[pnpgm] Game Update #140 - File #1056 - Demand of the forest
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Hmm..seems it never got out ot list so reposting..sorry folks.
So instead of update tomorrow I'll do it tue/wed.
Sorry.
Character Name Type Player Sex Notes
..Arawn...........Druid...John.Haight........Ma..Alfar/Backup Navigator
..Dorhak..........Warrior.Kevin.Newark.......Ma..Captain/Leader/Dwarf
..Fremea..........Sidh....Tobie.Bonahoom.....Fe..Faerry/Archer/Magician
..Kiet............Acrobat.David.Sanders......Me..Human/Magician
..Mournath........Sailor..Gibert.Isla........Ma..Human/Navigator
..Pyandalgor......Hunter..Panthera...........Ma..Human/Hunter
..Raddok..........Miner...Bess.Hadley........Ma..Human/Miner
..Tsia.Phan.......Thief...Don.Ker............Fe..Human/Thief
..Unali...........Ninja...Wout.Broere........Fe..Human/Dagger Maiden
..Upus............Warrior.Gerald.Ford........Ma..Normal/Barbarian Warrior
..Kimis...........Warrior.NPC................Fe..Normal/Diumgi Companion
..Z'leyra.........Healer..Alex Koponen.......Fe..Human/Shaman/1st Mate
..Barbosa.........Warrior.Npc................Ma..Dwarf/Outcast
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Game Update #140 sequence (file #1056)
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[Recap]
From Fremea: [RE: Actions]
Fremea looks over the red head,
her eyes changing from caution to understanding,
"I am not sure what hill, as I was captive in the royal court,
After coming out from the
cave/meeting hall/whatever, and the king
GM: Ack.
From Dorhak: [Re: Actions]
Dorhak sees the king turn to go,
impressed with the sacrifice of
"his people were either fiercely loyal to their king, or
GM: Ack.
From Arawn: [Re: Actions]
OOC: I typed this up last
night but haven't had a chance to update this to
reflect Dorhak's post. Hopefully Scott can work this is in as needed.
IC:
Arawn cocked an eye when Dorhak chose to challenge the king,
"I would agree with King Strata.
The Lower World is the natural
OOC: God's Eyes at max EL. If
the Bes seem potentially salvageable based on his
skills and observation (no skulls crushed in, for
example) Arawn will attempt to Translocate them
out and then heal them (Healing Mist, Sidh Tongue to boost)
GM: Ack. How long do you spend time here back in cave?
From Z'leyra: [Re: Actions[
Seeing as she won't be casting
spells for awhile, Z'leyra slings her staff
across her back, readies her shield and has her
sword in hand in order to be ready if attacked.
[Privately she thinks to herself that the
engineering skills of the King and his two best
men must have been lacking to not be able to rig
something to let them manage a cave in safely.] Â "Lead on."
GM: Ack. Or Time is critical
here. To rig something else could mean a new team sent to find the party.
From Kiet: [Re: Actions]
Kiet isn’t real impressed with
the situation. Half dark, half
GM: Ack. To clarify. Batteries can
be tapped to use its mana at 0 cost. Magic items
like rings/weapons have X uses per day so that's
free 0 mana. That's how I always dealt with it.
From Raddok: [Re: Actions]
Raddok doesn't like everyone
spreading out too far, especially
GM: Ack.
From Opus: [Re: Actions]
Opus and Kimis both look at each
other and smile then they bow to Arawn
and both put up there finger to there lips to mimic quiet.
GM: Ack.
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[New Stuff]
[Ma 9th, 1636TH]
[Time: Earlier during court briefing.]
Fremea looks over the red head, her
eyes changing from caution to understanding, "I
am not sure what hill, as I was captive in the
royal court, but I do understand being enslaved
to be someone else's tool. Even my own people
kept me from being with my family. I made sure I
got them back." Smiles genuinely at the memory of
her parents and the even the kids.
Kimis smiles and nods after getting a
translation. “Then as long as you are not here
for me, we shall be good friends.”
