[pnpgm] Game Update #16 - File #49 - Will's IBT
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HT Aliaver/Player Character Name Type Status/Notes Sex
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R1.John Haight...........Arawn.............Druid .Normal/Alfar Ma
--.Tobie Bonahoom........Fremea............Sidh....Normal/Faerry Fe
R3.Mark Murtha...........Kell..............Trader..Normal/Human..Ma
R1.David Sanders.........Kiet.Sunan........Acrobat Normal/Human Ma
R4.J H Hooten............Raban.Usherwood...Bard....Normal/Human..Ma
W4.Wout Broere...........Unali.............Ninja...Normal/Human Fe
R1 John.Stowman..........Will..............Hunter..Normal/Human..Ma
R4.Alex Koponen..........Z'leyra...........Healer..Normal/Human Fe
Animals: Corona [Eagle] Z'leyra, Squirt (Ferret) Kell
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[Recap]
From Kiet: [Re: Actions]
Kell is mighty nice...
GM: Ack.
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[New Stuff]
[Augado 11th - Sepes 24th, 1634TH]
[Location: Marentia (Maren)]
[Augado 11]
Will is glad to be alive. After the battle at Rising Mount
it was very clear death had come to greet him. To be surprised
by some acid of all things not a weapon but acid! He just hoped
that the Intendant was killed slowly and very painfully.
Even though Z'leyra helped him he still has injuries and it
will take time to heal physically and mentally. As he arrives
in Sivas he notices Zhou's body. He can't recall when he died.
But the story from Strie'bog is that he died saving a girl from
one of those flying Vong ships. A heroic death to some but to
Will a bit of a stupid death. Especially on the eve of leaving.
That night at Cholan's tavern the party swings in full. Raban
comes down also healed by Z'leyra and Arawn. Will notices the
Sidh talking to the other Sidh and whispering. Something about
that bugs him all their secrets. If only half their secrets
were known by humans, magic could be even greater.
Then the strange man gives his gifts. He can't believe he
got a ink set? Then he realizes it is no ordinary set. It
seems the High Elder wanted to help out each person's strengths.
When the party talks about their plans he asks Chion to take
him to the Dark Lands. His cabin is there and he needs to check
on it. Chion agrees and just shrugs.
[Augado 12]
The next morning Will rouses from his wine soaked state.
When did he spill red wine on his nice tunic? For that
matter why did does he smell like the perfume Cholan's wife
uses? What happened last night? He figures it might not be
a good idea to ask.
Three teleports later Will ends up in the Dark Lands. Why
does the sun have to be so bright? But at least here the trees
shade most of it. It takes a bit of time to get his bearings
then he teleports to his cabin.
With weapon drawn he lands inside his cabin. But it is
empty. No one has used his cabin it seems. He heads outside
and looks for his traps. It has almost been 4 months since the
last time he was here. He finds dead animals all over the place.
Rather their bones. As he is checking one trap a wolf growls and
he sees it leap at him. The wolf tackles him to the ground and
then licks his face.
Will is glad to see his pet wolf alive. But he is sad to see
him a bit skinny. By now near winter he should be more heavy.
It is clear the wolf ate all his trapped animals but may not have
done well on general hunting. He isn't unhealthy but he is about
20 pounds under weight for this time of year.
After some playing around with the wolf the woodsman checks the
traps. The bones are pretty much scattered all over the place.
Aside from the wolf other predators have taken their share of
the buffet of trapped animals. Will is a bit upset to find little
pelts. Insects and the weather has not been kind to the fur and
pelts. Especially after 3 odd months. But there is one trap set
near a small creek that has a fine otter pelt almost 95% complete.
In fact the meat is all gone and not much needs to be done. He
can easily clean and sell it soon. The other pelt is a small
husk of fur from a rabbit but it will not sell for much but he can
at least get something for it.
Will decides to do some exploring and maybe find a neighbor or two.
Catch up on local gossip. See if the domain Master is still alive
and such news. He'll go back to Sivas tomorrow.
