Hello everyone, and welcome to Rise of the Runelords, LP edition! Pull up a chair, pop open a mountain dew and order some pizza, we're gonna roll up some dice~ As this is based off of a Tabletop PRG that I will be playing IRL with real people, there won't be screenshots. I might draw random sketches or find relative pictures, but for the most part, this will be very narative heavy. This LP will update every two weeks, as that is when our game runs. What is Rise of the Runelords? Rise of the Runelords is a Pathfinder adventure module set that is made of six parts. All six together take you from level 1 to level 20. For those not familiar with Pathfinder or D&D, that's Epic level, as in literally that's what it's called. What is Pathfinder? Short Answer: It's the spiritual sequel to D&D 3.5, made by Paizo Publishing. Basically, it's what came about when people were unsatisfied with what Wizards of the Coast had done with D&D, namely, with the creation of 4th Edition. But that's not what this LP is about. After receiving the book for this campaign as a gift, my husband decided to run this for us. And I've decided to bring you all along for the adventure! Complete with terrible jokes, random images and my horribly bad drawings. For this, let's meet our character! Meet Shinozaki Kotone. To readers of my other LP, this family name will sound familiar. Stats: Strength: 22 Dexterity: 11 Constitution: 17 Intelligence: 8 Wisdom: 9 Charisma: 26 Black Hair, Amber eyes, and standing at 6'1, she is a Suli Paladin of Shizuru. Okay, lemme back that up a bit. A Suli is the offspring of a human and a Djin. They have an inherent connection to the four base elements; Fire, Water, Earth and Air. They are Strong and Charming...but slow witted. And that reflects in Kotone's stats. She's strong, hale and gorgeous, but dumber than a sack of bricks. Think of her like a female version of Goury Gabriev from Slayers. As for her flaws, she is gullible, which means that she takes a hit on people trying to bluff her. Traits are Princess and Courageous. Princess basically just means that she's better at intimidation and diplomacy, where as courageous gives a plus on her saving throws against fear. As for Shizuru, she's the Japanese Tian Min goddess of Honor and the Sun. Basically, she's the goddess of Bushido. And Kotone carries her trusty katana and lives her life to honor her Goddess. Oh, that's right. Kotone is Japanese Tian Min. As she starts with a damn low int, she only gets to start with two languages, so she gets "common" and one elemental language. She's got a close connection to the earth, and so she knows Terran. But as she is a foreigner, she doesn't speak "English" "Common" but instead speaks "Japanese" "Tien." In fact, she speaks very broken "English" "Common" and thus needs a translator. Luckily, that is solved by~ -The Party Memebers- Up first is: Potential Love interest #1, Angelus, the Asamir Sorcerer. Sporting brown hair, light blue eyes and a mass of dragonlike scales on his face, he basically has the charisma of Eros, Lucifer and Hitler combined. A huge bluffer, he's got the flaw Ladies' Man, which makes him REALLY bad at talking to men, and has to hit on any wonman who is hotter than him. Thankfully, with a charisma of 28 (!!!!) that's not happening any time soon. Speaks Terran, among his other plethora of languages. Up next: Potential Love Interest #2, Sieg, the Suli Bard. Long black hair with a blue sheen, olive skin and blue-green eyes, the androgynous looking bard will hit on any woman with a pulse. This includes our heroine. He's nice enough, but loves to talk in overly flowery prose. He is a bard after all. His favored instrument is the ocarina. Understands basically all languages, and speaks all of the elemental languages. And lastly: Varragis the Magus, tiefling. Covered in a grotesque mess of scars and scales, he wields the arcane from behind a mask. Most likely not a romance interest as he has a 6 charisma, which means that not only is he uglier than sin, he's also most likely a huge asshole. Also we can't talk to him directly as he does not speak Terran, Minkai or Tien. And now that our introductions are over, let's get on with our adventure! I'm totally ready
