NOTW XXIV - The Age of Despair (Caravan Thread)

[Methos]

{Yep. Firefox at home and work requires us to use IE. Thanks!}

 

[thomas.berubeg]

Voting is closed. post up within i couple hours.

 

[thomas.berubeg]

My apologies.

I hadn't reallized it was tuesday. I have AP review in a few mins... Stories are half done, so they'll be up later.

 

[Terrance888]

OOC: So I die for trying to get to the Warcamp?

I am always Directs: was trying to hand a weapon to a captain that will, say, decharge when handled by others. To late.

 

[thomas.berubeg]

I want Night orders. I am not at my computer, but I'll compensate by fiting both night and day in this update.

I'm sorry

 

[CCRunner]

Do we find out if Charli was innocent any time soon? That could influence some night actions and stuff. And do I get to know anything about my new sword?

Edit: Thomas has been suitably harrased using the new visitor message system

 

[thomas.berubeg]

I have some bad news, followed by some Good news.

I am finding it hard, insanely hard, to be at my computer to write up the update. (for example, now i'm at the ambulance building.)
However, Renata has Kindly agreed to take on some of the load. (Yay for Renata)

Sorry for all of you who thought this was the update

 

[Renata]

I'm going to help with write-ups, and if thomas and I can get our ducks in a row by then, you'll have the update by sometime Monday. I don't expect to be able to keep up with the high level of FfH knowledge, so I hope you can all live with that.

(thomas, you still have my email, right? I'll need all the PMs re-sent if you can, but, you know, all the rest of it. )

 

[thomas.berubeg]

I'm going to help with write-ups, and if thomas and I can get our ducks in a row by then, you'll have the update by sometime Monday. I don't expect to be able to keep up with the high level of FfH knowledge, so I hope you can all live with that.

(thomas, you still have my email, right? I'll need all the PMs re-sent if you can, but, you know, all the rest of it. )

I should still have your email.

I'll compile everything for you this weekend.

 

[Renata]

I'm sorry to report I haven't received anything from thomas yet.

Thomas, I can't help you if I don't get some minimal assistance, sorry.

 

[thomas.berubeg]

give me a chance to be home, though... Sorry.

 

[thomas.berubeg]

Let Chand do his. I'll start this again, when I have the time to commit to it really... (and to be honest, my lack of time is not something I could have predicted)

 

[Seon]

Que Lastima! What a shame

 

[thomas.berubeg]

Spoiler :

Yes.

Bannor Squad:

The Fall of Kwythellar was disastrous. All the survivors knew it. Around them, the ground darkened and the vegetation turned to ash and dust. From the burning ruins of the city, fell cries hounded the regiment, forcing it out into the open.

Fearing an attack, the Bannor bared their weapons, but all was silent. Moving back fearfully, the regiment formed up, making ranks around those members needing protections.

The surviving clerics silently prayed, their faith shaken. They prayed for safety and protection and healing…

As they left the outskirts of the city, the Regiment settled, making its camp in a hidden hallow.

They knew they had to decide where to go, where to escape…

NIGHT OF THE WEREWOLVES XXIV – THE AGE OF DESPAIR…

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1) Crusader – Backwards logic
Male (Bannor)
Strength: 2 (+1 Sword)
You are all that is left of your Glorious regiment. You, a Central member of the 144th, survived out of shear luck. When the chasm collapsed, you were off to one side of the line, relieving yourself. Instead of falling and dyeing with honor in hell, you are now stuck here alone with your shame. However, you have not forgotten your Oath. You WILL kill demons, and you WILL protect the Innocent.
Ability: PM me 2 names who you want to protect in the eventuality of Outside demonic attack on route.
Item: Sword (+ 1 strength)
Escape Goal: None

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2) Adept – PaulusIII
Female (Amurite)
Strength: 1
You are a, aside for a an Adept and the War Mage’s Apprentice, also a sister of Sirona. This affinity to Spirit magic allowed you to sense that something was… off about one or more of the survivors of the regiment.
Ability: Each night, you may scan a member of the regiment, searching for unholy taint.
Item: None
Escape Goal: Escape to Lanun Lands

