HYPERBOREA / Hyperborea Trivia

**Posted by The_Great_Lestrade** 4/15/2015 7:40 am

Great Race (Yithain)

MI-GO (Fungus from Yoggoth)

both can use laser pistols or futuristic melee weapons i think.

**Posted by Chainsaw** 4/15/2015 7:48 am

The_Great_Lestrade wrote:
Great Race (Yithain)

MI-GO (Fungus from Yoggoth)

both can use laser pistols or futuristic melee weapons i think.

Hmmmm... I was looking for mi-go, which often use crystal laser pistols, and crab-men, which sometimes have gauntlet-like laser rifles over one claw, but as you point out, the Great Race does use the crystal-tipped iridium rod. Close enough! Floor's yours.

**Posted by Handy Haversack** 4/15/2015 7:50 am

Chainsaw wrote:
The_Great_Lestrade wrote:
Great Race (Yithain)

MI-GO (Fungus from Yoggoth)

both can use laser pistols or futuristic melee weapons i think.
Hmmmm... I was looking for mi-go, which often use crystal laser pistols, and crab-men, which sometimes have gauntlet-like laser rifles over one claw, but as you point out, the Great Race does use the crystal-tipped iridium rod. Close enough! Floor's yours.

I had crab-men and mi-go. This Great Race situation is a shocker! (Said yet another doomed civilization . . .)

**Posted by The_Great_Lestrade** 4/15/2015 8:39 am

I'll conceed to Handy, missed the crabmen.

**Posted by Handy Haversack** 4/15/2015 8:43 am

The_Great_Lestrade wrote:
I'll conceed to Handy, missed the crabmen.

No, no, Lestrade--you should take it. Yithians are legitimate according to the question poser, and I've already had a turn at asking. Your move!

**Posted by The_Great_Lestrade** 4/15/2015 9:42 am

If you were to hire an alchemist and a locksmith for a year it would cost the same as me. I grant an AC of 8, what am I?

**Posted by capitalbill** 4/15/2015 10:26 am

The_Great_Lestrade wrote:
If you were to hire an alchemist and a locksmith for a year it would cost the same as me. I grant an AC of 8, what am I?

Hmmmm....war galley?

The math is a little off though: the cost (30,000 gp) of a war galley (AC 8 if captained by a first through fourth level captain) equals the cost of an alchemist and a locksmith with two levels of open locks ability for twelve months, but not a thirteen month year (32,500 gp). So maybe not.

Or maybe the war galley was purchased used and the boat fax showed front end damage?

**Posted by The_Great_Lestrade** 4/15/2015 12:10 pm

good point, i was counting 12 month year. Double points! as you are correct I am a War galley.

**Posted by Handy Haversack** 4/15/2015 12:11 pm

Nice one! I was somehow thinking staff of curing. Glad capitalbill was around to bring us to our senses.

**Posted by capitalbill** 4/15/2015 1:12 pm

In the days of yore I was renowned for my marble and stone.
Disaster was visited upon me when my faith displeased the toad god.
Now my untold mysteries are buried under the basalt and I lie marked by the yellow, white, and purple poppies.

What am I?

Things I Worked On · **Posted by Ynas Midgard** 4/15/2015 3:14 pm

You're Alus Mercury, the ruined city, aren't you?

**Posted by capitalbill** 4/15/2015 3:53 pm

Ynas Midgard wrote:
You're Alus Mercury, the ruined city, aren't you?

Very good!

From my first perusal of the gazetteer I was intrigued by the write-up of this fallen city. I think it would prove to be a great location for treasure-seeking and adventure. I spent some time planning out a game set in Alus Mercury before my attention wandered elsewhere. Perhaps I will come back around to the ruined city at some point.

Things I Worked On · **Posted by Ynas Midgard** 4/16/2015 3:09 pm

There is a place favoured by The Shining One and monks of all kind. It is also haunted by banshees. What place is that?

**Posted by Handy Haversack** 4/16/2015 3:12 pm

Xin! That's where I put the scorpioids, some of which are monks. They have a reasonable working relationship with the banshees.

**Posted by Handy Haversack** 4/17/2015 9:44 pm

This may sound trivial--but was I right?

**Posted by Chainsaw** 4/19/2015 9:11 am

Handy Haversack wrote:
This may sound trivial--but was I right?

Seems right to me (see below), so why don't you take the reigns until Ynas Midgard formally responds.

Referees Manual p217 wrote:
XIN: This windswept, arctic plateau is hostile and uninhabited, a place where whispering winds and howling banshees preside. Xin is renowned as a place where monks (of Law, Chaos, and Neutrality alike) journey for spiritual illumination. Some indeed return enlightened, albeit aged and weathered, whilst others return raving lunatics; others still are seen neither hide nor hair again. It is said that the most brilliant of auroræ spring from Xin, leading some religious scholars to posit that this place is favoured by Auroros, “The Shining One”.

**Posted by Handy Haversack** 4/19/2015 1:14 pm

Which Hyperborean monster was defeated in popular culture by multiple bottles of J&B?

**Posted by Blackadder23** 4/19/2015 7:10 pm

Tentacular horror.

**Posted by Handy Haversack** 4/20/2015 6:04 am

That's the thing!

**Posted by Blackadder23** 4/20/2015 12:30 pm

In true Greyhawk Folio manner, most of the rulers of Hyperborea are not given proper names in the gazetteer. So, for example, the Pictish high king is not named, the Witch Queen of Yithorium is not named, neither Amazon Queen is named, the Ixian grand necromancer (or whatever) is not named, and so forth. Only two rulers of city-states and nations are given proper names in the gazetteer. One is Gill Sampatose, Lord Mayor of Khromarium. Who is the other?

(Hint: I'm referring only to city-states and nations, not villages or small islands.)