Game Transcripts

[Hussar]

(1) Hussar: Meet your new Helmsman, Mylo
(2) Elias: lol
(2) Elias: alright, so i'm navigator
(2) Elias: and he's helmsmen
(3) Grimnoor: don't I know him from somewhere lese?
(2) Elias: Navigational Skill [1d20 +10] -> [3,10] = (13)
(1) Hussar: Somehow I don't think he'll be returning. It's been almost two months. So, he gets relagated to NPC status.
(1) Hussar: Oh, here
(2) Elias: sucky
(2) Elias: in another level I'll take him on with leadership feat (if i opt for it)
(3) Grimnoor: hmmm
(1) Hussar: Might be an idea. He's now R4/T1
(1) Hussar: sorry, that's Ranger 4/Rogue 1
(3) Grimnoor: so, whats the node for?
(2) Elias: ah
(2) Elias: did you read it?
(2) Elias has sent you a tree node...
(3) Grimnoor: uh, uneamed miniature right?
(3) Grimnoor: er unnamed
(3) Grimnoor: hello m bucket head
(2) Elias: friend was making mini's with picture it i think
(2) Elias: taking pics and making them into tokens
(1) Hussar: Cool.
(1) Hussar: Scale's pretty big though
(2) Elias: nodz
(3) Grimnoor: i see Dorvam but Gimble is a bit hard to make out
(2) Elias: He's supposed to be looking for a human bard for me
(3) Grimnoor: yay, I smell a tavern brawl a brewin
(2) Elias: Oops
(2) Elias: didnt' mean to move him
(2) Elias: Bardic Knowledge Check [1d20 +6] -> [16,6] = (22)
(2) Elias: Damage: [5d6] -> [5,2,5,4,3] = (19)
(2) Elias: argh
(3) Grimnoor: Mr hussar, Mr hussar, Mylo wont keep to his side of the table
(1) Hussar: Naw, just figured I'd give you something to look at.
(1) Hussar: lol
(2) Elias: Raises his voice in song! [1d20 +14] -> [3,14] = (17)
(2) Elias: Grim's touching me!
(1) Hussar: bad halfling, bad shortarse
(3) Grimnoor: am not!
(2) Elias: am TO!
(3) Grimnoor: NOT!
** (2) Elias tests something **
** (2) Elias Hits Grimnoor **
(1) Hussar: Christ guys, I get to here that all the time at school. Do you want me to pull this car over?
(3) Grimnoor: Elias just hit me!
(1) Hussar: [Bad dice format]
** (2) Elias hits Grim again **
** Sorry, don't understand what a / is...
** (1) Hussar smacks both of you **
(3) Grimnoor: *cries*
** (2) Elias begins to cry **
(2) Elias: WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
(1) Hussar: So, did you take the time to look at the prologue I gave you?
(3) Grimnoor: My daddy is a kick boxer, youll be sorry!
(2) Elias has sent you a tree node...
(3) Grimnoor: and yeah i did
(2) Elias: thought you might like that Hussar
(2) Elias: have to replace the names of course
(2) Elias: yup
(1) Hussar: Now that's handy. If I could just find another game to play in.
(2) Elias: , prolly need to reread it though
(2) Elias: been a few days
(1) Hussar: The winter has passed once again and the blood rains have ended. Life is returning to normal in the City of Mithril. You have gone almost daily to the dry dock to observe the work on your ship. The damage has been repaired and you are very pleased with what you see. Also pleasing is your new crew. Word of your deeds has spread and sailors have flocked to your banner. And, best of all, Chel Azatlan has word for you. You make your way to his shop to talk with the old man.
** (2) Elias makes his way **
(1) Hussar: Ah, welcome sirs, he says. It has been a sore trial ferreting out the information that you seek. I could regale you with stories of conferences and correspondence, but, I can see from your faces, ahem, you may not be interested in that. To the point then.
(3) Grimnoor: GI shall follow the m,usic maker
(1) Hussar: The scrap of paper and the map both come from the same source. About three centuries ago, before the Titanswar, a Veshian captain by the name of Roran Breezewater embarked on a daring journey. From what I can gather, he somehow discovered the location of an island about six weeks south east of Mithril. How he came by this knowledge is unclear. Port records show that he provisioned his ship, hired a full crew and set out. Nothing was heard from him again until nearly two years later. He somehow made his way back to Vesh with a skeleton crew and a badly damaged ship. He foreswore the sea and apparently spent the rest of his days in the capital city of Lave. Scholars of the time made note that he wrote a fairly detailed account of his journey, but no copies survived the Titanswar. My guess is that your piece of paper is some of his original notes. I am assured that the map is genuine. The age of the parchment and the inks seems to be in order as is the style in which the map is made. All proper for the time. If these are forgeries, they are extremely good ones.
(3) Grimnoor: indeed,,,'
** (2) Elias nods **
(1) Hussar: I have something here that might interest you. However, it was very difficult to procure and it will cost you a little extra. I have a part of Breezewater's navigational log entries. It gives a fairly direct route to this island he speaks of. If I'm reading this correctly, the journey should take about 3 or 4 weeks.
(3) Grimnoor: how much extra?
(2) Elias: ...
(3) Grimnoor: *whistleing*
(1) Hussar: Let us say... 200 gp?
** (2) Elias looks at Grim **
(3) Grimnoor: I shall now look at you
** (2) Elias shrug **
(3) Grimnoor: i shall now shrug
(2) Elias: (use /me)
(2) Elias: (man, he's big)
** (3) Grimnoor thinks the man looks goofy, like an old painting **
** (2) Elias eyes his fake baldness warily **
(1) Hussar: Use me Elias? Sheesh, I didn't know you were into that.
** (2) Elias for emote, duh **
(2) Elias: ( )
(1) Hussar: Oh, BTW, in the future, make all game posts on Shadow's site. Makes my life easier.
(2) Elias: nodz
** (3) Grimnoor nods **
(1) Hussar: Those bloody popups are a pain.
** (2) Elias gives Chel 100 gold and looks at Grim **
(1) Hussar: Anyway, back to the game.
whispering to Hussar, [1d20+10] -> [12,10] = (22)
(1) Hussar: Chel takes the money and hands over the log.
** (3) Grimnoor fumbles around in his lwide pockets and brings out a neat roll of 100 gold coins **
** (2) Elias takes Log **
** (1) Hussar Azatlan turns to leave. **
** (3) Grimnoor takes a peek at it **
(1) Hussar: If there are no more questions gentlemen.
** (2) Elias shrugs **
** (3) Grimnoor says "thank you" **
(1) Hussar: He bids you good day.
(1) Hussar: and leaves
** (2) Elias waves **
** (3) Grimnoor bids him good day and waves good bye **
(1) Hussar: So, have you decided on what to do with your ship yet?
(2) Elias: Ok, so we need to figure out our money situation, right? Like where the money to outfit the ship is coming from, and what we did with all the swag from a couple weeks ago
(1) Hussar: Swaggage amounts to the following:
(1) Hussar: Diamond 25 gp, a golden sextant (100 gp), Ornate Compass (200 gp), 140 pp, 1040 gp, 800 sp, 230 cp, 3 potions (neutralize poison, sneaking, haste), MW Rapier, MW Spear, MW thieves tools, 8000 gp (various coinage), 3500 gp (various gems) diamond tiara (2500 gp), three scrolls (Now 2 ? Silent image and hold monster), 2 potions (1 char, 1 protection from electricity) and Robe of Scintillating Colors. And Map and Note. From the recovered goods salvage, less Hailafs silks and some odds and sods like identification spells ? 12000 gp

[Hussar]

(2) Elias: Did you want to keep any of it Grim?
** (3) Grimnoor wonders how much the ship repairs cost **
(1) Hussar: Mylo could really use the compass and sextant. and so could Elias
(2) Elias: yeah
(1) Hussar: Ship repairs will be 12000 gp
(3) Grimnoor: but could we not sell it and buy a regukar set?
(2) Elias: and i guess we could hold onto the potions too
(1) Hussar: The Robe is worth 25 000 gp
(2) Elias: and the scrolls
(1) Hussar: Total treasure less minor majic is:
(3) Grimnoor: i say we pawn the robe and pay for the repairs first off
(2) Elias: let's see what the totals are
(1) Hussar: 27822 in swag plus 25000 for the robe
(3) Grimnoor: es not bad
(2) Elias: over 50k then
(2) Elias: not bad at all
(2) Elias: if we repair and outfit the ship with what you are suggesting, how much would that leave?
(3) Grimnoor: so ill take half, and you take the other jhalf
(2) Elias: well, what about shadow?
(3) Grimnoor: hes gone, except it
(2) Elias: lol
(1) Hussar: Total costs would be 33030 gp. Note, this leaves very little room for cargo.
(2) Elias: why would we need cargo if we're goin to the island? all we'd need are supplies, correct?
(2) Elias: or are we doing something else?
(1) Hussar: This would leave 19792 gp.
(3) Grimnoor: veil of obscurity is only 25000
(1) Hussar: Well, you know the island is inhabited. In orderto make a profit, you may wish to bring something to trade with the natives.
(3) Grimnoor: hmm you have a point
(2) Elias: hrm
(3) Grimnoor: did we throw away that lotus weed?
(2) Elias: what kind of cargo? and how much could we hold?
(1) Hussar: Except for what you may have bought ( I don' t know what you did with that) yes, the weed is gone.
(3) Grimnoor: lol we could buy an ironclad for 30000
(1) Hussar: YOur ship can hold 250 tons.
(1) Hussar: Currently, your ammunition takes up 45 tons
(1) Hussar: No ironclads exist here.
(1) Hussar: : P
(2) Elias: lol, brutely rebuffed
(1) Hussar: Current sailing tech is about 14th to 15th century. Think Columbus
(1) Hussar: Without cannons
(3) Grimnoor: ewoks had hangligers...
(3) Grimnoor: lol
(3) Grimnoor: hmmm
(1) Hussar: Other races may have flying vessels, particularly magic powered ones, but not in Mithril
(3) Grimnoor: yeah i know
(2) Elias: well, what do you say Grim?
(2) Elias: are we gonna get a loan to pay for the outfitting, or pay for it ourselves?
(3) Grimnoor: well natives are gonna like something extotic to them
(2) Elias: yeah
(3) Grimnoor: if we pay now atleast we wont be in debt
(2) Elias: does the Journal mention anything about what the natives are like?
(2) Elias: true
(3) Grimnoor: do they like white women?
(2) Elias: ROFL
(1) Hussar: That might help too.
(2) Elias: grumble
(2) Elias: that's a lot of figuring
(1) Hussar: Assume four week journey, with 155 crew, that's quite a bit of food.
(2) Elias: yeah
(3) Grimnoor: and i know those cmagic cabnets cost a bundle
(1) Hussar: 30 days of food costs 1395 gp and weighs...just under 12 tons
(2) Elias: we need 44 sets of sea rations
(2) Elias: i believe for 4 weeks
(1) Hussar: I added a couple of days just to be safe.
(2) Elias: ah
(3) Grimnoor: could we get a cheap barge to haul the treasure back on?
(1) Hussar: lol
(2) Elias: nah, we'll fire the marines and use thier bunks to store it
(2) Elias:
(2) Elias: j/k
(3) Grimnoor: lol
(3) Grimnoor: yeah, no need to pay the mercenaries
(2) Elias: why do we need a clock?
(1) Hussar: This still leaves just under 200 tons for cargo
(2) Elias: not like we're timing torpedoes or anything
(1) Hussar: A clock is used to measure speed
(3) Grimnoor: did they mention how heavy this treasure is?
(2) Elias: oh
(1) Hussar: Very useful for navigation.
(1) Hussar: A logline and a egg timer works too.
(2) Elias: I don't see an Egg timer on the list
(1) Hussar: sorry, hourglass. NOt sure how much. Not much though.
(3) Grimnoor: what weighs more, pitch barrels or stones?
(1) Hussar: Prolly about the same.
(2) Elias: Astrolabe (navigation tool); Bilge Pump 2 man 300 gp 75 lbs; Captains Log 20 gp 4 lbs ; Charting Tools Masterwork 50 gp 1 lbs; Log Line (tells ship speed) 8 gp 15 lbs; Ships Bell 25 gp 12 lbs; Telescope 2000 gp 1 lbs; Timepiece (Clockwork) 3000 gp 2 lbs
(2) Elias: is what we need, right?
(2) Elias: since we already got a compas and sextant
(1) Hussar: Tack in a couple of tons of repair materials and you're gold.
(2) Elias: yeah
(2) Elias: i was gonna ask about that
(2) Elias: ok, let me add all that up
(1) Hussar: I got 5488 gp
(3) Grimnoor: we could hire an all female crew, trade them off to the nativesand that would give us more room on the return trip
(2) Elias: 5488 gold before repair material
(1) Hussar: [300+20+50+8+25+2000+3000+85] -> 5488
(2) Elias: right
(2) Elias: how much repair material?
(1) Hussar: Well it's 20 hp/ton and 200 gp/ton
(1) Hussar: 10 tons?
(2) Elias: sure
(2) Elias: we broke yet?
(2) Elias: lol
(1) Hussar: 7488 gp for supplies
(2) Elias: I'm having trouble keeping up
(1) Hussar: plus food
(2) Elias: we figured that out a minute ago, right?
(1) Hussar: 1395 gp
(3) Grimnoor: ok, how about you give us the sampler
(1) Hussar: FOr a total of [7488+1395] -> 8883
(1) Hussar: I just saw the female crew shot. lol
(3) Grimnoor: with our luck the natives will be amazons....
(1) Hussar: BTW, I don't know if you noticed. While you are armed for bear in terms of siege weaponry, you do not have a lot of marines.
(2) Elias: Money - Repairs/outfit - supplies [52822 - 33030 - 1395] -> 18397
(2) Elias: err
(2) Elias: minus 8883
(2) Elias: [18397 - 8883] -> 9514
(2) Elias: is what we have left
(1) Hussar: Not too bad at all.
(3) Grimnoor:
(2) Elias: what i thought Grim
(1) Hussar: You still haven't even gone into debt.
(2) Elias: and i don't think i've put in the repair material yet
(2) Elias: so that's really 7514
(3) Grimnoor: id rather go into debt and still have a ton of cool stuff
(1) Hussar: You've repaired your ship, crewed, outfitted it and you are still in the black. Wow.
(1) Hussar: I'm impressed.
(2) Elias: no, i'm sorry, it is 9514
(2) Elias: we haven't bought and alch fire or anlything
(2) Elias: have we?
(3) Grimnoor: well that leaves 9514
(1) Hussar: no.
(3) Grimnoor: so, who says we go take up a collection?
(1) Hussar: No one.
(2) Elias: lol, at sword point
(1) Hussar: Umm, what would you like to take as trade goods.
(1) Hussar: ?
(3) Grimnoor: its time that church started giving something back
(1) Hussar: ?
(2) Elias: no kidding
(2) Elias: anyway, we need some Greater Wind Favored Sails, only 67,500gp
(1) Hussar: lol
(2) Elias: pg 51 Arms and Equ guid
(3) Grimnoor: hell yeah

