[D&D-3.5e] Why Are The Masters Of The Universe Mortals?

[Unforgiven]

What's up Shak! Good to see you're still about!

[btccg]

Originally Posted by SageBahamut

Is this still recruiting?

Always!

[Mahima And Anima]

Originally Posted by Unforgiven

What's up Shak! Good to see you're still about!

Hey!
Are you joining us?
Good to see you too!

[Mahima And Anima]

Originally Posted by Shakram

New players are always welcome
We keep the game open forever. So if any new players are interested your always welcome to come join our game. If your interested please join us on the game forum.

We just finished a hydra quest and will probably be about level 8.
So any new players would have double standard gold and be level 8.

Game Thread Is Here

We are always open to more players if any are interested.

Welcome to the adventure!
We are 8th level with double standard gold.
New players welcome!

[Unforgiven]

@shak: Probably not at the moment, waiting to see how some of my games shape up as well as when/if they start up again.

[Eleishar]

Is there still a place? I have a lot of free time now, so maybe I'll finally be able to play.

[triedtherest]

The Game is always recruiting, and we have just finished an adventure, so now is an excellent time to jump in.

Just follow the links and introduce yourself.

[Shakram]

Soooo umm we are like level 10 now starting gold is 60,000gp and about to start the game below plenty of room if anyone is interested.

Thinking of starting a recruitment thread as this one is quite cluttered.






WAR
The echo of battle as swords clash rings across the battle fields of the border lands. The howls of warriors and the gnashing of teeth as mithril and steel meet on the battle field. Arrows rain down like death on many unfortunate warriors as a weather of war grips the realm.
A massive war has started seemingly within the last few days. Armies from all around gather to reinforce the local borders of the city. As you return to the city you see thousands of adventurers marching towards the city. You hear tales of war on the border with various monstrous humanoids, undead, devils and demons. Enemies of every hue shape and size have come under the common banner of the demons for reasons unknown. There are rumors of Thay, underdark, and other neutral cities betraying the humanity of fairy folk and men, stories of how many are aiding the demonic forces each for their own profit.
As many of you begin to travel back to the city you see people running to and fro in a panic. Many are leaving the area of the city while others from the border regions are fleeing to the city. Eventually all of you make it to the guild once there you meet other adventurers you know and listen to the many missions that the guild has to offer.

In The Guild
You Find Missions Of To Aid Allies And The The City
Looking through the various missions you see many dangers of a variety and your group has yet to decide which mission to choose many of them seem connected to the war that has broken out on the border.

The local city adventurers guild is in charge of providing missions of various difficulties to adventurers who can help.
The local adventurers take rest gather with like minded souls, tell stories, shop, trade, and move about through the hall. Some eat food, while others talk about their recent adventurers dealing with the war.

The guild hall offers missions sponserd by patrons around the towns and cities. The missions are all paid only after completion.
Each mission will pay a base price of 30,000gp to each member who participates in the mission.
Some missions connect with others and offer more gold for completing different quests. After the mission is complete the guild will calculate how much gold an adventurer should get depending on their contribution.


Runes Glow To Show Higher Power Is Present
As war has begun countless adventurers from all over the realms have come to participate in the war to defend humanity from the forces of demons and devils.
Different types of missions are available to different level adventurers. Most are to reinforce the army, some are to protect local villas, while others are to secure supply routes.
The guildhall staff lady shows you the missions of your level, runes light up on the papers seen by the group and the missions can now be seen, some of which seem higher than usual.
The guild woman mentions that the runes on the paper detect auras power levels and groups are not rated by their level alone but also by their status and their magical power. Since this group seems to all have magical powers, items, and seem tougher than most the missions available have gone up nearing the top meaning your group may influence the fate of the war.


