perception) by forcing them to come to him. The rest of the tribes were bending that way because without the Suevi troops they were lost, but on the other hand fighting and dying to preserve Suevi lands when the Suevi gave nothing to the Winter War effort was a sticking point, especially in light of the foolhardy nature of it all.

So Speaks With Stone called him out on that and basically the meeting ended in a big shouting match and nothing got decided other than Speaks was persona non grata.

Speaks convinced Scipio to offer his "service" as a peace offering. The idea was that distrustful or not, Relmar could hardly turn down an incarnation of his tribe's spirit. Meanwhile, Scipio's real mission was to protect Urthula and her son (who is also Speaks With Stone's son - long story, I'm sure Rel covered that ages ago).

That is why Scipio stayed behind. I really liked this role for him, much better than being a target in combat that I had to watch over. It's awful hard to keep those animal companions alive. The only other ones that survived to date were the wolves that Speaks had Awakened and never took adventuring, so Scipio was a milestone in having survived the animal companion stage.

 

[Speaks With Stone]

Brutus wasn't awakened. It probably would have made things easier, but I had taken on the concept that I'd only awaken creatures if they wanted to be awakened. I always asked first because in many ways I thought it alienated them from other animals. With the wolves back home I awakened a whole bunch of wolves of different sexes. Hopefully, intelligent wolves will breed, but maybe not.

But anyway, Brutus hadn't been around long enough to be able to make that decision. I can't remember if I asked him and he was non-commital, or if I just assumed he'd need some time to adjust sort of one stage at a time.

Probably not the best strategy, but it seemed more in keeping with being a druid.

 

[BSF]

Excellent stuff Speaks! Thanks for providing a little more insight into the entire situation.

As for awakened animals, I always kind of figured awakened animals went from just being companions to more on the level of cohorts. But RP isn't always about making the best tactical decision all the time. It is about making the right decision for the character all the time. Speaks wants to ask animals if they wish to be awakened? Good for him I say!

 

[Rel]

I had this dream that my Story Hour thread made it to Page 20. Wouldn't that be cool?

So I've finally figured out that this thread is like a pot of water. If I check it every few hours throughout the day then it is guaranteed not to get any new posts. But as soon as I get busy with work and don't get a chance to pop in for a couple days, everything starts to boil over.

So that's it! I'm leaving now and just going to leave the thread alone again. Here I go...

I'm going.


See me leaving...