Session Ten Completed

The session started with everyone feeling a little more powerful!!  The group met their new friend Kyler Blint how was   The group camped not to far from the goblin fortress.  In the morning Voskas did some scouting around the building while Kyler and Bl'nx helped each other into their armour.   His scouting revealed a door in the front, a door in the back (blocked by a large storm)  as well as a large hole in the roof with full grown tree growing through it.  The group decided to try moving the stone in the back but found that it was too big for even Kyler AND Bl'nx.  Saloch had a more magical solution.  He cast soften earth turning a giant
boulder into giant molding clay.  The team then snuck into the fortress after Kyler knocked on the back door.  The group found themselves in a hallway where they found a doorway that led to a dining room.  The group busted in and killed all five hobgoblins.  Highlights include a hobgoblin stabbing Voskas in the foot through the table.  After killing all the hobgoblins the team moved to the next room down the hall and found two goblins drinking.  Bl'nx wanted to leave them alone but Voskas wanted to interrogate them.  In one quick motion Voskas tackled one from his chair and put a knife to his throat.  The goblin gave up most of the information asked including that there were at least more than 4 hobgoblins in the fortress, that the mechanical doll was on the second floor and that the door to the residential area isn't locked and that the Ogre is in the next room over.  Voskas then slit the goblins throat and Bl'nx knocked the other goblin out.  Kyler than took off the goblins pants and tied him upside-down to a torch fixture.  The group decided to face the Ogre next.

Kylar Blint

Eric's completed his character (see above).  LEARN HIM WELL!  Here's his back story

Ok here's the bit about Kylar. "His name is Kylar Blint, His name is Kylar Blint." lol but enough of fight club, this guy's not dead yet.

Kylar was born and raised in (what I can make out on the map you provided) Grice Farming Town. (maybe I'm reading it wrong but it's hard to make out. Please correct me if I'm wrong for as funny as it would be for my character to not know the actual name of his home town...) His Mother's name is Alice (49 yrs old) and his father is Vahn (51 yes old), and he has a younger brother Durzo (12) and an older sister Nora (32). Kylar was raised in the life of a farmer, but always though it to be boring, he found fighting much more interesting. He always wanted to test his strength and skill against others growing up. He trained with a sword at a young age, against his mother's wishes, and by age 13 was rather formidable with a longsword. After his 14th birthday he moved on to train with a Bastard sword and quickly fell in love with the blade. It wasn't as cumbersome as a greatsword and still comfortably possible to wield in one hand, allowing the use of his now new favorite kite shield. His father always told him that his skill with a sword would help him when it was his time to serve, this was something Kylar took to heart. When his time would come, he would gladly serve and then he'd be able to live a different life, if at least only for a little while, he would be something more than just a farmhand.

While he was serving he came to dislike it. There were to much restrictions to what he can do and how much time was actually his own. So when his time came to an end he returned home for a short time. He couldn't adjust himself back to the life of a farmer, so he left half of the gold he had saved in service with his family and left to be a mercenary. The last time he had seen his family was when his older sister got married. Nora married the son of the town's mayor (or whatever that title is in the world). Now at age 27 he's made a small name for himself. Kylar's a nice man with a bit of a temper. He tries to stop himself from letting his temper worsen a situation, but when he's further provoked, people learn he can be a bit sadistic. (As a mercenary he would have joined an appropriate guild for steady work) Kylar doesn't usually have problems helping other people, he will go out of his way to do so if it doesn't mean to much risk to himself or others he's with. He'll gladly help but if he's dead or deathly injured, he's no help to anyone.

He stands 5' 10", with tanned skin. Wears his red hair short (brush cut), and has green eyes. He has a scar on his right cheek, left from an old stab wound. He wears worn clothing under his armor, not ragged or torn, just well worn thin. Holiday's dont really interest him, but with the right people around he can step out of that norm. He always has his armor on when not sleeping, and he rarely has his helm's visor open. He will open it when asked but will not leave it open long. He wields a Bastard Sword, and a Kite Shield (heavy steel shield), both of wich are of remarkable quality (masterwork). His Fullplate armor is not only remarkably made (also masterwork) but is also spiked.

str=18
dex=12
con=17
int=13
wis=16
cha=6

HP= 10+8+9+15=36 (the 10 is max at first lv and the 15 is my con modifier for all 3 lvs)

I have a light load max off 100 and that's how much i'm carring.

ttyl

 

EMC

Session Ten

Session Ten will be tommorow at Mike's place at 6:30.  We will have a new party member joining us.  A mister Eric will be joining us (see above for his character portrait).  A brief recap of last session : The party left Crestways and went directly to the goblin fortress.  They've just reach the fortress after having dealt with an number of fey in the forest.  Follow the jump for a picture of Saloch in the winter.

Short one player

This is just something to consider.  With Donna not playing in the group anymore we now have a problem.  In the group that already had a sort of mish-mash rag-tag combination of classes we have now lost the muscle.  To rectify this problem we have two options really.  Either one of you or I play a second character or we invite a new player into the group.  Off the top of my head I know that Eric likes to play D&D and knows the system well enough.  If anyone knows anyone else who would like to play feel free to make suggestions.  Just something to think about . . .

