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FH.John Haight...........Arawn.............Druid
.Normal/Alfar... Ma<br>
...Kevin
Newark..........Dorhak............Warrior.Normal/Dwarf....Ma<br>
--.Tobie Bonahoom........Fremea............Sidh....Normal/Faerry..
Fe<br>
W2.David Sanders.........Kiet.Sunan........Acrobat
Normal/Human ..Ma<br>
...Don.Kerr..............Maelorna..........Dancer..Normal/Human....Fe<br>
...Gilbert.Isla..........Mournath..........Sailor..Normal/Human....Ma<br>
R3
Panthera..............Pyandalgor........Hunter..Normal/Human....Ma<br>
Fake-Kell/Raki........Raki..............Normal..Normal/Shifter..??<br>
R4.Wout
Broere...........Unali.............Ninja...Normal/Human ..Fe<br>
R4.Alex
Koponen..........Z'leyra...........Healer..Normal/Human ..Fe<br>
Animals: Corona [Eagle] Z'leyra<br><br>
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[New Stuff]<br><br>
[Marqi Frisda
23rd, 1636TH; Sivas, Marentia]<br>
[Time: 8:15
am]<br><br>
Dorhak
examines his prize. It has taken him a long time<br>
to get to this
point. A dwarf without a nation of his own<br>
kind. A
dwarf without even a single other dwarf in this human<br>
infested land he
finds himself in. The only dwarf among this<br>
crazy band of
adventurers. To join the party during a hippogriff<br>
attack on the
Zen'da plains and to end up here in Sivas. Such<br>
a strange name
humans call their places.<br><br>
Now a
bit over 3 months later he has become native. Having<br>
a place - a hovel
he rents - is not a dwarf Kril. But it<br>
is something until
he can find his way in this human infested<br>
world.
Dorhak sniffs the air around the courtyard of his hovel<br>
and smells the
early morning meals being made. HE is though<br>
not openly admits
it, happy to be here. This Artist Quarter<br>
of homes is
something he has grown used to. To sculpt and<br>
to watch art -
even lessor human art - is a place he has<br>
learned to fit
in.<br><br>
While
on the outside he looks ugly and like a dwarf<br>
who constantly is
constipated he has made friends here.<br>
Even the motherly
hen painter across the way with her<br>
ample flesh in
various unnatural positions. Even the<br>
old man sculptor
who taught him a bit he would never admit<br>
to learning from a
human to other dwarves. But he has<br>
appreciated this
place.<br><br>
But
outside this Artist Quarter he finds the typical<br>
riicule the humans
dish out. The snide comments and<br>
stares. The
laughter from the kids and the stuck up<br>
noses by the
adults. This place is still not a friendly<br>
place to
dwarves. While they don't openly tar and feather<br>
him they don't
make him a honored guest either. Like<br>
Fremea and Kaylle
the dwarf still has issues. Some believe<br>
if he just shaved
he'd look more friendly. A dwarf shave<br>
his beard!
How absurd is this! Some in the Quarter even<br>
threatened to do
just that when they found Dorhak drunk<br>
on the lawn.
But lucky for them none never did.<br><br>
To the
humans this is Frisda the 5th day of the weird<br>
6 day human week
of the calendar adopted by Marentia<br>
from a land called
Thaliba. The climate here has been<br>
reasonable.
Cold but not blizzards like the great mountains<br>
his people are
known to be from. To the humans this is called<br>
the Planting
season of the 6 seasons. Dorhak actually liked<br>
the last season
called the Dark Season. But now is it<br>
mostly spring to
the humans. While it is overcast the<br>
day is warm at 80
degrees already. A warm breeze rolls in<br>
from the Sea of
Cholchara in the north.<br><br>
But at
least Dorhak is eager to get rid of his winter<br>
clothing.
Now he stands looking at his prey and prize.<br>
He smiles as he
grunts and runs a finger through his<br>
whiskers. He
bends down to examine the quarry in<br>
the prize.
For a sculptor he sees this stuff. A warrior<br>
is also a
sculptor!<br><br>
He
reaches out to grab his prize and hefts it up as he<br>
stands. The
4 foot piece of stone work is one of his<br>
best pieces.
A mere 38-40 pounds he estimates. But the<br>
stone from the
quarry is exceptional. The blue hair who<br>
wants the piece
done will pay him a godly sum of 40 gold!<br>
He laughs as its
probably not worth a tenth that much!<br>
Why do old human
females even have blue hair? Is this<br>
some divine
curse? He shakes his head as long as the<br>
have the gold he
doesn't care if they have purple and<br>
green hair!
