Gold Fever
Summary
Adventure Gold Fever
GM Martin
Season Winter 824 WK (beginning second week of Snow)
Night Monday
Location The House of Ellis
Area Serraine, Aquila, Dwarven lands
Level Medium
- Party
- Bodric Henrickson (GM Info) - Dwarven Rune Mage (m) - Mandos
- Duvon - Dwarven Earth Mage (m) - Dean
- Haedric of Bryn Coed - Dwarven Ice Mage (m) - Stephen Scribe
- Hrothgar Bronzebeard - Dwarven Artificer (m)- Alex
- Henric Henrickson - Dwarven Mind Mage (m) - Chris MilSci 2
- Lyric Henrickson - Dwarven E&E (f) - Michelle PL
- Bromli - Dwarven Namer (m) - Nick MilSci 1
- Employer
- Organized by Lorcan Skyratchet of Serraine, on behalf of the Everforge Trading Company, an enterprising dwarven mercantile concern and clients of the gnomes.
- Mission
- A lost dwarven hold rediscovered. Fortunes free for the taking. Summertime gold rush! But now winter snows have closed the passes and supplies to the prospectors are blocked. The Serraine gnomes seek help on behalf of some dwarven clients planning to fly in supplies – and make an honest profit off gold-laden prospectors to boot.
- Payment
- A share in profits (with a guaranteed base of 7,500sp each) with optional exchange for training/knowledge from Serraine.
Scribe Notes
Bodric's Return
- Th'rsday 8th Snow
We meet up in a room at the guild for a late employment request. Introductions, Dwarven in-jokes and then in walks Bodric, lost for the past 15 years with a story of an unplanned ocean voyage.
- Frysday 9th Snow
We head through Seagate for the noon transition to Mulberry where we're met by Anton. Framework for a new tower has being built in the back courtyard. Dunbar arrives in his balloon-basket ship, tying up to the new tower. After an extended lunch, we board and drift up into the clouds, finding the right winds. 4 hours later the clouds part and we approach the flying city to 'park' at a tower.
Dunbar stays with the ship, handing us over to Lorcan who takes us through customs and off by cable car to meet the Dwarves who are working through final preparations on their ship the Gryphon.
Their other ship, the Drake was on a two week mission and is now a week overdue.
Everforge Trading (ETC) bought up a couple of old Carracks and brought them to the Gnomes to get them fitted out for flight.
A church knight wandered out of the Dragonspines with gold he found on the ground near an old Dwarven hold, this triggered a gold rush amongst the local humans.
ETC decided to take advantage by shipping in and selling food & tools.
The plan is to head out to Konigburg, resupply then follow the Drake's planned route to the hold and look around.
While waiting we head out to see the sights and do some shopping and drinking.
We ask a local Sphinx if it knows what happened to The Drake, it decides that answering is a quicker route to peace than eating us.
- Reapsday 10th Snow
Returning in the morning, the ship is being prepared for departure. Bjorg directs us to our quarters.
Once untied, the ship drifts up then catches the winds and moves away.
Crew of the Gryphon
| Name | Primary Roles | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clovis Stonebrow | m | Captain, ETC owner, cargo-master | Short beard, easy smile. |
| Vianna Geldenhoff | f | ETC owner, accountant, scribe | Beautiful, golden hair, largely keeps to her cabin. |
| Bjorn "Sawbones" Burgheard | m | Ship’s surgeon, (brewer) | Gray-haired, hardnosed, dour, short tempered. |
| Bjørg Bjørgsdottir | f | Quartermaster and dinner cook | Tall, striking, long dark hair, exceptionally neat and tidy. |
| Gunduth Firebeard | m | Helmsman, Cartographer | White-blonde hair and beard (once red). |
| Bláinn Billensen | m | Engineer | Proud, stoic, sooty, goggles |
| Boso Ironglove | m | Morning mate, breakfast | Cheerful, missing right eye, right hand (prosthetic), and right leg from an unfortunate griffon attack. Collects shanties. |
| Hilda Hammerfall | f | Midday and evening mate, lunch, rigger | Lively and humorous, enjoys bawdy jokes, sharp when crossed. |
| Otto Motzsen | m | Night mate, night watch, rigger. | More ape than dwarf, lovable oaf, enjoys showing off his named and tattooed biceps: "Matta" and "Pompilina". |
| Ánarr "Gabby" Oddrún | m | Stoker | Short, dark hair, beard, and eyes, gruff and entirely uncommunicative. |
| Matteus Flintknapper | m | Carpenter, rope and sail/balloon mender | Slender, tall, and wiry for a dwarf |
| Njal "Happy" Thunderfoot | m | Rigger, carpenter | Salty and coarse former seaman, seldom in a good mood. |
| Ulf Understone | m | Night watch, rigger | Sarred and terribly tattooed, always carries handaxes, disdainful of magic users. |
| Rabscuttle | m? | General duties (badly) | Mechanician constructed Dwarf-Golem, "Gearforged". |
| Balthazar “Pongo” Wogglebottle | m | Supernumerary, lift-gas expert | Loud, egotistical, and fractious gnome. Possibly a genius. Claims to be. |
