Sun, 07 Oct 2007 01:05:11 -0500 webmistress@dndresources.com (Forums) IP.Blog 60
Example 1: Your drinking a nice cool ale at your favorite watering hole. Some bloke gets knocked into you or just pushes into you. Your not in the mood to deal with idiots and just lash out and start pounding his head in. He returns the feelings. Ya both use fists, chairs, bottles. Hell you might even pull a weapon. Pretty much everything is fair game in a spontanous brawl. It's kind of tough to say "Excuse my sir. Before we get down to the sport of fist-a-cuffs, let us lay down some ground rules." when your already swallowing blood and teeth. Best thing to do is be the last man standing. If your not involed in the fight the best thing to do is not get involved and place bets.

Example 2: Some one comes up to you (or you to them). He/she (or you) doesn't like what you said about their (or your) momma. Words are being said. Your up in each others faces. A fights going down, but it going be civilised-ish. Here's how it works: After all the pissing and shitting some one is going issue a challage. Who ever is getting challenged can either decline it because their a [ENVELOPE] (or because the challenger ain't worth it) or except it. If the challenge is excepted the person being challengend gets to decide what the ground rules are going be. Skin on skin, weapon, mob pits or any other creative way of bashing someone's head in. The sky's the limit. There is one area that's sort of a no-no. Magic.

For the most part magic is kinda of banned. It's not that it's bad or cosidered cowardly. It's just sort of considered as an unfair advantage. In a brawl (especialy a big one with more then 2 people) it's not cosidered that bad of rule break with the honorable unofficial/official guide to fighting. It'll still be frowned apon, but at least you don't have to worry about reprecusions. A challenge fight on the other hand is different. Unless it's anything goes rule or it's stated magic is allowed you got no worries. If not and you break it your in deep. You have to pay some way. Wheither in treasure, rep or face. And if your caught with magic items your in really deep [BROWNIES] as they're considered cheating. Even if magic is allowed all magic items on you got to go.

So as the world blinks back from pure white and I see the stooge coming at me I have to think quick. The way the fight went down you can basicly can call it a challege fight even though Jarin got in the middle of the begining of it. Sure I let loose with the magic missle on instinct, but no one would buy that. The positice of this though is that the only ones in the bar are the stooge and my "gang". The stooge ain't got no witnesses saying I used magic. The fact he is a stooge also helps as now one will take him serious and he's got zero pull. The negative is I broke the guide lines and I honor the guild lines...most of the time. In this instance I should have. I basicly challenged him. Even though no rules were set it should have been considerd fist on fist and nothing else. To pay for breaking the guild lines I take resposibilities for my action. I swallow my pride and do one of the toughest things in my life.

I let him kick the [BROWNIES] out of me without fighting back and throw the fight.]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:24:34 -0500
We head back to the inn to explain to Zorin we have to put his request on hold because we have to chase down Bed Grad and his girl. And probably Shara too. He's not to happy to hear this. I don't blame him. We broke the first rule of taking on jobs: Don't take on a second job until your done with the first. It only results in hard feelings and messy results. Especialy if one of the benifactors is short on patience. Lucky for us it seems Zorin is a patient man and will wait here while we finish up our buisness with the city and Ben Grad. We decide to hit the old clerics Nigels house first since its on the way. When we get there and look around it looks like no one has been here in days. Gets me thinking that the cleric was in on it too. Since there's nothing here that's giving us any clues we head to Swansy to see if we can get some answers.

