Roleplaying plot
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jackThe four campaigns plots could actually be slotted together very well in retrospect we discovered, despite being made up as we went along. I will try to tell it, not as we discovered it, but as we reconstructed it afterward. (Apologies to the other players, who may find this incomplete.) It doesn't make such a bad story, all in all.
The evil wizard Carlelicus[1] grew to power in an alternative england, ruling, crushing the people, studying portals to parallel worlds and in one, known as Rasolov, building a castle were he undergoes experiments into immortality. Finally a consortium of mages and governments came together to overthrow him, and cast him out into a world without magic.
Two hundred years later he's a 'young' professor of physics at Cambridge University with an interest in obscure supposedly magical texts. Finally he finds one he think has some power and he can make the equipment to activate it, perhaps creating a portal. To test it he advertises in the paper for students to take part in a physics experiments, selecting those he feels may have any latent magical talent.
Chosen are a rower, Robin, a young hippy, Rowena, and a pair of CICCU types, Dave and Jane. They are invited to join Carl in the rooms of his boyfriend Rueben, who is an old professor of ancient languages, also with an interest in supposedly magical texts.
Carl activates the equipment, but it doesn't quite go as planned, and the others are immediately sucked into it. The tea service spoons are glowing frantically and he realises the metal became entangled, and shouts to the people to find them on the other side.
They find themselves in a world like ours several hundred years ago. They train up in town, Robin getting a job with the militia, Rowena finding an affinity for nature working in the stables, and Reuben chasing rumours of magic. They also meet Henri, a down-at-work actor who teams up with them, and Dave and Jane get locked up for the duration.
They discover the spoon was found by a peasant family, who are being intimidated for it by the local landowner. Hired by the landowner to recover it they end up fighting off the toughs with blinding luck -- downing several in a minute, and then chipping away at the last one until he falls, rescuing the family, and buying back the spoon, before fleeing back to the portal and finding themselves transported to another world.
Here they (unbeknownst) find themselves near Carl's castle, where his experiments into necromancy and plant magic created a number of gardens, the most vicious of which had escaped and spread to a large forest.
Fighting their way past a few of the more dangerous plants (an amusing-hearts-desire-illusion granting bush and a land kraken tree) aand following the maps found in the backpacks of a few corpses picked dry by the forest, they make their way to the sea shore, and row along till they find the famous Lord Raven's circus, camped there to take advantage of some of the more useful medicinals from the forest.
Lord Raven has the spoon, and offers to sell it to them. They find some of the circus folk friendly and some less so, and make sufficient money by Robin winning a wrestling match against Bear (which was fun) and sleeping with Badger (which was more fun), but when they go to Raven he switches spoons on them.
Rowena notices and is Charmed by Raven, and Henri has to break in and rescue her and the spoon. Unfortunately they're noticed escaping, and the hunt is up. They fight off many of Raven's henchmen, some using some of the more nasty plants as weapons, Rowena rescues the imprisoned animals, and they escape into the forest.
When they get back to the portal they fight their way through Raven and his baddest allies, who got their first, breaking through a barricade and fleeing into the portal before they're killed. They find themselves in a swamp outside a cambridge-like city in the world Carl originally came from.
They hire themselves out to eradicate a nest of Harpies in Homerton college, both killed with incredible luck by Rueben; find that the Empress is coming to visit the city and the mages resent this, and the fenlanders more so; consider rescuing the fenlander hero but decide against it; and search the lost library of Alisonia for an ancient magical text in gratitude for which the head of the divination school will find the spoon for them.
Arriving slightly too late and rescuing a friend from a brawl around the fenlander's escape they return to the high mages, and discover that Carl is Carlelicus. They are gifted with many magical supplies and blessings and charged to return and kill him, else he can return to a world with magic and devestate it again. Rueben refues to believe Carl is evil, and when a mage finds him unable to stop planning to warn Carl, suggests he stays behind until the deed is done.
The others find the spoon, go through the portal, have a brief sojourn on a sub-world used as a crystal-maze-type adventure by some dimensional travellers where they must find a crystal to escape, and find themselves back in Reuben's study.
Carl has just managed to open a portal himself and is crying his success when Robin appears, and with considerable temporary improvements wreaked by the mages makes a critical hit and decapitates Carl with the first blow.
Rueben, and the forgotten Dave and Jane (who in fact appear several times and metamophised into a fairly plowerful Cleric and an Empress respectively) appear, Rueben kisses Carl, and Henri returns the body less head through the portal.
Rowena is gifted with a plant from the forest whose introduction into the rainforest makes it more than capable of strangling off loggers. Rueben leaves the portal open and trains as a mage in the other world.
Henri becomes a successful soap actor. Robin was the only one who was fullfilled at the start of the campaign.
[1] All spellings made up by me.
