Age of Ice and Blood: A Pathfinder System Heroic Fantasy Quest
- Thread starter DragonParadox
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Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
It's basically a thinly veiled innuendo implying that the man was a violent thug who probably wasn't actually controlled by the Daemon into attacking us. The point isn't to actually blame Arram, but to give a plausible excuse for his actions against us without taking the blame ourselves.
- Location
- Russia
- Pronouns
- He/Him
In my opinion, it's not enough thinly veiled innuendo. I understood this as Roland accusing Arram in cooperation with daemons. Are you sure Kefefe will understand that it was innuendo? And I think he knows what kind of thug Arram was/is.
Also, you basicly refuse to targetly hunt Neverborn in this plan. Are you sure it is wise? Another city which succumbed to the anjo-oru plot will be... inconvinient. Especially the city with our base nearby (personally I would prefer to reallocate to Korman or build the second base, but still).
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
I think Kefefe would understand the gist of the statement.
As for hunting the Daemon, Orinilu is a huge, well organized city with plenty of authorities and multiple Hunter groups specifically trained and really empowered by the temple of Ikomi and rulers of the city to handle this sort of thing. We don't have any kind of authority and have other business to take care of.
If the Daemon messes with us, that's one thing, but we ought not to be trying to get into even more trouble than normal when this place actually has people to handle it for themselves.
- Location
- Russia
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Hunters also do not have proper authority. Also, we, as Fateless, can theoretically be more successful during the investigation.
But I think it's better agree to disagree at this point.
Vote's still all in ones and twos, I'll wait until something comes out ahead.
Travler66
Let her name echo in song!
- Location
- Beyond
@DragonParadox, my vote is Arhin's vote. It's just that he misspelt 'find'. My vote has the correct spelling.
[X] "Your man is a victim of the Neverborn, as far as I am concerned. Why else would he attack my men and I without provocation?" No need to outright say that Arram was a violent thug, after all. "That certainly isn't the first time I've seen them use their foul powers to tamper with the minds of men, or even the third time now that I think upon it."
-[X] "As for Neverborn responsible for this misunderstanding, I can assure you that we will attempt to contact you or another representative of the Purple if we encounter the creature of others like it, assuming that time and the situation allow for it. More allies willing to take up arms against the monsters is always appreciated. I have no plans to hunt Neverborn in Orinilu, however, so unless they interfere with the Fellowship before we depart on our next trade voyage, we may not encounter them for some time."
--[X] Before we leave, make sure to pass on to Kefefe what we know of Daemons, including the powers we've seen them use, the way they fight, and the best methods we've found of killing them. This is hardly secret information and he can probably confirm all of it independently without much trouble, but it shows that we are willing to share hardwon and potentially life saving knowledge. We also need to know better means of contacting Kefefe on short notice without drawing attention to ourselves or the Purple. A lot of trouble could have been avoided if we had known this a couple days ago.
-[X] "As for Neverborn responsible for this misunderstanding, I can assure you that we will attempt to contact you or another representative of the Purple if we encounter the creature of others like it, assuming that time and the situation allow for it. More allies willing to take up arms against the monsters is always appreciated. I have no plans to hunt Neverborn in Orinilu, however, so unless they interfere with the Fellowship before we depart on our next trade voyage, we may not encounter them for some time."
--[X] Before we leave, make sure to pass on to Kefefe what we know of Daemons, including the powers we've seen them use, the way they fight, and the best methods we've found of killing them. This is hardly secret information and he can probably confirm all of it independently without much trouble, but it shows that we are willing to share hardwon and potentially life saving knowledge. We also need to know better means of contacting Kefefe on short notice without drawing attention to ourselves or the Purple. A lot of trouble could have been avoided if we had known this a couple days ago.
Vote closed.
Arc 16 Post 8: Stepping on Air
Stepping on Air
Twelfth of Olweje-hamba (Olweje Descendent), 1349 A. L. (After Landfall)
It stings to admit fault for another's folly, but still better to do so now that argue with the lord of the Purple in his own house, he seems the sort of man who would take ill of any seeming disrespect when the blood of his leal, if slow-witted, underling still stains the earth. You've hunted things that walk in darkness before, you will do it again. "This is a foe we have faced before, we will bring it at bay."
