Fhan 2012/02/14(Tue)07:55 No. 386662 ID: c3ec0a
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Sarixu tells me tales of a race called Gnomids that inhabits a Celestial plane of Duadol. That realm is behind a world portal that lies active inside a gatekeeper fortress near to Ylon. The gatekeepers have hidden the portal and covered up the knowledge about it.

The fortress is not far. It will take three weeks on foot, but flying would be faster. Fhan's companion Sarixu is a shapeshifter dragon. Should Sarixu and Fhan walk on foot and utilize Fhan's crime world contacts or attract attention by flying directly to the scene?

>>386662
Let's stay on the ground. Better not to attract unwelcome attention.
Sarixu should shift into a form as harmless as possible.

Fhan 2012/02/14(Tue)10:30 No. 386681 ID: c3ec0a
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>>386666

Sarixu smiles at me when I ask her to make herself look harmless. She removes her golden plate mail and hairlocks. Now she looks rather plain and harmless in her odd dark red silk robe. Like a pilgrim of noble birth.

Should we visit Gung Gol, my city of birth, before we cross the grasslands?

sure, if you want, and it's not inconvenient time-wise, and especially if you can pick up stuff you need from there...

why did you want to go to Duadol again?

inb4 shut up, Satan

Go for it. Maybe get some things to trade and make a profit as well? You've got a good advantage when it comes to travel.

Fhan 2012/02/14(Tue)11:46 No. 386693 ID: c3ec0a
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>>386688
I really want to go to Duadol to see a high civilization and get myself a conventional mission.

I have no belongings in the city. I've worked as a page and an entertainer in noble houses and courts. But for the last ten years I've been living in the mountains with Sarixu and her baby dragon that has learned to hunt lately. The mountains are a safe playground for him.

Now that I have grown myself scales it's hard to discourse with normal people, but the other cult members might find my scales interesting. I could also exchange a some of our gold to cultist items or clothing.

(Paint new clothing on on Fhan if you dare)

We stride down into Gung Gol's streets and I begin to seek one of the dragon cults sanctuaries in the city. They have a newly imported death ray rifle in their inventory but that could cost all the gold we brought with us. It would also be difficult to hide beneath our cloaks due to its size. They also have quality steel chainmails and all sorts of sabers and swords, even local machetes made of steel instead of lower grade iron.

anything you're particularly good with? what're your skills and abilities? also, what's with the scales?

Fhan 2012/02/15(Wed)04:19 No. 386893 ID: c3ec0a
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I am especially talented in three things.

Dragon scales are a magical membrane. As a telepath with the scales I will be able to reflect intrusive telepathic rays and block my own thoughts being cast out.

I'm also an entertainer. I possess an excellent spatial sense, which I've put to self defensive use as a blade.

A priest of an ancient civilization taught me to travel with my mind into distant locations and even the future. This makes me a seer. However, the visions and interactions with these distant places are minimal without being physically present. That is also why I want to physically get there.

get a long blade appropriate to your physical strength (rapier, longsword, falchion, etc.), enough rations to last the journey, and rope.

Elephant Guy 2012/02/15(Wed)10:07 No. 386916 ID: 8947c3
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also, derp.

Fhan 2012/02/21(Tue)06:25 No. 388109 ID: c3ec0a
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This is the secret portal fortress. Epic. Now how do we get in?

try knocking ?

Fhan 2012/02/22(Wed)05:19 No. 388240 ID: 36bd96
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>>388178

The fortress gate is a large bronze gate crafted together with stone blocks to block an entrance to a natural cave. At the entrance a red hemp rope hangs next to the bronze gate. I pull the rope - a bell faintly rings inside - but nothing else happens in a while.

We wait for a sign of hospitality, but none appears. Sarixu says she'll shapeshift into her dragon form.