Sandpoint, a small town so far from home and full of friendly people. On this day, Kotone has decided to take a gander at the town festival, held to commemorate the consecration of the new church that was built, one replacing an older one that was destroyed. Lost and with no one to talk to, she quickly becomes attatched to the first person she meets that understands her, a fellow Suli named Sieg. Though he is half djin, like her, he claims his mother was half fairy and half celestial. Kotone finds this very fascinating. Through the course of the day, they meet two other travellers, and after realizing that they all like each other enough to not kill each other, they decide to adventure together, since they were here looking for an adventure party anyway. While she can't understand jack shit of what the Masked guy says, whose name she can't even pronounce, the other addition to their party speaks Terran, meaning that despite her terrible grasp of Common, she'll still be able to talk to these people. In a simple yet polite way, she tells them that if her name is too difficult for their tongue, they can just call her "Kay." Though Sieg gladly relays this, being the silver tongued bard that he is, he tells her that it would be a shame to shorten such a beautiful name. I think he's just biased since her name is music related. "She says you can call her 'Kay.' That is, if Kotone is too hard." With all of the games and events going on, there's a little something for everyone. Koto joins a strength competition, and feeling a little inspired by the crowd, Sieg and Angelus decide to do an impromptu street performance. With both of them getting Nat 20's (translation, they both rolled 20 on a 20 sided die, basically an instant success, or a critical success), they basically rocked out so hard that the gods probably stopped and listened. Nice going, boys. They also decide to check out the local taverns. One of them, the interstingly named Hagfish, named for the owner's pet Hagfish, Norah. They had a contest, where you paid a certain amount of silver to enter to drink "water" from Norah's tank, and if you could drink the whole tankard without tossing your cookies, you would win the whole pot of coin, and would get to carve their name onto the cieling of the tavern. Though you see, Norah, being a hagfish, produces this nasty slime, and her tank water is a goopy disgusting mess. Isn't she just lovely?? Obviously, none of the party are brave enough to try this. After some time, they come to an outdoor stage, where the Priest of the church is about to give a speech. A sharp retort, like the crack of distant thunder, slices through the excited crowd as the sun's setting rays paint the western sky. A stray dog that has crawled under a nearby wagon to sleep starts awake, and the buzz of two dozen conversations quickly hushes as all heads turn toward the central podium, where a beaming Father Zantus has taken the stage. Sieg has decided to stand over with Kotone, while Angelus and Varragis are off near the other side. Sieg, you sly devil. He clears his throat, takes a breath to speak, and suddenly a woman's scream slices through the air. A few moments later, another scream rises, then another. Beyond them, a sudden surge of strange new voices rises - high pitched, tittering shrieks that sound not quite human. The crowd parts and something low to the ground races by, giggling with disturbing glee as the stray dog gives a pained yelp and then collapses with a gurgle, its throat cut open from ear to ear. As blood pools around its head, the raucous sound of a strange song begins, chanted from shrill, scratchy voices. Goblins chew and goblins bite. Goblins cut and goblins fight. Stab the dog and cut the horse, Goblins eat and take by force! Goblins race and goblins jump. Goblins slash and goblins bump. Burn the skin and mash the head, Goblins here and you be dead! Chase the baby, catch the pup. Bonk the head to shut it up. Bones be cracked, flesh be stewed, We be goblins! You be food! WELP
You know, I've been pondering LP-izing our group's journal entries, etc., for our Jade Regent playthrough, but I'm just too lazy and it would require a lot of editing. Glad someone else is doing this. Also I am running this later this year so Sjofn you are pre-emptively banned from this thread, do not even read the first post.
