Lamentations 'Home' Campaign

I just want to have fun, kill some shit, get killed by some shit, get turned into whatever, it doesn't really matter to me high-fantasy or low-fantasy. Lets just all settle down and remember this is a game and not get all caught up in the back and forth that serves no real purpose other than to cause trouble. My opinion is make whatever character you want, but realize that whatever decisions you make with that character others have just as much a right to act upon those decisions and play their character. You can't play the "I was doing what my character would do" and then get upset when someone else does the exact same thing. We are all alpha personalities and things get pretty heated at times, let it go, have some fun, move on, and by all means do NOT take it all so personally.

I would like to apologize though because I feel that I am to blame for this latest issue. If I hadn't been in the party then this would not have occurred and you all would still be enjoying the adventures you have been for the last month.

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I believe "having a large shift in priorities" is sufficient to placating Dominic and makes him more viable to work in a lower magic setting.

On a separate note, I guess your willingness to reroll was largely hot air.  I'd be fine with rerolling if:
1) I retain all experience gained so far for the next character, or
2) Everyone starts at an equal playing field (i.e. rerolls or resets).

The fact that you're arguing against this kind of fairness is what bothers me, claiming it as "(no) reason to reset the game."  As you've said, the players had no idea what kind of world they were getting set in, and while my characters was the best adaptation to the high-magic setting shown thus far, it is clearly unfair to a player to force one to reroll as if they'd died because the setting type is getting knocked down a few notches to placate the majority.

I only threatened that in the heat of the moment after you/Xemadus said in so many words that the only solution was to kill my character and reroll another mystic so the group continues to have a healing source.  I do hope you stop putting words in my mouth and cease referencing a single event that has already been debunked, and instead focus on the conversation being held at this time.  Try to respond to the previous post's content, since it's rather important to me that I get your opinion on it. Specifically:



In a low-magic setting where apparently even the adventurers will kill their magic users on a hunch, magic-users would be a bit more averse to using their magic to solve things.  Geck has given examples of Maleficar that don't use their spells unless it's the most dire of situations, so I'm remodeling my caster to follow in that wake.  They aren't "holding the group back" or "not bringing their skills to the table," they're playing to keep themselves alive like every other character.

I feel like you're heavily projecting yourself when you say things like this:



Because that's exactly what I'm seeing from you when you hold the campaign hostage unless an ally rerolls.  I have stated that I'll rework my character/compromise.  I have stated the desired prerequisites if rerolling is the only answer.  You've ignored all of these and are now calling for me to not play.  It's beginning to feel like you have a hang-up specifically with me.

So far, current players are now Xemadus, SaintYin and Pantera if you'd like to keep going guys. I can either relocate the campaign to another area, assuming you guys did some traveling, or continue with the temple underground. Just let me know guys.

So it's been a while, and after a quick interest poll SaintYin and Pantera are up for playing Lamentations, with a maybe from Xemadus. The sweet spot is 4+ players so ideally we'd want another one or two.

If you're interested in taking part then please contact me or SaintYin (who can explain the campaign). In a nutshell, magic is crazy dangerous, gold is quite desirable, and adventurers are very much maladjusted misfits willing to go through a lot of danger for a lot of gold, etc. World is somewhat bleak and nightmarish, messed up stuff happens and so on and so forth.

Tuesdays for most people, at midnight my time (so technically wednesday for me). UK time.

id love to join

so you said to post god ideas here so here goes

mab the unseelie queen of air and darkness

a god of fire water and ressurection

or a god of chance risks and firearms

Indeed, I'm in!

Sure thing, and I recognised the username, heh.

Session 6:  Mushroom for Improvement

Rogrit and Dominic have left due to personal issues, which has sparked a few major changes.  Introductions of the current players may be in order.

Dalthar:  The one-armed, one-legged snake worshiper is still alive and k̶i̶c̶k̶i̶n̶g̶  a̶l̶r̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ a̶l̶l̶ ̶l̶e̶f̶t̶ alive.  Mystic to the Seven Divine Serpents.  Played by Saint Yin.
Jericho:  He's still Snake Eyes in our books.  Fighter that'd wear 6 helmets if it improved his chances to not get struck.  Played by Xemadus.
Dane:  The guy that murders all the things in one strike.  Specialist with a focus in sneak attack.  Played by DizzyXI.
Hunter:  The mystery man that has a bladder of unusual size.  Mystic of a yet-undefined deity.  Played by Hunterkiller725.
Lumi:  Conveys her thoughts via small notes and signs, but is otherwise fairly down-to-earth.  Duergar with a strong survival instinct.  Played by NotQuiteXlan, who also plays in Geck's wednesday lamentations group.