Once we get to town Mordryth suggests we check the bar where the meeting was supposed to take place. I doubt that's where they'd go, but we've got nothing to go on so might as well check. We get to the bar. It's basicly empty except for the bar keeper so everyone starts looking for clues. I decide to head over to the bar to hit up the bartender for info. I ask the guy if he's seen a guy and a girl that match Ben Grad and his girl's descriptions. He turns around and gives me a hard look. It takes me a second, but then I recognize him as a stooge for the Northside Nomads. He walks over to my end of the bar and leans into my face. He tells me he ain't telling me [BROWNIES] and to take my "gang" out of his bar. He tries to pass it off to me that it's Nomads territory and I got balls stepping inside of it. I tell him his bar isn't Nomad territory and he knows it. He then tells me to piss off. I'll be [darned] if I'm taking that from anyone associated with the Nomads, especially a stooge. Just as I'm about to rearrange the bastards face Jarin steps inbetween us. What the [FLOP]?!? He has me by the shirt at arms lenght and apoligises to the piece of [BROWNIES] stooge about my behavior. He then turn to me and tells me to stop embarrasing everyone in the group. I look at him with shock. Likes he's just grown a [RICHARD] out of his head. As I'm standing there stunned looking at Jarin, the low life stooge sneaks me and hits me square in the nose. My world goes blank and lights up at the same time as pain travels up my nose and shuts my eyes up. I'm so blinded by the pain and rage I instinctivly fire a magic missle at the [FLOPPER]. As the missle hits and my vision starts to clear I realise I just [FLOPPED] up.]]> Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:09:10 -0500
Just as I was beggining the spanking of Miss Sweetcheeks in my dreams I'm awoken by the sound of someone banging on a door as if to break it down. Shaking the cobwebs from my head I open the door and check outside the hallway to see what the hell is going on. I find a very pissed off Mordryth trying to break the door down to the room where Ben Grad and Little Miss can't-keep-from-getting-kidnapped are shacked up in. I go over to find out what the hell is going on. He says Ragde saw Ben Grad leave through the window and take off on horseback. I was going to ask, if he's taken off on horseback, why are we bothering to break into the room instead of chasing him down on horseback. But I figured better not to piss him off anymore then he already is and join in on the fun. The noise we make wakes Opal. After quickly summing up what's going on she joins us in breaking the door down. With the three of us combined we break it down.

As we get inside the room we find the window open and no one there. As we look over the room I get a strange sense somethings not right. I can't put my finger on it but it's something about the room that just isn't right. I shake it off and join everyone at the stables and saddle up the horses and give chase. A little into the chase Opal notices that Shara isn't with us. Guess she's a deep sleeper and no one bothered to wake her. Opal offers to go back and get Shara's [CHAIR] out of bed. About 10 mins past and she comes back with no Shara. Opal tells us that when she got there Shara's room was empty. This gets me thinking either Shara has thrown in with Ben Grad or she's been playing us for fools the whole time. If so who the hell are we following? Who ever it is I'm going to kick their mother [FLOPPING] [CHAIR] because their seriously pissing me off!

After following the tracks left by the rider's horse we find they go off into the woods. As we're about to follow Gwailen stop us and tells us to wait by the road. He doesn't want us to disturb the tracks. Whatever. As we're standing around waiting for Gwailen to get done with his buisness Mordryth blurts out of no where about that bastard Ben Grad. As we stare blankly at him he explains that it wasn't Ben Grad we were chasing but a decoy. While we were chasing the decoy the real McCoy got away. That son of a [POODLE]! He's making us look bad. Not only that, with no girl there's no pay. I'll be [darned] if I'm getting screawed out of the money owed me because of that [BENCH]!]]> Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:00:25 -0500
After we get done discussing what to do with the girl, Zorin offers a job for us once we're done with the one we got. He wants us to find his highjacked wagon. Except he doesn't want the wagon brought back. Just a small red box. And it needs to stay unopened. That's a weird request. Wonder what's it worth? As I'm thinking this I get a answer when he tells us how much he'll pay us for the job.

If the man wants the box unopened, he'll get it unopened. We agree to take the job once we're finished with this one.