[Time: Minutes before just after crossing into LW]
Arawn cocked an eye when Dorhak chose
to challenge the king, his attention flickering
towards the Bes ruler when he then shifted from
humor to advice. The dwarf was rough around the
edges and hopefully the king's wise words would
sprout within and begin to soften his edges. If
not, at some point a less tolerant ruler or
entity of power might choose to flex their might in return.
When Dorhak called teams with the
goal of splitting up Arawn shook his head,
agreeing with the Bes king when he warned against it.
"I would agree with King Strata. The
Lower World is the natural home of dwarves,
elves, faeries. But it's also home to Elder
powers that guard their domains fiercely as well
as the children and followers of the Great
Serpent We should travel together or at least in larger teams."
When Opus and Kimis moved to join him
Arawn gave the pair a warm smile.
"Your presence is quite welcome and I
hope we can learn a little more about each other
while we journey. If we do continue separate from
the others, I only ask that you allow me to speak
to any we encounter here and to treat them with
respect as best you can. The creatures here are proud and not fond of humans."
Opus and Kimis both look at each
other and smile then they bow to Arawn and both
put up there finger to there lips to mimic quiet.
[Time: 1:24 pm]
After coming out from the
cave/meeting hall/whatever, and the king says
they had found caves in a specific direction, she
looked at Pyan, looked at Dorhak and shook her
head. "Pyan, stay with Dorhak, I am going to
scout instead, we need to know more fast as the
time shift here could really cause another
problem like last time." She flies up, just as
the cave is heard to be collapsed. She stops and
overhears the king talk about the sacrifice. Such
a waste, we could probably have done that without
anyone dying, she just shrugs sadly. "Sorry
Dorhak, this time you need to stick together and
go to the caves." She flies off to scout the area ahead.
Dorhak sees the king turn to go,
impressed with the sacrifice of his people. But
all is not always as it is presented.
"His people were either fiercely
loyal to their king, or desperately afraid."
The King hears a translation and shrugs.
"Change of plans. We came here to
extract the King, and bring him home. I would
like to maintain a skirmish line,
however. Fremea! Go forward and do your thing,
please. Flight before fight, though. I want you
to report back before you engage an enemy. If
you were to fall, we wouldn’t even know."
"Pyandalgor! Join up with Arawn and
the red people. Groups of two spread out and
keep the group next to you in sight. Looks like
we are headed to those caves the King talked about."
As the party moves down the hill
toward the forest below. Arawn turns back to the key discussion.
"It makes sense," Arawn chimed in
when Barbosa and King Strata discussed the idea
of a key. "We should let you know that we arrived
in your lands through what we believe was a
similar portal. In fact, it's opening might be
linked to the one you discovered.
It's a long story but suffice to say
we have uncovered an item that was hidden by a
combination of forces - elf, Bes, and dwarf at
the very least. Evil men sought to steal it for
use as a weapon but we managed to thwart that and
it now has a new Guardian. Your archivist, Crix,
seemed to know of these tomes, the Hurricane
tomes, and it is being safeguarded until our return.
If you happen to have more insight it
and the Coalition it would be welcome as well as
an idea as to what the key might appear as."
The King abruptly stops and turns to
face Arawn turning pale. “Do not name the book
again. The forest has ears. If ...whatever or
whoever even had that hint they'd do anything to
capture us or obtain the book.” Then he turns
around and walks more. HE scans the skies
washing as Fremea flies forward. “I'm not
scholar. But what was taught to me was this
Coalition is one of several. The odd part I
never understood is why Bes were
included. Unlike the pure dwarves we are
peaceful. To join this band must've been a serious threat.
A vague word of word record is of
even the Convocation era against the gods. I
have no idea if that is legend or myth. Probably
once a century a coalition forms. But mostly
without Bes. During the Lymrian Crisis the Bes
stepped away not wanting to interfere. If you
speak of this...tome that was one of the last
great coalitions Bes were involved in. The books
and artifacts could not be destroyed so hidden
away only. There were other great tomes out
there hidden away even we do not know
where. Frankly the Archivist is better on these things.