After hours of visiting and exploring Will walks back home with
his pet wolf. He realizes he is a bit hungry and decides to do
some hunting for dinner. He decides to hunt for a rabbit. After
3 failed attempts to get one he finally gets one. This should
replace the other rabbit fur. The other who knows might make a small
hat or something with it.
Back at that cabin, Will practices a set of spells to improve
them. He casts purification 5 times, Knowledge and speed 13
times that day.
[Augado 13]
Will walks back to the citadel. He'll see if he can say good bye
to Kiet, Kell and Arawn. he can't find Arawn but he finds the other
two. He is shocked to see Zhou walk by and nod. The woodsman does
not get scared but when he does that he wonders if the wine destroyed
his brain or he is seeing a ghost. Will stares at the man walking
away and wonders if he is still sleeping Then Kell explains that
Chion helped to bring him back.
After a couple teleports Will ends up back in Sivas on the roof
of Cholan's tavern. He takes a couple beers and then decides to
head to Z'leyra's manor. He hopes the direction are good. After
a bit of time he finds the manor. He plans to stay here for the
time being to learn from her and maybe Kiet if he is around.
As Will is walking he is about 2 miles from the manor. He is
in the city margins and seeing mostly farm house and a estate
or two. The dirt road has traffic but mostly peasants and
farmers. As he walks by one clump of woods he is surprised by
bandits who appear. Will doesn't even flinch. If they were
3 or 4 he might take them on. But he is still recovering and
outnumbered. Will looks down the road to the west and decides
to speak a few words in Katai which the bandits do not know. He
grabs the wolf by the shoulder and urges him not to attack as they
walk toward him giving the usual orders to drop coin. As the leader
gets right in front of him the woodsman and wolf teleport 2 miles
down the road away from the thugs. Will makes a note to inform
Z'leyra's she lives in a bad neighborhood.
That night at the manor after dinner, Will is outside walking
the wolf. He notices that the wolf and that Corona eagle that
Z'leyra have don't seem to like each other. Just hopes the
instincts on the wolf don't kick in and eat the bird. As Will
is walking the grounds he notices two wagon full of people maybe
6-7 people singing, laughing and playing music They are not
dressed like farm peasants but more like hill folk coming from
the hills going to town. The wild people seem to ignore him
and continue to celebrate something as they ride past.
That night Will casts Speed to improve his skill in the spell
by doing it 7 times.
[Augado 14]
Will decides over the next few weeks he will try to learn
some new skills, improve others and work on others. He asks
Z'leyra to teach him to complete his first aid skill. It
should take a couple weeks. Z'leyra explains she will have
a erratic teaching schedule not sequential but maybe every
couple days or so. Which makes Will wonder why that odd
schedule but he doesn't argue. He also wants to improve
some carrying and fletcher skill over the next few weeks in
the odd times not learning healer. He wants to learn bowyer
skill so will have to hire a person to teach him. He will have
to go to the city to learn that.
Z'leyra will give books to help teach the first aid but Will
can not read Marentian so she has to order special Katai first
aid books which seems odd since she can't read Katai.
[Augado 16]
Will is coming from town back to Z'leyra's manor when he
spots a large group of soldiers - no an army - moving south
to north through a large field. They seem decked out with armor
and weapons. A peasant also watches explains they are on some
kind of drills. The army must be about 80-100 guys. Soon they
lose sight of the men over the hill and both men move on.
[Augado 17]
Will goes to Cholan's tavern to use Z'leyra's language
necklace. He finally learns Marentian from rough words
to a full language.
[Augado 18]
Will visits Cholan's tavern to use the necklace again
and learns from Cholan cerulean.
Back at Z'leyra's manor but away from it to ensure none
of his spells interfere he casts Purification 26 times on
the ground to improve his skill.
[Augado 19]
Will is out exploring the hills looking for good game just
in case some hunting is ever needed. Most of the game here in
this area of Marentia seem to be light from rabbits, fox and
nothing bigger than deer. But most of the good deer are on the
east side of town not here.
Will is walking back on the dirt road back to the manor when
he encounters a confused man. He is wearing Bhamotin style tunics
cut low on the neck and chest. He is trying to read a map and
confused. The man speaks but it is a language he does not know.
