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Sundays!

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Total Members Voted: 22

[Leafsnail]

I think Maelrigar might've just taken out the miniboss in a single hit from his granite fist.

[The Fool]

The conclusion that most of us came to on  the question of ethics is that we will turn the necromancer in for money and I will witness his execution (or be really angry if there isn't one).

Here is the Doctor's journal (I intended for it to read like a scientific observation journal).

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As we approached the tomb of the necromancer we were attacked by reanimated undead soldiers. During this encounter I quickly discovered that taking notes during a conflict with such a large group no matter how brief is an impossibility due to the high number of unpredictable variables. Unlike most other opponents that I have faced the undead seem to perish when rendered immobile and can therefore not be questioned directly should they speak a recognized language. I will have to consider another method of note taking for such events with the undead.

Upon entering the necromancer’s room it became apparent that the walls were covered in magical script and symbols, I have included a drawing of a wall section for further analysis. Should I become able to read such a text my knowledge of death will surely be greatly bolstered. The necromancer was subdued and tied up, and his skeleton comrades destroyed. Hopefully he can answer some questions as to the meaning of the symbols and the concept of undeath which may very well serve as a forward into my paper on undeath; clearly this is depending on the necromancer’s breadth on the scientific aspects of necromancy which I am sure he is well versed in. However should he become aware of the plans of the other’s intentions to turn him in to the authorities he may become weary of my questioning.

When we decided to set up camp inside the tomb I began to prepare two pieces of meat. Upon offering the meat I discovered that the orcish member of our group is a vegetarian. I have never personally understood such actions as to refuse an entire food group in order to gain a pseudo-superior morality over another. Perhaps I should attempt to understand such ideas, as it may blind me to an aspect of life and death should I reject it outright.

Hopefully the necromancer can answer some of my questions either in his short remaining life or his short and sudden death.

Also am I assuming that the doctor has always been with them or is it that I just randomly poof in with no prior knowledge of the group? If so, it is day 4 of this journey.

[Heron TSG]

Gee, I try to mutilate one necromancer and you guys start thinking I'm a Chaotic Evil jerk instead of an honorable (and vegetarian) orcish sorcerer. I'm disappointed. Seriously, I even brought cookies.

[Shoruke]

Maelrigar, Mystellar, and Alrad all levelled up.
The necromancer was defeated, tied up, arms broken, and maintained at negative hit points.
Character journals are worth 100 exp * character level for all who participated.
Game master gives deliberately succinct descriptions so that character journals tell the real story.

[RAM]

We once again ventured into the tombs, and were able to overcome the skeletal guards and reach a central chamber. Within we encountered more skeletons and what appeared to be a necromancer. We bested our opposition with great effort, but relatively little risk, after my orcish friend rendered the human unconscious. We now find ourselves debating what to do with them...


P.S.
 They are clearly just someone who took things a little too far. I am confident that they can be reeducated rehabilitated into the scholarly community and have much valuable information that would surely be lost were they to permanently die...

[Pillow_Killer]

Uh, his arms are not broken. We tied him upppp and gagged him.
Also, you were going to TORTURE the guy for NO REASON while he was completely DEFENCELESS. Thats CE shit right there.

[Heron TSG]

There's a reason for that, Pillow Killer. Maelrigar comes from a tribe of orcs. Orcs (in most settings) are usually LE, NE, CE, or CN. I went for Chaotic Neutral because that's the best one I could get without going 'rogue' like the ubiquitous 'Drizzt' clones. Also, necromancers are his mortal enemy because they make people not dead that should have been dead. Orcs are spiritualists, and thus violating the spirits of the dead is going to bring some pain. Besides, he was only defenseless because I made him defenseless. The torture wasn't too tortuous either, he was already unconscious.

[The Fool]

Maelrigar will have to just settle for the fact that he will die fairly soon. Also torturing or pointlessly harming him without stating why seems VERY CE, your point is valid but just explain yourself in game. Just saying.

P.S. Pillow_Killer is right, the arms aren't broken, just the fingers are.

[RAM]

K, personal enmity towards necromancers makes things much more coherent.

[Pillow_Killer]

I said we didnt break anything YET. DOnt get me wrong, Im all for torturing people painfully, but they gotta give us a reason for it first. Such as trying to cast a spell or not talking.

[Shoruke]

I'll tentatively schedule a session for Saturday, same time of day as the last one. That's 9:00 PM GMT Saturday October 30.

[Shoruke]

((Credit to Lord Shonus for this idea))

As of now, the characters who aren't available for a session will be able to use the amount of game time that passed during the session to do... stuff.

For instance, during the session we had on Sunday, the group used 8 hours to sleep. So, for the characters who weren't present during the session will have 8 hours to make crafting checks or use item creation feats; for instance, Corina would have enough time to scribe a Scroll of Something.

This will be especially useful in this game, due to our "lots of players, lowered attendance ratio"; the players that miss stuff can make a few coins on the side, or restock on potions/arrows/etc without spending copious amounts of game time to backtrack to the Civilized Lands.

[Lord Shonus]

Glad I could help.

(posting this here because we share so many players)
Please note that I have instituted the same system in my campaign, and have given everyone a week.

[Leafsnail]

Session today?  And if so, when?

[Shoruke]

Session is in 2 hours, 20 minutes.

CRIPES but it's hard to get the scale of this world map right...