The evil wizard Carlelicus[1] grew to power in an alternative england, ruling, crushing the people, studying portals to parallel worlds and in one, known as Rasolov, building a castle were he undergoes experiments into immortality. Finally a consortium of mages and governments came together to overthrow him, and cast him out into a world without magic.
Two hundred years later he's a 'young' professor of physics at Cambridge University with an interest in obscure supposedly magical texts. Finally he finds one he think has some power and he can make the equipment to activate it, perhaps creating a portal. To test it he advertises in the paper for students to take part in a physics experiments, selecting those he feels may have any latent magical talent.
Chosen are a rower, Robin, a young hippy, Rowena, and a pair of CICCU types, Dave and Jane. They are invited to join Carl in the rooms of his boyfriend Rueben, who is an old professor of ancient languages, also with an interest in supposedly magical texts.
Carl activates the equipment, but it doesn't quite go as planned, and the others are immediately sucked into it. The tea service spoons are glowing frantically and he realises the metal became entangled, and shouts to the people to find them on the other side.
They find themselves in a world like ours several hundred years ago. They train up in town, Robin getting a job with the militia, Rowena finding an affinity for nature working in the stables, and Reuben chasing rumours of magic. They also meet Henri, a down-at-work actor who teams up with them, and Dave and Jane get locked up for the duration.
They discover the spoon was found by a peasant family, who are being intimidated for it by the local landowner. Hired by the landowner to recover it they end up fighting off the toughs with blinding luck -- downing several in a minute, and then chipping away at the last one until he falls, rescuing the family, and buying back the spoon, before fleeing back to the portal and finding themselves transported to another world.
Here they (unbeknownst) find themselves near Carl's castle, where his experiments into necromancy and plant magic created a number of gardens, the most vicious of which had escaped and spread to a large forest.
Fighting their way past a few of the more dangerous plants (an amusing-hearts-desire-illusion granting bush and a land kraken tree) aand following the maps found in the backpacks of a few corpses picked dry by the forest, they make their way to the sea shore, and row along till they find the famous Lord Raven's circus, camped there to take advantage of some of the more useful medicinals from the forest.
Lord Raven has the spoon, and offers to sell it to them. They find some of the circus folk friendly and some less so, and make sufficient money by Robin winning a wrestling match against Bear (which was fun) and sleeping with Badger (which was more fun), but when they go to Raven he switches spoons on them.
Rowena notices and is Charmed by Raven, and Henri has to break in and rescue her and the spoon. Unfortunately they're noticed escaping, and the hunt is up. They fight off many of Raven's henchmen, some using some of the more nasty plants as weapons, Rowena rescues the imprisoned animals, and they escape into the forest.
When they get back to the portal they fight their way through Raven and his baddest allies, who got their first, breaking through a barricade and fleeing into the portal before they're killed. They find themselves in a swamp outside a cambridge-like city in the world Carl originally came from.
They hire themselves out to eradicate a nest of Harpies in Homerton college, both killed with incredible luck by Rueben; find that the Empress is coming to visit the city and the mages resent this, and the fenlanders more so; consider rescuing the fenlander hero but decide against it; and search the lost library of Alisonia for an ancient magical text in gratitude for which the head of the divination school will find the spoon for them.
Arriving slightly too late and rescuing a friend from a brawl around the fenlander's escape they return to the high mages, and discover that Carl is Carlelicus. They are gifted with many magical supplies and blessings and charged to return and kill him, else he can return to a world with magic and devestate it again. Rueben refues to believe Carl is evil, and when a mage finds him unable to stop planning to warn Carl, suggests he stays behind until the deed is done.
The others find the spoon, go through the portal, have a brief sojourn on a sub-world used as a crystal-maze-type adventure by some dimensional travellers where they must find a crystal to escape, and find themselves back in Reuben's study.
Carl has just managed to open a portal himself and is crying his success when Robin appears, and with considerable temporary improvements wreaked by the mages makes a critical hit and decapitates Carl with the first blow.
Rueben, and the forgotten Dave and Jane (who in fact appear several times and metamophised into a fairly plowerful Cleric and an Empress respectively) appear, Rueben kisses Carl, and Henri returns the body less head through the portal.
Rowena is gifted with a plant from the forest whose introduction into the rainforest makes it more than capable of strangling off loggers. Rueben leaves the portal open and trains as a mage in the other world.
Henri becomes a successful soap actor. Robin was the only one who was fullfilled at the start of the campaign.
[1] All spellings made up by me.
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Date: 2006-06-14 09:23 pm (UTC)You forgot Jane and Dave's happy ending.
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Date: 2006-06-15 05:37 pm (UTC)*looks at icon*
Did you see Simon's link in my most recent post?
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Date: 2007-11-02 03:55 pm (UTC):)