Archive for November, 2007

On Aggro Stealing

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

The Consortium was asking for volunteers to kill some Blood Elves, so my warrior, Tiger, was rounded up with some characters from a friendly guild and we headed off to the Botanica.
When we got there, one character piped up, ‘Tiger, you’ve got your hands full tonight, as you have three aggro stealers with you!’
‘That’s okay. [...]

Sense Obliviousness

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

‘Can you roll a Sense Motive check please?’, asks the DM of one of our players.
‘Can anyone roll?’, I interject.
‘If you were paying attention, yes.’
‘Of course I was paying attention’, I say, starting to roll my D20. ‘What are we rolling for?’
‘<sigh>‘

Death at Bargain Prices

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

The summoned gryphon is destroyed, the puppy dog with the big teeth runs away, and the demonic sorceror is defeated. After ensuring he cannot cast spells, a bit of interrogation reveals who hired him to kill the councillor. Success! We now have the two people responsible for the death of the councillor [...]

DM Ex Machina

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

A councillor was murdered in his sleep. Twice. We have uncovered one plot almost to its conclusion, but the other remains elusive. We still don’t know what sort of creature ripped out the councillor’s throat, or how it got in to his room, or who was controlling it. In fact, we [...]

Gorefiend’s Armour: Helping to Defeat Vhel’kur

Monday, November 12th, 2007

Running around with a mage friend in Shadowmoon Valley, trying to avoid the nasty bidepal dragonlike monsters in the Temple of Ata’Mal, I get a call asking for help to kill a big undead dragon flying around the Netherwing Ledge in an effort to retrive Gorefiend’s armour. I mention that I am already in [...]

Who Needs a Pony?

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Having defeated the acrobats and now looking for their escaped leader and hunting for further clues as to his motivation behind the murder we start to head back across town to the inn where we found out the troupe was staying. The inn is about a thirty minute walk from the theatre, and we [...]