7.08.2005
Town Time
So, first off, training, Brogg and Dave, your THACO and saves should improve with this level. I think each of you also gets a weapon and a non-weapon prof. Plus, Brogg, 2nd level priest spells. Cinder, 5th level is when backstabby and THACO go up for you.
Special training gives you guys +1 hp and a bonus non-weapon prof.
Dave, the ring is +1 on heals cast by you. So if you Cure Light Brogg, it's +1. If you Cure Light yourself, it's +1. If you drink a healing potion, it ain't +1. Maybe "Big Healing" is a misnomer, but that's what it's called.
Magic plate mail is down with spreading the Fists or Face of Odin, whichever the situation calls for. Vrill, piercers- Fists. Shopkeep to trade stuff- Face.
Cinder, okay, sap bought, and shortbow skills remembered. Maybe it was a side-effect of all those Friends potions, you just didn't want to shoot a guy. Sap is like % chance to stun on backstab or something, ya? Please provide your poor UA-less DM with the sap stats.
Cinder, okay, you can special train with the Blackwalls. Actually, it takes you a couple days to find them in Durth, because the Thieves Quarter turns out to actually be the merchant section, and the Blackwall Thiefs are HQed in College Park, where all the rich mining magnates live. The Guildmaster is Dakon the Black and you never see him. Journeyman Vilenda seems to run the day-to-day stuff. Anyway, for being a guildmember, you get 10% off, so you get 80 gp back. Then there's another 10% discount on goods, so when you buy:
sap, shortbow + 20 arrows in quiver, buckler, leather armor, it costs you 27 gp. So you get a net 53 - 1 gp for the Dragonlance book = 52 gp to add to your sheet.
Special training for you mainly consists of drinking, whoring, and robbing. Incidentally, same goes for you Dave, except you don't so much rob guys as tell them Odin needs their tithes or he'll lightning bolt their homes. Cinder, you get to see the famous Durth Black Wall that the Thiefs take their name from- it's a huge ruined wall of black iron that formed part of the ancient Prison of Chankorr, built atop a mesa south of town.
Dave, you train at the temple of Odin located in Temple Town at the north end of the canyon. It's a bigger lodge than in Greyhelm, but with fewer priests. The main dude is Father Lars, and he's gone a bit senile from years of alcoholism and head injuries. Imagine like a Swedish Mike Tyson with a deep voice and a red drunkard's face. Okay, maybe the Mike Tyson thing is a stretch. Anyway, there's a huge mural painted on the wall of the temple. It's a triptych: panel one is Odin and Thor kicking back on a couch, there's a keg and empties all over the place, and it looks like they're playing some Halo or something and Thor's totally punching Odin in the shoulder for fragging the hell out of him. Panel two is a big ogre or giant or something crashing through the wall and smashing their TV with a giant wooden mallet, laughing evilly. Panel three is Odin grabbing the giant's face and breathing fire on him while Thor smashes his ribcage with Mjolner. It's a pretty good mural, sort of Diego Rivera-esque.
Brogg, you train at the temple of Grisbane. There are many many half-breeds here, like 40. It's a super academic kind of place. Huge marble temple, with lots of half-orc, half-elf, half-whatever priests walking around quoting scripture, reading "Gravity's Rainbow", solving math problems, that kind of stuff. Apparently the Oracle of Gryss is up in the mountains somewhere, no one's been to visit him since, well, since Leuco left to go fuck with you as Contrarian. You don't get to meet Grettin and Shettin until the end of your stay. Read on...
You guys don't know where Mike special trains. Anyway, you all do your thing for about, well, two months. At the end of that time, Mike shows back up, and you do discover that he took 'Tailor' as his NWP. It looks like he did a pretty good job stitching his arm back on, and in addition, he made this crazy hat and gown for Abby the floating head. Now the head floats around hovering over this full length dress that makes it almost look like she's got a body.
But there's really nothing there!
Anyway. And yeah, that mural showed Odin breathing fire. Dave, you never really heard of Odin doing that, but it sounds like the kind of thing he'd be into.
Quest time in next post. In the meantime, you guys want to buy or sell anything? Here's the Blackwall Thiefs appraisal for what I remember you have:
CF Book of Poetry: 500 gp!
