Sunday, July 29, 2007
quick update
I have been remiss in my duties. Since we started we have picked up a new player, he is an Urban Ranger Archer currently semi possessed by the spirit of his father. They have fixed the clock tower and the Goblins are citizens. Their friend Fred Cooperson is a captive of Dr. Feegus and before they could rescue him they were thrown into an attempt to stop a Chaositech machine from waking the Galchutt. They succeeded, and in their attempt freed Skeevin from his curse. Which showed them that the strange mage was really an Angel in service to a god of travellers. They also managed to kill off their old enemy the half-orc Blacksmith. They hired the Vai to do the dirty work in the hopes of turning evil against evil. Now the Vai are peeved, as they lost 13 assassins in the attempt. Turns out the blacksmith was a Shapeshifting aberration in service to the Pactlords. The goblin cleric has turned red and the mage is permanently enlarged due to interaction with a Pit of Insanity. They are now preparing to free Fred Cooperson.
Friday, March 23, 2007
Log 3
(still) 5th of Sun 721 IA
Upon reentering the clock tower they notice the stairs up to the second floor have been collapsed. Luk casts stoneshape a couple times to build a small stairway to the trapdoor leading to the second level. They send Link up first and he enters the room and immediately is fired upon with pistols by a group of bird men (Kenku) nesting on this floor. Link slams down his tower shield to provide a little cover for the rest of the group as they climb up. A short and brutal gunfight breaks out and the group is surprised by the amount of damage Nug can dish out. The bird men fall, but then from the third floor 2 half man/ half spider creatures descend and attack. These disgusting creatures look like stitched together spider centaurs, Luk immediately recognizes they were created with chaositech! As the spider monsters attack a new threat shows itself by coming through a secret door to the outside. A winged woman enters the fray and starts singing. Link drops his weapons and starts walking towards her. Nug shoots a hail of bullets at the Harpy, silencing her song. Link is then able to help kill the spider creatures. (They killed everything on this floor in like 3 rounds. Repeater rifles with rapid shot can be brutal, even small sized ones)
Next, the 3rd floor
Upon reentering the clock tower they notice the stairs up to the second floor have been collapsed. Luk casts stoneshape a couple times to build a small stairway to the trapdoor leading to the second level. They send Link up first and he enters the room and immediately is fired upon with pistols by a group of bird men (Kenku) nesting on this floor. Link slams down his tower shield to provide a little cover for the rest of the group as they climb up. A short and brutal gunfight breaks out and the group is surprised by the amount of damage Nug can dish out. The bird men fall, but then from the third floor 2 half man/ half spider creatures descend and attack. These disgusting creatures look like stitched together spider centaurs, Luk immediately recognizes they were created with chaositech! As the spider monsters attack a new threat shows itself by coming through a secret door to the outside. A winged woman enters the fray and starts singing. Link drops his weapons and starts walking towards her. Nug shoots a hail of bullets at the Harpy, silencing her song. Link is then able to help kill the spider creatures. (They killed everything on this floor in like 3 rounds. Repeater rifles with rapid shot can be brutal, even small sized ones)
Next, the 3rd floor
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Log 2
5th of Sun 721 IA (very very early morning)
The group drags the barrels out into the street in front of the clock tower. They gather them together with the corpses of the undead they killed and pour oil on the pile. As it starts burning a light snow begins to fall and 2 lizard men vagrants wander up to warm themselves by the fire. As the group discusses their next move a unit of the City Watch walks up and demands to know what is going on. They eye the goblins warily as Link moves forward to address them. Link shows them his papers and explains that they have undertaken investigating the clock tower on behalf of the Delvers Guild. The watchmen then send a runner for their captain to get advise on how best to handle this situation.
With the arrival of Watch Captain Van Mach things start to get sorted out. The group quickly realizes that Van Mach is no regular captain, he is adorned in wands, scroll cases and his main weapon appears to be a staff crackling with energy. He immediately recognizes Link as a construct and realizes the goblins are in charge not servants or slaves. But Van Mach strikes a deal with them and agrees to help them (goblins) get citizenship if they can clean out the tower. He has been having trouble with the chaos cultists in old town for a while and welcomes the help in dealing with them. He posts guards outside and tells them not to let anyone enter the clock tower without his or the goblins permission. He then gives the goblins a few days to take care of things.
With the approval of the watch bolstering them the goblins and Link go back in to figure a way into the second floor of the tower…..