"Good," the lord in ragged garb says. "Go 'round Dyer's Ditch and talk to Alurk, bring a pin if your nose's too fair for the place," he adds cryptically, though from the look on Tom's face it's some kind of paring shot.
Once you are out of earshot of Kefele he explains that Dyer's Ditch is famed for using fermented piss and Atum Salt to make the cheaper sort of purple dye that is cheaper that the sort that you can get out of snails. "Some of the noble folk I heard wear jeweled pins on their noses to keep the smell out, so they say round the winesinks and meadhalls at least."
"You seen a lot of winesinks since we've been here Tom?" you ask half in jest.
"More than I would have back home m'lord," he answers, gravely, the setting sun casts deep shadows in his craggy face. "D'you think we'll ever be rid of 'em?"
"What the Neverborn?" you ask, about to give him some lukewarm reassurance, but the words catch in your throat, ringing false even in your own head. "Probably not, but then back home we never thought we would be rid of wicked men and yet we didn't fall to despair did we? Things are just a little more clear in this world, the truth of the world a bit closer to the surface."
"Only you my lord would say that a world with so many tricks of the mind is more truthful," Tom laughs and shakes his head.
"Comes from wanting to take the enchantress to your furs," Wanderer offers sagely.
You open your mouth to reprimand him, realize that would be no more truthful that the reassurance you had cast aside and instead just point towards the end of the street: "What in the Devil is that?"
The buildings here were a touch taller than in other parts of Farshore, but sun-beaten wood and mud brick would only take you so high, three stories, still squat and unlovely along street that meandered like the path of a drunken goat, yet narrow as the path may have been you would not have wanted to walk across it with nothing but a narrow grey rope between you and the deadly fall to the beaten earth where a crowd of dozens gawked like... well you expect like you as the acrobat seemed to dance across the space, light as a feather on her feet.
In dress and manner the woman was far darker of complexion than most of the people of Orinilu and she wore leaf green garb far finer than the hardscrabble inhabitants of Farshore could afford to buy. Not that you could mistake her for one of the highborn with their flowing robes, instead they fit her like a quiver fit arrows, clearly meant for... whatever she was doing.
Curious you walk up to an older fellow at the back of the crowd and ask who she is and what she's doing. The gaffer is more than happy to explain. It seems the lady in question is an acrobat from Humbai, she had been invited to perform at the wedding of one of the most wealthy of the merchant houses, House Orel, but then she got into some kind of a row with one of the heirs of the house and was promptly banished from the festivities and, adding injury to insult, she was forbidden from taking on a contract with any of the other ruling houses... though by ancient law only the Regency Council itself could banish her from the city outright... so in what one can only think of as a remarkable act of spite she's decided to perform out here for the commoners of Farshore.
You would have walked on, smiling a touch more mayhap at the odd happenstance if you did not also happen to hear the name of the noblemen who had made the scene... Bragi, the fellow who had been a sore loser over a game of semin last year. It looks like you share if not an enemy with the lady than at least an annoyance and you do know what it is like to be a stranger in a strange land. On the other hand being too hospitable has cost you not so long ago.
What do you do?
[] Invite the acrobat to stay in Wayfarer's Rest
[] Carry on
-[] Search for hunters to try to catch the neverborn's trail
-[] Move on to one of your other actions, the dark spirit will not be easily caught (Write in which)
[] Write in
OOC: Well that was an unexpected random encounter to get right off the bat.
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Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
Whew, good to be getting back on track, if with a slight dose of random encounters for a bit of spice.
I'm paranoid, but I kinda have a good feeling about the acrobat.
@DragonParadox, my mind is drawing a blank; what other tasks do we have here in Orinilu other than getting started on the horse breeding project? I forgot.
[X] Invite the acrobat to stay in Wayfarer's Rest
I'm paranoid, but I kinda have a good feeling about the acrobat.
@DragonParadox, my mind is drawing a blank; what other tasks do we have here in Orinilu other than getting started on the horse breeding project? I forgot.
[X] Invite the acrobat to stay in Wayfarer's Rest
Whew, good to be getting back on track, if with a slight dose of random encounters for a bit of spice.
I'm paranoid, but I kinda have a good feeling about the acrobat.
@DragonParadox, my mind is drawing a blank; what other tasks do we have here in Orinilu other than getting started on the horse breeding project? I forgot.
[X] Invite the acrobat to stay in Wayfarer's Rest
Vote's here, though not all of it is in the city.
