CELTRICIA- Steel Isle Online Dungeon crawl

[LordVreeg]

I am going to try to be online if anyone has any questions tonight.  There is a lot of stuff I'll be working on, but I should be good for some diverted attention.

[Nomadic]

Awesome I'll try to grab you.

[LordVreeg]

Quick update.
Session 22 last night.
Great roleplaying session.
Added in LC to Llum, Nomadic, and TMG.  


I'm probably going to have to forgo the detailed notes thing I was doing for a while so that I can catch up.  I just don't have the time to transcribe at that level of detail.  
The quick and dirty, for those that don't know, is after the last haevily detailed transcription, the group's captured scalik was cut down by a 'pilum of bone' spell on top of the strepped temple.  The Group ran down the grey steps down, chasing after the caster, and found themselves in an ancient Venolvian chaber of worship, with Bats on the ceiling and guano everywhere,
Kellik, Max and Hamish lit after the footsteps of the caster, while the rest of the group followed slowly, as they had just been in a fight on the top of the stepped temple.  The group ended up fighting gnolls from one direct and a few scalik from another, taking major damage, including Wurnick, Kellik and Simon being hurt and Hamish going negative.  
The Group found some small statuary, and along with the other odds and snds and armor, fled back to Steel ISle town, making a stop to see Shuruum on the way at his farm.
The explorers spent a few hawaak in town, building realtionships, trading with Chorbit.  They lived at the Blue Turtles Shell, in an old stone barracks.  They all worked on some skills, and then started on their way back.
They again stopped for the night at Shurruums, having a huge dinner and checking in on Toden.  

** more later**
(anyone else who wants to move this along is welcome)

[Ishmayl-Retired]

Man, watching you guys play last night, even for the short time I was there, really gives me a longing for playing some good ol' fashioned fantasy-esque dungeon crawls again.  I don't suppose you have room (or logical story-placement) for another player, do you?

[Lmns Crn]

Man, watching you guys play last night, even for the short time I was there, really gives me a longing for playing some good ol' fashioned fantasy-esque dungeon crawls again.  I don't suppose you have room (or logical story-placement) for another player, do you?

One of us! One of us!

[Nomadic]

Man, watching you guys play last night, even for the short time I was there, really gives me a longing for playing some good ol' fashioned fantasy-esque dungeon crawls again.  I don't suppose you have room (or logical story-placement) for another player, do you?

One of us! One of us!

I'm with LC. We would love to have another player. I'm sure vreeg would love to pick up another player so that he can drop a couple NPCs (he's currently running 4). So perhaps you could pick up one of the NPCs, or you could come in and vreeg could find a way to drop a couple of the NPCs.

[Ishmayl-Retired]

I'll be speaking with Vreeg (especially if he's around IRC tonight).

[Lmns Crn]

really gives me a longing for playing some good ol' fashioned fantasy-esque dungeon crawls again

realpostin': it gave me the yen to run one also.

[Ishmayl-Retired]

Yeah, same here, but I don't think I have the energy to actually run one right now, but that's actually what sparked it.  I pulled out all the notes Keith and I had been using to make Cerulean Saga, and after looking them over, thought, "Man, I'd rather just play in a good setting."  There ya go.

'Course, if you're wanting to run a JadeFate, I may be having a problem trying to then fit 2 awesome campaigns into my life again...

[LordVreeg]

Man, watching you guys play last night, even for the short time I was there, really gives me a longing for playing some good ol' fashioned fantasy-esque dungeon crawls again.  I don't suppose you have room (or logical story-placement) for another player, do you?

One of us! One of us!

I didn't even notice we had overlord overhead overhearing going on until I saw the quit.
But I was hardcore last night, I think I was in "Ok, it's 4th hour on Tokush 29th, a Bowyak..." within a minute of being on line.

Glad you got the vibe of 'ye olde Intense Roleplay'.  Somthing is right, next session will be #23.  Somehow, all these years later, having LC wax enthusiastic after the session and reading your yen makes me feel the same as I did back in the old days in the screen house, when we finished a good session.

