I know I had a few of you on msn, but not on skype. I just got skype and added the same people I have on msn Just to clarify though, for the game tomorrow were conducting it over skype?

I have to go to a nephews birthday (It was supposed to be yesterday but his mother moved it... yesterday) so i probably wont be on today. Sorry all

Tarrant said:

Hopefully you can make next Sundays game then. Just a recap on what happened tonight:

Le Drac has just finished completing their cathedral On the day before Weihnacht eve. To celebrate the town throw a grand celebration. Nearly everyone in town came out, there was free food and drinks and everyone had a good time. Nightfall was suppose to be the cathedrals grand opening to say the prayers to the Messiah on Weihnacht, however when the mayor took the stage she and the sheriff instantly noticed something was wrong. There were screams coming from the town and what looked like a fire. The sheriff quickly gathered a few men and ran towards the fire, however on the way it became apparent the fire was coming from one end of the town and the screams from another. He sent a few people to investigate the screams and took the rest with him to stop the fire. The party decided to follow the 2 men that went to investigate.

They came across a few townsfolk trapped in a tent with these strange short humanoid creatures (henceforth called goblins) terrorizing them.The party rather quickly dispatched the 3 goblins. By now the town was awash in chaos. Goblins were attacking everyone in sight, jumping down from the roofs to ambush their prey (though half the time missing their prey and going splat against the ground). The party made their way backtowards the fire and found a group composed of a goblin on a wolf and some weird singer. The goblins were currently tormenting this citizen while his wolf was eatting the dog. The group managed to fend off the goblins and even captured one of the creatures. Based on the screams and the fire going out it seems Le Drac is back under control. That is were we left off.

Hey Wizuriel,

Really enjoyed reading the recap of your guys campaign. If you wouldn't mind keeping a running narrative up on the forum I'd really appreciate it. Always neat to see someone elses campaign ides and world dynamics.

ps. Totally reported you to the forum moderators on accident when I went to post this the first time lol. Sorry about that.

Tarrant: I need your skype still.

Okay so today's session.

We started off with Keira, Leina, Makoto and Takeshi in the alley were they rescured the noble Aldernn Foxglove. Aldernn was most thankful for the party and promised to repay them for their heroics on saving his life. Inspired by the heroics of normal people he left the party to aid Sheriff Hemlock, after saying a tearful goodbuy to his loyal dog Shadow who perished fighting the goblins.

The party now found themself alone in the alley wth the goblin they had captured. Keira approached the bound creature and tried asking it if it understood latin. The creature unfortunately just started making very squeaking sounds.This started a debate on what to do with the creature. Makoto thought releasing and following the creature could perhaps lead them to more, Keira wanted to just hand it over to the church and Leina thought it best to just kill the little ugly bugger. The goblin started to make loud noises at this point and the party started to wonder if it could understand them. Not wanting to make plans in front of the beast (and because it started to make really loud noises) Leina took the butt of her spear and knocked the goblin out. Around this time one of Sheriff Hemlock miliata men (named Bob) found the group argueing amongst them self. Bob informed them that the town seemed to be under control and suggested they head home for the night. When the group mentioned the captured creature Bob immediatly demand they take it directly to Sheriff Hemlock. He escorted the party to townhall, making sure to stay as far away from the unconscious thing as he could (while still trying to appear commanding). When the party arrived at the townhall they heard Mayor Deverin and Sheriff Hemlock arguing loudly, something to do with the graveyard. The sheriff and the mayor were extremely grateful for the heroics of the group (apparently Aldernn had found the Sheriff and spoke a lot about the party). Hemlock took the goblin to the prison to try and interrogate it, hoping that maybe priest Zantus could help. Mayor Deverin upon learning the group were just visiting Le Drac gave the party signed notes saying they could stay at either Inn and the city would pay their bills. So the party retired to The White Deer inn.

In the morning the group found inn keeper Garadinn with a note for the party address "To the heroes of Le Drac" from Aldernn. He invited the party to go hunting with him at L'Ark forest and wanted to know what day was best for the party. Makoto very eager to see the forest pushed to go on the trip soon, the party decided 2 days would be sufficient time to do some sight seeing and give Aldernn time to make the preparations. Garadinn questioned the group since it wasn't everyday he had guests with a signed note from mayor Deverin and being rewarded by Aldernn. They quickly told him their tale over breakfast. Afterwards Takeshi asked Garadinn if he had seen his masters. Catching a lucky break Garadinn informed Takeshi that their was a local monastery with a few masters from the eastern principalities living in a small monastery in town. He also suggested that Keira might want to get her shoulder looked at by the local healer Hannah. The group decided to split up with Makoto and Takeshi going to the monastery and Keira and Leina going to the healer.

Makoto and Tekeshi headed to the monastery. Along the way they noticed a lot of the townfolk were pointing them out and quietly whispering in each others ears. At the monestary the group meet Master Akira. Takeshi told him the story of his missing masters from Phaion. Upon hearing the news Akiria took the two to his quarters informing them he and his monks were aware of the mobs presence in the eastern principalities, but it was bigger than Takeshi knew. Apparently the mobs were being hired by various nobles in Garbriel to steal various artifacts and talismans ect. Phaion was being used as more a storage area before the goods were shipped out. While Akira did not know what happened to Takeshi's masters he suspected if they were alive they were probably somewhere in Gabriel. He also mentioned that his order were watching the Scarnetti family who were rumoured to have mob connections. Somehow mob members were able to get in and out of Le Drac.

