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For lack of creative titling, I shall fall back on weird pop lyrics. (And hey, I should pull some stuff off this CD. I wonder where I put it. . . .) Heh, and now that I'm playing the CD I have a much, much better title off it. So that's all good.
This is another attempt to work on catching up because there's game tomorrow and I'm trying to get back into the swing of things. I'm going to have to stare at it a lot because this one's being awfully fuzzy.
So there wasn't anything really obvious for us to do that was left. The elves were guarding Fingul's skull, really carefully, and they were willing to send some force to help the Baronies when the hobgoblins started coming south again in the spring. (Since they weren't having to thump on Fungul's army bits because they sort of weren't there anymore.)
We went back to visit Lord Kynnan and tell him how things had gone and everything. The elves were making an invisible camp a little bit north of his city, between it and Wave's Rest, and it was very snowy. Renn just walked through the snow and it fell in place behind her, which didn't help.
Karas spent a lot of time explaining things to the puppy, about when it was all right to talk and what sorts of things he needed to do and how to deal with things.
The puppy spent some time listening and a lot of time playing in the snow. (Session quote: "I will give him snowballs." -- Renn)
So we got to court, and we talked to people. Well, mostly Karas talked to people, and started collecting rumours and stories about us. Which was sort of weird.
The war stuff between the baronies was sort of slow and sloggy because of all the snow, which was good. It gave us time to think about it all. Renn and Adosar had a conversation about changing people's shapes. He can turn her into a cat but she can't turn her into a cat, but she can turn herself into a not-cat which other people can't do so well. She turned into a bird and went flying to see what was up in Lord Dass's territory.
I talked to Adosar about weapon things. I wanted to know if there was a way of making a magic thing that could hit things that aren't there. Because things that aren't there are annoying. He said it was possible but he hadn't figured out how to do it yet. And we talked about how to make a dagger that was able to poke between bits of reality, and what it should look like.
Lord Kynnan had a problem he wanted our help with. Apparently Lord Krunden, who was the other guy who's doing war-stuff, had sent him a message saying he wanted to negotiate about ending hostilities. Sort of. He said he wanted to talk, and suggested that he had second thoughts and all, but he wasn't going to come right out and say it because he's gutless. Or something. And Lord Kynnan was going to send an emissary to talk with him, and he wanted to send an escort to keep him safe, and he knew just the right people for it and everything.
So we went, when Renn got back. Renn told us that the people in Lord Dass's territory were really unhappy and neglected-looking.
Not a good chief.
We went. The emissary was a lady, actually. She seemed sort of fragile.
We got to the territory, and nobody was sure what to do with us. And they stared at Adosar a lot. They showed us to rooms, and there was a lot of backing and forthing, and we met with the Lord. Nothing much happened; he didn't want to admit to anything, and he seemed to want to get something without putting anything that he was offering on the table. Adosar asked for a guard who would go around with him 'cause he's a dwarf and he thought people would be more all right if he had an escort.
The lady wanted two of us with her when she went to talk with Lord Krunden, and Adosar really wanted to be one of them most of the time. He had some magics that he was going to use or something; he had us open the door for him while he was getting ready, and he made a magic at the guard who was escorting him. (Session quote: "This is making friends the dwarven way." -- Adosar)
I spent some time exploring the town and trying to figure out how its land laid itself out. And its people. Renn came and found me -- she went like a dog and tracked me -- and said there were strange horses there and she thought it was Lord Dass.
Adosar had been in a meeting when a servant had come in and said he really needed to talk with him. Adosar asked his guard friend if they could go get a drink in the break, and managed to overhear the servant saying something, and Lord Krunden said, "He's here?" So he thought it was Lord Dass too. They started the meeting again, sort of; they were going along but another servant came in and said that they needed to move. (Adosar said he'd really wanted an interruption so he could tell the lady, but that probably wasn't it.)
Renn and I got into the great hall after the new people got there, and Karas and Adosar and the lady came in the other end. And there was Lord Dass, and his close advisor, and they started an argument with Lord Krunden. Apparently Dass knew Krunden was having second thoughts, and wanted to talk about it.
So they went and talked. I asked the guards if they felt all right with these other guards pushing in and doing what they wanted, and they said they were friendly, and I made eyebrows at them. I'm not as good at this as Karas is.
Then they came out again. When they left Dass had been grumpy and Krunden had looked like he was being marched off to do extra chores, but now they were laughing and joking together. And then Krunden told his guards to arrest us and the lady -- and then Adosar made a magic -- and Krunden said to stop -- and Dass got angry -- and it started getting sort of complicated from there.
