BoG'r OOC.

Well, then you can perhaps give me some feedback about my Incursion and Aftermath on Toril.  I think I've sent you details of the Incursion ...

The following is known by Kirath and Na'rai, and will be geaned by the PCs before the trip is over

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The Githyanki Empire of Toril is run by several commanders of divided loyalties.  Most are Apocalytes, but there are two main camps, the Imperialists, who are closer to the Heartforce and believe they can forge a prime-world empire, and the True Apocalytes, who believe the fall of Vlaakith and the return of Gith in the form of Ar-Gish signify the end times for their race.  The True Apocalytes are close to The True, but represent their own distinct cult of Gith's return.  Their dogma that Gith's return heralds the end is not accepted by The True, but The True send squads of apostles to the primes to keep an eye on the Apocalytes, and get support for their own power bloc.

The Githyanki Empire on Toril is now more like several large fleets of raiders and pirates operating out of a few bases.  There are six main centers of power.  In addition there are three 'allied areas' where githyanki trade and move through in relative safety, but which are wholly graith.

The Northern Base consists of three enclaves, The Graith City of Mulmaster on the Moonsea, the nearby Ironfang Keep, and Kurogolomsh, an underdark area deep under the mountains which was destroyed by the void bombs and is now being rebuilt.  Due to the presence of many graith and the rebuilding activities in Kurogolomsh, there aren't as many raids out of the northern bases.

The Southern Base is the Pirate Isles in the inland Sea of Fallen Stars.  Ports on the Isle of the Dragon and the Isle of Prespur, as well as smaller hidden ports scattered throughout the isles contain a mixture of githyanki troops and graith privateers.  The flying astral ships are the githyankis' greatest resource, since the slowest of them can run down even very fast sailing ships, but there are not enough to contain a fifth of the entire githyanki army, so many pirate ships have been commandeered and assigned squads of githyanki marines.  The pirates who have returned (for the isles were scoured with fire and blade during the Incursion), work closely with the githyanki.  They actually have leeway to sail where they will, so long as the booty makes it back to the Isle of the Dragon at the end.  Piracy in the Sea of Fallen Stars has therefore reached epic proportions, since the pirates are backed up by teleporting githyanki and sometimes by flying ships.  One thing that has changed, however, is the slave trade.  Once a major part of the cycle of piracy and trade, the githyanki have banned it.

The Western base is the Nelanther "Pirate Isles" in the Sea of Swords.  Two isles with magical beacons mark the northern and southern ends of Asavir's channel, the main shipping route around the Tethyr peninsula.  The githyanki seized these, and constantly raid both sea traffic and land caravans with their flying ships.  However, unlike in the inland sea, the task of subsuming the graith of this area proved unsuccessful.  The githyanki have turned the light-towers of Nemesser and Irphong into beacons of dread, but among the isles and on the high seas they battle pirates as much as ships flagged by merchant houses or nations.

South of Mulmaster is The Vast.  Dragon Falls and the countryside of the Vast are controlled by a mated pair of Red Dragons, who had come to this world with Vlaakith's Incursion.  The cities along the coast are hostile to the githyanki.  Some were conquered during the Incursion and some were not, but even those that were under the heel of the githyanki and their barbarian allies during the Incursion have been relinquished.  In the some cases they have managed to muster forces to take back territory beyond their walls, but the remaining githyanki have handed them sound defeats in these cases, so the countryside remains mostly empty.  

The center of power in the underdark is the growing under-empire of Gatchorof.  The githyanki enclave is bustling, and parties of relic-hunters delve into the tunnels and ruined dwarf-holds of the surrounding underdark, searching for adventure, items, and gold, in that order. [This is where Kirath recently came from]

