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Bladedancer
Learned Scribe
USA
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 Posted - 12 Jul 2007 : 18:03:05
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UPDATE
After easily taking out House Vandree (thanks mainly to the party's infiltration and asassination of the House Nobles) House Myett is quickly given the rank of 12th House by the council. This is mostly due to the backing of Triel as House Myett is a vassal of Baerne.
After a few more sessions that were mostly solo missions furthering the goals of each pc. I surprised the pc's with this campaign rocking event. House Barrison Del Armgo attacks the House six months after Myett's victory over the Vandree in which the Matron decided to move their residence to the sprawling barely damaged Vandree compound. They use the pretence of the House having worshipers of Vhaerun in the Clan hierarchy (which is a lie although Selvetarm is currently a house favorite among the clan's males).
The real reasons for the attack are 3 fold
1. Matron Mez Barris Del Armgo has long coveted the Vandree compound as Barrsion Del Armgo's has grown too small for her forces. Seeing some other House take what she wanted spurs her into action.
2. The high ranking of a House so beholden to Baerne is unthinkable. So Mez Barris decides to take them down while indirectly injuring her enemy Triel.
3. The final and most personal was Mez Barris finding out Tazrak Myett had recently turned her favorite and most promising grandson (the spitting image of her former House Weapon Master and son of Uthgental) to the heretical worship of Selvetarm as deity in his own right.
The pc's seeing that Del Armgo is too strong for the House battle their way out the ex-Vandree compound and make their way to a portal created by Mourdar (the party mage) to escape to the surface. The portal leads to the land of Thay where Mourdar had established a bolthole in case of just such an emergency
At this point the players are kinda pissed at me for destroying most of what they worked for. I explained to them that some of them may have reached too far with their ambition (mostly I meant the player of Tazarak on making too many bold moves too quickly with the budding movement of Selvetarm's faith in Menzoberranzan).
With the demoralized party limped their way across the surface eventually ending up in Skullport where desparate for cash they took a job from a mage (secretly Laeral Silverhand) who wanted an underground ruin near the Serpent Hill's plundered and a magical crown returned to the mage for safekeeping. The pc's used to such missions as they worked for Gromph and various archmage's of the drow city Sshmaath took to the work readily.
What they weren't expecting was a yuan-ti infested lair led by an Overhood of The Coiled Cabal where there were many slaves being experimented on to form new versions of tainted ones and ann broodguards. After a horrific battle with the Overhood and his minions the party suceeded in not only recovering the crown,but also the freeing of all the slaves and leading them to safety and destroying the lab and most of the spell notes associated with the experiments (except one book that the party mage decided to keep for himself. Besides the recovery of the crown the party did the rest of the deeds was done more for the perverse enjoyment of pissing off the Overhood rather than giving a care of the well being of the slaves. They managed to kill most of the Yuan-ti but the Overhood survived.
After returning to Skullport and receiving their payment plus a hefty bonus for unexpected danger they faced. The mage offers them a safe haven in Waterdeep or Skullport and a chance to be put on a hefty retainer as the mage's personal retrieval team. Seeing as they have need time to plan their next move anyways they accept the offer.
Next up the Coiled Cabal will start to be a thorn in the pc's side as they unknowingly have upset a major plan of the organization. Also the bard Malageth will be offered a teaching position at New Olamn College in is guise of the half moon elf bard Talgath Moonmote. |
Solarr Bladedancer
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Master of the Ginsu Knives
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