Wizardru's Story Hour (updated 11/21)

[WizarDru]

But that would ruin the spoilers! =)

It looks fine to me in Firefox. What browser are you using? (For some reason, my incarnation of Firefox renders useless he text controls used for posting here, and when I converted the Divine text to gold/bold in M$ Word, the WYSIWYG aspect of ENWorld took the regular text to be black, and put it on the black background. Argh.)

Fixed it...it was fine in Firefox, and not so fine in Internet Exploder.

Which version of FF are you using? Is the final Release Candidate, .093 or the Preview Release? 1.0 RC fixed the Wysiwyg stuff for me, after 1.0 PR broke it.

 

[Funeris]

Sorry if I made you ruin the spoilers.....
I was just using Iexplorer....so...it was black on black.
Don't feel so bad though, I did it to my storyhour once too.

 

[WizarDru]

Sorry if I made you ruin the spoilers.....
I was just using Iexplorer....so...it was black on black.
Don't feel so bad though, I did it to my storyhour once too.

No worries, he's just kidding. Which isn't to say there aren't potential spoilers coming...for the rest of the party, as well as the readers. Several characters have been doing investigations of their own, and those don't always make it into the main game OR the story hour, until much later.

Funny moment a couple of weeks ago:

dravot and I are coming back from the store with snacks and stuff for the game:

"You know, you're not supposed to mess with dravot until the springtime."

"Really?"

"Yeah, you're early."

 

[dravot]

Update: In going through Chavram’s notes, I have stumbled across the name of a wizard of old named Acerak, who resided in the time of the Great Kingdom, and have detoured to conduct research upon him. He is known for his corruption and necromancy skills, but I cannot find any verifiable details beyond that. It is said that he was a disciple of Vecna at one point, before betraying The Withering One. One text refers to Acerak as a highly-placed official in Vecna’s Occluded Empire, but this would put him somewhere in the area of 900 years old when he died. Certainly, this is possible, especially with the powers of necromancy, so while remarkable, it may be true.


I believe that the arcane power that he possessed is unique, and aided him in defying Vecna after his betrayal. There may even be a way to defeat or stymie him. From this I infer that we may be able to use such power in our confrontation of our enemies, including the Shadow King (as a projection of Therizdun), among others.


Acerak’s tomb is said to be in the Vast Swamp in the southern part of Sunndi, to the south of my beloved Ahlissa. I don’t know much about the swamp, but I seem to recall that this is a buffer with Wastri and Hepmonaland, home of the Scarlet Brotherhood. The only information about the whereabouts of the tomb refer to the Hopping Prophet (referred to as the “Hammer of Demi-Humans”), a demi-god known to roam the area.


Wastri, the Hopping Prophet, is a demi-god, commonly known as the Hammer of Demihumans. Research would indicate he is fervently worshipped by the Vast Swamp's most unpleasant denizens, the bullywugs. He is known to have eaten obnoxious or presumptious mortals who threaten his domain, and is considered the swamp's master...though it is too vast for him to truly hold such sway. This will be interesting.

I must consult with Scorch and see what he knows of this Acerak.


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WizarDru: I've kept track...like clockwork, the birds return to San Juan Capistrano and Dravot's life goes to hell. This is no tin-foil-helmet conspiracy here.

 

[Scorch]

Very nice indeed.

Scorch is right - the choice of writing the story in first person perspective limits my ability to describe happenings that are outside the character's perceptions. I have a number of little tricks I use to deal with this a lot of the time, but with this session, it seemed better to just let it slide. A lot happened of a fairly personal nature and it'd be a stretch to include it. I thought it might be better to let people describe their experiences this time.

Judging by the quality of the reading posted, I was right.

It's not just private side stories or stuff that happens outside of Kayleigh's perspective that need filling in by us other players. A few of the little things, not important to the overall narrative that have to be left out in order for the story to flow correctly. Zad does occasionally include little quirks of Scorch such as when I got an epic level spell that reflected projectile weapons. I strode around Dravot's estate challenging servants to throw things at me just to test it. They wisely declined.

There are other things that I am glad do not make it into the story hour such as Scorch's smack talk. I talk smack to the NPCs and our opponents. Sometimes the things I say they are a little anachronistic. When a spellcaster gets a spell off on me and my turn comes around, I snarl at them "Oh, I got something for your punk a$$!" and let loose with particularly nasty meta-magicked combo.

Then there was the time I called Venn a nasty name not knowing he was possessed by a god at that point. The look WizarDru gave me that night has both me as a player and a character wishing I had never said that.

Scorch

 

[Argent Silvermage]

Fyi

To our loyal fans (and the rest of you ...) Dravot's player was ill Friday so we didn't play. Lets wish Dravot a speedy recovery.

 

[dravot]

I'm feeling better, thanks (was in bed by 9:30 that night). More importantly, my wife is feeling better, too, but still lags behind in the getting-better process. When the baby is the only one sick, there's not a lot of fun in the house.

 

[Argent Silvermage]

I did it!

I just spent a little over 7 hours and re read the entire story hour. Ehlonna my eyes hurt.

I think I have some ideas of what Bolo needs to do and have already planted a seed. This Druid is about to live up to his potential.

More later.

 

[Argent Silvermage]

We play tonight!

 

[thatdarncat]

Yay! Updates!