Rising Above

Rowe haunted the maze of hallways that connected the temple’s quarters, meeting rooms, audience chambers, meditation rooms, and game rooms all day since leaving the balcony overlooking the gardens. He couldn’t get Bronwyn’s sacrifice and his friends’ silence on what she’d told them out of his mind. Eventually he began to see things as they were now, however. He couldn’t change what she’d done, and he couldn’t change the decisions that had been made about him but against his will. What he *could* do something about was what still remained of the future.

The first thing he realized was that he was not the only one that had been hurt by the loss of a loved one. Early that day, he’d spoken with his father and told him the truth. Sir Kanderus was a knight of the realm of Arcasia, entrusted with enforcing the peace and the king’s law in the conquered provinces of Riall. That included Carn and the surrounding land.
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Lansing Names New CEO

Tabitha Warren-Lansing, the first family member of the venerable Lansing clan to head the family business in over fifty years has been named Chief Executive of this system-wide technology congromorate.

Lansing has been hit by a series of scandals and accusations of corruption in the last few years and Ms. Lansing’s goal is to bring the company back to it’s priorities and service to the community of nations and its stockholders.

Vanguard III Followup

The Vanguard III mission to Rigel, lead by the EAS Endeavor has reported some new facinating science.  The Meredith, a science vessel exploring Rigel B/C has more importantly discovered the remains of an ancient intelligent civilization that possibly exixted upwards of 10 million years ago to as recently as 100,000 years ago.  The details will be classified for some time as the scientific community reviews the artifacts.  On a more somber tone, several memvers of a Meredith away team were killed in a cavern collapse in one of the digs.  The official announcement is 3 dead, 4 injured, 1 missing; however the names are being withheld pending contact with relatives.

Personal Pain

The grim-faced cleric had returned from his journey to his father’s home that morning. His emotions were stretched tight in a painful knot over what Bronwyn had done. The fact that his friends had let it happen felt like a twist of the knife that had already been slammed in his gut.

He’d read the letter she’d left for him at last when he was alone in his room at the temple. He didn’t know how he knew where he was going as he strode swiftly up corridors and empty stairways in the temple of Torn. His mind was wholly on what she had told him.
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Adventure Log: Session the Sixth

Rowe discovered that Naya was romantically seeing Valerian, Crown Prince of Arcasia! He also knows Bronwyn is up to something she refuses to discuss with him. Rowe decided to go to bed. He had a lot of studies to work on and some potions to brew.

Kestra and Bronwyn returned and joined Naya. They talked about sex and baths in tubs.

We fought a carrion crawler but defeated it. Next round we faced off against 4 sword wraiths and an immolith. This was a long, hard battle and we barely won.  We then fought basilisks, angels of valor and spider-men demons. Suulwyn was badly injured in this fight, as well as Sirelia. Then we fought a bunch of fire creatures such as salamanders. Continue reading “Adventure Log: Session the Sixth”

Kestra and Bronwyn

After practice, Kestra decided to find Bronwyn and seek her advice.

“What’s up?” Bronwyn asked as the Fae approached her.

Kestra answered, “Hi Bronwyn, I wanted to see how you are doing and was looking to get your advice. About how to handle some things I really don’t have much experience in.

One delicate eyebrow raised as Kestra spoke.Not much was delicate about Bronwyn, but she does have her ladylike charm when she applied herself. “You need my advice? Oh do tell.” She patted the ground next to her motioning for Kestra to sit next to her. Continue reading “Kestra and Bronwyn”

Role Call

A quick list of PCs and their associates:

