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LordBucket

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Re: TSG: The Hero's Wife
« Reply #45 on: September 19, 2013, 02:16:06 am »

What curse? I missed that mention.

This curse:

Seeking to escape the family curse he left town

Which explains why:

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Your father was killed trying to ward of the Kracken
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your mother died during childbirth
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Your eldest sister Kila ended up working the brothel for a few years before she lost her beauty and vitality and was kicked out into the streets. She died, likely of ailment she picked up from a dwarven sailor
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Your cousins Loki II and Alred, Loki's sons, were killed trying to break their father out of jail. Their skulls still hang on the jailhouse gate.
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Your paternal grandmother killed herself over the news.
You haven't had any contact with full blooded adult humans since you were but a little girl, and
even now you half expect to awake at any moment and find yourself in the wet, dark, den of the Kracken.

It also explains why:

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Uncle Loki alluded to the fact that he was the only member of your family still alive

Despite the fact that:

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Your other sister Helga abandoned the family and married one of Mr. Trilby's sons.
She lives in a lofty house in Goldbooks, Prince Tiber's seat of power
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The only bright spot is your twin brother Lenny, who passed his rites of rage and became a proper berserker. Seeking to escape the family curse he left town

And, of course, despite the fact that we're married to a famous, well-loved hero, and everyone is being very nice to us. Obviously we're alive, and obviously we've escaped the curse, just like Helga and Lenny have. We have three living family members, plus Koro, who are all alive and living well, but "Uncle Loki," (seriously, guys: Loki? Talk about estranged family members we don't want to be associated with) nevertheless he claims that he's the only living family member. Clearly he identifies with the family curse, and in his view, anyone who has escaped the curse and is living well doesn't count as family anymore. This guy is living the curse, and he's trying to trick us into helping him perpetuate it.

We don't want to have anything to do with this guy.

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Re: TSG: The Hero's Wife
« Reply #46 on: September 19, 2013, 03:13:25 am »

Curse doesn't necessarily mean anything to do with magic, as far as we know it's simply the family's bad luck.
I agree, though, that helping Loki is not a good idea... yet.
Once we've actually settled back in to human society, we might actually be able to do something without just making things worse.
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Re: TSG: The Hero's Wife
« Reply #47 on: September 19, 2013, 05:45:28 am »

"Uncle Loki," (seriously, guys: Loki? Talk about estranged family members we don't want to be associated with)
I was trying not to bring that up, but...well, what're the odds?
And while we're at it, Koro is...I forget exactly what, actually, and I don't want to screw this up, but let's just say that in some Asian or Polynesian vernacular people would be a bit surprised at our son's name. Although to be fair, there are a lot of "koro"'s out there in islands and whatnot...
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Re: TSG: The Hero's Wife
« Reply #48 on: September 19, 2013, 08:27:52 am »

but "Uncle Loki," (seriously, guys: Loki? Talk about estranged family members we don't want to be associated with
It might mean 'close' as in the ending(thus stay away) or it might just mean 'air' or freedom(so free him for goodies).
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Re: TSG: The Hero's Wife
« Reply #49 on: September 19, 2013, 10:21:49 am »

What curse? I missed that mention.

This curse:

Seeking to escape the family curse he left town

Which explains why:

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Your father was killed trying to ward of the Kracken
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your mother died during childbirth
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Your eldest sister Kila ended up working the brothel for a few years before she lost her beauty and vitality and was kicked out into the streets. She died, likely of ailment she picked up from a dwarven sailor
Quote
Your cousins Loki II and Alred, Loki's sons, were killed trying to break their father out of jail. Their skulls still hang on the jailhouse gate.
Quote
Your paternal grandmother killed herself over the news.
You haven't had any contact with full blooded adult humans since you were but a little girl, and
even now you half expect to awake at any moment and find yourself in the wet, dark, den of the Kracken.