Fly to:
[Rock tongue observatory][Spire][High entrance]

hmhm high entrance is go

Fhan 2012/02/22(Wed)08:09 No. 388251 ID: c3ec0a
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>>388241

We land at the high entrance facing the observatory. A purple figure watches me as I lower myself from Sarixu's back.

The purple figure has oval appearance and he speaks nervously a foreign language.

I telepathically grasp its meaning. "This! This cannot happen! Who are these people with dragons!"

Sarixu shapeshifts into human form and answers the figure: "Gatekeeper, we wish to use the portal in this fortress. I am Sarixu, this is Fhan, my companion."

"No foreigners have been welcome here in a long while. You are in trouble if you try to enter."

Should we try to bribe him or attack?

>>388251

seduce him.

Fhan 2012/02/22(Wed)11:11 No. 388277 ID: c3ec0a
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>>388262

We seduce the gatekeeper which has two lines as a nose. Maybe our non-human features attracted him because it's working. He's taking us inside the castle for a short portal tour. "guests" he mutters along with sentences of submission.

Fhan 2012/02/22(Wed)11:42 No. 388279 ID: c3ec0a
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The fortress is dark inside. We walk through countless corridors that seem to be mined into rock. Sarixu explains that this is a place where a small host of Gnomids lodges.

After a while we meet with a steel platemail wearing Gnomid that points at us in the torch light.

"Who are these outsiders? How did they get in?"

"Guests to see the portal, yes they are. Guests they are." The Gnomid in robe explains.

"Guests?" The warrior inquires. How should we act?

confidently. inquire how they treat guests

Fhan 2012/02/23(Thu)13:25 No. 388542 ID: c3ec0a
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>>388472

Sarixu inquires how do the gnomids treat their guests in a most appropriate manner. The warrior gnomid takes a closer look at me in the torchlight and his bad mannerism falls down like apples in autumn.

The gnomid warrior apologizes and offers an escorted honour tour around the fortress or to just one place in there if we're in haste. Sarixu explains that my scales made an impression of a draconian agent.

"Can Runyc join the party or shall I decline his invitation? Should I try to lure him to join our expedition to Duadol as a guide?" Sarixu asks.

he's kinda cute <3

sure.

Fhan 2012/03/01(Thu)10:47 No. 389732 ID: c3ec0a
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We stride through a few corridors and arrive in an oval shape chamber in which an oval shape portal is shining bright cyan illuminating the chamber. No one else is around. Runyc, me and Sarixu walk into the bright and dissappear.

Obstacles passed: 3/3

(I will continue this update later (today) )

Fhan 2012/03/07(Wed)11:11 No. 390963 ID: c3ec0a
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"Duadol. Looks like a minor archway, a poster city for interplanar travellers and business.It is a good representation of the might of the Gnomid people. We have many options now. Either we could book a residence right away paying with our gold, which we have plenty of - or we could delve into the interplanar business of this archway. I believe we could find economic houses as well as an amusement arcade, we could find a mystery school for foreigners as well as martial arts dojos." Sarixu tutors me.

"I would recommend visiting the enlightenment theatre of Hobodal, which is the name of this archway. Elightenment theatres inform the populace of remarkable interplanar news, incidents and tidings in an artistic manner. If you need official business visit the Goldman throneroom, but you should have a well formed request or business if you decide to meet someone there." Runyc tells Sarixu in Gnomidish.

[What to do now?]

go to the theatre.

Fhan 2012/03/08(Thu)10:03 No. 391176 ID: c3ec0a
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We go to the theatre. It takes some time to buy tickets and wait for the next show. Subjects in the show vary from colonial incidents and tidings to dealing with alien races to homeworld politics. A banker lord had been attempted to murder in Jewel as a reaction to his outrageous bonuses. A bronze javelin had been thrown at him but it didn't pierce his very hearth so his personal bioengineer had time to block the wound with regenerative substance.

Colonists in Belebo were attacked by reapers.

Talagaryas prosperity is still skyrocketing after eleven months of immigration.