Bronwyn (GM run) — a wily female human ranger who wields a pair of swords who seeks magic cards, part of her family tradition. She is Rowe’s long-time best friend.
Rowe (Dustin) — a huge male human cleric with a heart as big as he is, who isn’t afraid to reforge his enemies with his two massive warhammer. He seeks out a beautiful woman of his dreams (waking and not) that he believes was named Tristen hundreds of years ago and seems willing to do anything, undergo any trial to find her. In the lifetime he last knew Tristen, he was a man named Rowyn.
Lucan (Joel) — a sharp-eyed male elven ranger who specializes in the use of a bow — which he demonstrates to our foes with persistent, devastating effect. He is cousin to Kestra and in a previous life was sister to Liandra. In that life, he was a female named Jara.
Kestra (Ed) — a quick female rogue deadly with dagger or rapier who has unfortunately been captured by slavers. However, she has been reunited with our team for the duration of the Crucible tournament and her freedom promised — should we survive! In a previous life in which she knew her current companions, she was a male named Shivan who held a close friendship “with perks” with a woman named Liandra.
Naya (Ryan) — a tough female drakkis fighter that’s not only tough enough to lead our front lines, but bold enough to claim the crown prince of Arcasia as a boyfriend! In a previous life, Naya was called Hayden, loyal companions (and in love with) the woman named Evayne — the previous incarnation of the crown prince of Arcasia, Valerian!
Suulwyn (Curtis) — A powerful male eladrin wizard who, while fearsome on the battlefield is weak in social battles. This wizard, in an attempt to prove Rowe wrong (the cleric had wondered aloud why the team wanted to charge in and destroy goblins in one scene instead of simply talk with them), opened what he thought would be a failed negotiation with one of the goblins. To his chagrin, it worked out to be wildly successful! This netted him not just a follower, but a goblin who was blessed to become an eladrin paladin who will faithfully follow him anywhere! In a previous life in which he knew the others of his current troupe, he was a wily female rogue named Liandra.

Which brings us to Sirelia who was seemed to be merely a goblin but who then metamorphosed into this lovely and loyal paladin defender!

Lastly, there is faithful Shanks, a being who really is a goblin and nothing more, but who was brought to Suulwyn by Sirelia and remains as loyal as his payment!

Average party level is 10.

Dream Queries

Where Kestra, still forced to wear a slave collar that can induce pleasure or pain at the collar master’s whim or if she disobeys, finds Rowe at a bar after their first day of fighting in the Crucible contest.

This conversation occurs after Session 4.

At the house prepared by Kestra’s so-called master (buzzzz, crackle, pain…), or more accurately the sponsor of the team; Kestra, who had returned that evening after the first fight, sought out Rowe.

Once he had realized he was a priest of Torne, Kestra had been one of the first to openly follow him. As good or bad as the events were, they had a reason behind them. Torne had a reason for the spate of ill luck Kestra had suffered, she understood that now. She had even begun cooperating with the ‘sponsor’ istead of defying him constantly, at least so far this evening. But she had questions about this, and an earlier dream that still was strong in her thoughts. Continue reading “Dream Queries”

Gods of Arcasia

Sylvana
Goddess of War
Unaligned Manifested God
Description: Depicted sometimes as a warrior woman, other times as a raven or crow, picking over the corpses of the battlefield. To Arcasian thinking, war is unpleasant, sometimes horrific, but often necessary. She is respected and venerated in hopes she will ensure your casualties are few and your enemy’s casualties are many.

Polyssah
Goddess of Cities
Lawful Good Manifested God
Description: Sister to Nyssah, she is thought to be the inspiration and bringer of civilization. Her sister Nyssah, helps makes cities possible through agriculture. Continue reading “Gods of Arcasia”

The Pantheon of Galataea

 Jack_of_Tears on November 18th, 2008, 6:15 pm

Mythology of how the gods came to be: In the beginning there were two primordial gods, Soleria, the godess of light and Nox, the god of the darkness. Both of these gods lived in harmony in the ether of space with dominion over their respective spheres of influence. In time Soleria made the sun as a reflection of her power and energy. Not to be outdone Nox formed the earth as a physical representation of his domain.

The energies that Nox used to make the earth unexpectedly gave rise to sentient entities. In this process emerged Gath, Cirrus, Phlegothon, Nemonon, and Menos the gods of earth, wind, fire, water and magic respectively. They would in time become primordial deities themselves, known as the elemental gods, but in essence they were created by Nox. Nox was pleased at his creations as was Soleria. Both of them began to experiment with creating life in other forms. Nox allowed Soleria to use the earth as well since the sun bore too much energy for any being other than a god to live. Continue reading “The Pantheon of Galataea”