[Hussar]

(3) Grimnoor: just what i was looking at
(1) Hussar: A couple of good trips and away you go.
(3) Grimnoor: might as well get a cloud keel
(2) Elias: Ok, do you have it written down somewhere what we've purchased Hussar?
(2) Elias: in case we forget?
(2) Elias: (which we prolly will)
(8) Shadowdragon (enter): 09:47
(2) Elias: Hey Shadow
** (8) Shadowdragon says Hello Yet Again. **
(2) Elias: We're outfitting the ship (done really)
(1) Hussar: Let's break up trade goods into four categories. Textiles, foodstuffs (includes spices), Finished goods, and...
(2) Elias: (I hope)
Attempting to assign the role of PLAYER to (8) Shadowdragon...
(3) Grimnoor: 3rd world peoples dont want food, they want beads
(2) Elias: Sex Toys!
(2) Elias: is what they want
(1) Hussar: Why don't we make the fourth one non-essentials like beads and stuff.
(2) Elias: Ok
(1) Hussar: Textiles are 20 gp/ton, Foodstuffs 40 gp/ton Finished Goods 120 gp/ton and non essentials 50 gp/ton
(3) Grimnoor: so lets give em a bunch of chairs
(2) Elias: Argh
(1) Hussar: I'm saving the buffer periodically, so we should have everything.
(2) Elias: Heh
(2) Elias: ok, so how many tons were left?
(1) Hussar: Just shy of 200
(3) Grimnoor: what is something cheap that they make here in mithril?
(1) Hussar: Say 185
(3) Grimnoor: besides crapy sewer systems
(1) Hussar: Not sure. One second
(2) Elias: so [185 / 4] -> 46
(2) Elias: of each?
(2) Elias: [46 * 20] -> 920 [40*46] -> 1840 [46 * 120] -> 5520 [46 * 50] -> 2300
(2) Elias: I don't think we have that much
(2) Elias: [920 + 1840 + 5520 + 2300] -> 10580
(2) Elias: well, that puts us in the hole...
(1) Hussar: Foodstuffs may be a very bad idea considering the length of time you are travelling. You might want to leave those out.
(2) Elias: [9514 - 10580] -> -1066
(1) Hussar: And that would put you back int he black
(2) Elias: more textiles instead i say
(2) Elias: [10580 - 1840 + 920] -> 9660
(2) Elias: so, that would leave us with
(2) Elias: still in the black
(2) Elias: [9514 - 9660] -> -146
(2) Elias: only 146 though
(1) Hussar: Close enough. Mylo can make that up.
(2) Elias: Ok
(3) Grimnoor: good old mylo
(2) Elias:
(1) Hussar: So you have 92 tons textiles, 46 tons finished goods, and 46 tons non-essentials
(2) Elias: correct
(3) Grimnoor: so,now that we're broke again shall we be off?
(2) Elias: and no alch fire...
(2) Elias:
(1) Hussar: I wondered if you noticed that.
(2) Elias: not happy about that
(2) Elias: We need a wand of fireballs or meteor swarm...
(1) Hussar: Drop a few tons of textiles and pick up a couple of tons of alchemists fire.
(3) Grimnoor: or lightning bolts to snap masts
(2) Elias: ok, no idea what ach fire costs though
(2) Elias: nodz
(2) Elias: i figure meteor swar would eat up the sails
(1) Hussar: One moment please
(2) Elias: and catch fire to the deck
(2) Elias: I got 800 gold on my own atm
(2) Elias: I know i can't afford a wand for that...unless it's a lvl 1
(1) Hussar: Meteor Swarm can't be wanded but fireball can.
(2) Elias: that's 225 per shot?
(3) Grimnoor: again i ask if we should take up a colection
(1) Hussar: A 5th level wand of fireballs is 11250 gp
(2) Elias: *gasp*
(1) Hussar: Yes, that is correct, 225/shot
(2) Elias: damn...
(2) Elias: guess we sail without fire...
(1) Hussar: A large catapult shoots 2 shots / shot
(3) Grimnoor: could we not teleport a bomb into their hold...
(1) Hussar: You can go into debt. Haila was expecting you to borrow money.
(2) Elias: hrm, wand of fireball (50 charges, right?) Or buy a whole bunch of Alch fire
(3) Grimnoor: the wand would weigh less
(2) Elias: let's see what's [225 * 50] -> 11250
(2) Elias: true
(2) Elias: and less miss chance i think
(2) Elias: wow, they cost the same
(2) Elias: for 50 charge wand or 50 shots of Alch fire
(2) Elias: I vote wand
(3) Grimnoor: me2
(1) Hussar: Fireball has a range of 600 feet
(1) Hussar: The alch fire has a range of 2000 feet
(1) Hussar: Although you would never hit at that range
(1) Hussar: Note, vehicles do not get saving throws/.
(3) Grimnoor: if they get that close we will know its time to use the wand
(2) Elias: yeah
(1) Hussar: 600 feet would be six hexes on the battle map
(2) Elias: I think the wand would overall be more usefull
(3) Grimnoor: me2
(2) Elias: in out of ship combat also
(1) Hussar: prolly true.
(1) Hussar: So you are going to hit up Haila for 11250 gp?
(2) Elias: anything else we need to add to that Grim, Shadow?
(3) Grimnoor: i still say the church can go a week without a revivial
(2) Elias: don't want to ask him for money twice
(1) Hussar: Hrm? What's this about the church? Neuth Haila is the head of a trading house.
(3) Grimnoor: well the church runs the town so i figure theyre good and loaded
(2) Elias: He thinks the church should fund us
(1) Hussar: True. You could get a loan from the church, but, why would they loan money to you?
(3) Grimnoor: for all the times we almost got killed for their sorry asses
(2) Elias: or DID get killed...
(1) Hussar: The only time you worked for the church was when you saved the halfling.
(3) Grimnoor: or got KOed...
(1) Hussar: And that was in order to get transported to the ethereal plane.
(3) Grimnoor: oh, and the pirate cave and the pirate hideout were nothing eh?
(2) Elias: true...
(1) Hussar: That was done for Neuth Haila.
(1) Hussar: It had nothing to do with the church.
(3) Grimnoor: the town benefited
(2) Elias: Ok, let's hit him up for the money
(3) Grimnoor: brass knuckles or classic?
(8) Shadowdragon: face it getting money FROM a church is like getting blood from a turnip
(3) Grimnoor: tell Pat Robertson that
(1) Hussar: lol
(3) Grimnoor: or the Pope...
(3) Grimnoor: but i think my point has been made and duely noted
(8) Shadowdragon: they don't get money FROM the church, they are the church
(3) Grimnoor: are you suggesting we start our own church ?
(1) Hussar: Okay, heading off this particular branch of discussion.
(1) Hussar: : )
(8) Shadowdragon: ALL HAIL GRIMMNOR
(8) Shadowdragon:
(1) Hussar: You want to go to Haila?
(2) Elias: yes
(3) Grimnoor: Can I ghear a BOO YEAH from the congregation?
(3) Grimnoor: Hailia it is
(3) Grimnoor: AH! its Pat Robertsons ghost... oh wait
(1) Hussar: Haila greets you warmly.
(1) Hussar: Welcome friends. A new year is upon us. Are you ready to sail yet?
(3) Grimnoor: Greeting Captain Hailia
(2) Elias: We are almost ready sir, just need to finish outfitting our ship, that is why we have come to you
(3) Grimnoor: ooc remember that poker money you owe us?
(8) Shadowdragon: ooc and don't forget christmas bonuses
(2) Elias: You had mentioned that we might be able to obtain a loan from you to aide us in refitting the ship
(1) Hussar: I was expecting you. I must admit, you have been very resourceful in outfitting your ship. What is it called, the name has escaped me.
(3) Grimnoor: The Tally-Wacker
(2) Elias: (lol, OK)
** (2) Elias looks at Grimnoor surprised **

[Hussar]

Transcript for Week of October 15

(1) CosmicHorror: that our ship?
(2) Hussar: Yup
(1) CosmicHorror: cool
(2) Hussar: A large Carrack.
(2) Hussar: Did I send you the Broadsides Node?
(1) CosmicHorror: the Tallywacker, nice name
(1) CosmicHorror: yup
(1) CosmicHorror: a question about it
(1) CosmicHorror: the captaining feat, what are the skills it refers to by naval skills?
(2) Hussar: Just a sec.
(2) Hussar: BTW, you might want to change your alias to your character name and change your idle status to show your AC and HP
(1) CosmicHorror: k
(2) Hussar: Captaining gives you +2 to Profession (Sailor, Pilot and Navigator)
(1) Endil: k
(1) Endil: there's my skills to in a seperate txt block
(1) Endil: gotta roll for HP
(2) Hussar: I'm using the Broadsides rules for ship combat.
(2) Hussar: You are leaving the Blood Sea, so the water is still pretty pink.
(2) Hussar: The party had just had a slight problem with one of the crewmen
(2) Hussar: He had tried to chuck a water barrel over the side during the night.
(2) Hussar: Claimed that the party cleric was poisoning the water. (Party cleric serves Corean, god of Law and patron diety of the City of Mithril.
(2) Hussar: They detected enchantment magic on the sailor but could not find the source.
(2) Hussar: The next day, the magic had worn off, so they sent the sailor back to his duties.
(1) Endil: looking through the tallywacker's log, what is the sails hp?
(2) Hussar: It's listed under masts and sails near the bottom of the ship list.
(1) Endil: k
(2) Hussar: They have taken slight hull damage which the priest repaired with make whole spells.
(1) Endil: cool
(2) Hussar: Oh, your current xp will be midpoint of 4th level.
(1) Endil: k
(2) Hussar: And you should fill in your characters general info.
(3) Grimnoor (enter): 09:01
(3) Grimnoor: ahoy
(2) Hussar: Hey Grimmy.
(1) Endil: hello
(2) Hussar: Sorry about last week. Man was I sick.
(3) Grimnoor: be sure to cook the fish before you eat it from noe on ; )
(2) Hussar: lol
(4) aaronp (enter): 09:05
(3) Grimnoor: nihao
(2) Hussar: Wahoo, the crew is coming together.
Attempting to assign the role of PLAYER to (4) aaronp...
(4) aaronp: good morning
(2) Hussar: ohayo.
(1) Endil: where are you? geographicly
(1) Endil: cause it's 9:00 PM here
(4) aaronp: Tokyo. Nice to meet you.
(2) Hussar: Kitakyushu Japan.
(3) Grimnoor: great... theyre double teaming us
(1) Endil: i'm in nova scotia
(3) Grimnoor: well im in Nova Erin
(1) Endil: ?
(2) Hussar: Aaron, you may want to change your alias to your character name and your idle status to show your ac and hp.
(4) aaronp: got it
(4) aaronp: just a sec
(4) aaronp: [4d4] -> [4,4,2,2] = (12)
(3) Grimnoor: nova scotia = new scotland
(1) Endil: yes
(3) Grimnoor: erin = Ireland
(2) Hussar: Not bad for hp.
(1) Endil: ok
(1) Endil: where is that?
(2) Hussar: 12
(4) aaronp: couldnt ask for more
(1) Endil: a question about speeds... is the speed value the number of hexes it can move in a round?
(2) Hussar: What is it with this party? No one has any bloody hp.
(2) Hussar: Yes
(3) Grimnoor: It's a devoloping nation i just founded here in the US
(1) Endil: ok
(2) Hussar: lol Grim.
(1) Endil: a nation inside a nation
(2) Hussar: I thought the US was a developing nation.
(3) Grimnoor: what? they have a new scotland, a new england, even a new orleans
(3) Grimnoor: we own your country
(1) Endil: ya but nova scotia is a province in canada
(2) Hussar: Yeah, but the Irish don't like anything new. : )
(3) Grimnoor: *braces for impact
(2) Hussar: lol
(3) Grimnoor: we like new whiskey
(1) Endil: and old right?
(2) Hussar: You like any whiskey
(1) Endil: old is better isn't it?
(3) Grimnoor: see, racism holds no sway in our hearts at the alcohol of different lands
(2) Hussar: lol
(1) Endil: and what's the accel/decel: 1/3? is that it can accel or decel at 1/3 of 7?
(2) Hussar: Me mother was orange, me father was green
(3) Grimnoor: twas the biggest mixup that you had ever seen...
(2) Hussar: The Accel/Decel is the number of hexes per turn. 1/3 means you can speed up by 1 hex and slow down by 3
(1) Endil: ok
(2) Hussar: Just waiting for one more player.
(1) Endil: so from stop, can go one hex round 1, 2 the second at a max of 7?
(2) Hussar: It's unusual for Elias to be late.
(2) Hussar: Yup. Depending on winds of course.
(3) Grimnoor: oh he's a bit tied up at the moment... hehehehe
(1) Endil: k
(2) Hussar: Errm?
(1) Endil: and the max at >120 and max at 60 is that fo wind speed?
(2) Hussar: That's the number of degrees off the wind.
(1) Endil: ok
(2) Hussar: If you are sailing directly into the wind, you are at 0
(2) Hussar: Directly away is 180
(1) Endil: unless oared
(1) Endil: k
(4) Turjan (whispering): I did... Im not sure why its not showing
(1) Endil: and what does the seaworthyness?
(2) Hussar: True. Oared ships are rarely open ocean vessels though
(1) Endil: do
(2) Hussar: There it goes, I see it now.
(4) Turjan: there it goes
(1) Endil: viking longboats
(2) Hussar: No oars on the ocean going ones.
(1) Endil: no
(2) Hussar: Longboats have oars, Longships don't
(3) Grimnoor: roman triremes
(2) Hussar: I think
(1) Endil: and the seaworthyness? what does that apply to?
(2) Hussar: Not an open ocean vessel.
(2) Hussar: Storms, ramming things like that.
(3) Grimnoor: well, mediteranean
(2) Hussar: Yeah.
(1) Endil: does the seaworthnyess apply to pilot skills?
(2) Hussar: Yes.
(4) Turjan: the Tallywacker, huh?
(1) Endil: Profesion(Navigate) Skill Check: [1d20+11] -> [13,11] = (24)
** (1) Endil found the F10 macro key **
(1) Endil: Profesion(Pilot) Skill Check: [1d20+13] -> [14,13] = (27)
(1) Endil: there we go
(2) Hussar: Grimnoor, the naming of the ship was your baby, Can you explain the source of the name of your ship?
(1) Endil: so on this ship my pilot bonus is +18?
(2) Hussar: Yup.
(1) Endil: k
(2) Hussar: For certain things.
(3) Grimnoor: hehehehehe...
(1) Endil: i'll leave it as is for now and add the +5 for those certain things
(2) Hussar: Good.
(2) Hussar: In the interests of time and sanity, Endil is your Helmsman and Turjan is your backup helmsman and backup navigator.
(4) Turjan: sorry macros test
(2) Hussar: np
(2) Hussar: XO Grimnoor, you wanna tell the newbies what they have signed on for?
(1) Endil: back
(3) Grimnoor: yeah, we needed a couple of good deckswabs to join us on a epic voyage to an island that holds certain doom
(1) Endil: we get hazard pay?
(4) Turjan: nice
(3) Grimnoor: only if you loose a limb
(1) Endil: ok
(1) Endil: what's this speed node?
(4) Turjan: whats the makeup of the party? Im a wiz, generalist without alot of combat related spells
(1) Endil: Rogue
(1) Endil: with rogue abilities
(3) Grimnoor: Monk, Cleric, Bard, I forget what shadow is
(2) Hussar: Currently there is a half orc Monk, a Human Bard, a Human Cleric, an elven rogue and a human wizzie.
(3) Grimnoor: ya
(2) Hussar: oh and a rog/sorc
(4) Turjan: Grimnoor must be the ho monk
(4) Turjan: Endil is the bard?
(1) Endil: i'm the rogue
(4) Turjan: sorry rouge
(1) Endil: that's why i am the only one with pointed ears
(1) Endil: being the only elf
(2) Hussar: To flesh out Grimnoor's lyrical introduction, you have been hired by the Free Company, The Fists of the Dragon, to undertake a journey of exploration.
(1) Endil: and there being no shorites
(2) Hussar: They have found an old map to a lost island.
(1) Endil: who's the navigator?
(2) Hussar: You.
(2) Hussar: oops, sorry, Turjan.
(1) Endil: i thought i was the pilot
(1) Endil: ok
(1) Endil: helmsman
(2) Hussar: oops, sorry, The bard, Elias, who is also your captain has been navigating.
(2) Hussar: Turjan was hired as a back up navigator.
(1) Endil: ok
(4) Turjan: got it
(2) Hussar: As officers, you are all entitled to 4 shares of profits. The rest of the crew is good for 1 share each.
(2) Hussar: Note, you have not been hired to go wandering through the bush.
(1) Endil: and i take it Turjan will be the ship mage when not anything else
(2) Hussar: So you may wish to perform some additional negotiations if it comes to that.
(3) Grimnoor: but you will prolly wind up doing that anyway
(2) Hussar: Well, your captain seems to be feeling a little unwell, so has taken to bed.
(2) Hussar: Turjan is navigating at the moment.
(1) Endil: seasickness
(1) Endil: ok
(2) Hussar: Grim, don't make me hit you with the flaming booger of god.
** (3) Grimnoor snickers **
(4) Turjan: ha
(2) Hussar: When last we left, you were questioning one of the crew.
(4) Turjan: q ing about what?
(2) Hussar: Grim?
(1) Endil: it seems that all DMs have their own form of punishment, my Deadlands marshell uses PLBs (Purple Lightning Bolts), a friend uses VaUPs or Vauge and Unspecified Penalties
(3) Grimnoor: oh yes, the guy who was with mr. waterbarrel is evil
(2) Hussar: Well, you don't know that actually.
(1) Endil: and that's one ugly guy
(2) Hussar: Perhaps you should explain what happened.
(2) Hussar: {brb, need a coffee}
(3) Grimnoor: some goofy sailor got caught tryin to throw our water supply over board
(3) Grimnoor: when we asked him why he said it was poisoned
(1) Endil: throwing water into water
(3) Grimnoor: actualy the sea we sail on is blood
(3) Grimnoor: but ill get to that later
(4) Turjan: really?
(3) Grimnoor: ya
(1) Endil: does it clot?
(1) Endil: i wouldn't think so
(1) Endil: if we sail on it
(3) Grimnoor: so anyway he claimed he saw our cleric poisoning the water... we questioned him a while
(3) Grimnoor: its evil blood from a god that was cast down in the days of yore
(3) Grimnoor: it turns those that drink it into monsters
(4) Turjan: whos are cleric a cleric of?
(1) Endil: vampires rejoyce
(3) Grimnoor: the iron gloem god of Mithril
(3) Grimnoor: er olem
(4) Turjan: ok
(1) Endil: do you mean Golem?
(3) Grimnoor: thats it
(1) Endil: and i think it was mithril
(3) Grimnoor: im just a monk
(1) Endil: monks have Know:Riligion as a class skill
(3) Grimnoor: they also have "break foot off in ass skill"... now do you want me to continue?

