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Thureen Buroch
Learned Scribe
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 Posted - 02 Jul 2005 : 16:59:19
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This scroll shall describe the quest of the Wood Elf ranger Heian Galanodel to find seven pieces of an artifact which has powers unknown to him. The first piece was given to him by his grandfather, a powerful, ancient wizard, who, upon giving this golden dagger to his grandson, died.
Heian’s grandfather also gave him a scroll written in Draconic, a language unknown to him. Heian’s quest began, and the details of his quest shall be recorded below.
I, the GM, shall post the details of his quest in postings that begin with the word Details. These details shall include footnotes on my decisions about his quest.
The second type of posting that I shall post shall be questions to other GM’s that begin with the word Question. These questions shall include questions about Realmslore and GM’ing style. Please, I ask only two things of you: respond to my questions, and enjoy reading the details of Heian’s great quest.
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Thureen Buroch
Learned Scribe
169 Posts |
Posted - 02 Jul 2005 : 17:00:22
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Heian is a wood elf ranger who seeks to spread goodness and justice throughout the world. The scroll that his grandfather gave to him with the golden dagger was written in Draconic, a language unknown to most wood elf rangers, and Heian was no exception. He knew, however, of a hermit who lived in the High Forest, just a few miles from his own home in a wood elven town in the southwestern High Forest. He had heard that this hermit was a druid and a scholar of draconic lore. He set out through the forest to find this hermit, his longsword and shortsword drawn, staying alert, as always. He had recently burned down a gnoll village after rescuing elven slaves that had been taken by the gnolls. He did not want to risk having an angry gnoll ambush him from the trees, its battleaxe swinging.
He got to the hermit’s hut without trouble. The most threatening creature he saw was a brown squirrel that chattered at him from the safety of a treetop. When he knocked on the door of the hut, the door swung open, and he was greeted by a small man with tangled hair. This man beckoned Heian into his abode and said, “What is it that you seek, young one?”
“I was given this scroll by my grandfather, who died as he gave it to me,” said Heian, presenting the scroll to the man. “It is written in a language that I do not speak. I heard that perhaps you could translate it.”
“Aye, the language of the great drakes. Yes, yes, I can translate it, but for a price.”
“I have gold aplenty,” said Heian. “How much do you want?”
“It is not gold I seek, but rather, the ingredients for a potion I seek to make. I need three special berries. They look like grapes, but larger. These berries have a purple skin, but orange meat inside. If you bring me these berries, I shall translate this text for you.”
“I shall bring you the berries. Where can I find them?” In all of the years he had been a ranger, Heian had never seen anything like what the old man described.
“You can find them in the heart of a labyrinth, infested with minotaurs. You must go through a series of caverns and tunnels to get to that minotaur labyrinth. The entrance to the caverns lies in the side of a small cliff, a mere mile and a half northeast. You must go through three miles of the caverns and tunnels before entering the labyrinth.” The old man beckoned Heian outside, then made a shriek like that of a hawk or eagle. An eagle flew down from a tree. The old hermit spoke to it, in the language of the birds, then the eagle flew into the air. “My eagle,” the old man said, “Shall guide you to the entrance of the cave. The series of tunnels and caverns runs nearly in a straight line. However, there shall be two times when the caverns will fork off, and you will have to go either left or right. At the first fork you must go left, and at the second you must go right. Understand?”
“Left, then right,” said Heian, committing the man’s words to memory.
The eagle, who had been circling in the air, flew northeast, and Heian followed.
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Thureen Buroch
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 02 Jul 2005 : 20:43:09
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After about two hours of walking through the thick forest, following the eagle, who was just barely visible above the tops of the trees, Heian came upon a small cliff, thirty feet high. In the bottom of the cliff was a cave, with a dark entrance like the huge maw of some great beast, some five feet in diameter. The eagle alighted on the ground by the cave entrance, gave a loud shriek, then flew into the air, heading back the way Heian had come.
Heian walked into the cave.
It was fairly dark in the cave, but not so dark that he couldn’t see. He unsheathed his shortsword, a magically enchanted blade that he had received from a magical weapon dealer as a gift for having returned stolen magical weapons to this dealer the previous Marpenoth. The blade shone like a torch, and Heian walked through the cave. The cave turned into a narrow tunnel, which in turn widened into a large cavern, then narrowed back into a tunnel. After walking another mile through this tunnel, it widened into a cavern again. This cavern was about thirty feet wide and forty feet long, and at its end, Heian could see to tunnels leading from it, one going to the right, the other going to the left. As he walked into the cavern, something dropped onto his head. Heian felt like a blanket of thick leather was being wrapped around his head, but he was able to pull it off.
The battle with the cloaker was brief. The cloaker moaned, a sound that brought terror to Heian’s heart, but he held firm. The cloaker’s tail slapped hard against Heian’s stomach, a painful blow, even through his mithril shirt. Heian’s blades, though, soon finished off the beast, before it could make a meal out of him.
Heian took the left tunnel leading out of the cavern and walked another mile before coming upon a cavern with three large pillars of stone in the middle. As Heian walked around the pillar at the far end of the tunnel, which was also the largest of the pillars, about seven feet in diameter, three phaerlin giants jumped out at him from the shadows. The ensuing battle was also brief. Heian took some injuries, but his blades severed the life from the giants.
The cavern ended abruptly, rather than narrowing into a tunnel. A large hole in its far wall, six feet tall and nearly five feet wide, opened into a low tunnel that forked into two tunnels after fifteen feet. Heian took the right tunnel.
This tunnel was nearly a mile long. Heian had to stoop to walk through it, and if he had stretched both of his arms out to the sides, he would have had no problem touching the tunnel walls. Suddenly, Heian noticed, the walls of the tunnel looked rather smooth, like they had been hewn out of the stone with heavy tools, rather than carved out of the stone by flowing water and other natural forces. The ceiling suddenly got higher. Whereas before he had had to stoop, now the ceiling was so high off the ground that he would have needed to have jumped to have touched it. Fifteen feet after this point, the tunnel stopped, and another tunnel with similar hewn walls and the same high ceiling intersected it.
He had reached the minotaur labyrinth.
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Heian Galanodel's Quest
