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Grumbar's player sure does have a talent for coming up with great characters...
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The Adventures of the Knights of Spellforge Keep
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Dr. Midnight,
Great story hour. I generally lurk but don't post, so thanks for taking the time out to write up your campaign logs. I know that at one time you maintained a web page for The Knights of the Silver Quill, do you still do this? Also I was looking at Vek's character sheet and all of his followers have levels in PC classes instead of NPC classes, is this a house rule? I doubt it would overpower the leadership feat because of the level difference between Vek and his followers is huge.
Great story hour. I generally lurk but don't post, so thanks for taking the time out to write up your campaign logs. I know that at one time you maintained a web page for The Knights of the Silver Quill, do you still do this? Also I was looking at Vek's character sheet and all of his followers have levels in PC classes instead of NPC classes, is this a house rule? I doubt it would overpower the leadership feat because of the level difference between Vek and his followers is huge.
Okay, this is at the direct request of Neverwinter Knight, so...blame him! 
The following song parody is sung to the tune of Argent's "Hold Your Head Up," and it would only be right to dedicate it to our own Story Hour Addict, Tsunami.
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BEAT A DEAD HORSE
And if it's there,
Jump into the saddle,
You can make it.
And if it stays,
After a "giddyup,"
You must break it.
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh
Stills it says "Woah!"
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh
Stills it says "Woah!"
And if it seems
As if it's unimpressed
With your beatings,
And if it's 'cause
Undead flesh feels no pain,
That's just cheating.
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh
Stills it says "Woah!"
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh
Stills it says "Woah!"
(Interlude)
Beat a dead horse,
Beat a dead horse,
Beat a dead horse,
Beat a dead horse,
Beat a dead horse,
Beat a dead horse,
Beat a dead horse,
Beat a dead horse,
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh
Stills it says "Woah!"
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh
Stills it says "Woah!"
And if it "woahs"
After you've flayed its flesh,
That's Tsunami.
And if it knows
That you will never win,
Tell his Mommy.
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh...
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Johnathan
Self-Appointed, Unofficial Bard to the Knights of Spellforge Keep Campaign
The following song parody is sung to the tune of Argent's "Hold Your Head Up," and it would only be right to dedicate it to our own Story Hour Addict, Tsunami.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
BEAT A DEAD HORSE
And if it's there,
Jump into the saddle,
You can make it.
And if it stays,
After a "giddyup,"
You must break it.
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh
Stills it says "Woah!"
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh
Stills it says "Woah!"
And if it seems
As if it's unimpressed
With your beatings,
And if it's 'cause
Undead flesh feels no pain,
That's just cheating.
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh
Stills it says "Woah!"
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh
Stills it says "Woah!"
(Interlude)
Beat a dead horse,
Beat a dead horse,
Beat a dead horse,
Beat a dead horse,
Beat a dead horse,
Beat a dead horse,
Beat a dead horse,
Beat a dead horse,
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh
Stills it says "Woah!"
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh
Stills it says "Woah!"
And if it "woahs"
After you've flayed its flesh,
That's Tsunami.
And if it knows
That you will never win,
Tell his Mommy.
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh
Beat a dead horse, oh...
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Johnathan
Self-Appointed, Unofficial Bard to the Knights of Spellforge Keep Campaign
Wee Jas
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I guess.. got a suggestion?
Uh.. should followers not have core classes? I must have missed that. I just chose directions for the Knights of Wee Jas. I wanted them to be like dark paladins , so Fighter/clerics just seemed the way to go.
I'll save this song for all the Harm threads
Dursk Starkfire
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jam-son
"I hope to find out about the creature that good ol' Jamison was (or maybe still is) working for!"
ohh, now that'd be a great plot twist... jamison is STILL working for the BBEG, but his memory-tweaking spell was so efficient he forgot that as well!
nothing better than an evil wizard who scans as good to a paladin
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Great updates Doc, keep 'em coming!
Dursk.
"I hope to find out about the creature that good ol' Jamison was (or maybe still is) working for!"
ohh, now that'd be a great plot twist... jamison is STILL working for the BBEG, but his memory-tweaking spell was so efficient he forgot that as well!
nothing better than an evil wizard who scans as good to a paladin
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Great updates Doc, keep 'em coming!
Dursk.
Lela
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Re: jam-son
I've found that Nondetection works well. Try it on vampires.
Dursk Starkfire said:"I hope to find out about the creature that good ol' Jamison was (or maybe still is) working for!"
ohh, now that'd be a great plot twist... jamison is STILL working for the BBEG, but his memory-tweaking spell was so efficient he forgot that as well!
nothing better than an evil wizard who scans as good to a paladin
I've found that Nondetection works well. Try it on vampires.
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Wee Jas said:
Normally Followers can only possess the classes of : Commoner, Warrior, or Expert.
You can find rules in the Epic Level Handbook suggesting that a Follower of the Adept or Noble Class count as +2 levels higher, a Player Class count at +3 levels higher, and a Prestige Class count as +5 levels higher.
