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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 2817716" data-attributes="member: 8530">"Retake the Island" The following is an oldie but goodie, a module played out during most of calendar year 2000. I recently came across the text copy of the party log and thought it might make for some good Story Hour reading. Enjoy! Introduction and background: This module takes place in the Kingdom of Phlooredah. Phlooredah is a small oval shaped continent, approximately 600 by 400 miles in size, which consists of nine autonomous Lordholdings. A ruler is elected from among the nine Lordholders to serve a 15-year term as the continent's King. The ruler’s authority is limited to maintaining a military to defend the continent, issuing a uniform currency, and resolving disputes between the Lordholders. The smallest Lordholdings is that of Jawlt, which is situated on the continent's southern coast of the continent. Lord Kindor, who is in his third 5-year term as the elected Lordholder, rules Jawlt. Kindor had been a soldier who served as the Captain of the Guard and Army Commander of his predecessor. Kindor is a handsome 44-year old unmarried human 9th level fighter of lawful neutral alignment. He is decisive, but also willing to listen to the advice of others. He has an appointed 8-person Jawlt Council, each with their own sphere of responsibility (Diplomacy, Security, Commerce, Religion, Military Strategy, Army Command, Navy Command, and Other Miscellaneous Duties). The Silver Moon Adventurers have been together for over 13 years. Their first mission in the summer of the year 1005 was finding the fabled Rod of the Seven Parts for the Thenossia Lordholder, the brother of King Matthan. This quest brought them to Jawlt where they fought and killed Kindor’s evil predecessor. Three years after that they joined forces with Lord Kindor and defeated a group of pirates and evil clerics on an unclaimed island sixty miles south of the Jawlt/Thenossia border. Following that victory the adventurers decided to keep the island as their new home, and at Kindor's invitation, Silver Moon Island officially became a new township within the Jawlt Lordholding. Three members of the adventuring team currently serve on the Jawlt Council. Chapter One, "The Return of Narg", July 28th, 1018: Narg, the half-elf fighter and also founding member and the unofficial leader of the Silver Moon Adventurers has spent the last two months away with his pooka friend Monty (A Pooka is a time-and-dimension traveling creature that takes the form of a giant animal that only one individual can see. Monty’s form is a giant emperor penguin). They enjoyed what for them was an eight-week tour of minor and major league baseball games on a planet known as Earth. Since Monty can time-hop, this particular tour focused on specific players, watching their careers from single-A ball throughout the majors. After watching around four hundred games Narg decided it was time to return home. Unbeknownst to Narg, Monty forgot exactly when they had left and returned Narg back to Silver Moon Island much later planned. He arrives back at his home (nicknamed "the swamp"). His two roommates, the gruff one-eyed human fighter named Furynick and elvan fighter sidekick Mojo did not find his absence at all out of the ordinary. But Narg then runs into his elvan girlfriend, the archer named Vallessa who had a very different opinion. She yells out “Where the hell have you been for the past two years!” Narg spends the next several hours trying to explain. July 29, 1018: The upcoming election to choose the King for the next fifteen-year term is scheduled to take place in the City of Cortang, on the western coast of the Kaloon Lordholding. Queen Jennifer, the estranged wife of King Matthan, discreetly contacts the Silver Moon’s senior spell caster and founding druid Serita to ask that her and some of her more powerful friends be present at the election. Jennifer anticipates trouble once King Matthan and his chief advisor, an evil priestess named Pamela, find out that they have lost two some of the Lordholding votes that they are counting on. Jennifer also says that she has a request to ask of them. Meanwhile, in the Eldamar Lordholding, the members of the former Eldamar Council are preparing to depart for the election. One Council member, Carson, approaches the gnome named Immy. He asks Immy to travel to Cortang, and be in the audience during the election “just in case”, as he is also anticipating potential trouble. Immy asks for more information, but it is not forthcoming. Immy is given one of the 300 highly prized audience tickets. August 3rd, 1018: The party of Serita, Narg, Mojo the dwarven thief Lannon and the human lawful good priest