That is when he decides learning some more languages would be
useful. The map is a city map of where he can only guess to be
Sivas. The man points "See-vas?" Will shrugs and nods. The
man asks some questions and both do not seem to communicate
well. Then the man makes some gestures with his hand and Will
finally figures he means water or ships. Will nods and then points
to the north west which is the water district of the city. After
about 20 minutes he convinces the man to go back east to the city
streets. Will pulls out his journal and inks some directions using
gestures and the sand. He pounds on his hand to show how many
blocks and direction. The man seems to understand or just at this
point wishes to leave the man with the growling dog. He finally
leaves and Will decides he hope he makes it but really doesn't care
either way.
[Augado 21]
Will is in Sivas looking around the shops today. He encounters
a crowd around a pottery shop. People are talking back and forth
and he realizes the man is giving an out of business sale. He is
throwing things out the door - literally. People are buying pottery
worth copper coins for brass bits. Will can't understand merchants
and after watching Kell understands them less. Aren't they to be
going after profit?
Then Will notices across the street below a awning of a shoe shop
a female and a young boy are standing staring. Not so unusual for
the scene about. But the female is smiling. Will makes his way
over to examine the window to look for shoes but tries to watch
and listen. He later hears the female say, "that will teach him
not to cheat me!" The boy just shrugs and looks nervous. Will
can see a amulet around her neck now and figures she is some sort
of witch or wizard. He wonders if the merchant has been put
under some spell to go crazy. But then Will doesn't really care
and moves on after watching the spectacle for a bit.
Later Will visits Cholan's tavern one more time to use the
language necklace and learns Ba'ru.
[Augado 25]
Today Will practices his speed spell 91 times in order to
improve his skill. He makes Z'leyra, Kiet and Corona very
dizzy as he just goes round and round and round the manor.
Soon a bit of a trail I made and the stewart asks him to at
least move in a wider circle.
[Augado 26]
Will casts another Knowledge spell today to gain some
basic insight.
[Augado 30]
Will is in the markets today and it is warm for the season.
He is looking at visiting a tavern that is advertising singing
and some risque dancing. As he approaches he is stopped by
a guard. He tells Will he doesn't want to enter and move along.
This of course makes Will more interested and now wanting to
see for sure. He shrugs and steps toward the door but the guard
stops him. "Look mister. The show isn't great go down 2 places
and the girl is much better."
Will is happy to be without his wolf or he'd sic the animal
on him. But he decides he should see for himself. He finds a
table and waits for the entertainment without the guard bothering
him again. A bar wench comes and gets his drink order. She says
there is a 3 Silver charge for the show and cover for drinks. Will
does not the customs and figures the show must be worth it. He
places 3 silver and some copper on the table. She scoops up the
coins and mumbles something that Will doesn't get.
As the show starts a young gal in her 30s appears. She sings
and dances. Toward the end she removes her veil to reveal a very
quaint face. One that only a mother would love. She continues
to dance and removes some pieces of clothing to reveal a very
quaint body that has seen its better days. Will realizes the guard
was right but wonders why he is guarding this place? Even Unali
and Z'leyra are much better looking.
Will starts to argue the situation with the bar keep after the
show but he points to a sign n Marentian. But the woodsman can
not read Marentian. "No refunds." The bar keep argues and 3
very burly guys who looked like they life wagons onto a ship by
hand surround him. Will might be able to take them but the bar
keep threatens the city guard and that might lead to questions
he doesn't want to answer and then coming back to question Z'leyra.
since he is staying there. Will decides to just leave. As he
does the guard just frowns and realizes he is getting a nice cut
of the profits he guesses.
After some more shopping it is now dusk and getting late. Will
is about to leave the markets when he is stopped by man in
uniform. He goes into this speech on how great it is to work in
the Marentian armed forces like the army or the navy. Will
listens for awhile then tells him he will not join. But Will
is starting to think there is some need for a army with recent
army drills and all this.
[Augado 31]
Will practices his lighting spell 14 times today zapping
trees at least 9 times with it only failing 5 times.
