12.09.2006
Twilos: Around Town
Thak, okay, you improve your abilities with Dancing Lights. You can write short messages and draw pictures, within the size and duration limits of DL.
Huygens, the owner of Rats and Razors, will give you two weeks to stick around, rest, and train in the back room, making weapons and such as you can. The burly members of the party can become bouncers, while the priests can help heal people after the fact, or even prepare food.
That's 14 days, so Thak and Tut can work to make 7 simple weapons (please see Weapon Making post below).
I'll spacebar through some of this, although you should assume in your two weeks of time, everyone can train, and there are several minor scuffles and incidents that occur at the bar, but nothing that we need to take many days to roll out. If you're looking to blogroll a barfight, head to the other district and we'll start it up. On that note, sorry KT, although you and a few others are close to levelling again, you just don't get the 150 xp or so you need in the spacebar'd downtime here.
Thak, cavalier's have d12 I think. Couldn't find any old errata on-line, and the new d20 Cavalier book keeps a lot of the stuff from UA, including d12 for hit dice.
Theodore, okay, nice roll for hp. Looks like LeGrand wasn't doing very well selling his trade.
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Thak, you realize around town that most of the weapons you see are homebrew like your own. Mainly good for dolling out subdual damage. Seems like people with real weapons- metal swords and armor- are guards, are in gangs, or work for the Machinists.
There's no public access to the Machine Guild mines. Workers have a uniform and badge, and enter in packs at specific intervals throughout the 'day'. So looks like you won't be getting a weapon that way right now.
The hours of the day, by the way, are measured by a gigantic Machinist clock in the middle of the big district, called Twilos Zentre, or just 'the Zent'. The smaller district you're currently living in is called Twilos Offtre, or 'the Oft'.
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In the Zent, there are many caverns that run off from the main large chamber. Most of these are gated off and guarded, and house the Thief, Slave, and Assassin Lords who run Twilos. You count a cool thirteen manor-caverns. It's hard to say who's worse, the Slave Lords of Twilos Lowcity (the collective Twilos underground), or the guards who run the fortress above, Stonekeep, and occasionally show up to collect some slaves or make commerce with the Lords of Lowcity.
One of the manors, you see, is guarded by three Drow and a Deep Dwarf. Watching, you see it seems to be all-underdark dwellers there. It's House Erzsta, and you can learn from Huygens that the Drow of Erzsta have a large share of the drug and prostitution trade of Twilos. Huygens tells you he's heard that House Erzsta runs deep, and there are extensive caverns below it that are said to go all the way through the world to the other side. Erzsta deals extensively with the guards of Stonekeep, and the merchant clans beyond in the Island Kingdoms.
I'm happy to describe other manors and Houses if you want, but it's helpful if you tell me what you're looking for (as you did below, thanks), so I can focus on that.
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The Arena. One of the highlights, or lowlights, of Twilos is Bloodkeep, a small fortress is the center of Zent. Bloodkeep is basically an arena and theatre, featuring all sorts of different acts, from awful little circus sideshows, to combat in all forms. Most combat is nonlethal, but every week they have an 'anything goes' free-for-all which is lethal to some who enter. Prizes are cash and notoriety, and it's claimed that the best combatants are picked by the Captains of Stonekeep to either be guards or bought out by the Noble families outside.
If you want to enter, you'll start by facing off one-on-one in a daily nonlethal battle. You'll be pre-assessed for combat skill, and paired off according to the stakes. It's your choice for odds: 2-1 in your favor, 3-2 you, 1-1 even odds, 2-3 against, or 1-2 against. You'll need to ante up at least 1 silver piece to play, max of 10 gp for your current Bloodkeep ranking, which is 0 of course. If you're interested, please post a bunch of rounds of blogrolls so we can get through combat quickly.
Also, huh, looks like 'Cold Cut Collective' has been moved to Twilos. There's a CCC 'Battle of the Champion Star MCs' coming up in a few days, led by 'King Greathelm'.
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Temples. There are many small shrines in Twilos. Some of them, even, are unstaffed in out-of-the-way caverns (read: roll for random encounters).
The largest sect is the Machinist Druids who run the mines.
There are temples to Venus, Mars, Plutus, and Mercury.
There are smaller shrines to Odin and Set.
Apparently, there are unstaffed shrines to Apollo, Hecate, and Pan.
There may be some other temples- if there's a god you're looking for, just ask.