But if she pats his head one more time he<br>
may just smash the
statue over her skull.<br><br>
Dorhak
begins his trek into the city streets. It<br>
has been a fun few
months. Who knows maybe it is time<br>
to move on and
find some other dwarves. What fun would<br>
that be.
Couple months back he heard from Z'leyra that<br>
there was actually
another dwarf the party traveled with.<br><br>
Khalgon joined the party some 3 odd years before. It<br>
seems during some
event where Varange freed a prison<br>
wagon with the
party inside did he leave. His current<br>
location is not
known. Rumor is that he and Varange<br>
went to the lower
world. Whether this is true no one<br>
knows for
sure.<br><br>
Dorhak
considers his new found friends. Arawn the<br>
crazy Elf - no
they say he is Alfar son of a god?<br>
The Elf who can't
decide what to be. A priest, wizard,<br>
druid, healer,
scholar among other jobs. He was gone<br>
for a long time
and rumor has it he has recently come<br>
back. But if
he continues to preach to Dorhak he might<br>
end up with a
smelly sock stuffed in his mouth. Dorhak<br>
giggles at that
though as he avoids a fast moving horse<br>
passing by.
If someone hits his statue and damages it<br>
they will pay
dearly!<br><br>
Fremea
the kind Faerry. Dwarves have little contact<br>
with Faerry as a
general rule. They just don't trust<br>
them at all.
At least with humans you can see the<br>
deception
fast. But with Fae they are pranksters and<br>
like to do wild
things. Dwarves for the most part<br>
do not have a good
sense of humor. But for Fremea<br>
she is a good one
- not that Dorhak knows of another<br>
Fae around except
for Kaylle. But Dorhak knows there<br>
is still darkness
in her. But as a warrior he knows that<br>
darkness can be a
benefit for the right purpose.<br><br>
Kiet
the acrobat who recently threatened to fire his<br>
gardener if he
finds ONE snake in his yard is a funny<br>
man.
The acrobat seems care free but his wizardry background<br>
gives true merit
to the gods. Dorhak has little use for<br>
the gods.
But he can see Kiet cares for them - at least<br>
for what he needs
from them. Maybe after he gains his 40<br>
gold from the
insane blue hair and downs a barrel of rum<br>
he'll visit Kiet
in his new place. He just keeps forgetting<br>
to go over
there. First time he did the cook did not<br>
enjoy him in her
kitchen but never spoke to Kiet about it.<br>
He did bath
recently that week at least a week before!<br><br>
Dorhak
yells at 2 kids who run past almost knocking<br>
him down.
Why do humans seem to treat him as some<br>
odd target that
says 'Knock me down'? He giggles as<br>
he recalls the
slap heard around the world. Well at least<br>
to his mind.
The crazy red head who almost killed him<br>
and then his
justice with that keen slap. She might like<br>
this statue of the
Promenthian Captain. A famed hero in<br>
some old dusty war
the Marentian was in. Some naked fool<br>
man who only used
a sling and a club of all things. He<br>
examines the state
of the naked man. The blue man wanted<br>
him well endowed
but while the customer is always right<br>
it just was weird
to spend hours on that one part for<br>
Dorhak at
least. He wonders if Mae is even still around<br>
or fled to seduce
some old man for his gold. Last he<br>
heard she was at
some brothel. He actually considered<br>
some of those
places but the brothel owners always threw<br>
him out thinking
he was some carnival kid midget who had<br>
a hair
curse.<br><br>
Then
he watches 2 sailors pass by. Sivas has such common<br>
signs of sailors
and crews. He wonders where Mournath went<br>
to and why he
left? More importantly he wonders if he<br>
could get his
share of the gold.<br><br>
Pyan
the quiet hunter he met a few times in some tavern<br>
and drunk the kid
under the table. He just couldn't<br>
hold much
rum. Some humans just can't learn to drink<br>
well! But
Pyan was a good teller of stories.<br><br>
Dorhak
jumps back as a camel spits on the street almost<br>
hitting his
precious statue. Why do the ugly beasts<br>
even show up
here? Aren't they like desert beasts?<br>
Sure ships dock
with such exotic things but they seem<br>
too frequent
here. Ugly beasts that make Dorhak look<br>
quite
handsome. Speaking of ugly beasts he wonders if<br>
Raki knows any
dwarf lore. He'll have to talk to him<br>
if he hasn't gone
off to kill some god lately.<br><br>
Then
there is Unali the woman who can dress to<br>
please nobles in a
court but still use daggers like<br>
a weapon master
uses a great sword. Dorhak finds<br>
her most
fascinating to walk in these diverse worlds<br>
of mud and dirt
yet the palace court. Dorhak also<br>
suspect there is
something about her that he just<br>
can't
place.<br><br>
Dorhak
hugs a wall as a wagon full of grain passes<br>
by Why can't
these fools drive with their eyes open<br>
not closed?
