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| | ''I noted this on the xp page but FYI... Bluebook post are each worth the equivalent of one Challenge Rating .5 defeat, if a player writes/replies 3 times to Bluebooking articles that PC will recive the xp total x3. For Example: '' | | ''I noted this on the xp page but FYI... Bluebook post are each worth the equivalent of one Challenge Rating .5 defeat, if a player writes/replies 3 times to Bluebooking articles that PC will recive the xp total x3. For Example: '' |
| − | * '''chapter # 7.5:1''' <br> ''XP TOTAL'': '''10,388.35''' [''This is the MAXIMUM TOTAL XP available at the beginning of this Chapter (game session).''] ** '''Wiki Bluebooking: Kyuad, Eranon & Durgaz talk about plans and traitors! [CR.5 x 1]''': 47.9 xp per PC (Andrew x3, Steve x2, Bill) ['''ENCOUNTER''' | 4PCs @ 4th]. | + | * '''chapter # '''7.5''':1''' <br> ''XP TOTAL'': '''10,388.35''' [''This is the MAXIMUM TOTAL XP available at the beginning of this Chapter (game session).''] ** '''Wiki Bluebooking: Kyuad, Eranon & Durgaz talk about plans and traitors! [CR.5 x 1]''': 47.9 xp per PC (Andrew, Steve, Bill) ['''ENCOUNTER''' | 4PCs @ 4th]. |
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| | ** ['''A''']: '' Has Radagug and/or his troupe been through that area? Maybe. Wolf-like tracks can be found, some goblin and Orc. Though the Orc may be of the Bog Orcs... In your tracking/searching you would have found the wolf tracks passed within a mile of the area where the Trail Mark was, but not specifically at the mark. They did not stop and seem to be moving at high speeds at any point on their tracks Eranon sees in this immediate area. Were there "drag" marks? Yes, intermittenly. But this could be other prey if the wolves took down something hunted. If you like you might find more, so remember to search more in-game. Tracks were headed in the Northwestern direction - that could lead to the Spire, the Dead Marshes in general, into the Erethor, or even toward the Darkening Woods or farther North... There are also a great deal of orc and human (merc?) and even some bare footed humans and elf tracks heading Southeasterly. The tracks are very hard to follow at points. It will take time to track them in detail but one of Eranon's skill level could do it if needed (and if time is available)'' | | ** ['''A''']: '' Has Radagug and/or his troupe been through that area? Maybe. Wolf-like tracks can be found, some goblin and Orc. Though the Orc may be of the Bog Orcs... In your tracking/searching you would have found the wolf tracks passed within a mile of the area where the Trail Mark was, but not specifically at the mark. They did not stop and seem to be moving at high speeds at any point on their tracks Eranon sees in this immediate area. Were there "drag" marks? Yes, intermittenly. But this could be other prey if the wolves took down something hunted. If you like you might find more, so remember to search more in-game. Tracks were headed in the Northwestern direction - that could lead to the Spire, the Dead Marshes in general, into the Erethor, or even toward the Darkening Woods or farther North... There are also a great deal of orc and human (merc?) and even some bare footed humans and elf tracks heading Southeasterly. The tracks are very hard to follow at points. It will take time to track them in detail but one of Eranon's skill level could do it if needed (and if time is available)'' |
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| − | : "Those are rumors, though. There was also one that we were going to be sent to serve the Kinslayer in the Darkening Wood. Then there was one that said he didn't need us, because a mad legate was going to bring the hordes of Cambrial up to put an end to Three Oaks once and for all. I don't know which was true. They may all have just been wishful thinking from a detachment that hadn't seen real combat in over a year.
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| − | : "So I don't know. Perhaps Dafrum-Dâgalûr was sent north. Perhaps only a part of it was, and the rest now serves this Sarcosan, or the Kinslayer, or the mad legate I spoke of - the Exonerated One. Radagug and his dogs would not have been much good on the front lines ... it would make sense that, if anyone was left behind or reassigned to some other duty, it would be him.
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| − | : "I wonder if this Sarcosan who just happened to appear in the swamp with us knows of this Krell. It would be interesting to find out."