Guild Explains Missions
A older man man looks over the group and begins going over the available missions telling them what he knows of the missions as well as which ones may offer more to the party. Demons have been spotted everywhere from the fields of battle to the tunnels under the city. It seems like a demonic invasion of every sort. From the surrounding mountains in every direction we believe devils and demons have been recruiting monstrous humanoids to wage war on the borderlands. Our sister cities throughout the realms have been sending soldiers of every type to reinforce our borders. Many of the missions available overlap and rely on the others. Dont be surprised if you encounter all of these things on the field of battle. Should you prove to accomplish more than one mission you will be paid a nice bonus for each mission completed.



War Has Begun
Our forces have clashed with the invading humanoids time and time again. For now they hold but they could use your aid. Our forces need commanders and you lot have proven your worth. Powerful adventurers like you could lead our armies to victory over the demonic alliance that has made camp in the mountains of our borders. They get supplies and recruit from neutral territories. Their forces grow with with day as do ours. Join us and become a powerful force against the demonic invasion.
Our current main battle lines are to break the encirclement of the dwarven forces beneath the mountain.
For this mission you will be given the command of 300 troops.
Should they die you fail half the mission.
Defeat the army facing them and keep them alive.




Dragon Riders Appear On The Battle Field
On the field of battle a group of demon and devil dragon riders have been harassing our forces. These dragons are of many metallic hues, have infernal qualities, and seem to work in unison with the demonic army on the border. They are also used to make penetrating strikes deep into our territory. They often hit soft targets like supply routes, farms, industrial towns, lone villages, and places where we gather natural resources. They are currently harassing aid and supply lines to the dwarven citidels beneath the mountains.
Find their base and wipe them out.




Dwarven Colony Being Invaded By Demons
A nearby dwarven colony that supplies the city with most of the advanced smith work and crafts is currently being waylaid by demons and devils leading an army of monstrous humanoids. They are in desperate need of rescue and their forces are barley able to hold out. The demons are trying to seal the dwarves in the mountain and cut them off from aid from the outside. An allied army of humans, elves, and other friendly humanoid races from the surrounding area went in to rescue them but wound up being trapped with the dwarves unable to stop the demons.
We worry that the dwarves will be captured by the demons and seek a way to stop the demons from invading the dwarven underground citadels.
This mission has the highest priority
Save the dwarves and allied forces
Stop the demons from trapping them under the mountain



Red Wizards
A group of red wizards we believe they are from from Thay have been spotted working with demons and are aiding in the siege of the dwarves as well as on the battle fields on the border lands. We believe they have made an alliance with the demons and our spies have spoken of horrific experiments that have been carried out on prisoners of war and slaves taken from our city as well as dwarves and elven clans. They are also working with the demonic dragon riders in order to abduct villagers as new specimens for their evil research. We believe they may be the ones responsible for summoning more of the demons assaulting the dwarves and reinforcing the demonic ranks with their magic. They may be here as war profiteers and have allied with the demons for reasons of their own.
Find the red wizards base of operations kill them if you can
Stop their inhumane experiments



Devil Slave Lords
The armies of demons and devils have begun to subjugate many races and those who surrender find themselves in the slave markets of Thay trafficed through neutral territory.
The enslavement of our people and the neighboring cities and towns must be stopped.
Slavery is illegal in our territory as we feel it is barbaric and savage. For the demons and devils it is simply a way of life. We have recieved requests from local villages of many races. No one is safe and we have reports from the surrounding mountains that they have been taking elves, dwarves, halflings, humans, celestials, giant kin and every sort of intelligent life. Their current slaving campaign is the dwarven fortress under the mountain. Enslaved captured dwarves and allied soldiers are being transported through tunnel network of the underdark. Many dwarves have already been taken prisoner the demon and devil slavers must be stopped.
Find the hub where the slaves are being held and trafficked
Kill the slave traders and destroy their network
Free the slaves


A Strange Group of Blobs With Eyes Spotted In Demonic Underground Bases
A strange group of disgusting blobs with eyes all over them have been seen wandering around the underground demon encampments. Dwarven soldiers who have attacked the demonic outposts underground to defend their cities claim these disgusting creatures are somehow brought to this realm by portals. We fear they may begin multiplying and take root here our region. It is unknown how these creatures are being controlled and bred by the demons. There creatures pose great risk if they begin to spread around the mountains. More interesting is the portals the dwarves mention seeing underground. If these creatures are being transported by portals then perhaps other things are as well.
Stop the demonic transplant of these creatures and wipe out any you may see.
Find the breeding area of these blobs and destroy it.