Without warning, they begin to attack the crowd. Time to roll initiative! Unfortunately, due to her terrible Dex, Koto-chan goes dead last. From across the plaza, Angelus lobs a magic missile at one of the little pests. Sieg bravely gets on stage and begins to play a melody to aid his comrades in battle, and Varragis forced his way through the crowd to the side where the goblins were attacking. One of the goblins runs up to hit the big, tough looking Tien girl, but Sieg gets an Attack of Opportunity and simply juts his leg out and trips the little bastard. Using Shocking Grasp, Varragus finishes off the one that tried to attack Kotone. Meanwhile, Kotone draws her sword and slashes at another one of the goblins...only to miss spectacularly. She instead makes a nice pothole in the ground. EPIC BATTLE SCREENCAP That's right, my marker for Kotone is Tympole's Face. Made it myself. Oh and Sieg is a Zapdos. The party manages to kill off the remaining two goblins...excapt wait, weren't there four to begin with? The last one decided to bolt, but Kotone was having none of his shit. She chased him down and descended upon him with righteous samurai fury. With her katana drawn she felled him in one slash before returning to her party. But that wasn't all. The plaza was now in chaos, and there was still chanting coming from somewhere. Varragis the Magus led the way to where a group of goblins were attacking a person and their dog...sadly, they got there just in time to see the poor pup go down at the hands -- nay, the jaws -- of the goblins' own creature, a dog mount. They started making their way over to torment the person who lay nearby, but the party managed to get the jump on them... Well, that is, the ones in attack range. After making another initiative roll, Varragus and Kotone (who now has a much better initiative than dead last) ran towards the group to attack, Angelus unleashes another magic missile while Sieg pulls out a bow and fires off a shot. Now alerted, the goblins begin to attack. Henceforth they shall be classified by colors. Before they can get to him, Angelus used fly! and soars up into the air. Oh, did I mention he has wings? Because he has wings. Sieg starts playing lovely music for the group. Goblin Green attacks Kotone and fails miserably, and Red Goblin stabs at Kotone with all his might! He manages to get off a whopping 2 damage. Koto rushes forward and swings, steel arcing gracefully as she aims at Goblin Blue, sitting atop the dog mount, and in the blink of an eye, the top half of his torso simply slides off the bottom half, as if it were never attatched to begin with. Sieg, the trusty bard, somehow manges to play his ocarina AND fire off a shot at Green, who goes down with little fanfare. Poor Angelus is NOT a good flyer, and struggles to stay aloft while casting more spells at the goblin hoard. He namages to put the Goblin Dog down before it can do much more (attempted) damage to Koto for killing his rider. In the midst of all this fighting, one of the goblins (Purple I think), for whatever reason, tries to stab Varragis with a torch. This does worse than nothing. Other than dealing no damage, it just makes the damned thing look retarded. After trying to attack and missing several times (ie after rolling a retarded amount of 1s left and right) I decided to retire the dice I had been using, and found a different set, an older set of dice that I had bought a few years back. After the GM let me re-roll (Apparently the dice I was using were just poorly made and weighted badly because EVERYONE tried them out and only rolled either 1s or whatever numbers were next to 1), Kotone manages to hit Goblin Purple, and along with Varragus finishes him off. As Angelus corners the last goblin, the little bitch flees, and we pursue.
I don't know if tagging someone in a thread to tell them they are banned from reading that thread is the best idea. Also Schael, I'd appreciate if you checked in now and again to comment, since you're the one running the show.
As it is no longer a battle and we are trying to catch one stupid little goblin running through a busy, chaotic town rapt with fear, we have to roll completely different shit. For the most part, chase scenes go off of acrobatics. This is NOT good for Kotone, because aside from the fact that she has shit for dex (at a whopping 11, average for a normal human, but whatever), she gets a fucking minus due to her armor. The big downside to big, clunky Paladin armor. So I roll, expecting to fail miserably. But that's not what happens. Instead I fail so spectacularly that I'm surprised Kotone survived. After rolling a glorious set of two 1s in a row, Kotone begins her chase scene. She runs after the pest, but as she turns a corner, someone opens a fucking door. She slams into