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3) Confessor – Nictel
Male (Bannor)
Strength: 1
The Confessor is among the highest in the hierarchy of the Order, Drawn from the most faithful and competent of the church of Junil, confessors are taught to draw out every taint of hell, though this takes much preparation and time.
Ability: You may, once, remove the Taint of hell from someone during the night. Though this procedure may kill the person, though better dead than corrupted, right?
Item: None
Escape Goal: Escape to Bannor Homeland

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4)Rationeer – LightFang
Female (Bannor)
Strength: 1
Rations, Rations, Rations, bah… There was a time when you were the greatest Chef in Torrelerial… but then you got involved with the Ratcatcher’s guild, and then all went to Hell in a handbasket. They own you heart and soul, and they’ve forced you to do unspeakable things for them… murder, theft, etc… and now they want you to steal Valin’s Sword itself, and give it their representative in Kwythellar…
Ability: Theft: you can steal items. You can use them, but the only one you really want is Valin’s Sword…
Escape goal: None, but finding the refugee caravan would be nice

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5)Medic – D’artagnan59
Female (Grigori)
Strength: 1
As a medic, your goal in life is to heal people. As a Grigori, well… Um… Nothing really. You believe in the gods, and even follow one, something most Grigori would disapprove of. Your Goddess Amatheon appeared to you in a dream, telling you to join the Bannor crusade, as your skills would be needed.
Ability: Able to heal one injury every two nights.
Escape Goal: None

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6)Swordsman – Diamondeye
Male(or not) (Demon)
Strength: 4
For eternities, you lay in the Pits of hell, suffering, slowly loosing your humanity and being twisted into a form suitable for the purposes of Agares. Finally, after an eternity fighting in camulos’s hell, struggling for supremacy, you were chosen to join the invasion of Erebus. Almost as soon as you left erebus, you found a freshly dead bannor swordsman who you promptly possessed. You know it is in your best interests to kill as many mortals as possible. You and your fellow Spirit, who’s infested the Prior, have as a duty to Kill as many of these Bannor as Possible.
Ability: you are a wolf. Do I need to explain?
Escape goal: DEMONIC VICTORY

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7)Scout – Sepuku
Male (Sheim)
Strength:1
Scout? Hahahahahaha… Funny! You are a Sheim Summoner, a feared Eater of Dreams. Cloaking yourself in illusions, you infiltrated this regiment, knowing that the Infernal would also have Spies and agents within it. You need to find them and bind them to your will.
Ability: With a (Willing) Sacrifice, you can summon a demon into one other person in the game. (not your sacrifice.) Also, if you ever come into contact with the demons, you will be able to bind them to your will.
Escape Goal: Demonic Victory

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8)War Mage – Shadowbound
Male (Amurite)
Strength: 1
You are an Agent of Dain the Caswallen himself. Though even your apprentice knows you as simply another Battlemage in the Amurite lines, you are in fact a prize member of the Amurite intelligence service. Your mind magic lets impose your will on others, but you’ve been shaken by the battle. This was not the way it was supposed to go.
Ability: You are immune from any outside attacks.
Escape Goal: Get out of this with your Apprentice (the Adept)

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9)Archivist – TheForestAuro
Male (Bannor)
Strength: 1
Why they wanted an Archivist in this battle, you have no idea. But the church decided you were needed, and so you went. Now that it is over, you still don’t know why you were necessary, as you did nothing but get in the way during the battle.
Abilities: None
Items: Miscallaneous papers, maps, etc…
Escape goal: None

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10) Prior – BananaLee
Male (Demon)
Strength: 4 (3 – night 2)
This is the ideal guise for a demon. Who would ever suspect a poor, unassuming Prior of harboring a demon? Heh…. No one. And I this guise, you and the swordsman, another demon, will be able to decimate this poor regiment. Hahahaha
Ability: You can sacrifice one point of strength to allow your team to Kill one extra person that night
Escape goal: Demon Victory

11) Guardsman – Renata
Male (Half Orc Bannor)
Strength: 2 (not until healing)
Your heritage as a half orc has given you some odd looks over the years, but it has also given you some advantage over the others in the guardsman business. You are Stronger, Faster, more cunning than anyone else. However, you suffered an injury during the battle, and as such are unable to fully use your abilities.
Ability: Protect one person per night
Escape Goal: Clan lands (you heard rumors of a revolution and that they are now being led by and a risen Angel of Bhall)