As to the Key. The wall back there
in the cave...It told of a key must be used to
use their whatever it is. I assume its a portal
again. I suspect it was build away from here to
protect it from being discovered. Or...maybe
there is a large dwarf or Elf presence
there. That could be a problem. The Bes who came
back is one of my best runners. He can do 16-17
miles a day. He only reports of caves with
possible writing he can't understand. If this is
not our place we may be trapped here. Well some
of us. Some of us can naturally portal out. But
humans can't. If we can't trick or figure this
key out we are trapped as well.”
Barbosa whispers to Dorhak, “I hope the book wasn't a key?”
Upon exiting the cave Arawn looked
out upon the twilight world, hoping to spot
something familiar. Unlike most of the Sidh and
Elder races the Lower World was not his native
realm but it was a close second home. He hoped
that he might recognize something in the
landscape though he did not hold his breath - the
Lower World was a vast place with so much he had yet to explore.
When news of the missing guards was
brought to the party's attention Arawn pursed his lips in concern.
"We should move in teams to try and track your men down."
Following after the king he was then
surprised by the sudden collapse of the cave entrance.
"You should've spoken to us! We
could've called upon magic to do the same!,"
Arawn said, alarmed to find that the Bes guards
might be dead. He was already running towards the
cave-in even as he finished speaking. His hope
was that they lingered and he would be able to
use his magic to spot them and pull them from the wreck.
The King turns around sad, “I did not
realize magic could be used. Besides if that cave
has wards magic could back fire...I felt the best ..,”
He watches as Arawn runs back to the cave.
Seeing as she won't be casting spells
for awhile, Z'leyra slings her staff across her
back, readies her shield and has her sword in
hand in order to be ready if attacked. [Privately
she thinks to herself that the engineering skills
of the King and his two best men must have been
lacking to not be able to rig something to let
them manage a cave in safely.] "Lead on."
Kiet isn’t real impressed with the
situation. Half dark, half light. Easy way to be
ambushed. And no magic available yet. Can’t
even use the mana storage. It takes mana to extract the mana.
Don’t even have enough left to cast
his Infinite Sight spell. The elves and dwarves
won’t have trouble, but us humans will be less
likely to detect problems. Bugger!
Well, Kiet’s been hoping for some
opportunity to get some physical action. Just
wish the tulwar was magically enhanced. Someday
he will need to learn the skills to make those
weapons. A lot to learn, though, about Elemental Magics first.
Raddok doesn't like everyone
spreading out too far, especially since the light
was a bit dim. Team pairs that are ten feet apart
don't seem too bad, but as he doesn't know what
Dorhak means by spreading out, he makes sure to
stay close to Mournath, and plans to use his mace
and shield for fighting, unless something really
big or (terrifying, he thinks to himself) shows
up, then he might take a shot with the ring. He
only has two shots, so has to be careful. The
light isn't too bad – at least he could see
fairly well. At least they weren't in a
pitch-dark cave. He isn't sure he can trust the
Bes, though, since their king seemed too blase'
about members of his party sacrificing themselves
without others trying to help them.
Arawn runs back into the cave leaping
over the debris of the threshold collapse and
heading to the back of the cave system to where
they came. The Bes Guard at the entrance seems
startled and raises his spear then runs after the
Alfar. He speaks in Bes but Arawn doesn't understand him.
Arawn heads past the “cage” where
they found the king and slows down at the tunnel
they came from. He concentrates and tells there
is magic abound but hopes its not wards. He
filters what vision he can see. Soon the dark
rock and sand disappears form his sight. He
moves forward and scans the area.
The Bes stops and breathes hard and
speaks more. Then switches to Dwarf
Elder. Arawn can hear it and understand it
better, “you can't go back that way we've tried.”
Then Arawn spots the first Bes. It
looks like he is face down and his back is
bent? Since he can’t see the rocks now he can
only assume there is a large boulder on his back
and probably broke his back. The other is soon
found and this one is lying face up but since
blood is filtered out he can't tell his
condition. Arawn studies his chest and sees no breathing motion.