A mine chamber nearly collapsed in Khazvum after a fake engineer had messed up a support construct. Employed deep dwarven miners had repaired the support pillar with mine dust and their extraordinary sticking spittle. The fake engineer was tied up and sent to the surface to be sentenced.

Reapers are still decimating the Daichanese Empire in Naruu.

Jayrods have again refused to trade time travel devices for gold. They claim the Gnomid race isn't ready yet. Last week Jayrods refused to trade soul transfer technology to advance Gnomid advanced soul vehicle research. Soul vehicles are considered the best form of immortality know to date. Jayrods insist that Gnomids enhance optics technologies to make new discoveries in biology first. New theories in improving optics are lacking as mystery schools are monopolizing the remote viewing with their seer lineages. Banker lords are enjoying record incomes from mystery school remote viewing and are unwilling to fund engineering academies in theoretical research claiming that the way of the Seer is the purest form of seeing.

More theatre performances are scheduled next morning.

Fhan 2012/04/04(Wed)06:21 No. 398667 ID: c3ec0a
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We wait overnight outside the theatre for the next show. Luckily the athmosphere in Duadol seems very cultured and we find no conflict staying outside in the warm wet ocean climate.

In the next show the performance focuses on how some gnomids have been doing in a colony located in a mineral rich snow plane. The idea of frozen water excites me immedeately and I talk to Sarixu about getting there. Khazum and Belebo seem so distant and awkward in comparison to this world of snow. I think I could start making a name as a settler in this new world of less control and all freedom...

Fhan 2012/04/04(Wed)08:53 No. 398674 ID: c3ec0a
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Stage 2

Runyc explains that to get to Chills we would have to pass two days in Belebo, the reaper infested plane. I confess I have little knowledge about the portal network and say that it'll just have to do.

So we get going and follow Runyc to one of the portals surrounding Hobodal. The spaces flee around us in the portal momentarily and then we arrive in the purple athmosphere of Belebo. A majestic mountain rises above the barrens of the reaperland.

Fhan 2012/04/04(Wed)08:58 No. 398676 ID: c3ec0a
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After walking until "sunset" in this weird plane we meet with a heavily guarded caravan.

Should we try to go through a shorter path (and roll a chance of encountering something d10, 1=reapers)

or join the gnomid caravan and risk our lives alone only a short while. (roll d20, 2=reapers)

>>398676
Under no circumstances should you point out that it looks like that man has lizard legs and a giant armor-plated phallus.

>>398704
Yes? These phalluses are what has been haunting me whole day

Sure, join the caravan. Company is nice.

Fhan 2012/04/05(Thu)00:10 No. 398791 ID: 66d04a
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Roll d20 for encounter.

rolled 3 = 3

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rollin

rolled 4 = 4

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dice dice baby

rolled 16 = 16

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>>398803
>>398806
UH OH!

Fhan 2012/04/05(Thu)08:12 No. 398834 ID: 66d04a
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Each roll affects what is encountered during the trip in Belebo, the daemons' plane. The other rolls will occur as encounters later.
>>398803

As me and Sarixu walk between the caravan animals and their riders a noise occurs and Gnomids run past with longswords or some sort of two-handed swords in their hands. At the same time the caravan seems to halt. Should we go investigate the hassle? Sarixu seems worried and paces her steps to see what caused the caravan to halt.

>>398834

no way, lay back and take a nap.


...of course you go see what's up :U

Fhan 2012/04/05(Thu)10:18 No. 398848 ID: c3ec0a
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A gigantic spider is attacking the caravan!!! Some Gnomids are forming a circle around it. Should we stay back or try help them??

>>398848
Well, how are you in a fight?

Eh, yeah, sure. Swing that blade around and see if you can crush the spider's mind or something.

>>398848
Spiders should go down fairly easy if you can get on top of them, from there they can't reach you and you can either disable leg joints on a whim, or puncture the back of their head and slosh a blade around in their brainmeats.

so. can you talk to animals with your sykik shenanigunz?