I think it mightbe considered bad form to exlude the Opal Council Overlord from being maimed in Celtricia.  While I could wait a session or so till the party gets culled a few more times, I have my ways.  Want to get your feet wet playing a pregen (sane or insane, your choice; we got both), or do you want the group to have to rescue another potential sacrifice?

[Lmns Crn]

Glad you got the vibe of 'ye olde Intense Roleplay'. Somthing is right, next session will be #23. Somehow, all these years later, having LC wax enthusiastic after the session and reading your yen makes me feel the same as I did back in the old days in the screen house, when we finished a good session.

chills[/i].

I think there's something about how unforgiving the guildschool mechanics are that does it. The danger in the air is palpable; you get in touch with your character's mortality.

I think it mightbe considered bad form to exlude the Opal Council Overlord from being maimed in Celtricia. While I could wait a session or so till the party gets culled a few more times, I have my ways. Want to get your feet wet playing a pregen (sane or insane, your choice; we got both), or do you want the group to have to rescue another potential sacrifice?

in media res[/i]" is unusual, "If two or three of you guys want, you can drop in and cameo for just one session at a time" is pretty much unheard of, as far as I know.

[Ishmayl-Retired]

Hey Vreeg, sorry I haven't had a moment to get into a chatroom, but I definitely have Wed nights free to do some gaming if you'll allow, as well as I have most of the day on Tuesday free to chat if you have time.

[Llum]

Hey Vreeg, sorry I haven't had a moment to get into a chatroom, but I definitely have Wed nights free to do some gaming if you'll allow, as well as I have most of the day on Tuesday free to chat if you have time.

Welcome aboard I guess. Vreeg said he would make time to be on tonight (Sunday). Dunno if you can make it, but I think he said he'd be there. Vreeg is usually only on after 8 EST, very seldomly earlier.

[LordVreeg]

I should be around for a while tonight.  I do 'office hours' online on Sunday when I can.
Though I have designated Llum and TMG the official character design assistants.  

[LordVreeg]

Tonight, 8:30 pm eastern standard.
**

Finishing the synopsis, the group finished dinner, slept in SHuruum's Barn.  The next morning the group continued south, through the moors and over the old venolvian bridges, past the signs of old conflict and the recent battles of the explorers.
1/2 a day later...the group was halted by a warrior in heavy armor in the middle of the road, which leads to a summit with the Witches.  The explorers make an uneasy truce with them after finding them to be enemies of the Beast men.  The ancient crones know things...
After another day and a half, the group comes to a fork.  They are in the northern eaves of the deeper Velonici swamp, where the moors give way to overhanging branches and desnze growth.  The Group goes west, through the sparse woods that border the swamp, and after 3 hours they come upon a wooden stockade, much like the one they discovered burnt to the ground in the Vexchian ruins.  This one is between 2 hillocks, about 50'x60', with a human and a gnome in front of it, both armored in wiedly ornamented chain mail, silvery and burnished, with wiry filigree and earwig pauldrons.  The group ends up in a huge donnybrook, with a necromancer casting spells from the top of the stockade and 5 other armed cultists.  The groups better armor serves them well as they are able to wear down the cultists and dispatch them.
The group takes many of the strange chain mails, as well as dicovering a flail, "Nacdilis', a prototypical charged magic light flail.  *Magic*!!!
They also discover, in a putrid small shed, 3 bodies chained to walls, one which bears the signs of torment, and one that is still clinging to life.  This is Gordin, a huge Grey March human from the Church of Solid Earth.  They revive him, and spend the evening in the comforts of the guardhouse.
The next day, Tokush 30th, the group gets going and heads back into the ruins, finding signs of more conflict in the ancient, overgrown Vexchain streets.  A staked out robed gnome corpse with his entrails wrapped around his neck does not infer polite conversation.

The Explorers continue back to the large stepped temple, and lights their lanterns, as the descend back into the long staircase down...