it with the full force of her 22 strength (remember, she's strong enough to push a car sideways) and her amazonian 190 lbs. She sits there for a couple of turns while the world spins around her. The streets of Sandpoint are now a bloody (literally!) obstacle course as our heroes force and dash their way through the crowds. When she finally gets her bearings, Koto is easily able to part the crowd and make her way through, and Kool-aid man slams through a gate and into an alley way for a short cut. While the others had their respective chase scene actions, our main focus here is little Kotone. After running through the alley, she ends up in someone's yard, and it's filled with panicked sheep. She manages to use her amazing charisma to call them down and go through, where she is greeted by another alley. As she gets to the end, she sees a goblin swipe the leg off of a table, and I was forced to make wits roll to see if she could react to the produce that was now falling off the stand. The result was a very nervous Kotone trying to catch the falling fruits while basically muttering "Oh no, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, no no no no..." When she finally pulls herself away from the falling fruits, she runs through....yet another back alley. Seriously, I didn't choose this shit. But in any case, she has mere seconds to dash out the other end before a wagon pulls in front of the opening and blocks her off... It's too bad her armor slows her down like WHOAH because now she can't get out of the alley until the wagon moves. On the next turn, the party, who had all gone their seperate ways, all converge on the runaway goblin. How did we catch up? No really, that's what the GM said. ANYWAY. We descend upon him and kick his ass. After taking care of that, we see that the rest of the goblins are either fleeing, have died, or are being captured, or are flinigng themselves off a fucking cliff, so we go to check on the dude that we were trying to help. He's completely fine, and not only thanks the group, but tells Kotone that she in particular was especially flawless and graceful and strong. She merely tilts her head in confusion until Sieg translates this as "He says you did good." To this, she politely nods her head and lets out a somewhat awkward "Sankyu." One of the women that lives in the town, a noble by the name of Ameiko Kaijitsu comes up to the gorup and thanks them for their bravery, and as a reward, she will give them free rooms at her Inn, The Rusty Dragon, for the duration of the festival. Woo! No cash reward though. Blast. Upon questioning some of the captured goblins and find that they were actually hired by someone to ransack the town, and being chaotic evil, that sounds like a good time to a goblin, especially since they find humans tasty. But who hired them? Find out next time on Rise of the Runelords: The adventures of Kotone.
I'd also like to note that I am open to suggestions on things to have Kotone do during down time. Including if she should be hitting on one of the other party members.
Why is this even a question. Also, best epic battle screencaps ever. I love your coins. Now this is making me want to play a tabletop RPG; it's been a while. I joined a Pathfinder group a few months ago but it fell apart due to disorganization before we even started a proper campaign, which was sad.
YET YOU TAGGED ME SO I WOULD COME TO IT You are a jerk. :< We could LP Jade Regent as a team, though!
The love interest thing reminds me of Ranma 1/2 if that helps matters any. Kotone reminds me of Akane. Angelus reminds me of Mikado. Sieg reminds me of Kuno. Varaggus reminds me of Hikaru.
Ahahaha Kotone is Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too chill and nice to be Akane. Actually, she's too chill to be ANY female from the Takahashi universe. Though Sieg is totally Kuno, despite Angelus being the rich kid. What's confusing you? Thanks :D Do it. There really are few things as fun and satisfying as Tabletop games.
Yeah, and Rise of the Runelords is a fairly fun adventure path, from what I've seen of it so far. My group rotates various systems in and out of play, getting so far into a game and then taking a break from it to try something new, but before our last Mutants and Masterminds kick I was playing a human Tian Min Summoner with the Synthesist archetype through this AP.
I kind of want to see Kotone unintentionally secude All The Men. Probably because that whole action sequence there played out in my head as "If Wild Tiger were a samurai." I find myself deeply regretting that all my attempts at starting a Call of Cthulhu RPG group keep failing, because I'm getting the urge to play a tabletop game too and that's the only one I know. Also I might be an evil Keeper who lives to troll the players.
