Pay off your debt with a little Quest

Jaydub · Post by **Jaydub** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 12:11 am

I guess we now see how much trouble they are in. Looks like they came through the tavern altercation ok. It looks like only the Drow Enchantress got her cloak a little shinged. Who is the big guy on the left? Must be a guard.

Kerry Skydancer · Post by **Kerry Skydancer** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 1:32 am

Jaydub wrote:I guess we now see how much trouble they are in. Looks like they came through the tavern altercation ok. It looks like only the Drow Enchantress got her cloak a little shinged. Who is the big guy on the left? Must be a guard.

You don't recognize him? That's the little chihuahua dude who's dating the beaver.

Fusion · Post by **Fusion** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 3:46 am

Heh! The puny guy always chooses the biggest charector!

BlasTech · Post by **BlasTech** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 4:21 am

RICO SMASH!

SolidusRaccoon · Post by **SolidusRaccoon** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 4:25 am

A quest into the cave of sharp and pointy things?

Mike Fang · Post by **Mike Fang** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 4:58 am

*looks at Rico's character and chuckles* To quote "Shrek":
"D'ya get tha feelin' that he's compensatin' fer something?"

Hmm...a hispanic viking (at least that's what he looks like). That's a new one. Heh, and who in here thought at first glance the Kender was grabbing the half-giant sorceress's butt instead of picking her pocket?

Chaser617 · Post by **Chaser617** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 5:13 am

Why am I *NOT* surprised a fireball was involved in burning down a bar...

And a Town Hall...

And the Mayor's house....

Shyal_malkes · Post by **Shyal_malkes** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 6:23 am

my question is where was the bouncer in all this...

...keeping a safe distance from all the fireworks?

but that has got to be one shoddy fire safety code if a fire spread on it's own accross many buildings including the important ones!

Maxgoof · Post by **Maxgoof** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 7:27 am

SolidusRaccoon wrote:A quest into the cave of sharp and pointy things?

Either that, or into the Happy Valley Of Soft Fuzzy Pink Things......That Are Nice!

(Kudos to anyone who gets that reference)

Maxgoof · Post by **Maxgoof** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 7:30 am

shyal_malkes wrote:my question is where was the bouncer in all this...

...keeping a safe distance from all the fireworks?

but that has got to be one shoddy fire safety code if a fire spread on it's own accross many buildings including the important ones!

Maybe Ben and Rico were the bouncers?

The JAM · Post by **The JAM** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 7:31 am

This is going to be a loooooooooooooooooong storyline, isn't it?

Madmoonie · Post by **Madmoonie** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 7:37 am

maxgoof wrote:
SolidusRaccoon wrote:A quest into the cave of sharp and pointy things?
Either that, or into the Happy Valley Of Cute Fuzzy Pink Things......That Are Nice!

(Kudos to anyone who gets that reference)

ARRRRGGHHHH!!! WHAT is that?! I remember it...but i can't remember what from....Shame on you maxgoof. Its gonna be bugging me all day. Was anyone else having trouble posting...well, actually, trouble getting to the NPC forums? I kept getting directed to the N&T forums. Anyways...a suicidal quest to pay off a debt? Aint been the first time.

Mikhail Dragoslav · Post by **Mikhail Dragoslav** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 8:29 am

It looks like we see the whole Questing (or should that be Questoring?) team.

Not being a D&D player I may be mistaken, but on first glance this crew just seems to scream "personality conflicts ahead." You've got two big muscular guys (Rico and Ben), you've got two magic users who already got into a fight (Lily and Lucy), and elf and a dwarf (Fred and Merry), plus the Three Stooges and Maggie who's currently crushing on a pick-pocket who tried to rob her sister and started this whole mess.

Sounds like fun times ahead!

Wayfarer · Post by **Wayfarer** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 8:49 am

Now see, folks, this is why it isn't a good idea to play with fire...

Selden · Post by **Selden** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 9:57 am

I'm reminded of no fewer than six accounts I've heard of pyromaniac sorcerers, most of whom hid behind the Chaotic Neutral alignment like it explained their total lack of forethought and concern for innocent bystanders. The worst are the types who take Widen Spell to double the area the fireball hits, then casually target whatever they feel like. Okay, handling the group of archers in the arrow tower by immolating the entire structure isn't a bad thought... except when it's an arrow tower they've managed to capture, and it's near other buildings you're supposed to be protecting. And there is no excuse for anybody but an evil type to light up the tavern, even if it's practically deserted and you think it'll be cool to see if the booze will make the place explode.