[Hussar]

(1) Endil: yes
(3) Grimnoor: k
(3) Grimnoor: so we ask arround and we find out that he thinks all water is poinon
(3) Grimnoor: er poison
(3) Grimnoor: so we take him down bellow and find out who was with him when he god is water phobia
(3) Grimnoor: so that pretty boy next to the boat was playin dice with him the night he went nuts or seo we think
(1) Endil: ah
(2) Hussar: back
(2) Hussar: That would be correct. And, by the way, it is a Mithril Golem. (Hard to miss a 150 foot humanoid statue made of solid mithril)
(1) Endil: is that guy a part of the crew
(2) Hussar: Yes.
(1) Endil: was questioned?
(3) Grimnoor: well not yet
(3) Grimnoor: Knuckles O'Malley
(2) Hussar: Whatcha want cap'n?
(3) Grimnoor: Have a seat knuckles
(2) Hussar: Knuckles sits.
(3) Grimnoor: would you like a cigar, candy?
** (2) Hussar Sure! **
(4) Turjan: Turjan mutters soemthing to Grimnoor
(1) Endil: i'm at the helm right?
(2) : It's nighttime, you are not moving.
(1) Endil: k
(3) Grimnoor: say strumpet you sailor *talking to Tujar*
** (2) The sea anchor is set. The night watch reports all well. **
(3) Grimnoor: lol who're
(2) : lol where.
(3) Grimnoor: er turjan
(4) Turjan: "Turjan, ships mage and assistant navigator"
(3) Grimnoor: ah, yes. Elias mustve signed you on
(3) Grimnoor: we were just about to promote knuckles here
(3) Grimnoor: so tell us a little about yourself Mr. O'Malley
(2) : Well, I's just a simple sailor sir. Whatcha wanna know?
(3) Grimnoor: where you were born, married life, that sort of thing
(2) : Knuckes - Well, I ain't married. Been plowing the ocean red for years now and never sunk the horse.
(3) Grimnoor: facinating
(3) Grimnoor: what was your last ship knuckles?
(2) : Knuckes - The Troubadour.
(3) Grimnoor: hmmmmm yes...
(1) Endil: do we know of that ship?
(3) Grimnoor: OOC have we heard of it?
** (2) Yes, you have heard of the ship. Cargo hauler between Vesh and Mithril. **
** (2) Regular ship. **
(3) Grimnoor: sounds like a prett steady job knuckles, why'd you want to leave that ship?
(2) : Knuckles - Well sir, it's a steady job true, but not too much money to be had. I thought I'd take a gamble on you and make a big score.
(2) : What's this all about, says Knuckles.
(3) Grimnoor: ah yes, now theres a brave lad, never afraid to take a gamble. You see, we are thinking of promoting you from your current position
(2) : Knuckles - Really?
(3) Grimnoor: certainly
(3) Grimnoor: youre more than qualified
(2) : Knuckles - To what sir?
(3) Grimnoor: are you much of a gambling man knuckles?
(2) : Knuckles - Well, sure. Everyone knows I gots a game going most nights. No harm in that sir.
(3) Grimnoor: you are always going for the big score arent you?
(2) : Knuckles - ...yes...
(3) Grimnoor: well hwe have just the job for you down in the hold
(2) : Knuckles - ...yes...
(3) Grimnoor: are you tired of your current position?
(1) Endil: ooc what is his current position
** (2) swabbie. Just a regular sailor. **
(1) Endil: k
(2) : Knuckles - Never thought 'bout doin' anything else...
(3) Grimnoor: my lad, theres a whole world of opportunities just beyond the horison
(3) Grimnoor: many would be happy with their meager lot in the world but you, you are destined for greater things, come let me show you your new station
** (2) He looks at you expectantly. He stands up and follows youl. **
(3) Grimnoor: I lead him down in the hold to the water barrels
(3) Grimnoor: my lad, you could perhapse have the most important job on the ship
** (2) He looks at you expectantly. **
(3) Grimnoor: are you ready for this?
** (2) He looks at you expectantly. **
(4) Turjan: Turjan follows down into the hold
(3) Grimnoor: all you have to do is watch theses barrels
(3) Grimnoor: thats all
(3) Grimnoor: no back breaking labor, no hours in the sun
(2) : Knuckles - okay sir. But don't they need me up top? Sailing?
(3) Grimnoor: no, my boy, we have more than ebnough for that
** (2) Knuckles sits down. **
(3) Grimnoor: you, you will ensure this vessels continued success
(3) Grimnoor: an extra gold piece shall be added to you pay from now on as well
(2) : Knuckles - Thanks sir.
(3) Grimnoor: no need to thank me
(3) Grimnoor: you jjust stay here and watch these barrels
(3) Grimnoor: come everyone, lets leave o'malley tho his work
** (2) You head back to the deck. **
(1) Endil (whispering): i'm gonna change point blank shot to dodge on my character ok?
(4) Turjan: ok
whispering to Endil, sure
(3) Grimnoor: as soon as we do i take mylo
(4) Turjan: Can we trust him" to Grimnoor
(3) Grimnoor: come halfing, theres work for you
(2) : Mylo follows along.
(1) Endil: ooc: who is mylo?
(3) Grimnoor: can you sneak down into the hold without drawing knuckle's attention
** (2) Note, there is a halfling sidekick floating around. He was a PC, but his player has been AWOL for a long time. **
(1) Endil: k
(2) : Mylo, sure, but wouldn't Endil be better at it?
(3) Grimnoor: endil?
(3) Grimnoor: who is this endil you speak of?
(2) : Your Helmsman?
(3) Grimnoor: oah yes
(4) Turjan: "Sir, Endil is yonder Elven helmsman"
** (2) ooc, the person I wanted Mylo to freakishly morph into? **
(1) Endil: i don't think i would be better then a halfing at sneaking, i have a +4 to both with no ranks
(4) Turjan: +4?
(1) Endil: from my dex
(2) : Oh, ok. Mylo is much better.
(3) Grimnoor: mylo, i'm vcounting on you, can you sneak down into the hold and remain unseen?
(4) Turjan: (joke, ooc)
(2) : Mylo - Sure, no problem.
(3) Grimnoor: then go, and keep an eye on him
** (2) Mylo slips quietly into the darkness. **
(2) : It is now about 11 pm.
** (3) Grimnoor looks at the two new crewmen **
(3) Grimnoor: you have been quiet thus far
(3) Grimnoor: tell me of yourselves
** (4) Turjan counts the crewman **
whispering to Endil, Lots. The elven race is dying. In order to keep itself alive, it has taken to kidnapping human females for breeders. This has made them somewhat unpopular with humans.
whispering to Endil, The Elven race comes from another continent called Termana.
(3) Grimnoor: contemplative I see... come now, dont be shy
** (3) Grimnoor snickers **
(1) Endil: ooc i havn't had much time to figure my background, and i'm not quite sure about elves in this setting but here goes
(4) Turjan: Come now men dont be shy!
(2) : Here is the areas surrounding Mithril.
(3) Grimnoor: oopse
(3) Grimnoor: sorry
(3) Grimnoor: didnt mean to move map
(1) Endil: I left The Bridged City about 20 some years ago, I traveled to Mithril and signed on to the first ship that would take me. After a while I left and was signed onto this ship as helmsman.
(3) Grimnoor: a likely tale
(1) Endil (whispering): is it a picture or what?
whispering to Endil, Message. You can open it later.
(1) Endil: k
** (2) While you are getting better aquainted with your new officers... **
(3) Grimnoor: have you heard of Farelir Irounbough?
(1) Endil: no
(4) Turjan: I felt my magical powers needed a break from the city of Mitrhtil, and decided to journey by ship to new locales
** (2) From the bows you hear the sound of fighting. This time a small crowd has gathered on the main deck. Two marines are squaring off with knives. One says, "I knows you been cheatin'. You bin cheatin' dis whole trip. I'm gonna gut ya, ya swine." **
(3) Grimnoor: another likely tale
(4) Turjan: lol
(3) Grimnoor: HEY! Break it up!
(3) Grimnoor: I run quickly to the fight
** (4) Turjan follows **
(3) Grimnoor: I force my way through the crowd to the fighters
** (1) Endil looks with some interest towards the fight and follows more slowly **
** (2) Two marines circle eachother with knives. **
(3) Grimnoor: I command you both to throw down your arms
(4) Turjan: to Grimnoor:"Should I use some magic to make these men more docile?"
(2) : One of the Marines - He's been cheatin' He's been cheatin' me this whole trip and I'm going to take it outta his hide.
(3) Grimnoor: I leap into the middle of them
(3) Grimnoor: Enough
** (4) Turjan I feel something odd here... **
** (4) Turjan wonders who is in the hold **
** (2) the two marines step back. Neither seems interested in harming the half orc. **
** (4) Turjan scans the other side of the boat for uusal activity **
** (2) make a spot check. **
(3) Grimnoor: both of you sheath you knives and return to your cabins

[Hussar]