Just FYI. Personally I think its cool to have a small retinue of Dark Knights as Followers, and because of their relative low level they probably aren't too effective in a fight anyway.
Breakstone
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Well, shucks, now I've got a grin from ear to ear!
Thanks, Richards!
Dr Midnight
Explorer
Starday, 1st of Ready’reat
The air grew chilly and patches of snow passed them on the ground as they rode. Vek was reminded of what it was like to travel north the first time he went, with Jettok, Katya, Kyla, Rafflorn, and Dartan. Things were not so different then, at least on the road north. Light skirls of snow brushed down into the trees on the horizon.
Soon, they were riding through snow and ice. Their winter furs covered them like jealous lovers. Vek, of course, needed no protection from the cold. He rode in his armor and made no secret of how comfortable he was. “Ahh. Feel that late summer breeze. Shade, why are your teeth chattering? Have you caught a chill?” The lich always delighted in his jokes, and now was unleashing them.
Grumbar snapped at him. “Who are YOU to say anything, smelly?”
“I’m sorry, have I offended you, Dumbar?”
“Well, it’s just that- HEY! Why’d you call me Dumbar?!” Defeated, the half-orc wrapped his furs around his neck and muttered. “I hate Vek.” Vek laughed.
They saw the village of Finch on the horizon. Kizzlorn asked “This is where you met Taigiel the half-dragon, right?”
“Yes,” Vek replied. “Though it doesn’t look like we’ll be meeting anyone this time…”
Finch was destroyed. The entire town was leveled. It seemed that after Acessiwal’s reappearance, he took some of his rage out on this nearby village of fishermen and hunters. The Knights rode into the ruins and began looking for survivors. They couldn’t even find a standing building. Bodies lay everywhere.
Grumbar got off his horse in the center of town. Shade called to him. “What are ye doing?”
“I’m going to burn the bodies. It isn’t right, leavin’ them all out here for the predators.”
“I’m going to help.” Kizzlorn dismounted and began levitating bodies for Grumbar to easily push into one centralized pile.
“Jamison and I will patrol the area for survivors,” Shade said.
Vek added “I’m coming with you, then.” They walked away.
Grumbar mumbled as he moved the bodies. “It’s only the honorable thing, buryin’ people what can’t bury themselves. Or burnin’ ‘em. Either way is good. It isn’t nice to leave corpses out in nature.”
Kizzlorn saw he was near tears again and said “You’re right, Grumbar. You’re a good person.”
“I’m hungry.” He sniffled and turned a corner to find two huge purplish caterpillar-like beasts feasting on one of the bodies. “YOU GET AWAY FROM THERE!!” Grumbar yelled, infuriated that the things would feed on the dead townspeople.
The creatures looked at him and reared up to their full height- which was about ten feet taller than Grumbar was- and screeched. Snowflakes that touched their bodies hissed and turned instantly to steam. They curled forward and down, plowing into the earth. They burrowed down until they were out of sight. “Kizz!” Grumbar shouted as he unsheathed his greatsword. “I think we’re being attacked...”
One of the creatures burst up from the ground in front of Grumbar and began snapping its jaws at him. “HRAUUUGH!!” He swept his sword through it and a gout of blue blood splashed out onto the snow, where it melted straight through. Grumbar could feel the heat of the thing’s body through his sword pommel. “Kizz, these things are really hot!”
“I figure that out,” she replied, in battle with the other one. It snatched a bite at her and lifted her up in the air. She screamed as the pincers burned her like hot irons. It bit into her and severed her backpack, as well as melting several of the items she wore on her belt.
Snooky poked his head from the pack and hissed, then ran from the pack to the safety of a nearby pile of wood, where he watched, helplessly, as his friends were overwhelmed.
Elsewhere, two of the beasts popped up in front of Shade, Vek and Jamison. “Remorhaz,” Jamison remarked. “Two of them. Deadly.”
“Not so deadly,” Vek said. He pointed to one and they watched it disappear into green flame, and the flame into wisps of ash, and the ash into nothing at all. “See?”
Shade said “What about the others?”
Jamison thought as they watched Vek vaporize the other attacker. “Hmm. Remorhaz are solitary creatures, generally, so if there are two here together, it’s likely that they were attracted separately to the carrion here… which could mean-“
“There may be more,” Shade finished for him. He was already running back to the area. He pulled out his sword and leapt into the fray. There were two of the remorhaz, and one was in the process of swallowing Grumbar. Kizzlorn was nowhere to be seen. GLUMP! Grumbar went screaming down the thing’s throat. Shade swung his sword through the creature’s neck, and its head thumped heavily to the ground.
Grumbar reached out with his blackened hands and pulled himself out of the boiling gullet. He felt pretty good about that until he looked up and saw the other one rocketing towards him. Then, it was writhing in the grip of Jamison’s lightning blast. Shade killed it with an easy blow, then ran his sword along its side and spilled the contents of its gut onto the snow.
All that spilled out was a mass of blackened charcoal and a melted piece of metal that vaguely resembled the belt buckle that Kizzlorn wore about her waist. “Oh, Kizz…” Shade said sadly. “Are ye tryin’ to catch up with me?”
