Wizardru's Story Hour (updated 11/21)

[Argent Silvermage]

hey, two storyhour updates for my birthday Thanks!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

 

[thatdarncat]

Thanks I'm still trying to convince work to send me down your way for training

 

[LordVyreth]

That's him. Melf of the acid arrow and tongue.

Really? That makes the whole snubbing of Mordenkainen and Company even funnier. I have this image in my head of a increasingly neurotic Mordy trying desperately to get back "in the loop." Like if he ever meets Melf for a game of golf or chess or something.

Mordy: So, how's it going?

Melf: It's fine.

Mordy: Things okay with your family and such?

Melf: More or less.

Mordy: And...the fate of the world? How's that going?

Melf: (sighing) Not this again...

Mordy: Well, you said you'd put in a good word for me!

Melf: I know, but it hasn't come up...

Mordy: You haven't even tried, have you?

Melf: Look, do we have to discuss this every time we get together?

Mordy: Oh, come on, it's important! We're the Circle of Bloody Eight! We should be in the meetings and saving the world and such! Or restoring the balance. Something like that.

Melf: I'm sure when the time is right, they'll invite you.

Mordy: Well, apparently they won't. I mean, you know that elf, Callie or something? I'm her boyfriend's brother's co-worker! That used to count for something!

Melf: It's not like things are getting dangerously unbalanced. Good is negotiating with evil to resolve the fate of a good but possessed being...

Mordy: What?

Melf:...That new god and his judges are keeping interplanar war pretty quiet.

Mordy: Who? Judges-wha?

Melf:...and we even finished off the magic-sealing binders!

Mordy: See? This is just what I'm talking about! I didn't even hear the githyanki were defeated until yesterday! I bet this doesn't happen on other planes...

(Meanwhile, in the Forgotten Realms...)

Elminster: Well, we just saved the world again! Bring on the elf babes and mead!

Drizzt: Wooooooooo!

(They exchange high fives; end scene.)

 

[Argent Silvermage]

Too funny!

 

[dravot]

I must say that I'm confused at Bolo's approach to Chavram...Dravot pretty much took Chavram at his word about not using the binders and didn't need independent confirmation.

Dravot did offer to let people lick the necromancy binder, though.

 

[LordVyreth]

Incidentally, could somebody elaborate on the "Johnathan" sub-plot? Is it less a person and more an inherited title? Or is it always the same person and the party just recently learned that he's also The Burning Skin? If so, what business did the party previously have at the Vale before this meeting and it was apparently too late?

 

[WizarDru]

Incidentally, could somebody elaborate on the "Johnathan" sub-plot? Is it less a person and more an inherited title? Or is it always the same person and the party just recently learned that he's also The Burning Skin? If so, what business did the party previously have at the Vale before this meeting and it was apparently too late?

First off, that little exchange was hella-funny.

Second, Melf is NOT a member of the Circle of Eight. Rary is a former member until his...change of heart. He now rules the Bright Desert with an iron fist and a serpent crown...but that's another story. The members of the Circle are (or rather WERE) Bigby of Mitrik, Otto, Jallarzi Sallavarian of Greyhawk, Drawmij, Nystul, Warnes Starcoat of Urnst, Alhamazad the Wise of Zeif and Theodain Eriason of the Yeomanry. Mordankanein acts as the unofficial 'ninth' member of the circle, and it's chairman. The party has been informed that several of them are dead. The party has personally met Mordankanein, Drawmij, Jallarzi Sallavarain (Scorch only) and Warnes Starcoat (disguised as Marcus).

Third, on the subject of Jonathon, few facts are known, though conjecture runs wild. It has been made clear that the name Jonathon is a title as much as a name, and that when someone becomes invested by the process, they become more powerful. The Valley of the Mage is his personal domain, but what the means exactly is unclear. Whether or not the Burning Skin has any further attachments to Scorch are unknown. Previously, the party (or Scorch, rather) had been approached by an elf from the Valley, reporting that the Mage, Jonathon, had been assasinated (at a time which seemed a tad convienent to be coincidence). They needed a new one for protection and auguries had suggested Scorch. The party made a tick on their list to investigate if time allowed. Events kept them away, and things proceeded apace.

 

[Argent Silvermage]

I must say that I'm confused at Bolo's approach to Chavram...Dravot pretty much took Chavram at his word about not using the binders and didn't need independent confirmation.

Dravot did offer to let people lick the necromancy binder, though.

I didn't speak to him about the binders at all. I just in my own way let him know I could still see the good in his heart and acknowledged his love for Dravot. I also let him know that I had your back. Some one has to acknowledge his human qualities if we are ever to save his soul. Or am I the only one who sees that all he is doing is out of love?

 

[WizarDru]

I didn't speak to him about the binders at all. I just in my own way let him know I could still see the good in his heart and acknowledged his love for Dravot. I also let him know that I had your back. Some one has to acknowledge his human qualities if we are ever to save his soul. Or am I the only one who sees that all he is doing is out of love?

I suspect you and Dravot see things from a different perspective on that point. Which means that Chavram, as a character, works exactly as he should. Quick...guess his alignment!

 

[Argent Silvermage]

I suspect you and Dravot see things from a different perspective on that point. Which means that Chavram, as a character, works exactly as he should. Quick...guess his alignment!

Neutral? Do I get a cookie? Please?