Cooter (not in session):  A bit dim-witted and was last seen being sacrificed to a god-snake by Dalthar, but that whole fiasco was pretty much solved.  Bow fighter.  Played by Pantera.

Vowing to never return to Morcliff and its madness-inducing mountain, Jericho and Dalthar returned to Freygate to take it easy.  Over several weeks of relaxation, they collected several other individuals seeking adventure.  After deciding that 5 or 6 was a solid number, they weighed their options, which were:
1)  A neighboring village to the southwest has recently called out for adventurers and mercenaries to deal with an indeterminate issue.
2)  There are some ruins of a dead civilization to the northwest along a river.  Those that enter rarely leave, but the ones that do tend to return with great riches.
3)  To the northeast is a well-developed metropolis that goes by the name of Vornheim, and it was built upon a labyrinth of tunnels and old ruins.  While there are many that wish to learn what is down there, few attempt it for fear of getting lost.
4) To the east, there is a forest with alleged tribes of Emaciated wandering about.  There are claims of something sufficiently valuable within to cause such a conglomeration of magic-users.
5)  Morcliff and the mountain is still a valid option.

Just as the group decided to try out the village, Dane decided that travel time was for chumps and Freygate surely had someone that'd hire a small squad such as this one to accomplish some goal.  Taking the initiative, he went from one pub to the next in search of people looking for parties that could accomplish tasks that were less-than-savory for the average individual.  This landed him in The Little Axe, a pub that contained a rather strange man by the name of Wendel.  He'd brokered an agreement with the barkeep to have a specific location available for several days out of the week, so he could peddle his story and offer to any that would pass by.

Wendel was prone muttering about whispers, sported a goatee and black mustache which he twirled quite often, and was predisposed to tenting his fingers.  He claimed that within the sewers was a 15-foot-long sentient rat that went by the name Rat King, and this creature controlled the rats of Freygate.  He wished for a group to spike the Rat King's food to make it more compliant to dealings with Wendel.  Wendel did not know where to find the Rat King, how to disable it, nor did he have any evidence of its existence apart from the whispering in his skull.  He additionally suggested the Rat King would probably not react kindly to interlopers, so it would need to be done stealthily, and that all of the specifics was on the job-taker's head to figure out.

Deciding this was a completely foolish idea and that Wendel did not appear to be the sort to pay after success, the group opted to continue their search in other bars.  Eerily, the next bar Dane entered contained a man in an incredibly similar position as Wendel, though this one appeared more paranoid than self-serving.  He claimed the merchants were all being controlled by a third party of some kind, which was committing various atrocities such as secret slave labor and artificially inflating the costs of things through purposefully withholding stock.  When questioned about his extreme similarity to Wendel, this man responded by saying Wendel and himself were a part of a small collection of theorists.  While none of them believed the others' claims held water, they all heard whispers telling them the truth and they all could not trust the local authorities to solve their issue.  

Dane decided to improve efficiency and to see if there was any connection between all these theorists, and to also see if each offered a tidy reward for completion of their tasks.  After some hours, he received the following theories:
1) The Rat King (job: roofie it for the quest giver).
2) Corruption of Merchants (Job: Find evidence of it)
3) Corruption of the Guard (Job: Figure out how they're corrupted and why)
4) People are going missing (Job: Find out where they're going).
5) People are being turned into food animals (Job: Prove this is true)
6) There are magic mushrooms traveling about Freygate (Job: Perform a threat check on the mushrooms)
7) The gold reserves don't exist (Job: Figure out if and why Freygate's politicians would sell the gold reserves)
8) Doors are leading to other places (Job: Find some of these doors and figure out where they're going)
9)  Liquids are changing into other liquids (Job: Find evidence of this happening)
10)  Immigrants are taking all the jobs. (Job: Discern if this is true, and if so, where they're all coming from)

Dalthar was immediately interested in solving the food animal scare, seeing as it could be possible to revert such a condition, but Dane decided the mushroom quest would be the most readily-available one to complete, for the man claimed the mushrooms were absolutely everywhere.  He warned the party that these mushrooms only move when no one is looking at it, and that he believed the mushrooms have consumed entire people in the blink of an eye, though it was usually the homeless or dying.

Dane looked outside, this time specifically searching for mushrooms, and immediately noticed a small collection of 1-2 inch tall fungal caps that were purple with flesh-colored spots along an edge to the inn.  He picked one of these, bringing it back into the inn for further exploration.  It was at this point that a critical mistake was made: Dane attempted to cut apart the mushroom.  This caused it to release some spores, which caused just about everyone to start bleeding from their orifices, such as the eyes, nose, mouth, and ears.  Only Dane was unaffected by this, somehow.