This is the correct way to run Call of Cthulu. True story. So, we had another game this past Saturday, and it's taken me a couple days to do the write up because LIFE STUFF. but here it is. Where we last left off, the party was chillin at the Rusty Dragon inn, getting some free rooms and shit. My DM bought some "face cards" for RotRL. Basically they are just cards that on one side has a portrait of the NPC, and the other side has a name and some other info I guess? He won't let me see the back side. Anyway, here's the peeps that popped up in the last game. Mayor Deverin The dude we rescued (who was hitting on Kotone) Aldern Foxglove I know it's blurry, but I can't look through the deck to get a better picture. The Priest, Father Zanthus Sherrif Hemlock Ameiko Kaijitsu, the owner of the rusty dragon Anyway, as it is day 2 of the festival, we decide to wander around and do various stuff on our own before meeting back up and wandering around together. Varragis (I asked his player how to spell his name) and Koto do some sparring (the clashing of swords sounds the same in any language!) and Koto has taken to calling him "Oni-san" due to his mask and her difficulty with pronouncing his name. Meanwhile the two pretty boys head off to do some music or whatever. They head into town and perform, though unlike the day before, it was not the greatest song in the world, it was just a tribute. Angelus fucking nails it though and rocks the fuck out while Sieg assists. The end result is that Sieg and Angelus got a lot of female attention. A lot. Throughout the day, they both got a fuck ton of love letters, trinkets and baked goods. Sieg got a silver ring, which he proudly wore on his right ring finger, while Angelus got a really pretty blue scarf. After confirming that wearing it did not inadvertently make him engaged to the girl who gave it to him, he decided to wear it. But adorable little (not so little really) Kotone-chan also got her fair share of attention, including one man who asked her for permission to court her. Of course, poor Koto didn't understand this so Sieg translated for her. Except, he didn't translate it correctly. He told her that the man wanted to see her sword. Being a proud Tian Min and a follower of Shiziru, Kotone was more than happy to show the man her prized katana. Angelus, of course, who also understands Terran, knew that Sieg was pulling on over on her, and leaned over to tell her to just tell him "no." "But Angelus-san, I'm very proud of my sword!" "Kotone, it's not what you think." "My sword has been in my family for generations..." "Well, go on ahead then." Kotone nods and begins reaching for her sword to untie it from her belt, and at this moment, Sieg decide to "translate" for the man. "Sorry, but she said that she'll have to decline." Of course, this statement along with the amazonian woman reaching for her sword meant that the man now ran off, fearing for his life. Kotone, of course, was utterly confused and a little sad.
Just as she finishes tying her sword back to her belt, someone comes up to the group: Hellooooooo Nurse! The hot redhead introduces herself as Shayliss Vinder, and quickly proceeds to talk to Kotone, asking for her help with dealing with some giant rats in the basement of the general store, which her family owns. Ever the helpful paladin, Kotone agrees, and follows along. Once they are in the basement, Kotone asks where the troublesome vermin are, and Shayliss begins removing her bodice, and pulls utterly confused Kotone into an embrace. Sweet, dumb little Koto-chan has no idea how to react other than blushing and stammering incoherently as the nice lady who "needed help with the rats" started trying to remove Koto's armor, all the while trying to guide her to a cot that someone had convinently set up in the basement. This didn't last long and in fact got even more awkward, as the door burst open and down came the girl's father, raging mad and demanding an explanation. Flustered Kotone tried to explain in short words and broken common that she came to help with a vermin problem and had absolutely no idea what was going on, but this was more difficult than it should hev been due to the language barrier. Seemingly satisfied with the answer, he demanded that Kotone leave so that he could have a word with his daughter. She quickly picks up whatever armor Shayliss was able to remove. All the women too, from the looks of it. Now, Sieg, who is into all the latest gossip, has heard word around town that Shayliss's older sister, Katrine, had been caught in a scandalous relationship with one of the workers of the lumber mill. And while she was known to have a bad reputation, there were rumors that Shayliss just as promicuous, if not worse, but did a way better job of keeping her affairs secret from her father. When Kotone meets back with the group, Sieg grins and asks her how it went. With nothing to say, Kotone blushes and mumbles "There were no rats." Not too long after, Aldern comes by and thanks them for rescuing him, and mentions that he is staying at the Rusty Dragon, and that he would love to meet them for supper to thank them properly.
