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| − | ====Strange Sildanyari Rituals ==== |
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| − | Word whips through the streets like a whippoorwill. [[Sandy]]! [[Sandy|The Shrew]]! Married! |
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| − | A hoax! A lie! |
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| − | But the rumors persist. Refuse to be put down. |
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| − | Others claim they saw the sildanyari with [[Saevrinimata|another]] (they assume it's male, so difficult to tell with the pointy-eared) heading towards a jewelry shoppe. Or discussing one. |
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| − | A mage comes forward and swears he was hired to whisk the two away to a secret, unbeknown beach locale! |
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| − | Scandal! Lies! Hoax! |
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| − | ...but. What if it's TRUE??? |
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| − | Statements from [[Jibbom|Steel Von Ironblood]] have yet to be collected. |
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| − | ====A Small Ad in Various Alexandrian Newspapers ==== |
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| − | In various newspapers that do exist, the [[Sandy|Lady Sandiel]] takes out a small ad. It says: |
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| − | "I am not married. I am not getting married. THAT IS ALL." |
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| − | No doubt this will do nothing to help stomp out any speculation. It's too amusing to too many. |
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| − | ====More Ads Taken Out! ==== |
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| − | [[Mikilos]] Mithralla is still single. There are postings of this, placed where the elf's usual business flyers go. Single. Any rumors to the contrary are false, and any details into the matter unimportant. And any delegations of inquiry from his family are really unnecessary and please please just go back home.... |
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| − | ===Variday, Quintoos 26, 1014=== |
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| − | ====A Gobber Caravan==== |
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| − | "So I says to him, I--heh. Jorgiz Bottleworsher, ya make a better impression ah listenin if yer ears weren't half-folded across't yer--" |
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| − | "Aaaaauuuggghh!!" |
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| − | "--an yer weren't hoppin mad, an--" |
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| − | "AAAAUUUUGGGHHH!!!" |
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| − | "--an with steam comin outcher either side of yer fa--" |
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| − | "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!" |
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| − | "Well Taara's Hairy Eye, Jorg, what is it?" |
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| − | "THEY. ARE. COMING! THEY! EVERYTHING I HAVE--" |
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| − | "They? Who they?" |
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| − | "THE SNIGZOF!" and with this final yell, Jorgiz screams to the sky, his gobber-ears flaring and flapping in incessant rage, before running off, as fast as his bandy-legs can take him. |
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| − | "Oh," says the older gobber, then shoves a bony finger up his gobber-nose. Scratches around. "Well, that'd do it." And, scratching at his handsomely warty gobber-bum (he was quite the looker in his day), the older gobber bends down to lift up the scrap of paper dropped from the other gobber. |
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| − | The Alexandrian Tribune article reads: |
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| − | :The Family Snigzof are headed to Alexandria, bringing tales of unimaginable fortune, daring adventure! The arrival causes a mixture of unrest and anticipation among the merchanter and adventuring population. As a precaution, the Watch has commandeered mages from the Society to enforce "fire-suppression" in Goblintown during the arrival. |
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| − | :The Snigzof caravan is expected to arrive within days, just in time for Yule. It will bear goods from the wonders (and horrors) of the City Clank. The news has Goblintown in an uproar, as the family is well-known, and other merchants scrambling for goods...and accusing the Snigizof of piracy. |
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| − | :Not an uncommon claim these days, what with the raids just south of the Tornmawr River... |
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| − | '''OOC:''' Celebrate the holidays with us, Part 2! The caravan will be arriving in days. In the meantime, please include some of the tension in your RP--the merchant houses are generally unhappy with the idea, as a well-known gobber caravan can only bring further chaos to already strained relations (or the Tariens say, much-needed relief to some over-stuffed egos!). Mages have been drafted to watch for fires within Goblintown, and gobbers of course, are putting on their best and fluffing up their warts, hoping to arrange a marriage or two within this illustrious merchant family. |
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| − | :- Lahar |
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| − | ===Tariday, Quintoos 13, 1014=== |
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| − | ====Myrrish Baron Seeks Asylum==== |
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| − | A Myrrish Baron, one Turilo Psovik, has sought asylum in Alexandria according to leaks from the magistrate's offices that've set the rumor mills amongst Alexandria's upper class a-spinning. He claims to be in grave danger and claims that the recent airship crash he was involved in, in an effort to return home after his father's abdication of his Barony for reasons of 'madness', was an act of sabotage caused by shadowy forces on one side or the other of the current dispute between the heirs to the still unfilled throne of King Serenas. |