>>399461
This, spiders can't reach thier backs. HACKITY HACK RIGHT IN THE BACK.

Fhan!CqKXLK6R2Y 2012/04/09(Mon)02:04 No. 399686 ID: c3ec0a
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>>399477

I hear a metallic sound in my head what must be the thoughts of the gigantic spider: "Small prey, delicious. Danger... must be smart. I must. I will."

The gigantic spider turns as the Gnomids surround it. It pokes the swordsmen with its long fat limbs and then suddenly freezes for a moment as it finds out that its claws have wounded a few Gnomids. The swordsmen chatter something and I hear telepathically them to prepare to strike, but I'm faster.

>>399461
>>398877
>>399580

I run around the spider and mount it from behind using my acrobatic skills - something the armored swordsmen aren't capable of.

Fhan!CqKXLK6R2Y 2012/04/09(Mon)02:05 No. 399687 ID: c3ec0a
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>>399580

Fhan!CqKXLK6R2Y 2012/04/09(Mon)02:54 No. 399690 ID: c3ec0a
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The caravan leader comes to me and talks atop his giant war lizard.

"Well done brave draconian! You might have spared a few lives of our kin. That is not normal from your kin, indeed. Without this adamantine armor I couldn't risk saying that you draconians much more often tend to look down on your lower races than lend a hand."

I read his mind. He's considering about escorting us to the Chills portal if we just choose the right words now.

Do your powers tell you what those words might be?

I figure if the caravan is going close to our destination, the leader will detour the caravan so we reach our destination safely, in repayment for killing the spider. We just have to be polite and respectful.

Fhan!CqKXLK6R2Y 2012/04/26(Thu)05:08 No. 404801 ID: c3ec0a
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>>399703
>>399704
I am polite and respectful to him. Thank him for the compliment and tell how I admire their caravan. But at that moment something shuts in the mind of the caravan leader. He has not become satisfied for the choice of my words and now seems to disrespect me. I quickly realize that he thought me as an alien and not as just another polite and timid being of his kind. The thought of being seen as what he calls a draconian lits in my mind. I maybe have not said enough. A right sentence just didn't appear on my lips.

The caravan travels and doesn't head towards the Chills portal.

Fhan!CqKXLK6R2Y 2012/05/03(Thu)11:59 No. 407597 ID: c3ec0a
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The caravan leader rides next to us and shows the way to the Chills portal and urges us to not get lost in this oblivion. The next thing we see are the large lizard beasts of burden toddle to a destination still unknown to us. It's still a half days trip to the Chills portal Runyc councels us. Enough to have to fight our way through living obstacles.

Without thinking too much we start pacing towards our destination.

>>398806
And we encounter a crab-like thing blocking a chasm in the difficult and spiky terrain.

How should we approach it?

Try going around it.

Fhan!CqKXLK6R2Y 2012/06/30(Sat)05:28 No. 427561 ID: c3ec0a
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The terrain around is too rough. With luck I could get over it myself but that would mean abandoning Runyc. Unless...

Fhan!CqKXLK6R2Y 2012/07/17(Tue)06:45 No. 433824 ID: c3ec0a
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... We fly over it with Sarixu's dragon form. How dexterous. We arrive at the Chills portal. I urge we should enter it before something big comes and eats us all.

End of stage 2 - A trip through Belebo

1 secret revealed (1:The existence of 'adamantium', I gotta get an adamantium blade!)

So far I've left my old life as an entertainer in a muddy city and the nightlife of an agent of the Dragon Cult as a dramatic event took place in my life. I met my life companion who was a dragon named Sarixuratiliekiakunha, Sarixu for short.

We spent ten years in the mountains in a cave making flight trips to the surrounding jungles and plains... I practised magic of transmutation and was able to grow myself a permanent magical membrane, the dragon skin.

