Post by Andre on Aug 29, 2011 10:39:32 GMT -5
Again, my apologies for the long delay getting XP and RP to you 
... see
whatifdragonlancedm.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=sessionrecaps&action=display&thread=885
for an explanation why... as usual feel free to skim down to the part of this thread with just your name on it and read that part , otherwise you're in for a long read
This is a bit unusual in that I had to split it into two parts , apparently the thread was too long for even proboards to handle ... Draug and Rin's XP and RP are on part 1, Serinda, Udyr and Zane's XP and RP are in part 2 of this thread 
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SERINDA
500 xp per PC for wights with arrows that were energy/level draining Zane and Udyr in skullcap
300 xp for reasoning with four dwarven bog-ghosts instead of fighting them just outside of skullcap
200 xp per PC for making right choice (retreating from skeletons) begging you to find their gold circlets and free them
80 xp for good role playing
181 RP for good role playing
I thought Serinda was a little quiet this FG game session - mind you her RP'ing was still great .. for example staying put and staying true to her principles regarding the whole beating up the dwarf leader thing
Udyr yells, "LET'S GET GOING ALREADY! ZANE, DRAUG, LETS MOVE!!!!" he then points at Serinda, "YOU! DO WHAT YOU WANT! STAY OR GO!"
Udyr begins walking in the direction we need to go.
Zane: Not coming princess? Or are you leaving to visit your forest?
Zane: If you are leaving, then I thought we had a deal..
Udyr: She doesnt care for the refugees, just for her own people!
Serinda: "What would you have me do then? Simply give up my own feelings?"
Udyr: I don;t care for city-folk, yet I am here, I have helped them! And I am still willing to do more for them![/color
]Loved her dry sense of humor in the passages below
Udyr: If "they" try something, what are YOU TALKINGABOUT!
Zane: It's a long story Udyr, I'll tell you on the way to Skullcap
Zane: Or Draug can, he was there
Zane walks over to Serinda, "You will have help this time if they try something.."
Draug: "Oh Serinda that one time thing. NO happen no more.... Monk bad influence on Draug see. Draug no like that no more."
Udyr: If "they" try something, what are YOU TALKINGABOUT!
Rin chuckles. "Yeah we were sampling the fine beverages of the hill dwarves."
Udyr: I don't care about it! but the Silanesti is judging me on something the other did! There she goes again!
Draug: "Funny story! hehehe Well me and Monk you see. We uh how you say beat dwarf man senseless. I pull arm out rin heal him. We only do that so we show dwarf gods be back you see. Them dwarf be really stubborn you know."
Draug: "Oh wait even more funny I make big dwarf fall in Wollf shit bahahahahaha"
Draug: "Oh wait even more funny I make big dwarf fall in Wollf shit bahahahahaha "
Serinda: "You feel yourself included in every 'they'? You weeren't even there..."
Serinda sighs
Serinda: "Yes... Hilarious... Let's just get going."
The ghost warrior's head snaps towards Rin .. " LIAR ! The goooooooods have abandoned ussssssss ! " Rin realizes the ghosts died about 50 years after the Cataclysm - soon enough after the gods leaving the world for the dwarves to remember the event..
Zane: Un-knock the arrow Draug.. It's not like that weapon would do anything anyway..
Rin: "I am not lying and I can prove it. I really do hate doing this."
ghost warrior: " Whyyyyyyyyy ? Whyyyyy have they returnnnneeeeed noooooowwwwww? Prove iiiiiiiiit ! "
Rin rakes his claw arcoss his arm letting his blood drip to the ground. "You'd thing I'd get used to this. Now watch." Rin hols hid habnd over his arm wound as a light shines from underneath. When he pulls his hand away his arm is healed.
Draug: "Draug never get tired o taht Rin so cool it is."
Draug: (elven) "Why do you always have to be right Zane? Want to switch (bows)? My aim is probablly better than yours." replies Draug with his tongue sticking out jokingly
Zane: I doubt your (bow and arrow) aim is better..
Zane: We'd have to test that sometime..
Draug: We try sometime yes
Draug: shoot apple od Princess head?
Zane: No.. probably not the best test.. I don't want to be frozen solid..
Zane: And good job Rin.. hate fighing the undead.. takes to long to kill them the second time
Serinda: "Maybe you can ask Laurana... Now let's get going.."
Serinda hears Draug hollering loudly for her (as does everyone else) his cry echoing through all the old, dusty rooms..
Rin looks around the room and finds... Udyr's foot how'd that get in here?
Udyr abruptly walks up to the skeleton and snatches the parchment out of the skeletons grasp.
Zane: You would think he'd be quieter..
Serinda: "You would?..."
Zane: Right..
Zane: He wouldn't..
As usual for you
, great job describing in-game effects in RP terms instead of saying something like " my locate spell won't work because the material component is someone else's possession" , the whole avoiding the "game-speak" thing (strange compliment to give you I know but I've had other players do this in the past .. phrases like " I detect no evil" instead of " I see no darkness in their souls or around us" for example ) .. great stuff !
Rin chuckles and starts to chant. A long ribbon like path of shadow extends upwards toward the eyes of skullcap. "So whose first? Oh and we should proably move quickly it doesn't last long." Having said that Rin hops onto the path and start to walk on it at a rahter fast pace
Serinda shrugs and follows Rin up the walkway
Udyr reaches into his bag, pulls out a small coin in his fist, he whispers a few words then opens his hand and a bright light comes from the coin, he then tosses it down the eye hole.
Draug: "Cool trick Udyr!"
Serinda: "Why did we decide the eyes were the best place of entrance again?..."
Draug: "I thought eye cooler than mouth"
Rin: "So who wants to dive in first?"
Zane: I'll go..
Udyr pushes Rin forward into the eye hole, "You have a torch, go ahead, lead the way."
Serinda: "Why can't we ever go somewhere nice..."
Zane: Most of the nice places are overrun by the dragon army..
Zane: That's probably why..
Rin: "I dunno I thought the Dwarven village was nice."
Serinda: "Yeah... It was before we came..."
Zane: That's true..
Draug: "Darf village mean to Draug. Draug no like it."
Zane: Shall we find out what here?
Udyr: Let's get this over with! What are we looking for?
Draug: "Can't you scry map Serinda much easier no?"
Serinda: "Not without something to go on.. i'd need an item that belonged to those dwarves.."
Draug yells (elven) "Hey serinda can you use javelins and armor to scry the dwarves?"
Serinda: "If their owners were still alive... It'd be easy... The problem is we're looking for relatives.. distant cousins..."
And her ploy to shut up the overly talkative brass dragon blaize she ran into so the group could get going - masterful stuff, you got bonus RP for that , VERY well done
Serinda: "Listen mister dragon... I don't wish to alarm you at all... But... You've been trapped here for 300 years.. Shouldn't you check up your hoard? I mean to say.. in 300 years.. aren't you concerned someone may have found it and stolen from you?..."
Loved her rather acidic observation of Udyr here too
Zane: What the hell happened to you?
You all (except Rin) see a wolf dart out of the room Udyr was just in - not Draug as a wolf btw ... bleeding heavily from 3 of his limbs,limping..
The arrows are gone, having fallen out of Udyr's hide when he changed form...
Draug yellls "What happened udyr!!!!"
Zane looks at the bleeding wolf next to him..
Draug yelling more "ZAne what happened?"
Serinda turns to glance at the wolf too, and frowns, wondering what happened, and if it is indeed Udyr, whether or not he started whatever fight he got into
Zane: Hell if I know.. I don't speak Wolf
Draug: "Arwararroooo arwarooo arwooooo howl;ll"
Serinda turns to glance at the wolf too, and frowns, wondering what happened, and if it is indeed Udyr, whether or not he started whatever fight he got into
There were a few scenarios where I would have liked to see her interact with her fellow PC's more though .. for example here :
Draug: "What make you laugh princess?"