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| − | Alexandria's governing council has yet to hear his petition, but the Baron is in protective custody somewhere in the city. Or so they say. |
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| − | === Gilday, Rhaltaas 17, 1014=== |
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| − | ====Thief Strikes the Petunia==== |
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| − | The Petunia's captain expressed pleasure at current sales. "It's not bad," he said, before his brows drew downwards. "Though we had a lad try for the ship the other day. He broke in near some of the crates." |
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| − | When asked where the "lad" was, the captain made some vague response about local druids, and irritating the wizards of Rune. |
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| − | Local authorities are looking into the matter, though there seems nothing to report just yet. They are, however, watching the ship's intake of rubber sap, a common ingredient in some polymorph enchantments, in the interests of "adhering more closely with local justice methods." |
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| − | '''OOC:''' +bbread 7/15 is current with supplies left and available. Expect it to stay that way until the ship departs. X) - Lah |
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| − | ===Gilday, Rhaltaas 10, 1014=== |
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| − | ====Open Market!==== |
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| − | Despite recent attacks, a great whale of a ship, the Petunia, made way into Alexandria's harbor this week. The Petunia sailed all the way from Rune, and bears, it claims, leftover goods from the 5-year chaos on the island that only now is beginning to settle. The recently-founded wizard's parliment (who spend much of their time arguing various points and sundry, as is the way of proper wizardry), has licensed the Petunia to place these items for sale, either as a charity, for funds, to defund a political opponent, or...who the hell knows why wizards do anything anymore? |
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| − | : 2x Headbands of Vast Intellect +2 (3,000 gp ea) |
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| − | : 3x Potion of Haste (560g ea) |
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| − | : 2x Scroll of Fly (280g ea) |
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| − | : 1x +1 Flaming Battleaxe (6,250g ea) |
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| − | : 2x Scroll of Heroism (280g ea) |
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| − | : 1x +1 Platemail of Light Fortification (4,240g ea) |
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| − | : 1x +2 Bec-de-Corbin (6,200g ea) |
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| − | : 2x Wand of Mage Armor (560g ea) |
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| − | : 2x Wand of Enlarge Person (560g ea) |
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| − | : 2x +1 Light Crossbow (1,750g ea) |
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| − | : 2x Gray Bag of Tricks (2,550g ea) |
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| − | : 5x Universal Solvent (35g ea) |
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| − | : 5x Soveriegn Glue (1,800g ea) |
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| − | : 5x Alchemical Grease (3g ea) |
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| − | : 5x Bloodblock (19g ea) |
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| − | : ?x An unknown number of stylish wizarding hats, robes, and accoutrements |
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| − | The Petunia will be in dock for the next two weeks before sailing on to other parts of Ea. Please +request to staff with your interest. |
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| − | ===Variday, Rhaltaas 10, 1014=== |
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| − | Word has recently leaked on the street that the man who tried to poison Steel Von Ironblood (Aka [[Jibbom]]) has been moved by the magistrates into 'protective custody' of some kind. He's been taken out of the dungeons and moved *someplace* less known. |
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| − | ===Eliday, Daeshen 30, 1014=== |
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| − | The lastest news is that a ship ran aground at one of the Lighthouses that dot the coast of the Alexandros region. Investigators found that some sort of creatures had murdered the lighthouse keeper with intent to cause catastrophes at sea. This continues the trend of strangeness at sea that's been plagueing the region. |
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| − | Armed soldiers have now taken the island over and secured it, and other such lighthouses are now being fortified and protected from attack even more carefully than they were before. This is at significant expense, but clearly a necessary precaution now. |
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| − | '''OOC:''' For rumors and general info, follow-up with: [[Constantin]], [[Angrid]], [[Vennan]], [[Jessa]], [[Munch]], [[Quint]] and [[Mako]] |
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| − | '''OOC:''' See [[Craft]] for details! |
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Revision as of 23:01, 10 January 2013
Welcome to an Age of Heroes
In Taara's wake the earth crumbled. Gods fell, others rose, and the race of mankind looked forward and saw the destruction of nations. For five years, necrotech seared the world's landscape and forces unknown decimated the once-insurmountable Walls of Charn. Nations turned against one another with the vanishing of monarchs--brother to brother and kin to kin. During the struggles, the nation of Dragonier attempted to keep the peace before it, too, fell. Other nations threatened to follow.
