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

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Goldfish said:
I have no interest in being friends or allies with these people and will actively plot their deaths if the opportunity presents itself. Just putting that out there.

For now, however, we can bludgeon them with diplomacy.
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It's nice to know where the spiderfish stands xD

Working on the vote, should have it done before my next class.
 
[X] Fine, you asked - Part 1.
-[X] "I am Sir Roland Verley of Normandy, sworn and leal servant to a king and land you will never know."
-[X] "We were cast here, ship and crew, from a world like this one and yet not, in time and shape and the presence of magic." Ensure that they understand that magic was not nearly as obvious back on Earth as it is here.
-[X] "After our arrival from tempest to calm seas, we eventually found our way to land where we faced strange creatures and then the risen dead that we paid a dear price in blood to put to rest."
-[X] "It was only after their souls were sent to Ikomi's grasp - and we had no understanding of the rite, only that the closest thing to a priestess present was adamant it must be done. That we began to truly understand how far we had been cast by whatever powers had seized our vessel."

@DragonParadox I expect there will be a lot of questions after just this, so that's where I want to leave it for now. Is this enough for you to work with?
 
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Snowfire said:
[X] Fine, you asked - Part 1.
-[X] "I am Sir Roland Verley of Normandy, sworn and leal servant to a king and land you will never know."
-[X] "We were cast here, ship and crew, from a world like this one and yet not, in time and shape and the existence of magic." Ensure that they understand that magic did not exist as far as we were aware back on Earth.
-[X] "After our arrival from tempest to calm seas, we eventually found our way to land where we faced strange creatures and then the risen dead that we paid a dear price in blood to put to rest."
-[X] "It was only after their souls were sent to Ikomi's grasp - and we had no understanding of the rite, only that the closest thing to a priestess present was adamant it must be done. That we began to truly understand how far we had been cast by whatever powers had seized our vessel."

@DragonParadox I expect there will be a lot of questions after just this, so that's where I want to leave it for now. Is this enough for you to work with?
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That is fine with one caveat Roland does not know magic did not exist where he came from, indeed it is generally believed that magic does exist whether it be natural or demonic in nature, Zaia's position that there was no magic speaks more of his character than the prevalent opinion of the age. the most Roland would be able to say is that he had seen no magic before the storm.
 
DragonParadox said:
That is fine with one caveat Roland does not know magic did not exist where he came from, indeed it is generally believed that magic does exist whether it be natural or demonic in nature, Zaia's position that there was no magic speaks more of his character than the prevalent opinion of the age. the most Roland would be able to say is that he had seen no magic before the storm.
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I will rephrase to "Obvious presence of magic" is that acceptable? Because it's far more obvious here than it was in superstition back on Earth
 
Snowfire said:
You know what, fine.

@DragonParadox full courtly introduction for Roland would be "Sir Roland Verley of Normandy" or something more?

If they want the truth, they can eat it raw.
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Roland is sort of French by location before the idea of France started and is going to use full out his polite court manners.....

I imagine it like a late actor I know but then he's a crusader but not the one that got turned into a vampire in VtM Redemption although Shakspearian dialogue and ye olde english would be laying it thick like he's a thespian.
 
rx915 said:
Roland is sort of French by location before the idea of France started and is going to use full out his polite court manners.....

I imagine it like a late actor I know but then he's a crusader but not the one that got turned into a vampire in VtM Redemption although Shakspearian dialogue and ye olde english would be laying it thick like he's a thespian.
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Roland is from Normandy in the 13th century, which is yes French in culture at least mostly, but he was a subject to the equally Norman English monarch, the idea of very elaborate courtly manners in french is the product of later history when French was the language of diplomacy, for right now the language of diplomacy... well as much as there is one or indeed need of one it is Church Latin because we are before the reformation much less any sense of nationhood in western Europe. The court of the king in London, or for that matter the Duke of Normandy speaks Norman, which is a sort of medieval french that has not yet mingled with the Anglo Saxon Old English to make Middle English.

Shapespear is basically readable to a modern audience, what Roland is actually speaking behind the translation convention, both English and French would not be, not without a whole lot of guesswork.
 
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X] "I am Sir Roland Verley of Normandy, sworn and leal servant to a king and land you will never know."
-[X] "We were cast here, ship and crew, from a world like this one and yet not, in time and shape and the presence of magic." Ensure that they understand that magic was not nearly as obvious back on Earth as it is here.
-[X] "After our arrival from tempest to calm seas, we eventually found our way to land where we faced strange creatures and then the risen dead that we paid a dear price in blood to put to rest."
-[X] "It was only after their souls were sent to Ikomi's grasp - and we had no understanding of the rite, only that the closest thing to a priestess present was adamant it must be done. That we began to truly understand how far we had been cast by whatever powers had seized our vessel."
 