Dalthar immediately attempted to purge the blood-inducing affliction from his system, resulting in a success.  Lumi successfully resisted the infection from spreading further, but Jericho and Hunter began to suffer from convulsions as the bleeding worsened, along with a majority of the other patrons.  Dalthar immediately went to saving Jericho, which was once more successful.  He then attempted to return Hunter to health, but his body reacted poorly, instead peeling his flesh and making him more susceptible to airborne spores.  He died shortly thereafter, but somehow resisted the final effects of this strange mushroom, which was not the case for the several dead NPCs in the room.

Hunter is dead.  First death of the campaign!

Their bodies exploded outwards, creating a gaping chasm of flesh as it turned itself inside-out.  The corpses then began to fold inward, disappearing into itself to fold ever smaller until eventually condensing into no more than a square inch.  Each slain member's remains then sprouted into a new mushroom, the same shade of purple with flesh-colored spots as the one that slew them all.  Dane was notably concerned by this exchange, and took to dragging Hunter's yet-unturned corpse to a nearby alley so that he could properly strip it of its valuables.  After noticing the rather alarming spread of mushrooms nearby and their accelerated rate, Dalthar decided alerting the city guard would be a good course of action.  Jericho decided to run back into the inn to loot it while Lumi was busy setting it on fire.

Having not paid much attention during his smash and grab, Jericho hauled the coinbox out from being the bar with a passenger in tow.  When he turned his attention to his shoulder, there was now a mushroom firmly planted on his plate armor's shoulder piece, appearing as though it had been growing there the entire time.  He carefully swept it off to make sure he didn't cause it much injury, then left the now-burning building after some ale taps were ruptured and a torch was tossed in.

Dalthar  approached a guard, immediately mentioning that several were dead and the event seems to have been caused by mushrooms.  Upon mentioning mushrooms, the guard's interest spiked.  His eyes became malformed, and his entire body began to mutate into a shambling hulk of a being.  He began to take on the texture and coloring of the mushrooms, all the while speaking out to Dalthar that he would be "glad to help."  Carefully weighing the likelihood that this guard was speaking the truth, Dalthar decided he probably was not going to help in a meaningful way, and thus took to searching for a guard station in the hopes that it was just a singular patrol that was corrupted.  Upon entering the station, Dalthar was met with 12 guards idling within a room with a desk clerk, upon which sat several dozen mushrooms.  He took the hint, and instead asked the clerk about the nearby Leper colony, after which he thanked them for the clarification and returned to his party.

Dane carefully packed all of Hunter's belongings while Jericho kept a close eye on him, as a large number of the mushrooms had converged within the alley where Dane was previously not looking.  After Dalthar returned to clarify that the watch was corrupted, the group came to the conclusion that they must leave Freygate immediately, for there was no way to contain or control the outbreak as it was.  They all began to run for the West Gate, but Dane got the bright idea that he could make some coin informing some of the other quest-givers about the mushroom menace, but all of the other quest givers were deep within the center of Freygate, and in the thick of the mushrooms they had already alerted.  Regardless, the call of coin seemed definitely worth the risk, and thus diverted back toward the thing he had just declared he was running from.

Dalthar, being somewhat hobbled by a lack of limbs, did not consider this a very wise course of action, and thus continued running away from the things chasing the party.  Jericho and Lumi decided to follow Dane without any verbal explanation to run back in, because they just trusted him that much.

Dane first went to the man that sought to find an explanation for the missing people.  The man was clearly suspicious of this outlandish explanation, and demanded proof.  Taking a small dog he'd found within Hunter's pack, Dane tossed the dog at a nearby grouping of fungus, which resulted in nothing happening because they were still looking.  Forgetting this was the primary factor in their movement temporarily, Dane chose to instead send a sling hullet through the dog's side, instantly killing it and leaving a perfect hole through its chest.  With his memory returned, he then ordered the man to look away for just a moment.  They both did, and upon looking back, there was no dog corpse whatsoever and two more mushrooms than before.  This entire exchange of producing a cute dog, murdering it, then feeding its corpse to apparently carnivorous fungus was sufficient as an explanation for where people were going, and Dane was paid.

