The Tol Haggerun Prophecy 3.5 D&D - [Ended]

[James Heard]

Honestly, I don't know what to do with Shuelsai. I had a plan, but he keeps pissing everyone off he meets. It's going to be difficult to get him with the others. If you have any ideas on how to make this happen, I'd like to hear them.

As far as I know, the only person he's actually pissed off was the hermit dude? The boat people? I thought it just good sense that a little old guy out in the middle of the ocean where slavers operate preying upon his people wouldn't be hopping into their clutches and leaving his only financially sustainable profession stuff behind him. The woman and child on the beach? What did Shuelsai do to tick them off besides be pleasant?

The "hermit" dude was just a pompous jerk. Sorry, the "I don't have time for being pleasant, because you're important if you do what I tell you to do and you listen to whatever I tell you - else you're an unimportant loser," only works in movies. I think your basic problem with Shuelsai seems to be that he's
A. Not going to accept someone telling him something is important just because they say it is.
B. Doesn't have any reasons to trust anyone, he's on a mission from the gods and he expects to be led astray if he lets people.
C. Is more inclined to believe in gods and omens than men in general - he's older than everyone else so he acts older, he's not young enough to want or need a mentor or so trusting to place his trust in those that place themselves upon his path and seem to wish to divert it for some reason.

So, to recap:
You sent ships, Shuelsai saw slavers to keep him from reaching his goal.
You sent a mountain, Shuelsai saw an omen from the gods and followed it.
You sent a river, Shuelsai saw the gods leading him toward the mountain.
You sent women & children, Shuelsai saw omens.
You sent a rude old guy, Shuelsai saw the Devil obviously meant to lead him away from his path.


I don't know that Shuelsai really needs to be sent anywhere. I've always sort of figured we were all getting to the right place already and that you were going to do the whole "gosh, there's a whole lot of other people going the same direction as you are" schtick. Is he going the wrong direction? Everything Shuelsai knows says that he should be heading toward a mountain somewhere to the South, with snow on it. He's willing to check out every mountain as a indication of some performance of this testing, but he'd be cool if the mountain just showed up - which he's confident currently that it has, even if it hasn't.

But anyways, I'm not in a big rush to join up with everyone in any case. I glance over at what everyone else is up to occasionally and it involves fighting! Shuelsai is a lover, not a fighter

 

[Insight]

The problem with Shuelsai I think is that he is so far away from where I need him to be, and he's not getting any closer. I'm just at a loss to get him where I need him to be to hook up with the other characters.

Are you OK with me handing out communiques from his deity all the time? I figured I would throw some real people into the mix to give the story a little diversity. If you don't think that approach fits Shuelsai, I can try something else.

 

[James Heard]

Are you OK with me handing out communiques from his deity all the time?

I'm ok with whatever. He's mostly just fun to crawl in his head, this one. He's just so happy all the time.

I figured I would throw some real people into the mix to give the story a little diversity.

*shrug* The only problem with real people is that Shuelsai reacts to them as if they're real - he's rather far away from any situation that he could possibly feel confident about, except in regards to the notion than his goddess means for him to do it somehow. Of course, she's a goddess - so she could just have sent him to do this task so that he could join her more quickly.

If Shuelsai knew where he was going better, then he'd certainly go there. As it stands now, he's just stuck with checking out every possibility and he's patient...because the little guy is too pleasant to get upset or frustrated. Definitely not a righteous go-getter sort of holy man - more of "radiates contentment with his place in life" sort of guy. I'm actually sort of worried what it's going to be like once everyone else shows up in his story, because everyone else isn't as zen

 

[Ambrus]

I think my strategy of starting off with the mysterious mountain in my character's backyard seems to be working out for me so far. Do I get a prize if Jacoby reaches the mysterious chapel first?

 

[Ambrus]

Insight, I'd like to know if Jacoby and Misha are indeed together on the same snowy plateau. The locale descriptions seems to match but the listed locations of our two characters would seem to indicate that we're not actually in the same area:

Misha Koldun | In the Viltoe Mountains Outside Veltune, Lurien
Jacoby | In the Northwestern Reaches of the Viltoe Mountains, Mitea

Should we simply start role-playing with each other or keep describing our actions to you? Could you give me some insight (heh heh ) into the matter?

 

[Insight]

Insight, I'd like to know if Jacoby and Misha are indeed together on the same snowy plateau. The locale descriptions seems to match but the listed locations of our two characters would seem to indicate that we're not actually in the same area:Should we simply start role-playing with each other or keep describing our actions to you? Could you give me some insight (heh heh ) into the matter?

Yeah, you guys are the first characters to meet!

Interact however you think your characters would. I'll change the descriptions to match.

 

[Ambrus]

Okay... But where on the map are we then?

 

[Insight]

Okay... But where on the map are we then?

You're, um, in the mountains. I can't really get more specific than that right now.

 

[Ambrus]

Yes! We have PC contact! Yay us!

 

[Ambrus]

Ujio, are you enjoying our characters' meeting? It's cracking me up over here.