The Reconquista OOC

[Branding Opportunity]

If I ever need to swim in my armor, well, Imma be drownin'.

Hmm, that gives me an idea for an adventure

 

[Seeten]

If the adventure involves a ship or a big river, I wont be in my full plate

 

[Thanee]

I think I picked up Water Breathing.

That was probably *after* that adventure...

Bye
Thanee

 

[Branding Opportunity]

If the adventure involves a ship or a big river, I wont be in my full plate

Damn! Foiled again!

 

[Ranger Rick]

Here's another IC/OOC question for everyone. In that coldest of Fireseeks in 585 CY, how old and what level was everyone? You can say you're 1st level, although I'm not holding everyone to a standard level progression throughout the adventures we'll be describing. You could already be second or third and then miss a few adventures later on, etc ... Or you could start with a completely different character and have that PC killed off or wander off, leaving room to introduce your current PC later.

(Side note: I once was in a Realms game with a newish DM back in '87 or '88. We had just gotten that first FR box and was very excited, and felt if would be more realistic if he didn't adjust any random encounter tables for our level (we were all 1st). I swear, I went through four or five PCs before I was able to reach 2nd level. It became a running joke among the group *sigh*.)

Pardon my momentary digression. The reason I need to know your starting levels is not just for completeness, but also to judge what kind of challenges you would have been able to defeat at the time. If I described you guys single-handedly taking on a frost giant skald during the first adventure, you would have a right to be a little skeptical.

In order to move this part of the game forward, I was thinking of waiting for two days (not counting weekends) between each of the adventure synopsis posts. That should give everyone enough time to post their descriptions, right? If you miss one, that's no bigee, you can always add something later if you like (remember we'll be collecting the posts for our IC thread), or we'll just assume that nothing particularly spectacular happened to your PC during that adventure.

On the subject of adventures, I've also been realizing that because six years pass between the first and most recent of your adventures, your characters will be having quite a bit of "downtime". This is generally something which most games don't deal with, certainly not in their mechanics (except for Ars Magica, which rocks!) It might be interesting to figure out how your PC supports herself when not on an adventure, or if she has another passion/interest/family that takes up her time. As has been guessed, most of the adventures will deal with the giants and other humanoids of the invasion. There will be less standard "adventures" (e.g. let's go explore the ancient tomb of the lich king of Argleblarg!), although I mighty try to sneak in one or two

Let me answer this with a question. Assuming my basic generic spy for the Lord is feasable. Who/where would this Lord be located? Having this info, I can come up more with my movements.

As for my down time, I would be employed as a spy/police. Level say I just turned 5th at the start of the invasion in 585. That might make me a bit high, but than skipping an adventure or two is not bad either.

 

[Scotley]

Morley was likely just a kid during the invasion. That was ten years previous? I'll adjust his age downward a little. Let's say he was 15 and just 1st level. He was just able to get his family out of danger. He had to support his mother and younger siblings since the family lands were lost and so was his father. He spent some time as a woodcutter or hunter, maybe did some construction type work as people have been returning. I many ways Morley still sees himself as a simple man working to support a family rather than an adventurer. He doesn't care for all these so-called nobles coming in and taking over land that used to belong to free men that Morley knew. I'm thinking his own family lands are in the shadow of one of the forts still held be giants, so he is still struggling to get his own back.

 

[Thanee]

1st invasion was 14 years ago (577 CY), 2nd invasion started 6 years ago (585 CY). It's now 591 CY.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Branding Opportunity]

Let me answer this with a question. Assuming my basic generic spy for the Lord is feasable. Who/where would this Lord be located? Having this info, I can come up more with my movements.

Let's say that you work for Baron Veaublanche, who has a small manorial estate just north of Javan's Ferry. (See James' map on the previous page for the location.) It's an old family, that's about to die out as the baron is quite old and he has no male heirs. He makes most of his money from the ferry across the Javan river, which is quite wide at this point.

 

[Ranger Rick]

Let's say that you work for Baron Veaublanche, who has a small manorial estate just north of Javan's Ferry. (See James' map on the previous page for the location.) It's an old family, that's about to die out as the baron is quite old and he has no male heirs. He makes most of his money from the ferry across the Javan river, which is quite wide at this point.

That works great. Let me mull over this a bit.

Based on the Map from post 223. During the initial invasion in 577 the Baron was shrewd enough to realize his ferry liveyhood was threatened so he gather a milita from the Javan's Ferry village and proceeded through the capital city & north toward the border. This was one of the 1st milita's sent to fight the giants. George had lived in the forest to the north (Oyt or Dim?). The giant invasion pushed him southward so he can avoid them. George was in the capital city when the baron's army marched by. George tagged along hoping to steal something like a payroll. He was caught but stayed with the Baron. The Baron's milita was defeated and retreated. As the Baron regrouped during the darkeness, the adventurer's defeated the giant invasion. The Baron saw the adventurer's rewards and was worried that next time his land may be the reward. The Baron with George's help set up a spy network and taught George diplomancy so he can employ some psy ops in the capital.

George was back at the Baron's manor at the time of the invasion in 585. George was in the mountains & noticed the Giant build up and massing. George went straight to the Baron to let him know and prepare. The Baron was getting parinoid and senile so he set up a small police force and appointed George to lead it. As the Giants attacked, The Baron went to the Capital to offer his services as a military commander with militia.

 

[James Heard]

Here's another IC/OOC question for everyone. In that coldest of Fireseeks in 585 CY, how old and what level was everyone?

Mavic was 27, and probably had just turned 6th level (had just gotten his Leadership feat)

On the subject of adventures, I've also been realizing that because six years pass between the first and most recent of your adventures, your characters will be having quite a bit of "downtime". It might be interesting to figure out how your PC supports herself when not on an adventure, or if she has another passion/interest/family that takes up her time. As has been guessed, most of the adventures will deal with the giants and other humanoids of the invasion. There will be less standard "adventures" (e.g. let's go explore the ancient tomb of the lich king of Argleblarg!), although I mighty try to sneak in one or two

I just figured that Mavic might have spent some serious time going after "non" challenges, tracking down and killing lone monsters that were't high enough CR for his level.