Monsters From the Underdark And Demons Are Creating Tunnels Beneath The City
Beneath the city there have been a few encounters with creatures from the underdark. Our adventurers and local soldiers have been able to fight off the these incursions. However we fear that the demons and devils have created a partnership with the underdark. By enslavement of the humans, dwarves, and surface elves we believe the
demons have struck a deal with the dark elves of the underdark. According to our spies their pact depends on the fall of the dwarven cities under the mountain. They have an alliance as long as the demons defeat the dwarves who the drow see as a threat. They wish to claim the dwarven cities thus they aid the demons.
Find the source of the underground network
Destroy the demons underground network affiliated with the drow
Defeat underdark allies the demons have enlisted
Collapse the tunnels leading to the underdark



Vampire Lord And His Cult Of Necromatic Magic
The demon armies ranks swell with dark necromancy, magic and evil. The source of this evil is a vampire lord necromancer mage. His vampire thrall number in the thousands due to their ability to create spawn out of any humanoid they capture alive. This ability grants them countless new recruits into their vampire cult. They worship darkness and their clerics chant evil mantras which bolster their troops and weaken our allies. Many of them wield powerful magics which they display nightly on the field of battle. After we defeat them they turn into clouds of smoke then soon return again. They are now assulting the underground dwarven cities and time after time the dwarven army has felled the many warriors of their cult and again they return to the battle field. They choose to fight underground because they fear the sunlight, making the assault on the dwarven city the perfect battlefield for them. With the promise of immortality the vampire cult has become quite popular in neutral lands that are not allied with us. Their cult has unwavering loyalty due to their necromatic bond to their vampire masters. At the top of the master servant ranking is the vampire lord. Our sources say that if he is slain as well as his thrall commanders the chain of vampiric command will shatter. Our mystics tell us vampires have special sleeping coffins, and if they are destroyed then the vampires cannot return.
Defeat the vampire lord mage
Defeat his thrall commanders
Destroy the vampire coffins



A Lich King Necromancer With An Undead Army
On the field of battle an army of undead swell in the ranks of the enemy. They are the machinations of an undead self proclaimed lich king necromancer. The lich king has created countless undead warriors which harass our forces on the field of battle. Many times or forces have felled this lich king only to see him on his chariot again in another battle. Our mystics say there may be some special item that allows his spirit to continually return and recover his skeletal form or even make a new one. There must be some way to locate and destroy these devices of his so that he will never return after he is destroyed. He leads an army of undead which are now marching on the dwarven citadel. Defeat him and destroy his devices so we are never plagued by his existence again.
Locate and destroy all of his resurrection devices
Defeat the lich king


Portals
The demons seem to have created some system on plannar travel which allows them to cross into our world from their own. This transportation system also allows them to move through space traversing vast distances with great ease. This is the backbone of their supply lines and the tool they use to travel into the prime realm. Our mystics tell us that to run such a nework must require vast amounts of power and it must all be connected to a single source for it to work the way it does. Our forces have destroyed portals before however new portals are created in different areas. We are now striking portal after portal and we never know where the demons will appear next. However if we could find the source of this portal network and destroy it we will have cut off the demons network. This we believe is instrumental to our victory. We need to also find the demon who created it so that it cannot be remade.
Destroy their portal network
Kill or imprison the demon who is behind its creation



The Party Thinks Over Their Options
Talking among yourselves you decide which missions would post the most danger as well as those which would be the most profitable. You also speak to each other about which one is actually needed, as in lives at risk, helping others in need for some holds more value than gold. You notice many of the missions are search and destroy missions with very few being people in dire need of assistance.