While this was going on Keira and Leina headed to Hannah's to see about Keira's shoulder. Similar to Makoto and Tekeshi they noticed the townfolk paying special attention to them. While Leina did her best to patch it up, the wound still looked painful and the two figured a healer with proper supplies could probaly speed up the healing. Upon arriving at the healer's house/Clinic they found a lot of townfolk were waiting for Hannah suffering various wounds from the Goblin attack (mostly leg and ankle wounds, but more than a few people suffered head wounds from Goblins ambushing them from the roofs). Hannah offered to stitch up Keira's shoulder and sell some potions to speed the recovery, but she wanted 1G for the service and another 1G for each potion. Keira being a bit short on funds asked if she could do the healing for a bit less, especially since she was one of the heroes of Le Drac. Upon hearing that Hannah agreed to perform the service and sell 2 potions for just 1G. After finishing at the healers the 2 wandered town window shopping. More than a few folk greeted the pair commenting how brave they were. One of the bakers noticing Keira's wound gave the pair a loaf of bread commenting they needed to eat to get their strength back.

Around dinner both groups headed back to the White Deer to discuss the day. Upon reaching the end they were shocked and embarrassed to see a new sign above the door reading "The White Deer, Inn of Heroes". Inside the common room the normally empty inn was packed. Garridann pointed out the heroes and the room exploded in applause. The crowd started demanding to here their stories. Talk started flying how the party killed 10-100 goblins and how they were 3-10ft tall each. When Garridann mentioned the group didn't have to do anything they didn't want the crowd started getting restless. Finally Keira took the stage and told them the tale of what happened during the attack. Someone in the crowd ordered a round for everyone when she started her tale. After the tale the party decided to take their meal in their room and slip away. Garridann came up shortly afterwards apologizing for the crowd saying he normally doesn't get so many people in his common room and will try to keep them more contained. He also mentions Aldernn dropped by again and was disappointed that the party was out, but become excited with glee when he heard their reply.

Meanwhile Tarrant showed up so trying to catch him up with the other 4.

Professor Fredrick Strom moved to Le Drac after an incident caused him to quickly leave Lucrecio. For the past year he's been living in the city as a teacher. During the night of Weihnacht he too attended the ceremony when he heard the screaming of the townfolk and noticed the fire starting in the south end of town. He followed Sheriff Hemlock and his men to put out the fire. Upon reaching the fire Hemlock ordered various Militia to try to control the fire and others to bring water to fight it. At this point there was another scream from somewhere nearby. Hemlock ordered a milita man to go investigate. The man ran into the alleys looking for whoever was screaming for help and Fredrick followed him. He saw the militia man round the corner and then heard a thump and saw part of the man spill backwards down on the ground. Using his psychic powered Fredrick extended his senses scanning the nearby area for whoever was around the corner. He sensed one person scared out of their mind, and 2 others that weren't thinking in latin. Turning the corner he found 2 goblins. One holding a knife tormenting Lady Shyliss (daughter of Vex owner of the general store) and another holding a rock over the downed militia man. Fredrick quickly extended his power and broke the goblin holding the knife. This act of heroics cost him though as the goblin nearby leapt at Fredrick bringing how rock down hard upon his foot. Though this goblin fell as fast as his companion next round. Fredrick quickly checked the downed militia and Shyliss and treated both their wounds to the best of his ability. Unable to carry the guard he took Shylyss back towards the fire and Sheriff Hemlock. Upon reaching the fire though he learnt the Sheriff had taken a few of the men and were going around after various reports of "little men wielding knives and clubs" reached their camp. Fredrick decided it best to escort Shyliss back to her home. Upon heading out though he ran into Hemlock with a few wounded militia men and Aldernn (who was being talking about Keira, Leina, Makoto and Takeshi and Hemlock was trying his best not to strangle Aldernn). Fredrick offered his services to help treat Hemlocks men and suggested that Aldernn could escrot Shyliss the rest of the way home. Aldernn mumble how he was a fighter and should be helping the sheriff, but Hemlock stated he didn't have the men to escort anyone safely home and mentioned the tend to help the wounded was a good idea (especially since Hannah would probaly kill him for bringing her so many wounded) and that Aldernn, Shyliss and him should stay together with the wounded since there was strength in numbers. Aldernn was a bit insulted by this since he had his own steel (a short sword more for show than use) but stayed with Fredrick and Shyliss. Most of the militia had suffered more superficial wounds than anything and weren't too happy to be treated and sent back out to deal with the unnatural creatures. A few hours later Hemlock gave the all clear. He was summoned to meet with the mayor at townhall and offered to escort Shyliss and Fredrick there. Aldernn bid farwell to the group, promising to be in touch with them. Fredrick escorted Shyliss home and went back to his place for the night.

