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Post by Charles on Oct 17, 2012 0:08:13 GMT -5
I Am So Very Confused!
Brief summary: The party lands in Boerenycia, in a northeastern coastal trade city named Trius (sorry Colin, it's pretty bland). They were hastily recruited by Kimzhan to assassinate the city's Baron. While his details proved ultimately unimportant, the PCs bumbled along through their mission, eventually breaking into the Baron's estate and setting off literally every alarm.
With soldiers hot on their heels, they blundered through traps and secret passages, only narrowly escaping capture due to Liam's enchantments, eventually some members of the party found their quarry escaping on a sloop nestled in a hidden bay. He was understandably exasperated from the perpetual attempts on his life for the past month (none of these have occurred with other PCs). He nearly had an aneurism when his would-be assassins, after disabling his ship with explosive magic and putting him at their mercy, asked him, the quarry, for parley!
Very confusing indeed. What the Baron didn't know was that the party consisted of a Paladin, Captain Pathfinder, a NG Inquisitor, a CG Bard and a TN Sorcerer - in his haste, Kimzhan had no time to be choosy. He actually appeared himself in order to oversee the mission, which did succeed in the most brilliant fashion.
Kimzhan decided to put the fate of the Baron in the hands of the Paladin. Under no threat or coercion of any kind, Alex banished the Baron to an upper plane (Arcadia, I think), there to spend the remainder of his days. Not only does this prevent both resurrection and deals with the Brass Embassy in exchange for the Baron's dead soul, he neatly avoided murdering a man in cold blood. It's up to his God to decide whether or not he'll keep his class, but it seems likely.
Kimzhan gets a point of influence. Standing to lose two points from undisclosed error on his part, the party neatly and efficiently saved his enterprise. Apparently a large number of his assassins have lost ships and men to a hundred-foot monstrosity swimming around near Chronia, and he didn't have the agents available to put this mission together before the Baron escaped. Good on you, Party!
You all receive 1800 gold and a Flame Token, which provides a +2 Profane bonus on everything Prayer gives you and a +2 Profane bonus to AC, for three rounds (if you happen to have Flame Tokens from previous adventures, please errata their descriptions to fit this new model). In case you're unaware, you must draw it (move action, AoO), have it in a free hand, and then break it as a swift action, so keep it in mind.
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Post by Rofusco on Oct 18, 2012 9:45:16 GMT -5
Mission 5: I can't think of a title
Players: Nygil as El Morraine, Liz as Punch Tiger, Ashley as Safari, Steve as Red, Scott as Dr. McLuchador, Trevor as Aryn.
Mission given out by: Karbaros
tl;dr: The Party was tasked by Karbaros to assist Dios Arcades, who was recently freed by Aryn and Lovejoy, in her efforts to overthrow the Boerenycians and restore freedom to the Ronon peoples. The party met with Dios, who told them to stop some slavers and go to a city on a diplomatic mission to get support for her. The players stopped some slavers, but when they arrived at the city they found it had been taken over by the Gouros. In the end, Dios got support from the Gouros Empire for her rebellion under advice from the party.
All players got 1900 gp, and 1 influence point each. They get to keep any minor trinkets they found if they want.
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Post by Rofusco on Oct 25, 2012 10:04:47 GMT -5
Mission 6: Rebellion Party: Gaius(Alex), Glazius(Ben),Mr. Witchypants(Rachael), Captain Pathfinder(Emett), Rex(matt), Glob(Matt). Mission given out by Karbaros.
tl;dr, tl;dr: Party help rebel hellknight. Also zombies.
tl;dr The party was tasked by karbaros to help a man named Jonathan White to rebel against the order of the emperor's fist hellknights. So the party went and had to destroy this big scrying ball the Emperor's Fist used to spy on their members. They stealthily crated their way into the hellknight stronghold with some crative tactics. It turned out the scrying ball was also an ice golem so they fought it. Then they won. Also Captain Pathfinder caused a zombie outbreak in Dilysium in area 9 on the map of Soreillia.
