Café de Nuit

Greetings ladies and gentlemen,

Since the other OOC board is beginning to get a little full, I decided to start a fresh board to continue our discussions. If you haven't been around much the past week or so, then I would recommend that you quickly peruse the other thread in order to catch up on events.

Please feel free to use this new thread to discuss any matters that wouldn't be appropriate to insert in the middle of the story posts. In particular, I refer to any and all out-of-character (OOC) posts that you may need to make. Feel free to post questions, replies, and other such commentary on this thread.

Many thanks!

Jason "Javier" True

Having existed for over two years before it was temporarily stopped, the "Halfling Walks" series has covered a number of activities and events. It is nearly impossible for me to go through all the chapters (and the various subsections of each chapter) in any great detail. I will, however, try to give a summary of the main events that have occurred over the course of the story. If any of the veteran players wish to add to this summary, then please feel free to fill in any gaps that I might leave.

The original adventure started in Barovia during the year 751 BC, but the course of events have brought the group to a greatly different version of the Core in the year 801 BC. The following are the biggest changes that have occurred during those fifty years:


Malocchio Aderre, who used armies from Falkovia and magic from Darkon, found a way to break the Vistani curse that was laid upon him. With the curse removed, he used his armies to travel forth and conquer Verbrek, Richelumont, and Falkovia (which have all become on large domain of Invidia. During this time, Malocchio has killed many Vistani tribes (whose blood fueled the spell that lifted his curse). Unfortunately for Aderre, the curse was reestablished and he is trapped in his much bigger domain.

An army of illithid warriors and psionicists has invaded Valachan and Mordent. These two domains no longer exist, and the original inhabitants have either fled or become slaves to the new illithid occupants. The new domain is called Mudallithid, and it is a bleak and broken ruminant of the previous domains.

Sithicus needed a more powerful force to prevent the illithid invasion, and Lord Soth was called back to defend the land. The true Darklord has not been established, but there is no doubting that the deathknight rules over the populance.

Borca has fiercely embraced religion to counteract the threats of illithids and Aderre. The Church of Ezra has taken a strong hold of the domain and the people have risen to a pious state unmatched anywhere else.

Nova Vaasa has been taken over by a strange mercenary and his witch companion. While this mercenary seems content to leave the people alone, there is a strong feeling of it only being the calm before the storm.

Hazlan has seen a revolution and its two cultures practically are reversed.

Tepest has been invaded by a strange demonic entity, which nobody has seen and lived to tell the tale. This new master has warped and twisted creatures into vile creations that have counteracted any and all attempts of the people?s inquisitions.

Cleaning House:

First and foremost, I would also like to remind everyone that we removing all inactive characters from the campaign. If players are not posting a reasonable amount each week, then I will also be removing their characters from play. This decision is to help keep the action moving for those who are around and participating. As for what should be considered a reasonable amount, I would say that one or two in-character posts a week should be enough. Again, a post that only consists of one or two sentances does not count. We need something more substantial than that to keep your character involved.

Second, I will be pruning this board before the end of this week. I will be removing the old, locked threads, and the current threads will be locked as new ones are created. If there is any pertinent information that you wish to read or keep, then I would highly advise you to save it before this next Friday. I want to free space for the next set of chapters...

Jason

Babysitting the halfling for the past four years...!

Guys, I trimmed the pic down a bit, it is a fair bit smaller now.

It's still very large, Wiccy, and makes it distracting to read any of the threads. Would you be able to shrink it, rather than trimming the edges?

I'll see if I can trim it further without distorting the pixels. I really don't want to trim it any more on the borders, I cut off about 85% of the picture in the beginning, lol.

Okay, done. better now? It is now 30% smaller than the first image I put up (and all my pictures have been smaller than another person who posts here, and I don't nean Dion ). However, I think this shrinking has distorted the image to much.

No hurt! No kill! Keep alive, and next time posts bring to you!

Needless to say, Heinrich hates Artemis like no other, except perhaps Malocchios Aderre, call it a tie, lol.

I've kinda had the unfortunate event of having the rest of my group disappear on me. So I was without anyone that knew what was going on with the story around to help drive the tale. Otherwise I'm certain I'd still be quite active in this game.

Hey! This is Borca! Heinrich should be ready for a little backstabbing! Ixevim thought that Artemis was distracting Lord Pieter so we could act, but he had some doupts on Artemis' allegiances. Anyway, he was confident that the Black Widow and her extension (Lady Romaine) would find a way to get rid of Lord Pieter, but he didn't know if the party's survival was in their plans at all.
He still isn't sure. In fact he believes something bad will happen with Nostalia or Ivana soon as he knows that Ivana takes pleasure betraying those that had been helpful and loyal to her.
However he has more important things to sort out at the moment.

I don’t know what plans we have after this adventure, but Kimuriel wants to seek this creature. He wants to find out if it has only used his father’s appearance and memories to make a trap for him or if it really was his father in it (his spirit or soul). If the second theory proves true, Kimuriel will try to do something to lay Joanthan rest.

I think it will be interesting!

alhoon wrote:Hey! This is Borca! Heinrich should be ready for a little backstabbing!

Heheheh, he expects some backstabbing, he just isn't so forgiving

May Artemis or Ixevim cast “detect magic” on the corpse? Maybe we can learn something more about Pieter or the puppet, or we may find a magical item!

Jason of the Fraternity wrote:
Second, I will be pruning this board before the end of this week. I will be removing the old, locked threads, and the current threads will be locked as new ones are created.

Come on Jason lets get cutting. The church is almost over and we've yet to get this sorted.

Coan wrote:Come on Jason lets get cutting. The church is almost over and we've yet to get this sorted.

It seems that for every thing we deal with in The Church thread there are a few more things appearing for us to contend with. We have alot going on that is really interesting I don't think it is nearly over just yet, we will have to come up with a way to deal with Heinrich when the others go back. He could go with them, but would have to avoid Falkovnia in case he meets his past self and somehow interferes accidently with what will happen to him in thoe days