I had fun, thanks for helping me catch up and I apologize for missing the time zone thing, I must have spaced out about it during the last week. I look forward to being caught up and helping the rest of you.

Awesome stuff. Very much enjoy the recap of our events. XD Makes it even more fun to play.

Day 1: [Professor Fredrick Strom]

After the goblin attack Refrick and saving Shayliss, Fredrick retired back to his humble home for the night. The night day he traveled back to where the fire started to investigate how much damage is done. He found Hayliss Korvaski having a heated discussion with Sheriff Hemlock. Hayliss was accusing the Scarnetti's of working with the creatures and burning down her shop. Fredrick used his mental research to try and see if Hayliss had proof or not. Reading her mind she was pretty much convinced herself that Zacharie Scarnetti learnt that she was the one that throw a tomato at him during the speeches and got his revenge. Just like how the Scarnetti's burnt down the mills.

Looking to investigate this accusation Fredrick journeyed to the Scarnetti Mansion. At the gate he altered the memory of the gate keeper to thinking he had an appointment with Titus Scarnetti (the head of the family). Unfortunately when the gate keeper sent a runner to inform Titus that Fredrick had arrived for his appointment, he was informed that all meetings today were suppose to have been rescheduled.

Following this failure Fredrick headed into town. In town he kept hearing stories of the attack and how 4 visitors to Le Drac had fending off the creatures and saved Aldernn. From most of the stories Fredrick was able to deduce that the stories were greatly exaggerated (as the Goblins were barely 4ft tall let alone 10). While out though he ran into Shayliss again. who upon seeing Fredrick ran up and hugged him.

Fredrick: "Shayliss! I hope your much recovered from last night"
Shayliss: "Yeah, I was awake most of the night but there doesn't appear be any new problems. Well not major ones anyways. It's so unfair that everyone is just talking about these 4 people. You seemed as brave as they did based on what I've heard. I was hoping to run into you today. My father has been busy following my sister. She didn't even know what happened last night, but you probaly know the "rumours" about her. Anyways with both of them so busy the store has been getting kind of dirty, and I noticed there were rats in the storeroom. Any chance could you help me take care of them. Please" *she bates her eyelashes and tries to be cute to entice you to quickly help her

Fredrick being the gentlemen agreeds to help her. Once again Shayliss hugs him, takes his hand and leads him to the family general store. She unlocks the store, brings him in and relocks it and leads him to the back and the basement. Fredrick rolling an open roll for notice (getting something like 200+) notices a lot of neatly stacked crates, boxes, barrels and a cot set up in the corner and a bunch of candles beside it.

Fredrick: Shayliss... I don't see any rats..."
Shayliss: "Your as smart as you are brave" she whispers and she leans in to kiss him.
Fredrick taken by surprise leans back avoiding her "Shayliss besides me saving you, you barely know me. If you want you can walk with me but this is just too much right now. I'm sorry"

That unfortunately drives the poor girl into tears. Its around this time they both hear the front door open, a call of "Shayliss" and foot steps heading downstairs. Shayliss freezes and curses. Fredrick thinking quick takes one of the smaller boxes and quickly breaks it. The footsteps speed up hearing something break and Ven (Shayliss father) enters the basement.

Luckily for Fredrick and Shayliss they manage to convince Ven that after saving Shayliss Fredrick stayed the night in the basement to help Shayliss sleep safe, and he was just helping her move some boxes when he tripped and broke the current one. Ven spoke to Fredrick privately and informed him he was glad for the assistance Fredrick offered his daughter, but wasn't comfortable with him spending the night as their store, even if he did sleep on a different floor from his daughter.

Day 2
At the crack of dawn Takeshi woke up and decided to head to the beach and do some training (mainly doing back flips, trying to balance himself on a staff and working on some martial arts). Being incredible unstealthy he managed to wake up both Keira and Leina on his way to the beach. Both the 2 girls grumbled at being up so early. Mikoto also decided to wake up at the crack of dawn and do some meditation and prepare for the day.

An or so later the group meets up in the common room for breakfast. They staretd discussing plans for the day. Mikoto once again asked when they were planning to visit the forest. During the meal Takeshi leaned in close to the group informing them what he learnt of the Scarnetti's and their rumored mob connections. A few minutes later one of the town Militia entered the inn informing the party that Sheriff Hemlock was wanting to talk with them at the town garrison.

At the town garrison the party found: Sheriff Hemlock, Mayor Deverin and Father Zantus waiting for them. Once again the mayor thanked them for their heroics; however, a militia man entered the garrison interrupting her speech escorting Professor Fredrick.

Sheriff Hemlock: "good that is everyone. You four fought better than any men I have under my command. Proffessor Fredrick also helped us during the recent attack. I have a need for brave, intelligent people helping me to serve Le Drac. I've also been working with Hannah and Father Zantus and we have information about the attack, but I can't share it with visitors and normal citizens. I was hoping you all would help server the town militia to get to the bottom of the attack last night."
Takeshi: "I can't refuse a call for help Sheriff, what would you have us do?"
Makoto: "I'm with Takeshi"
Leina: Leina chewed on her lower lip she really wanted to nothing to do with this but it seems like there was no choice since takeshi and Mikoto had already agreed. "Fine I'm in too."
Keira: "I'll help with what I can."
Fredrick: "If you need the help sheriff you know you can count on me"
Sheriff: "Excellent to hear that. So I questioned my men at the gates during the night of Weihnacht. None of then reported seeing anything suspicious enter the city. I think the creatures might have been in the city from earlier. During the preparation of the festival and the completion of the cathedral we did have more traffic than normal entering the city.

