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3/01/2021 7:18 pm  #3961


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

Tillak looks at his companions. 

"We have been cursed by deviltry! Y'thaqa's bones!" 

OOC: Is our hair just longer, or is it grey as well?



  • “Moonglum licked his long lips. 'So it’s sorcery again. In truth, Elric, this whole country is beginning to stink of wizardry and the minions of hell.' Elric murmured for his friend’s ears: 'No hell-beings these—but honest elementals, equally powerful in many ways.'"
 

3/01/2021 7:21 pm  #3962


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

Tillka looks at his companions with horror on his face. 

"We are cursed by deviltry! Y'thaqqa's bones!!"

OOC: Is our hair just longer, or is it grey now, as well? 
 



  • “Moonglum licked his long lips. 'So it’s sorcery again. In truth, Elric, this whole country is beginning to stink of wizardry and the minions of hell.' Elric murmured for his friend’s ears: 'No hell-beings these—but honest elementals, equally powerful in many ways.'"
 

3/01/2021 7:40 pm  #3963


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

Tillak's and his friends' still dark hair and beards are now 4 feet long, Everyone's finger and toenails and coiled curled footlongers!

Last edited by Iron Ranger (3/01/2021 7:42 pm)


 
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3/01/2021 7:45 pm  #3964


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

Gundrabu tries to snap off a long nail by bending it against the stone edge of the fount.


“Our own age is not one which can afford to call its ancestors savage.” 
― Poul AndersonThe Broken Sword
 

3/01/2021 8:11 pm  #3965


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

They are thick and gnarly things now, will definitely need a blade or saw.


 
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3/02/2021 1:18 am  #3966


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

Tillak attempts to draw his dagger from its sheath and saw off his finger nails. 

Last edited by SullyB74 (3/02/2021 1:28 am)



  • “Moonglum licked his long lips. 'So it’s sorcery again. In truth, Elric, this whole country is beginning to stink of wizardry and the minions of hell.' Elric murmured for his friend’s ears: 'No hell-beings these—but honest elementals, equally powerful in many ways.'"
 

3/02/2021 8:36 am  #3967


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

Gundrabu reaches out with his consciousness for the Kraken. It seems to him that he has “slept,” after a fashion. Has the Kraken therefore filled his rested mind with its full complement of blessings (i.e., spells)?


“Our own age is not one which can afford to call its ancestors savage.” 
― Poul AndersonThe Broken Sword
 

3/02/2021 8:52 am  #3968


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

Eirvit wrote:

Gundrabu reaches out with his consciousness for the Kraken. It seems to him that he has “slept,” after a fashion. Has the Kraken therefore filled his rested mind with its full complement of blessings (i.e., spells)?

Gundrabu can hear the faraway pounding of surf as listening to a shell. He knows it will take time to recall the Kraken.


 
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3/02/2021 8:53 am  #3969


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

[Tillak make a Dex test.]


 
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3/02/2021 11:38 am  #3970


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

Iron Ranger wrote:

Kondor recalls from his childhood years after a bully sheared his barbarian locks, his mother coddling him with assurances that his mane would regrow, half an inch a moon.

ooc: Whoa whoa whoa, are we talking the Hyperborean moon Phobos (a 7-day cycle) or Selene (a 45.5 day cycle)? Either one is different from the Earth moon's 28day cycle.

This would be a great time to plug in the setting's calendar: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/109228/Hyperborea-Annual-Calendar

If we do that, are we assuming that the game started at the assumed starting year of 576CAE, or before so that the current time jump starts us off at 576 (saving us time and paperwork, if we use the provided calendar from the PDF)?

 

3/02/2021 11:48 am  #3971


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

fireinthedust wrote:

Iron Ranger wrote:

Kondor recalls from his childhood years after a bully sheared his barbarian locks, his mother coddling him with assurances that his mane would regrow, half an inch a moon.

ooc: Whoa whoa whoa, are we talking the Hyperborean moon Phobos (a 7-day cycle) or Selene (a 45.5 day cycle)? Either one is different from the Earth moon's 28day cycle.

This would be a great time to plug in the setting's calendar: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/109228/Hyperborea-Annual-Calendar

If we do that, are we assuming that the game started at the assumed starting year of 576CAE, or before so that the current time jump starts us off at 576 (saving us time and paperwork, if we use the provided calendar from the PDF)?

What kind of crazy question is this, Kondor knows full well that his memories would reference twin totality.
 


 
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3/02/2021 12:41 pm  #3972


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

See, if it's Phobos, then 4ft at 1/2inch per moon is (4x12=96"x2=) 192 weeks we've been asleep. At 13 months a year, 4 weeks a month (192/4=48 months/13) 3.692307692 years (approximately 3.7 years).

However, if it's 1/2inch per Selene moon rotation (45.5 days) that 45.5x192= 8736 days/364 (hyperborean calendar days) =24 years.

 

3/02/2021 12:42 pm  #3973


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

What's twin totality? (honest question, I'm blanking)

My brain is futzed right now, so I'm hopefully not off on the math.

 

3/02/2021 12:57 pm  #3974


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

Kondor recomputes. "Let's see, It grows 1/2 inch in 45.5 days, then that's 1 inch in 91 days. 91 days x 48 inches is 4368 days, and there's 364 days in a year, that's ... 12 years???"


 
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3/02/2021 1:13 pm  #3975


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

fireinthedust wrote:

What's twin totality? (honest question, I'm blanking)

My brain is futzed right now, so I'm hopefully not off on the math.

Twin totality is when both Phobos and Selene are full (every 91 days) but Kondor is confused, those are when the festivals are held...


 
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3/02/2021 2:24 pm  #3976


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

"Twelve years!!!" Kondor exclaims, then uses the palms of his hands to remove his sword from its sheath, before slicing off the nails as carefully as he can. Kondor growls while he works at the sword and his nails.
"Unless this is some illusion, or we were aged magically rather than immobilized for a decade, we've lost too much time. What in blazes happened? And, with our gear destroyed, how are we going to survive in this tundra without proper footgear?!"

 

3/02/2021 6:12 pm  #3977


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

OOC: Dex of 9, 2:6; 1d6: 2! 



  • “Moonglum licked his long lips. 'So it’s sorcery again. In truth, Elric, this whole country is beginning to stink of wizardry and the minions of hell.' Elric murmured for his friend’s ears: 'No hell-beings these—but honest elementals, equally powerful in many ways.'"
 

3/02/2021 6:17 pm  #3978


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

Tillak listens to the concversation that Gundrabu and Knodor are having

"12 years??!!! Y'thaqqa's bones! We are truly cursed, brothers! We must escape this pit. At least we have each other's aid and companion ship."

He looks at Kondor. 

"We should find your crown and abscond from this place, quickly." Tillak glances at his war pick and scowls, dolefully. 

"This will not aid me if we encounter those beetles again, brothers."

 



  • “Moonglum licked his long lips. 'So it’s sorcery again. In truth, Elric, this whole country is beginning to stink of wizardry and the minions of hell.' Elric murmured for his friend’s ears: 'No hell-beings these—but honest elementals, equally powerful in many ways.'"
 

3/02/2021 8:21 pm  #3979


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

“If you’re able to trim your nails, Kondor, please try me next. I don’t fancy trying to climb out of this hole with these claws on my hands and feet.”


“Our own age is not one which can afford to call its ancestors savage.” 
― Poul AndersonThe Broken Sword
 

3/03/2021 3:51 pm  #3980


Re: The Scorched Sanctuary

Kondor will finish with his own nails before helping the others.

 

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