The Liberation of Tenh (updated April 24)

Thank you all for the kind words, I appreciate the compliments. We do have a borderline indecent amount of fun with this game.

Plane Sailing said:
Gwendolyn would have been better off wishing *she* wasn't there, methinks!

Alas, her inexperience is showing. There’s something to be said for getting your first fifteen levels the hard way instead of sleeping with your instructors for good marks (and better research tomes) at the Academy.

Joshua Randall said:
Why did all of the Liberators except Lucius end up in the same "place" inside the Lanthorn? And don't any of them care what has happened to him?

The lanthorn missed Lucius with its ray attack, but dominated him once he got too close. Prisantha also dominated him, and I decided on the fly that the two spells would just cancel each other, leaving Lucius a limp senseless noodle.

Until Prisantha disappeared. Then the Lanthorn had control of our boy. BUT.

On the first round she was in the lantern’s demi-plane/extradimensional space, Gwendolyn wished Iggwilv out of there (as our repulsive anti-mom had been hiding in there for quite some time now—some children are best avoided; even on Mother’s Day, no?).

Since we played the events in the same order the logs depict them, we all got a good laugh when we realized that Lucius was trapped out there with Iggwilv the infamous witch of the Perrenlands and Worst. Mom. Evar.

I think by the time six or seven rounds had passed fighting the tentacle things and ten minutes to raise Gwen, we knew that either the rogue had escaped or died or worse, and that at any rate there wasn’t going to be any rescuing him this day. At best, the group could hope to get enough blood scrapings from the inside of Iggwilv’s treasure room to bring him back to life.

Little did they know how bad he really had it.

Joshua Randall said:
Incidentally, what is Lucius's Hide modifier? I'm thinking something like +50 or so. :) So he could be around, but if no-one knows it, is he really there? Woah. Deep.

Now you are paying me back for my pathetic attempt to provoke a rant. :p

It’s only +35. :) Good, but not good enough to fool the gods and hide himself all the way out of existence.

Barastrondo said:
Especially now that, thanks to a quick death-and-raise action, she's back to only limited wishing.

Ding ding ding! Barastrondo wins the prize! And, as it happens, she lost her self-appointed smugness token in the very same session that Jespo Crim levels to 17 and begins wishing himself.

Take That, You Fiend!

We’ve known for a while now that Lucius hates Gwendolyn, but he also (rightly) fears her. He figures he needs a wizard in his back pocket in case she decides to carry through with her threats to polymorph, disintegrate or imprison him. Or, *ahem*, in case the mercurial winds of fate cause her to become a no longer favored (but difficult to “remove”) hanger-on.

Jespo is not only the most gullible wizard around, he’s also the most emotionally vulnerable; two traits that endear him to our busy, busy assassin bee as an all-around “soft target.” Hence, the poison poured in Jespo’s ear regarding our formerly wishing coquette.

One of these days, they’re all going to put two and two together, and then the fur will fly.
 

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(contact) said:
Hence, the poison poured in Jespo’s ear regarding our formerly wishing coquette.

One of these days, they’re all going to put two and two together, and then the fur will fly.

Me, I'm rooting for Gwendolyn. She may be slutty, but I'd rather have slutty at my back than evil.
 

(contact) said:
One of these days, they’re all going to put two and two together, and then the fur will fly.
Maybe one day he'll get around to making that wisdom enhancing item for himself that he so sorely needs :)

Great job, whenever I see this thread even move to the second page I get a little sad now. Worried that life will catch up and you won't find time for us anymore *sniff sniff puppy eyes*

</layin' it on like buttah
 

Hey!

Barastrondo said:
Me, I'm rooting for Gwendolyn. She may be slutty, but I'd rather have slutty at my back than evil.

That is so wrong. Lucius is not Evil. He's just a) willing to do the things the others won't to kill Iuzians, and b) less interested in tyrannical societal positions on assasination, poison, and killing them _before_ they start trying to kill you.

Evil is predictable. You can count on Lucius to do what's in his best interest. Always. Who knows what Gwendolyn's motives will be session to session or time of the month, to time of the month.

:)
 


Boy I bet the Liberators are glad they had the new improved Mass Healing Dabus with them.
That may have turned into a TPK without his healing and divine smiting. Go Dabus!

What I would give to be a fly on the wall during a game to see how the games actually happen and witness (contact)'s evil DMing.
 

CrusadeDave said:
That is so wrong. Lucius is not Evil.

http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?t=10902&page=1&pp=20

Scroll down a bit. I dunno if it's organic or refined, but it looks like truth to me.

(And while we're on that page, what's up with Belvor's last name? Is that an homage to the Beoulve family of Final Fantasy Tactics?)

CrusadeDave said:
He's just a) willing to do the things the others won't to kill Iuzians, and b) less interested in tyrannical societal positions on assasination, poison, and killing them _before_ they start trying to kill you.

That's not the most sinister part. The most sinister part is that he gets really good and witty lines, which make people warm up to him and decide maybe he's not so bad to have around after all, and hey, maybe he's not as bad as all that.

Evil is dangerous because it has a really good marketing campaign.

CrusadeDave said:
Who knows what Gwendolyn's motives will be session to session or time of the month, to time of the month.

I swear, I totally was hoping that Gwendolyn would fall hard for Dabus way back when, because she would be so much fun to watch actually in the throes of genuine feeling for once, and totally disbelieving that it was happening. ("Me? With a church boy like that? Ha! Impossible!") Much Ado About Nothing is essentially my favorite Shakespeare comedy, and there's just something about Gwen that would make her a hell of a Beatrice as far as comic denial is concerned. Dabus is no Benedict, mind, but that's what would make it not so much a retread and more an original (and potentially just damn hilarious) thing to be playing out among the cohorts.

Besides, Dabus — as is only meet for the Hand of his God on Oerth — Kicks Ass. She could do (and has done) a heck of a lot worse.
 

That is so wrong. Lucius is not Evil. He's just a) willing to do the things the others won't to kill Iuzians, and b) less interested in tyrannical societal positions on assasination, poison, and killing them _before_ they start trying to kill you.

I prefer to think of Lucius as "Lawful Expedient".
 

Sejs said:
I prefer to think of Lucius as "Lawful Expedient".

I prefer to think of him as Lawful Evil. :) He is loyal to Heydricus, however.

And for whatever reason, Sonahmiin has kind of accepted Lucius as a Righteous Project. Lucius is aligned diametrically opposite to Tritherion, but given time and exposure he might still Get With The Program. Although while Sonahmiin has promised to pull some strings to get Lucius into Tritherion's realm after his death, the canny rogue has to at least try to meet the angel halfway.

And . . . I don't think that's happened yet. May never happen, who can say? Characters do weird things once you roll 'em up and start playing them. I do know that in the current story arc, he's getting his deepest, most dearly-held wish.

Barastrondo said:
what's up with Belvor's last name? Is that an homage to the Beoulve family of Final Fantasy Tactics?

Why yes, yes it is. :)
 

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