Also more distressing than the fire and attack itself was the desecration of the graveyard. During the attack someone desecrated Father Scott's tomb.

Anyways I better let Hannah and Father Zantus explain the rest". He then leads the group down the garrison to 2 holding cells. One has the goblin captured during the raid and the other has various Goblin corpses.

Hannah: "I've briefly looked over the corses and they don't appear to be human. Not even sure if they are animals. I've noticed the creature seems to require being in the light. I also noticed this weird mark on him and the other corpses"

She shows them each corpse has a 7 pointed star tattoo somewhere on its body. She then points out the mark on the living goblin.

Father Zantus: "The creatures are clearily something summoned by a devil worshipper"

Leina upon looking at the mark is struck by some sense of familiarity she can't place. She gets the impression its related to the symbol she keeps seeing in her dreams.

Mikoto : "devil worshiper?" Mikoto tilted his head curious
Sana: "So your telling me that ugly here is in a cult? I don't think their smart enough to have their own cult." Leina said with a laugh
Father Zantus: "No not in a cult. someone clearly uses the black arts and brought forth or made these creatures. God save us all"
Fredrick: "I would hope someone in the business of consorting with dark forces could do better than these creatures.."
Takeshi: "Um, I would hope otherwise"
Mikoto: "Practice maybe?"
Keira: "One of the ones we fought was able to speak, maybe he summoned more?" Keira suggested.
Leina: "Just curious by why father scott." leina asked hannah. "I mean what did he do was he special in some way?"
Hannah: "He was the priest of our town since it was first constructed. Aside from being a marvelous priest I can't think of anything really special about him."
Mayor Deverin: "It was unusual that in his will he requested to be buried in his armour. I don't recall him ever wearing it in life. It was a pretty impressive sight and the brown and crimson made it stand out"
Takeshi: "A priest with armour? How strange" Takeshi thinks about his masters for a moment "Ok never mind, maybe it's not as strange as i thought."

The group started to discuss father scott and his armour. A few theories were thrown out that maybe someone just wanted to steal it. Sheriff Hemlock pointed out they didn't just steal the armour, but they burnt the earth around the tomb and then salted the earth and actually desecrated the tomb itself.

While this discussion was going on Professor Fredrick wandered over to the living goblin and attempted to use mental research on him. Unfortunately the player rolled a bad fumble (nearly killing himself from the damage and also putting the professor into a 61 day coma :S)

Seeing professor Fredrick go down Hannah rushed over to him and declared he was alive, but she didn't know what happened. She and Mayor Deverin decided to bring him to her clinic. Sheriff Hemlock thinking the living Goblin did this executed the creature.
Leina: "Poor ugly." leina said shaking her head
Keira: *shrugs. "I know you wanted him on a leash..." she jokes.
Mikoto: "He should have had a chance to fight back"

Sheriff Hemlock not willing to take any risks expecting the goblins to be this powerful tells the group that everyone needs to act fast on this. If they have that much power and attack again the group has no chance.

The group decided to head to father scott's tomb. Father Zantus decided to go with them since he wanted to head back to the cathedral and pray. At the tomb they found it much like the Sheriff suggested. Inside they found various symbols (must in ruins), but managed to find one that wasn't in that bad condition. Leina upon seeing it remembered an old history lesson from back in her days as a noble mans daugher. The symbol was of the Templars of Tol Rauko.

The party decided to break off again and do some more investigation. Mikoto and Takeshi headed back to the Blue Stones Monestary to learn more about the Scarnetti's and investigate if they were behind the attack. Kiara and Leina decided to head to the Pixie Kitten (local brothel) to see what they could learn.

[Takeshi, Mikoto]
The 2 found Master Sabyl in the monastery library reading a martial arts book. They asked Sabyl is she thought the Scarnetti's might be behind the mysterious creatures attacks and if they had any connection to Father Scott. While Sabyl couldn't say if they were involved in the attack or not she did mention they had a connection to Father Scott. It appears the Scarnetti's were very traditional. They wanted to close down the Pixie Kitten and heavily disapproved of a same sex relationship in town. They were known to be pressuring the priest to help them convience Mayor Deverin to take steps to close down the brothel and stop Jasper and Cyrdak's relationship. When pressed furthur about the mob connection she admits they don't have much definite proof. They have been following this low life named Jubrayl Vhiski who she knows is a contact of Titus Scarnetti. Jubrayl is known as a bully, has done minor theft and harassed/fought with various people. He has been in jail a few times for minor charges. Though she suspects he is more (or at least works for stronger people).

