Board Thread:Midian Play-by-Post/@comment-24302820-20141007123300

23-24 Zarathus, 790 PAS

The big news currently is the wedding of Jenae Teller and Bobby Baker tomorrow.

Samaa met Lartek, a quietly fearsome tribeless Hobgoblin of the far north. He's rather handsome, as scarred up Hobgoblins go, and he and Samaa seem quite infatuated with one another. He briefly caught Talania's eye, but he didn't have any reciprocal interest. He came down to try his hand at one of the Modules. He is quite aware of the danger, but considers the possibility of his extended family (his band) starving this winter to be a far greater risk. He was rather in awe at meeting a living legend: the Gargoyles were considered by most to be a myth, but this warrior places great stock in the stories of his people.

For reasons unknown, half of the followers of Amelioration have vanished. It is unknown at this time if they have quit to join a rival cult or otherwise gave up the faith, if they are dead, or what happened. No bodies have turned up, nor do their families know anything. Only 11 followers remain: Rek, the Brothers Li, four Aerenidae, and four Formourian locals. The remainder are all quite nervous, and are drawing closer to one another.

In brighter news, Archmagus Albion is offering a secured vault to aid in Adrik's quest. It seems that he has tried to learn more of Waters Way, and wants to know more. The vault is secured even from him: only Adrik would have the key. A magic-dimming field suffuses the room somehow. Curses and other dangerous magics would be substantially diminished, if not outright nullified, at least whle in the vault. No summoned beings can enter there, nor can it be entered by such magics as Ghost Form or psionic teleport. He also has some ideas about hiding its location via scrying and psionics. As Albion needs an almost constant stream of magic to support his necrologic form--and there's no indication that he's lying (though he does lack a face) he may be honest about the vault. He certainly seems sincere enough. He is no longer pompous towards Adrik, but his lackey still doesn't seem to trust the monk, or perhaps he's just jealous of the familiar tone.

Ambrose finally received his visitors from the Association, specifically from his home barony (whichever that is). In light of his successes in the northern lands, they have made him a marshal. Marshal Beauregard now bears the silver star and shield. They also offered him an additional responsibility--more than offered, really--with being the guard and seneschal of an embassy they want to establish in Citadel. Initially, this will be just an informal mission that supports their barony, but they are hoping to develop it into a full embassy connecting Formour with the entire Association, perhaps even all of the Western Territories. They have Talania in mind for the ambassador's post.

Ashton was lost in a harsh and dangerous land for five years (from his perspective) separated from the Wanderers. Eventually, the Ranger, Wizard, Doctor, and Engineer rescued him and brought him back to Citadel in the land of two moons.

Speaking of returning Minerans, Hank showed up as a guest of the groom's family at the Teller-Baker wedding. He had apparently met Bobby's grandmother during his travels. He arrived with Through-The, which is not that unusual. However, the couple arrived on a strange two-wheeled technomantic device, she was wearing the Engineer's outfit, and he looked twenty years younger. He can now also hide his skull-mask tattoo at will.

The Corpse Cleanup Company is already doing quite well. It doesn't hurt that the slasher gang has now moved into the neighbourhood. As some of the latest attacks happened right between Falcor's office/home and the Henhouses, attacks were witnessed by some of the Aerenidae. It was discovered that the assailants were masked children, using straight razors, and are between the ages of six and eleven. Much discussion was had over how to find and stop these kids.

Xiv was sighted in Overcreek. He seems to have heard about the return of some Minerans, and possibly Gunna specifically. There's more drama for our little technomancer: while Jong is going to stay and be a father to his daughters, it seems that he and Gunna might no longer be a couple. Ashton was already hitting on her.

The grass roots campaign to elect Jim as Lord Mayor of Citadel is growing. Posters supporting him are appearing across the city, posters not made by the official campaign itself. Supporters are gathering in public meetings to discuss the possibility of an election, and how they can get Jim into office.

The big pre-wedding drama was a near riot outside the Roost. About 40 angry and thirsty protesters claimed that the Roost had an unlimited supply of potable water, and were selfishly hogging/selling it at a dear price. Racist rabble-rousers were behind this, as Falcor discovered. While the Hobgoblin patrons distracted them and tried to calm them, Tink and Gunna set up a hose. Unfortunately, this not only drained the water supply of the Roost and Coop, the steam-backed pressure builder heated the water to near-boiling temperature, causing minor burns on the rioters. Ambrose had already separated the protesters with children, giving them water from the kitchen... until the supply suddenly bottomed out. The primary aggravator was injured, interrogated, and sent away. He died of his injuries shortly thereafter, much to Falcor and Samaa's delight. The troupe learned that someone named John sent the agitators, and that they would meet in an alley near the Pheonix, in Riverside. It's a bit dismaying that people finally listen to Ms \m/'s crazy plans only after she's perpetually distracted with motherhood and relationship drama.

