The Four Lands - The Great North

[Canaan]

There are no ill effects that Jaroth can determine.....care to give me a list of all your current protections etc (insert wicked laugh)

Doh!

Jaroth has the following protections up:

endure elements (cloak)
+4 resistance bonus to saves (cloak)
+4 resistance bonus to poison and disease (Druid Ability)
shield
barkskin
greater mage armor
greater invisibility
see invisibility

And whatever other protections were afforded all of us by the others, if any.

 

[Rath Lorien]

"Ah, I see, Jaroth. Perhaps you will give us more information about this cult. As time permits, of course."

Anniston turns to Vadric, "Brother knight, it seems you have the miracle of True Sight. I will assist you with your investigation of these curtains. There may be more foes lurking about." Anniston follows Vadric should he care to explore any of the curtains.

 

[Dracomeander]

Finnian picks himself up and checks to make sure he's taken no serious injury from the boy's retaliatory death throes.

"Well, that was certainly not the way I expected things to go. I could tell that the 'boy' believed himself powerful but not the nature or allies that were revealed. I'm glad someone else was able to see through his deceptions.

"How much time do you think we have to search before the other Order members get here? There are probably many secrets concealed here. If we could find information on how this tent works, we could take it with us to search thoroughly at our leisure.

"For now, this seems to be as good a place to start as any."

Finnian turns to the first curtain to the right of the entrance and pulls it aside.

[sblock]Reflex save = 16 (fail), http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=1210835

AC 18, HP 58 / 80

Moving to search east 1
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[Scotley]

Bertrand

Following his natural inclination to go north toward home, Bertrand pulls open the first curtain leading to the North and finds the sumptuous bath and garderobe. He briefly examines the oils, salts and soaps curious as to where they might have originated. He thinks to himself, wouldn't Tessa find this place a delight? The old pain strikes him hard as memories of his lost love come flooding in. He dries moist eyes on a towel before returning to the main room to see what the others have found. "Just a very bath and privy up there he announces."

 

[Canaan]

Jaroth

Jaroth is clearly uncomfortable. "Friends, we must hurry. Several members of the Order Drakar close on this position as we speak. These creatures do not merely possess the Dark Fire. They have terrible claws and whisper dark secrets and lies that can make one go mad. I fear they may overwhelm us."

Jaroth picks up the robes of the fallen members of the order and shoves them into his satchel. "I must burn these."

After a moment he speaks again. This time with a far away expression. "They were once human. Members of my Order. Against all caution and warnings by our Council, their leader delved deep into forbidden and ancient arcane lore. With caution thrown to the wind, he become obsessed with the forbidden arts. The magic twisted him and blackened his soul. Others followed him, hungry for the power that could be theirs and deceived by his wicked lies. They too became twisted. Eventually they were discovered and banished, but not without a terrible cost. Many of my Order died that day."

"Whereas my Order seeks to unify the races of the Four Lands and bring peace to its people, the Order Drakar seeks to subjugate the races under the will of their leader, known now only as The Warlock Lord."

"Very few others know of this struggle or of the existence of The Warlock Lord. Of those that do, many ignore the threat for fear that addressing it will start a mass panic or weaken their authority to rule. They will continue to ignore the threat until it is on their very doorstep, I fear."

"There is one other thing. It is in the North that The Warlord and his minions were banished. It is in the North that we now find ourselves. Deep into their lands. It was clearly their intention to bring the book I now carry to the Warlock Lord. I must spirit it away from here quickly. I must bring it back to my Order. They will know what it is and how to destroy or seal it away so that the Order Drakar cannot reach it. So much effort they put into getting this book, it must be very important to the Order Drakar."

His face clears and he focuses on his companions. "The way will be difficult and fraught with peril. Would you accompany me on this mission?"

 

[Rhun]

Vadric follows the others as they throw back each of the curtains, using his true sight to see the truth of any illusions or concealments that may be in place.


Once the group is done with their search, he turns to Jaroth. "While the church has given me orders to report to Westmarch, I do not believe that I can stand idly by and let this darkness threaten the realms of Light. I shall aid you in your endeavors, Jaorth."

 

[J. Alexander]

The Four Lands

OCC: Guys, i really do appreciate the interaction but the campaing is only very loosly related to Terry Brook's writings and mostly in terms of geography...so let's not get to far afield on motives etc..but as back history it does work in nicely

Vadrics true seeing shows nothing abnormal.

 

[Canaan]

Sorry

[ooc: I'm just kind of winging it here. I was trying to think what Jaroth would want to do and I incorporated the rest of the story. Sorry. I should have sent you a post individually and ask all of the background stuff. So where does this leave us? Do I need to edit Jaroth's response to the others? If so, in what way? Thanks ]

 

[J. Alexander]

The Four Lands

No it actually does work in as the southlands (valley of the light) were invaded by the big ugly bad things from the north once upon a time...etc....and the northlands are not really know or cared about by the southalnds etc....just did not want you guys to get lead astray thinking it would follow the books etc or base your actions on things that may or may not be true ......and once again..love the backstory..it was appropriate to your character and your area of concers...

For you other players out there,,,,feel free like Jaroth from time to time to kinda make up a little backstory etc that fits your character and inject it at a good time.......I really do love the way you guys are develpoing and playing your characters...to me i much rather see character development and inteaction than the hack and slash combat after combat....

 

[Scotley]

OOC: Hey, I'm all for character development and interaction. Especially since Bertrand keeps getting his butt kicked in the fights.