His second stop was to the man that suspected there was corruption within the guard.  Dane spun Dalthar's statement that the guard was taken over by the mushrooms to mean that their priorities have shifted, which would explain this guy's problem.  Jericho and Lumi had been following this entire time (really) and in doing so, had collected a rather large gathering of mushrooms that trailed in their footsteps.  Dane pointed to what was practically a sea of mushrooms by this point that clearly were not there before, and said that while he's just a second-hand account, the mushroom threat is true and real enough that he should be paid for warning his sorry arse instead of leaving him to a fungal fate.  He found this agreeable, and asked that they delay in departure so that he can get his things without the mushrooms invading.

Dalthar, noticing he was alone once more, set about to find one last possible solution to the mushrooms.  He approached the apothecary he'd worked in front of so many weeks earlier, then gave his mushroom story in the hopes that this medicine-man might have a solution.  The man's eyes began to deform and he, too, started to become monstrous, leaving Dalthar to wonder how long this could have possibly been entrenched in Freygate.  He concluded that it was truly impossible to save from within, and thus began to search the pathways leading to the West Gate, as had been planned from the start.

With some fortune, Dalthar met back up with the group, they "acquired" a couple horses from some unmanned stalls, and they met with a rather thin man by the name of Kroban.

Kroban:  Thin guy with either very good, or very bad luck.  It's hard to tell.  Maleficar.  Played by Hunterkiller725.

Kroban was on his way into Freygate to fill a position of a low-level scribe, but noticed the missing guards and unprotected horses.  Dane informed him of the town's magical plague and recommended he did not enter, to which Kroban decided that if his job was bunk, he might as well travel with the group to make a name for himself.  After seeing Dane, Lumi, and Jericho steal an extra horse if only so they could have two a piece, he also decided to steal a second one, leaving Dalthar as the only one with a single horse.

Shortly after leaving, Dalthar brought up that he wished everyone to check themselves to make sure they didn't bring the mushroom plague with them  After looking around, both Lumi and Jericho happened to have one hidden within their belongings.  Covering his mouth and nose with a thick cloth and lighting a torch, Dalthar set one on fire in the hopes that its spores would burn before reaching anyone.  This was apparently not the case, as everyone began to bleed except Dane, who somehow mounted up and rode several hundred feet away before anything happened, but after checking himself among everyone else.  Dalthar once again healed himself, while Lumi fought it off and Jericho began to fall into convulsions a second time.  Dalthar attempted to heal him a second time, but instead caused some rather odd tongues to start flicking from the fingers of Jericho's hand.  Jericho resisted the final stages of the plague, and eventually got himself back into workable condition.

Kroban, however, immediately mounted his horse and began to ride away when he contacted the disease.  While riding, he attempted to cast the spell Wizard Lock, modifying it to instead lock the blood in his body from coming out.  This alteration and his conditions caused him to cast the bones, which resulted in a success, but at a cost.  All of his equipment turned to an orange sludge, and the horse he rode also devolved into a whinnying pile of sentient goo.  Since he was moving, the abrupt stop caused him to crash into the ground while nude, causing some flesh damage.  He narrowly avoided being trampled by the horse he had in tow.  Dane, hearing and seeing the abomination that was Kroban's horse, chose the merciful route and hucked a slingshot bullet through the thing, dealing enough damage to kill it instantly.

After checking to make sure everyone is not dying, the party regrouped and headed further away from Freygate and toward the northwestern ruins along the river.  Dane gave Krobann Hunter's previous set of clothes, which would've probably been nice to have given him somewhere during the 4 to 8 hours of horseback riding Krobann accomplished in the nude.  After getting Krobann washed off, the party set up camp for the night.  During Kroban's first shift, a wolverine made its way into camp.  He immediately put the creature to sleep using his magic, then approached Dane to get a weapon, as Dane was the next shift anyways.  He did Kroban one better, and decapitated it from 30 feet away using a thrown axe.  He spent a majority of his shift skinning and preparing the corpse.

During the final shift, Dalthar almost failed to notice a lone Emaciated that for some reason chose to get handsy with a sleeping Jericho.  He spoke out to the creature in the hopes it would respond or that he might awaken an ally, but both failed and the Emaciated began the impolite form of touching with Jericho, which caused him to awaken.  Jericho apparently sleeps with a loaded flintlock weapon beneath his pillow, and thus pulled the weapon out and immediately shot at the Emaciated performing unwanted acts upon his person.  He missed, but the shot was loud enough to awaken everyone else.  Dane took his axe and tossed it once more, this time perfectly decapitating the Emaciated with a critical strike totaling above 30 damage.

Kroban immediately went for the skull, greedily attempting to clear out its innards to see its walls.  After a poor attempt, he learned a new spell from some mite-like beings that came forth from his flesh.