[Sepes 1]
After a day of watching Z'leyra at the forge, Will is outside
in the cool and quiet air. It is around 3am since he can't get
to sleep. Even his wolf friend is snoozing out front.
As he watches the stars and the clouds move he notices a group
of birds flying over and then soon land on the roof of the manor.
He then notices Corona which he can spot even in the darkness due
to his bright white color. There must be 6 eagles as he figures
them to be eagles or hawks. One he notices very close to Corona
and wonders if he has a gal-pal-eagle. He wonders if Z'leyra
knows of Corona's friends. He watches a bit as the birds seem to
commune together and then fly off leaving Corona on his perch. He
knows that the Shaman must have a Eagle tonah and wonders if in some
unconscious way she summoned more eagles here while she sleeps?
[Sepes 3]
Will has spent most of the afternoon hunting to the west of
the manor. Deep in the wilderness of the hills away from even
farm land. Hunting was decent but nothing like the forests back
home. It is now around 3am and Will is in his tent with his wolf
pet.
Suddenly the wolf perks up and begins to growl. This makes
Will around and dazed as he opens his eyes. Then Will can see
a shape moving in front of the campfire. A large shape even more
than his wolf. The shape comes around and Will grabs his weapon.
The animal shreds the side of the tent flap and sticks his head
in revealing a waste lion. This is when the wolf lunges. The
wolf leaps through the flap forcing the lion to back up. But the
wolf fails to make contact with it.
The waste lion turns and claws at the wolf but he leaps away
just in time. Will leaps outside in his underwear but is glad
to have his buckskins on for some armor as it was cool. he
thrusts his tulwar hitting the lion in the side but his tough
hide takes no damage.
The wolf is able to bite the lion in the side but her tough
hide protects him.
The lion turns to Will but Will is able to leap back just as
she claws at him.
Will takes the time to side step and then thrust at the lion
piercing her left shoulder doing 6 points of damage.
The wolf leaps on her back and tries to bite her neck but the
thick mane protects her.
Will slices her side deep into ribs doing 16 more points of
damage to her.
This time the Lion charges Will and bites him on the side
ribs but his armor blocks the blow this time.
This time the wolf bites her leg doing 1 point of damage to
her.
Will stabs the lion in her right shoulder doing the final
damage to kill her.
Will takes the time to look around. After a few minutes
no sign of a shaman so figures the lion was alone. It is
strange to have a lion so close to the city but figures she
was hungry.
Will enters the tent to get some pants on and then brings
out some knives to carve her up. By dawn the hide of the
waste lion is taken off. Will has heard the hide can be
quite worth some money.
[Sepes 4]
After cleaning the waste lion hide and borrowing a horse
Will go to the Sivas market to sell it. He is given 7 gold
a gold less than worth due to the damage of his blade. But
he is happy with that bonus.
[Sepes 5]
After a few weeks of off and on study time, Will has repairs
his buckskin armor and his right damaged buckskin that was
destroyed. He also gets his other armor and weapons repairs
by shops in town.
[Sepes 8]
Will is walking back to the manor when he finds on the dirt
road 8 people on the ground. He rushes to find 2 are dead
and the other 6 are dying. Wounds like cuts, stabs and
even some burns are seen. He tries to learn what he has
on first aid and triages. The most serious though is a
lung stab and he can't do much for her. He orders the wolf
to go back to the manor to fetch Z'leyra and hopes she
understands.
Almost 8 minutes later with the help of Corona guiding
them Z'leyra and her stewart arrive to help out. But the
one with the lung stab has died and the other 5 can be
treated. Soon only minor treating is needed not magic. One
wakes up to explain they were attacked by bandits.
This is when Will curses himself. If he had killed the
8 bandits awhile back this might not have happened. Sometimes
fate can be fickle. A day later the city guard beefs up
patrols and rounds up three of the bandits. The other bandits
are being tracked but rumors soon are heard they are fleeing
the city.
Back at the manor Will tries to relieve his stress and
frustration by casting some spells to practice. He casts
a Knowledge spell and lightning 5 more times with only 1
failure that time.
