Sunday Savage Tide/GURPS - Charlottetown

[bytor]

Is this Sunday (May 4th) GURPS or Savage Tide? I should be able to make it this week. I'll keep you posted here.

[bytor]

Are we playing GURPS or Savage Tide this Sunday (May 17th)?

[Oxybe]

luis is working, so no GURPS.

[bytor]

Who else is available tonight? I've been thinking lately that Sunday probably isn't the best night for me, considering I've had to cancel numerous times in the past few months. Are there any weekday evenings that everyone is available? Tuesdays, Thursdays?

[Oxybe]

any night is fine with me, as they tend to give me the 10-7 shifts with the odd 1-closing once or twice a month to mix things up.

[tzimiscechef]

bytor... Who the hell are you? Huh? Just who the hell are you to be going around with the name Bytor? Huh? What do you have to hide? Seriously? OUT WITH IT DAMN YOU!! Or do you fear me? As well you should. FEAR ME!! ALL OF YOU SHALL FEAR ME!! HAHAHAHAHAAA!!

[bytor]

Bytor! Knight of Darkness! Centurion of Evil! The Devil's Prince!

...bytor

[tzimiscechef]

I don't buy it. You're the Devil's bunny rabbit...

[bytor]

I was speaking with Tom last Friday and I wouldn't mind taking a break with Savage Tide for a while to play in the Borderlands campaign. Since Tom isn't available this Wednesday, however, I'd like to run Savage Tide on Thursday of this week and see if we could possibly finish the second module before we take a break in the campaign. I'll try to post a cast of NPCs here too.

[bytor]

The Savage Tide Rogues' Gallery - A Cast of Characters

Here follows a register of the poor souls, malcontents, reluctant heroes and evildoers you have had the pleasure of making acquaintance on your travels in and around Sasserine.

Captain Harliss Javell
Female human
Location unknown – first met at Kraken Cove
Tall, bold beauty with raven-black hair and deeply tanned skin. Wears tight leather armour studded with fire opals and pearls and wields a curved rapier and dagger. Harliss has a gruff demeanor and speaks with a heavy accent. She has clearly spent much of her life among pirates, and commands respect amongst other seadogs. You encountered Captain Harliss at Kraken Cove, where you assisted her in dispatching a number of her former crew who had “turned savage” after Vanthus Vanderboren smashed a black pearl on the deck of her ship and let loose a mysterious plague in the vicinity. Harliss wished you luck in rescuing the lady Lavinia from her vengeful first mate, Drevoraz, before bidding you farewell.

Ender Ellers
Male human cleric of Istus
Sunrise District (4) - Shrine of Istus
Average height, mostly bald with his remaining grey hair tied in a long ponytail. Ender's weathered countenance betrays a storied past; his eyes are a cold blue. Ender is the only cleric in residence at the Shrine of Istus and is partial to the PCs after the minor miracle that occured with the raising of Croan. Most priests of Istus are content to merely observe events as they occur. Ender, however, belongs to a splinter sect of Istus' clergy - one that encourages its members to act and participate in events as they wish, theorizing that the actor would not consider an act that was not fated to occur. An extreme heretical offshoot of this sect preaches that fate is not predetermined but is recorded by Istus at the time of its passing. This sect believes, therefore, that sentient creatures are possessed of freewill to determine their own fates, and pay homage to Istus as the archivist of fate, rather than its predeterminer.

Jilanth Turtoso
Male gnome
Sasserine – encountered during the Wormfall Parade
Round-faced with curly, light-brown hair and a patchy beard. Jilanth is normally one of Sasserine's more docile citizens, but becomes an unholy terror once he gets his third drink in him. At the Wormfall Parade he was seen wearing a ridiculously huge wide-brimmed hat with a large peacock feather, stumbling through the streets with a flagon in one hand. His half-orc friend, Kurgol, does his best to keep Jilanth from starting fistfights with everyone in his path.

Kaskus Kiel (Jade Ravens)
Male dwarf druid
Met leaving the Vanderboren estate en route to Cauldron, to the south
Dark-skinned, sour expression, severe square-cut beard. Wears green and brown robes and clutches a long curved spear. You met Kaskus and the other members of the Jade Ravens, another party in Lavinia’s employ, very briefly during your first visit to the estate. The Jade Ravens were originally in the employ of Lavinia’s parents.

Kora Whistlegap
Female halfling expert
Merchant District (79) - Vanderboren Manor
Grey-haired, slight, wizened. Patient, efficient, devoted to Lavinia. Suspicious of Vanthus.

Kurgol
Male half-orc
Sasserine – encountered during the Wormfall Parade
Stoic, clean-cut (for a half-orc), wearing a well-kept suit of hide armour. Kurgol had a few flagons during the Wormfall Festival, but held his liquor better than his friend Jilanth. Kurgol thankfully intervened when he found Jilanth trying to pick a fight with Thamiol.