A new Hellknight order has taken refuge in the neutral city. They are led by Jonathan White and, under advice from the party, named themselves the Order of the Lucha.(I'll write out stuff on them to add to my summary).
Rewards: Everyone gets 2500 gp. And a +2 bonus to intimidate or diplomacy when dealing with guards.
Emett gets filth fever because he ate a bunch of poo.
Glob gets a copy of "50 Shades of Hellknight Grey". *shudder*
Glazius gets a light crossbow with 5 fireworks bolts.
Also anyone in the guild can join the Order of the Lucha, You don't have to take the Hellknight/ Hellknight Signifer prestige class to be in their ranks if you don't want to. But if you do you do not have to meet the special prerequisite of having a hellknight see you kill a devil. Though all other prerequisites still stand. I'll make up/copy some discipline power for their group.
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Post by arhino on Oct 25, 2012 10:11:58 GMT -5
The Order of the Lucha receives the full endorsement of Dr. McLuchador, who also apologizes to White for the whole killing your recruits thing. He offers to let bygones be bygones and forgive him for executing him that one time.
He also asks if the hellknights would be interested in helping manage and defend Carebetter's refugee camp since the city as a whole is kind of gone.
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Post by Krunk on Oct 25, 2012 15:39:14 GMT -5
I would like to point out that while I did start a zombie apocalypse, there is no way to trace it back to my character nor was there any evidence that it was me who spread it to begin with.
Also the naming of that order was totally all me, a gift to my fellow lucha buddies.
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Post by Rofusco on Oct 25, 2012 20:28:56 GMT -5
Jonathan White accepts your apology and notes that he never liked those guys you killed anyway. He dispatches some of his men to assist Carebetter's refugee camp.
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Post by Rofusco on Oct 29, 2012 23:30:24 GMT -5
Hellknight order: The Order of the Lucha. Favoured Weapons: Greatsword, longbow, bare hands, bear hands.
The order of the Lucha is a Hellknight order that rebelled and separated from the Order of the Emperor's Fist. They are led by Jonathan White, a former paralictor of the Order of the Emperor's fist. The Order currently resides in the city of New Hope as they support Matilde Carebetter in maintaining order and protecting the city. The Order is based in the ideal that law exists to help protect innocent people, rather than harm and oppress them. As such they are more relaxed than other Hellknight orders regarding the law but are still quick to punish most criminals.
Discipline Power: Lucha Onslaught: Order of the Lucha: As a free action, a Hellknight increases his base speed by +10 feet and gains a +4 bonus to his Strength for 1+his/her cha modifier rounds. Note; 1 is the minimum, so if you have a negative cha mod you still get at least 1 round. If the Hellknight is mounted, these bonuses also apply to his mount.
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Post by Rofusco on Nov 1, 2012 14:11:25 GMT -5
mission 7: Nightshade: claws of sutehk Party: Trevor as Aryn, Carl as Thunderbeard, Emily as Sylvie, Charles as Bilbo, Emma as Iskander, Liam as Oscar.
Mission given out by Vorus Eralon
tl;dr;tl;dr: party into shadow plane, won and closed portal.
tl;dr: The party was tasked by Vorus to go and shut down this gateway into the plane of shadow on the island of Chronia. So they went and did that and some horror stuff happened. Many morrowind and soul reaver references were made. Go team.
The plane of shadow has largely receded on chronia.
The party got 2500 gp and a resurrection token each.
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Post by Krunk on Nov 2, 2012 9:37:55 GMT -5
Did they fight Jontron man and his trusty falcon, Greased Lightning? Or were they too busy seeing nothing unusual here? Because that seems to be what happens if you are unpopular, like Nightshade.
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Post by Rofusco on Nov 2, 2012 14:30:17 GMT -5
Sadly no, but you just gave me a great idea for a character.