There are three cities on the western end of the Sea of Fallen Stars.  Westgate was a pirate city of sorts before the githyanki came, and the Incursion swept into power a number of actual pirate captains who allied with the gith when the wind blew that way.  Its streets can't be considered 'safe' but githyanki are as welcome here as anybody else.  Less than a day's sail is the southern Sembian city of Urmlaspyr, which was largely depopulated during the Incursion, and is now largely a ghost town with fearful survivors, cut-throats, gangs, pirates, scavengers, rebels, and other rough individuals.  Githyanki here move about in squads, but are the undisputed masters of Urmlaspyr keep and the upper city of the former nobility and well-to-do, who were either slaughtered or fled.  About fifty miles away is the city or Daerlun, once a quiet trade city near the border of Cormyr.  A pair of overlords rules out of the ruined husk of what was once a great temple complex and gardens in the city center.  They are 'The Claws of Death', an ancient red dragon dracolich, and 'The Black Blade', a githyanki death knight.  The Cult of the Dragon worships ‘The Claws of Death’ like a god.  It runs many criminal enterprises and acts as spies for the dracolich in all three of these cities.

There are three 'allied areas'.  One is actually a world-spanning organization with a few centers of power itself, the Church of Tiamat.  Tiamat's followers treat the githyanki of the Cult of Tiamat as fellows, and other githyanki with some respect as well.

The Drow city of Sshamath is a major trading hub for the githyanki on Toril.  A rarity in that it is not a Lolth-worshiping theocracy, the City of Dark Weavings welcomed the githyanki, for they paid handsomely for illithid heads.  In addition, Sshamath is almost totally physically isolated and relies on a series of portals and teleport sites for trade.  Thus it has been profitable for the githyanki to conduct a great deal of their mercantile activities in and from Sshamath.

"The Empire of The Spell-Seer", a growing power on the border of Amn and Tethir, on the eastern edge of the great forest,is centered around Castle Spulzeer.  A powerful Lich there was a githyanki ally during the Incursion, and continues to work with the githyanki Master Necromancer and his army of githyanki undead.  Although living githyanki are welcome here, the Master Necromancer is loyal to the Ascendancy and The Court of Vlaakith, and considers most other power blocs as base traitors or heretics.  He has been known to ‘recruit’ troops from others’ commands, and he invariably finds them more useful as undead.

Mulmaster was target #1 in my Incursion.  The weakest city on the Moonsea, but with aspirations for greater power.  Githyanki spies, including 'Mist of the Mind', a Ghost Psion (telepath), engineered a confrontation between Mulmaster and Hillsfar over access to the Lis.  Just as the navies started to clash, the githyanki show up and burn both sides as a show of force.  They proceeded to use Mulmaster and Ironfang Keep (which I don't know anything about, so tell me) as bases for the first stages of the Incursion.  The initial invasion force was around 3000 githyanki, all in flying ships or mounted on red dragons, so when the High Blade of Mulmaster welcomed the githyanki overlord with open arms, everyone else went along.  By siding with the githyanki, Mulmaster saw their rivals on the Moonsea defeated, and they helped conquor a good deal of territory.  Mulmaster soldiers helped conquor and occupy Calaunt and Procampur (Tantras and Raven's Bluff remained untaken).  So all in all they profited from the githyanki Incursion, and even in the Aftermath, Mulmaster is more powerful than ever before.

As for the neutral mage residing in the city .... tell me what you know about him.  I used him in ways that, for BoG'r story reasons, I cannot yet reveal.  I just want to know if I used Gulgath correctly, so please share what you know.

Well, I know things are a bit slow now, but its up to the PCs to interact with each other and the NPCs.

Something will happen as soon as Na'rai arrives on the Fume, so EvilDM is waiting for wei.

The Cult of the Dragon allied with the Incursion due to the Dracolich.  They actually opened a gate to the Neg-E for The Claws of Death and Black Blade to invade Daerlun.  The githyanki as a whole distrust them, but they do the Dracolich'sbidding, so they're OK as far as graith go.

The githyanki as a whole have a similar attitude to worshipers of Tiamat.  They are firm allies of The Cult of Tiamat power bloc, but not so close to githyanki of other power blocs.

Ah yes, the skill points ... yes a smarter wyvern has extra skills, but I think I may do the write-up.

Yea, sorry to say, but the next 3 weeks are super busy for me, too.  I'll try to post when I can, of course.