[Sepes 15]
Will is going to town this afternoon to look for a good set
of knives for hunting. As he is on the dirt road near the
manor some 2 miles away or so he notices four men walking
toward him. Will's wolf begins to grown and the men pull
weapons when they are 30 feet away. "That's the one that
got away!"
Will realizes these are four of the 8 bandits from the
other day. Guess the rumors of them leaving are wrong. He
pulls his own tulwar and grins now its a bit of a challenge
but better odds than 8.
The Wolf lunges at one but he dodges just in time.
Two of the bandits attack the wolf but fail to hit the quick
animal. Two of the other two bandits swing their swords at Will
and both miss as well.
Will stabs one of the men doing 6 points knocking him to the
ground.
The wolf lunges for one bandit's left arm bites down but
slides past missing skin.
Two of the bandits stab the wolf in his right doing 6 and 2
points of damage knocking the wolf back and dazed.
Will swings at the other bandit but fails to hit.
The wolf badly wounded limps forward he tries to bite
one of the bandits but misses.
One bandit stabs the wolf again doing 3 more points of
damage to his left leg.
The other 2 bandits turn on Will. One fails to hit but
the other stabs Will in his left center ribs doing 14 points
of damage. Will realizes then that he could die here on a dirt
road by bandits of all things!
Seeing his master badly wounded the wolf lunges one bandit
doing 9 points as he rips the man's throat apart killing him.
One bandit swipes at the wolf but fails to hit the agile
beast. The other bandit swings at Will but at the last instant
his hand slips and the sword falls out of his hand as he fumbles.
Will takes that chance to impale the bandit in the chest
killing him instantly.
The wolf bites the last bandit's leg doing 1 point. The
bandit sees his friends down decides it is time to run and
runs away.
Will dazed from his own blood loss does not want to give
chase. He orders the wolf down and brings his bow around
and loads it. He makes careful aim of the fleeing bandit
and fires. The arrow hits him in the left liver doing 3
points of damage but the man still struggles to run. Will
fires again and this one kills the man as the arrow hits
him in the center back.
Will goes to each bandit and ensures they will not see
daylight again and stabs them. He checks them and finds
about 12 copper and some brass bits. He then limps back
to the manor so Z'leyra can heal him and the wolf.
He doesn't care about the bodies as they deserve to die
especially after wounding his wolf!
[Sepes 18]
Will is leaving the library where Kaylle works after he
was checking into some information on tanning. It is now
around 7pm and dark. He is riding his horse down a poor
area of town. He notices some house is in a uproar with
a man in rich silks and some city guards. Will soon learns
the man is a tax collector and is now evicting the family
from their home. He is threatening to jail them if they do
no comply. He watches the scene and would not risk angering
the city and thus the king. Even he could not elude that
trouble. But he now understands why he likes a cabin in the
woods than some city home. Less rules and neighbors to bug
you.
[Sepes 21]
Will is walking near the manor exercising with the wolf
who is recovering from wounds in the bandit battle. His
limp is gone and he can run fast now.
It is mid afternoon when two men walk by and suddenly
stop arguing. One explains they are both entertainers
and comedians. He wishes to ask if he could listen to
a joke and see if its funny.
"What has 2 legs and bleeds?" Will shrugs. "A half goblin."
Will stares at the man like he is not there.
"Ok. So let's see. Why do you never ask for a dwarf to
pay for drinks?"
Will considers that but never met a dwarf.
"Because he's always a little short."
The other man laughs at that and Will almost raises a side of
his lip.
"Ok. This is our best joke really. Should we use it for
the King? A elf, dwarf and human are out enjoying drinks.
Suddenly they find a fly in each of their glasses. The Elf
covers it up with a cloth and pushes it to the side. The
human reaches in and grabs the fly and lets it go. The dwarf
snatches it and yells at it. "You spit that out NOW!"
Will decides that it is time to move on and begins to walk
on but as he turns he gives a slight grin at that joke. Maybe
he'll tell Arawn that one.
