BoG'r OOC.

Yea, that's basicly it. I's catch-as-catch-can with the booty. The focus is more on collecting tenticled heads (in various states of messy ) than on getting paid.

I was hoping, character-wise, the PCs would not be that big on collecting coin. This is partially from the nature of the characters, their dungeon-crawling isn't about money, it's about war. Therefore spoils have gone more towards "who can use this?" or "who killed this illithid?" than "there are five of us so I get one-fifth."

Notice, in fact, that Lahar the Firebringer claimed no spoils, not even the skull of the illithid he slew, but did rob the bodies of the two rogues who were going to turn stag on him.

Yea, I like my characters to live & breathe. I have friends who are, or were, in various types of love/hate relationships. The "she's a mean, self-absorbed bitch, but every time she comes over we end up having sex" relationship is probably the worst one for your room-mate to be having. Much better than the "we've lived together for seven years, but every now and then she flips out and cold-clocks me while I'm driving or stabs me with a fork during dinner for smiling at the waitress" that my best friend had.

Githyanki Bard. Trained to gather intel and keep secrets until a report is to be made. Trained also in codes and numbers, and able to communicate musicly with each other.

True that!

Sorry if it seems like half the party is NPCs, so far there's Gy-Nath, Jhank'kor*, and now K'tch. Not sure if Obsidian Orb will will coming along, but I doubt it. She's not likely to reveal her attempts to make ties with the "Yanki Clan Gith" to her underlings, and being the chief she can't just disappear for a few hours to go dungeoncrawling. Do expect, however, to pick up another NPC or two in the near future.

{EDIT} Y'know what? I'm NOT sorry! Creating characters is fun!

sorry I won't be ab le to post much today, I'm working like 10 hours because I'm the only one who doesn't care abuot the superbowl. I'll be back in the wee hours, though, and will post (probably) when I get home.

'Zimrazim' wrote:

Hey, Azure, to have a good discussion on tactics, it'd be good to know what we saw about Illithid House's defenses. :mrgreen:

Working on that right now, but also trying to post and ...

shoot, I might as well give to a taste ...

The party may enter the following ‘rooms’ in any order, but only the *green* portal leads back to Git’riban.
Blue-Yellow-Red *green*
The Mud Show
The Packing House
The Hive Brothel
The Emperor’s Palace

Here's what I've got so far, but I am open to suggestions for additional 'rooms' or sensible defences. Illithid wouldn't really go for mechanical traps or magic glyphs (unless you are trying to attack the arcanists). There are likely to be psionic defences in the form of resonance stones, suggestions, power-manifesting crystals, etc as well.

The party may enter the following ‘rooms’ in any order, but only the *green* portal leads back to Git’riban.
Blue-Yellow-Red *green*
The Mud Show
The Packing House
The Hive Brothel
The Emperor’s Palace

Blue-Yellow-Red: There are actually three Undersigil lairs so similar that they are indistinguishable. To navigate them correctly, the portals must be used in the correct order, which is complicated by the fact that they skip about randomly. This means that after the first portal is activated, the portal key must be switched. Either another person must take point, or the person on point must switch portal keys. The keys are three gems, while a fourth will activate a portal back to the crumbing underworld beneath Git’riban.
Type: Lair
Portals to: Git’riban, Illithid House
Defense: Mostly guards.
Feel: Dungeoncrawl

The Mud Show: A large area of Undersigil that has portals not only to prime worlds, but the plane of ooze as well. The halls and corridors periodically flood, and the dabus have modified the area to drain away. There is only one resident, an insane (even by the illithids’ highest standards) illithid bard.
Type: Lair
Portals to: Illithid House, Prime Septs
Defenses: “Mud Show” backed up by a possible mechanical advantage.
Feel: Jaws meets Carnival of Souls

The Packing House: Brains aren’t the only things illithids eat, and lots of folks in Sigil like a good steak. One of the largest slaughterhouses in the city hides a secret, down in the basements and blood-slick drains. Secret portals to prime world Underdarks mirror those to verdant prime world fields in the public spaces above, and little do those planar-minded herdsmen know what they are really feeding …
Type: Dummy Business
Portals to: Illithid House, Prime Septs, Prime Worlds
Defenses: Innocent bystanders, guards, watch beasts, some very disturbed illithid wallowing ankle-deep in blood.
Feel: Slasher flick.

The Hive Brothel: Pretty self explanatory, if you want more detail go look up some internet porn
Type: Dummy Business
Portals to: Illithid House
Defenses: Guards, pimps, feisty whores, johns, slavers lead by an illithid.
Feel: This could go in a few directions, really, it could turn from slightly comical to tragic to brutal quite quickly.

The Emperor’s Palace: The imperial family has long been sequestered in their gigantic and opulent palace. None of the servants or guards granted the privilege of personally sering the imperial family are ever allowed to leave the grounds again.
Type: Controlled Prime Nation
Portals to: Illithid House, Prime Sept
Defense: Guard beasts, (few) guards.
Feel: C’mon I know you’ve thought about burning down the White House at least once.