Finally, although there's no temple here, apparently some priests of Zelba come into town once a month to collect the corpses and dispose of them.
Huygens, the owner of Rats and Razors, will give you two weeks to stick around, rest, and train in the back room, making weapons and such as you can. The burly members of the party can become bouncers, while the priests can help heal people after the fact, or even prepare food.
That's 14 days, so Thak and Tut can work to make 7 simple weapons (please see Weapon Making post below).
I'll spacebar through some of this, although you should assume in your two weeks of time, everyone can train, and there are several minor scuffles and incidents that occur at the bar, but nothing that we need to take many days to roll out. If you're looking to blogroll a barfight, head to the other district and we'll start it up. On that note, sorry KT, although you and a few others are close to levelling again, you just don't get the 150 xp or so you need in the spacebar'd downtime here.
Thak, cavalier's have d12 I think. Couldn't find any old errata on-line, and the new d20 Cavalier book keeps a lot of the stuff from UA, including d12 for hit dice.
Theodore, okay, nice roll for hp. Looks like LeGrand wasn't doing very well selling his trade.
...
Thak, you realize around town that most of the weapons you see are homebrew like your own. Mainly good for dolling out subdual damage. Seems like people with real weapons- metal swords and armor- are guards, are in gangs, or work for the Machinists.
There's no public access to the Machine Guild mines. Workers have a uniform and badge, and enter in packs at specific intervals throughout the 'day'. So looks like you won't be getting a weapon that way right now.
The hours of the day, by the way, are measured by a gigantic Machinist clock in the middle of the big district, called Twilos Zentre, or just 'the Zent'. The smaller district you're currently living in is called Twilos Offtre, or 'the Oft'.
...
In the Zent, there are many caverns that run off from the main large chamber. Most of these are gated off and guarded, and house the Thief, Slave, and Assassin Lords who run Twilos. You count a cool thirteen manor-caverns. It's hard to say who's worse, the Slave Lords of Twilos Lowcity (the collective Twilos underground), or the guards who run the fortress above, Stonekeep, and occasionally show up to collect some slaves or make commerce with the Lords of Lowcity.
One of the manors, you see, is guarded by three Drow and a Deep Dwarf. Watching, you see it seems to be all-underdark dwellers there. It's House Erzsta, and you can learn from Huygens that the Drow of Erzsta have a large share of the drug and prostitution trade of Twilos. Huygens tells you he's heard that House Erzsta runs deep, and there are extensive caverns below it that are said to go all the way through the world to the other side. Erzsta deals extensively with the guards of Stonekeep, and the merchant clans beyond in the Island Kingdoms.
I'm happy to describe other manors and Houses if you want, but it's helpful if you tell me what you're looking for (as you did below, thanks), so I can focus on that.
...
The Arena. One of the highlights, or lowlights, of Twilos is Bloodkeep, a small fortress is the center of Zent. Bloodkeep is basically an arena and theatre, featuring all sorts of different acts, from awful little circus sideshows, to combat in all forms. Most combat is nonlethal, but every week they have an 'anything goes' free-for-all which is lethal to some who enter. Prizes are cash and notoriety, and it's claimed that the best combatants are picked by the Captains of Stonekeep to either be guards or bought out by the Noble families outside.
If you want to enter, you'll start by facing off one-on-one in a daily nonlethal battle. You'll be pre-assessed for combat skill, and paired off according to the stakes. It's your choice for odds: 2-1 in your favor, 3-2 you, 1-1 even odds, 2-3 against, or 1-2 against. You'll need to ante up at least 1 silver piece to play, max of 10 gp for your current Bloodkeep ranking, which is 0 of course. If you're interested, please post a bunch of rounds of blogrolls so we can get through combat quickly.
Also, huh, looks like 'Cold Cut Collective' has been moved to Twilos. There's a CCC 'Battle of the Champion Star MCs' coming up in a few days, led by 'King Greathelm'.
...
Temples. There are many small shrines in Twilos. Some of them, even, are unstaffed in out-of-the-way caverns (read: roll for random encounters).
The largest sect is the Machinist Druids who run the mines.
There are temples to Venus, Mars, Plutus, and Mercury.
There are smaller shrines to Odin and Set.
Apparently, there are unstaffed shrines to Apollo, Hecate, and Pan.
There may be some other temples- if there's a god you're looking for, just ask.
Finally, although there's no temple here, apparently some priests of Zelba come into town once a month to collect the corpses and dispose of them.