Though we defeated the globlins, that wasn't all there was to the chaos. Father Zanthus informs Sherrif Hemlock that one of the crypts by the church has been disturbed, and he calls upon the party of heroes to investigate. As they reach the crypt, they notice that the door is slightly ajar, and without really even thinking about it, Kotone opens the door. Goddammit Kotone. A fight's on! Those candies? those are skeletons. What we do in our games is we use candies as enemy markers, and when someone kills an enemy, we get to eat it! Yay candy. Those in particular are Peeps Peepsters, which are (surprisingly good) Chocolate candies with marshmallow cream inside. But enough of that. Since the skeletons agg us as soon as Kotone opens the door, Angelus fires off first and attacks with some fire, while Varragis rushes at one with his sword. And Kotone... Well, Kotone not only fucking rolled a one, but she failed so hardcore that she slashed her own femoral artery somehow while unsheathing her sword. I don't know how the fuck that happened. Thanks, critical fumble deck! Sieg heals her, and the boys make quick work of the skeletons. They decide to investigate further to see if there are any clues as to why this shit happened. According to Father Zanthus, the crypt was for priests of the church who had passed on. Kotone tries to help, but she can't really. Her perception is too low to find anything useful. They do, however, notice that there are footprints outside, footprints bigger than a goblin's. Meaning these little fuckers didn't act alone. By this time, evening has rolled around and the party returns to the Rusty dragon. Aldern is there, and he offers to buy them a meal. While they're having a nice time chatting, a very angry asian Tian man comes through the door shouting something in Minkaian. Kotone gets up and goes to politely ask him (in their native tongue, of course) what's wrong, and he proceeds to chew her out in common, yelling about all kinds of things. Like about how they're fake heroes who care more about fame and shit than the safety of the town and that they were just showing off. Seeing that this is starting to stress poor Kotone-chan out, Angelus and Varragis go to help her out, and the man yells at them about how it's their fault that so much destruction happened with the goblins, and how they should have just let the town guard handle it. "Riiight, so you wanted us to just stand around while goblins slaughtered people in the streets?" Angelus retorted. "I don't recall seeing you there, sir." Was Varaggis's response. The Asian Tian dude was about to let off another profanity laden tirade against the PCs when Ameiko comes out from the back room, a ladle in hand. She brandishes it at this man who is apparently her father, and yells at him telling him to leave. Varragis sneaks up to him an uses prestidigitation to turn his robes a violent, bright hot pink. Angelus gets a good laugh out of this, and the man goes to try to grab Ameiko by the hair to forcibly drag her home. Except she dodges and smacks him on the head with her ladle, covering him in soup. So now he is covered in potatoes and is wearing a disgustingly bright pink robe. He mutters something about Ameiko being as dead to him as her mother, and leaves. The inn erupts in laughter and cheers, because that was awesome. She looks at her ladle and frowns, lamenting that now she has to clean it, as "Jackass Stew" was not on he menu. Varragis uses prestidigitation again to make the ladle instantly clean. As thanks for helping her out, Ameiko rewards them by extending their free stay by another week. Sweet! When the PCs return to the table, Aldern invites the group to go on a boar hunt with him the following day, and since it sounds like fun, they accept.
The following morning, he meets them and takes them to the stable to get them horses. Not for rent or anything, this dude is rich enough that he buys all of them horses to keep. They go on the hunt, and of course Sieg spent most of the time flirting with Kotone. Now, Koto gets a huge hit to her sense motive, and with her low Wisdom score, she gets a -6 on all sense motive checks. But just for fun, I roll it anyway to see if she realizes that Sieg is hitting on her. For those that don't know, rolling a 20 means instant success. So no matter how bad Koto's stats are, she fucking knows that Sieg is putting the charm on her. It's kinda working, too. Kotone doesn't say anything, and really can't do much other than stammer and blush awkwardly. The hunt itself was pretty uneventful, but hey, we got horses! The party decide to wander around town some more when they get back, but the fun and games of the Swallowtail festival are interrupted when a woman runs up to the new local heroes and begs for their help. It seems that her son had been having night terrors, but as of last night, things took a turn for the worst. When they ran into their son's room, the dog was britally injured and the little boy had scratches and bites all over his arm. The parents got there just in time to see a goblin Disappear into the closet, and in anger the father runs after it, only to find a small hole in the floor that had been Hidden with a pelt of fur. The husband was going to look for the goblin, and the wife left the house to ask the new heroes for their help. They get to the house and head to the little boy's room, and the door is closed. Of course, Kotone opens it. The look in to find the husband face down with his head in the closet. Varragis calls out to him a couple of times, with no response, so he and Koto drag him out...only to find that he is missing his face and most of his