Lavinia Vanderboren
Female human aristocrat/swashbuckler
Merchant District (79) - Vanderboren Manor
Attractive dirty blonde, average height, young. Wears fine, classically-designed clothing while attending guests in her estate – long, flowing dresses with gold brocade – but keeps it practical when about in Sasserine or going about her daily duties. Lavinia speaks with authority and has grown into adulthood quickly in the last weeks. She is gradually pulling the affairs of her parents’ estate together and has finally paid off the last of their many debts. Her behaviour is generally cautious and guarded, but she is unusually frank with Croan, and may be developing a romantic interest. Lavinia still grieves after the recent deaths of her parents and now seeks vengeance upon her lecherous brother, Vanthus.

Liamae Teslikaria (Jade Ravens)
Female human sorcerer
Met leaving the Vanderboren estate en route to Cauldron, to the south
Attractive brunette, chin-high, haughty expression with a crescent moon tattoo on left cheek. Wears dark purple robes. You met Liamae and the other members of the Jade Ravens, another party in Lavinia’s employ, very briefly during your first visit to the estate. The Jade Ravens were originally in the employ of Lavinia’s parents.

Nada Sidonia
Female human
Shadowshore District (15) - The Velvet Hatch
Emaciated, looks as if she never sleeps. Slightly blue-stained lips. Accusatory and generally untrustworthy, for some reason she decided Meryll was someone she could confide in. Nada is the one who leaked information to Meryll about Vanthus and Brissa Santos being seen together in the Shadowshore district during your original search for him.

Nemien Roblach
Male human
Currently at large
Lanky, middle-aged with a gold tooth. Former proprietor of the taxidermy shop in the Merchant District. Looks down on his customers. Blunt, pleasant enough as long as he thinks visitors are going to buy his wares. Otherwise, he is quick to anger. Nemien ran from Sasserine after revealing the location of the Lotus Dragon thieves’ guild to Meryll.

Panchi
Male dwarf
Shadowshore District (23) - It Still Floats!
Thin for a dwarf, missing index finger on right hand. Pessimistic, but flirtatious with attractive women. Owner of the It Still Floats! boat shop in Shadowshore. Panchi hasn’t forgotten the rude interruption Kith visited on his boat shop in the dead of the night, whether he is a ‘hero’ of the city or not.

Rowyn Kellani
Female human rogue/bard
Currently at large
Beautiful, with long red hair tied back in a ponytail and sparkling green eyes. Moves with an unsettling grace. Has a lotus tattoo on her left shoulder, and an intricate dragon tattoo on the other. Confident and opportunistic. She likely rankles at being bested by the party. Member of the Kellani noble family and former guildmaster of the Lotus Dragons.

Tolin Kientai (Jade Ravens)
Male human ranger
Met leaving the Vanderboren estate en route to Cauldron, to the south
Tall, handsome, shoulder-length blond hair. Wears a polished breastplate and carries a bastard sword. You met Tolin and the other members of the Jade Ravens, another party in Lavinia’s employ, very briefly during your first visit to the estate. The Jade Ravens were originally in the employ of Lavinia’s parents.

Zan Oldavin (Jade Ravens)
Male half-elf rogue
Met leaving the Vanderboren estate en route to Cauldron, to the south Jaunty, short-cropped receding brown hair. Wears leather armour and is armed with a half-dozen daggers of differing shapes. You met Zan and the other members of the Jade Ravens, another party in Lavinia’s employ, very briefly during your first visit to the estate. The Jade Ravens were originally in the employ of Lavinia’s parents.

Zasker Grankus
Male human barbarian/fighter
Champion's District (K2) - Zelkarune's Hall
Muscular, shoulder-length blond hair, always smiling. Jovial and charismatic. Never has a bad word to say about anybody. Known as the "reformed barbarian". Head of the Zelkarune's Horns mercenary company. Admires Kith’s martial spirit.

Vanthus Vanderboren
Male human
Unknown
Your prey. Glimpsed one solitary moment time from the bottom of a dank pit on Parrot Island, where Vanthus imprisoned you with a murder of flesh-eating corpses and vomit-inducing urchins from hell. His crimes and heinous deeds grow with each passing week – most recently with the unleashing of a deadly and abyss-tainted plague within shaded and jungle-dark Kraken Cove.

[bytor]

Did I forget any NPCs in the list above? Gut Tugger, I forgot about him, oh and the thief you captured. I'll add both of them to the list soon.

[bytor]

Is everyone up for Savage Tide this Thursday (June 12th)? If we finish the Bullywug Gambit fast enough we could even play a couple rounds of Keep on the Shadowfell!

[bytor]

Everyone up for resuming the Savage Tide this week? If so, which day is better, Wednesday or Thursday?

FYI, anyone who owns Stormwrack, read the narrative combat rules, ship stat info (esp. for the caravel) and various other sea-based rules in that book. I'll be certain to miss things if I try to keep track of it all myself.

[bytor]

Turns out I won't be able to do Thursday. Is everyone okay with Savage Tide this Wednesday? Unless Tom wants to continue with Keep on the Borderlands, of course.