Re: BJ's Summary for Game on 2/6/10031

[Foo <fooboy@laf.cioe.com>]

Sounds like a cool game.  Kalaran seems to have been roughly sodomized
throughout the whole adventure, however. ;P

"I am ready to meet my Maker.  Whether my Maker is ready for the ordeal of 
 meeting me is another matter entirely."

- Winston Churchill

On Wed, 10 May 2000, B.J. Austin wrote:

> 
> 
> Hook: A message is in need of being delivered.  Meet at The Other
> Sanctuary at 2pm.
> 
> Party Members: Temidar, Kalaran, Magnus, Omega, Soldat Crummly, The person
> currently known as the Spoon symbol, Illyana.
> 
> 
> The party meet a man known as Tunin, a (suspected) Priest of Tarus that
> hired some adventurers for a mission a while back.  The overall goal of
> this mission was for the cell of Tarusians that Tunin represents to get in
> contact with a other cell that was rumored to use the western towns to
> depart from the island.
> 
> Prior to the meeting, Tunin raised a Truth Scan spell.  Each person was
> questioned as to who they were, what they were good at, and what god they
> followed - two gongs (Magnus and Omega) on the god question.  The party
> was informed that the task was to deliver a scroll to some people in
> Gendel.  The party was given a vague description of the four people and
> a possible name of one of them.  Having agreed on payment the party was
> told that they would be gathered the next day and given the scroll.
> 
> Due to the party's falsehood on the god question and the need to protect
> the message and the message senders, the message was placed inside an
> enchanted scroll case - a "curse" and a "devotion" is thrown on anyone
> opening it.  The party was given the box containing the scroll case and
> were off.  There were no initial problems to speak off short of Magnus
> waking up Kalaran when he tried to get the scroll case.
> 
> The following night, Magnus succeeded in getting the scroll case without
> waking Kalaran up - Magnus is now a follower of Tarus. Now being devoted
> to the cause, he read the message/invitation for the possible priests in
> Gendel to meet with the Rougtero priests.
> 
> Much to my disappointment, that same night, at least one person on each
> watch heard "faint snoring noises" but none went to investigate.  Too bad,
> I had already flipped the book to the frajodracko write-up.  Very
> disappointing - let spleeping dracko's lay, I guess.
> 
> The next day, the party was attacked by an Earth mage and two thugs.  The
> party quickly dispatched the small group but not before Kalaran failed an
> overload and did 20 dp to herself, then failed another one and erased
> 4 years of her memory.  Opps.
> 
> As the party rested that night, a group of Priests of Scrogg, sent to make
> sure the message never reached the other priests, surrounded the party and
> attacked.  Actually, this was a lot of fun but I won't bore everyone with
> the lengthy details.  The results of the battle: everyone was
> eventually incapacitated in some way or another or fled; Soldat Crummly
> was slain; the priests found the scroll case and took it with them.
> Temidar gave a nobel persuit as a Garzoon but was incapacitated for an
> hour.  Ilyana vowed to take revenge on the priests for their actions
> against her and her god.
> 
> After the party re-grouped, they continued on to Gendel and found
> the people they were looking for though they did not receive a warm
> welcome.  Magnus repeated the message to them though they acted as though
> they did not know why they were receiving such a letter.
> 
> The party went back to Rougtero and told their employer of the events that
> happened.  
> 
> The message was originally dated to have the Gendel priests meet the
> Rougtero priests 8 days from when it was delivered.  However, since many
> of the party members want revenge and can't be at AQ this coming weekend,
> I told the players that I didn't have a problem adjusting the date on the
> letter.  The time will depend on how long next week's games are but I
> would like to GM the ramifications of last weekend's game in a week and a
> half.
> 
> 
> BJ
> 
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