Maybe he can find a nice alley to do<br>
some short
cuts. If he recalls he is only a few miles<br>
from the blue
hair's place. Speaking of blue hair Dorhak<br>
recalls
Z'leyra. the woman who can't decide to be<br>
Healer, Wizard,
Crafter, Warrior, Armorer, Jeweler,<br>
Tanner and now
tailor he hears. Why can't she just<br>
pick a job and
stick with it! Using all those silly<br>
toys of
hers. Then again maybe she'll get some toys<br>
for him
made.<br><br>
Dorhak
passes a tavern and smells rum and sniffs the<br>
air. Maybe
just 5 minutes? No. No! Taverns have<br>
bar fights and he
could lose his prize. Maybe later.<br><br>
What?
What? What was that man saying? Something<br>
about that alley
is full of glass and oil? Should<br>
not go that way?
Fine. He'll take that alley and<br>
head to the
south. Would not do well to slip on<br>
oil and break his
statue.<br><br>
Guy
looked like a sailor needing a brothel though.<br>
Maybe he was
drunk? But no time to argue he is<br>
due soon.<br><br>
[Time: 8:32
am]<br><br>
Dorhak
enters a alley full of trash and crates. He<br>
is wary for drunk
beggars. At least he has his<br>
mace on his hip
for those fools. Giving well earned<br>
gold to beggars -
are humans all mad?<br><br>
There
if he recalls that's Solis Streets some 30 feet<br>
down the
alley. Then a quick right and maybe a mile<br>
to her
place.<br><br>
Suddenly a man exits a door to some place to his right.<br>
He nods and
doesn't see Dorhak at first. This almost<br>
causes a
collision. "Sorry..." he simply says as he<br>
carries a sack of
something. But this forces Dorhak<br>
to move a bit to
the right wall.<br><br>
Dorhak
turns to the back and glares at the man.<br>
But why is the man
looking up? Dorhak shrugs and<br>
then hears a noise
from above. He looks up and sees<br>
a very large net
falling straight for him.<br><br>
Humans
say life can flash before death fast or something<br>
like that.
It seems to take hours for the net to fall.<br>
But he considers
his options. If he runs he has to dodge<br>
at least 4
crates. He could turn back but the man<br>
is there. He
could hug the right wall but surely would<br>
hit the net.
His only option is to the left toward the<br>
door the man
exited.<br><br>
As he
turns left he notices a shadow near the sky and<br>
looks up to see
the sack of whatever coming his way.<br>
His prize!
No! Dorhak hugs his statue and prays that<br>
this man is just
tossing his sack to the ground so<br>
he can avoid the
net. But no! It impacts his head.<br>
Ow! Dorhak
is pushed backwards 2 feet. But he still<br>
holds his
prize! Yes.<br><br>
But
under foot he slips on a piece of trash and he<br>
falls to his
butt. He looks up to see the net now<br>
just a couple feet
above him. Why do humans seem to<br>
love to knock into
him! Can he toss his statue to<br>
the side? It
might break. Maybe he can hug it to<br>
his chest and take
the net.<br><br>
Whoosh! The net that is it seems 12 feet wide falls<br>
on him. But
his status is intact! Yes! Now to get<br>
out of this net
and kill the man. First put the statue<br>
down and pull this
net off.<br><br>
Crack!<br><br>
Something hits his head. Thank goodness for helmets!<br>
Oh. It was a
pretty flower pot. Oh that hurts. Why<br>
does he see
dancing Fae around his head? Why are<br>
they singing now?