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12) Private – the13thRonin
Male (Bannor)
Strength: 1 (+2 Sword)
You are the Private. The grunt. You do what you are told, and are happy with it. Kind of sucks, don’t it? But still, being the grunt has served you well. See? You have a shiny new sword that was given to you by general Phanuel as he lay dieing in the ashes of kwythellar…
Abilites: none
Items: Valin’s Sword (+2 strength)
Escape goal: None

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13) Archer - Chandresekhar
Female (Angel)
Strength: 1
You are an angel, a member of the Elite legions of Basium. Though you shed your angelic form to infiltrate this Regiment (as your Lord Basium knew that the Sheim would surely try something like this.) Your duty will be to kill as many demons as possible. And, if some bannor get in the way, that’s just too bad for them.
Ability: On the death of a demon, you are able to call angelic wrath on two players in the game. (PM me the names the night after the death)
Escape Goal: None

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14) Servant - WinstonHughes
Male (Bannor)
Strength: 1
You the servant, eh? That means you serve people… but it also means you are unnoticed by most… which means you can do many things that others wouldn’t see.
Item: Poison Vial. (allows a random amount of poisonings, which will kill the person. Every time you use it, though, you have a 50% chance of running out.)
Escape Goal: None

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15) Camp follower Niklas
Female (Kuriotates)
Strength: 1
As a camp follower, you have one main duty. And that is keeping the men happy and entertained… as such, you know many of their secrets, and where to hit them where it hurts the most…. You cook, clean, sleep, etc, for the men…
Ability: Injure… you can injure one person every 2 nights.
Escape goal: none

Caravan:

The Caravan of refugees from the greatest of all Kuriotate cities ran (at least as fast as a caravan of random, disaparate members can run) from the Shiem forces. All were convinced that the evacuation was temporary, that the Bannor would push back the invasion, and that they could return to their easy, simple lives of municipal politics.

To wait out the attack, they settled in a small copse of wood, lighting fires, preparing food and settling into the bourgeois comfort they expected. Their small fires kept at bay the growing fog, and the chanting coming from the city had a soothing tone to it.

Then, shocking even the most complacent out of their reverie, from the city came a deep rumbling, shaking the refugee’s bones in their sockets. From the city came a chorus of howls and moans, coursing through the air.

One of the centaur guards galloped to the top of the ridge, and turned pale. He turned back towards the other refugees. “gather what you can in your wagons! The forces of hell are Upon us. Woe! It is our Doom!”

NIGHT OF THE WEREWOLVES XXIV – THE AGE OF DESPAIR…

Spoiler :

Dwarven Merchant Clan
Under Kilmorph, Family solidarity is the most important thing, after hard work. Everything within the family is shared, to the benefit of the rest of the family. But should one turn from the family’s well being, then, nothing would protect them from the wrath of the affronted dwarves. That being said, does the disease afflicting the youngest in the family really matter, on the whole? As long as the family is safe, such foibles are not important.
Dwarven Family attribute: should any member of the family vote against another member, that member will have two votes against them, automatically
Money: 40 gold, to be distributed as you wish among the family

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1 Patriarch - Splime
Male (Khazad)
Strength: 1
You are old, so very old. You remember the exodus from the underhome, as you accompanied Arturus Thorne in his exile. As such, everyone respects you. Or at least, everyone who knows how old you are.
Ability: your vote counts twice:
Escape goal: none

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2 Matriarch - CCrunner
Female (khazad)
Strength: 1
You are the heart of this family. While the patriarch is the head, you are the heart and soul of the family. What you say goes.
Ability: You are able to change the vote of one family member 3 times
Escape Goal: None

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3 Mother – Firestorm94
Female (khazad)
Strength:1
Not all dwarves have a mind for money as great as yours is. All dwarves are able to count among the masters, but you, you are amazing. Money is worth more in your hands, and some have called you Goldfinger
Ability: your gold is worth twice as much as anyone else’s
Escape goal: none