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Post by Rofusco on Nov 4, 2012 23:59:37 GMT -5
Mission 8: Temple of Tosonborboss(aka Tossboss, in case you hadn't guessed)
Mission given out by Vorus Eralon
Sam as Squizgar, Emett as Captain Pathfinder, Alejandro as Jason, Alex as Adoril, James as Krolnite.
tldr;tldr: Party into Tossboss temple, get sword, rescue guy.
tl;dr:The party was tasked by Vorus Eralon to go into the woad forest into Velgae territory rescue this guy who went into a temple of Tosonborboss and never returned. Captain Pathfinder killed a dire bear in a bear boxing match. The party went and fought some bandits, some mammoths, evaded an indiana jones adamantine spiked boulder trap, evaded some gelatinous cubes and turned them into jello. they defeated the bandits and a dragon horse. Captain pathfinder got the Dragon Slayer which was TossBoss' old sword. Jason discovered a new power for his spear. They rescued the guy and saved him from the Grona who ordered him executed.
Rewards: Everyone got 3500 gp, except Captain pathfinder and Jason who got 3200.
Alejandro got water walk once per day for 10 minutes from his spear and 3 uses of that intimidate body paint which is +2 to intimidate and one use lasts 24 hours.
Captain Pathfinder got the dragon slayer which is the same as a scythe but once per day he can have reach until he end of his turn(functions like lunge without the -2 to ac). Also when he throws it, it functions like returning enhancement.
Also you get to keep any raspberry jello you got from the gelatinous cubes.
Also so Q knows, Krolnite did not use any necromancy spells.
Also Brent, Doyle now has 5 huge sized gelatinous cubes worth of raspberry jello in his office. Yeah.
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Post by jamesd on Nov 8, 2012 1:36:00 GMT -5
For the record the way i spell it is Krolnite, spell it however you like mind, it doesnt bother me but you asked for spelling, so thats how i spell it
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Post by Rofusco on Nov 15, 2012 2:15:24 GMT -5
Mission 9: The Tower(oh god this is a bad title)
Players: Nick(Naxos), Trevor(Aryn), Carl(Thunderbeard), Matt(Rex)
tl;dr:tl;dr: Party defeated bad guys to help Dios in her slave revolt.
Also I forgot to mention this, but you guys returned to Dios when you finished capturing the fort and she thanked you. High fives.
Rewards:
Everyone got 4400gp except Aryn who gets 2200gp on account of his cool new ability.
Naxos got dodge. He has it even without having the prerequisites. Because despotism.
Rex got a super torch which does 1d8 instead of a 1d4 and that goblin feat you wanted.
Carl for Thunderbeard's special pistol whip, err musket whip, ability, the thundering effect occurs even if you did not get a critical hit. Also it is only for when you use the grit ability pistol whip, not for basic melee attacks with your gun. Just to clarify.
Also Trevor, for Aryn's smite it works slightly differently then I said. The smite bonuses stack from your paladin and hellknight levels for both your smite chaos and smite evil but not for the number of times you can use them per day. Also, when you use both your smite evil and smite chaos on the same creature, the second smite deals half damage in regards to the extra damage gained from your paladin/hellknight levels. However, The extra damage on the first strike against an outsider with the evil subtype, an evil-aligned dragon, or an undead creature is not halved. Same for smite chaos with chaotic outsiders,, chaotic aberrations and fey. Also the x2 effectiveness of smite chaos against chaotic outsider, chaotic aberrations and fey is also not effected. That got way more complicated than I expected.
If something about anything I gave any of you is unclear then come talk to me or make a post.
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Post by Apples on Nov 15, 2012 8:57:32 GMT -5
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Post by Rofusco on Nov 19, 2012 0:59:34 GMT -5
Mission 10: Battle of the Plans of Dorus
Players:Ryan as Ellie Sunborn, Brent as Taylor Bronsornutonyup( or just Bron), I can't remember your name sorry as Vernon Ford, Ryan as Eldritch, Peter as Roland.
tl;dr:tl;dr: Players helped dios in battle against League of Trium. Also Gouros Emperor Died. Also the players amusingly faffed about for most of the mission.
Results: Dios had an advantage in the battle due to player actions, she technically "won" as the Trium forces had to withdraw but both sides took enormous casualties. The Gouros support Dios had expected to receive left the battlefield, on account of the emperor dying. She reclaims more of the Ronon area but at a heavy cost.
Rewards:
4200 gp. yup.
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