Draug: "Civilizing people? bahahaha"
I know at the time she was in a hurry to get going to skullcap but would have loved to see her respond to that, maybe something to the effect of " for the hundredth time, the Silvanesti were just trying to HELP the wild elves ! It's not our fault they were too uncivilized to take advantage of that" or some such.. remember the history between the Silvanesti elves Serinda belongs to (easily the most arrogant race on the face of Krynn ) and the wild , "savage" (from the Silvanesti point of view) barbarian elves that Draug refers to as his people being an "elf wanna-be " and all (perhaps Serinda should call him that more often? ) ... the Silvanesti tried to forcibly civilize the wild elves and the wild elves fought back, blood being shed on both sides... though as far as Serinda knows from the Silvanesti point of view the Silvanesti were only trying to help and the kagonesti (wild elves) responded with violence like the brutes they are - or from the silvanesti viewpoint anyways .. Keeping this in mind, during the exchange below with the dwarf ghosts :
Serinda: "... we really need to get past.. It's a matter of great importance, to all races, including the future of the dwarves."
" How sssssooooooo........ elf ? " One of the ghosts glares at Serinda
Rin: "Might I interject her Serinda?"
Draug: "Or do Draug interject with fist?"
Maybe Serinda might be tempted to say something like " Not everything can be solved with a fist to the face you know - try to act more civilized than those wild elves you grew up with ! " ?
Then there's the scene below where Udyr went ahead of the others to skullcap, missing the interaction with the ghost dwarves as a result .. when the meet Udyr again he wants to know where the hell they were and what took them so long (typical Udyr ) and Draug responds:
Serinda: "We met some dwarves..."
Draug: "The elf woman stop for directions"
Rin: "We had to ask them for directions."
Zane: And I had to pee.
Zane: Sorry..
Udyr: Gah... I don't like this place, let's get this over with.
Would have loved to see Serinda make another dry comment.. maybe something like " Not ALL women stop to ask for directions you know.. and my magic will allow me to find my way better than the rest of you put together anyways (a reference to spells like "scrying" which she knows for example - and a reference to future spells she may pick up if she wants to like "find the path", " clairvoyance", et cetera ) ... then again the wild elves wouldn't know anything about the subtleties of arcane magic would they? Haven't seen many wizards among your kind..."
Udyr
500 xp per PC for wights with arrows that were energy/level draining Zane and Udyr in skullcap
200 xp per PC for making right choice (retreating from skeletons) begging you to find their gold circlets and free them
65 xp for good role playing
160 RP for good role playing
Udyr's RP'ing is getting better, he's getting a bit more vocal - but of the entire group of players he's still the most quiet in-game .. not attempting to criticize you by any means, I'd just like to see him speak up more ....
This isn't to say Udyr is doing a HORRIBLE job RP'ing by any means, you're playing up his grouchiness very well .. loved his interaction with Serinda here for example :
Udyr yells, "LET'S GET GOING ALREADY! ZANE, DRAUG, LETS MOVE!!!!" he then points at Serinda, "YOU! DO WHAT YOU WANT! STAY OR GO!"
Udyr begins walking in the direction we need to go.
Zane: Not coming princess? Or are you leaving to visit your forest?
Zane: If you are leaving, then I thought we had a deal..
Udyr: She doesnt care for the refugees, just for her own people!
Serinda: "What would you have me do then? Simply give up my own feelings?"
Udyr: I don;t care for city-folk, yet I am here, I have helped them! And I am still willing to do more for them!
And I liked how he takes note of the other PC's referring to stuff that he wasn't present for then demanding an explanation, good stuff ! Though I would have loved to see him react to that information when it was then presented to him - perhaps a disbelieving comment to the effect of " You made the dwarf fall into shit ? Why in the gods would you do that? And why would you care if the dwarves worshipped the true gods in the first place? Who needs the short little bastards? " .. Or perhaps he might point at Rin and shout " WE'RE ON A QUEST TO SAVE THOSE SOFT GOOD FOR NOTHING CITY FOLK AND YOU'RE GOING TO SIT THERE AND GET DRUNK? WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED ! YOU NEVER TAKE ANYTHING SERIOUSLY YOU WALKING BAG OF FEATHERS ! " .. Or, given that Udyr has already declared that he's going to be Draug the werewolf's friend waaayy back (recall how they first met on the forums, Udyr's mentor /druid teacher introduced Draug to Udyr and said that Draug was worthy of respect as a fellow worshipper of Habbakuk) , perhaps Udyr might grunt something like " Good - I'm sure the dwarf got what he deserved then" and perhaps even give Draug a friendly punch on the arm.. I WOULD like to see more interplay between Draug and Udyr .. the grouchiness is great to give him an easy " handle" to interact with PC's but the next step is to give his character additional "dimensions" so to speak at this point - being all buddy-buddy with Draug shows that he is in fact capable of being a nice guy , long as he feels the person in question he's interacting with isn't a total idiot ..
Udyr: If "they" try something, what are YOU TALKINGABOUT!
Zane: It's a long story Udyr, I'll tell you on the way to Skullcap
Zane: Or Draug can, he was there
Zane walks over to Serinda, "You will have help this time if they try something.."
Draug: "Oh Serinda that one time thing. NO happen no more.... Monk bad influence on Draug see. Draug no like that no more."
Udyr: If "they" try something, what are YOU TALKINGABOUT!
Rin chuckles. "Yeah we were sampling the fine beverages of the hill dwarves."
Udyr: I don't care about it! but the Silanesti is judging me on something the other did! There she goes again!
Draug: "Funny story! hehehe Well me and Monk you see. We uh how you say beat dwarf man senseless. I pull arm out rin heal him. We only do that so we show dwarf gods be back you see. Them dwarf be really stubborn you know."
Draug: "Oh wait even more funny I make big dwarf fall in Wollf shit bahahahahaha"
Draug: "Oh wait even more funny I make big dwarf fall in Wollf shit bahahahahaha "
Serinda: "You feel yourself included in every 'they'? You weeren't even there..."
Serinda sighs
Serinda: "Yes... Hilarious... Let's just get going."
Rin: "So glad I got those barrles of the stuff. Never know when a stiff drink will come in handy
Draug: "You need admit Princess. It real funny"
Udyr: Yet you are jugde all humans on that act, that i was not present for?
Draug: "If you see Dragon army fall in shit you laugh no?"
Campaign saved.
Zane begins to hold his head again..
Serinda: "I am not that easily amused.."
Zane (muttering): I really need to find some plants for headaches.
Draug: "What make you laugh princess?"
Draug: "Civilizing people? bahahaha"
Rin pulls out a tankard of ale from his bag and holds it out to Zane. "Here I'm thinking you could sue one... or possibly ten."
Serinda considers that for a long moment, and then shrugs, as she can't really think of anything that makes her laugh
Serinda: "That's not important now.."
Udyr: GRRRRAAAHHHH!, EVERYONE BE QUIET!!!!! LET"S JUST GO! LETS DO WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE!!!
Zane grabs the tankard and downs it.
Another example of potential RP'ing opportunities... Udyr expresses irritation with the PC's for taking so long when everyone except Udyr is delayed on the way to skullcap by the dwarven ghosts - that's great .. even better would be to start getting specific with his insults, tailor them to each PC in question.. perhaps he points at Rin and shouts " LET ME GUESS .. YOU STOPPED TO EITHER MAKE JOKES OR HAVE A DRINK, OR BOTH .. (stabs finger at Serinda) WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING STOPPING TO ASK FOR DIRECTIONS? WE HAVE ALL THOSE SOFT GOOD-FOR-NOTHING CITY FOLK TO SAVE AND YOU'RE STOPPING TO ASK FOR DIRECTIONS? NEXT TIME FOLLOW ME WHEN I SHIFT INTO BIRD-FORM ELF I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING, UNLIKE YOU !!!! AND YOU (points at Zane) NEXT TIME JUST HOLD IT ! WHAT ARE YOU, FOUR YEARS OLD ? ! ? "
Serinda: "We met some dwarves..."
Draug: "The elf woman stop for directions"
Rin: "We had to ask them for directions."
Zane: And I had to pee.
Zane: Sorry..
Udyr: Gah... I don't like this place, let's get this over with
Love how he continues to express impatience such as the passage below :
Udyr: Is this what we are looking for
Udyr opens the parchment.