We return to the inn we stayed at before heading out to the monestary. Once we walk through the door with Zorin in tow the innkeep rushes over and asks how Master Zorin is doing and all. He orders the serving girls to clear off his favorite table and get some chairs for him and his company. Looks like the big man has a rep here. Zorin tells us he frequents this inn a lot on his travells and has somewhat of a tab at this place. Hope it's a big one cause I'm staved.

The innkeep says it might be a bit till food is served since they're short staffed. I don't know bout them being short staffed, but they sure have hot stuff as some of the serving girls are pretty good looking. I get up and chase one of them down to work my mojo on her. She seems startled at first (they usualy are with me). After getting ahold of herself she says she's so busy with serving the customers and the kitchen work in the back she fears she'll never get done to have a moment to herself. I offer my assistance hoping to score some points with her so that I might share in her moments alone. She directs me to the back of the kitchen to what needs to be done. Holyshit is all I can say. Mordryth is right. This place is a dump. At least back in the kitchen it is. Mordryth probably would have them all executed. The kitchen and dish area looks worse then my room and Riz's warren hole at home. Combined! The cooks look at each other then to me with a evil smile on their lips. "Well!?! Get to work chore boy!" They go back to their cooking and start laughing to each other. Looks like I've been set up and had. I turn to see where the serving wentch is at. She looks back at me with a cocky smile as she begins to get ready to leave for the night. Trust me. I'll remember this day and be sure to cash in on my marker on the service you owe me. I nod and give her a sly wink. It aggrevates her it seems as she loses the smile and walks quickly out the door.

Well, I'm a man of my word so I start stacking all the dishes, pots, pans, utensils, mugs. Everything including the kitchen sink(which is right next to the dishes). The cooks look at me like I'm dumb. They can do that if they want. But their going to be the ones dumb founded. Since I didn't use all my magic up I got spells to burn. I clap my hands together and move my right hand in a counter clockwise motion, then move my left in a clockwise motion. I then clap my hands together then thrust my hands out and open them up and *poof*. Every dish in the pile, the sink and the counter are all magically cleaned. Probably took me 10 minutes. The look on the cooks faces are priceless as their jaws drop to the floor. I start doing the motions again over the floor as I move towards the cooks then clap my hands. *poof*. Then floor is done. I do it again on the cabinets and stores. Then the food prep area as i move closer and right up in the cooks faces. They're still stonefaced and slack jawed and have no idea what to do or say. I've got a cocky smirk on my face and clap my hands together and throw a spell past them at the stoves which look disgusting. Hell after my spell they're so clean you could eat off of 'em. As long as you don't cook yourself at the same time. I walk away from the dumbstruck cooks then stop, turn around rear quick and clap my hands together one last time and throw the spell at them. They almost look like cooks instead of bums. Almost.

After showing up the cooks I head back out to the dinning room. Everyone has gone to their rooms except Zorin. I eat my grub then head up to my room. Mordryth's sleeping already so I hop into the extra bed and dream of collecting on the mark that Miss Sweetcheeks owes me.]]> Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:19:11 -0500
I wake up to the smell of something cooking and the sound of an argument. Looks like Gwailen caught some rabbits and was going to start cooking them, but Mordryth caught the way he was cooking them and wasn't impressed. To make sure they're cooked right Mordryth takes over the task from Gwailen. I know Mordryth can be uppitty and a bastard a lot of times, but when it comes to preparing and cooking food he's a ace. It's one of his studies along with magic. Give him enough to work with and he can make something spectacular.

As we're eating, our two guests finally wake up. The girl rushes over to Ben Grad's arms, who finally found enough time to stop hovering over her like a fly over [BROWNIES]. The fat guy Mordryth recognizes as Zorin, a spice merchant he deals with.

