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Zimmy - I love pirates. Add giths to the mix and I will geek over it majorly. I really enjoy the idea of the 'captain's skull'....very piratical.

#4:

A very intemperate duthka'gith. (I'm thinking gish with a lot of fire spells, but I can't remember if half-dragons take up the gish role often.) While fierce, courageous, and bloodthirsty, this duthka'gith was kicked out of her unit for serious discpline problems. Problems including insubordination, getting in fights, being drunk or otherwise intoxicated on duty... oh, and she's a pervert. She likes barbarians, a lot. Not that carrying on with a barbarian is unheard of among gith peoples, but the carrying on was happening to an excessive degree.

After getting kicked out, she eventually joined a Blood War mercenary company. She actually managed to acquire some kind of discipline as a result, and has some gory, colorful stories of the Blood War to tell. She is rumored to have carried on with some kind of fiendish being and supposedly has a half-fiendish hatchling stashed away somewhere (extremely scandalous!). She is also said to have a barbarian in every port.

She's one of the bravest members of the crew, but it's questionable whether she'll actually be sober enough to fight at any given time.

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Tsaik'jin is a gith sailor who built up a reputation as an exceptionally skilled Incursion recruiter in Git'riban, though he is a native of Tu'narath. Once a simple farmer who supplied warbands with quick travel rations, he managed to get a position on his first rrakkma as the group cook. He hilariously managed to deck a thrall with a frying pan, though the resulting carnage as the thralls swarmed the camp quickly made him realize that he did not want to live and die as a mere farmer anymore.

Several years later he managed to attract the notice of a recruitment officer in need of adventurous and patriotic gith willing to serve aboard his ship and the rest is history. During the wake of the fall of Vlaakith, Tsaik'jin was swept up in a full-scale mutiny and the farmer-turned-sailor along with the rest of the crew aligned themselves under the banners of the Pirates of Gith.

A side note: he is the artist who inked all of Azthri's tattoos.

Ohhh man I've got more, too! We should collaborate, Zim!

There are githyanki - then there is Xailen. He is a tireless hunter of Illithid and he keeps a rack of all the skulls he has accumulated in the trophy room of his usual haunt in a githyanki astral port town. Interestingly, his pride and joy lays in the teahouse he built from a converted warehouse, which is currently being managed by his best friend. In true githyanki fashion, the teahouse serves the popular gith pirate drink - jukklar* and has a permanent healer on staff should brawls erupt.

* A blend of distilled roots grown in Tu'narath which is mixed with gunpowder and blood. Where the blood is acquired is best left unsaid.

"Sell the story" might be a way Gith phrase for trading information to outsiders (here even meaning one outside of your warband/order/party) or to graith. As in, "Don't sell the story of the Queen to those pathetic graith. That's blasphemy!" Or, "don't sell the story of your rrakkma too low, brother. It is far more valuable than their services."

Sell-The-Story is also the name of a Gith pirate on board the Dirk. He found that he could make a fortune in selling information, especially lurid or strategic insights on both the Gith and barbarians. He is even rumored to have done deals with the ghaik, but that may be an accusation brought on because the Githyanki despise him as a traitor. He escaped the Astral when his notoriety caught up with in a trade city, running to Git'riban. He, however, came into competition with Grazz and the sharpshadows. The had taken him in as a fellow informant until they realized he turned stag on them as often as their targets. He got an offer he couldn't refuse from the 'zerth triple agent. Either go through the skipping portal or be sent to the Lower Planes with dagger holes. The 'yanki rogue considered his options and chose to dive into the portal, which happened to be bound for Toril.

Diving is what saved the unfortunate informant, as the portal exited high over the ocean. He was picked up by a Githyanki raiding crew a few days later. The Gith proved his worth as a spy and infiltrator, but quickly found selling crew members' secrets to one another too addicting. As such, they marooned him on an isle half-dead with a single vial of poison (They weren't going to give him a quick way to die). A band of half-orc pirates landed on the isle due to its isolation and found the half-starved gith fending for himself against the vicious animals that live there. They were impressed that he had survived so long and became intrigued when he claimed to have information valuable to their cause (whichever it may be). The captain saw the worth of a Gith informant with the 'yanki Incursion underway, though he made the poor sod know who was boss. Sell-The-Story lost his real name that day, given a new one that reflected a phrase he kept using, and had a scar torn into his chest that claimed him as a member of the Dirk.