Kritot caught some sort of illness, most likely from a corpse. He's still working both jobs, though. Unknown to the others guarding the secret meeting aboard the Kadje Morsi, they are all being given magical arms and armour as Watchers of the Accord, whatever that means.

Mel-tek was injured in a forging accident. A bloom-pop burned his arms, hands, and torso. He kept his injuries hidden from his fellow guards, though not from Sakwa. She gave him a leave of absence to heal, but this freed up his time to attend guard shifts. Fortunately, no one attending the meeting (if any: no one ever seemed to board) noticed that their guardians were sick and injured.

Bad news for Rakhel: not only is she out of magical reagents for inks, but her stock of regular ink dried out as well. Jacob stopped in briefly with the 'good' news that he's teaming up with someone who A) can ferret out Fantasts, and B) has some sort of mystic device or spell that can assault them and allow Jacob to extract their hearts. Jacob never mentioned Wesley's name, and does not know the connection between his new partner, Albion, and Talmir. Wesley's ankh can use Rebuke, and allows Extrinsics to be voluntarily banished to their plane of origin to avoid further damage or destruction. This banishment is for a minimum of 101 years, 101 days. Leaving their home plane afterwards requires a successful saving throw versus magic against a target value of 20. Demons, furthermore, must also be summoned, and cannot leave Hell voluntarily, time or saving throw notwithstanding. A proper summons (after the time has elapsed) would force a saving throw, however. Talmir may have a way of backtracing the attempted curse (that tried to use his Hush Rune) back to Wesley. Consequences will never be the same.

Though Runic has had her Deathlings/Underdarks watching the 'haunted' house 24-10, somehow someone was able to enter. Lacrimosa saw someone inside, but was not able to get a good look nor to get off a shot. She then heard someone screaming inside. She said it sounded like a little girl. No one was seen leaving the property afterwards.

Seth sent a letter to his former mentee, Seito. It seems that the reason he was not able to meet sooner was due to injuries received as a result of containing adventurers who had escaped the confines of their Module. Seth did not yet reveal to either Seito nor Magnus that the pirate ships responsible for the deaths of Seito's parents is the same as the one selected as the meeting site for the signing of the Amaranthine Accords.

Lots of diplomats have been seeking out Talania. She didn't remember her offer to be the ambassador between the Principality of Malachai and... It was never fully established whether she was to represent Magnose Primera or Formour. Once word got out that she was being sought after, other envoys came looking for her as well. She has thus far avoided all contact with any of them.

Cassandra was 'rescued' by persons unknown (most likely the one assailing her) then captured, and is awaiting trial.

The new hires at the Roost are doing quite well. They got up to speed just in time for a large spike in business. The current theory is that the upswing is business is at least partly related to the drought, and the Roost has lots of crystal-clear icewater.

The Teller-Baker wedding was wonderful. The reception and ceremony was held behind the Roost. The pub was closed for the occasion. Gunna let the little ones help with decoration, so some of the flower arrangements near the ground were a bit off. Their hearts were in the right place though, and Gunna made up for it with a spectacular fireworks display. She readily admits that Bobby and Jin helped out a great deal with that. While no one really knows exactly what Pollo's thoughts were--indeed exactly how much thinking a chicken even such as he can do--but there were no insects or other pests that might be stirred up disrupting any of the festivities. He seemed to watch the events proudly. Though Jenae is not at all religious, Bobby is, and insisted upon a Lightwalker priestess performing the ceremony. Jenae's dress was stunning. It was fashioned like a giant inverted monique iris, in the traditional purple of a Temple of the Light wedding. With all of Bobby's insistence on tradition and religion, Jenae did him one better; she refused to live with him until after they were officially married. As Jenae is a popular bartender with lots of friends and a big family (not to mention all of those wanting to schmooze her father) her side of the isle filled with invitees rather quickly. To fill out the groom's side, regulars at the Roost were allowed to attend. Bobby's grandmother finally arrived just in time. It seems she came into money courtesy of her late husband (she had recently remarried) and showered the guests in gifts, mostly silver items. During the ceremony, Tink and Ambrose slipped away to reanimate the chief agitator from the day prior. Their plan was to pretend he was completely intoxicated rather than Undead, and have him lead a drunken conga-line towards the mysterious John.

I'm adding this thread because I foolishly dated the previous two.

I make no special claims to accuracy, veracity, or sobriety. In fact, I might just lie. I might lie even within these, my personal campaign notes, in order to later mock a player. Yes, you.

The only thing that you can do about that is to post your own notes first. You'll even get experience points for the effort. I don't care how self-aggrandising the post is. Use the Bragging skill. Go for it. I dare you, fucken.  