It also explains why:

Quote
Uncle Loki alluded to the fact that he was the only member of your family still alive

Despite the fact that:

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Your other sister Helga abandoned the family and married one of Mr. Trilby's sons.
She lives in a lofty house in Goldbooks, Prince Tiber's seat of power
Quote
The only bright spot is your twin brother Lenny, who passed his rites of rage and became a proper berserker. Seeking to escape the family curse he left town

And, of course, despite the fact that we're married to a famous, well-loved hero, and everyone is being very nice to us. Obviously we're alive, and obviously we've escaped the curse, just like Helga and Lenny have. We have three living family members, plus Koro, who are all alive and living well, but "Uncle Loki," (seriously, guys: Loki? Talk about estranged family members we don't want to be associated with) nevertheless he claims that he's the only living family member. Clearly he identifies with the family curse, and in his view, anyone who has escaped the curse and is living well doesn't count as family anymore. This guy is living the curse, and he's trying to trick us into helping him perpetuate it.

We don't want to have anything to do with this guy.

Can't beleive i didn't notice that...still we should ask around about trilby and the sex trade.

BTW how does the beloved heroes wife go around asking that sort of information?
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Re: TSG: The Hero's Wife
« Reply #50 on: September 19, 2013, 11:06:21 am »

Ask what happened to our family.
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Re: TSG: The Hero's Wife
« Reply #51 on: September 19, 2013, 10:57:51 pm »

What should we do about the corrupt captain and the merchant though? They were the ones who did horrible things to our family after we were taken and they got away with it! Is there no justice?! They could have even brought the curse upon our family!

We should ask the sorcerer in our husband's party to look into this curse business for us, in case there really IS a curse.
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Re: TSG: The Hero's Wife
« Reply #52 on: September 19, 2013, 11:58:48 pm »

Summer - 65 Days Until the Season Changes:

Perfect timing. The somewhat reclusive Killman is found enjoying a brief lunch in your dining room upon your return. You try to ingore the fact that she is eating some sort of pickled eyeball dish and engauge the sorceress in conversation.

You start right off the bat by asking if she would support the proposed quest to go after the Kracken. You touch briefly on your fear that the beast will try to avenge it's brother, and mention that you would hate to see someone else go through what you did.

The sorceress considers your words briefly before rejecting them outright. "I think it is important that your rings be blessed in a timely manner. The gods might think you and Alred are not serious about the marriage if you put it off."

With a shocked look on your face you look into the strange woman's eyes. You haven't known Killman for all that long, but she had already made very clear her distaste for sentimentality, the gods, and the institution of marriage. Something is fishy.

You decide to change the topic for the time being, and bring up Coro, asking if he could get some magic lessons. You point out that he is clever and already knows how to read.

As you plead your son's case a huge, almost wicked, grin spreads across Killman's face. "My poor, bumbling, hick of a housewife... Sorcery is magic that you are born into. To be a half Kracken and not a sorcerer would be a terrible waste of one's heritage. I had intended to see the boy taught whether or not you permitted it."

You cringe and try not to take it personally. Killman is cruel to everybody, even friends. Alred told you once that was just who she was. Still... you find the fact that she is willing to go behind your back about your own son more than a bit disturbing, but you do your best to mask that concern from your face.

"So, you'll give him lessons then?"

Killman sneers. "To ask somebody of white witch blood to tutor somebody with Kracken Blood would be to ask a pig to teach a cow how to be a cow. I am incapable of teaching him anything, but I don't blame somebody as simple as yourself for not knowing that... We need to find Koro a mentor with ancestry similar to his own... or at least one with ancestry connected to the sea in some way."

The sorceress goes on to explain that the real reason she wants the Soul Peak job is so that she can visit some temples and ask around for somebody who could be brought to Crab Port to teach your kid. Among the many temples in the sacred towns are ones representing the gods of Sorcery, Monsters, and The Sea. Killman reckons that visiting any of those temples would be the best way to start such a search.

