A halfling sits down (OOC5)

[Cole Deschain]

Something just came up, and I'll be offline for roughly the next five days...

Ow.

[Jason of the Fraternity]

No worries, Cole. I'm sure that we can pick things up on our thread when you get back next week.

[Cole Deschain]

I... LIVE... AGAIN...

[Coan]

Good to hear (was that a BG2 reference or another quote?)

Anyway Ixevim, Kimuriel (and if Wiccy reads this) if you have done all you want for the moment with your characters I'll add in the next stage of events otherwise post soon or I'll just move into 'night'.

[Cole Deschain]

Good to hear (was that a BG2 reference or another quote?)

I lifted it from Army of Darkness.

[VAN]

I don't think Kimuriel has anything else to do to the Manor, he is ready to go.

[Wiccy of the Fraternity]

I have been unable to access the site for a while, getting a "file not found 404 error" every time I tried, but I am back. That is, if my character is still active.

[alhoon]

Ixevim will create some cracking gel and later he will try to scribe a couple of scrolls.
What does a wizard need to scribe scrolls Coan? Will there be a problem purchasing the necessary material components in the manor? Do the scrolls cost the usual 25 x caster level x spell level /2 in gold pieces? Do they need 1 day for each 1000 gold? Do they drain 1 XP /25 gold in market price?

[Coan]

You could probably just ask for the scrolls from someone close to Ivana. You're all somewhat of national (albeit secret) heroes.

Otherwise standard rules apply. Save for the xp component as we don't record xp here.

Edit: Good to have you back Wiccy. Jason told me about your problem so Heinrich is still alive (albeit slightly off the edge). Please read the posts that occurred in your absense, notably this one:

Heinrich walked down the corridor. A serving boy had brought him his chain mail and now the familiar 'chink' of it matched his step -now aided by the wooden tap of a walking cane, he hated to admit it but sometimes he could feel his age.

Turning his mind to other matters he had noticed a disturbingly small amount of guards on patrol. Apart from the one escorting him and two others he had seen along the way there were nowhere near the number he had seen in the previous days -and even those three were old men.

He guessed the revolution was only now starting to take off and every able bodied soldier was now in a fight he could only guess about. All those corridors and hallways below would be bathed with the blood of men and women who had been deceived into believing their path was true, when in fact their leader had just been another lie.

"We're here sir." his guard informed him. Two guards unlocked and opened the single unassuming door before him -evidently this room was more heavily guarded. Inside were two more soldiers and doctors -many doctors, some with blood on their hands. A window in the high ceiling above let light in from the sky. The cloud of ash and gunpowder had finally cleared and the morning's light was a welcome change.

Shining down onto Nostalia the warmth of the summer day cascaded onto the woman's fragile and slender form with a red dress.

She was laying down -and naked? There were cuts all over her body and blood was everywhere. The white sheet he had thought clothing was covered in red and being held down over rapidly bleeding wounds as people struggled to keep pressure on and stop her life from bleeding out.

Then there was shouting and screaming. The doctors turned and surprise filled their eyes as one lowered his mask telling the guard to get Heinrich outside.

Someone was still yelling and Heinrich was shocked. He had seen death on the battle field -even some of the worst wounds a musket and sword could deliver. But never anything like...

When he was thrown outside with a hastily apologising guard Heinrich could hardly hear the old man. Something about not knowing, that he should have checked first. But the screaming still echoed in his ears.

Memories of his wife and children being executed filled his mind. The blood, the smell.

Then he realised; he was the one screaming.

[Coan]

I'm currently purchasing a new computer as my brother is on holidays and he uses the computer I usually employ to post -hence there has been some delay. I hope to remedy this soon.

Sorry for the delay in posting chaps.

[Jason of the Fraternity]

Sorry for the delay in posting chaps.

On a somewhat similar note, I'm going to be gone from tomorrow evening (Wednesday) until next Monday afternoon. My brother-in-law is getting married, and we'll be out of town for the wedding and traveling. I'll try to do a couple quick updates on the Context thread before heading out, though.

Jason

[Wiccy of the Fraternity]

Coan, thanks for posting that, seems Heinrich has something of a horror check on his hands *gulp* I'll read up on the rest of the thread

[alhoon]

I believe that a PC having such urges against another PC isn't a very good thing. While you are both good and mature players, I have seen many D&D afternoons spoiled because of PC infighting.

[Coan]

I believe that a PC having such urges against another PC isn't a very good thing. While you are both good and mature players, I have seen many D&D afternoons spoiled because of PC infighting.

Oh I'm not too worried. Artemis is more of an NPC now and you can hate them, I just wouldn't go around being really destructive and ruining the game and plot. But Wiccy wouldn't do that.

In other news my computer parts are roughly all here with me I just need one more piece and then to build it.

[Wiccy of the Fraternity]

I wouldn't go and do something to damage the game, Heinrich just sees Artemis as a traitor, first the unnecessary killing of Roger (or whatever his name was) and then playing both sides of the field in the battle against Pieter, he doesn't trust Artemis and with that, he's an easy scapegoat for Heinrich to blame

While the potion Heinrich was given by Artemis helped save his own life, the one Nostalia took seemed to have no effect, Heinrich now believes this to be intentional, that the spy wishes to see Nostalia removed from the picture. You could say he believes Artemis to be serving yet another power the Falkovnian is unaware of but ultimately working toward the destruction of the group.

It may seem far fteched, but given Heinrich's background, you can see why he would be suspicion of the other man

All good clean fun, Heinrich will eventually confront Artemis with his beliefs and acusations, but only after he finds some form of proof to support his own suspicions. And, he is not likely to think that just anything will do, he will be methodical, or at least as methodical as his grief-stricken mind allows him to be.