(the parchment is written in a language Udyr can't seem to understand)
Udyr tosses the parchment to the ground.
Rin: "So what did it say?"
Udyr: Who cares, its not the map. Go ahead and waste your time on it.
And I liked how irritated he got with the brass dragon .. though I would have liked Udyr to have said something to begin with rather than the dragon having to poke him in order to get Udyr to start speaking - basically all the other PC's except Udyr were already speaking to the dragon .. the dragon picking on Udyr was basically my DM in-game hint to get Udyr involved in the RP'ing .. Yep I know he was impatient and wanted to get moving - having said that I'd still like him to be more vocal without me having to "prod" him through the use of an NPC in order to get Udyr to say something .. Also I would have liked to see Udyr verbally let the dragon have it, "annoying pest" and flying away is good, REALLY getting into it with the dragon is even better - perhaps something to the effect of "LISTEN YOU OVERGROWN BRASS-STATUE CHATTERBOX WITH DUNG FOR BRAINS ! I DON'T CARE IF YOU THINK I'M GROUCHY, I DON'T CARE IF YOU THINK I LOOK PISSED - WE'RE HERE TO RESCUE A BUNCH OF GOOD FOR NOTHING SOFT CITY FOLK ! NOW TELL US WHERE THE GODS-DAMN DWARVES KEEP THEIR GODS-DAMNED MOUNTAIN HOME SO WE CAN STICK THE GODS-DAMN CITY FOLK IN THEIR MOUNTAIN AND BE ON OUR WAY ! IF YOU DON'T KNOW THEN GET THE GODS-DAMN HELL OUT OF HERE ! " .. Keep in mind he IS a good aligned dragon so he's not going to kill you no matter how badly you insult him ..
The dragon appears to be completely ignoring the gentle hints thrown his way so far about moving along.. he stops, peers to look at Udyr " Hey why does that big guy with the beard look so pissed ? "
Rin points a claw at Udyr. "Him oh that's normal for him
Udyr: "Because of your non-stop babble!" Udyr points at teh dragon, "Ive heard enought of it!"
Zane: Yes.. she was.. and please becareful.. you are a lot stronger than me.
Udyr: WE ARE NOT HERE TO TALK, WE ARE HERE TO GET THE MAP AND GET OUT!
Zane: And we need to get going otherwise he is just going to get louder..
The dragon looks down at Udyr and starts laughing ... " Let me see if I got this straight .. you're like one tenth of my size - my weight anyways - and YOU'RE telling ME to shut up ? What are you going to do if I don't ? " The dragon appears to have a tone of amusement in his voice as he looks down at Udyr ... " What ? Oh, sorry ! " the dragon lets Zane go
" Loud doesn't bother me a bit " beams the dragon .. the dragon then reaches out and starts poking Udyr none too gently in the chest .. " Huh? What you going to do huh grouchy ? "
Serinda: "Listen mister dragon... I don't wish to alarm you at all... But... You've been trapped here for 300 years.. Shouldn't you check up your hoard? I mean to say.. in 300 years.. aren't you concerned someone may have found it and stolen from you?..."
" By the gods you're right ! But first .. tell me what I missed.. a lot has to have happened these past three centuries ! " the dragon then goes back to poking Udyr in the chest
Udyr attempts to smack away the dragons finger.
It's like trying to smack away a brick wall - the dragon continues to gleefully poke udyr in the chest while looking expectantly at Serinda , presumably for news about what happened in the past 300 years.
" Not going to let up until you smile by the way - c'mon let's see a smile ! " the dragon says to Udyr still poking him
Udyr mummbles "annoying pest" then shift into an eagle and flies back out of the dragons reach.
Another potential RP'ing opportunity here .. pointing at the undead creatures (the wights who were shooting him up with arrows) is good - even better would have been an outraged diatribe.. perhaps something to the effect of " What's wrong? WHAT'S WRONG ? I'LL TELL YOU WHAT'S WRONG ! I HAVE UNDEAD WALKING CORPSES SHOOTING ME UP FULL OF ARROWS THAT'S WHAT'S WRONG ! WHY DID I EVER AGREE TO HELP YOU IDIOTS IN THE FIRST PLACE? USE YOUR EYES YOU IDIOTS THEY'RE RIGHT OVER THERE " (points at undead)... " NOW EITHER HELP ME SEND THEM BACK TO THE GRAVE A SECOND TIME OR GET OUT OF MY WAY , DO I HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING MYSELF?" Bearing in mind that Draug and Udyr are friends however, perhaps Udyr might clap Draug on the back and say roughly " Thanks for being concerned about me.. . friend." Remember irritation and impatience is good but don't forget to let people know Udyr is friends with Draug too ..
Zane: What the hell happened to you?
You all (except Rin) see a wolf dart out of the room Udyr was just in - not Draug as a wolf btw ... bleeding heavily from 3 of his limbs,limping..
The arrows are gone, having fallen out of Udyr's hide when he changed form...
Draug yellls "What happened udyr!!!!"
Zane looks at the bleeding wolf next to him..
Draug yelling more "ZAne what happened?"
Serinda turns to glance at the wolf too, and frowns, wondering what happened, and if it is indeed Udyr, whether or not he started whatever fight he got into
Zane: Hell if I know.. I don't speak Wolf
Draug: "Arwararroooo arwarooo arwooooo howl;ll"
Serinda turns to glance at the wolf too, and frowns, wondering what happened, and if it is indeed Udyr, whether or not he started whatever fight he got into
Udyr shift back to his human form, and holds his hand over his arm wound, and closes his eyes from a breiif moment as a green light radiates from his hand.
Udyr points over at the undead creatures.
Another RPing opportunity - I shot you a lot of text here.. and you didn't mention any of it to the other PC's.. I was a bit disappointed to be honest .. I would have loved to see him start complaining about the whole thing - maybe something to the effect of " GODS DAMN UNDEAD WERE TRYING TO SUCK OUT MY SOUL- AND THEY MANAGED TO GET PART OF IT ! THAT'S GREAT, JUST GREAT ! " (throws up his hands in frustration and points at Zane) " THEY GOT PART OF HIS SOUL TOO ! THIS IS THE THANKS I GET FOR TRYING TO RESCUE THOSE GODS-DAMN OVERLY SOFT CITY FOLK ! NEXT TIME I'M JUST GOING TO STAY PUT IN MY FOREST ! "
Udyr has a BAD feeling about this.. Olodak talked to him about this sort of thing.. shambling corpses that walk the night.. that touch you and drain your very soul .. and with it certain memories - you literally forget certain things you have learned .. (in game terms Udyr knows he's suffering from level drain, Zane probably is as well judging from the look of him and according to the legends of old they need a cleric within 24 hours quite possibly if he and Zane cannot shake off the effects through sheer force of will..whether or not Udyr tells the others this is up to him )
(Not that I personally think he would actually stay put in his forest - being good aligned he's going to help out people in need of course , but that shouldn't stop him from grumbling about how much "better" things would have been if he had stayed put in his forest away from all this "nonsense" )
Another RP'ing opportunity - " I hate this place" is good, even better is taking the opportunity to REALLY rake Rin over the coals - again try to focus on opportunties to interact with your fellow PC's whenever possible ... maybe something like " Oh that's just GREAT ! You HAD to spread this undead THING'S goo all over my fur, how the HELL do I get the smell out ? ! ? It isn't NATURAL I tell you ? Are you good for ANYTHING feather brain!" .. then perhaps just to show there's more to him than hollering too perhaps he might even mumble under his breath to Rin " Thanks for helping me kill this thing too.. moron."
Rin reaches down and touches the corpse, murmuring.. white light flows through his claws into the thing.. and it EXPLODES in messy, gooey foul smelling chunks all over Udyr .... it smells TERRIBLE and it's all over his fur
Udyr tries to remove undead goo from his body, "I hate this place... we need to get this over with."