After breakfast a discussion starts, by who I forgot, about whether we should take the girl back or not. Opal thinks we should just let the love birds go and let the girl and Ben Grad sort it out later with their families on their own time. Gwailen is on this same train of thought too. Mordryth isn't. His feelings is that we've been hired by the Capt of the Guard, her fiancee no less, through the city to bring her back. Not by Ben Grad. So Ben can get bent (my words). It's out of the question. He's for bringing her back. I'm with Mordryth but with a different way of seeing it. I can see us coming back to the Captain empy handed and he decides to make our lives a living hell, or worse arrest us on the spot. Especially me. He wouldn't think twice about doing that. I'll be [darned] if I'm going to jail for Ben Grad just so he can get some [ENVELOPE]. To hell with that.

The deciding vote comes down to Carling, since Shara seems mum on the subject. He understands the plight of Ben Grad and his love, but he's under obligation to the city to bring her back. By not bringing her back would create problems for him and his family who own a buisness in the city. And he can't risk that. Gwailen and Opal aren't from the city or live in it so the reprecusions for them would be minimal. For him he has a lot to lose. Opal and Gwailen understand and agree that we bring her back, as we're obligated by the city. Hey, it sucks. It's tough luck. What are you going to do about it?]]> Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:16:46 -0500
After the dust settles Opal goes to check on the girl while the guy who got himself free and joined in on the fight is talking with Mordryth. I decide to check on the other prisoner. He's a pretty hefty guy. He seems to be alive. As I check to see if he's ok I also check to see if he has anything on him. I could use some compensation for my services (plus I'm pretty much flat broke). I make sure to do it surreptitiously to make sure no one catches me. Looks like he's been picked clean of anything of value or coin. As I get done and go to check on what's going down, the guy who broke free and helped in the fight gets all up in my face asking me what I'm doing. I tell him I checked on fatboy to see if he's alright and that it seems they've left him without a copper to his name. He warns me not to try anything and to show respect. What the hell?!? We just saved your asses! We end up getting into an argument. After a minute or two arguing with the duffus I say to hell with this and walk off. I didn't even get his name and could care less.

We decide to camp here and after disposing of the orc body futher out from camp I eat what's left of the supper Mordryth made. The girl and the fat guy are still out cold. Ben Grad is looking over the girl like a hawk, staring us down with dirty looks as if we'll try something. Buddy you ain't worth it or the time.

After we get some grub in out stomachs the dickhead I got in the arguement with tells us his name is Jarin, an ex soilder and sword for hire. He tells us the caravan he was guarding got waylayed and he and his employer got kidnapped to boot. Tough luck. A little after that I get in another argument with Jarin. Seems he doesn't like my tone and lack of respect. He tells me I would never make it in the military. I tell him to kiss my [CHAIR] and to cram his military expertise. I also tell him he wouldn't last a day on the streets of swansy. What a [FLOPPING] [BENCH]! I ignore him for the rest of the night and try to get some sleep, but I'm to worked up. I end up looking up at the stars and wonder how the hell did I get myself in the mess.]]> Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:47:14 -0500
In the morning we all wake up and get a quick bite to eat. We decide to go through the courtyard and out through the gates instead of possibly dealing with skeletons in the catacombs below. Gwailen finds some tracks once we get to the gates that seem to belong to more then one hors, so we head out south and follow the tracks.

Not too long after that we spot a guy on a horse leading three horses. As we get closer Opal and Mordryth let loose with some crossbow bolts. The rider slows up which lets the rest of us get up close and personal. I feel a lot more confident with my riding and decide to attack the guy face to face while still in the saddle. As I get close I get a glimpse of the riders face. It's a orc. Figures. If you want a dumbass muscle bound chore boy for the cheap orcs are the way to go. Some of the lazier less stronger gangs around Swansy hire 'em for muscle an intimidation. I've never fought one face to face, so this will be a first. I take a swing with my bigstick and get a good hit in. I go for another shot, but I end up totally losing my balance and fall off the horse. Lucky for me Mordryth and the others got my back and come to back me up. Plus one of the prisoners the orc had slung over one of the horses has gotten himself free and is joining in for some payback. With everyone in on the fight the orc is taken out in no time.]]> Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:36:04 -0500
As I'm ready to get some grub for lunch there's some kind of noise coming from up stairs. Opal rushes off to where the noise is coming from. Awww come on! I'm freaking hungry here! I rush after her to help and to see who the hell is interupting my stomach from being full.