The group drags the barrels out into the street in front of the clock tower. They gather them together with the corpses of the undead they killed and pour oil on the pile. As it starts burning a light snow begins to fall and 2 lizard men vagrants wander up to warm themselves by the fire. As the group discusses their next move a unit of the City Watch walks up and demands to know what is going on. They eye the goblins warily as Link moves forward to address them. Link shows them his papers and explains that they have undertaken investigating the clock tower on behalf of the Delvers Guild. The watchmen then send a runner for their captain to get advise on how best to handle this situation.
With the arrival of Watch Captain Van Mach things start to get sorted out. The group quickly realizes that Van Mach is no regular captain, he is adorned in wands, scroll cases and his main weapon appears to be a staff crackling with energy. He immediately recognizes Link as a construct and realizes the goblins are in charge not servants or slaves. But Van Mach strikes a deal with them and agrees to help them (goblins) get citizenship if they can clean out the tower. He has been having trouble with the chaos cultists in old town for a while and welcomes the help in dealing with them. He posts guards outside and tells them not to let anyone enter the clock tower without his or the goblins permission. He then gives the goblins a few days to take care of things.
With the approval of the watch bolstering them the goblins and Link go back in to figure a way into the second floor of the tower…..
Sunday, January 7, 2007
Gidon the Steelhand
Gidon the Steelhand
Gidon the Steelhand is a minor goblin god of technology. His history can be found here . Gidon is a Neutral Good god with the domains of Good, Technology, and Knowledge. His favored weapon is a dragon pistol
Gidon the Steelhand is a minor goblin god of technology. His history can be found here . Gidon is a Neutral Good god with the domains of Good, Technology, and Knowledge. His favored weapon is a dragon pistol
Goblin Tech Priest
A Goblin Tech Priest is a variant on the Cloistered Cleric from Unearthed Arcana
The Tech Priest spends more time than other clerics in study and prayer and less in martial training. He gives up some of the cleric's combat prowess in exchange for greater skill access and a wider range of spells devoted to knowledge and technology(and the protection of those).
The Tech Priest spends more time than other clerics in study and prayer and less in martial training. He gives up some of the cleric's combat prowess in exchange for greater skill access and a wider range of spells devoted to knowledge and technology(and the protection of those).
Hit Die
The tech priest uses a d6 for his Hit Die (and has hit points at 1st level equal to 6 + Con modifier).
Base Attack Bonus
The tech priest's lack of martial training means that he uses the poor base attack bonus.
Class Skills
The tech priest's class skill list includes Disable Device, Open Lock, Speak Language, Knowledge ( machines), and Knowledge (engineering). The tech priest gains skill points per level equal to 6 + Int modifier (and has this number x4 at 1st level).
Class Features
The tech priest has all the standard cleric class features, except as noted below.
Weapon and Armor Proficiency
Tech priests are proficient with simple weapons and with light armor.
Lore (Ex)
Thanks to long hours of study, a tech priest has a wide range of stray knowledge. This ability is identical to the bard's bardic knowledge class feature, using the cloistered cleric's class level in place of the bard level.
Deity, Domains, and Domain Spells
All known tech priests worship Gidon the Steelhand, a minor goblin god. But they could worship other gods of technology as well.
In addition to any domains selected from his deity's list, a tech priest automatically gains the Technology domain as a bonus domain (even if the Technology domain is not normally available to clerics of that deity). He gains the Technology domain granted power and may select his bonus domain spell from the Technology domain or from one of his two regular domains.
Turning Undead
A tech priest does not turn undead, instead they get the Create Ironborn feat for free at 3rd level. They get this feat even if they do not meet the prerequisites
Log 1, the days leading up to the taking of the Clock Tower
3rd of Sun 721 IA
After the decimation and scattering of their friends Lukugk, Link, and Nug decide to try a different path to financial stability and eventual citizenship. They let Jevicca know that they were done with the Banewarrens and Pythonese house after the debacle a few days earlier where their friends were lost. She said she understood and suggested they try the Delvers Guild for some work, she would continue to work with Fred Cooperson and his group on the Banewarrens problem.
4th of Sun 721 IA
After a restless night in a seedy inn the small tattered group makes it's way to the Delvers Guild headquarters and starts asking around for any jobs that need doing. They here a few interesting rumours, but the one that jumps out at them is about the Clock Tower. Apparantly at one point in time the catacombs below it had been an easy way to get into the dungeons and then to the Giants Staircase. But in the last few months Delvers stopped using it, as they were coming up missing or developing a mysterious rotting disease after entering the tower. Then, on the 6th of Yearsend the Clock Tower had it's doors locked and a condemned sign put up. The goblins got to thinking it would look good for them to clean up the tower and maybe even get the long stopped clock to work again. They were, after all, a very tech savvy tribe of goblins. So they started making preparations to enter the tower that night and do a little investigation.