Thinking on the attack she mentions the rumour that the Scarnetti's were the ones that started the mysterious fire a year ago. Aside from burning the church that killed Father Scott and his adopted daughter, it also burnt down all the rival mills to the Scarnetti Family.

[Keira, Leina]
The 2 arrived at the Pixie's Kitten. After being quickly checked they entered the establishment and meet the owner Kaye Tesarani. Kaye upon seeing the 2 asks if they are here to purr or looking for some easily gold. The 2 mention they are here for neither and hoping Kaye can answer a few questions. Even though Kaye says the Pixie Kitten has a strict no gossip policy about clients, when Leina starts asking about Templar's she is amused and informs her that no knight would look twice at the kitten. Hoping to have better luck with the employees the 2 each spend 2 gold for a room.

Leina starts asking her chosen employee about the Scarnettis. It appears the strict no gossiping policy doesn't apply to the family that keeps trying to shut down the brothel. She informs Leina that the scarnetti's are trying to close them down. Awhile later she also asks if Leina would deal with a man named Jubrayl who has been known to mistreat the kitten employees if he encounters them outside the establishment.

Keira doesn't have much luck. She asks her chosen employees if either of them have seen some strange people. They reply that they can't discuss clients. Afterwards Keira tries asking if they saw anyone interesting at the festival or from out of town, but once again she is informed they can't discuss clients.

[Keira, Leina, Takeshi, Mikoto]

After their adventures the group had back to The White Deer. After a quick dinner they head up to their rooms. Takeshi finds a note in his room

"I need to speak to you. Meet me at the Hagfish. Come alone and make sure your not followed"
The note isn't signed

Questions:

1) How long do you guys generally play?

2) Is there any room left in the game for another character?

3) Does anyone know of any PbP games that are going on and open?

Tywyll said:

1) 2-5/6EST

2) Do you have skype? Might be able to work in 1 more character (though going have to be stricter on new characters joining since I want them to naturally fit in with whats going on)

I do have Skype! This Sunday I already have plans, but otherwise I'm usually free.

What kind of characters would fit? I'm mostly interested in Ki users as I just got the new Dominion book and would be interested in giving it a whirl. Otherwise some kind of magic using character to try and get a feel for the magic system.

Hey still don't have your skype information.

Ah, see I was waiting to hear back from you.

Anyway, I've sent a friend request because i can't figure out how to send PM's on this board.

I don't think you can send PM's with this forum . My email is [email protected]

Day 2 - Evening: The smell of rotten eggs is in the air

[Takeshi]
So last session ended with Takeshi finding an unaddressed, unsigned note in his room. Not wanting to possible endager others he decided to investigate this alone. He put a jacket over his martial arts shirt to more easily get around town, and then proceeded to jump out his window. Luckily for him he easily made the check and took no fall damage (I was surprised to read how much a 10ft fall hurts in Anima). Arriving at the Hagfish there was a large crowd gathering around the barkeep and the fish aquarium. Takeshi watched in some amusement as the barkeep took some water out of aquarium and served it to some guy who tried to drink it. Taking a seat out of the way Takeshi proceeded to scan the crowd. He noticed one guy sitting off to the side, wearing a cloak pulled tightly around him and glancing at the door every time it opened. Figuring this might be the guy that delivered the note Talkeshi went to take a seat

Stranger: "I'm sorry this seat is......it's you" he gasped. His voice than dropped it a whisper "Your one of those heroes of Le Drac aren't you?"
Takeshi: Takeshi sighs and nods "I'm afraid that's what everyones going around calling us"
Stranger: "Please I need your help, but we can't talk here....too many people"
Takeshi: "Well, I'm certaintly willing to hear you out, but wouldn't it actually be better in a crowd like this? Noone's going to be able to overhear us if they wan't too, and everyone else isnt interested."
The stranger hesitantly nods at this reasoning and starts his tale.
Stanger: "I didn't know who to turn to....he said not to go to the guards...but he has my daughter.....I didn't want......" *at this point he kind of breaks down. Takeshi tries to comfort him and the stranger hands him 2 notes

Note 1:
"I have your daughter, if you ever want to see her alive again I require a wagon. Make it non descriptive but with a secret bottom compartment, I'm sure you know the type. If you don't deliver in a week your daughter will die, if you tell the guards your daughter will die. Deliver it to the old brown's farm"

Note 2:
"Good, your daughter remains alive. I will contact you again soon with your next task"

Takeshi curls his fist in anger over the letter. "Don't worry, I'll definitely help you get your daughter back."
During the conversation Takeshi learns that the guys name is Bilivar Wheen and he owns a wagon workshop. Someone broke into his workshop both nights and left the notes for him. When he delivered the wagon he didn't wait because he didn't want to risk his daughters life. Not really getting many leads Takeshi takes the 2 notes and heads back to the White Deer Inn figuring this is probaly related to the other strange events.