Then we left the mountains and traveled to a secret location of a world portal. It was guarded by a gnomid fortress, which everyone knew very little about. We couldn't get in by knocking, so we flew to its other entrance. Gnomids greeted us as dragonkins and led us through the dim corridors of the fortress. We went through Duadol only to head towards Chills, a snow covered world with only an incipient gnomid outpost. We think we will find peace there after the horrid plains of Belebo, a world we had to go through to reach Chills.

Fhan!CqKXLK6R2Y 2012/07/31(Tue)08:47 No. 437791 ID: f906f5
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We step through the portal and that way arrive in Chills. The portal seems to be built of some sort of dark metal. Maybe iron? I have no idea what is inside its structure, but it must be very expensive.

All around us spreads a vast kingdom of snow. A blinding whiteness makes us blink more often. Compared to the dark plane of Belebo this seems celestial.

Some sort of snow thriving fungus cover some parts of the landscape. I have no idea how these exotic lifeforms overcome the chilly environment.

In front of us we see an obsidian pillar that has golden carvings in it. Runyc tells that it is the instructions to visitors and caravans. It will show us the way to the colony.

==>

>>437791
Well then, read the pillar and take the appropriate path. Still, looks just a bit like a gate and dialing device if I must say, probably just my imagination.

Fhan!CqKXLK6R2Y 2012/08/03(Fri)00:19 No. 438739 ID: c3ec0a
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The road sign says:

"Ruins of Cynic"
"Feare a days trip
through the fungal forest"

Let's go put the fun back in fungal forest.

Now, does that mean 'fear' or 'far'... Still, fungal forest, I suggest people wear cloths over their faces, something to keep the sporedust out of the lungs... maybe some goggles if one had any.

Also, try not to touch or eat anything, that tends to end in vision-questing for hours on end, or leaping off tall places trying to fly.... or vomiting to death.

Fhan!CqKXLK6R2Y 2012/08/07(Tue)06:54 No. 440142 ID: c3ec0a
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We're entering the fungal forest. It's wise not to eat, to touch or to breathe anything while traveling in the forest. We would also wear goggles if we had ones.

Roll d20s for encounters. (9-11 are nothing encountered, >18 means a friendly humanoid encounter, <5 means dangerous encounter, each roll generates a new encounter)

rolled 3 = 3

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Let us discover what the mist has hidden.

rolled 10 = 10

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>>440240
Put it in the email field to roll.

rolled 5 = 5

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[More encounters!]

rolled 5 = 5

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Rollan!

rolled [10] [16] [16] [6] [17]

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MOAR

Fhan!CqKXLK6R2Y 2012/08/09(Thu)12:44 No. 441000 ID: c3ec0a
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As we travel through the funal forest a fast moving predator catches us.

Sar becomes her dragon form and says us to hide or at least stay back.

Fhan!CqKXLK6R2Y 2012/08/31(Fri)12:37 No. 450092 ID: 710329
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We stand back with Runyc to see from a distance how Sarixu cuts the wyrm into squirming pieces.

After the battle Sarixu has hardly sustained wounds and tells that she is okay. She says that Runyc seriously needs a wyrm skin cloak and makes him one.

Fhan!CqKXLK6R2Y 2012/10/27(Sat)10:42 No. 466691 ID: 710329
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We decide to fly over the fungus forest because of the danger of staying on ground. While this world seems to be here just ice, snow and fungus, there has to be more fertile land somewhere. Where do all these megabeasts come from? Maybe there're are vast underground worlds here?

As we fly some way in the skies of Chills, we meet flying lizard-like, but not quite flying lizards, critters.

Fhan!CqKXLK6R2Y 2012/11/19(Mon)07:34 No. 473012 ID: 710329
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A meandering river shows that it's not that cold. There's a river wyrm swimming in the river, but it poses no threat to us as it can't fly. I think it might feed itself from the fungal growth that flourish in this wetland.