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4 Father (hammerhand) – King morgan
Male (Khazad)
Strength: 2 (+1)
You are a disciple of Kilmorph, and have felt the calling since your childhood in the mines of the Underdark, when the rocks spoke to you of the Secrets of Kilmorph. You joined the order of Kilmoph, and have since become a Hammerhand, a wielder of the law of Kilmorph
Item: Hammer of Kilmorph (Strength +1)
Escape goal: none

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5 Son - Mergle
Male (Khazad) - werewolf
Strength: 3
The curse has been with you since your childhood. You remember it clear as day. You were wandering through the under levels of the mines, when you found a statue of a wolf. Touching it, you fainted. When you awoke, your entire settlement was dead except for your family.
Ability: lycanthropy
Escape Goal: werewolf victory.

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Sisters of Sirona – the circle
Your Chapter knew of the fall before hand, and you three were chosen, as the greatest of the Sisters of Sirona of Kwythellar, to accompany this caravan, which was Scryed to have the greatest chance of Survival, as it’s greatest plague will not be an infernal one but an Animal one, a bestial infection.
You each have a role, which you will act out for Sirona’s glory. Your roles are pretty much dependant on each other, though. Do not let each other die.

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1 Clotho - Seon
Female (human)
Strength: 3 (but only while the others are alive. You loose a point of strength for each death)
You See. You know. You are they eyes of your circle.
Ability: Scrying (send me a name, and you will receive an answer on their innocence)
Escape goal: None

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2 Lachesis - Rhawn
Female (Elvish)
Strength: 3 (but only while the others are alive. You loose a point of strength for each death)
You Decide. You are the wisest of the sisters, and it falls to you to make decisions based on what Clotho sees.
Ability: you decide whether Atropos should act. You may also direct Clotho’s gaze to the other thread. She will then receive the latest update from that thread.
Esacpe goal: none

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3 Atropos – Stuck in Pie
Female (Orc)
Strength: 3 (but only while the others are alive. You loose a point of strength for each death)
Where Clotho sees and Lachesis decides, you act. You are the will of the Circle. If they decide someone should die, you enforce their will.
Ability: You can PM me a name, and that person will perish by the grace of Sirona. Your ability to act is dependant on Lachesis’s decisions (she says to act, you act.) but you must not necessarily strike the person she directs. You have some free will.

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Sidar - oyzar
1 Male (Shade)
Strength: 0 (but not dead)
Rathus Denmora, you are known. You do not remember that past, only the present. You serve your lord Arawn, and that is all you need. And your lord needs souls. But not just any soul. Powerful souls to fuel his war against the other gods, to establish his supremacy over all domains.
Items: Netherblade ( can increase your strength per “influential death” influential death = a death of a villain, or the leader of the group.)
Escape goal: none

Centaur Guards

Spoiler :

1 Guard Captain - J-Man
Male (Centaur)
Strength: 2
You were born and raised in the Slums of Kwythellar, far from the Rolling plains of your ancestry. What this means is that from childhood, the traditional Military aptitude of your race was channeled in you as a propensity against the darker sins of municipal life. And you see this as a chance to purge this caravan of it’s darker elements.
Ability: you are able to detect that a theft has happened the night it does (but nothing more precise)
Escape Goal: none, but you wish to remove the elements of the Ratcatcher’s guild working here.

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2 Guard - IceKommander
Female (Centaur: werewolf)
Strength: 3
You met the youngest son of the dwarven clan in a Bar. A bar fight, of course, as he is a dwarf. You took him back to the Station, but as you brought him, he cried and begged for long hours in his cell. Then, as the moon rose over the station, he stoped struggling and fell limp. You went in to see what happened, and he turned at you, his body shifting into that of a Wolf. Only in stories told of the Age of Ice had you heard of such things, but here it was.
Ability: none
Excape Goal: Werewolf Victory.