Sell-The-Story wasn't glad when Styrrn's fleet caught the half-orc sloop, but he found that the captain wasn't eager to lose his prized informant to appease Gith sensibilities. Sell-The-Story made himself valuable to the Gith pirates, who learned to tolerate his past. He still keeps tabs on the others, picking up their secrets when he can, in the hope of making a few stingers off of some dirty secret.

# 11 - Human female cleric of Umberlee. Apparently she was a Sembian noblewoman or aristocrat at one point, and at was at the losing end of some intrigue or other; she is quite happy to take actions that make Sembians miserable, even if it means helping the Incursion. Styrrn contemplated killing the human god-slave several times, but never got around to it. At one point, the duthka'gith (#4) hurled #11 overboard during an argument late at night, in bad weather. The priestess showed up on the main deck the next morning, soaking wet and more piked-off than ever, but otherwise none the worse for wear.

The priestess is usually decent at not aggravating the githyanki crew too much, but some friction and tension is definitely present. A good percentage of the barbarian crew pray to Umberlee at least occasionally. She doesn't especially like githyanki, especially given their distaste for Powers, but will put up with them if doing so helps her own goals.

#14 and #15: These twenty-something humans are brother and sister, both unfortunate enough to be captives of the githyanki. They haven't been here long but both are already in bad shape. They are the children and heirs of some big shot Sembian who was slain in the Incursion. Styrrn kept them as captives because he believes (correctly) that they know either the location of a significant treasure or information of military value to the Incursion.

Apparently their family is one that the priestess of Umberlee really, really doesn't like. She frequently gloats over their suffering and wouldn't mind feeding them to the Kraken, as it were.

Both captives would be willing to make a deal that would allow them to get out of githyanki captivity alive. Prior to the Queen's fall, they would have been sacrificed to Her Majesty. What to do with them now is less clear. It might be possible to ransom them, if a party can be found to ransom them to.

Is the Dirk the flagship? I thought the Pride was. I intended him to be on a small ship.

How many of Lahar's forces are still in Pale's possession at the moment? The two scouts still are (I think) as well as their vessel, but are any others also?

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Burning Spear!!!

Ebberron might not be accepted by our vaunted dm but #14 sounds like they could be an artificer or maybe a magewright.

Weirdly i am getting an update email, of a new IC post, but when I check the thread, no new posts at all...

Eh, I'm pretty sure Ben's character is within the bounds of githyanki etiquette. In fact I think he's trying pretty hard to be polite. (Ya'shenn initially introduced herself to Gy-Nath when she joined the party.)

To Xermun, he would be working with the command structure of Gy and Na'rai as head leaders and need their permission to work both aboard the fleet and with the rrakkma. Kirath and Ij are, in this regard, first officers, even if she happens to be a Githees. No offense intended, but the knight is fine to take it as an insult if that suits the character.

Edit: Going by your initial post, didn't Ij move to organize her followers upon leaving the Council? I think that would also contribute to her not being initially addressed.

I "understand" , but she will take it as an offence, being the sociopath that she is..

Also, edit: a 36 woot~!

Thanks, although I do wonder, what use is it introducing a character at a moment when
half the "group participants" ate not there?!
Bit weird imo

No problem.

Does Ya'shenn recognize his Order?

Burning Spear wrote:

Thanks, although I do wonder, what use is it introducing a character at a moment when half the "group participants" ate not there?! Bit weird imo

Simple, story. Lish has his own commanders, so Xermun stood outside. It made sense to meet the active players outside before meeting your characters.

Benyamin wrote:

Burning Spear wrote:

Thanks, although I do wonder, what use is it introducing a character at a moment when half the "group participants" ate not there?! Bit weird imo

Simple, story. Lish has his own commanders, so Xermun stood outside. It made sense to meet the active players outside before meeting your characters.

active players? I think I am fairly active, thankyouverymuch