chest. Angry that we interrupted his lunch, a bloody goblin comes out and tries to attack, but Varragis knocks it out with little fanfare. Kotone holds up her sword, poised to finish off the goblin... When Varragis and Angelus get into a conversation about keeping him alive for interrigation. But none of them know how to speak goblin. Poor little Koto is just sitting there holding out her sword, utterly confused on if they want her to kill the little beast or not. They eventually decide to just off the little bastard, and I get a candy for delivering the finishing blow. nom nom nom! The woman is grateful that you saved her family, until she notices that her husband has been turned into a goblin Happy Meal, and she immediately has a nervous breakdown. Due to all the noise and shit, someone called in Sherrif Hemlock, and he arranges for her and her family to stay at the church for a while. Soon, her sister comes to take care of the now broken family, and bring them to live with her. She shoots us the stink eye and makes some dumb comment about how we "Should have been more thorough in our 'heroing.'" After they leave, we report the incident to the sherrif, just so he's alerted in case any more of this shit happens. We look around the house to make sure that there aren't any tunnels or anything, but there's just a hole in the house itself. Sherrif Hemlock tells us that the Mayor wants to speak with us, so we follow him back to town hall. There they meet someone who works with the town guard, an elven woman by the name of Shelelu. Hemlock introduces us as "Unnofficial members of the town guard." She's been the one that until now, was handling the goblin problem, and keeping them away from the towns, but lately they've been more aggressive than normal. The day before, they set fire to a nearby farm. Thankfully, Shelelu was nearby and while she couldn't save the farm, she was able to save the family that lived there. For now, they're staying at a neighboring farm. Sheriff Hemlock steps aside, and let's Shelelu take the stage. "Belor's told me of your work again st the goblin swell done. I've dedicated the last several years of my life to keeping them from causing too much trouble aroun d these parts, but they're tenacious and fecund little runts. Like weeds that bite. "There are five major goblin tribes in the region, and, traditionally, they're pretty good at keeping each other in line with intertribal squabbles and the like. Yet from what I've been able to piece together, members of all five tribes were involved in the raid on Sandpoint. A fair number of the Mosswood goblin s I dealt with yesterday were already pretty beat up, and there was a lot of chatter about the 'longshanks' who killed so many of them. Now that I've met you, it seems obvious from their descriptions who they were talking about. Seems like you've made an impression. "In any event, the fact that the five tribes are working together disturbs me. Goblin tribes don't get along unless they've got something big planned, and big plans require big bosses. I'm afraid that someone's moved in on the goblins and organized them. And judging by these recent raids, what they're organizing seems like bad news for all of us." (Belor = Sherrif Hemlock) Varaggis asks her if she knows anyone that speaks goblin, in case they happen to capture one, and it turns out that she herself speaks it. It's a good thing Kotone doesn't understand what they are talking about, or she would probably feel bad. After being breifed on the stuff, the party heads back to the inn to rest up, in case we need to kill shit tomorrow.
The following morning, we head downstairs, a halfling woman named Bethana who works there as a maid asks if she can speak to the heroes in private. She tells them that she's worried. That morning, Ameiko hadn't come down to start breakfast, the first time she had done that in a long time, and Bethana went up to check on her. The room was empty, save for a note written entirely in moonrunes. And for once, Kotone is useful, as she's able to read it and translate! No, actually, what the note says is this: Apparently, Tsuto caused a bit of a scandal when he was born, since he was born with long pointy elf ears, and neither of his parents were elves. Of course, since the Kajitsu family are big wig rich nobles, he basically sent the boy away and disowned him from the family, and denied that he even existed, and his mother wasn't allowed to visit him. Atsuii, the wife, never told him who the real father was, and he only stayed married to her out of sheer stubborness. A year later, Ameiko was born, and when she learned that she had a secret older brother, she began meeting with him in secret. Since Bethana doesn't know what's happening, she asks the party to look for her boss. The group decide to investigate, and head to the glassworks to check it out. They head up to the front door, which is locked as the place is closed, and Varragis decides to start beating the door with his sword. This however, does nothing other than make a lot of noise, which draws a crowd. Angelus tries to distract the public while Kotone and Varragis fucking kool-aid man the door. Oh, and Koto gets a 20 on this too. And thus, this is where we leave off until next time~
Our schedule for the game is a little weird, it's every other week, but on Monday and Friday of that week. The next game is tomorrow, so they'll be lots of material soon enough. I have high hopes for our heroes, and I'll be throwing a few extras at them that aren't in the book as we make our way through the modules. I hope everyone here enjoys the LP as much as I'm enjoying GMing the game!
