Kroe
07-25-02, 12:53 PM
last weekend we were gaming. The concept is basically the two other players were shipped off to this island to pacify it so the Baron could use it as a stopover point for trading ships ( they got into a bar brawl, accidentally kille d a few civil watch members). I was Shipwrecked when the ship transporting me ran into a storm and I washed ashore near where the other two were.
The island that was supposed to be about a mile or so across that they were to pacify has turned out to be SEVERAL miles across. on it are a group of indigiouness dragon men (sounds suspiciously like the DM was playing in Kunark too much to me but hey whatever). The dragonmen seem ok but a little on the primitive side, they told us that the "golden elves" from the next archipelego have been capturing and enslaving them since time began.
Now I thought they might be trying to just take us in (DM rolls all bluff and sense motive rolls) so we would fight elves for them. The dragon men allow us to return to our camp on the other side of the Island and await for the ship that is supposed to drop supply for the other two so we can try and hop on board and hijack the ship to escape.
While waiting (it's going to be about another 27 days so we are just fortifying our position now) we get payed a little visit by a pair of elves with a slightly golden shimmer to there skin. but here's the kicker. they flew in on a BLACK dragon.
Of course we saw the blacks so we hid thinking maybe the dragonmen really WERE telling the truth and I just blew a roll.The elves spot my girlfriend's character and go invis and whisper to her that they want to help. an illusionary boat ( I assume) materializes at the docks and they tell her to board it. I figure it is actually a slaver ship being disguised so I tell her and she attacks them. it's myself (half-dragon monk, one of my first non rogue char's heh) my GF (elven deepwood sniper prestige class) and our friend (kobold sorcerer...DRUNKEN kobold sorcerer I should say.)
The kobold starts laying spells onto the dragon while Janelle and I try to take out the elves. the dragon of course is fighting back but when we killed one of the elves the dragon suddenly got very confused as if waking from a stupor.
Unfortunately there was already a fireball headed for it, and as soon as it gets hit it starts attacking again.
We managed to take them al out, but suddenly we're not sure if the elves might not have been on the up and up and been mind controlling evil dragons to keep them from causing too much trouble.
Now the next problem. two days later a HUGE landing party of these dragonmen are spotted by Janelle off on the horizon, they have a dragon turtle with them and are heading at full steam. I'm trying to decid if they are attacking or coming to find the missing elves that there scouts might have spotted when the kobold and sniper start shooting at them. it's WAY too late for negotiation so we end up in full attack and manage to finish them off ( at the cost of the druid npc, only healer we had hehe).
now searching the bodies we notice these dragonmen are a slightly differetn color than the others. So now we don't know if they are aligned with the other dragonmen, the elves or a third contigent. We also aren't sure if the elves are evil slavers or the dragonmen are screwing with us.
of course then I am still trying to figure out wether to thank janelle for quick thinking in attacking the elves and the dragonmen, or smack her for getting us into deeper trouble.
What do you guys think? who's lying to us? Oh and the elves said they aren't slavers, but the whole dragon situation kind of puts that in bad light.
1 Crow bad news
2 Crows myrth
3 Crows a wedding
4 Crows a birth
5 Crows for riches
6 Crows a thief
The island that was supposed to be about a mile or so across that they were to pacify has turned out to be SEVERAL miles across. on it are a group of indigiouness dragon men (sounds suspiciously like the DM was playing in Kunark too much to me but hey whatever). The dragonmen seem ok but a little on the primitive side, they told us that the "golden elves" from the next archipelego have been capturing and enslaving them since time began.
Now I thought they might be trying to just take us in (DM rolls all bluff and sense motive rolls) so we would fight elves for them. The dragon men allow us to return to our camp on the other side of the Island and await for the ship that is supposed to drop supply for the other two so we can try and hop on board and hijack the ship to escape.
While waiting (it's going to be about another 27 days so we are just fortifying our position now) we get payed a little visit by a pair of elves with a slightly golden shimmer to there skin. but here's the kicker. they flew in on a BLACK dragon.
Of course we saw the blacks so we hid thinking maybe the dragonmen really WERE telling the truth and I just blew a roll.The elves spot my girlfriend's character and go invis and whisper to her that they want to help. an illusionary boat ( I assume) materializes at the docks and they tell her to board it. I figure it is actually a slaver ship being disguised so I tell her and she attacks them. it's myself (half-dragon monk, one of my first non rogue char's heh) my GF (elven deepwood sniper prestige class) and our friend (kobold sorcerer...DRUNKEN kobold sorcerer I should say.)
The kobold starts laying spells onto the dragon while Janelle and I try to take out the elves. the dragon of course is fighting back but when we killed one of the elves the dragon suddenly got very confused as if waking from a stupor.
Unfortunately there was already a fireball headed for it, and as soon as it gets hit it starts attacking again.
We managed to take them al out, but suddenly we're not sure if the elves might not have been on the up and up and been mind controlling evil dragons to keep them from causing too much trouble.
Now the next problem. two days later a HUGE landing party of these dragonmen are spotted by Janelle off on the horizon, they have a dragon turtle with them and are heading at full steam. I'm trying to decid if they are attacking or coming to find the missing elves that there scouts might have spotted when the kobold and sniper start shooting at them. it's WAY too late for negotiation so we end up in full attack and manage to finish them off ( at the cost of the druid npc, only healer we had hehe).
now searching the bodies we notice these dragonmen are a slightly differetn color than the others. So now we don't know if they are aligned with the other dragonmen, the elves or a third contigent. We also aren't sure if the elves are evil slavers or the dragonmen are screwing with us.
of course then I am still trying to figure out wether to thank janelle for quick thinking in attacking the elves and the dragonmen, or smack her for getting us into deeper trouble.
What do you guys think? who's lying to us? Oh and the elves said they aren't slavers, but the whole dragon situation kind of puts that in bad light.
1 Crow bad news
2 Crows myrth
3 Crows a wedding
4 Crows a birth
5 Crows for riches
6 Crows a thief