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

[Rel]

WOW. Edge-of-the-seat action. Need cigarette...now....
Nice job Rel. Good at conveying the hopeless situation and their struggles....
I am awestruck. Keep it up.

I'll almost certainly have another update by later this week. This one took me a bit longer to write than some other recent updates because I didn't have one of Lazarius' player's excellent Battle Reports to work from. But as I wrote it I found that it came back relatively easily (this session took place about a year ago).

What I remember most is that this leads right up to the part where things turn really bad.

 

[Look_a_Unicorn]

Day-amn that was intense!

 

[ShawnLStroud]

What I remember most is that this leads right up to the part where things turn really bad.

Hmmm. It gets worse for the characters after here? Eeeek!

 

[old school 1E]

holy *bleep*!

Couldn't finish part 2 of the story due to server problems, so had to skip to part 3.

Man oh man! I hate it when parties manage to scrape out of what appear to be hopeless situations all the time, because you get lulled into this mindset of "they'll get out of it... right?"

Shame to see one of my favorite party members go down There's going to be a resurrection, though, right rel? *hopeful look*

Keep it coming! cant wait for the next installment!

edit: rel's next post will be his 3000th post! congrats!

 

[Old One]

Finally Caught Up!

Rel,

You are a mean, mean man...Bravo! To be fair, however, they have had many close calls (and you have run out of NPCs to kill ) and the law of averages catches up eventually. I really like the blood-brood thingees...nice and disgusting. I do remember some of the elements from a number of posts ago from our e-mail discussions from long ago.

Where are you in the DM/Game rotation these days? Is another round of FG coming up? If so, feel free to pester me for evil ideas, since my own game is on hiatus...if I can't RBDMize my players, I might as well contribute to your cause !

I will try to let you know about GENCON befor pre-reg opens on 2/12...I am planning a secret spa getaway for the Missus...so should have some capital built up...but I don't want to spill the beans too early!

Have fun at the NC GameDay...I would love to make another one of those one of these years.

Take care,

~ Oldie

PS - If you haven't picked up the BCCS book yet...it just screams Faded Glory (my brand of FG, at least).

 

[gerg_861]

a new link to Rel's FG II

Hi all, the link to Rel's FG II isn't functioning anymore, would it be possible to re-post a new one? I just got computer access back a few weeks ago and now I'm trying to get caught up on all of the SHs.

 

[Rel]

Thanks for the flurry of replies, guys. To summarize: Yes, I'm a bastard. Yes, the meat grinder was bound to catch up with them eventually. Yes, things really do get worse after this. No, I'm not wearing any underwear.

To answer specific concerns: I don't know exactly how to go about restoring the links to the earlier SH's at the moment. I can't search yet because I haven't renewed my Community Supporter account. Maybe if one of you kind fellows would run a search for me...*looks at BardStephenFox with big puppy-dog eyes*... Failing that, or in the eventuallity that the threads got somehow lost in translation, I still have all those posts in Word format. If we can't restore those links somehow then I'll get the missing posts to the people who want to read them. And I'll probably re-post them to new threads too. But let's assume for the moment that we'll be able to find them and get new links established.

Old One, the GM rotation right now is such that we are playing in Speaks With Stone's Mage: Dark Ages campaign after having played in Lazarius' Arcana Unearthed campaign. After this I'm slated to GM again but I think I'm going to take a break from Faded Glory next time and run an Eberron campaign. I still love the Faded Glory setting and I'm sure I'll use it again someday. But, as I've noted to you and in a few threads here at ENWorld, I find it difficult to maintain some of the feel of the setting (which is fairly austere) as the PC's grow in power to the upper levels. As such, these PC's will not be appearing in any further FG campaigns that I run. Their adventures will conclude with the end of this Story Hour.

As for when and how that will take place, well, you'll see. But there will be another update later today. Thanks for reading.

 

[Old One]

Bummer...

Rel,

Thanks for the update...sorry you have (temporarily?) reached the end of your Faded Glory rope! If you need something for high-levels to do, just have them invade Sythia and try to obtain the 7 Ebony Eyes of the Scorpian-King of the Demon's Anvil ! How many more sessions do you have to cover for Rel's FG III?

Your first link is Rel's FG I and the second one is Rel's FG - Early Days and the third on is Rel's FG II

I think that's all of them...hope that helps!

~ Oldie

 

[Riggs]

It was just about that desperate in there, the statues were pounding us to dust after the ferals had worked over some of us. One thing that happened was that when we could see as players that Marcus was taking the heat and was in real danger, we couldn't find a way to justify getting to him and healing him because of the mist, distance, etc. I wanted Marius to use his healing wand but I was at the far door with Lazarius and couldn't even be sure Marcus had gotten into the room. It sucked knowing that Marcus was doomed and Speaks too if he hadn't gotten through, with Cathal nearby on a different statue, unknowing of exactly what was taking place a few yards away to Marcus. Not to down the mist spell, that might have been perfect if the opponents were hindered by it, but as it was, it didn't work.
What did St. Cuthbert think about losing two clerics so closely together? Was he playing on his PS2 and missed it? I'm not writing this so you have to wait.

 

[Rel]

Rel,

Thanks for the update...sorry you have (temporarily?) reached the end of your Faded Glory rope! If you need something for high-levels to do, just have them invade Sythia and try to obtain the 7 Ebony Eyes of the Scorpian-King of the Demon's Anvil ! How many more sessions do you have to cover for Rel's FG III?

Your first link is Rel's FG I and the second one is Rel's FG - Early Days and the third on is Rel's FG II

I think that's all of them...hope that helps!

~ Oldie

Dude, you totally rock for the links that quickly. I've fixed and checked the link at the start of this thread and everything should be working properly now. Please let me know if it isn't.

As far as the high level play thing goes, I wasn't keeping my eye on the "big picture" in terms of how I implemented the rules and such when I started my first FG campaign. If I had been then I would have placed a few limits on how the high level magic worked and might have taken further steps to emphasize how the "Empire in decline" atmosphere signified a loss of ready access to some of this stuff. But it was our first full-blown 3E game so I wasn't really thinking about that stuff.

When the party reached higher levels and started to become very powerful from a magical standpoint, they began to effectively "elevate themselves beyond the setting" in many ways. I was happy to roll with this but it was inevitably going to lead to a situation where the feel of the characters and feel of the setting became more and more divergent as time went on. Add to this the fact that I just plain prefer to run groups at lower levels and I felt like my next stab at a FG game needed to start with a clean slate.

So, for the foreseeable future, I'll have to get my FG fix from you guys. When did you say you were going to start playing again...