I apologize if it seems like I'm picking on you - if you ask solardawn he'll tell you I used to harass him the exact same way until Serinda got more verbal (I actually harassed him a bit in his section above too in this thread for Serinda being kind of quiet ) , so it's not just you ... and my standards are admittedly high... not to compare players but Draug the werewolf's player, deepfrey, is new to both FG and the D&D version 3.5 rules - despite that he does an absolutely marvelous job RP'ing (He actually got the most RP points out of everyone else this past FG game session , I think he's done that for a number of FG game sessions in a row actually ) .. his secret is that he continuously pays attention to what the other PC's are saying and actively looks for ways to comment on it in-game from the point of view of his character.. I DO reward this sort of effort, the more you put into it the more RP points you get to spend on feats , ability score increases and skill rank increases for your PC ..I've seen you do a great job of RP'ing on the forums (the thread where Udyr meets Tika for example), now we just need to bring some more of that into the FG arena ..
ZANE
500 xp per PC for wights with arrows that were energy/level draining Zane and Udyr in skullcap
300 xp for reasoning with four dwarven bog-ghosts instead of fighting them just outside of skullcap
200 xp per PC for making right choice (retreating from skeletons) begging you to find their gold circlets and free them
100 xp for good role playing
302 RP for good role playing
As always great job interacting with your fellow PC's and noticing and commenting on the surroudings Zane finds himself in .. . like this passage for example, highlights the personal relationship/friendship (of a sort ) he's established with Serinda , when she says she's staying put or possibly even going to visit her forest homeland in Silvanost (land of the Silvanesti elves she belongs to) when she's upset over how the dwarven leader was manhandled (broken arm ) in the previous FG game session
Udyr yells, "LET'S GET GOING ALREADY! ZANE, DRAUG, LETS MOVE!!!!" he then points at Serinda, "YOU! DO WHAT YOU WANT! STAY OR GO!"
Udyr begins walking in the direction we need to go.
Zane: Not coming princess? Or are you leaving to visit your forest?
Zane: If you are leaving, then I thought we had a deal..
Udyr: She doesnt care for the refugees, just for her own people!
Serinda: "What would you have me do then? Simply give up my own feelings?"
Udyr: I don;t care for city-folk, yet I am here, I have helped them! And I am still willing to do more for them!
And I love the continous reference to headaches, great stuff - love how he grabs the tankard and downs it in one gulp
Udyr: If "they" try something, what are YOU TALKINGABOUT!
Zane: It's a long story Udyr, I'll tell you on the way to Skullcap
Zane: Or Draug can, he was there
Zane walks over to Serinda, "You will have help this time if they try something.."
Draug: "Oh Serinda that one time thing. NO happen no more.... Monk bad influence on Draug see. Draug no like that no more."
Udyr: If "they" try something, what are YOU TALKINGABOUT!
Rin chuckles. "Yeah we were sampling the fine beverages of the hill dwarves."
Udyr: I don't care about it! but the Silanesti is judging me on something the other did! There she goes again!
Draug: "Funny story! hehehe Well me and Monk you see. We uh how you say beat dwarf man senseless. I pull arm out rin heal him. We only do that so we show dwarf gods be back you see. Them dwarf be really stubborn you know."
Draug: "Oh wait even more funny I make big dwarf fall in Wollf shit bahahahahaha"
Draug: "Oh wait even more funny I make big dwarf fall in Wollf shit bahahahahaha "
Serinda: "You feel yourself included in every 'they'? You weeren't even there..."
Serinda sighs
Serinda: "Yes... Hilarious... Let's just get going."
Rin: "So glad I got those barrles of the stuff. Never know when a stiff drink will come in handy
Draug: "You need admit Princess. It real funny"
Udyr: Yet you are jugde all humans on that act, that i was not present for?
Draug: "If you see Dragon army fall in shit you laugh no?"
Campaign saved.
Zane begins to hold his head again..
Serinda: "I am not that easily amused.."
Zane (muttering): I really need to find some plants for headaches.
Draug: "What make you laugh princess?"
Draug: "Civilizing people? bahahaha"
Rin pulls out a tankard of ale from his bag and holds it out to Zane. "Here I'm thinking you could sue one... or possibly ten."
Serinda considers that for a long moment, and then shrugs, as she can't really think of anything that makes her laugh
Serinda: "That's not important now.."
Udyr: GRRRRAAAHHHH!, EVERYONE BE QUIET!!!!! LET"S JUST GO! LETS DO WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE!!!
Zane grabs the tankard and downs it.
I like his banter with the other PC's - like Draug here for example re: the proposed archery contest .. I also liked the reference from the point of view of Zane's character to Draug's bow not being a magic weapon and how you managed to work that in there
The ghost warrior's head snaps towards Rin .. " LIAR ! The goooooooods have abandoned ussssssss ! " Rin realizes the ghosts died about 50 years after the Cataclysm - soon enough after the gods leaving the world for the dwarves to remember the event..
Zane: Un-knock the arrow Draug.. It's not like that weapon would do anything anyway..
Rin: "I am not lying and I can prove it. I really do hate doing this."
ghost warrior: " Whyyyyyyyyy ? Whyyyyy have they returnnnneeeeed noooooowwwwww? Prove iiiiiiiiit ! "
Rin rakes his claw arcoss his arm letting his blood drip to the ground. "You'd thing I'd get used to this. Now watch." Rin hols hid habnd over his arm wound as a light shines from underneath. When he pulls his hand away his arm is healed.
Draug: "Draug never get tired o taht Rin so cool it is."
Draug: (elven) "Why do you always have to be right Zane? Want to switch (bows)? My aim is probablly better than yours." replies Draug with his tongue sticking out jokingly
Zane: I doubt your (bow and arrow) aim is better..
Zane: We'd have to test that sometime..
Draug: We try sometime yes
Draug: shoot apple od Princess head?
Zane: No.. probably not the best test.. I don't want to be frozen solid..
Zane: And good job Rin.. hate fighing the undead.. takes to long to kill them the second time
Serinda: "Maybe you can ask Laurana... Now let's get going.."
and I love how you keep the whole archery rivalry thing going with Draug too in other situations, like this one where Zane and Draug are shooting at the wights that landed hits on Udyr and Zane :
Zane: You missed..
Zane: Or did you?
Dungeon Master: ignore flavor text above
Draug: pfft i never miss ZANE
Draug: I make appear i miss to surprise target
Got a chuckle out of your reference to Zane and his need to pee as noted in previous FG game sessions
Rin stares at skull cap. "That is quite the sight isn't it? If it weren't for the way it was made I'd say it would be considered art."
Serinda: "We met some dwarves..."
Draug: "The elf woman stop for directions"
Rin: "We had to ask them for directions."
Zane: And I had to pee.
Zane: Sorry..
Udyr: Gah... I don't like this place, let's get this over with
Loved this comment when he's talking to Blaize the overly talkative brass dragon
Zane: "If you happen to see my father back on the islands.." Zane pauses before continuing. "Tell him his son is still alive and misses him."
Loved how Zane notices and expresses concern over his fellow PC's when he sees they're injured, good stuff ... got a laugh out of the "hell if I know I don't speak wolf" comment
Zane: What the hell happened to you?
You all (except Rin) see a wolf dart out of the room Udyr was just in - not Draug as a wolf btw ... bleeding heavily from 3 of his limbs,limping..
The arrows are gone, having fallen out of Udyr's hide when he changed form...
Draug yellls "What happened udyr!!!!"
Zane looks at the bleeding wolf next to him..
Draug yelling more "ZAne what happened?"
Serinda turns to glance at the wolf too, and frowns, wondering what happened, and if it is indeed Udyr, whether or not he started whatever fight he got into
Zane: Hell if I know.. I don't speak Wolf
Draug: "Arwararroooo arwarooo arwooooo howl;ll"
Serinda turns to glance at the wolf too, and frowns, wondering what happened, and if it is indeed Udyr, whether or not he started whatever fight he got into
Udyr shift back to his human form, and holds his hand over his arm wound, and closes his eyes from a breiif moment as a green light radiates from his hand.
Udyr points over at the undead creatures.
And I got a chuckle out of the "picking up the undead" comment here
Rin sees nothing aside from dancing corpses .. a rotting woman shambles towards Rin ready to dance...
Rin shrugs and starts to dance.