(2) : Angry Marine - HE CHEATED ME!
(3) Grimnoor: I dont care if your wife cheated you, go
(4) Turjan: [4d20] -> [12,6,1,19] = (38)
(4) Turjan: sorry
(1) Endil: 4d20? 4 eyes?
(4) Turjan: [1d20] -> [4] = (4)
** (2) You see nothing in the darkness. **
(3) Grimnoor: do you see something?
(4) Turjan: No, nothing
(3) Grimnoor: i take a look
** (4) Turjan turns his attention back to the row created by the sailors **
** (1) Endil noticing Turjan's glance, looks back **
(2) : Spot checks for everyone.
(1) Endil: Spot Skill Check: [1d20+11] -> [11,11] = (22)
(1) Endil: this i am good at
(3) Grimnoor: [1d20 +2] -> [2,2] = (4)
(3) Grimnoor: doh
whispering to , hide check [1d20+15] -> [1,15] = (16)
(3) Grimnoor: but i see in darkness too
(1) Endil: i have low light vision
(2) : Endil, you spot something flutter above the ship.
(3) Grimnoor: Mothrah?
(1) Endil: Something's flying...
(3) Grimnoor: I look up
(1) Endil: ooc mothraha?
(2) : Guys, can you see any of the mini's I'm trying to load?
(1) Endil: not here
(3) Grimnoor: no
(3) Grimnoor: just dgreen squares
(3) Grimnoor: but theres something behind them
(3) Grimnoor: and a big guy
(1) Endil: see them
(3) Grimnoor: i see sailor 3
(2) : For some reason it is making my minis come up off the screen. I don't know why.
(1) Endil: change the map size
(1) Endil: and then use refresh minis
(2) : Using the default map
(4) Turjan: no music, couldnt be mothra
(1) Endil: what is mothra?
(4) Turjan: ooc: no minis
(3) Grimnoor: any of the sailors have little women in a seashell?
(1) Endil: ooc what is this mothra!?
(4) Turjan: occ: mothra is a giant moth that is friends of mankind-its from the godzilla movies.
(3) Grimnoor: lol
(3) Grimnoor: untill we blew it up Hahahahahaha'
(2) : Ok, having difficulties with minis.
(2) : Sorry.
(4) Turjan: ooc: its a good monster and often teams up with godzilla to defeat king ghidora. There are 2 30 inch tall beautiful polynesian girls that sing a secret song and call Mothra to help the people of earth
(1) Endil: change the map size
(3) Grimnoor: lol in the newer ones king ghidora is the good guy
(2) : Anyway, Endil, you spot a flying form winging over the ship.
(1) Endil: i point it out to the others
(2) : Spot checks please.
(3) Grimnoor: buy in the 70s they turned godzilla into a good guy for a while, now hes an evil nuklear monster agin.... kinda like the creature over our ship
** (4) Turjan looks to the sky **
(3) Grimnoor: [1d20 +2] -> [7,2] = (9)
(2) : Crew Spot Check [1d20+5] -> [12,5] = (17)
(4) Turjan: [1d20+3] -> [13,3] = (16)
(2) : Many from the crew claim they can see it too.
(2) : Turjan, you can see it.
(3) Grimnoor: keep in mind i have darkvision
(2) : Only to 60 feet.
(3) Grimnoor: k
(4) Turjan: Can I use dancing lights to clearly illuminate it? Whats the distance?
(2) : You think it's about 100 feet or so.
(2) : It is doing lazy circles above the crows nest.
(1) Endil: there's someone in there right?
(3) Grimnoor: May I climb up to the crows nest?
(1) Endil: i'm gonna try to use my mini
(2) : No. Not at night. There's nothing to see.
(4) Turjan: Elf, is it around 140 feet from us or further?
(1) Endil: that works
(2) : Go you with no problem. I can load from my tree.
(3) Grimnoor: ok i climb the crows nest
(2) : But I can't load from the web
(3) Grimnoor: let me see if i can load
(2) : Grim begins climbing up the crows nest.
(3) Grimnoor: yep
(3) Grimnoor: i can load just fine
(1) Endil: same here
(2) : As you approach the top, the flying creatures fades from sight.
(2) : Vanishing in a puff of mist.
(3) Grimnoor: what did they look like?
(2) : oops, sorry, creature.
(4) Turjan: the water..
(2) : It looked like
** (4) Turjan turns to Elendil **
(1) Endil: Endil
(4) Turjan: Imgoing to check the hold quickly
** (4) Turjan Turjan heads to the hold **
(1) Endil: i think Elendil is from LoTRs or something
(1) Endil: Alright
(4) Turjan: sorry
(3) Grimnoor: it is, the light of elendil, the star of the elves
(1) Endil: i think i have that cad
(1) Endil: *card
** (1) Endil walks over to the rigging, "See anything." He calls up to Gimnoor **
(1) Endil: big bug
(3) Grimnoor: This!
(2) : It looked humanoid.
(4) Turjan: ooc: just a sec afk
(2) : In the dark, it was hard to tell.
(1) Endil: this was flying over the ship?
(2) : Humanoid and human sized is about all you could see.
(3) Grimnoor: did it have bat wings?
(3) Grimnoor: or was it more like that?
(1) Endil: brb
(1) Endil: back
(2) : Sorry, for some reason, it is making all my minis
(2) : appear with a negative x posistion
(2) : I don't know why.
(1) Endil: odd
(3) Grimnoor: hmmm...
(3) Grimnoor: you could send me to codes, my minis work just fine
(3) Grimnoor: i saw the evil faerie
(2) : Yeah, i managed to change the x pos withthe edit button
(1) Endil: could send someone else the URL and they could put it in
(3) Grimnoor: ya
(4) Turjan: back again
(2) : www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid83/p836b18fa3b22844fb70e4283f83e086d/fae34e8f.jpg.orig.jpg
(1) Endil: another thing i hate about openrpg is you can't copy and paste from the chat window
(3) Grimnoor: its mumbly joe again
(2) : As soon as I change the x pos with the edit button
(2) : I get the mini back.
(2) : Hmm, I dunno.
(2) : Well, roll with it. Let's keep going.
(2) : The crew has separated the two fighting marines.
(3) Grimnoor: while i'm up in the crows nest I look around for a bit
** (2) Several of the crew are muttering about evil spirits and curses. **
** (2) You see nothing. **
(3) Grimnoor: after a moment I climb back down
(1) Endil: When he comes down, i climb up
(4) Turjan: anything happening in the hold
(2) : Knuckles - Nothing going on down here sir.
(4) Turjan: Thank you knuckles
** (4) Turjan heads back to the deck **
(3) Grimnoor: anything in the water?
(3) Grimnoor: besides blood
(2) : Nothing that you notice.
** (2) The crew appears to be very shaken. **
(3) Grimnoor: men I believe whatever was flying over us is trying to kill us all
(3) Grimnoor: possibly a vampire...
(1) Endil: ooc ya nothing boosts moral than saying that we might all die
(4) Turjan: Tell them your wizard has cast a spell upon it and forced it to flee, so we may be safe
(2) : ooc, lol
(4) Turjan: on your orders of course
(3) Grimnoor: when the beast shows itself once more we will kill it
(4) Turjan: tell them i have put a protective field around the ship-he whsipers to Grimnorr(On your orders)
** (2) the men mutter about how can you kill something that can vanish like the mist **
(3) Grimnoor: *whispering back* I cannot lie to them
(4) Turjan: Ok, if you want I will put a protective spell around the ship
(3) Grimnoor: It fled, therefore it feels vulnerable
(4) Turjan: Could have been a scout
(2) : That is what you think you saw.
(4) Turjan: Whats that in the map screen
(3) Grimnoor: if it was capable of greater harm it would ahve atatcked
(2) : Make a diplomacy roll Grim.
(4) Turjan: Sir, in the realm of magic, a wizard will often summon a monster to scout, not attack.
(3) Grimnoor: [1d20] -> [3] = (3)
** Sorry, don't understand what a / is...
(1) Endil: nice diplomacy
** (2) The men are not visibly reassured by your words... **

[Hussar]

(4) Turjan: Perhaps a wizard or something magical seeks to stop us for some reason.
(1) Endil: i on the other hand have a +1
(3) Grimnoor: If you do not belive me, the perhaps you will listen to your captain
(2) : ooc, Your captain, who is unfortunately sick at the moment, has a much greater chance.
** (2) The men dispurse back to their bunks and duties. **
(1) Endil: seasick
(1) Endil: i stay in the crows nest
(1) Endil: till dawn
(1) Endil: or untill someone else takes over
** (2) The rest of the night passes uneventfully. **
(4) Turjan: I sleep and prep spells
(2) : Day 20
(3) Grimnoor: i tel knuckles (and therefore mylo) that they need not worry about the barrels durring the dayligh hours
** (2) The crew has been muttering louder and louder for the past two days. Tempers are strained and there is some talk that the island doesn't even exist. Three particularly outspoken crewmen have been complaining bitterly almost non-stop that you are on a fools errand. **
(3) Grimnoor: what 3 crewmen?
(2) : Crewmen Able, Tellen and Shadan
(4) Turjan: Should we send them to Davey Jone's locker?
(3) Grimnoor: bno
(3) Grimnoor: er no
(3) Grimnoor: I call them up to speak their minds
(1) Endil: singing: "what do you do with a drunken sailor?"
(3) Grimnoor: there will be no belly shaving
(1) Endil: Crewman Able wants YOU!
(1) Endil: recruting poster
(2) : Able - The Captain is cursed I say. He's been abed for three days now. We're on a fool's errand.
(3) Grimnoor: is this your scientific opinion?
(1) Endil: ooc now i'm at the helm right?
(2) : We ain't seen land for 3 weeks Titan'sspawn.
(2) : yes
(3) Grimnoor: we are sailing the blood sea, did you expect a pleasure cruise?
(2) : Maybe you want to feed us all to the Titan Kadum whose blood stains the water.
(3) Grimnoor: maybe that wouldnt be such a bad idea if you don't speak more rationaly
(3) Grimnoor: spit it out crewman, whatre you trying to say
(2) : Tellan - That there spirit is the proof.
(2) : Tellan - I say that the Titanspawn Grimnoor is in league with that there spirit.
** (3) Grimnoor stands up quickly **
(3) Grimnoor: would you care to say that infront of the crew?
(1) Endil: ooc what spirit are they talking about? the flying thing?
(3) Grimnoor: ooc ya
(2) : Been sayin it for two days now, Don't see why not.
(3) Grimnoor: outside, on the deack, NOW
(2) : They go out on the deck.
(3) Grimnoor: Give this man a knife
whispering to Grimnoor, Kelly whispers to you, both men have been enchanted.
(3) Grimnoor: this is not a matter of rank
** (3) Grimnoor nods to kelly **
(3) Grimnoor (whispering): can you disenchant them?
whispering to Grimnoor, I can try.
** (3) Grimnoor removes all his weapons **
(2) : Kelly Attempts to Dispel Magic [1d20+5] -> [19,5] = (24)
(3) Grimnoor (whispering): do so just before we fight
(1) Endil: ooc he's a monk!
(3) Grimnoor (whispering): or not
** (2) Tellan suddenly staggers. **
(3) Grimnoor: what's wrong crew man, do you have something to say?
** (2) Able is still loudly proclaiming that the ship is cursed. **
(2) : Tellan - What the hairy hell am I doing here?
(3) Grimnoor: What's that Tellan?
(4) Turjan: Something is amiss
** (2) Tellen looks around confused. **
(1) Endil: don'tch hate enchantments?
(1) Endil: ooc
(3) Grimnoor: this wasnt the tune you were singing back in the cabin
(4) Turjan: I think we better tie up Able and the other-for their own saftey.
(2) : Faceless Crewman - Grimnoor, What's going on?
(3) Grimnoor: ask telan
(2) : Tellan - I dunno. One minute I was sure that Grimnoor was going to kill us all, now, I don't know why I thought that.
(2) : Able - WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!
(1) Endil: ooc any seabirds?
(2) : Spot checks please
(3) Grimnoor: [1d20 +2] -> [5,2] = (7)
(1) Endil: Spot Skill Check: [1d20+11] -> [5,11] = (16)
(3) Grimnoor: im havin the best luck tonite
(4) Turjan: [1d20+3] -> [3,3] = (6)
whispering to , Hide [1d20+10] -> [15,10] = (25)
(1) Endil: i got a 5 too
(2) : You see nothing unusual.
(1) Endil: k
(3) Grimnoor: does kelly spy anything?
(1) Endil: so there are seabirds?
** (2) Kelly Spot Check [1d20] -> [8] = (8) **
(2) : No, no seabirds. From the charts, you are still several days from land.
(1) Endil: k
(2) : You would guess, about 10
(3) Grimnoor: Abel, are you alreight?
(2) : Able - WE ARE DOOMED!
(4) Turjan: Shut him up, Grimno
(2) : Able - The spirits of the sea are going to rise up and eat out welchets.
(3) Grimnoor: First Kelly is going to poison us, now I am going to kill us, whats next? Mylo eats babies?
** (2) ooc Well, he is a halfling... **
(1) Endil: ooc he's about the size of a big baby
(3) Grimnoor: MMarines, restrain this man!
(2) : Three burly marines step forward and seize Able.
(2) : Able - Help! Help! I'm being oppressed! Timely demise to the forces of authority!
(2) : ooc, you can retry on spot checks btw.
(4) Turjan: Pomell him on the back of the head.
(3) Grimnoor: [1d20 +2] -> [15,2] = (17)
(1) Endil: ooc sounds like something from holy grail
(2) : The three burly marines pummel Able.
(1) Endil: Spot Skill Check: [1d20+11] -> [1,11] = (12)
(1) Endil: sigh
(3) Grimnoor: power inherent in the system! help help, i'm being repressed
(4) Turjan: wow
(4) Turjan: [1d20+3] -> [12,3] = (15)
(3) Grimnoor: do we see anything?
(1) Endil: you might
** (2) You spot nothing. Some of you have trouble finding your own bottoms. **
(2) : The marines take Able down below.
(3) Grimnoor: kelly?
(2) : Kelly SPot [1d20] -> [10] = (10)
(2) : nothing.
(4) Turjan: to grimnoor "What should we do?"
(4) Turjan: Question Tellan or Able?
(3) Grimnoor: Tellan, come along, i need to know the last thing you remember before you thought I was the titan reborn
** (2) The crew is very disturbed by all of this and don't seem to know what is going on. They appear very frightened. **
(3) Grimnoor: men, I cannot lie to you, there is an enchanting being that lurks this ship
(4) Turjan: A woman? Argghh(pirates arrghh)
** (2) The crew is VERY alarmed by this. Several call out that you should turn back. **
(3) Grimnoor: we are roughly 1 week from land, turning back now would spell our demise
** Sorry, don't understand what a / is...
(4) Turjan: Lets keep the crew occupied. Order them to start doing something, Grimnoor
** (2) Suddenly, there is demonic laughter from above you... **
** (3) Grimnoor looks up **
** (4) Turjan looks up **
(2) : Will saves please (Fear effect)
(1) Endil: demonic laughter is not good
** (1) Endil looks up **
(1) Endil: Will save: [1d20+3] -> [16,3] = (19)
(1) Endil: meh
(3) Grimnoor: [1d20 +6] -> [10,6] = (16)
(4) Turjan: [1d20+4] -> [12,4] = (16)
(4) Turjan: [1d20+4] -> [19,4] = (23)
(2) : no problems. However..
(1) Endil: if enchantment, i got 21
(1) Endil: but no
(1) Endil: the crew...
(3) Grimnoor: 18 for me
** (2) Several of the crew are stricken in fear. They are paralyzed by it. The laughter washes through you leaving you shaken but unaffected. **
(2) : Initiatives please.
(1) Endil: [1d20+4] -> [3,4] = (7)
(3) Grimnoor: [1d20 +7] -> [17,7] = (24)
(1) Endil: gha
(1) Endil: i'm gonna use my dice ok?
(4) Turjan: [1d20+1] -> [13,1] = (14)
(2) : Kelly Init [1d20+7] -> [15,7] = (22)
(2) : oops, that's mylo
(2) : It [1d20+5] -> [1,5] = (6)
(1) Endil: at least worse then me
(2) : Grim, you are the first to react.
(2) : It is currently about 40 feet above you.
(1) Endil: what's it look like?
(3) Grimnoor: i shout "Blast it from the sky!" as i take a shot for effect with my crossbow
(2) : Can't you see the picture?
(3) Grimnoor: the sheet man
(2) : Fire away..
(1) Endil: well, does it look like something we know of?
(3) Grimnoor: [1d20 +10] -> [18,10] = (28)
(2) : Not really. It looks like a man made of clouds.
(1) Endil: k
** (2) HIT! **
(3) Grimnoor: roll damag or does it pass through?
(2) : It hits something
(2) : yes, roll for damage.
(3) Grimnoor: [1d8] -> [1] = (1)
(3) Grimnoor: lol
(1) Endil: ha
** (2) the bolt seems to have no effect. **
** (4) Turjan readies his crossbow to fire **
(2) : Casts magic weapon on a box of bolts.
(2) : Kelly casts magic weapon on a box of bolts and hands some to everyone.
(1) Endil: ooc do i have to keep a hold of the wheel?
(2) : No, you can let go.
(1) Endil: k
(2) : Turjan, you may shoot.
(4) Turjan: i shoot
(2) : Or cast...
** (2) fire away **
(4) Turjan: [1d20+1] -> [11,1] = (12)
** (2) swish, the bolt sails through the air. **
** (4) Turjan turns to GRimnoor **
(2) : Endil...
(1) Endil: ready my shortbow and shoot
(1) Endil: Shortbow (base): [1d20+8] -> [18,8] = (26) ===> Damage: [1d6+0] -> [2,0] = (2)
(2) : The arrow hits, but no effect.
(4) Turjan: I have Krooshells excellent imprisonment spell-should I use it?
** (3) Grimnoor takes some enchanted bolts **
(2) : What the hell is that?
(4) Turjan: WEb
(4) Turjan: just a little color-sorry
** (2) The creature hangs in the air and laughs at you. **
(2) : Grimnoor.
(3) Grimnoor: i fire a magic bolt at it
whispering to Turjan, cool, just surprised me is all
(3) Grimnoor: [1d20 +10] -> [12,10] = (22)
(1) Endil: how far is it from the rigging?

