The Rod of Seven Parts: Kauai Team OOC

[CanadienneBacon]

Dter repleys "The name is Dter Spiritbreaker and I'm in service of Lodi the Axeless, and just travelling through these lands when I met you all in that bar."

This seems like a good opportunity for me to inject a bit of homebrew flavor here. The turn of phrase 'Lodi the Axeless' is, as the pantheon says, derogatory. It's a jibe used against Lodi by other dwarves. As not only a worshipper but a cleric of Lodi, odds are Dter wouldn't want to risk angering his chosen deity by calling him 'Lodi the Axeless.' Especially not as a means of introduction to newcomers.

I'm waiting for lightening to come thundering down on Dter at any moment.

 

[Strahd_Von_Zarovich]

I'll be out in the coming weekend 18-20. I'll be back in Sunday.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Maelicent is using his survival skill to butcher the wolf-spider carcasses. I was thinking that the gently curved black chitin leg segments of the creature would be ideal for forming the limbs of a masterwork composite longbow after being properly cleaned and treated. Also, being made of demon flesh, I'd imagine they'd readily accept magical enchantments later on. The chitinous plates of their body segments might also be ideal for forming strong lightweight armor and shields. My plan was to harvest the three carcasses and possibly try to trade the usable parts to master-bowers and armorsmiths in town in exchange for money and/or new equipment, such as having the aforementioned masterwork composite longbow crafted; demon-hide armor and demon-bone bow. What do you think?

Sure, you can do that. It will take time to do so, of course. We can work out how well the carcasses are butchered, how much of the creatures can be saved, etc. via e-mail or here in the OOC. Right now, however, I was just getting ready to introduce the city Guard into the picture and had planned to give the party fair warning in the IC of the Guard's approach so that if it was decided that everyone wanted to scoot away before the Guard arrived, you all would have time to do so. I will leave it to you to decide if you all want to stay or leave the Cockatrice.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

I'll be out in the coming weekend 18-20. I'll be back in Sunday.

Thanks for the head's up. Shouldn't be a problem.

 

[Ambrus]

If the party does decide to flee then I guess Maelicent will just focus on grabbing a second spider leg before he heads out too; the bare minimum to make the two limbs of a bow. :\

 

[SlagMortar]

CB, does Brakkus have any previous experience with the city guard? Being a soldier in the city for a few months on an unknown assignment, he would have at least looked into the overall strength and preparedness of the watch. He might also have learned some about their overall structure and outlook (corrupt, upstanding, etc), though with his very average charisma he probably wouldn't have learned anything intimate. He doesn't have knowledge local, either.

Any answer is acceptable to me including Brakkus was to busy hitting on Vaja to learn anything useful.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

The city Guard is competent. After enduring two sieges in 60 years, not only is the entire city surrounded by a 70-foot high wall that is 12 feet thick at its base and wide enough on top for a catwalk manned by archers, but the Guard is affiliated with both the Edaesmyd Crown Navy and Army.

[sblock=Brakkus]Continued...To wit, an Admiral heads the city Guard, and the Guard itself is comprised of lay watch officers and military personnel both. The Guard is a large organization (they have to be, in order to effectively watch over not only the large city populace, but also the docks, the bridge outside the city, and the perimeter wall) and, as is true with most any large organization, some officials are corrupt. The current commander is Captain Johns, the grandson of one of Teggest's finest war heroes who was himself Captain of the Guard. Captain Johns, the first son of a middling noble family, is popular with the folk of the city and the lower ranking members of the Guard. Within the Guard, however, while Captain Johns is recognized by his surrounding officers as a good-hearted man of the people and a competent tactician, he is less well-regarded as a bureaucrat. Captain Johns isn't a politician but is nonetheless head of a heavily political organization. He is widely regarded as a figurehead whose will can unwittingly be bent to the desires of those more astute in the study of politics. Whether this is true remains to be seen. Some of the middle-weight officers in the Guard are corrupt and can be bought or persuaded. Most of the lower enlisted pikemen are interested only in staying out of trouble and will doggedly follow the letter of the law, ignoring its spirit. Off-duty, this changes. Off-duty pikemen could certainly be bribed. It's hard to eek out a living in Teggest and they'd take whatever help they could get. Trying to pay off a pikeman without the benefit of knowing him first or a bit of fore-planning, however, might be difficult. They're like bulldogs...on duty, and on the fly, it's hard to get them to budge. If you have more time to finesse a relationship with one of them, however, then the door opens.[/sblock]

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Maelicent has two spider legs with him in the stable. Let me know if you did not want to haul the spider legs all the way back to the stable, Ambrus. What's the skill that we're wanting to see how well Maelicent managed to extract the legs? Survival? Profession (butcher)? Ambrus, you and SlagMortar are rules afficianados and right now I can benefit from your knowledge. Got a skill and check DC for me? PHB page reference number? Thanks in advance for the help...

All--XP has been sent to everyone who pinged me. If you didn't ping me, I wasn't able to dole our your XP. BRP2 and Rino, you might want to rectify that. Argent, SlagMortar, Ambrus, Voadam, Strahd, let me know if you did not receive email from me containing XP.

 

[Argent Silvermage]

Maelicent has two spider legs with him in the stable. Let me know if you did not want to haul the spider legs all the way back to the stable, Ambrus. What's the skill that we're wanting to see how well Maelicent managed to extract the legs? Survival? Profession (butcher)? Ambrus, you and SlagMortar are rules afficianados and right now I can benefit from your knowledge. Got a skill and check DC for me? PHB page reference number? Thanks in advance for the help...

All--XP has been sent to everyone who pinged me. If you didn't ping me, I wasn't able to dole our your XP. BRP2 and Rino, you might want to rectify that. Argent, SlagMortar, Ambrus, Voadam, Strahd, let me know if you did not receive email from me containing XP.

I got the e-mail.

As for the spider legs. It would be survival to "harvest" the parts but it would fall under Armorsmithing (carapace) to actually make armor out of them. There is an extensive overview of this kind of armorsmithing in the Complete Drow book as well as one of the Eberron books (I think races but I'm not sure.) Drow are known for this sort of armor.

 

[Voadam]

ooc are the humanoid and draconic pantheons it for the gods on this world or are there many minor ones as well?