MORE TO COME...
The air grew chilly and patches of snow passed them on the ground as they rode. Vek was reminded of what it was like to travel north the first time he went, with Jettok, Katya, Kyla, Rafflorn, and Dartan. Things were not so different then, at least on the road north. Light skirls of snow brushed down into the trees on the horizon.
Soon, they were riding through snow and ice. Their winter furs covered them like jealous lovers. Vek, of course, needed no protection from the cold. He rode in his armor and made no secret of how comfortable he was. “Ahh. Feel that late summer breeze. Shade, why are your teeth chattering? Have you caught a chill?” The lich always delighted in his jokes, and now was unleashing them.
Grumbar snapped at him. “Who are YOU to say anything, smelly?”
“I’m sorry, have I offended you, Dumbar?”
“Well, it’s just that- HEY! Why’d you call me Dumbar?!” Defeated, the half-orc wrapped his furs around his neck and muttered. “I hate Vek.” Vek laughed.
They saw the village of Finch on the horizon. Kizzlorn asked “This is where you met Taigiel the half-dragon, right?”
“Yes,” Vek replied. “Though it doesn’t look like we’ll be meeting anyone this time…”
Finch was destroyed. The entire town was leveled. It seemed that after Acessiwal’s reappearance, he took some of his rage out on this nearby village of fishermen and hunters. The Knights rode into the ruins and began looking for survivors. They couldn’t even find a standing building. Bodies lay everywhere.
Grumbar got off his horse in the center of town. Shade called to him. “What are ye doing?”
“I’m going to burn the bodies. It isn’t right, leavin’ them all out here for the predators.”
“I’m going to help.” Kizzlorn dismounted and began levitating bodies for Grumbar to easily push into one centralized pile.
“Jamison and I will patrol the area for survivors,” Shade said.
Vek added “I’m coming with you, then.” They walked away.
Grumbar mumbled as he moved the bodies. “It’s only the honorable thing, buryin’ people what can’t bury themselves. Or burnin’ ‘em. Either way is good. It isn’t nice to leave corpses out in nature.”
Kizzlorn saw he was near tears again and said “You’re right, Grumbar. You’re a good person.”
“I’m hungry.” He sniffled and turned a corner to find two huge purplish caterpillar-like beasts feasting on one of the bodies. “YOU GET AWAY FROM THERE!!” Grumbar yelled, infuriated that the things would feed on the dead townspeople.
The creatures looked at him and reared up to their full height- which was about ten feet taller than Grumbar was- and screeched. Snowflakes that touched their bodies hissed and turned instantly to steam. They curled forward and down, plowing into the earth. They burrowed down until they were out of sight. “Kizz!” Grumbar shouted as he unsheathed his greatsword. “I think we’re being attacked...”
One of the creatures burst up from the ground in front of Grumbar and began snapping its jaws at him. “HRAUUUGH!!” He swept his sword through it and a gout of blue blood splashed out onto the snow, where it melted straight through. Grumbar could feel the heat of the thing’s body through his sword pommel. “Kizz, these things are really hot!”
“I figure that out,” she replied, in battle with the other one. It snatched a bite at her and lifted her up in the air. She screamed as the pincers burned her like hot irons. It bit into her and severed her backpack, as well as melting several of the items she wore on her belt.
Snooky poked his head from the pack and hissed, then ran from the pack to the safety of a nearby pile of wood, where he watched, helplessly, as his friends were overwhelmed.
Elsewhere, two of the beasts popped up in front of Shade, Vek and Jamison. “Remorhaz,” Jamison remarked. “Two of them. Deadly.”
“Not so deadly,” Vek said. He pointed to one and they watched it disappear into green flame, and the flame into wisps of ash, and the ash into nothing at all. “See?”
Shade said “What about the others?”
Jamison thought as they watched Vek vaporize the other attacker. “Hmm. Remorhaz are solitary creatures, generally, so if there are two here together, it’s likely that they were attracted separately to the carrion here… which could mean-“
“There may be more,” Shade finished for him. He was already running back to the area. He pulled out his sword and leapt into the fray. There were two of the remorhaz, and one was in the process of swallowing Grumbar. Kizzlorn was nowhere to be seen. GLUMP! Grumbar went screaming down the thing’s throat. Shade swung his sword through the creature’s neck, and its head thumped heavily to the ground.
Grumbar reached out with his blackened hands and pulled himself out of the boiling gullet. He felt pretty good about that until he looked up and saw the other one rocketing towards him. Then, it was writhing in the grip of Jamison’s lightning blast. Shade killed it with an easy blow, then ran his sword along its side and spilled the contents of its gut onto the snow.
All that spilled out was a mass of blackened charcoal and a melted piece of metal that vaguely resembled the belt buckle that Kizzlorn wore about her waist. “Oh, Kizz…” Shade said sadly. “Are ye tryin’ to catch up with me?”
MORE TO COME...
Breakstone
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Oh... poor Dum- er... Grumbar and Kizz...
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