[Hussar]

** Sorry, don't understand what a / is...
** (2) Hit! **
(4) Turjan: sorry web wont work
(3) Grimnoor: [1d8] -> [1] = (1)
(3) Grimnoor: lol not sure of the magic enchantment
(2) : +1
(3) Grimnoor: k
(2) : The bolt strikes the creature and hurts it slightly
(3) Grimnoor: "It can be slain!"
(2) : Kelly - shoots a crossbow bolt [1d20+3] -> [12,3] = (15)
** (2) The bolt swishes through the air, barely missing. **
(2) : Turjan
(1) Endil: how far is it from the rigging?
** (4) Turjan picks up cbow readies another bolt **
(2) : About 20 feet
(1) Endil: k
(4) Turjan: No spell of mine will help us now!
(1) Endil: magic missile?
(3) Grimnoor: Kely, try to turn the ting!
(4) Turjan: dont have it-Im a diviner
(3) Grimnoor: er thing
(2) : Already gone this round. Will try next round.
(3) Grimnoor: k
(1) Endil: i thought you said you where a generalist?
(2) : Turjan, your turn.
** (4) Turjan readies his crossbow to fire **
(4) Turjan: fire
(4) Turjan: [1d20+1] -> [4,1] = (5)
** (2) missing pitifully. **
(2) : Endil...
(1) Endil: Shortbow (base): [1d20+8] -> [14,8] = (22) ===> Damage: [1d6+0] -> [1,0] = (1)
(1) Endil: gha
** (2) Hits, but no effect. **
(3) Grimnoor: sare you ammo
(3) Grimnoor: er spare
(2) : [1d3] -> [1] = (1)
(1) Endil: i gotta get my bow enchanted
(2) : Turjan, make a will save please, enchantment.
(4) Turjan: [1d20+7] -> [18,7] = (25)
(1) Endil: that works
** (2) The wind creature says, "You are feeling very hot, a nice swim would feel so good wouldn't it?" but you shake off the compulsion. **
(2) : Grimnoor.
(1) Endil: sugestion
(4) Turjan: at least level 6-
(2) : hrm? Why do you say that?
(1) Endil: just a bit of metagaming
(3) Grimnoor: could we enchant the ammunition and turn a balista on it?
(2) : The balista's don't face upward.
(3) Grimnoor: could we tilit it upwards?
(4) Turjan: is it close enough to two solid things? within 20 feet?
(2) : ooc btw Suggestion is a level 3 arcane spell meaning minimum 5th caster level. Or it could be a supernatural power like a harpy.
(1) Endil: need quite a bit of strength to do that
(2) : Yes, The masts.
(4) Turjan: what spellsvdoes kelly have?
** (4) Turjan readies the spell **
(2) : Nothing offensive. Divine caster.
(1) Endil: i take it kelly is the cleric
(2) : Right now, mostly create spells (Food and water, water, purify water etc plus make whole spells)
(4) Turjan: web, between the masts-its the only thing ive got? what you think?
(2) : Grimnoor, you are up.
(2) : What are you doing?
(3) Grimnoor: if we can't tilt a balista upards could we enchant a sail and drop it on it?
(1) Endil: how could we do that?
(2) : Well, you'd have to hack appart all the rigging from the sail which would take quite a while.
(3) Grimnoor: how long?
(2) : too long
(3) Grimnoor: lol
(1) Endil: and it would ruin a sail
(3) Grimnoor: fine... does this ship have any nets laying arround?
(3) Grimnoor: we can repair sails
(2) : Yes, I'd say so.
(3) Grimnoor: we can only die once
(1) Endil: resurect
(3) Grimnoor: ok, can i get the net blessed or enchanted?
(2) : (No clerics around for weeks)
(2) : Sure, Kelly can bless the net.
(2) : You'd have to hold your action until after he goes, but no problem.
(3) Grimnoor: then i grab him and prepair the net
(3) Grimnoor: kk, shout "Keep it busy!
** (2) Kelly blesses the net. **
(2) : Fire away Grim.
(2) : 10 seconds on the shot clock.
(3) Grimnoor: i gather up the net, I take kelly with me and I climb the riggin over the creature
(2) : Turjan, your turn.
(4) Turjan: taking cover
(2) : Endil, your turn.
(1) Endil: what the hey:
(1) Endil: Shortbow (base): [1d20+8] -> [2,8] = (10) ===> Damage: [1d6+0] -> [3,0] = (3)
(1) Endil: bah
(2) : Misses
(2) : Grimnoor, Will save please.
(3) Grimnoor: [1d20 +8] -> [7,8] = (15)
** (1) Endil : "how are we supposed to keep it busy?" **
** Sorry, don't understand what a / is...
** (3) Grimnoor keep attacking it **
** (2) YOu feel drowsy for the moment then shake off the compulsion. **
(2) : Grimnoor, you're up.
(2) : You can throw the net.
(3) Grimnoor: I hand one end of the net to kelly
(3) Grimnoor: to gether we toss it over the creature
(2) : Make an attack - no bonuses
(2) : Touch attack.
(3) Grimnoor: [1d20] -> [1] = (1)
(1) Endil: do you have a trailing rope?
(3) Grimnoor: DOH!
(4) Turjan: ouch
** Sorry, don't understand what a / is...
** (2) the net tangles in your hands and drops to the deck. **
** (2) the creature giggles. **
(3) Grimnoor: may i jump after it?
(2) : It would be a 40 foot drop.
(3) Grimnoor: i can tumble
(3) Grimnoor: and i have slowfall
(1) Endil: no walls i think
(3) Grimnoor: theres a mast
(2) : Sail rider
(2) : Lots of ropes n stuff to slow you down. Can you slow fall 40 some feet?
(1) Endil: or tumble the rest away
(3) Grimnoor: 30 feet, then its a 10 foot drop to tumble
(1) Endil: and jumping down eleminates 10 ft of fall damage
(1) Endil: i'm pretty sure
(2) : Yup.
(2) : No problem. Grimnoor slides down the sails after his net, leaving Kelly behind in the rigging.
(3) Grimnoor: i snatch it up again and start back up to him when i can
(2) : Kelly attempts to turn the creature
** (2) YOU SHALL NOT PASS [1d20+5] -> [11,5] = (16) **
(1) Endil: if it's undead
** (2) the creature giggles again. **
(2) : Turjan, what are you doing?
** (4) Turjan readies his crossbow to fire **
(2) : FIRE!
** (2) Fire please Turjan... **
(4) Turjan: [1d20+1] -> [15,1] = (16)
** Sorry, don't understand what a / is...
** (2) THUNK. The bolt bites deeply. **

[Hussar]

(1) Endil: maybe
(2) : These are magic bolts.
(2) : enchanted by Kelly.
(2) : Damage please
(4) Turjan: [1d6+1] -> [5,1] = (6)
(2) : d8 damage please.
(1) Endil: we've been having a lot of low rolls but that works
(4) Turjan: iight crossbow?
(2) : yup
(4) Turjan: [1d8+1] -> [8,1] = (9)
(4) Turjan: even better
** (2) THUNK!!! The bolt bites deeply into the creature. **
(2) : Endil?
(1) Endil: Shortbow (base): [1d20+8] -> [3,8] = (11) ===> Damage: [1d6+0] -> [3,0] = (3)
(1) Endil: bah
** (2) the arrow sails out into the ocean. **
(1) Endil: did i hit a fish?
** (2) the crew is beginning to react. They are getting weapons. **
(4) Turjan: lol
** (2) The creature takes a deep breath and blows at Kelly in the rigging. A huge gust of air slams into Kelly. Reflex Save [1d20] -> [4] = (4) **
(1) Endil: weeeeee............... thump
(3) Grimnoor: KELLY!
** (2) the gust of wind rips Kelly from the rigging and he plunges to the deck [4d6] -> [1,4,1,6] = (12) damage. **
(2) : The creature also moves 80 feet straight up.
** (3) Grimnoor continues stubborny onwards **
(4) Turjan: to endil-help
(4) Turjan: grimnoor?
(1) Endil: how?
(2) : The creature is now 120 feet above the ship.
(4) Turjan: watching...
(1) Endil: that's out of one range inc
(3) Grimnoor: how high is the top mast?
(1) Endil: for me
(2) : Your mast is only 60 feet tall
(3) Grimnoor: damn
(2) : All shots with light xbow are at -2
(2) : Grimnoor, what do you do?
(1) Endil: Turjan, got a Gust of wind spell?
(4) Turjan: no, i dont
(1) Endil: :\
(2) : Grim, What do you do?
(3) Grimnoor: I dont suppose we coul launch a catapult at it?
(2) : no
(2) : It is straight up.
(3) Grimnoor: ok, i climb all the way to the crowsnest and fire at it
(1) Endil: unless you want to hit the ship
(2) Hussar: Ok, you will shoot next round
(3) Grimnoor: k
(2) Hussar: It is 60 feet to the top of the crows nest, you can climb 15 feet / round
(3) Grimnoor: k
(2) Hussar: so you can shoot in 4 rounds
(2) Hussar: Kelly, lies stunned on the deck
(2) Hussar: Turjan, what do you do?
(4) Turjan: endil, can you use my c-bow?
(4) Turjan: run to kelly
(1) Endil: i guess...
(4) Turjan: I Give my cbow and bolts to Endil, ready potion of healing for kelly
(2) Hussar: Ok, no problem. Endil, you may shoot.
(1) Endil: how far away are we, i was up by the wheel
(1) Endil: k
(1) Endil: whats the bonus on the shot?
(2) Hussar: -2
(2) Hussar: 1 range increment. Standard ranged attack.
(1) Endil: with the magic bolt?
(2) Hussar: +1
(2) Hussar: so -1
(1) Endil: with dex and bab that's net of +6
(4) Turjan: yikes
(1) Endil: [1d20+6] -> [18,6] = (24)
** (2) Hussar THUNK!! **
(4) Turjan: nice shot!
(1) Endil: [1d8+1] -> [1,1] = (2)
(1) Endil: nope
(4) Turjan: again
** (3) Grimnoor squints as the bolt wizzes by his head **
** (2) Hussar It continues to climb. It gains another 80 feet. **
(4) Turjan: i think its fleeing
(1) Endil: i think it's leaving
(1) Endil: jynx?
(2) Hussar: -4 to attacks now.
(2) Hussar: Grim keeps climbing.
(2) Hussar: Turjan?
(4) Turjan: am i at kelly yet?
(2) Hussar: Yes
(4) Turjan: How bad is the damage?
(2) Hussar: Not terribly serious.
(2) Hussar: He's just winded.
(1) Endil: 12 damage
(2) Hussar: He landed very well on some ropes
(4) Turjan: right, save the potion for later.
(2) Hussar: A crewman broke his fall : )
(1) Endil: ah, are there more magic bolts nearby
(2) Hussar: Yes, there are lots of magic bolts.
(1) Endil: k
(2) Hussar: Kelly shoots [1d20+2] -> [6,2] = (8)
(2) Hussar: missing.
(2) Hussar: Endil - Your shot
(1) Endil: [1d20+4] -> [13,4] = (17)
** (2) Hussar THUNK!! **
(1) Endil: [1d8+1] -> [7,1] = (8)
(1) Endil: yay! damage!
** Sorry, don't understand what a / is...
** (2) Hussar With a scream of rage, the creature begins to spiral out of the sky. **
(1) Endil: yay!
(3) Grimnoor: I stop and ready the net
(1) Endil: "Take that!"
(2) Hussar: Bobbing and weaving, it slams into the water about 30 feet from your ship.
(3) Grimnoor: May I toss the net over it?
(1) Endil: anybody good at swiming?
** (2) Hussar several marines bury crossbow bolts into it. **
(1) Endil: rather better then me?
(2) Hussar: not really actually.
(1) Endil: i got +9
(4) Turjan: Turjan is 10+1
(3) Grimnoor: I slide down the rigging then
** Sorry, don't understand what a / is...
** (2) Hussar As Grimnoor slides down to the deck, the creature disolves into foam and bubbles on the water. **
** (1) Endil scratches head **
** (4) Turjan breathes a sigh of relief and helps kelly to his feet **
(3) Grimnoor: *whispering to kelly* Is it dead?
(1) Endil: "here's your crossbow back"
** (2) Hussar the crew watches the creature disappear, and then begin to cheer! **
(4) Turjan: "thanks Endil"
** (2) Hussar Kelly says, damned if I know. **
(3) Grimnoor: It is Slain!
(3) Grimnoor: You have all dperformed admirably
(3) Grimnoor: when we get back to port there will be a buonus for you all
** (2) Hussar and there is much rejoicing among the crew. **
(3) Grimnoor: er bonus
(4) Turjan: Just a moment, im thinking
** (1) Endil walks back to the wheel **
(4) Turjan: Have I seen a monsterlike that in any arcane grimores and such before?
(3) Grimnoor: how is abel doing?
(2) Hussar: He is still raving.
(2) Hussar: Make a knowledge planes check.
(3) Grimnoor: I order him tied down untill tomarrow
(1) Endil: extraplanar huh?
(4) Turjan: [1d20+3] -> [15,3] = (18)
** (2) Hussar the rest of the crew seems happy with Grimnoor's idea. **
(2) Hussar: You think that this creature is an evil air elemental called a Wind Rider.
(1) Endil: i was thinking air elemental until it starteed casting spells and speaking common
(2) Hussar: It plagues ships and tortures crews.
(4) Turjan: Aerial Servant?
(1) Endil: not any more it doesn't!
(2) Hussar: Rare, but not unheard of.
(3) Grimnoor: this information will be recorded by my order
(4) Turjan: I think this evil being is called a "Wind rider" to G and E
(2) Hussar: They once performed for the pleasure of the Titan of Winds
(2) Hussar: But, after the Titanswar, when the Titans were killed or imprisoned, they were left to their own devices.
(4) Turjan: An evil, extrapalanr element of the air. Someone opposes us, and they have the ability to use these beings.
(2) Hussar: They are said to feed on fear.
(3) Grimnoor: if we face another one swe should sing
(4) Turjan: I also let G and E know everything i know..."They are yadah yada.."
(1) Endil: if the bard were here it might do something, but i don't see how singing will help
(2) Hussar: Make everyone feel better.
(3) Grimnoor: songs lift the spirits
(1) Endil: but still fearful
(4) Turjan: true, maybe it was drawing feer from the sailors
(4) Turjan: fear
(1) Endil: mass remove fear might work
(1) Endil: if there was a spell
(4) Turjan: Maybe we could teach them some war chant or something to weaken the creature.
(2) Hussar: Two days pass. You have left the Blood Sea behind. The water finally is blue instead of tainted red by the blood of the bleeding Titan Kadum who was imprisoned in the bottom of the Blood Sea by Corean and The Mithril Golem.
(3) Grimnoor: I order a net stowed in the crowsnets from now on al the same
(4) Turjan: Or some uplifitng song
(1) Endil: They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes ; It had been strange, even in a dream, To have seen those dead men rise.
(4) Turjan: ooc: like ghostbusters 2
(1) Endil: not really a song
(1) Endil: and not really uplifting
(2) Hussar: Ryme of the Ancient Mariner?
(1) Endil: yup
(4) Turjan (whispering): im making some changes to my memorized spells over the next two days
(3) Grimnoor: I order no one to shoot an albatross
(1) Endil: hehe
(1) Endil: one reason why i asked if there were seabirds
(2) Hussar: Albatross! Albatross! Get yer albatross here.
** (4) Turjan looks up from the currently half eating albatross shishkabob he was eating **
(2) Hussar: lol
(1) Endil: hey, gimmie some of that!
(2) Hussar: Day 30
(4) Turjan: "got it boss"
(2) Hussar: Your man in the crows nest calls out, "Land Ho!" Everyone gathers to the bow to see the island heave into view. From your position, you see that the island is surrounded by tall mountains and rocky cliffs. Sailing south, you begin looking for a suitable landing site.
(1) Endil: and reefs
(4) Turjan (whispering): add in see invisiblity, get rid of knock