Summary
You can introduce your character whether finished or not to do a little role play. You can also talk over which mission the group would like to go on.

[Shakram]

Originally Posted by Shakram

Soooo umm we are like level 10 now starting gold is 60,000gp and about to start the game below plenty of room if anyone is interested.

Thinking of starting a recruitment thread as this one is quite cluttered.






WAR
The echo of battle as swords clash rings across the battle fields of the border lands. The howls of warriors and the gnashing of teeth as mithril and steel meet on the battle field. Arrows rain down like death on many unfortunate warriors as a weather of war grips the realm.
A massive war has started seemingly within the last few days. Armies from all around gather to reinforce the local borders of the city. As you return to the city you see thousands of adventurers marching towards the city. You hear tales of war on the border with various monstrous humanoids, undead, devils and demons. Enemies of every hue shape and size have come under the common banner of the demons for reasons unknown. There are rumors of Thay, underdark, and other neutral cities betraying the humanity of fairy folk and men, stories of how many are aiding the demonic forces each for their own profit.
As many of you begin to travel back to the city you see people running to and fro in a panic. Many are leaving the area of the city while others from the border regions are fleeing to the city. Eventually all of you make it to the guild once there you meet other adventurers you know and listen to the many missions that the guild has to offer.

In The Guild
You Find Missions Of To Aid Allies And The The City
Looking through the various missions you see many dangers of a variety and your group has yet to decide which mission to choose many of them seem connected to the war that has broken out on the border.

The local city adventurers guild is in charge of providing missions of various difficulties to adventurers who can help.
The local adventurers take rest gather with like minded souls, tell stories, shop, trade, and move about through the hall. Some eat food, while others talk about their recent adventurers dealing with the war.

The guild hall offers missions sponserd by patrons around the towns and cities. The missions are all paid only after completion.
Each mission will pay a base price of 30,000gp to each member who participates in the mission.
Some missions connect with others and offer more gold for completing different quests. After the mission is complete the guild will calculate how much gold an adventurer should get depending on their contribution.


Runes Glow To Show Higher Power Is Present
As war has begun countless adventurers from all over the realms have come to participate in the war to defend humanity from the forces of demons and devils.
Different types of missions are available to different level adventurers. Most are to reinforce the army, some are to protect local villas, while others are to secure supply routes.
The guildhall staff lady shows you the missions of your level, runes light up on the papers seen by the group and the missions can now be seen, some of which seem higher than usual.
The guild woman mentions that the runes on the paper detect auras power levels and groups are not rated by their level alone but also by their status and their magical power. Since this group seems to all have magical powers, items, and seem tougher than most the missions available have gone up nearing the top meaning your group may influence the fate of the war.


Guild Explains Missions
A older man man looks over the group and begins going over the available missions telling them what he knows of the missions as well as which ones may offer more to the party. Demons have been spotted everywhere from the fields of battle to the tunnels under the city. It seems like a demonic invasion of every sort. From the surrounding mountains in every direction we believe devils and demons have been recruiting monstrous humanoids to wage war on the borderlands. Our sister cities throughout the realms have been sending soldiers of every type to reinforce our borders. Many of the missions available overlap and rely on the others. Dont be surprised if you encounter all of these things on the field of battle. Should you prove to accomplish more than one mission you will be paid a nice bonus for each mission completed.



War Has Begun
Our forces have clashed with the invading humanoids time and time again. For now they hold but they could use your aid. Our forces need commanders and you lot have proven your worth. Powerful adventurers like you could lead our armies to victory over the demonic alliance that has made camp in the mountains of our borders. They get supplies and recruit from neutral territories. Their forces grow with with day as do ours. Join us and become a powerful force against the demonic invasion.
Our current main battle lines are to break the encirclement of the dwarven forces beneath the mountain.
For this mission you will be given the command of 300 troops.
Should they die you fail half the mission.
Defeat the army facing them and keep them alive.