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| − | : '''Andrew:''' Regarding suspicions that Al'Kazzir is a legate: Lacking any practical knowledge of legates, I'm assuming Durgaz operates primarily on hearsay ("Legates have to pray every night at midnight, or the Shadow will strike them down! They have creepy animal companions that can sniff out magic! They can't walk across a line of salt!"), which may or may not be accurate. Kyuad may know more, but the fact that Al'Kazzir has no legate's trappings and did not get up to pray as expected is enough to lower Durgaz's suspicions regarding him from "possible legate" to "likely spy for Vrolk who apparently wants us to either walk into an ambush or lead him to Evelos."
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| − | * [Durgaz] '''Regarding your understanding of Legates'''
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| − | ** ['''A''']: ''Good logic, I like when players work in legitimate "leaps" in logic that help the game progress. Obviously we "know" Adam isn't a Legate, he's a PC (or is it just a ruse?!?!!)... So it's good to find reasons to have him join to help the DM and that new member. That's a GOOD player! Nice job Andrew.''
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| − | * [Durgaz] '''I had heard rumors that some number of us were to be placed under the command of a Sarcosan - Krell something - when we returned to Zorgetch, but I don't know why, or how many of us.'''
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| − | ** ['''A''']: '''''ROLL:''' Durgaz (Sense Motive +0) ROLLED: 14+0 = 14'' <br> ''Logic and experience might dictate for Durgaz a few things...''
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| − | *** ''a.) If Radagug "failed" in his mission to kill Walden and/or the PCs, then he'd be punished or demoted, etc... ''
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| − | *** ''b.) We know that "Fork" was demoted to poo-shoveller along the Shadow's Highway.
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| − | *** ''c.) '''(you all have this intel)''' Thorton had mentioned that he found a large silver coin from the audience people who were watching the beheading (that began our campaign), they were seen paying Radagug for the entertainment of watching the unusual beheading. Some of those city folk were from Festrun, Thorton assumed many were from Alvedara since he found a large silver coin with the Traitor Prince of Alvedara on it. So the question is - was this a "mission" for Radagug? Or was he freelancing in his scouting time? If so what ties did all this have with Walden? Did they know who Walden was? Was it a fluke? For that matter, you might ask - how/why did Legate Pessoign just "happen" by Shadowwall.
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| − | * [Durgaz] '''Perhaps only a part of it was, and the rest now serves this Sarcosan, or the Kinslayer, or the mad legate I spoke of - the Exonerated One.'''
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| − | ** ['''A''']: ''FYI on "alliegences" recap: Krell (unknown), the Kinslayer (the Sword), Kulos (the Priest). Lots of names... Any others I can help with...?''
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| − | * [Durgaz] ''' Radagug and his dogs would not have been much good on the front lines ... it would make sense that, if anyone was left behind or reassigned to some other duty, it would be him.'''
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| − | ** ['''A''']: ''reassigned or he could have been sold, bartered, or given from one warlord to another, one Night King to another, one warlord to a politician - if that's the case.''
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| − | * [Durgaz] ''' "I wonder if this Sarcosan who just happened to appear in the swamp with us knows of this Krell. It would be interesting to find out."'''
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| − | ** ['''A''']: '' They all know each other... right?? hehe... Yes, he MIGHT know this Krell. You'd have to ask him. (ie. I'd have to have Adam roll, and fill him in if he doesn't recall Krell off the top of his head)''
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| − | * [Eranon] '''All this intel and info being said makes Eranon think of Valendil, his scout group, and the area of the Dead Marshes, the Druid's Swamp, the Darkening Wood, Three Oaks and such...'''
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| − | '''Durgaz:''' "It's all guesswork. I only know that Walden told me that his destiny lay in the "land of the dead." That could mean many things. He could have been referring to Cambrial. He could have been referring to the Dead Marshes. Or he could have meant he believed he was going to die. The only thing we know for sure about Walden right now is who took him.
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| − | * [Erenon] ''' Is it possible to tell how large each of those groups were (the orcs and wolves headed northwest, and the orcs, men and elves headed southeast)? What is the comparative distance between the are where the raiders might be and the Hamlet?'''
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