When I get up the stairs right behind Opal we get ambushed by more skeletons and some zombies. They seem to be controlled by a cleric. Wonder if this is the guy we're looking for? We're hard pressed as it's harder to hack down the zombies then it is to handle the skeletons. Carlin calls out for Mordryth. I then notice that he and Ben Grad hadn't followed up after us. What are they doing dicking around downstairs for? They better not be eating all the food! Just as they get their asses upstairs with the rest of us Gwailen takes a nasty hit and crumbles to the ground. Ohhh, that's got to hurt. Hope he's alright.

Since everyone has a skeleton or a zombie occupied Mordryth sets off to take on the cleric. His first shot misses and hits the wall. He takes a second swing at him but losses the grip on his staff. It ends up flying over the cleric's head. Just when I think he's a sitting duck Carlin comes in and skewers the cleric through the heart. Mordryth owes Carlin big time.

After taking care of the cleric Mordryth checks out the two rooms up here and finds the cleric's things which include a journal. In the journal it says the prisoners left earlier and are headed south. Plus he's looking for a cube thingy. Don't know about the cube thingy but now it looks like we got more than just one bride to be with cold feet to rescue. Wonder who else they kidnapped? As we're standing around wondering what to do next the journal that Mordryth is reading blows up in his face! At first I thought he screwed something up and started to laugh. Then I relised it had knocked him unconsious. Shara and me rush over to him and she casts a healing spell on him. I guess he set off a trap but he tells me it was another wizard on the other end of another book who cast a spell through it to the one he was reading. Talk about wild. At least he's alright as is Gwailen. Would suck to lose two gang members, I mean, Companions is one day. We decide to rest up a bit before heading out to chase down whoever left earlier in the day.]]> Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:22:50 -0500
I'm standing abound wondering what the hell we're doing next when Carlin goes over to Mordryth to tell him it's a no go with the door. He can't pick the lock. Mordryth strolls over and tells me, Carlin, And Ben Grad to shoulder the door open. If you're wondering why he didn't include himself in the fun, don't be. I'm not. I'm so bored that I could care less and give a go at it. After a few shots we get the door open. When we open the door we find out why it was hard to get in. We find a skeleton in a wedding dress who seems to have barracaded herself in. Why and for how long I have no idea. There's nothing else interesting in the room so I leave. Opal comes back from where she went. She's found some doors down a couple of hallways. Me and Carlin decide to go with Opal to check 'em out. Before I head out Mordryth asks me to give him a boost up to the central dias since it is way up high.

Most of the rooms that we go through have mostly ruined stuff in 'em. We check out this one room with robes in it. They're not in any shape to be worth anything. We're about to start walking out when we're attacked by spiders. Big spiders. Bigger then Riz and he's pretty big for a rat. As we're fighting them Carlin calls for the others since we're out numbered. As we're waiting for the cavalry to arrive Opal falls to the ground and doesn't seem to be moving. I don't know if she got bit or what, but it doesn't help that I'm halfway across the room and have a bunch of spiders between me and her. I shoot off a magic missle at the one on her a take a bite from the spider I'm fighting in exchange. Just as me and Carlin are mopping up the spiders the rest of the group shows up. A bit late and a gold short guys. Shara checks out Opal and says she's just paralyzed and should be fine in an hour or two. We check out the next room and find a wand. We give it to Mordryth to research and figure out what it does when he gets the chance.