Dragon Riders Appear On The Battle Field
On the field of battle a group of demon and devil dragon riders have been harassing our forces. These dragons are of many metallic hues, have infernal qualities, and seem to work in unison with the demonic army on the border. They are also used to make penetrating strikes deep into our territory. They often hit soft targets like supply routes, farms, industrial towns, lone villages, and places where we gather natural resources. They are currently harassing aid and supply lines to the dwarven citidels beneath the mountains.
Find their base and wipe them out.




Dwarven Colony Being Invaded By Demons
A nearby dwarven colony that supplies the city with most of the advanced smith work and crafts is currently being waylaid by demons and devils leading an army of monstrous humanoids. They are in desperate need of rescue and their forces are barley able to hold out. The demons are trying to seal the dwarves in the mountain and cut them off from aid from the outside. An allied army of humans, elves, and other friendly humanoid races from the surrounding area went in to rescue them but wound up being trapped with the dwarves unable to stop the demons.
We worry that the dwarves will be captured by the demons and seek a way to stop the demons from invading the dwarven underground citadels.
This mission has the highest priority
Save the dwarves and allied forces
Stop the demons from trapping them under the mountain



Red Wizards
A group of red wizards we believe they are from from Thay have been spotted working with demons and are aiding in the siege of the dwarves as well as on the battle fields on the border lands. We believe they have made an alliance with the demons and our spies have spoken of horrific experiments that have been carried out on prisoners of war and slaves taken from our city as well as dwarves and elven clans. They are also working with the demonic dragon riders in order to abduct villagers as new specimens for their evil research. We believe they may be the ones responsible for summoning more of the demons assaulting the dwarves and reinforcing the demonic ranks with their magic. They may be here as war profiteers and have allied with the demons for reasons of their own.
Find the red wizards base of operations kill them if you can
Stop their inhumane experiments



Devil Slave Lords
The armies of demons and devils have begun to subjugate many races and those who surrender find themselves in the slave markets of Thay trafficed through neutral territory.
The enslavement of our people and the neighboring cities and towns must be stopped.
Slavery is illegal in our territory as we feel it is barbaric and savage. For the demons and devils it is simply a way of life. We have recieved requests from local villages of many races. No one is safe and we have reports from the surrounding mountains that they have been taking elves, dwarves, halflings, humans, celestials, giant kin and every sort of intelligent life. Their current slaving campaign is the dwarven fortress under the mountain. Enslaved captured dwarves and allied soldiers are being transported through tunnel network of the underdark. Many dwarves have already been taken prisoner the demon and devil slavers must be stopped.
Find the hub where the slaves are being held and trafficked
Kill the slave traders and destroy their network
Free the slaves


A Strange Group of Blobs With Eyes Spotted In Demonic Underground Bases
A strange group of disgusting blobs with eyes all over them have been seen wandering around the underground demon encampments. Dwarven soldiers who have attacked the demonic outposts underground to defend their cities claim these disgusting creatures are somehow brought to this realm by portals. We fear they may begin multiplying and take root here our region. It is unknown how these creatures are being controlled and bred by the demons. There creatures pose great risk if they begin to spread around the mountains. More interesting is the portals the dwarves mention seeing underground. If these creatures are being transported by portals then perhaps other things are as well.
Stop the demonic transplant of these creatures and wipe out any you may see.
Find the breeding area of these blobs and destroy it.