Zane looks back at Rin. "Yeah.. even picking up the undead.."
... seewhatifdragonlancedm.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=sessionrecaps&action=display&thread=885
for an explanation why... as usual feel free to skim down to the part of this thread with just your name on it and read that part , otherwise you're in for a long read
This is a bit unusual in that I had to split it into two parts , apparently the thread was too long for even proboards to handle
... Draug and Rin's XP and RP are on part 1, Serinda, Udyr and Zane's XP and RP are in part 2 of this thread 
..SERINDA
500 xp per PC for wights with arrows that were energy/level draining Zane and Udyr in skullcap
300 xp for reasoning with four dwarven bog-ghosts instead of fighting them just outside of skullcap
200 xp per PC for making right choice (retreating from skeletons) begging you to find their gold circlets and free them
80 xp for good role playing
181 RP for good role playing
I thought Serinda was a little quiet this FG game session - mind you her RP'ing was still great
.. for example staying put and staying true to her principles regarding the whole beating up the dwarf leader thing Udyr yells, "LET'S GET GOING ALREADY! ZANE, DRAUG, LETS MOVE!!!!" he then points at Serinda, "YOU! DO WHAT YOU WANT! STAY OR GO!"
Udyr begins walking in the direction we need to go.
Zane: Not coming princess? Or are you leaving to visit your forest?
Zane: If you are leaving, then I thought we had a deal..
Udyr: She doesnt care for the refugees, just for her own people!
Serinda: "What would you have me do then? Simply give up my own feelings?"
Udyr: I don;t care for city-folk, yet I am here, I have helped them! And I am still willing to do more for them![/color
]Loved her dry sense of humor in the passages below
Udyr: If "they" try something, what are YOU TALKINGABOUT!
Zane: It's a long story Udyr, I'll tell you on the way to Skullcap
Zane: Or Draug can, he was there
Zane walks over to Serinda, "You will have help this time if they try something.."
Draug: "Oh Serinda that one time thing. NO happen no more.... Monk bad influence on Draug see. Draug no like that no more."
Udyr: If "they" try something, what are YOU TALKINGABOUT!
Rin chuckles. "Yeah we were sampling the fine beverages of the hill dwarves."
Udyr: I don't care about it! but the Silanesti is judging me on something the other did! There she goes again!
Draug: "Funny story! hehehe Well me and Monk you see. We uh how you say beat dwarf man senseless. I pull arm out rin heal him. We only do that so we show dwarf gods be back you see. Them dwarf be really stubborn you know."
Draug: "Oh wait even more funny I make big dwarf fall in Wollf shit bahahahahaha"
Draug: "Oh wait even more funny I make big dwarf fall in Wollf shit bahahahahaha "
Serinda: "You feel yourself included in every 'they'? You weeren't even there..."
Serinda sighs
Serinda: "Yes... Hilarious... Let's just get going."
The ghost warrior's head snaps towards Rin .. " LIAR ! The goooooooods have abandoned ussssssss ! " Rin realizes the ghosts died about 50 years after the Cataclysm - soon enough after the gods leaving the world for the dwarves to remember the event..
Zane: Un-knock the arrow Draug.. It's not like that weapon would do anything anyway..
Rin: "I am not lying and I can prove it. I really do hate doing this."
ghost warrior: " Whyyyyyyyyy ? Whyyyyy have they returnnnneeeeed noooooowwwwww? Prove iiiiiiiiit ! "
Rin rakes his claw arcoss his arm letting his blood drip to the ground. "You'd thing I'd get used to this. Now watch." Rin hols hid habnd over his arm wound as a light shines from underneath. When he pulls his hand away his arm is healed.
Draug: "Draug never get tired o taht Rin so cool it is."
Draug: (elven) "Why do you always have to be right Zane? Want to switch (bows)? My aim is probablly better than yours." replies Draug with his tongue sticking out jokingly
Zane: I doubt your (bow and arrow) aim is better..
Zane: We'd have to test that sometime..
Draug: We try sometime yes
Draug: shoot apple od Princess head?
Zane: No.. probably not the best test.. I don't want to be frozen solid..
Zane: And good job Rin.. hate fighing the undead.. takes to long to kill them the second time
Serinda: "Maybe you can ask Laurana... Now let's get going.."
Serinda hears Draug hollering loudly for her (as does everyone else) his cry echoing through all the old, dusty rooms..
Rin looks around the room and finds... Udyr's foot how'd that get in here?
Udyr abruptly walks up to the skeleton and snatches the parchment out of the skeletons grasp.
Zane: You would think he'd be quieter..
Serinda: "You would?..."
Zane: Right..
Zane: He wouldn't..
As usual for you
, great job describing in-game effects in RP terms instead of saying something like " my locate spell won't work because the material component is someone else's possession" , the whole avoiding the "game-speak" thing (strange compliment to give you I know but I've had other players do this in the past .. phrases like " I detect no evil" instead of " I see no darkness in their souls or around us" for example ) .. great stuff !Rin chuckles and starts to chant. A long ribbon like path of shadow extends upwards toward the eyes of skullcap. "So whose first? Oh and we should proably move quickly it doesn't last long." Having said that Rin hops onto the path and start to walk on it at a rahter fast pace
Serinda shrugs and follows Rin up the walkway
Udyr reaches into his bag, pulls out a small coin in his fist, he whispers a few words then opens his hand and a bright light comes from the coin, he then tosses it down the eye hole.
Draug: "Cool trick Udyr!"
Serinda: "Why did we decide the eyes were the best place of entrance again?..."
Draug: "I thought eye cooler than mouth"
Rin: "So who wants to dive in first?"
Zane: I'll go..
Udyr pushes Rin forward into the eye hole, "You have a torch, go ahead, lead the way."
Serinda: "Why can't we ever go somewhere nice..."
Zane: Most of the nice places are overrun by the dragon army..
Zane: That's probably why..
Rin: "I dunno I thought the Dwarven village was nice."
Serinda: "Yeah... It was before we came..."
Zane: That's true..
Draug: "Darf village mean to Draug. Draug no like it."
Zane: Shall we find out what here?
Udyr: Let's get this over with! What are we looking for?
Draug: "Can't you scry map Serinda much easier no?"
Serinda: "Not without something to go on.. i'd need an item that belonged to those dwarves.."
Draug yells (elven) "Hey serinda can you use javelins and armor to scry the dwarves?"
Serinda: "If their owners were still alive... It'd be easy... The problem is we're looking for relatives.. distant cousins..."
And her ploy to shut up the overly talkative brass dragon blaize she ran into so the group could get going - masterful stuff, you got bonus RP for that , VERY well done
Serinda: "Listen mister dragon... I don't wish to alarm you at all... But... You've been trapped here for 300 years.. Shouldn't you check up your hoard? I mean to say.. in 300 years.. aren't you concerned someone may have found it and stolen from you?..."
Loved her rather acidic observation of Udyr here too
Zane: What the hell happened to you?
You all (except Rin) see a wolf dart out of the room Udyr was just in - not Draug as a wolf btw ... bleeding heavily from 3 of his limbs,limping..
The arrows are gone, having fallen out of Udyr's hide when he changed form...
Draug yellls "What happened udyr!!!!"
Zane looks at the bleeding wolf next to him..
Draug yelling more "ZAne what happened?"
Serinda turns to glance at the wolf too, and frowns, wondering what happened, and if it is indeed Udyr, whether or not he started whatever fight he got into
Zane: Hell if I know.. I don't speak Wolf
Draug: "Arwararroooo arwarooo arwooooo howl;ll"
Serinda turns to glance at the wolf too, and frowns, wondering what happened, and if it is indeed Udyr, whether or not he started whatever fight he got into
There were a few scenarios where I would have liked to see her interact with her fellow PC's more though
.. for example here :Draug: "What make you laugh princess?"