The advisor vanished. We couldn't find him, he might have run back down the corridor. Adosar made a magic in the corner to try to keep people from going that way, one of his images. Something made lots of people look sort of dizzy and confused, and a bunch of little blobby creatures appeared and started pressing towards us. Adosar made a magic to keep them away, keep them in a circle. I went and stood on the edge of the magic to hit them.
Renn found the advisor and made a magic, too, and he was all outlined like an aurora. And she was shooting things, and I guess the advisor made a magic like Adosar's because Karas turned around and hit me with his spear, and I could feel the magic he had stuck in it hit me, and that wasn't good.
I took a few steps back, Adosar broke the magic on Karas, and Karas ran away, like he was going to hit Renn (who was shooting at the advisor now that she could sort of see him, with arrows that went all into light when she shot them) and then turned and ran at the advisor and started hitting him.
There was another magic, and a lot of people were hurt -- a lot of the guards were right-out dead. People were running every which way.
Karas killed the advisor. When its invisibility wore off, it didn't look like it used to.
For one thing, it looked female. Sort of. It had wings, and teeth, and it was sort of . . . it was deadly. It was beautiful in the sort of mesmerising way that goes with things that want to bite you in the neck. Karas hacked at it a lot until Renn dragged him off it; he was really, really mad at it.
Adosar started explaining things to the lords, really fast, about how these things had been messing with their minds, making them trust it, giving it advice. How it was probably the one that had been trying to make fights at home. That it wanted the war, and was happy controlling them. And Lord Dass left to go home and probably use it as a good way of backing out if he thought that would be to his advantage. And Lord Krunden stared at it a lot.
We burned the body.
The lady said she wanted to go home, please, now. So we went back to Lord Kynnan's keep and told him what had happened.
This is another attempt to work on catching up because there's game tomorrow and I'm trying to get back into the swing of things. I'm going to have to stare at it a lot because this one's being awfully fuzzy.
- Session 1: The wind and the dust go 'round and 'round
- Session 2: Oh no. . . I just realised I named my horse 'Charlie'. . .
- Session 3: Look, you got beaten up by a RICH ogre.
- Session 4: Chief.
- Session 5: Roight, Brain, but next time you're wearing the dress.
- Session 6: Today was a very ranger day.
- Session 7: God is dead. Long live God.
- Session 8: More gaming.
- Session 9: Stick 'em up! Put all your arithmetical operators in the bag!
- Session 10: An Interlude Full of Irritating Cats
- Session 11: Psycho Killer Cybermuppets and Other Magical Explosions
- Session 12: Rich beyond our mildest delusions (Excuse me, sir, could you spare an orc?)
- Session 13: Let's go visit the Spartans! I hear Switzerland is lovely this time of year.
- Session 14: Into Barney
- Session 15: Shovels and Rakes and Implements of Deeeeee-struction
- Session 16: Man Bites Dog
So there wasn't anything really obvious for us to do that was left. The elves were guarding Fingul's skull, really carefully, and they were willing to send some force to help the Baronies when the hobgoblins started coming south again in the spring. (Since they weren't having to thump on Fungul's army bits because they sort of weren't there anymore.)
We went back to visit Lord Kynnan and tell him how things had gone and everything. The elves were making an invisible camp a little bit north of his city, between it and Wave's Rest, and it was very snowy. Renn just walked through the snow and it fell in place behind her, which didn't help.
Karas spent a lot of time explaining things to the puppy, about when it was all right to talk and what sorts of things he needed to do and how to deal with things.
- "He's teaching the dog to bluff."
"Most important skill for being people."
- - Thiara, Karas
The puppy spent some time listening and a lot of time playing in the snow. (Session quote: "I will give him snowballs." -- Renn)
So we got to court, and we talked to people. Well, mostly Karas talked to people, and started collecting rumours and stories about us. Which was sort of weird.
"Thiara has a flaming sword that can decimate armies with a wave of her hand!"
"That would be useful. I wonder where I put it."
- - Karas, Thiara
The war stuff between the baronies was sort of slow and sloggy because of all the snow, which was good. It gave us time to think about it all. Renn and Adosar had a conversation about changing people's shapes. He can turn her into a cat but she can't turn her into a cat, but she can turn herself into a not-cat which other people can't do so well. She turned into a bird and went flying to see what was up in Lord Dass's territory.
I talked to Adosar about weapon things. I wanted to know if there was a way of making a magic thing that could hit things that aren't there. Because things that aren't there are annoying. He said it was possible but he hadn't figured out how to do it yet. And we talked about how to make a dagger that was able to poke between bits of reality, and what it should look like.
- "It will look. . . dangerous."
"Mm. Okay!"
