Longest Road
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Description
Continuation of Alpha-Bravo, under new GMship. The Longest Road (as one might guess from the name) is a Planes-trekking adventure with our dear old friends from Alpha-Bravo. Characters are beginning at 14th level, with ECL figured into that. And what a crazy assortment of characters they are...
Brief plot synopsis: several artifacts known as the Orbs of Dragonkind have gone missing, all at once. There's a centuries-old dragon war going on. The demons of the Abyss are somehow now involved in it too. Sil has had a vision of the dragon god Bahamut lying bleeding from the neck, a vision that left her with a splitting headache and growing sense of dread. The PCs have some orbs; the ones they have seem to vary from run to run. The Church of Tamara recently lost two to a traitor: white and blue. The red orb has been entrusted to That Old Man for safekeeping, or at least hiding. The green and black are in the hands of an abyssal lord, Pazuzu, and the bronze was recently recovered from the Plane of Water. The brass is next; in a great desert in the Wilds of the Material Plane.
Orbs we have as of the last run: Gold, Silver, Copper, Bronze.
Longest Road House Rules - NEW! Some rules I may or may not decide to keep.
- Game Master
- Zahnnie
Characters
- Michael (Portrait)
- Nybble
- Sil (Portrait)
- Aurora
- Ezel
- Chadius
- Ellowyn
- Ratri
- Teris
- Morrigu
- MYSTERY?!?!?!?
- Rykilde
Retired Characters
NPCs
- Oraine
- Zahnnie's old PC before she took over GMship.
- Thame
- Oraine's incredibly good looking brother, a ranger type of some sort.
- The Old Man
- A very old elf, more than a little crazy. Recently revealed to be the god Io, father of Bahamut and Tiamat.
- Evathyth
- The party's guide to the planes. A (previously) retired raptoran Guide.
- Saula
- A mercane merchant in the Plane of Air. He has a cousin, too.
- The Bariaurs
- Goat-taur warriors of GOOD, who champion and defend against EVIL! And make songs.
- Silara
- Sil's mom. A gold dragon of some renown.
- Mirenuth and Seth
- A mated pair of silver dragons who recently had their egg stolen (and returned).
- Silvia and Vincent
- Kith to Mirenuth and Seth respectively.
- The Lillend
- Possibly the only creature prettier than Ellowyn.
- The Inevitables
- Clockwork creatures that could pwnz Ezel.
- Armatt
- Michael's Mom.
- Neth
- A curious plane of existence that doesn't like to be chopped to bits.
- Leon-Hai
- Son of Obad-hai, a tiger-like demigod of hunting and posing awesomely.
- Rose
- The cutest little baby succubus.
- Pazuzu
- WAY cooler than the other guy. Way.
- Graz'zt
- Fine, but HE has three levels of the Abyss.
- Charra
- Minion of Pazuzu, killed Graz'zt.
- Church of Tamara Group
- Marcus (and Eruuyel), Aezma, Nula, and Senyo
- Zahn
- Former companion of Sil, now working for/with (?) the Church of Tiamat.
- Vin
- Recently liberated flunkie of Zahn, now travelling with the Church of Tamara.
- The Dragons
- Legendary figures appointed as guardians of the orbs during the thousands-of-years-long Dragon War
Calendar
At least on the Material Plane, the calendar follows a 365-day year, with 12 months corresponding to our standard ones. (I'm going to rename them and haven't decided the exact names yet, will fill in as needed.)
The current year by Spire and Fiana calendars is 1372 A.F. (After Founding). By Alsomia calendars it's 1792 A.F. (it's a slightly older nation).
Bahamut and Tiamat were resurrected 3 Lightning Moon (August 3rd), 1372/1792. Work from there. (When are your character birthdays? Other than Ezel, who had a birthday (wtf?) on July 1st/1 Blessing Moon by my reckoning.)
Months
Astrology on the Material Plane
- January = Wolf Moon
- February = Cold Moon
- March = Wind Moon
- April = Growing Moon
- May = Flower Moon
- June = Horse Moon
- July = Blessing Moon
- August = Lightning Moon
- September = Harvest Moon
- October = Blood Moon
- November = Snow Moon
- December = Dark Moon
Birthdays
- Ezel - 1 Blessing Moon (July 1st), at least according to his mother...
- Sil - 3 Lightning Moon (August 3rd) as a gold dragon. (Take that, Mom. :P) (Though she probably was a Lightning Moon baby anyway).
- Teris - 27 Wind Moon (March 27th). And he's a rogue. Go fig. (Randomly rolled too)
Places of Note
Material Plane
- That Old Place
- Home to The Old Man.
- Silara's Den
- Where you can knock on (up) Sil's mom.
- Greywood
- Elven town near Silara's den.
- Spire
- Creatively named capital city of Spire (the country).
- Rachis
- Raptoran village where Evathyth is from.
- Ezel's Hideout
- Where he larns him some stuff.
- Querca's Grove
- Recently mostly-destroyed.
- Corrolith
- Pevishan village about six weeks' travel, on foot, from Greywood.
Astral Plane
- The Kevin
- Currently tucked up some rock-butt.
Neth
- see Neth, the character
Abyss
- Top Layer
- Layer 23 (?)
- A jungle.
- Charra's Prison
- Ice palace engraved with pictures of Graz'zt pwning.
- Graz'zt's Palace
- Where the PCs loot-zored his treasure and then he exploded.
Plane of Air
- Sky Reach
- A major city.
- The Silvers' Castle
- Mirenuth's and Seth's sweet crib.
- Freehaven
- Artist's colony. Pretty.
The Outlands
- Sigil
- City of Doors, it floats above the infinitely tall Spire of the Outlands (impossibly)
The Corridor
Time passes funny here!
Plane of Water
- Jutestream
- Small kingdom of merfolk
Run Notes
- Run 1 -- 3/19/2005
- Run 2 -- 12/12/2005
- Run 3 -- 2/2006
- Run 4 -- 4/16/2006
- Run 5 -- 8/20/2006
- Run 6 -- 11/12/2006
- Run 7 -- 4/15/2007
- Run 8 -- 5/20/2007
- Run 9 -- 7/14/2007
- Run 10 -- 8/18/2007
- Run 11 -- 12/3/2007
- Run 12 -- 3/8/2008
- Run 13 -- 6/29/2008
- Run 14 -- 7/13/2008
- Run 15 -- 9/14/2008 (needs summary. Now offering double XPs. DOUBLE BONUS TIME, time, time... 1,000 XPs!)
- Run 16 -- 12/14/2008
- Run 17 -- 1/18/2009 (needs summary. Now offering double XPs. DOUBLE BONUS TIME, time, time... 1,000 XPs!)
- Run 18 -- 3/29/2009 (needs summary.)
- Run 19 -- 5/24/2009 (needs summary.)
- Run 20 -- 10/18/2009 (needs summary.)
- Run 21 -- 1/9/2010 (needs summary.)
- Run 22 -- 1/23/2010 (needs summary. For this one, since there's so much to cover, I may- depending on length/quality of summary- offer bonus XPs on top of the original 500.)