Draug: "Civilizing people? bahahaha"
I know at the time she was in a hurry to get going to skullcap but would have loved to see her respond to that, maybe something to the effect of " for the hundredth time, the Silvanesti were just trying to HELP the wild elves ! It's not our fault they were too uncivilized to take advantage of that" or some such.. remember the history between the Silvanesti elves Serinda belongs to (easily the most arrogant race on the face of Krynn
) and the wild , "savage" (from the Silvanesti point of view) barbarian elves that Draug refers to as his people being an "elf wanna-be " and all (perhaps Serinda should call him that more often? ) ... the Silvanesti tried to forcibly civilize the wild elves and the wild elves fought back, blood being shed on both sides... though as far as Serinda knows from the Silvanesti point of view the Silvanesti were only trying to help and the kagonesti (wild elves) responded with violence like the brutes they are - or from the silvanesti viewpoint anyways .. Keeping this in mind, during the exchange below with the dwarf ghosts :Serinda: "... we really need to get past.. It's a matter of great importance, to all races, including the future of the dwarves."
" How sssssooooooo........ elf ? " One of the ghosts glares at Serinda
Rin: "Might I interject her Serinda?"
Draug: "Or do Draug interject with fist?"
Maybe Serinda might be tempted to say something like " Not everything can be solved with a fist to the face you know - try to act more civilized than those wild elves you grew up with ! " ?
Then there's the scene below where Udyr went ahead of the others to skullcap, missing the interaction with the ghost dwarves as a result .. when the meet Udyr again he wants to know where the hell they were and what took them so long (typical Udyr
) and Draug responds:Serinda: "We met some dwarves..."
Draug: "The elf woman stop for directions"
Rin: "We had to ask them for directions."
Zane: And I had to pee.
Zane: Sorry..
Udyr: Gah... I don't like this place, let's get this over with.
Would have loved to see Serinda make another dry comment.. maybe something like " Not ALL women stop to ask for directions you know.. and my magic will allow me to find my way better than the rest of you put together anyways (a reference to spells like "scrying" which she knows for example - and a reference to future spells she may pick up if she wants to like "find the path", " clairvoyance", et cetera
) ... then again the wild elves wouldn't know anything about the subtleties of arcane magic would they? Haven't seen many wizards among your kind..."Udyr
500 xp per PC for wights with arrows that were energy/level draining Zane and Udyr in skullcap
200 xp per PC for making right choice (retreating from skeletons) begging you to find their gold circlets and free them
65 xp for good role playing
160 RP for good role playing
Udyr's RP'ing is getting better, he's getting a bit more vocal - but of the entire group of players he's still the most quiet in-game
.. not attempting to criticize you by any means, I'd just like to see him speak up more .... This isn't to say Udyr is doing a HORRIBLE job RP'ing by any means, you're playing up his grouchiness very well
.. loved his interaction with Serinda here for example :Udyr yells, "LET'S GET GOING ALREADY! ZANE, DRAUG, LETS MOVE!!!!" he then points at Serinda, "YOU! DO WHAT YOU WANT! STAY OR GO!"
Udyr begins walking in the direction we need to go.
Zane: Not coming princess? Or are you leaving to visit your forest?
Zane: If you are leaving, then I thought we had a deal..
Udyr: She doesnt care for the refugees, just for her own people!
Serinda: "What would you have me do then? Simply give up my own feelings?"
Udyr: I don;t care for city-folk, yet I am here, I have helped them! And I am still willing to do more for them!
And I liked how he takes note of the other PC's referring to stuff that he wasn't present for then demanding an explanation, good stuff ! Though I would have loved to see him react to that information when it was then presented to him - perhaps a disbelieving comment to the effect of " You made the dwarf fall into shit ? Why in the gods would you do that? And why would you care if the dwarves worshipped the true gods in the first place? Who needs the short little bastards? " .. Or perhaps he might point at Rin and shout " WE'RE ON A QUEST TO SAVE THOSE SOFT GOOD FOR NOTHING CITY FOLK AND YOU'RE GOING TO SIT THERE AND GET DRUNK? WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED ! YOU NEVER TAKE ANYTHING SERIOUSLY YOU WALKING BAG OF FEATHERS ! " .. Or, given that Udyr has already declared that he's going to be Draug the werewolf's friend waaayy back (recall how they first met on the forums, Udyr's mentor /druid teacher introduced Draug to Udyr and said that Draug was worthy of respect as a fellow worshipper of Habbakuk) , perhaps Udyr might grunt something like " Good - I'm sure the dwarf got what he deserved then" and perhaps even give Draug a friendly punch on the arm.. I WOULD like to see more interplay between Draug and Udyr .. the grouchiness is great to give him an easy " handle" to interact with PC's but the next step is to give his character additional "dimensions" so to speak at this point - being all buddy-buddy with Draug shows that he is in fact capable of being a nice guy , long as he feels the person in question he's interacting with isn't a total idiot
.. Udyr: If "they" try something, what are YOU TALKINGABOUT!
Zane: It's a long story Udyr, I'll tell you on the way to Skullcap
Zane: Or Draug can, he was there
Zane walks over to Serinda, "You will have help this time if they try something.."
Draug: "Oh Serinda that one time thing. NO happen no more.... Monk bad influence on Draug see. Draug no like that no more."
Udyr: If "they" try something, what are YOU TALKINGABOUT!
Rin chuckles. "Yeah we were sampling the fine beverages of the hill dwarves."
Udyr: I don't care about it! but the Silanesti is judging me on something the other did! There she goes again!
Draug: "Funny story! hehehe Well me and Monk you see. We uh how you say beat dwarf man senseless. I pull arm out rin heal him. We only do that so we show dwarf gods be back you see. Them dwarf be really stubborn you know."
Draug: "Oh wait even more funny I make big dwarf fall in Wollf shit bahahahahaha"
Draug: "Oh wait even more funny I make big dwarf fall in Wollf shit bahahahahaha "
Serinda: "You feel yourself included in every 'they'? You weeren't even there..."
Serinda sighs
Serinda: "Yes... Hilarious... Let's just get going."
Rin: "So glad I got those barrles of the stuff. Never know when a stiff drink will come in handy
Draug: "You need admit Princess. It real funny"
Udyr: Yet you are jugde all humans on that act, that i was not present for?
Draug: "If you see Dragon army fall in shit you laugh no?"
Campaign saved.
Zane begins to hold his head again..
Serinda: "I am not that easily amused.."
Zane (muttering): I really need to find some plants for headaches.
Draug: "What make you laugh princess?"
Draug: "Civilizing people? bahahaha"
Rin pulls out a tankard of ale from his bag and holds it out to Zane. "Here I'm thinking you could sue one... or possibly ten."
Serinda considers that for a long moment, and then shrugs, as she can't really think of anything that makes her laugh
Serinda: "That's not important now.."
Udyr: GRRRRAAAHHHH!, EVERYONE BE QUIET!!!!! LET"S JUST GO! LETS DO WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE!!!
Zane grabs the tankard and downs it.
Another example of potential RP'ing opportunities... Udyr expresses irritation with the PC's for taking so long when everyone except Udyr is delayed on the way to skullcap by the dwarven ghosts - that's great
.. even better would be to start getting specific with his insults, tailor them to each PC in question.. perhaps he points at Rin and shouts " LET ME GUESS .. YOU STOPPED TO EITHER MAKE JOKES OR HAVE A DRINK, OR BOTH .. (stabs finger at Serinda) WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING STOPPING TO ASK FOR DIRECTIONS? WE HAVE ALL THOSE SOFT GOOD-FOR-NOTHING CITY FOLK TO SAVE AND YOU'RE STOPPING TO ASK FOR DIRECTIONS? NEXT TIME FOLLOW ME WHEN I SHIFT INTO BIRD-FORM ELF I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING, UNLIKE YOU !!!! AND YOU (points at Zane) NEXT TIME JUST HOLD IT ! WHAT ARE YOU, FOUR YEARS OLD ? ! ? " Serinda: "We met some dwarves..."
Draug: "The elf woman stop for directions"
Rin: "We had to ask them for directions."
Zane: And I had to pee.
Zane: Sorry..
Udyr: Gah... I don't like this place, let's get this over with
Love how he continues to express impatience such as the passage below :
Udyr: Is this what we are looking for
Udyr opens the parchment.
