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The elder approaches the younger, disregarding the mutterings of the Secondborn.  "I have heard the tales that entwined our friends with these folk.  Have a care and keen eye -- that one with the bright helm may yet bring forth yet another cautionary tale told about the nighttime hearths."
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DOM-Chapter 15 / Re: FELLOWSHIP PHASE - The Int...
Last post by Telcontar - Mar 14, 2024, 03:02 AM
 :ooc: let me see if I am tracking:

So the Noble Armor was from the Valour going up.

Undertaking Visit the Treasury
I turned in Leather Armor that was
Close Fighting and Cunning Make

I applied Close Fighting to the new armor and Cunning Make towards the helm to open the last quality.
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Gwaithlim watches the performance of this new-come petty lord of Men with equal parts curiosity and amusement.  Then comes a discordant twanging of strings close behind the pill a room against which her leans, startling for its suddenness at much at its volume.  Whirling about, he sees Luindis leaning against the same pillar, harp in hand.  "Merely tuning," she says, favouring him with an impish grin.

From not far away, a Mannish voice whispers "Look, Siegferth!  Elves!"
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:ooc: Good, good.  Get ready for more of that!
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 :ooc: i'm sufficiently suspicious...
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Darkening of Mirkwood [LotR TOR] / Re: OOC THREAD
Last post by Eclecticon - Mar 13, 2024, 09:26 PM
And we're away again!  I promise that this adventure will be shorter than the last one. 

Doug, when we've all had an opportunity to read the last Fellowship Phase thread through to the end, would you mind working your magic to move Chapter 15 into the Previous Chapters forum?  I'm not sure that I can do it.
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DOM-Chapter 15 / Re: FELLOWSHIP PHASE - The Int...
Last post by Eclecticon - Mar 13, 2024, 09:24 PM
Quote from: Telcontar on Mar 12, 2024, 09:55 PM:ooc: so did we do the sanctuary opening or not? I wasnt sure if we spent the undertaking on that, but that is where I would have gotten two from so I guess yes. Also need the juicy details on the helm.
:ooc: Yes - the Fox's Tale is now a Sanctuary.  In game terms, that gives you a benefit if you go there to try to heal from the Shadow - you get two Craft or Song rolls instead of one.  In slightly metagame terms, the place now enjoys the same sort of plot immunity as a piece of wargear with rewards attached, so it'll always be there unless there's a reasonably clear decision from the group that it ought not be any more.

The deets of the helm are on Hathcyn's character sheet (:csu:) but so everyone else knows, his helm is now Rune-scored.  While wearing it, he ignores the effects of being Weary when rolling for combat tasks (i.e. things other than whacking stuff) and doesn't need to worry about a bout of Madness from rolling an :~~:.

EDIT: Like an eejit, I misunderstood Tom's comment about 'one quality going on the armour'.  He's traded in both the qualities of his old leather armour and has replaced it with the Noble stuff, which apart from being super fancy is perfectly normal 2d armour.

In return, he unlocks the final quality of the Foresthelm: Gleam of Terror.  Any time he makes an Intimidate action, the enemy loses additional Hate points equal to Hathcyn's Valour.  There's also a bright flash from the gem on his forehead.  If he's using an action to do it (i.e. not attacking and using a bonus die) and he rolls a :g: on the Feat die, he can make an immediate attack.
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The summer wanes, as summers will, and the few who wander the war-scarred lands of the Anduin valley bring such tidings as they can to the hall of the Fox's Tale.  Viglund, they say, nurses his rage in Fystenheorth like a banked and bitter fire, and unwisely does any raise their voice to ask what he will do to avenge his shaming upon the field by this new southern enemy.  Or indeed to ask what ransom shall be paid for his heir, for Viglar his eldest son, it is told, was taken alive in the battle of the Old Ford and now languishes surely in some terrible dungeon, beaten by his captors as he once abused the thralls who fetched his drink and meat. 

Young Woodmen, leaving the lands of their kinfolk to seek their fortunes in Lake-Town or in the broad lands of Dale, tell of the coming of Mogdred, King of the Vales and Lord of Tyrant's Hill, to Wuduseld for to give the funerary rites for his father.  "It was a near thing that the elders of Woodland Hall let him enter," tells one young charcoal burner after she has drunk her fill and licked her bowl clean.  "But the duties of a son to his dead father are a sacred thing and not to be hindered, be he never so tardy in his coming!" 

Others come, not from the north, but the west, for though the folk of Beorn be proud they are just as much practical, and the clans on the western bank of the river were ever fewer, and further between.  "Here, where the great thegns still abide," says one who comes with his family to till the fields and tend the herds of the Longspear, "we can protect each other.  We'll all need to do more of that before the good times come again!" 

Yet, though the days may be dark for many of the Beornings, in the land of the Green Stone it is easy to think that all is well across the wide world, for the mead is plentiful and so is the game of the nearby woods.  But times of ease pass all too quickly, and before the green leaves of summer have begun to yellow, travellers come along the Forest Road bringing news of new troubles.  It is Esgalwen who sees them first as she wanders close to the road: a party of a score or more, many on foot but with a handful of grey-haired elders uncomfortably perched upon a wain piled with goods. 

In their centre rides one clearly their leader, for tall he sits in his saddle and the gleam of precious things upon his brow and saddle-pommel can be seen even at a distance.  As he spurs his horse forward, these resolve themselves into an iron crown and a finely-wrought helm, and the rider names himself as he calls out a greeting. 

"Ho, and well met warder of the way!  I am Caewin, Lord of the Sunstead and giver of rings to all who would have them!  Fair is the day... why stone me, for you are Esgalwen of Gondor, whom all folk of the Sunstead love and admire!  Fair indeed is the day we on which we meet once again!" 

The Ranger, for her part, beholds a man who has clearly aged since last he ventured west of Mirkwood, though his garb has grown only richer.  Upon his saddle rides the Helm of Peace, forged years ago by the hand of Rorin and still showing no sign of wear or damage.  If Caewin marks the downward twitching of the corner of her mouth at the unbidden memory of the same helm gleaming in the light of burning brands as dead hands held it high, he gives no sign.  Rather, he laughs as if he has never had a care in the world.  "Come!"  he cries.  "I greatly desire to meet the master of this hall, tales of which have spread even as far as my humble home!" 

The meeting, when Hathcyn has been fetched from the meadow where he and Aestid dally, enjoying this time of simple happiness, is suitably splendid.  Upon his high seat, the Foresthelm perches while Caewin, with a flourish, directs his host's attention to where two of his burlier followers heave and strain to carry something large into the hall.  "Please accept this in payment for our stay, for we have journeyed long already and have yet many miles ahead of us," he says as his men unroll a wide carpet, dark as spilled wine, upon the rush-covered floor.  "A small thing," he explains with a smirk, "to keep warm the feet of you and your kin as the nights draw in." 
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DOM-Chapter 15 / Re: FELLOWSHIP PHASE - The Int...
Last post by tomcat - Mar 13, 2024, 06:57 AM
:ooc: Esgalwen doesn't need two Undertakings this Fellowship. If she cannot do the Receive Title until the end of the year, she can just do the Open Sanctuary undertaking with everyone else.

No bigs.
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DOM-Chapter 15 / Re: FELLOWSHIP PHASE - The Int...
Last post by Telcontar - Mar 12, 2024, 09:55 PM
 :ooc: so did we do the sanctuary opening or not? I wasnt sure if we spent the undertaking on that, but that is where I would have gotten two from so I guess yes. Also need the juicy details on the helm.

Upstart yes, but no one will argue against the Beer.
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