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Forgotten Realms Campaign Summary As Of Last Night:
Todd: The DM. Seemingly more forgiving than normal (so far) and not bothering to pick on people- much. Also playing a temp character (Alphox) who's some kind of giant elephant thing that worships Tempus and is our designated meatshield due to being goddamn huge.
Travis: OOC, he's nuts. Entertaining, but nuts; it doesn't take too much of a leap of the imagination to picture him in character as a cleric of Tempus who is also nuts- IC, (Deschain) he likes to climb walls, shoot things, make rednecks angry, moodswing weirdly, and pee on things, including Derek's character.
Jenni: Sorcerer #1, an illusion specialist (Vesudha) who hates drow and happens to be a two-foot-tall flying cat thing called a gloaming that I'd never heard of until she figured she'd play one, but the setting is so full of crap it's not all that surprising they exist, and it's cute. Generally sane, if naive. Keen on exploring. Casts spells with yarn. Awwwww!
Derek: Sorcerer #2, (Dorn) a human worshipper of Mystra- because he wants to get the Chosen of Mystra template later although I don't quite see how, he's quite devout. Has shuriken. Lots of them. Seems to be our finesse character since, well, other than him we've got a giant elephant monster, a whackjob, a kitty, and a big green death worshipper.
Me: Your not-so-friendly local half-orc cleric (Dominika) of Kelemvor who unfortunately appears to be the calm and reasonable one here. Very hard to surprise, rigorously grammatical and polite, and capable of cutting a polar bear in half (lucky attack roll). Hates undead and has a mentor known as Father Anderson. Next in line for meatshield position once Todd drops the elephant, since I'm aiming for Templar.
The Plot As Far As We Know:
Backstory was given about Cyric, who was promptly rechristened God of Douchebags by all the players, and a book I'm sure we're going to have to find once we get some levels.
Everyone met up after witnessing Deschain being chased by an angry mob (and peeing on Dorn after Dorn refused to blow up the angry mob for him). Vesudha evaded some random drow. Dominika found out that Alphox had been the stupid asshole interrupting her meditation with elephant noises and offered Vesudha a basket at the temple.
Each of the three groups (Dorn, Deschain and Alphox, Vesudha and Dominika) got a quest hook from their respective temples, each got the idea to go recruit everyone else, and the hook that won out was to go retrieve the Ring of Winter, which nobody knows anything about except that Kelemvor was after it at one point and that it's guarded by frost giants. Lots of them. (Bigger things to kill was the selling point for the Tempus worshippers. Dorn got mad but managed to convince Alphox to meatshield him later on the Mystra temple's quest vs. drow someplace.)
So everyone went north, and due to lucky watch rolls, only got attacked by one polar bear. Threat down. Now the party has reached the entrance of the cavern, after failing a lot of spot checks that could have gotten us some loot, and prepares to go fight some giants...
Todd: The DM. Seemingly more forgiving than normal (so far) and not bothering to pick on people- much. Also playing a temp character (Alphox) who's some kind of giant elephant thing that worships Tempus and is our designated meatshield due to being goddamn huge.
Travis: OOC, he's nuts. Entertaining, but nuts; it doesn't take too much of a leap of the imagination to picture him in character as a cleric of Tempus who is also nuts- IC, (Deschain) he likes to climb walls, shoot things, make rednecks angry, moodswing weirdly, and pee on things, including Derek's character.
Jenni: Sorcerer #1, an illusion specialist (Vesudha) who hates drow and happens to be a two-foot-tall flying cat thing called a gloaming that I'd never heard of until she figured she'd play one, but the setting is so full of crap it's not all that surprising they exist, and it's cute. Generally sane, if naive. Keen on exploring. Casts spells with yarn. Awwwww!
Derek: Sorcerer #2, (Dorn) a human worshipper of Mystra- because he wants to get the Chosen of Mystra template later although I don't quite see how, he's quite devout. Has shuriken. Lots of them. Seems to be our finesse character since, well, other than him we've got a giant elephant monster, a whackjob, a kitty, and a big green death worshipper.
Me: Your not-so-friendly local half-orc cleric (Dominika) of Kelemvor who unfortunately appears to be the calm and reasonable one here. Very hard to surprise, rigorously grammatical and polite, and capable of cutting a polar bear in half (lucky attack roll). Hates undead and has a mentor known as Father Anderson. Next in line for meatshield position once Todd drops the elephant, since I'm aiming for Templar.
The Plot As Far As We Know:
Backstory was given about Cyric, who was promptly rechristened God of Douchebags by all the players, and a book I'm sure we're going to have to find once we get some levels.
Everyone met up after witnessing Deschain being chased by an angry mob (and peeing on Dorn after Dorn refused to blow up the angry mob for him). Vesudha evaded some random drow. Dominika found out that Alphox had been the stupid asshole interrupting her meditation with elephant noises and offered Vesudha a basket at the temple.
Each of the three groups (Dorn, Deschain and Alphox, Vesudha and Dominika) got a quest hook from their respective temples, each got the idea to go recruit everyone else, and the hook that won out was to go retrieve the Ring of Winter, which nobody knows anything about except that Kelemvor was after it at one point and that it's guarded by frost giants. Lots of them. (Bigger things to kill was the selling point for the Tempus worshippers. Dorn got mad but managed to convince Alphox to meatshield him later on the Mystra temple's quest vs. drow someplace.)
So everyone went north, and due to lucky watch rolls, only got attacked by one polar bear. Threat down. Now the party has reached the entrance of the cavern, after failing a lot of spot checks that could have gotten us some loot, and prepares to go fight some giants...