[Hussar]

(3) Grimnoor: any mountains that lok like skulls?
(1) Endil: or volcanos
(3) Grimnoor: I say we use the map to find the beach
(1) Endil: what's white?
(2) Hussar: You realize that the scale on the map is 1 hex is 6 miles
(2) Hussar: This is a big island.
(1) Endil: big island
(2) Hussar: The white is uncharted.
(3) Grimnoor: didnt you say it was like the king kong movie, with the pininsula with the wall?
(1) Endil: i' gonna mark with the white board k?
(2) Hussar: Go ahead
(1) Endil: that area looks safe to land
(1) Endil: and the surounding islets
(3) Grimnoor: ya, get ready to unload the gifts for the natives
(4) Turjan: cant see it ENdil
(2) Hussar: From your letter, you would say that that is where the villages are.
(3) Grimnoor: and bring the ship arround so they get a good look at us
(2) Hussar: Scroll down.
(1) Endil: i take it the pink are reefs?
(2) Hussar: Yup
(1) Endil: how long would it tak to get to that area?
(2) Hussar: Draw a line to mark your route please helmsman.
(2) Hussar: You can go about 1 hex/hour at full sail.
(1) Endil: i'd like some feedback to certain areas from the rest of the crew:
(2) Hussar: Remember, you are still a long ways from shore.
(2) Hussar: 1=6 miles
(1) Endil: stop at that circle to look at the land
(1) Endil: that hex
(1) Endil: about 22 hexes
(1) Endil: almost a day
(2) Hussar: Sailing day is 10 hours. You don't sail at night.
(2) Hussar: Especially near land.
(1) Endil: stop at the most northern circle for the night
(1) Endil: 7 hours
(1) Endil: land at the small islet and wait for the next day
(1) Endil: any feedback?
(4) Turjan: sounds good
** (2) Hussar Crew morale is very high as you set out around the island. **
** (2) Hussar You spend the first night near the two smaller islands. Other than large hills, and forbidding cliffs, you see nothing. **
(3) Grimnoor: can we get a song going, possibly with Elias's ehelp?
** (2) Hussar Some of the sailors do catch some fresh fish though. Fresh meat is most welcome after weeks of hard tack. **
(1) Endil: eh? i'm an elf, not a bard
** (2) Hussar The sailors ask permission to break out the grog. **
(3) Grimnoor: I say half the crew can party, and they can party in shifts
** (2) Hussar Elias sings himself hoarse. **
(1) Endil: clear the lines?
(4) Turjan: We should wait until the ship has been resupplied for that
(1) Endil: oh, Elias
(1) Endil: not a bad spelling of Endil
** (4) Turjan goes down to the hold to check on knuckles **
(3) Grimnoor: didnt we untie him?
(2) Hussar: Knuckles has a good game of dice going.
(1) Endil: we have dingies right?
(3) Grimnoor: oh lol
(2) Hussar: He seems to be winning.
(3) Grimnoor: what of abel?
(2) Hussar: You have a longboat.
(1) Endil: who's he playing with?
(2) Hussar: Rotating crewmen.
(1) Endil: i want to take a look at the small islet we stopped at
(2) Hussar: Able has come back to his senses and has appologized to you.
(2) Hussar: It is getting dark, it might be a better idea to check it in the morning.
** (4) Turjan goes up top to where endil is **
(3) Grimnoor: the men who were under the effects of the spell are all pardoned
(1) Endil (whispering): a ring of sustanace lets the wearer sleep for 2 hours instead of 8, for an elf would you alow 1 hour of revere for 4?
(4) Turjan: Can I try to detect scrying?
(4) Turjan: thats quite a range for a spell-10 days
(1) Endil: nice
whispering to Endil, just a sec
(2) Hussar: Go ahead.
(1) Endil: that would last till we land and then some if we have no distractions
(4) Turjan: what should i use for the roll?
(1) Endil: isn't it scry?
whispering to Endil, sure
(4) Turjan: im also going to use a few detect magics around the ship to see if anything was planted.
(1) Endil (whispering): k
(2) Hussar: You have had 30 days to do this, so I'll say that you find nothing magical on the ship. Also, you have detected no scrying.
(1) Endil: what time is it?
(2) Hussar: After sunset.
(4) Turjan: got it
(2) Hussar: About 8 pm.
(3) Grimnoor: Do we have any sight of habbitation from the island?
(4) Turjan: fires or visible somke?
(1) Endil: this little island?
(4) Turjan: smoke
(4) Turjan: the big one.
(2) Hussar: You see no smoke.
(4) Turjan: distant sound of tiki drums?
(2) Hussar: Of course, all you see are mountains WAY in the distance from the main island. It is twenty miles away.
(2) Hussar: lol
(2) Hussar: Umm, guys, we're going to have to wrap things up for today.
(2) Hussar: This looks like a good place to stop.
(4) Turjan: arrggghhh

[Hussar]

Transcript for the week of October 23, 2003

Grimnoor: lol what'd he see?
Hussar: Ok, Endil you see something at the edge of your low light vision.
Hussar: It seems to be a very regular looking hump, some 15 feet across. It looks too smooth to be natural.
Endil: what does it look like or can i make it out?
Grimnoor: I look to where he is looking
Endil: ya, i point it out
Hussar: Stopping to look, you also listen.
Endil: listen checks?
Hussar: please
Endil: Listen Skill Check: [1d20+11] -> [12,11] =
Endil: still ok
Hussar: You hear a slight buzzing noise coming from the mound.
Endil: anything you've heard of?
Endil: to grimnoor
Endil: quietly
Hussar: Grimnoor has never heard this sound either.
Hussar: Sounds like a single, very large mosquito.
Grimnoor: Whispering* i have heard tales...
Grimnoor: *whispering* we should leave, they might be hostile to intruders...
Endil: *whispering* what is it?
Grimnoor: *whispering* no time to explain, or we may not leave this place for many years
Endil: ok
Endil: wispered
Grimnoor: *whispering* or we should declare ourselves if we want to make contact
Endil: *whispering* or that too
Grimnoor: can you detect magic?
Grimnoor: *whispered*
Endil: *whispering* no, why would i?
Endil: be able to
Endil: or need to
Grimnoor: *whispering* lets just go... better to leave without a fight
Endil: *whispering* sure
** Grimnoor backs away fromthe mound **
** Endil follows **
Hussar: Backing carefully away from the buzzing hill, you leave the top of the mountain.
Hussar: You see nothing else of interest here.
Endil: well, may as well head back to the ship now
Grimnoor: can we spot anything on the water by moonlight?
Hussar: Just your ship.
Grimnoor: any other islands?
Kelly: the reflection of the sun off the moon off the water
Hussar: Just what's on your map.
Grimnoor: k, so no campfires from the island or the like
Endil: would be hard to see by moonlight
Endil: so, what was that?
Hussar: The island is quite a distance, but, now you see no fires.
Grimnoor: i have heard of many creatures that make mounds their own
Kelly: OOC - what is our primary goal in these waters? Sorry
Grimnoor: OOC the treasure of SSkull island
Grimnoor: er Skull
Kelly: CCool
Elias: oh, are they back?
Hussar: You found a message in the pirate caves some time back. After you spent the winter refitting your ship, you decided to travel to this island in the idea of exploration and trade.
Hussar: Yes, they are back.
Grimnoor: i make my way back to the launch and then help row ack to the ship
Kelly: ok tnx - ooc
Grimnoor: ya
Hussar: After a short nap, it is daytime again.
Endil: ok
Kelly: pray alone and meditate for spells
Hussar: The map scale for those that missed it is 1=6 miles.
Elias: Let's head to the island and skirt the coast until we find any signs of civilization or just settlement
Hussar: You can travel about a little better than 1 hex per hour.
Grimnoor: lets set to it then
Hussar: You can make it to about here by the end of the day.
Endil: k
Hussar: I just sent you the node.
Hussar: Look at the top of your game tree.
Kelly: spell list?
Hussar: That would be it.
Hussar: Double click it and enter your spells.
Hussar: Right click it and then send it to me.
Hussar: Do we all have the map now?
Hussar: That's about how far you can sail in 1 day.
Hussar: (Which, btw, is day 31)
Hussar: The weather is rainy and hot. Very, very humid.
Elias: (how many days of ratoins did we buy?
Grimnoor: One would wonder why we never seem to find a temperate climate to dwell in
Hussar: Anyway.
Hussar: Sailing is fairly straightforward.
Elias: any signs of people inland?
Hussar: You see no signs of habitation. The coastline is pretty mountainous though.
Hussar: You also do not see any decent beaches.
Elias: how many days of rations do we have left?
Hussar: no.
Hussar: You are getting short on food. However, there are plenty of fish and Kelly has been purifying water for you.
Hussar: yes : )
Grimnoor: i was about to suggest we fish
Elias: I was thinking of sending some hunting parties ashore
Shadowdragon: Falen Shadowdragon. Ex-pirate current sorcerer
Endil: ok
Hussar: Another of your merry band.
Hussar: I think I have enough players now.
Elias: yup
Elias: I forgot how many marines we hired, how many was it?
Shadowdragon (whispering): i forget, who's captain of this new vessel of ours?
Hussar: You have just over 150 people on board including marines, artillerists and crew.
Elias: I'm talking just marines
Hussar: Captain Elias, Do you wish to send hunting parties ashore.
Grimnoor: he means for an away team
Hussar: You have 32 marines
Elias: yes, but i was wondering how many i needed to send
Elias: ok, 3 parties of 5
Elias: rest stay on board
Elias: they are also scouting
Endil: just wondering? is that volcano south of us active?
Hussar: Are you going to send them to the main island or to the active volcano island to the south?
Endil: active
Elias: Main island
Grimnoor: id suggest the main island as well
Elias: (I don't see anything happening in the way of food or habitation on the active volcano island
Grimnoor: ooc Unless you wanna try you hand at hunting red dragons
Elias: we Can however send a party over there if it seems promising
Hussar: Or sacrificing virgins to the volcano gods.
Elias: ooc be plenty to eat
Hussar: It doesn't look too interesting.
Kelly: Joe-noor vs. the Volcano
Elias: Ok, to the main island it is
Hussar: And it is 15 miles away.
Elias: hehe
Grimnoor: lol
Grimnoor: wheres tom hanks when you need him
Kelly: lol
Hussar: Your hunting parties come back after about an hour or so. It has gotten too dark to hunt. They bring back some strange looking fruit but little else.
Kelly: ooc - is the scratched out Tally where our ship is?
Hussar: Yes
Endil: ya
Elias: ooc - the fruit is edible?
Hussar: His Majesty's Ship, the Tallywacker.
Hussar: You don't know.
Endil: only one way to find out isn't there
Hussar: No one has eaten it
Kelly: yeah read the website - good majestic name
Elias: ooc would detect poison tell us?
Hussar: You think so.
Kelly: I can just purify it
Kelly: b/c I don't have detect poison
Endil: does that remove natural toxins?
Hussar: Yes.
Endil: ok
Elias: i thought i had it, but guess i don't
Kelly: yes
Turjan: i have detect poison
Kelly: do it up Turjan
Endil: ooc hey, grim, do you have poison immunity yet?
Hussar: Turjan detects poison.
Hussar: The fruit is not poisonous.
Turjan: ok Turjan waves his hands and casts detect poison
Kelly: let me change the list again
Endil: well, eat up
Hussar: The fruit looks like this.
Endil: that does so not look like a mango
Hussar: The outside is inedible, like an orange, but the inside is very sweet.
Elias: is it any good?
Grimnoor: leme see
Endil: if that is what it's supposed to be
Hussar: Mangosteen, not a mango.
Elias: oooooh
Endil: ok
Hussar: Thai fruit.
Kelly: ummm....I like Thai food
Hussar: The fruit is a big hit.
Endil: so we found a new route to thailand
Kelly: pulls out his +2 wok and whips up a fish and fruit stir fry
Hussar: lol
Turjan: maybe we can start a plantation
Elias: Perhaps this can be what we trade for
Grimnoor: we should take some seeds home with us
Endil: we don't know how this grows
Hussar: The night passes uneventfully.
Elias: uh, oh, we're all dead
Endil: it could be invasive
Grimnoor: ooc btw i dont get immunity to poison till 11th level, i am however immune to disease
Endil: ok
Grimnoor: couldnt hurt to take some along
Elias: I instruct the crew to spit all the seeds into a certain barrel
Kelly: lets monitor is decay rate to see how long it will keep in the hold
Kelly: its*
Elias: I take a couple and put them in my cabin to study
Hussar: The marines say that there were lots of these things growing everywhere.
Elias: ooc did they pick these up off the ground, or from the tree/bush that they grow on?
Kelly: maybe we should load up before we leave or explore in case we need to make a quick getaway
Grimnoor: well, we shant starve to death yet then
Kelly: if they start to spoil, I can make a nice wine out of them
Elias: we can load up on them in the morning if need be
Hussar: They took them off a tree.
Hussar: The evening passes uneventfully.
Elias: It did not look like a plantation or anything did it, just growing wild?