As the two men walk away they continue on. Telling each
other jokes. "A human female finds her husband in bed with
a female halfling. The wife says "I thought you were not
going to cheat one me anymore!" The husband says, "I have
can't you tell I'm cutting back!"
Will casts another knowledge spell tonight so he can
gain some insight on a few things.
[Sepes 24]
The night of the party for Ben'dar and his soon to be wife.
Will does not care much for these kind of affairs but he is
at least a ally and pal. As Will enters Cholan's tavern of
all the party members he is the one with the most change.
His muscles are bigger and clearly showing more confidence.
He could easily handle twice what he was carrying in Katai
so that big armor might even be no big deal now.
Actions? Comments?
Next Update....Monday?
GM: Will's IBT was much easier than Arawn's as you can see
and will be much easier than Z'leyra's. We are all done
except for Z'leyra's which I am working on currently.
It could take as little as 1 week or 3 depending on
how complicated it is. So I doubt I will have a update
Monday but never know. After her IBT then we can start
the adventure. Those who made gifts can then present
them at the tavern and such. The gist is that Ben'dar
is having a pre-wedding party as an excuse to meet on
Sepes 24 that night. Stay tuned. You guys have had
3 months of down time so now its time to get active again.
GM: So far it has been a fun IBT period. Lot of diverse
actions. Some playing to the great view of society
and others playing to one ego. While I allow this
period to do anything I tend to as always prefer
low level characters to the mega characters. If I
may say so, Kiet is one such character I really enjoy.
Though I've urged him to fight to get experience he
could have spent his IBT doing that to improve himself.
But not do in that aspect. So he is playing the most
challenging party member of the group. I enjoy
characters like Xian who do not improve to improve
sakes. Anyone can sit all day doing spells to get
to MEL20. But why? Once you become the best then
what challenge is there? It is like being a natural
magician or a god what challenge is there? This
is why my character Xian is the wimpy one but I
find him to be the best in terms of personal challenge.
Anyone can be a Raban and punch a god. But who can
stand their ground knowing certain death is there
with nothing but a war staff? That is more fun to
me than a one hit kill to a god. :) Don't get
me wrong I don't care what you guys do and encourage
it. But in terms of the Hall of Fame there are 2
halls for me. Those who strive with the challenges
and those who just pump up and wave tehir wands for
weeks on end. Characters like Xian, Strie'bog, Triest,
Balrog and even Trembyl are those in one hall. Those
like Raban, Varange and the High Elder in another. Again
this doesn't mean they are worse or such just in my
humble opinion I prefer certain play styles over others.
This party has many powerful characters and that forces
me to increase the bad guys and bad aspects making it
more a challenge. I mean the days where the party
had trouble with simple bandits is long gone. Now it
has to be a group of 50 demons to even be a challenge.
No one should take this personally. I've felt this
way for 30 years much before this group showed up. Even
back in D&D days where certain folks got the warehouse
of Charm of Death, Bag of holding where one can hold
a manor inside, the super dopper sword of doom and of
course the rare armor made by a god. We've all seen
those guys and the lack of growth. I just MYSELF
prefer growth and a challenge. I've even played one
legged beggars since it was nothing but a challenge.
BUt with that said we aren't playing every weekend.
IN 13 years we've gone only 3 maybe 4 years of actual
game time. So growth in a pbem is slow. So for those
who wish to sit around waving wands like crazy to get
all spells to EL15 or make magicla toys or become EL10
in every weapon known on the planet more power to you.
Life is short. Game life is shorter. So do what
YOU want to do. .Ignore a old rambling GM. :)
GM: Will's Skills -
Skill Expertise Notes
Fletcher 10 +2 EL
Carrying 10 Learned
Bowyer 22 Learning still
Healer (1st aid) 36 Learned
Tulwar 36 +1 EL/Depends on Stat changes
Marentian Learned
Cerulean Learned
Ba'ru Learned
CEP: 96
GM: Spells - Summary
Expertise Notes
Teleport 60
Purification 109 +4 EL
Speed 247 +4 EL
Lightning 162 +4 EL
Knowledge 59 +2 EL
MEP: 992
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