[The party]
Takeshi returned and found the rest of the group eating Dinner in the common room. While he was gone it appears that Hannah had patched up Fredrick who had joined the rest of the group (though looking a bit worse for wear after his backlash). Takeshi quickly informed the group on his meeting and showed them the letters. Now in the Hagfish he didn't really notice it, but in the much cleaner tavern of the White Deer the group noticed a weird smell on the second letter. It had a faint smell of rotten eggs. Fredrick identified it had probably been in contact around a large amount of Sulfur. There no sulfur mines near Le Drac so the group figured the Sulfur must have come from production of something, but what? Not having an answer right away the group turned to discussing the wagon with a hidden compartment. They figured it must have been used to smuggle out Father Scott's armour. Realizing that time was of the essence though they figured they needed to hunt down who wrote these notes. Fredrick knowing the Old Brown's farm was abandoned suggested the easiest way would be to find where the sulfur came from. So the group decided to split off. The males went to question a local engineer: Brodent and the ladies went to question a local alchemist (who has slightly more nefarious work and contacts with Keira's organization): Alvir.

[Males]
The group travelled to Brodent's house and luckily found the lights were on and he was home. When they mentioned they came asking about Sulfur he seemed amused (especially since he got to educate the town teacher). Apparently Sulfur was used in a few products in Le Drac: It was used in a few potions created by Alvir and Hannah, used in the glassworks factory, some could be found in the various smiths from contaminated coal/iron, gunpowder and some farmers might have a bit for fertilizer. Though Brodent didn't think it likely that it would be used in fertilizer since it had to be shipped to the city. Thanking Brodent for his information the group traveled to the dock distract trying to find someone that might have shipped some sulfur. Once again they found themselves in The Hag Fish. Takeshi questioned a drunk sailor who confirmed that they could indeed ship Sulfur. Saying he was interested in placing an order the sailor took the group to his captain. Once they described what Sulfur was the captain confirmed that indeed he could transport the stuff, and in fact had delivered a shipment just recently. They learnt that the Kajitisu family had placed an order just over a week ago for a large project.

[the ladies]
Kiara and Leina travlled to the pillbug's pantry to question Alvir. They found his storefront closed, but luckily Keira knowing the guy and the establishment went to the backdoor. Grumbling Alvir did open up for them (and was rather shocked to see 2 females at his backdoor). Questioning him the group learnt he did use some Sulfur in a few products and in crafting gun powder for the sheriff/city. Though it had been months since the last time he made gun powder (since they spent all their money on the new cathedral). He couldn't really help them on what else Sulfur might be used for. Leina realized that maybe the wagon wasn't used to sneak something out of the city, but sneak something in. She asked Alvir who much damage a wagon full of gun powder would cause. He kind of chuckled at this and said that it would probably be enough to level the cathedral. The 2 ladies exchanged horrified looks and decided to go visit the cathedral.

The 2 travelled to the cathedral and began looking for barrels or anything with a sulfuric smell. After a few min of fruitless searching they ran into Father Zantus. They asked him if he had encountered anything that smelled of rotten eggs. Father Zantus mentioned during the Weihnacht festival before he gave his speech he did catch the smell of rotten eggs. Though he was so nervous talking in front of the city he didn't want to loose his breakfast and didn't focus on the smell.

[back at the white deer]
The party returned back to the white deer to discuss what they figured out. While the Kajitisu family did look suspicious, Fredrick did remind them that they had a good reason to be working with Sulfur. Also thinking back to the festival Keira did remember that Tutso mentioned his father was working on a big order. Though still thinking it is the best lead they had, they should investigate this in the morning. Also Mikoto seems to have found and befriended a stray cat.

Won't be able to make it today Have some moving to do.

That's okay. Due to a few issues today with power outages we didn't get that far today (write up coming later). I'm not going be around next sunday so we're doing a quick game to finish up the glassworks factory on Thursday 7:30pm EST

Sorry I disappeared. i saw chat just now and understand that 7:30 thursday is when everyone can make it. Except for me, I'll be in class on thursday from 7:10 est to 10:30 est but thats alright, have fun.

Day 4 - The Hunt
Takeshi was missing from this session. also can't seem to access my Skype history so this is going more off memory than normal.

Keira's morning
Waking up at the crack of dawn Keira traveled to the sisterhood owned house. She found a package waiting for her. Inside the package she found a ticket to tomorrow night's showing off the opera "Maria and Draco" (props if anyone recognizes the opera ) and a note informing her to leave her report under the cushion of her seat, and she will find her payment in the same place and will be contacted for her next report in 2 weeks. Keira took the ticket and burnt the note and traveled back to the white deer.

The Party
The day started with Aldernn having sent a letter to Professor Fredrick to meet him and the heroes of LeDrac at the White Deer Inn for the planed trip to L'Ark forest. When Fredrick arrived at the inn he found Aldernn already there waiting for the party to finish preparing. Aldernn did seem a bit unwell, as he constantly reached for a handkerchief and cough into it, but no one brought this up and it didn't seem important as he kept talking about the fun they would have at L'Ark and how he couldn't wait to show them the country side. Despite having important investigation work, the group didn't want to offend/disappoint Aldernn so planned to go continue with the trip.

So after an early lunch the party boarded Aldernn's stage coach and headed to L'Ark. On the way he questioned the party how they were enjoying LeDrac and what they had been up to since the attack. He learnt they were hired by the Sheriff to investigate what was going on. When he tried to press them for more details on what they were doing exactly he didn't have much luck as no one wanted to talk about it. On the way to the forest he pointed out the various farms and his family manor.