[Hussar]

Hussar: Just growing wild. They only saw animal tracks.
Hussar: Although, some of the tracks, they had never seen before.
Kelly: lets let the marines pick some more and we can explore/hunt for meat
Hussar: Three toed and big.
Elias: Ok, let's spend a couple more hours gathering, then resume skimming the coast line
Elias: OH
Endil: brb
Elias: interesting
Hussar: You stock up on the strange fruit and continue on your way.
** Elias sends out the hunter/gatherer parties once again, with instructions to be back on board ready to leave at high sun **
Shadowdragon: Were the tracks reptilian?
Hussar: You mean noon?
Elias: yeah, or as soon as they get back
Elias: which ever is sooner
Hussar: The marine says, "Well, I dunno, never seen tracks like that before. Bigger than a man and certainly heavier. Two legged though. Fast I'd say.
Grimnoor: Hmmm...
Grimnoor: no one should venture off alone
Hussar: [6d6] -> [5,1,5,5,3,4] =
Elias: strange news
Kelly: could even be a large bird such as a giant ostrich
Hussar: The weather continues wet and humid.
Hussar: What's that padre? Says the marine.
Shadowdragon: was there evidence of clawed feet or smooth like a bear
Kelly: the three toed tracks could be caused by a large non-flight bird
Shadowdragon: nm
Hussar: ooc, bears have clawed feet.
Endil: ooc back
Grimnoor: it matters not unless we actualy meet one of these creatures
Hussar: I really don't know what made those tracks. Nothing I ever seen before. Says the Marine.
Elias: ok, raise anchor and set sail
Elias: skim the coast
Shadowdragon: ooc yes but their feet are padded and the claws dont touch the pads in the tracks
Endil: skiming will take us longer
Hussar: Since you lost half a day gathering fruit, you can make it to about here by nightfall.
Elias: we are looking for villages
Elias: if we don't stay close to the coast, we will not see them
Hussar: You have several villages marked on your map.
Elias: ?
Elias: where are they?
Endil: circled
Grimnoor: lets skin but skip over the vast stretches of empty sea
Hussar: Next day
Elias: set coarse for the village to the north
Elias: instead of the coast
Hussar: You can reach that today.
Elias: i was under the impression we did not know
Elias: anything
Elias: but where the island was
Kelly: Tally-Ho
Endil: the dotted line is a path or road?
Hussar: You follow the coastline, looking for somewhere to land. It takes you the better part of the day to tack your way to the southern end of the island where your chart marks settlements. True to your charts, you spot smoke on the horizon.
Grimnoor: I climb the crowsnest and look about for signs of life
Elias: Tally-WACK!
Hussar: As you near the village, you see several small boats come out to meet you. Dual hulled catamarans zip out towards you. Through your telescope, you see that none of them are armed. As they get closer, you get your first glimpse of the inhabitants of the island.
Grimnoor: I climb down
Elias: AHOY!
Hussar: The short figures are obviously dwarves, but are unlike any dwarves you have seen. They seem to be covered in downy fur with tattooed stripes running along their faces and on their skin. They are much more slender than normal dwarves, although they are still stocky. They handle the catamarans with practiced ease and you can tell they have spent much time around the water.
Grimnoor: any shrunken heads?
Endil: maybe me and the half-orc should stay out of sight for a while
Shadowdragon: ??Aquatic Dwarves??
** Grimnoor pulls up his hood **
Endil: i take it we are the only non humans
** Elias thinks to himself **
Kelly: yes shrunken heads - buy hey the water is cold
** Elias motions for Endil and Grim to be out of sight **
Kelly: but*
Elias: ...
Hussar: Yes, endil and Grim are the only non humans.
Hussar: lol
** Endil nods and heads belowdeck **
Elias: AHOY!
** Grimnoor follows **
** Elias walks to the side they are approaching **
Kelly: **Waves to the natives with open hands**
Turjan: ***Turjan follows***
Hussar: The catamarans circle the Talleywacker and the strange dwarves wave at you.
Hussar: Finally, one pulls alongside.
Shadowdragon: staying close to elias
Elias: Move the ship to a good spot and drop Anchor
Grimnoor: OOC We come in peace *aside* shoot to kill...
Shadowdragon: try not to hit the dwarves with it
Endil: who's at the helm now?
Elias: um
Hussar: You drop the anchor over the side, avoiding the catamarans.
Hussar: Now that you are anchored, you don't need a helmsman.
Hussar: (oops)
** Elias motion for the crew to drop a rope ladder over the side for them to board **
** Elias whisper to the marines to be warry **
Hussar: One of the dwarves scrambles nimbly up the ladder.
Hussar: He is dressed in a simple loincloth.
Elias: Greetings, I am Captain of the TallyWacker
Kelly: ooc - oh man, not a cool mental image
Elias: Elias is my name
Elias: ooc that's what i was thinking
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Grimnoor: ooc why couldnt we visit the amazon island?
Kelly: **whispers - does anyone have comprehend languages?
Elias: translation?
Turjan: yes
Kelly: good time for me lad
Elias: I cast Tongues
Kelly: it*
Elias: (forgot i had it)
Endil: ooc, when do monks get toung of the sun and moon?
Elias: gotta look it up for specifics on the spell though
Grimnoor: ooc higher levels
Hussar: Lucky boy.
Turjan: Turjan looks to Elias "I have a spell that may aid us"
Hussar: I am {Sings With Fish}, speaker for the {Tiger Dwarves} clan. We welcome you to the island of Moranana. My chief wishes you to come ashore. He wishes to meet those who come from the old lands. Please, feel free to anchor in our harbour. A feast is being prepared in your honour. You are the first visitors from the old lands since the {Windy Water} in my great grandfather's time.
Turjan: Windy Water?
Elias: *bows low*
Endil: hurricane maybe?

[Hussar]

Elias: I restate what i said earlier now that he can understand
** Grimnoor i bandage up my face and hands down in the hold **
Hussar: You remember that the captain of the map you have was named Breezewater.
Elias: We would love to come ashore, it has been many days since we have set foot on land
Turjan: baw weep nah nah neene graw
** Endil coveres his ears with his hair **
Grimnoor: o wakka oo mow mow oh oh oh oh, shama lamalama ding dong
Hussar: ah, the old vulcan trick/.
Endil: those are the most identifing traits
Elias: I motion for the most of the crew to stay aboard, only indicating certain peple (ooc- PC's) to come ashore
Elias: ooc nice grim
Hussar: You lower a longboat and row ashore.
Grimnoor: whopboba loobob balop bam boom
Kelly: grab one of the wrapped sticks out of my cabin I made on the cruise
Endil: Jala cahallin xal tlu elg'cahlin
Endil: ha
Elias: I explain to the dwarf that in a while i will not be able to understand his language any longer
Grimnoor: ooga chaka ooga chacka
Hussar: BTW, your tongues spell will last for about an hour.
Elias: 40 minutes
Kelly: I got this feeling, deep inside of me
Elias: i'll only have one more casting
Endil: Oloth plynn dos!
Grimnoor: ilblith yomama
Turjan: nice!
Hussar: You are led to a well kept village a short distance from the shoreline.
Elias: nice pic
Grimnoor: indeed
Kelly: on the way look at the gray material - what is it?
Hussar: You are brought to the center of the village. A group of the strange dwarves come forward. One male dwarf is wearing an elaborate torc of what appear to be teeth of some large creature. He holds both of his hands, palm inward, to his forehead and then opens them to you.
Hussar: Supposed to be water.
Kelly: return the gesture with a smile
Endil: L'alurl gol zhah elghinyrr gol
Endil: ooc
Grimnoor: i keep my hood down and my cloak wrapped about me
Endil: following
Grimnoor: ooc don't make me go get my dictionary
Elias: ooc you sure it is wise to use his gestures? when you have no idea what they mean?
Hussar: He looks like this.
Kelly: ooc - true - too late now
Endil: likely a greeting
** Elias return the gesture and then bow afterwards **
Grimnoor: ooc raise your middle finger and thrust your arm upwards under your other arm
Kelly: I may be marrying his fat daughter for all i know - OOC
Hussar: lol
Turjan: thats great1
Elias: Greetings, I am Elias, Captain of the TallyWacker
Endil: now that looks freaky
Elias: ooc omg, i think we should head back to Mitril...
Endil: are those, fangs?
Hussar: Yes.
Hussar: Those would be fangs.
Endil: and whiskers?
Kelly: is there a tinman and scarecrow too?
Hussar: ooc this is a real person by the way. Isn't plastic surgery wonderful.
Hussar: I greet you in the name of the {Walks through trees} clan. I am {Sand Pebble}, chief of the clan. In the name of sister moon and brother wind, I greet you. In the name of cousin wave and cousin mountain, I greet you. May your water be at peace.
Endil: some type of cat/dwarf/vampire
Grimnoor: ooc oh great, more treehuggers
Elias: I greet you also {Sand Pebble}
Elias: We have traveled many days to reach your lands, and am eager to talk with you
Grimnoor: ooc don't roll a 1 on your deplomacy check please
Elias: ooc lol
Hussar: You are welcome in our homes long one. It was in my father's time when {Windy Water} came to us.
Grimnoor: ooc i like their name for us
Hussar: We saw your ship and prepared for your coming.
Elias: ooc i think that's the name of the guy who came here last
Endil: ooc maybe windy water was a person
Hussar: Tomorrow there will be a great feast in your honour.
Elias: You do us too much honor {sand Pebble}
Grimnoor: ooc no, long one
** Elias bows again **
Hussar: Come. We have much to discuss.
Hussar: You are taken into the large central building. The ceilings are high and airy. Many windows allow the ocean breeze to pass through. The dwarves sprawl on the floor upon many cushions and motion for you to do the same. Fruits and raw fish are brought to you and laid around you on the floor. The dishes are made of wood but cunningly polished and glazed.
Elias: I regret there is a limit to the ability to understand your language, it is quite new to us, I will only have a limited time each day that we will be able to understand one another
** Elias smiles and follows him **
Grimnoor: I fold my legs and sit
Endil: does the fruit look like the other stuff?
Kelly: Follow them, but do not eat until requested to do so
Hussar: We understand and we have prepared for this problem. {Windy Water} had the same problem. Our shaman will be able to help.
Elias: I imitate what {sand pebble} is doing
Hussar: He tucks into the food.
Hussar: Talking as he eats.
** Grimnoor accepts any food i am given, but ask for more fruit than raw fish **
Kelly: tucks?
** Endil sits but does not eat **
Elias: I also begin to eat after he does
Kelly: begin to eat and smile
Hussar: begins eating. Sorry, too much time around aussies.
Elias: after eating is my spell still holding?
Elias: ooc
** Grimnoor eats with a calm politeness and neatly keeps cface under hood **
Hussar: Sometime during the meal, the spell fails.
Kelly: right after the sorbet
Elias: when i finish eating, i recast the spell
Hussar: A female dwarf enters. She is very obviously female since she is stripped to the waist. What you took for tattoos, you realize are actual colorations on her skin. Her, for lack of a better work, fur is a lustrous yellow and covers her entire body.
Elias: {Sand Pebble} May i tell you of our journey to this place, I am known as a musician in my land, and would love to regale you with the tale.
** Elias bowing low **
Hussar: {Sand Pebble} smiles and says to go ahead.
whispering to Falen Shadowdragon, hey
Endil: that looks interesting
** Elias sings of our journey describing the huge turtle and all the stuff that happened when i wasn't here including the heroics of the ones surrounding me **
Elias: Raises his voice in song! [1d20 +14] -> [12,14] =
Falen Shadowdragon (whispering): hey, couldn't get my dialer to start when i lost connection. still learning some stuff about my new win me.
Grimnoor: ooc the wind rider
whispering to Falen Shadowdragon, np
Endil: ooc ya some heroics...
Hussar: The dwarves applaud by slapping the bottoms of their feet with their hands.
Endil: on my part anyway
Hussar: Several cheer.
Kelly: one man's epic story is another Elias's exaggeration
Elias: ooc yah, fill in the blanks, sorry for no details
Elias: ooc exactly correct
** Elias bows and returns to sitting **
** Elias making sure to nod and smile at the late arrival of the female dwarf **
Hussar: The female dwarf stands, "One tale deserves another. You have told us how you came here and I shall return the favor."
Endil: ooc: do you use an instument or just sing?
Grimnoor: ooc so are we at war with these people yet?
Hussar: She begins to chant
Kelly: give her my full attention
** Elias i translate for all who need it **
Kelly: I need it please
Hussar: We came to this land many generations ago. We were unlike our {Stonecutter} cousins. We longed for the open air and the freedom that could not be found under the rocks. So, we built great houses and set out from the lands of cold stone. Our houses carried us far, to this place. When we landed, we burned the houses in thanks to the Ocean Mother for bringing us here. We lived for a time on this southern tip of the island, gathering and hunting as we needed. Living a life of freedom.
Grimnoor: ooc: the dwarves mustve banished these hippies
Kelly: Elias are you sure you translated that correctly?>
Hussar: But, this island is not without its dangers. The {Snakes with Legs} and the {Lions} started to hunt us. And there were many natural dangers as well. The great lizards on the main island are stupid but very dangerous and always hungry. We built a great wall across the neck of our lands to stop them from coming. That was many, many years ago. Now, we fish and raise our crops and live as we wish, free from the threats to the north. Sometimes raiding parties come across the wall, but, we can deal with those.
Endil: yuan-ti?
Hussar: From the description, it's possible.
Endil: ooc: are they present in this world?
** Elias nods at Kelly **
Grimnoor: ooc has grimnor heard of yuanti in his studies at the monastary?
Hussar: You've never heard of them in Mithril, but there are stories of snakelike creatures.
Hussar: The chief continues
Hussar: where the shaman left off
Hussar: The chief speaks up, "There are other tribes on the island as well. The {Talking Frogs} and the {Ant Builders} have claimed their own territories.
Kelly: ask about buzzing mounds Elias - I whisper
Elias: ooc ok
Hussar: Neither the chief nor the shaman recognize what you are talking about.
** Elias asks about the buzzing mounds, using descriptions given by grim and Endil **