The Bes realizes what the Alfar is up
to. He looks down at the dropped shovels Raddok
left. He whispers, “you should not. Everyone
here is a volunteer. We knew the risk. You must
understand...we are not Dwarves. Our traditions
are different. WE believe we come from earth and
will return to it. You may seem shocked but
there is reassurance here by Bes. Bes is the
Master of Sleep and so these 2 have entered the
Sleep. To disturb them violates that sleep and
transition. You can dig them out. Fine. But
keep in mind if you remove them it could cause
pockets of air and anyone coming through the
portal could be trapped. I will be leaving to
watch for others who may return.” With that the
guard leaves back to his post. “All in vain if a
pocket is formed.” He says as he walks away.
Arawn is slightly annoyed by the Bes.
To save hundreds they die here. Is that peace or
waste? But the guard does have a point.
Outside Fremea flies above the
forest. Seconds passing over the lip of the
forest the canopy is thick. Visibility is random
and as she flies limited. She scans the skies
for any creatures that may be a danger then down
to the forest. The birds seem to be the same as
in the Middle World. But below that larger animals are difficult to see.
As the party gets about 50 feet to
the forest Arawn jogs back and rejoins them. He
remains stone faced and does not care to look at the king for now.
The party splits up into six
groups. The far left is Arawn, Opus, Kimis and
Pyan. Since Arawn is keen in the forest as well
as Pyan it helps to have a group with those
skills on the edge. Each group is spaced 10-15
feet apart depending on density of the forest
ground. At ground level visibility goes from 30
to 100 feet at times depending on the trees and foliage.
The next group is Raddok and
Mournath. Then Unali and Barbosa. Followed by
Z'leyra and Tsia. Followed by Unali and Barbosa.
Lastly on far right is the King and 2 Bes guards.
[Time: 1:44 pm]
The Bes guard to left of the King
grunts and points his spear at the forest far to
the right. They see a unicorn riding fast away
in front and right of them. Soon the unicorn is lost among the trees.
[Time: 1:51 pm]
Raddok suddenly hears something in
front of them. But its not ground level he begins
to scan the trees. It almost sounds like
singing. They continue on for another few
minutes and Raddok sees it. On top of a limb
stands a female that is striking with golden
flowing hair and she wears a white expensive
looking gown. It almost looks like a tall Fae but
she is indeed human but with wings. She seems to
be singing a very low key song that seems to enthrall Mournath as he stares.
Kiet and Dorhak is not aware of
situation. But Arawn's keen ears picks something
up. He tries to locate Raddok and Mournath and
spots them looking up into a tree or sky but can't see that area due to trees.
The female is quite beautiful.
Z'leyra and Unali are equal in appearance but
this female is SIX times more pretty. Even
though Fae are hard to gauge by human standards
Fremea is not as striking. The female turns and
stares and smiles. She speaks in a soothing
voice. But Raddok and Mournath does not understand her.
As Arawn moves closer he can hear the
female and seems to understand a few words, “..my forest?”
Arawn seems to recognize it a bit as
a Neutral tongue. The female seems to see that
Arawn understands. “You will translate for those
...” then she sees the Red humans and seems
startled. “..those two.” She turns to Raddok's
group, “you will leave my forest. But I will
allow entry if that one stays with me.” She points to Raddok.
GM: Actions? Comments
Next update...Saturday...
GM: Sorry for delay. We got a great
start today. For a change. Arawn – Do you get
the 2 Bes out or leave them? Up to you. Fremea I
will keep you updated as you fly you do not see
what party does. Technically only Arawn's group
and Raddok's does until they warn others or
others notice it. Will try update once I get off
work Saturday at 430 EST. If the groups divided
up below is bad let me now I did it by numbers and skills.
GM: Groups-
Kiet/Dorhak 1
Raddok/Mournath 2
Fremea
Unali/Barbosa 3
Z'leyra/Tsia 4
Arawn/Opus/Kimis/Pyan 5
King/2 Bes 6
5 2 1 4 3 6 – Spread out skirmish line.
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