Now returned from the Mists, Alexandria finds itself thrown into a world in turmoil. In this world, the Pantheon of Light stride forward in anger, the Twilight fall into debate, and the forces of Darkness are locked in a war between Maugrim and Taara. High arcana soars over the landscape with the renewed activity of the Old Races, while guilds and organizations struggle to find their footing with the fall of Rune. The sildanyar and khazad have moved forward into the world once again, driven by the perceived neglect of the world by humankind.
The world had waited for the return of Alexandria and the return of the Myrrish and Bludgun kings for five years--only to find Alexandria suddenly returned unchanged, and unknowing, from the Land of Mists. To Alexandria, the War of Sendor is just days past. To the world--
It is the time for heroes.Current Meta-Arc
Tales of pirates begin to quiet down, replaced by murmurs of increasing sickness. Not of the body, but of the mind... In some corners, townsfolk whisper tales of the Butcher, a children's horror run amok. Others of madmen in the Lower City. Rumors circulate, too, of a creature known only as the Azure Queen...or more commonly and frequent, Blue Bitch, in the parlance on the streets and one they say is depraved beyond all reason. The pirates continue, of course, but they're secondary in minds as of late, and who can blame them?
Worse, the City's called for a public execution of someone tied to these recent horrors. While supporters say it's to calm down the hysteria before it starts, others take a more jaundiced eye towards the proceedings, recalling that, perhaps, public executions in Alexandria have never, EVER gone well.
Recent Website Updates
December 19
Actions and Maneuvers in PF!
We've a new page up! It is in the Pathfinder section of our site and tries to clarify "Just What Can I do in a Round?" It also addresses combat maneuvers a bit, too.
I don't claim everything is correct yet. If you see an error, don't hesitate to send a polite @mail.
To see the charts, head on over to Start Here > What is Pathfinder, and look under the Resources section. Or, click here.
- - Lahar
December 10
Celebrating the Holidays, pt 2.5!
Happy Holidays! As we prepare for the final stretch of Tenebrae's holiday preparation, staff wanted to take time out to say hi to our new folks...and to give a firm hand-shake to the old. With this in mind, we wanted to ask: who are you? And, what stories do you want to tell?
So just for the fun of it, staff is tossing out some Character Questionairres. You don't need to fill these out. X) But if you do, staff will award you 3 RPPs if you're new. If you're old, fill one out for your oldest, and youngest, PC. We'll give you 3 RPP for that, too. Just share what answers you can and share them on the forum. :3
We may do PrP bounties with these, depending on the response and your own interests.
- Lahar
PS No one HAS to do this. It's just something fun to help us learn about eachother. :D And that is why we are offering RPPs if you do. X)
December 8
Paizo just released their official monk update. We'll be incorporating it.
- - Lahar
November 26
About the Caravan...
Note: Anyone who can email me a log showing their RP with any of these themes, the gobbers will give an extra-super-discounted price to (via magic; it just happens).
Plugging RP Shamelessly Since 1997,
- - Lahar
- lahar.tenebrae@yahoo.com
"The roads shall be painted teal!" announced the maddened hobgoblin king. And lo, his subjects bowed before him, and all roads from Hither to Yon became teal with bright green roses.
Recent Rumors in Alexandria
Eliday, Khael 30, 1014
Erroneous Experiment Damages Docks
The wizard who requested Guild of Explorers ruffians to assist him in protecting his testing did not get exactly what he expected as results. The members of the group have been ushered into the Temple of Althea for healing from what has been described by what an eyewitness apothecary reports as "the nastiest jellyfish stings he had ever seen", quoting the size of the jellyfish to be something to the realm of fifty feet across given the size of the stings, adding that they were lucky to survive such things.
The foreman of the dockworkers on shift is exceptionally irate with the testing of this experiment as it has caused ludicrous damage to two of the piers at the Alexandrian harbour, being caused by possibly the same boat. The City Watch claims that nothing out of the ordinary occurred, just that the wizard's ability to control his own magic is highly suspect.
Due to security issues a week and some ago within the Temple, the wizard, the adventurers, nor those tending to them could be reached for comment.
Eliday, Khael 23, 1014
Olyeaux Estate Settled
The estate of the late Lord Olyexau has finally been divided and sold, thanks in part to some adventurers from the Guild. His two feuding sons have been left the fruits (and vegetables) of his love of squash, and apparently have been legally denoted as "dunderheads."
The estate itself, though, was granted to Lord George Brawnson, as per the will. Lord Brawnson is best known for his legendary adventuring exploits, such as feeding a purple worm its own tail and using the resutling ball as the head of a flail to take out an entire squadron of roc aerial cavalry, or the time he convinced a thousand year old dragon to pay him its hoard in exchange to forgo the usual beating.