Don't believe him folks. Historically he's been an evil DM. Just kidding, you know I love you, please don't kill Kotone.
Sieg says: "I am not Kuno! He's creepy, obsessive, and a stalker, and I'm attractive! I can see Kotone as Akane, a strong independent woman, not bound by those around her, and able to beat up everyone in their school too! Angelus would have to be coordinated to be Mikado, but other than that I could see it, especially the keeping count of every girl he kisses part (my, my, what a short list you have Angelus!). As for Varragis, I think that comparing him to Hikaru is unfair (to both sides) largely because Hikaru can't fight. "If I were to make a comparison, I would say Kotone is more like Kasumi, but with the sword skill of Kuno. Angelus would be Kuno, popular with the girls, but... misguided. Varragis would be Pantyhose Taro, strong combat skills, and not ashamed of his hideous form! As for me... I would say I am most comparable to a mixture of Ryoga and Shampoo, you can use your imagination on coming up with the whys on that one <3"
The thought of Sieg always getting lost amuses me. So, Short update time! Then we're going to dinner <3 -- After Kotone breaks down the door, the group looks around and sees... That they are in a shop. Okay. Well, anyway, this is the main entrance to the glassworks factory. No signs of trouble, so they decide to have a little look-see around. Kotone keeps opening fucking doors, and no one tries to stop her. I guess they figure that if there's a trap, she can absorb it all with her massive HP. Except she's still level 1, so it's like...14. GM has us do a perception roll, something none of us are particularly good at. Varragis botches, so he ends up coughing, where Sieg and Koto just don't notice anything unusual. Angelus, on the other hand, hears a soft whimpering. Seeing as how he's still in the hallway and Kotone is closest, he asks her to check it out, and as it turns out, the sound is coming from behind a wheelbarrow that is propped against a wall. Kotone carefully pulls it back, and the party sees a scared little girl, crying her eyes out. Kotone and Angelus manage to calm her down, and they ask her what happened. Apparently, it was bring your daughter to work day or something, because the kid was here with her mom. She wasn't sure what happened, just that her mom told her to hide behind the wheelbarrow and not move, and she heard screaming. Angelus scribbles out a note and takes the girl outside, flags down a town guard, and asks the guard to take the little girl and the note to the Mayor before running back inside. Once he's back with the group, they explore a little more, and come across a horrific sight. This room is a gruesome display of goblin boredom. The bodies of the eight murdered staff lie in various stages of dismemberment; the goblins have been burning legs and arms in the furnace with glee, and pouring melted glass on the remains. One figure sits propped up in a chair in the central alcove and encased in thick, runny sheets of hardened glass. SFW version Initiative time! Goddammit Kotone. Since we got the jump on them, we start running in to fight. Koto and Varragis don't get that far, and Sieg and Angelus stay towards the back. Like the previous goblins, these guys are weak, and while Sieg plays them some nice music, they make quick work of the goblins. Bursts of Elemental Ray from Angelus scorch the little vermin, while Varragis and Kotone's blades slice cleanly through. One goblin tries to jump on a table to do a flying attack on Kotone, but is basically sliced in half mid flight. Oh fuck, it transformed In the end of it all, one remaining goblin turns and flees. Kotone tries to chase it down, but with the little runt's speed, Koto in all her armor can't hope to catch up with it. Sieg yells for her to let it go, and after cleaning her sword, she sheathes it. While looking around the carnage, Varragis walks up to the man in the chair against the wall, and peers at him through the layer of glass. Varragis's player: Do I recognize him? GM Schael: Not anymore! Varragis's player: Well, does he look asian? GM Schael: Roll Int...Also, not anymore. Turns out that the man encased in glass was Kaijitsu Lonjiku, Ameiko's father. As he inspects the rest of the room, Kotone walks around, paying her respects to the corpses, closing the eyes of any that are open, while Angelus does the same. -- be back later guys, Schael promised me chinese food.