Balseraph Carnival:

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1 – Ring master - methos
Male (balseraph – Loki (secret!))
Strength: 1
The years spent training to become a ring master were spent under the tutelage of the Lauhging man himself. Nobody knows, but everybody suspects that the travelling carnivals are the Belseraph secret intelligence… all are changed by the chaotic and joyful influence of the carnival. And your abilities as an entertainer are legendary, though no one knows you are loki himself.
Ability: Chaos: every 3 nights, you are able to choose one of the groups and have their votes randomly switched to another person.
Excape goal: None
Money: 10 gold

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2 Freak – Izipo
Male (Freak/ Illian)
Strength: 0
You are an Illian, captured in infancy by a balseraph raid. Your natural resilliance to ice made you a natural attraction at the carnival, where you spent years. For long years, you despaired of the frozen land you barely remember, but, last year, you heard rumors of a great ritual completed far to the north. And then the dreams started: dreams of a frozen wasteland of joy, ruled benevolently by your lord, Mulcarn.
Ability: The white hand. For every player you convert (they have to PM me they are converting to the hand) you gain a strength point.
Escape goal: Illian lands.

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3 Lion tamer. - Ozbenno
Female (Balseraph)
Strength:1
Your title is lion tamer, but that means nothing… you can tame much, much more than Lions. You have always had a natural rapport with all manners of Wild beasts, ever since your family was killed by wildbeasts. Which you had directed, out of spite. Your parents were holding you back, and so they needed to be gone. And you discovered the pleasure of sensless death!
Ability: Control of the wolves. If you know who is one, you can direct their kill.
Excape Goal: None

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Kuriotates Civilians
1) Street Sweeper – Charles Li
Male (Kuriotate)
Strength: 1
Sweeping the streets really lets you get into the lower elements of Kuriotate city. Which is just fine, as you are the Ratcatcher’s guild’s head in Kwythellar. You were waiting, when the order came to evacuate, for an envoy in the Bannor regiment. She was supposed to steal the sword of Valin Phanuel, but you were unable to get to her to get the sword.
Ability: none
Escape Goal: Find the Bannor regiment

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2) Clan Diplomat - Adrogens
Male (orc)
Strength: 1
You are an envoy from the Court of the Angel Brigit. Her take over of the clan initiated a new day for your troubled people, a rise from barbary. The sheim invasion put a gimp in your plans to bring the Kuriotates into the fold of Brigit’s Glory. But you’ll do what you can.
Abilities: none

Escape Goal: Clan lands

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3) ZPV
Female (Lanun – Human)
Strength: 1
You a great captain, lord of your ship, but no more. You lost a gamble with Falamar, and serve him well, now. He won your ship, but promised to give it back should you complete a small task for him… and you accepted. Which is why, a year past, you arrived at kwythellar to find the Tears of the Aifons, a legendary gem all thought lost. You tracked it and eventually found it. Now, to get it back to falamar…
Items: Tears of the Aifons
Excape goal: Lanun lands
Money: 10 gold

Note: New Werewolf randomly created by Centaur as Insurance against Son

Spoiler :

Special Guest: Love

Dreamer of the Deep
Male (human, maybe? Maybe elf? Your not quite sure anymore)
Strength: 1
Your not too sure who you are anymore. The first clear memory you have is of fire burning through a wall of water, of your lungs drying out. Then darkness again. When you awoke for the second time, everything was much clearer. You were lying in the burned out husk of what appeared to have once been a grand building, with a rather organic shape. You lay in a pool of evaporating water. As you got up, you saw that your arms and body were tattooed with a pattern of coiling tentacles, climbing up you limbs to the base of your shaven head.
As you climbed out, you heard a chorus of voices calling you, telling you to lie back down. As you prepared to obey, a sharp voice cut harshly through them, calling them to silence. Then it spoke to you, calmly, lovingly, almost.
“Go, Son, Go… travel out of the city. You will be protected. Find the survivors, and join yourself to them.”
Ability: you may read both threads. (overlords sending you dreams.) After you join them, you will be able to read all PMs sent by any two players per night to the GM (me!)
Escape goal: Find one of the two groups (actually… they will be joined at that point, so… (secret, that, don’t tell anyone))

Special Rules:

Bannor:
3 escape routes:

Torrelarial – 3 outside attacks

Clan Lands – 1 outside attack

Lanun Lands – 2 outside attacks


Caravans:

Illian Lands – 0 outside attacks

Lanun lands – 2 outside attacks

Clan lands – 1 outside attack


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