- - Adosar, Thiara
Lord Kynnan had a problem he wanted our help with. Apparently Lord Krunden, who was the other guy who's doing war-stuff, had sent him a message saying he wanted to negotiate about ending hostilities. Sort of. He said he wanted to talk, and suggested that he had second thoughts and all, but he wasn't going to come right out and say it because he's gutless. Or something. And Lord Kynnan was going to send an emissary to talk with him, and he wanted to send an escort to keep him safe, and he knew just the right people for it and everything.
So we went, when Renn got back. Renn told us that the people in Lord Dass's territory were really unhappy and neglected-looking.
Not a good chief.
We went. The emissary was a lady, actually. She seemed sort of fragile.
We got to the territory, and nobody was sure what to do with us. And they stared at Adosar a lot. They showed us to rooms, and there was a lot of backing and forthing, and we met with the Lord. Nothing much happened; he didn't want to admit to anything, and he seemed to want to get something without putting anything that he was offering on the table. Adosar asked for a guard who would go around with him 'cause he's a dwarf and he thought people would be more all right if he had an escort.
The lady wanted two of us with her when she went to talk with Lord Krunden, and Adosar really wanted to be one of them most of the time. He had some magics that he was going to use or something; he had us open the door for him while he was getting ready, and he made a magic at the guard who was escorting him. (Session quote: "This is making friends the dwarven way." -- Adosar)
I spent some time exploring the town and trying to figure out how its land laid itself out. And its people. Renn came and found me -- she went like a dog and tracked me -- and said there were strange horses there and she thought it was Lord Dass.
Adosar had been in a meeting when a servant had come in and said he really needed to talk with him. Adosar asked his guard friend if they could go get a drink in the break, and managed to overhear the servant saying something, and Lord Krunden said, "He's here?" So he thought it was Lord Dass too. They started the meeting again, sort of; they were going along but another servant came in and said that they needed to move. (Adosar said he'd really wanted an interruption so he could tell the lady, but that probably wasn't it.)
- "My lord, you should consider leaving this room. The room next door is on fire."
"What?!"
- - guard, Adosar
Renn and I got into the great hall after the new people got there, and Karas and Adosar and the lady came in the other end. And there was Lord Dass, and his close advisor, and they started an argument with Lord Krunden. Apparently Dass knew Krunden was having second thoughts, and wanted to talk about it.
- "You know that sorceror friend of ours?"
"Yes, he died messily a couple of months ago."
"Yes. They killed him."
". . . I didn't know that."
"That's because you're an idiot."
- - Dass, Krunden
So they went and talked. I asked the guards if they felt all right with these other guards pushing in and doing what they wanted, and they said they were friendly, and I made eyebrows at them. I'm not as good at this as Karas is.
Then they came out again. When they left Dass had been grumpy and Krunden had looked like he was being marched off to do extra chores, but now they were laughing and joking together. And then Krunden told his guards to arrest us and the lady -- and then Adosar made a magic -- and Krunden said to stop -- and Dass got angry -- and it started getting sort of complicated from there.
The advisor vanished. We couldn't find him, he might have run back down the corridor. Adosar made a magic in the corner to try to keep people from going that way, one of his images. Something made lots of people look sort of dizzy and confused, and a bunch of little blobby creatures appeared and started pressing towards us. Adosar made a magic to keep them away, keep them in a circle. I went and stood on the edge of the magic to hit them.
Renn found the advisor and made a magic, too, and he was all outlined like an aurora. And she was shooting things, and I guess the advisor made a magic like Adosar's because Karas turned around and hit me with his spear, and I could feel the magic he had stuck in it hit me, and that wasn't good.
I took a few steps back, Adosar broke the magic on Karas, and Karas ran away, like he was going to hit Renn (who was shooting at the advisor now that she could sort of see him, with arrows that went all into light when she shot them) and then turned and ran at the advisor and started hitting him.
There was another magic, and a lot of people were hurt -- a lot of the guards were right-out dead. People were running every which way.
Karas killed the advisor. When its invisibility wore off, it didn't look like it used to.
For one thing, it looked female. Sort of. It had wings, and teeth, and it was sort of . . . it was deadly. It was beautiful in the sort of mesmerising way that goes with things that want to bite you in the neck. Karas hacked at it a lot until Renn dragged him off it; he was really, really mad at it.
Adosar started explaining things to the lords, really fast, about how these things had been messing with their minds, making them trust it, giving it advice. How it was probably the one that had been trying to make fights at home. That it wanted the war, and was happy controlling them. And Lord Dass left to go home and probably use it as a good way of backing out if he thought that would be to his advantage. And Lord Krunden stared at it a lot.
We burned the body.
The lady said she wanted to go home, please, now. So we went back to Lord Kynnan's keep and told him what had happened.
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...It was quite a strange thing to be doing the social-people thing at Karas, but he really needed it right then. I'm glad he's mostly better now.
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