As Lord Brawnson is currently missing in action, the Brawnson estate has begun the process of reclaiming the overgrown and run-down Olyexau property and restoring it to glory, albeit with a Brawnson touch.
Variday, Khael 10, 1014
Caravan Adds to Inventory
"Whatddya mean I gotta pay a fine??!" the outraged roar could be heard for blocks. Kvnich Snigzof nearly ran afoul of the merchants' guild when word escaped that certain rumors /were/ true. His family was tied to the infamous Fizzlebog, the inventor of the dragonspitter and thunderbelcher.
And the gobbers had swarmed. So had some artificers. Everyone, it seemed, was wanting an autograph.
The City (via the Merchanter's Guild) is wanting him to pay damages. In response, he's added some healing potions to his list, in attempt to gain counter-support from the adventuring community.
OOC: The following items have been added, though they possess the same side effects as the alchemicals (see +bbread 7/18). As folks purchase, I update these +bbposts, so all supply quantities are current. As usual, email me a log of you RPing about the caravan ongrid, and I'll add an additional 5\ discount to the price. :3
The caravan will be leaving in 1 week.
- Lahar
New Items
- 6x Potions of Cure Light Wounds (37 gold ea.)
- 4x Potions of Cure Moderate Wounds (225 gold ea.)
- 4x Potions of Cure Serious Wounds (562 gold ea.)
Korday, Quintoos 29, 1014
A Caravan Arrives!
Amid cheering, screaming, and tales of woe and hand-wringing, the gobber's carravan arrives. It's led by a trio of gobbers of various ages, each claming to be the head of things, though one (Kvnich Snigzof) seems to be the leader of even /them/. A middle-aged gobber in heavy bear-fur, he struts proudly at the caravan's head, atop a great wolf and with a dragonspitter across his shoulder...
And declares the caravan open for business! The caravan spreads across a full quarter of Goblintown, and has quick business by the arvek and oruch, though other races hang back a while, in general. At first.
The caravan is brightly colored, with wheels and cogs and other things. The Snigzofs' great flag flies over it all, a raging wolf with a thunderbelcher held firmly in its jaws. The old crest held a pair of blades, but with the invention of the thunderbelcher, the dragonspitter, the merchant family was quick to adopt.
Maybe they /are/ related...
General Items
- 2x Belt of Enviable Gobber's Stamina (Con +2) (3,000)
- 2x Dragonspitter +1 (3,975)
- 1x Thunderbelcher +1 (available with any of the following enhancements, select one at purchase: Flaming, Lightning, Bane) (8,100)
- 2x Claws of Attack, Orcish +1 (1744)
- 2x Spiked Heavy Shield +1 (to the shield, spikes are masterwork, however) (1110)
- 2x Dire Flail +1 (1793)
- 1x Sword of the Planes (16,737)
- 3x Goggles! Goggles of Minute Seeing (1,875)
- 3x Goggles! Goggles of Night (9,000)
- 2x Lenses! Lens of Detection (2,625)
- 1x Instant Fortress! (41,250)
- 1x Robe of Blending (6,300)
- 2x Scarab of Golembane (1,875)
- 2x Sustaining Spoon (never leave your labratory again!) (4,050)
- 2x Wand of Detect Secret Doors (563)
Scrolls
- 3x Titan Fist (19)
- 2x Blur (113)
- 2x Darkvision (113)
- 1x Protection from Arrows (113)
- 2x Protection from Energy (Fire or Lightning only) (282)
- 3x Protection from Law (19)
- 2x Repair Light Damage (19)
- 2x Repair Moderate Damage (113)
- 2x Repair Serious Damage (282)
- 3x Dispel Magic (282)
- 2x Displacement (282)
- 3x Force Punch (282)
- 2x Stinking Cloud (282)
- 2x Tongues (282)
- 2x Water Breathing (282)
- 2x Detonate (525)
Alchemicals
All alchemicals are available! The cost for any is at 75\.
However, while the items work, the user may experience additional effects. Whenever an alchemical item which is applied to the skin or imbibed is used, the user should roll 1d6:
- 1-2: Nothing
- 3-4: The PC grows an unusual color for the next 24 hours or until dispelled
- 5: Tongue-tied for the next half hour as your tongue attempts to swap to "gobber-speak"; does not affect spell-casting but no one can understand what you say.
- 6: Suffer a mild case of Goblin Twitch for the next half hour. Shiny things become of slight interest, especially if of a technical nature.
All effects stack.