One the group reached the forest Aldernn went to the main office and secured them access to the boar section and hunting spears.the coach then travlled along a short road to the section. Mikoto who had been looking forward to this trip for so long bolted out of the coach and was instantly assaulted by an over whelming depression. L'Ark was no real forest. What might have once been a natural forest had been sectioned off and artificially grown to turn it into an hunting ground/amusement park. The very plants seemed depressed.

Inside the boar section his mood didn't improve. Hunting was suppose to be about finding food to survive, the people here were just hunting for sport and enjoyment. Fredrick, Leina and Keira quickly found a trail. Mikoto tried to disrupt the trail to lead his companions a stray, but he didn't have much luck fooling the professor. Mikoto climbed a tree to scout the area, luck was with him as he noticed up ahead some birds flying off from a section, figuring a boar might have distrubed them he took off in that direction.

Seeing Mikoto bolt though the forest and thinking he was on the trail of a boar Leina, Fredrick, Keira and Aldernn quickly tried to follow him. After a few seconds though it was apparent to the 4 there was no way they could keep up with Mikoto (he seriously got like 2 open rolls on his athleticism check, it was insane).

Keira, Fredrick, Leina
Realizing they had no chance on following Mikoto the group went back to the trail they were following. Following the trail through the forest it didn't take them too long to find their prey. Trying to sneak up on the board, Fredrick unfortunately stepped on a twig. A loud snap filled the air and the boar started to charge Fredrick. Caught like a deer in front of a car Fredrick was frozen in place. Luckily Leina was able to jump in front of the boar and using her spear training was able to easily kill the great beast. Aldernn was speachless after witnessing the grace Leina presented in her maneuver. He mentioned how he was stunned at how quick the boar reacted and was amazed she managed to move before he could even lower his spear. He mentioned it was easy to see why the sheriff asked them for their help. Satisfied with their kill they headed back to the entrance/exit of the section.

Mikoto
Mikoto bolted through the forest in the direction he saw the birds fly out. Luck was with him as he eventually found a trail. He followed it and ran straight into a boar. The creature started by his appeared started to charge him. Mikoto tried to quickly climb a near by tree, but realized there was no way he could get high enough to avoid the boar. Improvising he jumped off the tree and did a flip over the charging a boar. As the boar turned around to charge again Mikoto reached out his hand and asked the boar to stop and hide as people were coming to hunt it. The boar snorted a few times, and then bolted deeper into the forest. Looking around the area Mikoto unfortunately came to the conclusion he couldn't really help any of the crreatures in the section. He had no tools to dig under the wall, and no way to get anything through or over it. Frustrated he headed back to the entrance/exit to the section.

Party
Mikoto got to the entrance and witnessed his companions bringing back their prize. Aldernn was just mentioning how they could take their catch back to the mian building and enjoy the fruit of their labours. Over hearing that Mikoto yelled at them what labour? All they did was catch a creature already cornered and that wasn't hunting. Aldernn tried to defend L'ark mentioning it was hunting perfected, man could test his skills against any beast here and the creature did have a chance to defend itself as it tried to attack Fredrick. Leina also mentioned having them here was better than just slaughtering them, around towns/farms boars were hunted just to keep them away from human habitations since they were dangerous. A few employees from L'Ark around this time came to take and prepare the boar for the parties dinner. The dinner was rather gloomy though as Mikoto and the rest of the group couldn't see eye to eye on this issue. The ride back was even gloomier. Aldernn didn't even seem to have the spirit to point out his family's manor house again.

Evening - Party
Aldernn apologized that L'Ark didn't appear to be everything he thought it would be. He wished the group good night and asked them to tell Sheriff Hemlock he said hello next time they saw him. The party sat down and started to discuss what they were going to do with the sulfur and Bilivar's kidnapped daughter. Not wanting to waste any more time the group figured they should start tonight and investigate the glasswork's factory since it seemed the most likely place sulfur was being used right now.

The streets were rather empty since it was late at night and the group had no trouble finding the factory. The doors were all locked and cutains/shutters blocked most of the windows. Around the back the group noticed some large windows 25ft up that appeared to be open. Keira mentioned for the group to stay here and mentioned she was going to take a quick look inside. gathering her KI she stealthily ran up the wall to the open windows (yes with her agility and rules as written she can run up exactly 25ft of walls stealthily).

Inside the workshop looked like the scene out of a horror movie. Keira noticed was looked like all the employees of the factory slaughtered and a few goblins lunging around the area. Hoping she was well concealed she tried to count just how many of the buggers there were. She could see around 5-7 when one of them appeared to notice her and they started bolting around. Keira quickly climbed back down and informed the group what she saw.

Day 4 (night) - Broken Shards pt 1

Well only had a few people of my party today, so we didn't get that far, but the fight in the glassworks has started Also using maptools so the goblins have random names (which I'm using just to differentiate between them).