You attempt to bring up your family story and potential curse next, but Killman is reluctant to even talk about it. This makes you nervous. You remember when bandits attacked the camp while Alred and the others were escorting you back to town just after rescuing you: Alred killed most of them, and Killman said she put a hex on the ones that escaped so that they would likely lead short miserable lives. Could she or somebody like her have done the same to your family?

Koro enters the house and jolts you from your anxiety. He drags behind him a small shark, about half his own size, that you suspect he caught himself while swimming. Then again, you wouldn't put it past him to steal from a fishing boat either...

The boy flops down in a chair and begins to eat his catch raw. You know your son's appetite. He will only be able to finish a tiny fraction of a fish that big in one sitting.

You ask him how his morning went, and he informed you that he followed 'new daddy Alred' on his ride down the coast by swimming, and impressed him by catching a shark and beating him back to town. He then launches into a likely fabricated tale about battling Sea Hags and visiting a sunken ship full of cursed gold. After a few minutes he finishes with his lunch and heads downstairs to bug Travon in his lab.

Neither Killman nor yourself has any idea as to if Alred plans to come home for lunch or eat at the tavern. You also now have a slightly eaten shark that will go bad if you don't do something with it soon. What do you want to do next?

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Re: TSG: The Hero's Wife
« Reply #53 on: September 20, 2013, 01:15:41 am »

I think it's possible the reason she is unwilling to commit to killing a kraken is because she wants that to be a potential option in teaching our son magic.
If it won't matter to Koro I think we should have us some shark stew. An experiment in cooking. If it's awful we throw it out and eat more leftovers.

While we do that maybe we can play guessing games with Koro, sort of like twenty questions, limber up eachother's minds a bit.

I'm not sure what exactly makes him so adorable, but he is =3

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« Reply #54 on: September 20, 2013, 02:27:13 am »

Take Koro and the shark to the embassy and do that cooking lesson. We get our cooking lesson, the dwarves like us because we're bringing them food, Koro gets to spend time with people, and everybody eats together.

Accomplishes several of our goals at once.

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« Reply #55 on: September 20, 2013, 06:17:29 am »

Take Koro and the shark to the embassy and do that cooking lesson. We get our cooking lesson, the dwarves like us because we're bringing them food, Koro gets to spend time with people, and everybody eats together.

Accomplishes several of our goals at once.

This sounds good to me. +1.

Who knows whether having Koro learn magic is a good idea...  :-\
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Re: TSG: The Hero's Wife
« Reply #56 on: September 20, 2013, 08:22:49 am »

Killman needs to be dealt with sometime. We are not going to be pushovers forever, and if she's going to do stuff to OUR kid without OUR permission then she's got another thing coming.

Still, I agree with taking the shark and Koro to help learn cooking with the dwarves. It'll keep him occupied, teach us useful skills and let both Koro and ourselves socialize with people again. And yes, Koro somehow is adorable. He kinda also gives me a mental image of Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean, which is awesome too.

Before we leave, head down and while we fetch Koro ask Travon what he thinks the group should do. Also, remind Killman that we are going to keep looking into the possible curse on our family with or without her help. While it would be greatly appreciated if she would give a helping hand, if she doesn't and is somehow involved by some bizarre circumstance, then it would look pretty bad for her if she didn't try to at least help. Just saying.
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Re: TSG: The Hero's Wife
« Reply #57 on: September 20, 2013, 08:53:47 am »

If the shark goes bad tell koro tell sell it to fisherman as chum. Ya'know that chopped up fish stuff that fisherman put in the water to lure fish?
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Re: TSG: The Hero's Wife
« Reply #58 on: September 20, 2013, 09:11:12 am »

Take Koro and the shark to the embassy and do that cooking lesson. We get our cooking lesson, the dwarves like us because we're bringing them food, Koro gets to spend time with people, and everybody eats together.

Accomplishes several of our goals at once.
This sounds good to me. +1.
+1, but don't bring Koro if he doesn't want to come.

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Re: TSG: The Hero's Wife
« Reply #59 on: September 20, 2013, 11:49:31 am »

why just teach him? what's he gonna do fish humans?
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