Ahh. Darkness no more singing that<br>
is good.<br><br>
Dorhak
rouses up and looks around. Around him there<br>
are now 4 men
including the man who carried the sack.<br>
They are now
ensuring the net is around him. Where<br>
is his
statue? Dorhak panics. Gold first he can<br>
always kill these
men later. Where is it!?<br><br>
Ahh
there it is! The head...and there is the legs<br>
over there..and
that male member he spent hours on<br>
against the
wall. Anger boils up inside as he sees<br>
gold slipping away
from his hands. Now these men<br>
WILL die.<br><br>
Suddenly a man appears from down the hall and<br>
charges
sack-man. The sack-man pulls a short<br>
sword and swings
at the new man. The new man - nice<br>
goatee man Dorhak
calls - ducks easily. The<br>
man draws his own
sword and impales the man with<br>
one fluid
motion.<br><br>
The
other 3 men turn and draw daggers and short<br>
swords. Now
it is a 3 on 1 fight. Dorhak takes<br>
the time to pull
and pull the heavy net off him.<br>
But it will take
some time.<br><br>
Dorhak
can only see open gaps in the net with<br>
flashes of intense
fighting. Goatee man slices<br>
once and twice
taking another man down.<br><br>
Dagger
man slices the Goatee's tunic and this causes<br>
the man a nasty
frown. Dorhak figures it is a nice<br>
silk tunic not to
ruin.<br><br>
Just a
few more feet of this blasted net!<br><br>
Suddenly one of the man falls onto Dorhak. Dorhak<br>
grunts and wraps
the net around his neck and<br>
strangles the
man. Why do human keep knocking into<br>
him!<br><br>
There! Dorhak grabs the man's sword and cuts the net<br>
finally with a
nice blade. Dorhak stands and<br>
tosses the short
sword aside and pulls his mace. Now<br>
to kill this
dagger man.<br><br>
Dorhak
bashes the man on the back and then shoulder<br>
knocking him
down. Then out of pure rage bashes<br>
the man in the
skull. Blood spurts all over the<br>
broken
statue. Dorhak groans and kicks the dead<br>
man three more
times.<br><br>
"Whoa there..." Goatee man speaks.<br><br>
Dorhak
looks around as all of the 4 men are down<br>
or dead. He
raises his mace at Goatee man.<br><br>
"I'm not here to hurt you. We need to figure out<br>
why these
men...want...ahem..you."<br><br>
Dorhak
feel a bit of a insult from that but nods. He<br>
watches as the man
looks at the men. "All sailors based<br>
on their
tattoos. Dorhak has heard of shanghaied people<br>
taken on ships as
slave crew. But Marentia has strong<br>
laws against
such.<br><br>
Goatee
man bends down and checks the first 3 men. Then<br>
checks
Dagger-man. He finds a slip of paper and<br>
reads it.
"Dock 17, Slip 2. Amons Dock yard."<br>
The man ponders
this. "That's for merchant ships."<br>
he stands and
smiles. "Hi. My name is Damon."<br><br>
Damon
notices sack-man moan. He rushes to him and<br>
slaps him a
bit. "Why do you want this midget?"<br><br>
Dorhak
groans he is a dwarf not a midget!<br><br>
"..I need...healer.." Sack man groans.<br><br>
"Sure sure. I know of a great healer. First why
him?"<br><br>
"...more..more...need...more..of us..them...for...<br>
the...ship...them
more..." He then begins to slur and<br>
Damon notices
blood cloud his eyes. Dorhak kicks the<br>
man and Damon
glares.<br><br>
"No need for that son...sir...son..?" Damon
stands.<br><br>
Yes
there is his prize was ruined!<br><br>
"We could wait for the city guards. Spends a few hours<br>
answering
questions on self defense or we could find<br>
this
ship?"<br><br>
Dorhak
looks to the street down the alley and knows<br>
only a few minutes
before someone sees the bodies.<br>
Dorhak grunts and
waves Damon on. They rush down<br>
the alley and
away.<br><br>
As
they quickly move the man speaks. "I actually<br>
own 2 ships
myself. A thriving business up the river<br>
and Cholchara Sea.
"<br><br>
Dorhak
ignores the man he seems way too cherry for an<br>
a man who just
killed at least 3 men.<br><br>
"Not seen many of ...your kind around here. I'm<br>
Captain
Damon. You are...?"<br><br>
Dorhak
grumbles his name wondering why this human wants<br>
to be so
friendly. Is this a trap? Dorhak seems to<br>
faze out the man
as he blabbers on about his ship and<br>
crew. Who
cares! The man is rather handsome though<br>
at least a human
can wear a nice beard!<br><br>
[Time: 9:03
am]<br><br>
The
two end up near the docks. Damon tells him<br>
to wait as he
points to a shed. Dorhak grunts. He<br>
may not be 100%
fluent but he knows the language<br>
well enough now to
be a native. But he just doesn't<br>
trust this
man.<br><br>
"See the sign? It says Dockmaster. I'll go ask<br>
him about the slip
and ship there. See what<br>
it is doing.