Since there's nothing else here we decide to head over to the library in the other building across the courtyard. It's a long pace to the other building. The open courtyard is a not a safe place to be. Any archers perched on any of the buildings would find easy pickings. We get to the building and find the door is locked. Carlin steps up and tries a key he found in the chapel. We luck out and it works. There's a long hallway stretching down to where the library should be. We open the door at the end of the hallway and enter the librarywhere there's a flight of stairs. As we get up to the top of the stairs arrows go flying by us. It's more skeletons. As we get ready to take 'em on I'm expecting Shara to do her prayer thing she did earlier. Except she doesn't and instead goes in attacking them front on. Would've been easier for us if she did the prayer thing. They'd be easy pickings if they were trying to run away. What makes her look dumber is that she misses. Not that I should talk. I get in the way of Opal as she's lining up to shoot one of the skeletons. It's my fault. Not that I'll admit it. I'm lucky she misses. I've got to get use to how everyone acts in a fight in this group. It's not like my gang on my home turf where everyone knew how each other works in a fight. Especially since we've been fighting for years. With this group it's been less then a week. I better learn quick or next time I won't be so lucky. As we're fighting, Ben Grad runs away like a sissy girl. [ENVELOPE]. We finally take care of the skeletons and decide to break here for lunch. Good timing too. I'm freaking hungry.]]> Fri, 30 Jun 2006 18:20:56 -0500
We wake up in the morning and head out to the monastery. Mordryth is cooking his own food. He doesn't trust the food at the inn. Doesn't matter to me, but I decide to mooch off the meal he's cooking. Saves me some coin. Gwailen strolls over halfway through the meal asking why none was made for him. He's got have a big set on him to ask Mordryth that. Guess who's eating tree roots and whatever they eat in the wild. Though I'm not looking forward to travelling and riding on the horse, my [CHAIR] is hurting less. It still hurts to ride, but not so much. Looks like Carlin was right about your body getting use to riding on a horse the more you do it.

After riding all morning we get to the monastery. Getting there we find that the gate has caved in on itself so we're going to have to find another way in. Mordryth sends Ragde' up to scout ahead. Gwailen finds a trail of footprints leading to a crypt. Might be a way in. As we're at the crypt trying to figure out how to get in, Mordryth and Gwailen start butting heads on how to go about it. Mordryth ends up hrrumphing the deal. I take it Gwailen is annoying to him. Then again just about everyone annoys him some how. Including me. That's the was he is. As Gwailen opens the door to the crypt a bell goes off. So much for the element of surprise. Looks like someone might have been expecting us and wanted to know when we were coming over for dinner. We climb down about 40 feet down a rope to the catacombs below. It's pretty dusty down here as you can tell by the fresh set of footprints in the dust on the floor leading off to where ever the party is at.

As we were following the trail left in the dust we get attacked by skeletons. Now I've heard stories of people getting attacked by skeletons but never saw or experienced it myself. Let me tell you, it was freaky and weird how they were moving and still able to attack us and all. Just [FLOPPING] weird. We attack 'em back. I'll be [FLOPPED] if I'm taken out by a bunch of boneheads. As we're bashing heads in the cleric holds her holy symbol forth and recites some kind of prayer or something. All of a sudden the skeletons take off running like they've seen a pack of hungry wild dogs. I don't know how she did that but it worked ok by me. The downside is that they come back a little later to finish the job. Guess they found their cojones. We kick thier asses! Or the area where they used to be.

We keep going further on and pass an area where I think they got people ready for burying. Further past that we get to the chapel. Great a church. I hate churches. I'm not afraid of 'em. Just don't like 'em. The place looks like [BROWNIES]. The pews are thrown about and the tapestries are moldy and ripped to pieces. Opal and Gwailen check out the central dias. I tag up with Mordryth to check out the room. As we're checking the room out Mordryth finds doors hidden behind some tapestries. He checks both rooms out. The first one doesn't seem to have anything important in it or anything. The other has a door with some cloth sticking out of it. He calls Carlin in to check it out as he walks out of the room and plops his [CHAIR] down and starts writting in his book. I wonder what he writes in that book?]]> Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:17:09 -0500