Fate of Or

Fate of OR

Adventure for Autumn 819
GM: Michael Parkinson
Night & Location: Thursdays 7-10, chez Smith, Mangere.
Level: Highish. somewhere between (demi)god assisting and mostly irrelevant.
Requires: moderate competency; sufficient, but not excessive, diplomacy; and possibly the potential to think outside the known universe.

Warning: May be playing simplified opposed combat.

Overview

Party is commissioned by "Isme" also spelt "Esme", of Thebes & Cowland.

She would prefer at least ONE from that party (Seven For Thebes 19 years ago) that superbly assisted her father, Prince Ed, formerly Ed Swellfoot since he was raised by Hobbits who “found” him abandoned as a newborn baby.
Of that party, Aqualina has drown drawn the short straw, with her assistant/wrangler/antidote (Flamis? Starflower? etc); MAYBE one more may emerge (Caprice ??) from the old, turn-of-the-century party — so space for another 3 or 4.

Nominally the party is searching for someone/thing last seen in the Ellenic States: allegedly known as EPIGRAM, a superficially friendly giant (almost certainly the Greater Titan Epimetheus, aka Afterthought, in disguise).

If you *do* have the right "Epi", you will be asked to:

1. Deliver an Important Message
   
2. And persuade Epimetheus to return with you to your employer (if you have any hopes for a performance bonus)
   
3. ... which might mean having to do something for him first, since he is a demigod-like "fixer" (and, allegedly, an amateur literary/theatre/art/Reality critic).

You will be going off-plane and may NOT take an items with you, but your magic should function approximately as expected.
Your employers will be providing some short & long-term magic effects immediately before you depart.

PARTY==

PROVISIONALLY:

• Aqualina
• Starflower
• Veor
• Sir Wojer
• possibly 1-2 more

PAYMENT & CONSEQUENCES

1. You will each be paid the equivalent of 9000 sp for taking the mission, even if you fail .
2. Payments, depending on the level your successes, may include: money, trade concessions, property, free training.
3. Assuming you're reasonably (or excessively!) successful you may expect a choice or two from selected items in the Theban treasury — since you are advised that you're unlikely to retain any loot from where you will be headed.

If nothing has been heard from you by the fortnight before the next Guild Meeting, the Employer will attempt, within reason, to have you all "recalled" back to Alusia ... with good expectations of reasonably complete success, but you may wish to take a Namer, Planar Mage, or other magical means of returning somewhere/somehow to Alusia.

OTHER IMPACT: Presumably there *are* Elvish interests involved, given their trade routes to Thebes and probably some impact to the Plane of Purple.