Okay?"<br><br>
Dorhak
squints at the sign. Strange lettering but<br>
he doesn't get
it. But it seems to only have one<br>
exit so this Damon
man can't flee to warn city guards.<br>
Dorhak
nods.<br><br>
[Time: 9:12
am]<br><br>
Dorhak
paces back and forth. If this Damon person<br>
left him and is
reporting him to the guards he will<br>
have to pay the
captain back three fold - with a nice<br>
mace spike
head. But finally the captain leaves the<br>
building. and
approaches.<br><br>
"Ship is the Black Depths with Rhias as the Captain.<br>
Her flag is Gom
but between you and me the dockmaster<br>
was probably
bribed. Based on how he reacted. I suspect<br>
Gom is not the
origin. When we dealt with those man<br>
the one that spoke
briefly sounded almost like a southern<br>
dialect from the
south west. Let's go take a look shall<br>
we?" He
waves Dorhak to the left away from the docks and<br>
Dorhak looks
confused. "There is a fishing pier over<br>
this way. It
should give us a good view of the ship."<br><br>
Dorhak
nods and follows the somewhat arrogant captain.<br>
They arrive on a
old wooden dock where there are a half<br>
done men and a
couple kids fishing. Both turn to the<br>
east and look at
the docks about half a mile away. The<br>
sun is low still
on the horizon in the east to the left<br>
of the
docks. So both have to squint a bit to get a good<br>
view.<br><br>
Captain Damon points to a 2nd ship on the docks. "That's<br>
the one.
Flying the Gom flag. Hmmm...looks like a small<br>
merchant ship
probably not a huge hold." He squints and<br>
studies the
ship. "That rigging is not common though.<br>
Look at those iron
braces? There must be some pulley<br>
to drag something
large and heavy from below to shore.<br>
Its not setup now
but there are the ships of that<br>
reinforced
rigging. That ship probably has a crew of<br>
at most
8-10. Probably even only 6. But look at the<br>
deck."<br><br>
Dorhak
nods. There are more than 10 on deck. All<br>
milling
around. They are carrying spears and swords.<br>
Which is not
common for most crews especially at dock.<br>
There must be
18-20 men on deck not 10. Dorhak does notice<br>
3-4 men without
weapons wearing loosely fitting clothing<br>
like Damon
here. <br><br>
"Whatever they wanted with you the answers are probably<br>
on that
ship. Dock master says they are due to leave first<br>
light in the
morning. But notice anything? There is no<br>
cargo on
deck. At least that I see."<br><br>
Captain Damon turns to face Dorhak and smiles clapping<br>
his hands.
"Intriguing no? I know a few friends that<br>
could probably get
inside and see what's up. Course you<br>
can go about your
business and ignore them. But why<br>
you? Why not
some other person? No offense but what<br>
makes you
special? I would see if Farseeker is in town<br>
but he is not in
town. I wonder if Z'leyra is around.<br>
Not talked to her
in almost a year?"<br><br>
Dorhak
grins. Could this man know Z'leyra or is there<br>
another person
named such - which would be weird to have<br>
2 people of such a
odd name.<br><br>
Dorhak
turns to the east and faces the ship with a grin<br>
on his
face.<br><br>
"Oh no you don't! You might take out 3-4 of them before<br>
you are
killed. It'd be a suicide mission alone." Damon<br>
glares at
Dorhak. Damon has seen that look before. <br><br>
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Next
Update....Monday...<br><br>
GM: Happy new
Year! I know I had hoped to start adventure<br>
a month ago. But with 2 IBTS coming in late it just<br>
got delayed and IBTs took longer than expected. I<br>
am still waiting for Fremea's IBT. Tobie had a pc<br>
crash so lost his first draft. As soon as I get it<br>
I will hold game to finish it. But I like round easy<br>
dates to recall and 1/1 is a nice date! Rather than<br>
recalling the adventure starting on say 1/17 or some<br>
such odd day. Not OC in this regard but I like just<br>
simple dates. :) So we will start Dorhak's adventure.<br>
As it is his adventure it is assumed he is party leader<br>
as Z was with the last adventure. Will this be the<br>
last adventure - #8 - New Horizons? It will probably<br>
take us till 2019. That'll be our 20th year doing<br>
this pbem non stop. Most give up after 6 months.<br>
Would I stop on top? or continue? We shall see. That<br>
is a couple years from now. :)<br><br>
As reminder doing updates will be hit/miss. I'm off<br>
Tue/Wed and so Monday updates are likely 80% chance<br>
based on if I work on it Saturday. Friday's updates<br>
are more erratic based on factors. I rarely have time<br>
to do much update work Thursday so if I don't at least<br>
try to do it on Wednesday it might be delayed till<br>
Saturday or Friday. So keep this in mind. For now<br>
I will do next update Monday since I am waiting for<br>
Fremea's IBT and will be busy some of Wednesday.<br><br>
Welcome to the game and if you knock Dorhak over be<br>
sure to say sorry!<br><br>
For old/new players see website for PBEM characters<br>
of campaign file. You can read up on the folks mentioned<br>
here (Damon and other dwarf).<br><br>
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