Monsters From the Underdark And Demons Are Creating Tunnels Beneath The City
Beneath the city there have been a few encounters with creatures from the underdark. Our adventurers and local soldiers have been able to fight off the these incursions. However we fear that the demons and devils have created a partnership with the underdark. By enslavement of the humans, dwarves, and surface elves we believe the
demons have struck a deal with the dark elves of the underdark. According to our spies their pact depends on the fall of the dwarven cities under the mountain. They have an alliance as long as the demons defeat the dwarves who the drow see as a threat. They wish to claim the dwarven cities thus they aid the demons.
Find the source of the underground network
Destroy the demons underground network affiliated with the drow
Defeat underdark allies the demons have enlisted
Collapse the tunnels leading to the underdark



Vampire Lord And His Cult Of Necromatic Magic
The demon armies ranks swell with dark necromancy, magic and evil. The source of this evil is a vampire lord necromancer mage. His vampire thrall number in the thousands due to their ability to create spawn out of any humanoid they capture alive. This ability grants them countless new recruits into their vampire cult. They worship darkness and their clerics chant evil mantras which bolster their troops and weaken our allies. Many of them wield powerful magics which they display nightly on the field of battle. After we defeat them they turn into clouds of smoke then soon return again. They are now assulting the underground dwarven cities and time after time the dwarven army has felled the many warriors of their cult and again they return to the battle field. They choose to fight underground because they fear the sunlight, making the assault on the dwarven city the perfect battlefield for them. With the promise of immortality the vampire cult has become quite popular in neutral lands that are not allied with us. Their cult has unwavering loyalty due to their necromatic bond to their vampire masters. At the top of the master servant ranking is the vampire lord. Our sources say that if he is slain as well as his thrall commanders the chain of vampiric command will shatter. Our mystics tell us vampires have special sleeping coffins, and if they are destroyed then the vampires cannot return.
Defeat the vampire lord mage
Defeat his thrall commanders
Destroy the vampire coffins



A Lich King Necromancer With An Undead Army
On the field of battle an army of undead swell in the ranks of the enemy. They are the machinations of an undead self proclaimed lich king necromancer. The lich king has created countless undead warriors which harass our forces on the field of battle. Many times or forces have felled this lich king only to see him on his chariot again in another battle. Our mystics say there may be some special item that allows his spirit to continually return and recover his skeletal form or even make a new one. There must be some way to locate and destroy these devices of his so that he will never return after he is destroyed. He leads an army of undead which are now marching on the dwarven citadel. Defeat him and destroy his devices so we are never plagued by his existence again.
Locate and destroy all of his resurrection devices
Defeat the lich king


Portals
The demons seem to have created some system on plannar travel which allows them to cross into our world from their own. This transportation system also allows them to move through space traversing vast distances with great ease. This is the backbone of their supply lines and the tool they use to travel into the prime realm. Our mystics tell us that to run such a nework must require vast amounts of power and it must all be connected to a single source for it to work the way it does. Our forces have destroyed portals before however new portals are created in different areas. We are now striking portal after portal and we never know where the demons will appear next. However if we could find the source of this portal network and destroy it we will have cut off the demons network. This we believe is instrumental to our victory. We need to also find the demon who created it so that it cannot be remade.
Destroy their portal network
Kill or imprison the demon who is behind its creation



The Party Thinks Over Their Options
Talking among yourselves you decide which missions would post the most danger as well as those which would be the most profitable. You also speak to each other about which one is actually needed, as in lives at risk, helping others in need for some holds more value than gold. You notice many of the missions are search and destroy missions with very few being people in dire need of assistance.


Summary
You can introduce your character whether finished or not to do a little role play. You can also talk over which mission the group would like to go on.

Bump

[Yuul]

I’ll give it some thought. It’s been a long while and this looks to be the sort of game I’d need to do a fair bit of reading for as I haven’t opened my pdfs in ages. Sounds fun though.

[Shakram]

Originally Posted by Yuul

I’ll give it some thought. It’s been a long while and this looks to be the sort of game I’d need to do a fair bit of reading for as I haven’t opened my pdfs in ages. Sounds fun though.

Everyone is welcome!
Feel free to join our OOC thread and grab a background spot to start character creation brainstorming.