Sagiro's Story Hour Returns (new thread started on 5/18/08)

[Plane Sailing]

You'd think someone would invent a more powerful version of Sending with a greater than 25 word capacity.

And don't forget, this isn't a sending - it is a note scrawled on a piece of paper held against a crystal-ball-communicator-thingy!

p.s. Lovely to see One Certain Step move out of the shadows and onto centre stage for a change!

Cheers

 

[Sagiro]

That means that Naradawk and his army are about to break through. The Spire are too busy holding them up to let off for a second. They think they can keep this up for three months, but probably less. Naradawk et al will be coming through a portal in Verdshane. Forty-eight hours before they do, the stasis trap on said portal will fail.

The Company are to inform King Crunard of the problem so he can concentrate troops in the area.

Correct on all counts!

-Sagiro

 

[wolff96]

...the seventeen-year-old (whose name is Thommel) forces Step to execute so much as a single feint.

Could that be a nod to Thrommel of Temple of Elemental Evil (and various sequels) fame?

Great update as usual, Sagiro.

 

[Samnell]

Correct on all counts!

*bows* For my next trick I'll find a RL gaming group.

 

[coyote6]

Interesting -- it was a note, but (assuming you count "48" as one word) it was also exactly 25 words long. Maybe it was a note dictated from a sending.

I bet the players were just getting over the last end of the world.

 

[Nail]

I bet the players were just getting over the last end of the world.

...oh, I'm sure they jus' take it in stride. Or jus' add it to th' list....

 

[Fade]

Written on a scrap of paper in someone's pocket:

* Make magic items
* Defeat P.
* Collect laundry
* Save World
* Free dwarves from Guild of Chains
* Call (sending?) mum
* Collect other Eye
* Order food
* Save world (again)
* Have fireball damage to Greenhouse repaired
...etc

 

[Piratecat]

We were pretty freaked out over this. And by "we", read "I". It took me a while to figure out why.

Turns out that I was making some implicit metagame assumptions about when this would all come down. I thought it would be the climax of the campaign, occurring in another few years.

I was wrong.

So now I'm feeling dreadfully underprepared and vulnerable, like showing up for school and learning that there's a test that day, and you forgot to wear pants!

 

[Milo Windby]

So now I'm feeling dreadfully underprepared and vulnerable, like showing up for school and learning that there's a test that day, and you forgot to wear pants!

Cats don't wear pants...

Seriously though, does this look like the climax of a years-long, enormous, intricate story arc or is Sagiro planning some more RBDMness to spring on you guys at the last minute, thus prolonging the story?

 

[Piratecat]

I asked him about what comes after. He shut his mouth, grinned knowingly, and chortled. Always a good sign.

New from Littlejohn (David Hendee)! A portrait of Kay. What do you think?