Keira had just climbed back down informing the party describing what she saw inside the glassworks. As she was informing the party, a few heard footsteps and realizing someone was approaching. Leina readied her spear for trouble and Keira quickly peaked around the corner to see who was coming.

Keira easily recognized Ameiko Kaijitsu. Also seeing Leina having her spear ready to knock her out when she rounded the corner, Keira quickly stepped out to intercept Ameiko.

Keira: "um...Hello there. Are you okay?"
Ameiko: "Oh Hello there. What are you doing by the glassworks at this time of night?"

Leina choose this time to walk out to help Keira
Leina: "We are here on behalf of the house of De Clare." Leina said hoping they havent heard the news about her yet, especially since she hadn't seen any posters with her head on it or anyone trying to arrest her. "We where hoping to make a order i realize the hour is late but we leave in the morning this was the only time."

While Ameiko didn't know anything about a house De Clare she did point out how late it was and how the glassworks was closed, also the factory took orders by the main entrance not the backdoor. Ameiko than pushed forward a bit and mentioned how it was unusual that the backdoor was open. She then looked at Leina saying "Right......So you came to the backdoor at night afte hours to place an order? I would threaten to call the sheriff, but I know your working for him. Why don't you tell me what this is about?"

Keira glances and Leina, back at Ameiko and sighs
She explains what she saw peaking into the building. Ameiko was shocked hearing this as she had received a letter from her brother earlier in the day to met him in the back of the factory after dark. Her face paled when she heard about the corpses. She quickly reached into her bag and pulled out a short bow and some arrows and mentioned they had no time to waste, they had to enter the factory and try to save as many people as they could.

[Ameiko, Leina, Keira]
The group entered the factory. Ameiko mentioned at this hour a few workers might have been working in the workshop to their left, the rest should be in the dorms down the hall, 2nd left and bottom right entrance by the mess hall. The party split up with the females going to the workshop and the males going to the dorm room.

Ameiko opened the door to the workshop and the party was blasted by a wave of heat from the room. The main furnace was still on showering the room in light. From their vantage point in by the door they could see 1 corpse that looked like it was burnt in the furnace. From their angel though they didn't notice any goblins. They couldn't hear anything either (especially over the roar of the furnace). The group quickly ventured inside the workshop.

[round 1 (note I handled the surprise round wrong so combined it with round 1)]
Taking notice of their surroundings Leina and Keira both noticed 1 goblin (goblin 39) hiding under one of the work tables. Thinking to quickly put the creature down Keira advanced to attack. Proving faster than she expected the goblin rolled away from her attack. It was than the room exploded and 5 more goblins jumped out from their hiding spots. Goblin 1 quickly charged at Keira and attempted to tackle her. Luckily Keira overpowered the little creature. Goblin 278 advanced with a hammer, but his strike did no harm to Keira. Goblin 114 jumped on top of a nearby table and began hitting his hammer against it creating a drum beat. He than started to sing. Seeing her friend in trouble Leina attempted to take down Goblin 1. She carefully maneuvered around some broken glass to reach the foul creature, unfortunately he managed to dodge her attack. Goblin 338 (noticable bigger than the others) pulled out 2 axes and advanced on Leina, luckily she was able to block both his attacks. Seeing her new found allies in danger Ameiko jumped on top of a near by table to get line of sight to the bigger goblin, unfortunately she fumbled her shot which fell short (which is lucky since I house rule the possibility to misfire with ranged shots in combat). With all the chaos going on the group failed to notice one of the goblins booking it to the far exit.

[round 2]
Using her Aikido training Keira decided to be more defensive this round. She waited for Goblin 39 to attack her, then delivered a strng counter attack inflicting 18 damage on the creature. Ameiko making up for last round took a shot and hit Goblin 1 in the chest. Goblin 278 realizing his hammer wasn't effective against Keira dropped it and picked up a nearby chair for next round. Leina and the Goblin 338 continued to ineffectively exchange blows. Goblin 114 finished his song.

and that is where time ran out on us

edit: apparently can't get images to link right on this forum:

Hey, so I was looking over the acrobatics in combat rules and didn't realize how ungodly high those DC's are. Just looking over a few monsters/NPC's and your characters doing something like escaping from combat without taking attacks of opportunity seems like a <=40% chance. Actually being able to do anything like get a flanking or rear attack seems impossible against an equal level opponent. I'm thinking of cutting the DC's in half and adding these changes

Trying to espace:

-If you beat the attack by 20 you avoid any attacks and can flee problem free

-If the opponent beats your acrobatic roll, but fails to hurt you, you can choose to leave combat but suffer fleeing attacks as normal.

-If the opponent beats your acrobatic roll and would cause damage you suffer the damage (if they still have active attacks) and you can't move that round (regardless if they cause damage to you or not)

The last part would also work for trying to flee combat in general.

The changes in theory should make it easier to tank people with supernatural shields, and make acrobatics (hopefully) more usable in combat without needing an open roll or opponent to fumble.

So I've been short players the last 2-3 weeks, just wondering if people are still able to make sundays/game?

This sounds very interesting, I do not know if you guys are still looking for players, or what time you guys play.... but if you are still looking for someone to fill let me know what times you are playing and how you are playing.