Session Nine - Feeling Fine

Session nine was completed last night.  A brief update of attendence follows:  Donna has gone on hiatus and we are not sure if and when she shall return to us.  Kevin was not present for the night's session leaving me to run it and Tyler and Mike to play it.  To pick up where we left off, the players had just finished combat with the hobgoblins and goblins saving the halflings.  The halflings were grateful and moved their caravan into the city limits.  Searching the goblins yeilded some crude weapons and armour as well as some coins and a map that indicated where the goblins fortress may be.  One of the choice finds what a masterwork studded leather armour that Saloch picked off of the leading hobgoblins.  The party decided to sell their loot in the morning and make their way to the fortress.  Before they left town Eden decided to split off from the group stating that her mission is just to find new recipes for alchohol and that this is becoming to violent for her tastes.  Guessing by the map they expect it to take them two days traveling on horses.  Once they had entered the deeper part of the forest, about half a days travel, the party happened up two satyrs,  one of them playing pipes and the other wishing to talk with them.  Saloch began to question the saytrs about slippy pete and the goblins.  The satyr explained that he would be happy to tell them if Saloch would give the saytr his armour.  Saloch traded and got two bits of information from the satyr.  The first is that Slippy Petes name is Zedon Zalon and that the woodland creatures call him the bug master or master of bugs.  The second is that in the fortress they are going to the total number of goblins is 2.  The party continued in the forest and a day later they found a gather of fey.  In a clearing in the forest there was a large 200 foot diameter pond with an island in the center that had a great oak tree on it.  From here the party gained a hobgoblin that was pretty much perma-stunned and the knowledge that the goblins in the fortress have brought a large oafish beast with them for protection.  Something very stupid and very big.  The party continued their travels and made it to the fortress by nightfall.

Dnd is Canceled tonight - Tuesday December 15th

I am cancelling tonight session on account of me needing to be up at 4am tommorow.  Thank you for understanding.

Session Eight - A Recap

We played Munchkins Super Hero!!!!!  It was loads of fun.  Mike got turned into a girl.  Donna had a spray on costume and I was a double mutant with mutant only head gear.  Tune in next week for regular Dungeons and Dragons maybe.

Session Eight

Session Eight is a go!! Same place, same time.  Brief Recap:  You turned in your quest, went shopping, met slippy pete in a jewlery shop where you found him buying large gems.  He took off after a brief scuffle in the shop.  The party left Roysail for Crestways. While sleeping a halfling ran into the inn and told the party how his family's caravan was under attack.  The party lept to the resuce and beat the crap out of some goblins they haven't looted.

Session Seven - A recap

Session seven picked up with the characters in a bar.  Famros has left them now to plead his cause to the king for more troops to come and support the people on the road and to deal with the goblin problem.  The players made a gather information check and found out that the caravan that carried the item they are looking for has actually passed through Roysail.  The players decided to finish up some shopping and get some horses.  Bl'nx went to the temple to Garl Glittergold while Saloch and Eden went to the market district.  Once in the market district they found Slippy Pete buying a large emerald.  The Saloch and Eden decided to arrest him but Slippy Pete states he won't go with them as they have no proof of his involvment.  Saloch sent Ellie to go find Bl'nx and Voskas and Ellie returned with Bl'nx.  Again the party continued to try to arrest him to the point of attempting to steal his some of his hair as a means to scry on him.  This happened in the form of Eden trying to stun him with her monk abilities and when that failed attempting to grapple him which he deftly dodged.  At this point the shopkeeper started freaking out and Saloch decided that this wasn't going anywhere and that they should wait until they know more before they can attempt to bring him to justice.  Also Slippy Pete used his IOU to get Bl'nx to leave him alone. 

The Last Post of it's Kind

Notice the time stamp of this post.  Sometime after 12:00 PM but before the actual session scheduled for today. I've noticed there has been some confusion as to when information gets posted and most of this is my fault.  I have failed you all in not setting a standard time by which all information needed for the upcoming session will be posted.  From this day forward the blog updates it's final post by 12:00 PM on the day of the scheduled session.  Furthermore to alert you all to when I update the blog I am willing to use my twitter account to send notifications of blog activity.  You can follow me on twitter, my handle is Mr_Dorian_Grey.  I've set my twitter account up to receive an RSS feed from the blog so whenever I post an article here twitter will get the update in, at most, 30 minutes.  The nice part about this is you can get a twitter account and have it send updates to your phone via text messages for no charge.  This is a good way to stay informed without having to download software or install anything on anything else.
     If you don't want to be posting phone information on twitter your other option would be just to get a feed reader.  These are programs that can subscribe to RSS feeds and automatically download them to your computer for you to read at your leisure.  The main advantages here are they are faster to recieve updates and you don't have to give out any personal information.  The disadvantage to this method is it isn't as portable (Unless you get an rss reader for your phone) and it downloads all the posts as well you have to install it on a computer.  I've done a little research and found some feed readers.  The top pick of blogspace.com was SharpReader (updated more fequently) with FeedReader (prettier website) as a close second.  It should be noted here that those are Feed Readers for windows.  If you want a feed reader for another operating system just follow the link above to blogspace.  The blog feed url is http://elbatron.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default.

Session Seven

Session Seven is a go at the house of the hospitable and  too good to be true Mike.  6:30 shall be the time for which people should gather.   For a brief recap of of the last session (the full recap can be read here or by scrolling down slightly and clicking read more on the previous article) can be read following this sentence.  Everyone walked from the temple of Fharlanghn to Roysail, joined an adventurers guild and picked up a quest. Also this session I may be a bit more strict on how time is spent so I might interrupt people if things start to get off track.  That being said I myself shall try to lead by example and perhaps have a 10 minute intermission about halfway through the session.