Don't forget Penny. Even if the rest of the group can get along just fine, an angsty fey with a vorpal scythe is almost guaranteed to be trouble. Of course, there's always the problem that none of the players really want to see themselves or anybody else around the table taken out of the game... I've seen paladins who'd pretend they didn't realize the rogue is Chaotic Evil if they thought their DM would let them keep their abilities, just so intraparty problems don't take up game time. I've also seen groups where the barbarian is willing to spend hours arguing with the cleric about something as nebulous as their philosophies of life, so you can never be sure what's going to happen.

RHJunior · Post by **RHJunior** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 11:27 am

Currently playing in a campaign called "Plane Promenading." It originally started out with a band of random characters from scattered worlds, dumped magically into an accursed extradimensional mansion that was basically set on slowly driving them mad. Out of necessity the adventurers team up to escape... we succeeded, only to now find ourselves wandering from worldgate to worldgate, trying to find our way home....

Catch is, in the course of things, two of our PCs are evil.

A Lawful Evil gunslinger--- an insectoid soul-eater.

And a Chaotic Evil half-elf warlock vampire. (Yes, all of that.)

The rest of the team, save one chaotic neutral, is either neutral good or lawful good.... one, in fact, is an undead-slaying paladin...
It has taken an incredible amount of contrivance to keep the rest of the team from simply killing the two evil PCs and calling it a day. Especially as the lawful evil insectoid made no bones about informing them all he was a demonic slave and would kill them if he determined it served his ends better than working with them, and the chaotic evil vampire has gone out of his way to goad the cleric at every opportunity, and openly conspire with the insectoid by speaking in diabolical languages....

It's gotten worse since leaving the mansion. At that point it was us vs. the evil insane house, so we have a motivation for working together. Now, we're traveling through relatively civilized and safe dimensional planes, and the motivation for putting up with the vampire and the soulsucker is getting seriously strained... especially as said vampire, just to be an ass, sneaked off on his own last session, and we blew the rest of the session running around in the foggy streets, trying to catch him before he made a snack of one of the townspeople.

LoneWolf23k · Post by **LoneWolf23k** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 12:08 pm

shyal_malkes wrote:my question is where was the bouncer in all this...

...keeping a safe distance from all the fireworks?

but that has got to be one shoddy fire safety code if a fire spread on it's own accross many buildings including the important ones!

Hey, we're talking Medieval/Renaissance environment here. Back in those days, fires would spread FAST. The great London fire of 1666 destroyed 13,200 houses, 87 parish churches, 6 chapels, 44 Company Halls, the Royal Exchange, the Custom House, St Paul's Cathedral, the Guildhall, the Bridewell Palace and other City prisons, the Session House, four bridges across the rivers Thames and Fleet, and three city gates, and made homeless 100,000 people, one sixth of the city's inhabitants at that time.

Back in those days, most buildings were made of highly flammable materials, and fire safety codes meant "Ok, be careful with the fires you make, and always put them out before you leave." I'm thinking those adventurers should count themselves lucky the city's letting them pay off the damages, rather then executing them outright.

Jaydub · Post by **Jaydub** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 1:10 pm

LoneWolf23k wrote:
shyal_malkes wrote:my question is where was the bouncer in all this...

...keeping a safe distance from all the fireworks?

but that has got to be one shoddy fire safety code if a fire spread on it's own accross many buildings including the important ones!
Hey, we're talking Medieval/Renaissance environment here. Back in those days, fires would spread FAST. The great London fire of 1666 destroyed 13,200 houses, 87 parish churches, 6 chapels, 44 Company Halls, the Royal Exchange, the Custom House, St Paul's Cathedral, the Guildhall, the Bridewell Palace and other City prisons, the Session House, four bridges across the rivers Thames and Fleet, and three city gates, and made homeless 100,000 people, one sixth of the city's inhabitants at that time.

Back in those days, most buildings were made of highly flammable materials, and fire safety codes meant "Ok, be careful with the fires you make, and always put them out before you leave." I'm thinking those adventurers should count themselves lucky the city's letting them pay off the damages, rather then executing them outright.

Medieval/Renaissance environment? What about the Chicago fire in 1871? 300 Chicagoans were dead, 90,000 homeless, and the property loss was $200 million.

Shyal_malkes · Post by **Shyal_malkes** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 1:34 pm

what about the fires that started in BOTH death stars?

I hear they've yet to find any survivors from either incident!

BlasTech · Post by **BlasTech** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 2:02 pm

Shoddy building codes all the way, i mean look at all those gaping chasms, no safety rails whatsoever. *tsk tsk*

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