Later that night, under cover of dark, they arrived at the Clock Tower in Oldtown. After listening at the door and hearing nothing Link smashed it down. Inside the filthy room they see several barrels, a desk and chair and 2 rune covered corpses standing in the corner by the stairs leading up to the 2nd level. Immediately the corpses lunge forward with axes in hand. Link takes up a defensive position in the middle of the room as Nug circles and fires her repeater rifle. The corpses manage to score only one hit on Link before they are brought down be the combined gunfire of Luk and Nug. Luk recognizes the runes on the now lifeless corpses as symbols of chaos. Suddenly the stairs in the corner collapse and a trapdoor slams shut over the opening in the roof! Content to let whatever was up there hide for now the group searches the first floor.
In the barrels they find a weird solution and strange fleshy masses, Luk says it's organic chaositech. In the desk they find some gold and a strange "recipe" book for growing the organs. It also mentions several chaos "machines" being built around the city to help bring about something called the "Night of Dissolution". The group decides to keep the book and burn the rest. (We ended the session here)
After the decimation and scattering of their friends Lukugk, Link, and Nug decide to try a different path to financial stability and eventual citizenship. They let Jevicca know that they were done with the Banewarrens and Pythonese house after the debacle a few days earlier where their friends were lost. She said she understood and suggested they try the Delvers Guild for some work, she would continue to work with Fred Cooperson and his group on the Banewarrens problem.
4th of Sun 721 IA
After a restless night in a seedy inn the small tattered group makes it's way to the Delvers Guild headquarters and starts asking around for any jobs that need doing. They here a few interesting rumours, but the one that jumps out at them is about the Clock Tower. Apparantly at one point in time the catacombs below it had been an easy way to get into the dungeons and then to the Giants Staircase. But in the last few months Delvers stopped using it, as they were coming up missing or developing a mysterious rotting disease after entering the tower. Then, on the 6th of Yearsend the Clock Tower had it's doors locked and a condemned sign put up. The goblins got to thinking it would look good for them to clean up the tower and maybe even get the long stopped clock to work again. They were, after all, a very tech savvy tribe of goblins. So they started making preparations to enter the tower that night and do a little investigation.
Later that night, under cover of dark, they arrived at the Clock Tower in Oldtown. After listening at the door and hearing nothing Link smashed it down. Inside the filthy room they see several barrels, a desk and chair and 2 rune covered corpses standing in the corner by the stairs leading up to the 2nd level. Immediately the corpses lunge forward with axes in hand. Link takes up a defensive position in the middle of the room as Nug circles and fires her repeater rifle. The corpses manage to score only one hit on Link before they are brought down be the combined gunfire of Luk and Nug. Luk recognizes the runes on the now lifeless corpses as symbols of chaos. Suddenly the stairs in the corner collapse and a trapdoor slams shut over the opening in the roof! Content to let whatever was up there hide for now the group searches the first floor.
In the barrels they find a weird solution and strange fleshy masses, Luk says it's organic chaositech. In the desk they find some gold and a strange "recipe" book for growing the organs. It also mentions several chaos "machines" being built around the city to help bring about something called the "Night of Dissolution". The group decides to keep the book and burn the rest. (We ended the session here)
Monday, January 1, 2007
The Current Group
Player Character's
Frank- Lukugk Oozeater: Male/Clock Tower Goblin/ Tech-Priest 7
This character dropped turning to gain the Create Ironborn feat from the Book of Iron Might. He now has Link: Ironborn/ Fighter 5/Bodyguard 1 as a cohort.
Megan- Nug Oozeeater: Female/Clock Tower Goblin/ Fighter 6/Kensai 1
She has the leadership feat and her cohort is Wug: Female/ Clock Tower Goblin/ Rogue 4/Fighter 2
Tim - Vaclavsek: Male/Human (Kemite)/ Mage 7
Does not have a familiar, instead has a magical staff as outlined in Dragon Magazine # 338
Frank- Lukugk Oozeater: Male/Clock Tower Goblin/ Tech-Priest 7
This character dropped turning to gain the Create Ironborn feat from the Book of Iron Might. He now has Link: Ironborn/ Fighter 5/Bodyguard 1 as a cohort.
Megan- Nug Oozeeater: Female/Clock Tower Goblin/ Fighter 6/Kensai 1
She has the leadership feat and her cohort is Wug: Female/ Clock Tower Goblin/ Rogue 4/Fighter 2
Tim - Vaclavsek: Male/Human (Kemite)/ Mage 7
Does not have a familiar, instead has a magical staff as outlined in Dragon Magazine # 338
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