(the parchment is written in a language Udyr can't seem to understand)
Udyr tosses the parchment to the ground.
Rin: "So what did it say?"
Udyr: Who cares, its not the map. Go ahead and waste your time on it.
And I liked how irritated he got with the brass dragon
.. though I would have liked Udyr to have said something to begin with rather than the dragon having to poke him in order to get Udyr to start speaking - basically all the other PC's except Udyr were already speaking to the dragon .. the dragon picking on Udyr was basically my DM in-game hint to get Udyr involved in the RP'ing .. Yep I know he was impatient and wanted to get moving - having said that I'd still like him to be more vocal without me having to "prod" him through the use of an NPC in order to get Udyr to say something .. Also I would have liked to see Udyr verbally let the dragon have it, "annoying pest" and flying away is good, REALLY getting into it with the dragon is even better - perhaps something to the effect of "LISTEN YOU OVERGROWN BRASS-STATUE CHATTERBOX WITH DUNG FOR BRAINS ! I DON'T CARE IF YOU THINK I'M GROUCHY, I DON'T CARE IF YOU THINK I LOOK PISSED - WE'RE HERE TO RESCUE A BUNCH OF GOOD FOR NOTHING SOFT CITY FOLK ! NOW TELL US WHERE THE GODS-DAMN DWARVES KEEP THEIR GODS-DAMNED MOUNTAIN HOME SO WE CAN STICK THE GODS-DAMN CITY FOLK IN THEIR MOUNTAIN AND BE ON OUR WAY ! IF YOU DON'T KNOW THEN GET THE GODS-DAMN HELL OUT OF HERE ! " .. Keep in mind he IS a good aligned dragon so he's not going to kill you no matter how badly you insult him .. The dragon appears to be completely ignoring the gentle hints thrown his way so far about moving along.. he stops, peers to look at Udyr " Hey why does that big guy with the beard look so pissed ? "
Rin points a claw at Udyr. "Him oh that's normal for him
Udyr: "Because of your non-stop babble!" Udyr points at teh dragon, "Ive heard enought of it!"
Zane: Yes.. she was.. and please becareful.. you are a lot stronger than me.
Udyr: WE ARE NOT HERE TO TALK, WE ARE HERE TO GET THE MAP AND GET OUT!
Zane: And we need to get going otherwise he is just going to get louder..
The dragon looks down at Udyr and starts laughing ... " Let me see if I got this straight .. you're like one tenth of my size - my weight anyways - and YOU'RE telling ME to shut up ? What are you going to do if I don't ? " The dragon appears to have a tone of amusement in his voice as he looks down at Udyr ... " What ? Oh, sorry ! " the dragon lets Zane go
" Loud doesn't bother me a bit " beams the dragon .. the dragon then reaches out and starts poking Udyr none too gently in the chest .. " Huh? What you going to do huh grouchy ? "
Serinda: "Listen mister dragon... I don't wish to alarm you at all... But... You've been trapped here for 300 years.. Shouldn't you check up your hoard? I mean to say.. in 300 years.. aren't you concerned someone may have found it and stolen from you?..."
" By the gods you're right ! But first .. tell me what I missed.. a lot has to have happened these past three centuries ! " the dragon then goes back to poking Udyr in the chest
Udyr attempts to smack away the dragons finger.
It's like trying to smack away a brick wall - the dragon continues to gleefully poke udyr in the chest while looking expectantly at Serinda , presumably for news about what happened in the past 300 years.
" Not going to let up until you smile by the way - c'mon let's see a smile ! " the dragon says to Udyr still poking him
Udyr mummbles "annoying pest" then shift into an eagle and flies back out of the dragons reach.
Another potential RP'ing opportunity here .. pointing at the undead creatures (the wights who were shooting him up with arrows) is good - even better would have been an outraged diatribe.. perhaps something to the effect of " What's wrong? WHAT'S WRONG ? I'LL TELL YOU WHAT'S WRONG ! I HAVE UNDEAD WALKING CORPSES SHOOTING ME UP FULL OF ARROWS THAT'S WHAT'S WRONG ! WHY DID I EVER AGREE TO HELP YOU IDIOTS IN THE FIRST PLACE? USE YOUR EYES YOU IDIOTS THEY'RE RIGHT OVER THERE " (points at undead)... " NOW EITHER HELP ME SEND THEM BACK TO THE GRAVE A SECOND TIME OR GET OUT OF MY WAY , DO I HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING MYSELF?" Bearing in mind that Draug and Udyr are friends however, perhaps Udyr might clap Draug on the back and say roughly " Thanks for being concerned about me.. . friend." Remember irritation and impatience is good but don't forget to let people know Udyr is friends with Draug too
.. Zane: What the hell happened to you?
You all (except Rin) see a wolf dart out of the room Udyr was just in - not Draug as a wolf btw ... bleeding heavily from 3 of his limbs,limping..
The arrows are gone, having fallen out of Udyr's hide when he changed form...
Draug yellls "What happened udyr!!!!"
Zane looks at the bleeding wolf next to him..
Draug yelling more "ZAne what happened?"
Serinda turns to glance at the wolf too, and frowns, wondering what happened, and if it is indeed Udyr, whether or not he started whatever fight he got into
Zane: Hell if I know.. I don't speak Wolf
Draug: "Arwararroooo arwarooo arwooooo howl;ll"
Serinda turns to glance at the wolf too, and frowns, wondering what happened, and if it is indeed Udyr, whether or not he started whatever fight he got into
Udyr shift back to his human form, and holds his hand over his arm wound, and closes his eyes from a breiif moment as a green light radiates from his hand.
Udyr points over at the undead creatures.
Another RPing opportunity - I shot you a lot of text here.. and you didn't mention any of it to the other PC's.. I was a bit disappointed to be honest
.. I would have loved to see him start complaining about the whole thing - maybe something to the effect of " GODS DAMN UNDEAD WERE TRYING TO SUCK OUT MY SOUL- AND THEY MANAGED TO GET PART OF IT ! THAT'S GREAT, JUST GREAT ! " (throws up his hands in frustration and points at Zane) " THEY GOT PART OF HIS SOUL TOO ! THIS IS THE THANKS I GET FOR TRYING TO RESCUE THOSE GODS-DAMN OVERLY SOFT CITY FOLK ! NEXT TIME I'M JUST GOING TO STAY PUT IN MY FOREST ! " Udyr has a BAD feeling about this.. Olodak talked to him about this sort of thing.. shambling corpses that walk the night.. that touch you and drain your very soul .. and with it certain memories - you literally forget certain things you have learned .. (in game terms Udyr knows he's suffering from level drain, Zane probably is as well judging from the look of him and according to the legends of old they need a cleric within 24 hours quite possibly if he and Zane cannot shake off the effects through sheer force of will..whether or not Udyr tells the others this is up to him
) (Not that I personally think he would actually stay put in his forest - being good aligned he's going to help out people in need of course
, but that shouldn't stop him from grumbling about how much "better" things would have been if he had stayed put in his forest away from all this "nonsense" ) Another RP'ing opportunity - " I hate this place" is good, even better is taking the opportunity to REALLY rake Rin over the coals - again try to focus on opportunties to interact with your fellow PC's whenever possible
... maybe something like " Oh that's just GREAT ! You HAD to spread this undead THING'S goo all over my fur, how the HELL do I get the smell out ? ! ? It isn't NATURAL I tell you ? Are you good for ANYTHING feather brain!" .. then perhaps just to show there's more to him than hollering too perhaps he might even mumble under his breath to Rin " Thanks for helping me kill this thing too.. moron."Rin reaches down and touches the corpse, murmuring.. white light flows through his claws into the thing.. and it EXPLODES in messy, gooey foul smelling chunks all over Udyr .... it smells TERRIBLE and it's all over his fur
Udyr tries to remove undead goo from his body, "I hate this place... we need to get this over with."
