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Age of Ice and Blood: A Pathfinder System Heroic Fantasy Quest

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[X] Yes, you could use more hands at the keep and you see no reason to leave these folks starve when your own stores are full
 
[X] Yes, you could use more hands at the keep and you see no reason to leave these folks starve when your own stores are full
 
DragonParadox said:
Hmm... not a lot of votes.
Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Jul 19, 2022 at 12:40 PM, finished with 16 posts and 4 votes.
  • [X] Yes, you could use more hands at the keep and you see no reason to leave these folks starve when your own stores are full
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Part of that could be down to the simplicity of the vote. It's basically a no brainer to take these people in so may people just think "Yeah I know what we're gonna do" and tune out since it's really unlikely we do anything but help here.

[X] Yes, you could use more hands at the keep and you see no reason to leave these folks starve when your own stores are full
 
Part of me is tempted to put this quest in hiatus just because the other one has so much more engagement, but I also do not want to leave my first original quest hanging. I'll sleep on it, if you guys are still interested I'll continue it.
 
DragonParadox said:
Part of me is tempted to put this quest in hiatus just because the other one has so much more engagement, but I also do not want to leave my first original quest hanging. I'll sleep on it, if you guys are still interested I'll continue it.
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I'm enjoying both quests myself. They're completely different settings, with each bringing something to the table.

That said, if you're enjoying the other one more because of the greater player engagement, it wouldn't hurt to put this one into secondary status while you focus on the new one. I'm along for the ride either way.
 
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Arc 15 Post 25: The Ark Uncanny and the Tower Strange
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    • The Ark Uncanny and the Tower Strange ​

    Fourth of Olweje-hamba (Olweje Descendent), 1349 A. L. (After Landfall)

    Taking on such of the villagers as agree to come you leave the rest to their mournful fate. More likely than not they will starve and even if they do not the best they can hope for is to be laborers and thralls at the door of some lord, mayhap even the one what had abandoned them To their fate. Alas you had not been able to take the lance of the fallen chieftain of the Yayar for the iron bear, driven by the hunger of his god had devoured it.

    The final leg of your journey take you into uncommonly strong headwinds for the sheltered waters off Orinilu, but at last on the third day out from the raided village you see in the distance the flag of the Fellowship atop the tower of the keep you raised this winter. Late you might be, but leal eyes still watch the horizon and soon you can see men at the gates and fires being lit, perhaps in greeting, though most likely to prepare a feast for your coming.

    What you had not expected was owls, a great many owls on every roof and atop the main tower of the keep also.

    "Don't think the gulls are gonna fit," Inge sounds more amused than upset and so would you be if when you came close Silver did not look upon the tower with the eyes of dreaming and saw in them something strange.

    "There's magic in the birds," he says and that there is, though it takes Esha's talent for the arcane to tell how.

    "It's not the power of transmutation as you would expect from a shape-changer or indeed from any spell that sharpens the eye or strengthens the wing. It's the power of divination. Something it watching over some of those birds." So saying she points them out one by one, no more than three birds in among the crowd.

    "Recall the girl who fled from the Knikut of the straights, she too took the shape of an owl, perhaps this is her work," Zaia offers.

    "We should ask the men before we make hasty judgement," you reason, but from the cries of the gulls it seems you do not have long to do so. At the very least they will surely try to take the owls' nest when the slower birds go out hunting for the night.

    What do you do?

    [] Disembark normally, you do not want to give away that you have noticed the spying if you do not have to

    [] Ask someone in Wayfarer's Rest what's been going on before you make any rash decisions
    -[] Write in what

    [] Try to address the birds or whoever might be behind them
    -[] Sharply
    -[] Courteously

    [] Write in

    OOC: So since we are back now would be the time to start bringing out any seasonal things you guys want to do, like building, recruiting, getting the gremlin to make you weapons (if you are brave enough) etc...
     
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    • We need more info before we make any decisions, IMO, and not just about the Owls.

    Anything y'all can think of that I should add?

    [X] Ask someone in Wayfarer's Respite what's been going on before you make any rash decisions
    -[X] How long have owls been making a roost here? We're there numbers always so great? Have they acted oddly in their time in the area? If so, how?
    -[X] Have we had any visitors, be they strange, important, etc?
    -[X] How fares the keep, and everyone we left behind? What of the horses?I
    -[X] How have relations been with the nearby village of Shore Sworn?
     
    Goldfish said:
    We need more info before we make any decisions, IMO, and not just about the Owls.

    Anything y'all can think of that I should add?

    [X] Ask someone in Wayfarer's Respite what's been going on before you make any rash decisions
    -[X] How long have owls been making a roost here? We're there numbers always so great? Have they acted oddly in their time in the area? If so, how?
    -[X] Have we had any visitors, be they strange, important, etc?
    -[X] How fares the keep, and everyone we left behind? What of the horses?I
    -[X] How have relations been with the nearby village of Shore Sworn?
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    If they know something about the Purple maybe?
     
    I simply do not like to read fics on unknown settings. Even with an easy entry. Even with the wiki. Sometimes I do it. But I do not like it. That's why I never reminded DragonParadox about "From Hell's Heart", it's also unknown setting for me.

    [X] Goldfish
     
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