Chapter 2
Locations
Buffs & Mil Sci
Buffs and Abilities
| Magic (caster) | Rk | Effects | Duration | Bo | Br | Du | Ha | He | Hr | Ly |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strength of Stone (He) | 12 | +12 EN | 13 hrs | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | Y |
| Armour of Earth (Du) | 10 | +22% Defence | 5.5 hrs | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Enchant Armour (Ly) | 6 | +14% Defence | 3.5 hrs | |||||||
| Resist Cold (Ha) | 16 | +5 Temp Gauge, -5 Cold Dmg. | 9 hrs | Y | Y | Y | Y | |||
| Weapon of Cold (Ha) | 16 | +17 BC%, +6 Dam | 21 min ** | 4 | ||||||
| Ice Traversal (Ha) | 12 | 4 targets, +5 tmr over level ice/snow. | 4h 20m | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Spell (?) | ? | ? | ? | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
Short Term
| Magic (caster) | Rk | Effects | Dur | Bo | Br | Du | Ha | He | Hr | Ly |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enchant Weapon (Ly) | 16 | +17 BC%, +6 Dam | 21 min | |||||||
| Flying? (?) | ? | ? mph | ? | |||||||
| Spell (?) | ? | ? | ? | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Magic | Rk | Effects | Dur | Bo | Br | Du | Ha | He | Hr | Ly |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ice Armour (Ha) | 16 | 26% 4 AP 1 SG 17 Fire | 9.5 hrs | Y | ||||||
| Mind Cloak (He) | 16 | +42% vs mental Attack | 33 hrs | Y |
| Capability | Rk | Effects | Dur | Bo | Br | Du | Ha | He | Hr | Ly |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sense Danger (%) | 64% | |||||||||
| Detect Ambush (%) | Ranger (-5/rank of opposition) | 118% | ||||||||
| See Invis (Rk) | Effective rank for seeing invisible | 14 | ? | |||||||
| Stealth (%) | Std / Ranger Outdoors | 47% | % | % | 70% / 94% | % | % | % |
** Weapon of Cold Peace-Bound until needed.
- Enhance Enchantment
- Rk ? from Lyric
- Greater Enchantment
- Rk 20? from Lyric
- Mil Sci Raise Morale
- +3 WP - Bodric
- Brewing
- Golden Ale nightcap - +1 FT per hour of sleep
- Stoneybrew, Dur 1 Hr - +7 WP
- Fighting Ale, Dur 1 Hr - +7 EN, +5 PS, +4 FT, No Stun.
- Porter Ale, Dur 1 Hr - +7 PC, Death Aspect, +15% MR vs Charm/Hypnosis, +10% MR vs Illusion, -15% MR vs Necro/Wicca, Fearless.
- Herbalist Meals ?
- +3 FT for a Hot Meal, +2 FT for Broth
- Shape of Shelter (Br)
- Resting at night - for EN recovery, 1 hour counts as 24 hours. i.e. 3 hrs = 3 days rest = +1 EN. And FT recovery per hour is 6.
Astrology
| Bodric | Bromli | Duvon | Haedric | Henric | Hrothgar | Lyric |
| __ |
Watch Order
| Hour: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bodric | Bromli | Henric | ||||||||||
| Lyric | Haedric | Hrothgar | Duvon | |||||||||
Marching Order
| Skirmish Formations (Front) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Default
Bodric
Bromli
Duvon
Haedric
Henric
Hrothgar
Lyric |
Single File
Bodric
Bromli
Duvon
Haedric
Henric
Hrothgar
Lyric | |
Calendar
| Winter: Frost 824 (7) | ||||||||||||||
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| Moonday | Duesday | W'ansday | Th'rsday | Frysday | Reapsday | Sunday | ||||||||
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Samhain | 1 | Guild Meeting Seagate | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||||
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14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 10 | |||||||
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21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | |||||||
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28 | 29 | 30 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||||||
| Winter: Snow 823 (8) | ||||||||||||||
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5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | |||||||
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12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | Solstice | 16 | 17 | The Duke of Carzala's Winter Ball | 18 | Yuletide | ||||
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19 | Days of Chaos | 20 | DoC2 | 21 | DoC3 | 22 | DoC4 | 23 | DoC5 | 24 | DoC6 | 25 | DoC7 |
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26 | DoC8 | 27 | DoC9 | 28 | DoC10 | 29 | DoC11 | 30 | Twelfth Night | 1 | 2 | ||
| Winter: Ice 823 (9) | ||||||||||||||
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3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | First Plough | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||||
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10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | |||||||
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17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | |||||||
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24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | |||||||