White gem: 100 gp
Holy Jug Symbol: 10 gp
Special training gives you guys +1 hp and a bonus non-weapon prof.
Dave, the ring is +1 on heals cast by you. So if you Cure Light Brogg, it's +1. If you Cure Light yourself, it's +1. If you drink a healing potion, it ain't +1. Maybe "Big Healing" is a misnomer, but that's what it's called.
Magic plate mail is down with spreading the Fists or Face of Odin, whichever the situation calls for. Vrill, piercers- Fists. Shopkeep to trade stuff- Face.
Cinder, okay, sap bought, and shortbow skills remembered. Maybe it was a side-effect of all those Friends potions, you just didn't want to shoot a guy. Sap is like % chance to stun on backstab or something, ya? Please provide your poor UA-less DM with the sap stats.
Cinder, okay, you can special train with the Blackwalls. Actually, it takes you a couple days to find them in Durth, because the Thieves Quarter turns out to actually be the merchant section, and the Blackwall Thiefs are HQed in College Park, where all the rich mining magnates live. The Guildmaster is Dakon the Black and you never see him. Journeyman Vilenda seems to run the day-to-day stuff. Anyway, for being a guildmember, you get 10% off, so you get 80 gp back. Then there's another 10% discount on goods, so when you buy:
sap, shortbow + 20 arrows in quiver, buckler, leather armor, it costs you 27 gp. So you get a net 53 - 1 gp for the Dragonlance book = 52 gp to add to your sheet.
Special training for you mainly consists of drinking, whoring, and robbing. Incidentally, same goes for you Dave, except you don't so much rob guys as tell them Odin needs their tithes or he'll lightning bolt their homes. Cinder, you get to see the famous Durth Black Wall that the Thiefs take their name from- it's a huge ruined wall of black iron that formed part of the ancient Prison of Chankorr, built atop a mesa south of town.
Dave, you train at the temple of Odin located in Temple Town at the north end of the canyon. It's a bigger lodge than in Greyhelm, but with fewer priests. The main dude is Father Lars, and he's gone a bit senile from years of alcoholism and head injuries. Imagine like a Swedish Mike Tyson with a deep voice and a red drunkard's face. Okay, maybe the Mike Tyson thing is a stretch. Anyway, there's a huge mural painted on the wall of the temple. It's a triptych: panel one is Odin and Thor kicking back on a couch, there's a keg and empties all over the place, and it looks like they're playing some Halo or something and Thor's totally punching Odin in the shoulder for fragging the hell out of him. Panel two is a big ogre or giant or something crashing through the wall and smashing their TV with a giant wooden mallet, laughing evilly. Panel three is Odin grabbing the giant's face and breathing fire on him while Thor smashes his ribcage with Mjolner. It's a pretty good mural, sort of Diego Rivera-esque.
Brogg, you train at the temple of Grisbane. There are many many half-breeds here, like 40. It's a super academic kind of place. Huge marble temple, with lots of half-orc, half-elf, half-whatever priests walking around quoting scripture, reading "Gravity's Rainbow", solving math problems, that kind of stuff. Apparently the Oracle of Gryss is up in the mountains somewhere, no one's been to visit him since, well, since Leuco left to go fuck with you as Contrarian. You don't get to meet Grettin and Shettin until the end of your stay. Read on...
You guys don't know where Mike special trains. Anyway, you all do your thing for about, well, two months. At the end of that time, Mike shows back up, and you do discover that he took 'Tailor' as his NWP. It looks like he did a pretty good job stitching his arm back on, and in addition, he made this crazy hat and gown for Abby the floating head. Now the head floats around hovering over this full length dress that makes it almost look like she's got a body.
But there's really nothing there!
Anyway. And yeah, that mural showed Odin breathing fire. Dave, you never really heard of Odin doing that, but it sounds like the kind of thing he'd be into.
Quest time in next post. In the meantime, you guys want to buy or sell anything? Here's the Blackwall Thiefs appraisal for what I remember you have:
CF Book of Poetry: 500 gp!
White gem: 100 gp
Holy Jug Symbol: 10 gp