of Ukko Timothy get together to teleport to Cortang. Serita, Narg and Lannon all serve on the Jawlt Council, Mojo is Queen Jennifer’s secret lover, and Timothy is well respected by church officials who will also be present. Ki-Geloryn, the Jawlt Lordholding Council Member responsible to diplomacy, has been in the city for the past three weeks, helping negotiate the logistics of the election. He has reserved rooms for the five Silver Moon members at the Regal Carriage Inn, one of the fancier hotels in town. The party gets settled into their rooms, then decide to just hang out at the Inn. Sitting by the fireplace are an odd pair for such a fancy establishment, a burley male Dwarven fighter and his companion, a heavily armored female Human fighter. Lannon is pleased to see another dwarf, and joins him, with his friends in tow. Mojo introduces each of them. The dwarf then introduces himself (speaking with a British accent) as Kruk, and says that his companion is a swashbuckler named Adrianna. They have just arrived on the continent, and hearing that the major political event for the next fifteen years was about to take place, decided to hang around. Kruk buys a round of drinks for Lannon and his friends. Lannon orders the next round. Immy hangs out near the group, listening in on their conversations, without fully joining them. Ki-Geloryn arrives, and tells the party to just run a tab at the inn, that Kindor will be paying for it, to which they have no complaints (especially Kruk, since by treating to the first round, the group adds his ongoing tab to theirs). Ki enjoys a drink with the gang around the fireplace, and the party asks about the potential outcome for the election. Ki says that it appears that King Matthan will be reelected for another term as he now has the support of the Zalpar Lordholding, which along with his own four family-ruled Lordholdings of Kaloon, Cantage, Thenoissia, and Eldamar will give him a clear majority. Mojo suggest that they go kill Matthan to make things interesting. Narg suggests waiting six-months before killing him. Kruk is a little surprised at this public discussion of assassinating a regent. “He’s just joking,” interjects Lannon to Kruk. “No we’re not,” answers Mojo. Ki is able to get audience tickets for Kruk and Adrianna to attend. He says he will stop by each day to visit with the party, and that the ships with Lords Aldorn, and Kindor will arrive in the city the following day. Meanwhile, Timothy visits the Ukko cathedral in the city, where Isaiah had originally been invested, to inquire as to whether they would take him back. The gnome Immy also checks into the same hotel and soon finds himself intermixed with the party, taking advantage of the free bar tab. August 4th, 1018: The group spends most of the day just hanging around the inn and drinking on Kindor's expense account. They start to tell Kruk and Adrianna about the other members of the party, including "A drugged out druid who has accidentally killed close to forty horses." The party also describes all of the creatures they have living on the island, including four pegasi, a wyvern, a pond dragon, tasoli (monkey-type creatures), bullywug (humanoid frogs) and the mimic named Dave. "My god," says Adrianna, "What do you have, a zoo?" "My butler Hobbson asks the same thing every time he cleans our house" answers Narg. Once they are completely intoxicated, Mojo and Narg conclude that since the next King doesn't take office for six-months, they have that long to kill Matthan if he wins. "But what difference would that make," says Kruk, "Isn't he King now?" "Good point, let's go kill him now," says Mojo. Fortunately, they are too drunk to get up, or else they probably would. Mojo then comes up with a strategy involving Serita sleeping with Kindor. "What good would that do," says Narg. "Might make her more pleasant," answers Mojo. Lannon explains Mojo to Kruk, saying "he's taken a few too many blows to the head." Narg interjects "and most were self-inflicted." Mojo then comes up with a plan to trade Serita. Meanwhile, the gnome thief/illusionist Immy checks out the royal palace to see what information he can obtain about the next day’s election. He leaves behind a complicated spring-loaded, gear-operated trap with a cream pie attached. Immy tells the party of his scouting mission. He suggests that he should maybe sneak onto the Queen's ship. Serita yells at him "Do not do anything to Jennifer or I'll kill you!" "What does she think he is," says Lannon, "a helicopter?" in reference to a visit they once made to a 20th century world. "What's a helicopter?" asks Kruk. "A large metal bird that explodes upon contact with touching Serita," is Mojo's reply.</blockquote>

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