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Ship Life - November 1, 2024

 - LOTR in a D20   - From the Silverwind Trading company, Soliana learns that the book came in a shipment that came from Adderly in the Southern Continent (Scaldras) from a private seller named Thornwick Elsmere.  - The day after that information is acquired everyone meets at the Storm Caller. Niniel asks a sailor for Captain Thomas Gringamore who is a tall, sturdy human man. He looks over everyone with a gimlet eye. - The coordinates given to the Captain are mostly east-southeast.  - The Captain asks if they know what they are look for, and Soliana explains that Sir Foxglove has observed / studied the ley lines, and that they are moving and he has triangulated the origin of the movement to the coordinates that the captain has. No idea what will be there when they get there. - A halfling sailor (cabin boy) named Finn (Bristleback) is asked to show them to their quarters. - Niniel tries to compliment Soliana on talking to strangers, and Soliana says that she knew Niniel would let her kn
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A Meeting in a Tavern - October 6, 2024

 - Dallas Stars (Sport puck?) - In the city Port Carling at the mouth of the Sapphire River where it empties into the Cobalt Gulf (the largest city in the Kolstad Dominion), in the Captain's Keep tavern near the port (one of the nicer taverns), Caleb is playing cards with a group of sailors while Soliana tries to hide in plain sight because she's never been in a tavern before. - In waltzes a blue lady with blue hair and asks the bartender for their best drink, then asks one of the sailors (Aiden) what their playing and flops into an empty chair. Her name is Niniel. -  Soliana is practically hiding under the table when a woman (Poetry) starts making illusory fire to entertain her, and Soliana Prestidigitations back some dancing flames on her drink. - Zemma the kobold is fetching food and drink because she was getting some for Poetry and other people started thinking she was the waitress.  - Someone tries to pickpoket Caleb, and that person finds his dagger at their wrist very qu
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I don't think I'm a teakettle - June 11, 2021

- A few mornings after the blob attack, Osiris is attending to her normal duties in the temple and another acolyte, Jacoby, and asks about the person who had been eaten by the slime thing and asked if she had heard about the other ones. - The other slime mold came from the docks - Osiris finishes her duties for the morning, then she examines the body (a burly dockworker, Joey) of the second slime attack, and sees that he's been partially dissolved and anything that was metal has dissolved.  - The she goes to the boarding house to find Lyrielle, who she invites with her to go to the docks to check it out - When they get to the docks, there are a bunch of people unloading a boat and there is a lot of activity - They approach the guy yelling orders at everyone and ask about the attack - A couple of the guys came out of the Crusty Barnacle and saw Joey laying in a ditch with a slimy thing on top of him - Roy is one of the ones who found him - He says he saw Joey laying in the ditch wit
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New Campaign, who dis? - June 4, 2021

- Raiàn is followed to Mistverge by a mechanical being with large, noticeable weapons and no clothing RET-CON - He walked along the bottom of the river to follow her and then walked out of the river past the city walls when she went into Mistverge and found her somehow. He may become Mistverge urban legend someday. - It is mid-afternoon at Callie Curlywit's and Theophania and Osiris have come for tea  - There's a parlor (sitting room /lounge) there's a couple of human reading some kind of pamphlet and large, blue-ish / purple dragon-looking creature sitting there - T walks right up to R and starts asking every question that pops into her head, which is all of them - Raiàn came UNDER the mountains through some tunnels they found until they came to the river - Magnus Severon (Callie's longest-term boarder who is a wizard) comes in (he's tall and thin) and Theophania's got a question for him about a locking spell she's trying to invent - A man made of metal sho
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Family Ties - Another Back Story - This time for a halfling artificer (alchemist)

Great-aunt Thessalie taught me a lot. Like so much, you have no idea. She said she saw a spark in me, and that's why she asked the Temple to hire me to be her "companion" when she got too old to run the hospital wing anymore. Let me tell you, just because she started having trouble walking quickly and her hands didn't have the grip to use a mortar and pestle anymore didn't mean there was anything wrong with her mind. The magic of Mishakal was too strong in her for her mind to ever get weak. At least, that's what I think. Before I ever came to run her errands and help her get dressed and be her hands, she'd already had Adventures and been a diplomat and a trader and an advisor and healer to the King of Rhoanor and ran the entire hospital wing of the largest Temple to Mishakal in all the human lands. She told the best stories. She told me that she saved my grandfather Eldon, her older brother, from the possession (she never would say exactly from what) and d
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Too Much Backstory

“There were once a people who called themselves the Dwarvenkind. They were not a tall folk, though they were stout and strong and hardy. Known far and wide for their metal craft and stone lore, they came down from high in the mountains to trade unbreakable weapons and delicately carved stone animals. But though they came down from high in the mountains, that is not where they made their homes. No! They lived beneath the mountain. It was only an outpost high and away on a steep cliff to guard an entry point and an airshaft leading to their tunnels.” Mr. Agosto paused to sip his tea. The small girl child seated on the rug before his rocking chair stared up at him with wide, brown eyes and lips parted in anticipation.   “Such tunnels! Made from stone cut so precisely even you could not fit your tiniest finger into a gap between them. The arched ceilings bore beams of dark, porous stone cultivated with a glowing moss to give the only light needed by the sensitive eyes of the Dwarves. T
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