I apologize if it seems like I'm picking on you - if you ask solardawn he'll tell you I used to harass him the exact same way until Serinda got more verbal (I actually harassed him a bit in his section above too in this thread for Serinda being kind of quiet
) , so it's not just you ... and my standards are admittedly high... not to compare players but Draug the werewolf's player, deepfrey, is new to both FG and the D&D version 3.5 rules - despite that he does an absolutely marvelous job RP'ing (He actually got the most RP points out of everyone else this past FG game session , I think he's done that for a number of FG game sessions in a row actually ) .. his secret is that he continuously pays attention to what the other PC's are saying and actively looks for ways to comment on it in-game from the point of view of his character.. I DO reward this sort of effort, the more you put into it the more RP points you get to spend on feats , ability score increases and skill rank increases for your PC ..I've seen you do a great job of RP'ing on the forums (the thread where Udyr meets Tika for example), now we just need to bring some more of that into the FG arena .. ZANE
500 xp per PC for wights with arrows that were energy/level draining Zane and Udyr in skullcap
300 xp for reasoning with four dwarven bog-ghosts instead of fighting them just outside of skullcap
200 xp per PC for making right choice (retreating from skeletons) begging you to find their gold circlets and free them
100 xp for good role playing
302 RP for good role playing
As always great job interacting with your fellow PC's and noticing and commenting on the surroudings Zane finds himself in
.. . like this passage for example, highlights the personal relationship/friendship (of a sort ) he's established with Serinda , when she says she's staying put or possibly even going to visit her forest homeland in Silvanost (land of the Silvanesti elves she belongs to) when she's upset over how the dwarven leader was manhandled (broken arm ) in the previous FG game sessionUdyr yells, "LET'S GET GOING ALREADY! ZANE, DRAUG, LETS MOVE!!!!" he then points at Serinda, "YOU! DO WHAT YOU WANT! STAY OR GO!"
Udyr begins walking in the direction we need to go.
Zane: Not coming princess? Or are you leaving to visit your forest?
Zane: If you are leaving, then I thought we had a deal..
Udyr: She doesnt care for the refugees, just for her own people!
Serinda: "What would you have me do then? Simply give up my own feelings?"
Udyr: I don;t care for city-folk, yet I am here, I have helped them! And I am still willing to do more for them!
And I love the continous reference to headaches, great stuff
- love how he grabs the tankard and downs it in one gulp Udyr: If "they" try something, what are YOU TALKINGABOUT!
Zane: It's a long story Udyr, I'll tell you on the way to Skullcap
Zane: Or Draug can, he was there
Zane walks over to Serinda, "You will have help this time if they try something.."
Draug: "Oh Serinda that one time thing. NO happen no more.... Monk bad influence on Draug see. Draug no like that no more."
Udyr: If "they" try something, what are YOU TALKINGABOUT!
Rin chuckles. "Yeah we were sampling the fine beverages of the hill dwarves."
Udyr: I don't care about it! but the Silanesti is judging me on something the other did! There she goes again!
Draug: "Funny story! hehehe Well me and Monk you see. We uh how you say beat dwarf man senseless. I pull arm out rin heal him. We only do that so we show dwarf gods be back you see. Them dwarf be really stubborn you know."
Draug: "Oh wait even more funny I make big dwarf fall in Wollf shit bahahahahaha"
Draug: "Oh wait even more funny I make big dwarf fall in Wollf shit bahahahahaha "
Serinda: "You feel yourself included in every 'they'? You weeren't even there..."
Serinda sighs
Serinda: "Yes... Hilarious... Let's just get going."
Rin: "So glad I got those barrles of the stuff. Never know when a stiff drink will come in handy
Draug: "You need admit Princess. It real funny"
Udyr: Yet you are jugde all humans on that act, that i was not present for?
Draug: "If you see Dragon army fall in shit you laugh no?"
Campaign saved.
Zane begins to hold his head again..
Serinda: "I am not that easily amused.."
Zane (muttering): I really need to find some plants for headaches.
Draug: "What make you laugh princess?"
Draug: "Civilizing people? bahahaha"
Rin pulls out a tankard of ale from his bag and holds it out to Zane. "Here I'm thinking you could sue one... or possibly ten."
Serinda considers that for a long moment, and then shrugs, as she can't really think of anything that makes her laugh
Serinda: "That's not important now.."
Udyr: GRRRRAAAHHHH!, EVERYONE BE QUIET!!!!! LET"S JUST GO! LETS DO WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE!!!
Zane grabs the tankard and downs it.
I like his banter with the other PC's - like Draug here for example re: the proposed archery contest
.. I also liked the reference from the point of view of Zane's character to Draug's bow not being a magic weapon and how you managed to work that in there The ghost warrior's head snaps towards Rin .. " LIAR ! The goooooooods have abandoned ussssssss ! " Rin realizes the ghosts died about 50 years after the Cataclysm - soon enough after the gods leaving the world for the dwarves to remember the event..
Zane: Un-knock the arrow Draug.. It's not like that weapon would do anything anyway..
Rin: "I am not lying and I can prove it. I really do hate doing this."
ghost warrior: " Whyyyyyyyyy ? Whyyyyy have they returnnnneeeeed noooooowwwwww? Prove iiiiiiiiit ! "
Rin rakes his claw arcoss his arm letting his blood drip to the ground. "You'd thing I'd get used to this. Now watch." Rin hols hid habnd over his arm wound as a light shines from underneath. When he pulls his hand away his arm is healed.
Draug: "Draug never get tired o taht Rin so cool it is."
Draug: (elven) "Why do you always have to be right Zane? Want to switch (bows)? My aim is probablly better than yours." replies Draug with his tongue sticking out jokingly
Zane: I doubt your (bow and arrow) aim is better..
Zane: We'd have to test that sometime..
Draug: We try sometime yes
Draug: shoot apple od Princess head?
Zane: No.. probably not the best test.. I don't want to be frozen solid..
Zane: And good job Rin.. hate fighing the undead.. takes to long to kill them the second time
Serinda: "Maybe you can ask Laurana... Now let's get going.."
and I love how you keep the whole archery rivalry thing going with Draug too in other situations, like this one where Zane and Draug are shooting at the wights that landed hits on Udyr and Zane :
Zane: You missed..
Zane: Or did you?
Dungeon Master: ignore flavor text above
Draug: pfft i never miss ZANE
Draug: I make appear i miss to surprise target
Got a chuckle out of your reference to Zane and his need to pee as noted in previous FG game sessions
Rin stares at skull cap. "That is quite the sight isn't it? If it weren't for the way it was made I'd say it would be considered art."
Serinda: "We met some dwarves..."
Draug: "The elf woman stop for directions"
Rin: "We had to ask them for directions."
Zane: And I had to pee.
Zane: Sorry..
Udyr: Gah... I don't like this place, let's get this over with
Loved this comment when he's talking to Blaize the overly talkative brass dragon
Zane: "If you happen to see my father back on the islands.." Zane pauses before continuing. "Tell him his son is still alive and misses him."
Loved how Zane notices and expresses concern over his fellow PC's when he sees they're injured, good stuff
... got a laugh out of the "hell if I know I don't speak wolf" comment Zane: What the hell happened to you?
You all (except Rin) see a wolf dart out of the room Udyr was just in - not Draug as a wolf btw ... bleeding heavily from 3 of his limbs,limping..
The arrows are gone, having fallen out of Udyr's hide when he changed form...
Draug yellls "What happened udyr!!!!"
Zane looks at the bleeding wolf next to him..
Draug yelling more "ZAne what happened?"
Serinda turns to glance at the wolf too, and frowns, wondering what happened, and if it is indeed Udyr, whether or not he started whatever fight he got into
Zane: Hell if I know.. I don't speak Wolf
Draug: "Arwararroooo arwarooo arwooooo howl;ll"
Serinda turns to glance at the wolf too, and frowns, wondering what happened, and if it is indeed Udyr, whether or not he started whatever fight he got into
Udyr shift back to his human form, and holds his hand over his arm wound, and closes his eyes from a breiif moment as a green light radiates from his hand.
Udyr points over at the undead creatures.
And I got a chuckle out of the "picking up the undead" comment here
Rin sees nothing aside from dancing corpses .. a rotting woman shambles towards Rin ready to dance...
Rin shrugs and starts to dance.
Zane looks back at Rin. "Yeah.. even picking up the undead.."