I made an error above, Roland speaks Norman French and kind of speaks Old English (the language of the Anglo Saxons his people invaded more than 100 years ago) but he speaks it rather badly and that 'speaking Old English like a Norman' is basically how you get Middle English, which is kind of readable as long as you do not get into complicated things and do not mind non-standard spellings.
 
OK, vote closed, let's see how this goes off.
Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Nov 2, 2021 at 12:42 PM, finished with 35 posts and 10 votes.
  • [X] Fine, you asked - Part 1.
    -[X] "I am Sir Roland Verley of Normandy, sworn and leal servant to a king and land you will never know."
    -[X] "We were cast here, ship and crew, from a world like this one and yet not, in time and shape and the presence of magic." Ensure that they understand that magic was not nearly as obvious back on Earth as it is here.
    -[X] "After our arrival from tempest to calm seas, we eventually found our way to land where we faced strange creatures and then the risen dead that we paid a dear price in blood to put to rest."
    -[X] "It was only after their souls were sent to Ikomi's grasp - and we had no understanding of the rite, only that the closest thing to a priestess present was adamant it must be done. That we began to truly understand how far we had been cast by whatever powers had seized our vessel."
    -[X] "We were cast here, ship and crew, from a world like this one and yet not, in time and shape and the presence of magic." Ensure that they understand that magic was not nearly as obvious back on Earth as it is here.
    -[X] "After our arrival from tempest to calm seas, we eventually found our way to land where we faced strange creatures and then the risen dead that we paid a dear price in blood to put to rest."
    -[X] "It was only after their souls were sent to Ikomi's grasp - and we had no understanding of the rite, only that the closest thing to a priestess present was adamant it must be done. That we began to truly understand how far we had been cast by whatever powers had seized our vessel."
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Arc 5 Post 24: Wanderer's Tale
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    Fourteenth Day of Olweje-hamba (Olweje Descending) 1348 A. L. (After Landfall)

    "I am Sir Roland Verley of Normandy, sworn and leal servant to a king and land you will never know." It feels stranger to say that than you ever thought it would, familiar thoughts wrapped in foreign syllables of a world where there is no Normandy and no king in London, where there is no Verley keep weathered grey battlements rising to meet the sun... and yet the memory and the sorrow is strengthening also like old roots untouched by blood or frost. "We were cast here, ship and crew, from a world like this one and yet not, in time and shape and the presence of sorcery."

    "A world you say," the woman... the hunter cuts you off. "Strange that ones from another world in which you say there is little sorcery should find themselves by sorcery cast into this one. You must have among you a mighty sorcerer, one old and learned perhaps, come from a land where the bones of the past are close to the surface..."

    Who does she... Zaia, the realization comes abruptly. If one of the sailors would have to name a sorcerer among the first crew of your ship it would be he although you had long since laid any notion that he used magic in his salves and potions having seen the thing with your won eyes. "No," you speak firmly but without any rancor. "We had none among us who could even guess what had happened, save that the day had turned to night among the storm and when the clouds had cleared the stars were strange, a thing which we had first accounted for being on some distant corner of the world but in the end..."

    Though you are neither sailor nor astrologer moments of realization lapping like waves upon the shore that was near every certainty you had ever held about the nature of Creation are seared into your mind. You pass quickly over the mutiny and the discovery of Ripper before moving on seeking shore and finding it... and to the moment which had if not caused than at least precipitated war. "After our arrival from tempest to calm seas, we eventually found our way to land where we faced strange creatures and then the risen dead that we paid a dear price in blood to put to rest."

    Here Inge interjects with her own tale which after a nod from you she tells in full, or at least as close to full as she knows is, absent the suspicions Ohun had shared with you about her master meaning to slaughter the priests from the start.

    "It was only after their souls were sent to Ikomi's grasp - and we had no understanding of the rite, only that the closest thing to a priestess present was adamant it must be done. That we began to truly understand how far we had been cast by whatever powers had seized our vessel."

    "So you do not know what power cast you into an unfamiliar world in the midst of deadly peril?" the priest Anar asks again.

    "No," you reply sharply, hoping the man had not mean to name you a liar. Honor may demand restitution but it would be rather awkward to get it here of all places. Somehow you do not think a challenge to a duel would be taken with equanimity.

    "And yet you still sail upon that same ship, one which was by other accounts..." the hunter glances at Zuan and the man flinches. "Haunted." then swift as a striking serpent she twists about. "Strange then that you should invite the progeny of the vetala to your ship knowing the corruption that flows in her veins. For ones born of a world without magic you seem to be quite determined to collect it for good...." here she looks to the shield you had set down beside the table that you may be properly seated. "Or for ill."

    What do you do?

    [] Attempt to defend your connection to Esha (Diplomacy)
    -[] Write in

    [] Say that you could not leave her to die on the open ocean but you intend to part ways with her in Orinilu
    -[] Truthfully
    -[] Lie

    [] Write in

    OOC: And we are off into social combat. I'll be honest I was expecting physical and magical combat by now, but you have been keeping things together surprisingly well.
     
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