[Hussar]

** Elias shrugs to Kelly **
Elias: Are you at peace with the other clans?
Kelly: **smiles and nods**
Hussar: All of the {Tiger Dwarves} are at peace with eachother.
Grimnoor: ooc the tigre lady looks like Chakka from Land of the Lost
Elias: This is good to hear
Hussar: The other tribes usually leave us alone since they cannot easily cross the wall.
Elias: I suggest trade between our peoples
Elias: **I list off all of the trade good we brought, asking if they would be interested in any of it**
Endil: ooc: talking frogs, similarity: Salaad, Ant Builders, similarity: Formians
Hussar: We would welcome that. There is precious little metal on this island and we could use some new tools.
Elias: ooc - i just hope we have what they need
Grimnoor: ooc could be bullywugs
Hussar: And I'm sure our women would appreciate the other things too.
Hussar: I may lose
Hussar: I may lose my connection
Hussar: Am I back?
Hussar: am I backa?
Elias: You are a most gracious host {Sand Pebble}
Grimnoor: ooc i can't possibly handle every tigrer lady on the island
Kelly: Elias please ask if I may later talk to the Shaman or if that is taboo
Elias: you are
Hussar: Cool.
Elias: i ask for Kelly
Hussar: Certainly. I'm sure they have much to discuss.
Kelly: Elias did you see my message about the shaman? OOC
Elias: yup
Endil: sorrey, got diconected
Elias: did you see Hussar's reply?
Kelly: no
Elias: he said yes
Kelly: ty
Elias: afk for a minute
Endil: the last thing was talking about bullywugs ooc
Endil: that i saw
Hussar: Sheesh, people are dropping like flies.
Grimnoor: Im alive
Hussar: NOthing much else. Elias wished to talk to the shaman.
Endil: ok
Kelly: spot - [1d20 + 4} - do they seem to pay any attention to our non-human party members?
Hussar: Not really.
Elias: no, Kely did
Grimnoor: ooc maybe you should ask them what they think of orcs
Elias: i just asked for him
Elias: am i the only one not getting disconnected?
Grimnoor: im here
Endil: unplug your phone
Hussar: Will try that.
Endil: i get a long pause when that happens
Hussar: Anyway, I've unplugged my phone, so hopefully it's better now.
Hussar: going again
Hussar: maybe
Kelly: damn that Grimnoor and his fax machine
Hussar: Woot still here
Elias: cool
Hussar: phone is ringing
Hussar: YAY It's stopped.
Falen Shadowdragon: What did i miss?
Hussar: ANd I'm still here!!!
Elias: lol, congrats
Hussar: Anyway, is there anything else you would like to ask the chief?
Grimnoor: ooc so when do we start exploiting these island dwarves?
Elias: I don't think so
Elias: we can work out specifics later
Grimnoor: ooc k
Elias: are there any laws
Elias: that we may be unfamiliar with
Turjan: Did we bring tobacco?
Elias: I do not wish my men being obtrusive
Grimnoor: Opium is always a good one
Kelly: man cast tongues on myself so I know the meaning of obtrusive
Kelly: LOL - j/k
Hussar: Simply respect others and we should have no problems. Oh, and do not open the gate in the wall. Have a giant lizard eat your family often offends.
Elias: Of course
** Elias bows low **
Endil: one would think so
Grimnoor: ooc maybe in some countries...
Hussar: During the party, a group of dwarves has begun construction of a number of huts for your men.
** Elias looks amazed **
Hussar: In a surprisingly short time, long bungalows of bamboo are constructed.
Turjan: Wow this i s
Turjan: is great
Elias: I have two of the guys go back and get all but a skeleton crew and bring them here
** Elias nods a Kelly **
Grimnoor: The idustrius nature of these people is relflected to their offspring as well it seems
Hussar: The crew comes ashore. They look very happy to be on a beach and nothing trying to eat them.
Elias: we will take turns sleeping on the ship
Elias: Shifts by day instead of hour
** Hussar Crewman - "Captain, does that mean we can't sleep on shore?" **
Elias: including PC's (need officers aboard at least some of the time(
Hussar: ooc, I hear Mylo wants to take ALL the shipboard duties.
Elias: Only when not on shift
Elias: during your shift you will be onboard
Elias: but, that should only be ever 2-4 nights
Hussar: ah.
Elias: lol, Mylo sure can
Endil: if we're even here that long
Hussar: You will need to be here for some time.
Elias: so crew is landside for a couple days, then takes a day on board, or something, however the numbers work out
Hussar: Your quartermaster estimates it will take at least a month to resupply with dried fish and stuff.
Elias: Ok
Endil: ok
Hussar: Also, the ship will need some repairs.
Turjan: one month!
Kelly: **strictly caution the crew to behave themselves**
Hussar: Nothing major, just minor stuff like caulking etc.
Elias: I think some of us should send representatives to the other clans for trade agreements
Elias: but not for at least a week
Hussar: It takes a while to dry out and salt 12 tons of food.
Elias: yah
Kelly: unless we kill a couple of those lizards
Elias: are they edible?
Elias: or rather, do we WANT to eat them?
Endil: well, almost anything is
Turjan: maybe they are fru
Elias: We need to find out what we can take back to Mithril that will make this worth the trip
Elias: (trade goods that is)
Endil: yes i did see that but forget what it says
Elias: um, i don't get it, what do i do with it?
Elias: it's blank?
Hussar: The great city on the plateau is home to the {Snakes with Legs}. They have amassed a vast fortune in their temples.
Endil: go pearl diving
Turjan: no water breathing
Endil: thats a while
Elias: wow
Hussar: That is divisible between other people
Elias: oh, that's cool
Hussar: So 10 people for 1 hour, 5 for 2 etc
Kelly: ok so 30 hours per day
Endil: 5 hours each/day
Hussar: That's a LOT of pearl diving.
Endil: ya
Hussar: And you can go a lot deeper than the dwarves can.
Grimnoor: all the more pearls
Kelly: and we can eat the oysters
Hussar: bleckk
Hussar: I hate oysters.
Kelly: food for the crew
Grimnoor: lol i love em
Elias: Ok, let's have some of the marines assist Kelly (they need to earn their keep)
Kelly: we could smoke them, but they are hard to keep lit
Grimnoor: : p
Hussar: I imagine the locals might be a little pissed if you clear out their pearl beds, but if you go deeper, they can't complain.
Elias: yeah, deeper
Grimnoor: ooc pearlbeads grow back, heads do not
Elias: in fact, they can travel to a different part of the bay
Endil: maybe in a little while, we could invest in an appuratus of kwalish
Endil: well, back to the game
Elias: ooc why is no one talking?
Hussar: sorry, pee break
Elias: ah
Grimnoor: lol, good reason
Hussar: In the morning, you awaken to the smells of wonderful cooking. You see that the village women are preparing a great feast for the coming party tonight. Food is brought to you and then you are directed towards a gathering on the edge of town.
Kelly: Once the dinner breaks up, I will approach the Shaman.
Hussar: Oops, sorry, jumped the gun
Kelly: Introduce myself. I too am a magic user for our group.
Hussar: Kelly, you wanted to talk to the shaman.
Hussar: She says a few words then touches you.
Kelly: I have brought you a present from my God.
Hussar: There, you can speak my language now.
Endil: ugh, missionaries
Kelly: ty
Grimnoor: lol
Elias: ooc lol
Hussar: "My name is {Swims with Snakes} and I am the {Walks through Trees} {Shaman}.
Kelly: I hand her the stick wrapped in cloth I brought from the ship
Hussar: She unwraps the cloth. What does she see?

[Hussar]

Kelly: I am Kelly, holy Cleric of Corean
Kelly: This is a torch for you that will never go out or burn the wood
Kelly: I would like you to have it
Endil: ooc whenever i have accesss to continual flmae, one of the other party memebers eventually ends up covered in them
Kelly: One magic-user to another, is there anything I should know about this or other areas you know of concerning magic
Kelly: geographical areas I mean
Hussar: She takes the torch gravely. "I thank you, Priest. I am ashamed. I have nothing for you."
Kelly: information can help me and is a gift more worthy than mine
Hussar: I am unsure what you are asking. What do you wish to know?
Grimnoor: ooc shoudla asked for the island
Endil: do you mean sparks and the like?
Kelly: do you have any knowlege concerning magic in these waters or islands?
Kelly: magic or magical items or races
Hussar: Oh. No, the taint has not reached this far.
Kelly: what is the taint?
Kelly: and yes I know guys what it really is
Endil: ask about the snakes with legs
Hussar: The piceans occasionally bring us news of the other lands.
Endil: after
Kelly: k
Hussar: The taint which has scourged your seas, has not reached this far.
Kelly: oic
Hussar: The waters here are clear and clean. They provide us with fish and pearls.
Kelly: can you tell me anything about the snakes with legs? where they live? there activities? their language?
Hussar: The Snakes with Legs live on a plateau in the center of the island. Do you have a map?
Kelly: yes your waters are the best I have ever seen
Kelly: no but one would help me if you could provide a map
Endil: i think we do have a map...
Hussar: We have no maps of the lands beyond the wall. We have no need. We know where things are.
Kelly: show her the map we have
Kelly: can you show me where things are located?
Hussar: She quickly sketches on your map.
Kelly: and I will make notes
Elias: (perhaps you could have her make some marks on our map?)
Hussar: Here is the plateau of the Snakes with legs.
Kelly: yes I see
Endil: that's a ways inlands
Kelly: are there any other landmarks you can show me ?
Hussar: Here is the forest of the Ants that Build.
Endil: one of the other clans
Hussar: Here are the mountains of the Lions
Kelly: are the ants friendly? are the snakes with legs friendly? are the lions friendly?
Endil: the talking frogs too
Kelly: and the talking frogs?
Hussar: Neither are friendly. Both hunt our kind.
Hussar: The Frogs that Talk are here.
Kelly: I am sorry to hear that
Endil: ask abou the lions
Kelly: what is beyond the snake mound?
Hussar: There is a large lake here, surrounded by a swamp.
Kelly: I did ask about the lions
Kelly: I mark the map with the names
Hussar: The Lions are unfriendly and hunt any who enter their land.
Kelly: b/c I won't remember
Kelly: oh
Endil: i'll set up a map
Kelly: were they here when your clan arrived
Hussar: The Ants that Built take our people as slaves.
Kelly: that is terrible - If I am able to have the opportunity, I will help to free any of your people who are captive
Hussar: The Lions were the first here. Driven here many many years ago. Then came the Snakes with Legs, then the Frogs that Talk then us, the Tiger Dwarves.
Kelly: where did they come from in your legends?
Hussar: Last came the Ants that Build, the Ghants, and took the jungles to the west
Endil (whispering): can you send me the map? i'll set up the areas
Kelly: are all of these species intelligent?
whispering to Endil, Can't you see the map?
Hussar: Can everyone see the map?
Kelly: can you communicate with them like you did me?
Hussar: All of the tribes of the island can speak. Except for the Great Lizards.
Kelly: what lies beyond the snake mound?
Endil (whispering): forgot about that
Hussar: Unclaimed land as far as I know. None of our people go there.
Kelly: oic
Hussar: Mostly great lizards.
Hussar: Oh yes, and the Great Elder Wyrm...
Kelly: would it offend your clan or gods if we harvested pearls from the deeper beds or up the coast?
Hussar: hehe just kidding.
Kelly: lol
Hussar: I see no problems with that. Just be careful of the snakes and the sharks.
Endil: what about the viliges to the south?
Kelly: are the snakes poisoneous?
Hussar: Very.
Kelly: do you have an antidote?
Shadowdragon: do the snakes taste good?
Hussar: No. But magic does work.
Hussar: Yes, it does.
Grimnoor: how strong are the defenses on the wall, and how numerous are the tiger dwarves is what i wander.
Kelly: ask grimnoor's question
Hussar: This village you would guess has about 75 to 100 adults in it.
Hussar: We have defended ourselves quite well.
Kelly: yes it would seem so
Kelly: your clan is prospering
Hussar: Also, it is some distance for the other tribes to come.
Kelly: what type of goods besides metal would yours and the other tribes be interested in?
Hussar: We are far from their territories.
Grimnoor: i know that either the ants of the snakes would attempt to destroy potential opponents id they detected weakness
Grimnoor: er if
Hussar: The Ghants never venture beyond their jungle. At least we have never seen them.
Kelly: are there any shiny stones or metals on the island?
Hussar: We would be interested in trading anything.
Hussar: You mean jewels?
Kelly: maybe like these - and I show her my ruby ring
Kelly: yes jewels
Hussar: I have heard that there is a very nice quartzite deposite running under some of the hills. Or it could be hematite.
Kelly: oic
Hussar: (These are dwarves.)
Kelly: ok
Kelly: was not sure if that knowledge was lost over the years
Hussar: She smiles. While we no longer live as our stone dwelling cousins, we are hardly savages.
Kelly: ooc - any other questions guys?
Kelly: oh no, you are not savages
Kelly: your knowledge and experience in many areas exceeds those of my clan
Endil: the other vilages
Kelly: I asked about what the other villages would want to give and receive in trade
Kelly: but no answer
Endil: ok
Kelly: she said they are up the coast
Hussar: Oops, sorry.
Hussar: The other villages would be interested in anything you had to trade.
Kelly: oh ok
Kelly: do you know of a contact person in any of these villages to get us started with trading?
Endil: ooc gha, i would really like double monoters right now
** Hussar ooc, remember that you had a trade deal with Neuth Haila, your former employer and head of the Trading Company for 5% royalties for establishing a trade route. **
Hussar: Why?
Kelly: b/c we would like to come back and trade in the future possibly
Hussar: The other villages will come here, and trade with you.
Kelly: and we would like to bring you what you can use
Kelly: how can we arrange such a meeting?
Hussar: Yeah, guys, I would like to say that my time is getting short.
Hussar: You are going to be here for a month. Meeting will not be a problem.
Kelly: ok - give me the reader's digest version
Kelly: I compliment her, invite her to talk more over breakfast, and suggest talking about magic possibly
Hussar: The next day
Hussar: In the morning, you awaken to the smells of wonderful cooking. You see that the village women are preparing a great feast for the coming party tonight. Food is brought to you and then you are directed towards a gathering on the edge of town.
Kelly: thank you for your wonderous gift, now I am the one embarrassed
Kelly: head to the gathering
** Grimnoor follows **
Hussar: At the edge of town you see that the dwarves are cutting down several trees and stripping them of branches. As you watch, a skeleton of a wagon is lashed together and placed on a wagon. Several of the dwarves look and you and smile. Many others point to the growing floats and then point to you and your crew. Some of the dwarves break off and motion for you to imitate what the rest are doing.
** Elias goes to the gathering **
** Elias follow their instructions **
Kelly: help them with what they are doing