Out Of Character

[waysoftheearth]

So... The staff and mace can be used as weapons?

Staves and maces are on the weapons list, so I don't see why not.

[mushgnome]

Interestingly, Highbough never chose the Ire Spear. (The weapon chose him!)

[doctorx]

Doc, Josiane has the staff, right?

Yes. It's strapped across her back.

[ehiker133]

So... The staff and mace can be used as weapons?

Staves and maces are on the weapons list, so I don't see why not.

True. I didn't know if they were more like just decorative or if they were sturdy enough for such use.

[waysoftheearth]

Interestingly, Highbough never chose the Ire Spear. (The weapon chose him!)

It was actually Koch who first picked it up in thread 19 from a weapon rack in a gatehouse garrison room.

Koch was an active player throughout threads 19-23 and mentions the spear occasionally. I explicitly qualified Koch's spear as the gatehouse spear (the location it was found in) in thread 23.

Koch's player was MIA throughout thread 24, and I appear to have "spoken for Koch" (in his player's absence) once in that thread. In thread 25 Koch officially became an NPC.

In the opening combat of thread 25 against a bunch of demons (conjured from where?) both Koch and Highbough threw their spears and then resorted to other weaponry for the remainder of the melee. Neither mentioned retrieving his spear after the combat.

Koch (by then an NPC) never mentioned a spear again, but Highbough inexplicably retained a spear thereafter. Which spear was it?

The company arrived back at Ket in thread 29, and I mentioned that Koch was keen to return to his family. The last mention of Koch (still in NPC mode) was in thread 33 where he guarded the company loot at an inn while the players went about their business in town. Thereafter he vanished from play.

Meanwhile, in thread 30 we had a breakdown of all the loot the company recovered in that adventure. The following item was included:
* A beaten old spear from the garrison room (Highbough)

Highbough and Ulric researched the properties of the spear, and on November 27th, 2011 (while we are at the tail-end of thread 30 in-game ) I wrote a PM to Mushgnome entitled "The Spear" which was effectively the result of an identify on it. From that point onward Highbough had, and was aware of, Godehard's Ire Spear.


A curious tale, is it not...?

[ehiker133]

Quite the fun tale, to be sure!

[sully]

How can you read stories like that and not fall in love with this game? Such a rich history.

[waysoftheearth]

The real question is; what other demon-kind have ever been encountered in this game?

[ehiker133]

The real question is; what other demon-kind have ever been encountered in this game?

Eh? Crap, I hope this isn't some kind of cryptic clue. If it is, it's totally lost on me. My brain is still addled by pain pills...

[sully]

waysoftheearth wrote:

"Screw it!" Dieter says, striding forth. He goes down the stairs straight ahead (to the right as you look at the map). His sword is drawn.

Does anything attack him?

Dieter marches fearlessly off to his left (as he leaves the stair) while the others on the dais hold their breath. Three strides down the steps. Four, five, six strides into the room, and there is a certain tension but and no hidden foe leaps out to attack...

(1d6)

...seven, eight strides and Dieter is almost half way to the door arch when out of nowhere there comes an eerie heat into the room! Suddenly it is fierce so that all present must squint to shield their eyes, and then there is a great lurch of vertigo and an accompanying whhhhump! and the heat is instantly gone, leaving only a cloud of char and burning embers and smoke enveloping the perimeter of the room.

(1d6=3) The wary company are hardly surprised when the statues seems to collapse out of the room revealing steaming hot alcoves that momentarily glow with red heat -- but (1d6=5) the grotesque, steaming figures that come staggering in from the carnal fires seem momentarily bewildered. The tongues of flame in the alcoves and upon their flesh burn quickly down to nothing but a hissing and smouldering, but it scarcely seems to have harmed them...

Dieter's fault, obviously.