Tuesday, June 13, 2006
5 Alturiak 1373 - woops, wow & wadda you know
Things really got out of hand. Out of a lot of people's hands. It didn't go the way I thought it would, at all. Not one bit. Not one bit at all. I don't know if anyone else thought it would go this way (and this way isn't finised yet, so I'm keeping a look out for fishy smelling daggers behind me), but I sure didn't. Did not at all.
To begin with we started off by begining our time by starting to argue over the merits of raising Joparg or not. I was fully against it - I didn't want to spend our money to raise him. I had thought to raise him previously, and was kind of excited by the idea of it, but at the time all I could think of was that we had nothing to show for this whole debaucle, and we had lost a good deal of equipment (in what Caulwen carried), and we had lost Caulwen. I was happy just to trade his corpse back so they could spend their own money and raise him. But everyone else was against what I was against. So I let them raise him. And it was only then that things became interesting for me.
We decided to let Celery talk to him and flex his wings to try to intimidate him into submission. That didn't work to well. But raising him naked did a good job of putting him off his guard. So we questioned him and showed him the Reaver and showed him how we could make it smaller and make it able to get through the smaller hallways to attack his people. That's when the bargaining began. At first he just said his people didn't care if he lived or died and we would get nothing from them, so we said we would just kill him (again) and be done with it, but he wasn't fond of that idea (most usually aren't). So we talked some more and figured out what he could give us, and what we would give him. We were willing to give him back to his people, and take the Reaver with us to go terrorize a drow city (we discovered these Kuo-Toas are most definetly not drow friends, they are isolationists who do not worship their normal god, Blipdoolpoolp, and actually have designs on taking over the entire world for their own). And what we wanted was Caulwen, her stuff (all of it), and tribute for us to go away (basically). He complained that they had paid tribute to no one in the past 17,000 years, and all that, but he agreed to it in the end.
Then we started in with the cultural questions. It turns out Bellumthain has a curious sense on humor (like myself), and that Desicrist is culturally curious as well (again, like me). The difference with Desicrist, I think I have ascertained, is that we have been traveling in places of a mundane nature to him. We have been traveling in human lands with well 'documented' peoples. But now we are in fish-folk lands, in a place with absolutly no documentation at all. And for me, all the human lands I have traveled in have been interesting because humans are so different than hin, yet I find myself to be more like them than the hin I grew up with. Maybe I'm a lightfoot in a strongheart's body. And, actually, Deicrist, I think, likes to watch cultures and make notes about them (and probably write books about them), and I just want to be in and live the cultures (so in the case of one which sacrifices people to their god I'm not to inclined to participate).
All that aside, beholders still suck.
So Joparg spills his guts, after covering his folds, and we start in about the hows and whys of the whats and whos of his people. We give him a bit of information, but mostly get more from him (he is, after all, planning to invade, take over,and destroy all non-Ramanos Kuo-Toans and everyone else. Even though Desicrist sees nothing wrong with it since it's a false god, I still don't want to encourage it.
This is when the best part happens (and of course it's my idea, 'cause I seem to be the only one who thinks this way). I suggest to Joparg that we use the Reaver (which we have subdued into serving us) to improve Joparg's position in his Kuo-Toa land. We make it appear as if he is able to banish the Reaver somehow (even though he knows it is really under our control and will come back if we want it to). The way to do this is through the 'tribute' paid to us. Joparg basically buys protection from us, by purchasing the 'magic ring' that controls the Reaver (really Thraxel's protective ring). This puts us in a better position becasue it makes it so that the Reaver is still alive (to them) and is under their leaders control (to most of them), but really under our control (to Joparg) and helps keep him from doing anything bad to us. Also, (and also a great idea) Thraxel had Joparg publicly declare us honered guests of these Kuo-Toas for our part in removing the Reaver - and therefore making all this killing really just a big misunderstanding (which it really was, on there part anyway {the misunderstanding being that they could actually defeat us}).
So, now, being honored members of these Ramonos worshiping Kuo-Toas, we have to go watch the sacrifice of a failure, to their god (the failure being one of the guys we left alive to propogate the myth of the Reaver being in their area and killing their people & unhatched children). I winder if Kuo-Toan infants would qualify for the Fulgar tea set, 'cause I really don't feel like they qualify as infants in the same way a hin or human infant would. And these people don't mind sacrificing to their god, so maybe it would not be to much of a difference to sacrifice one infant each year in order to keep the Reaver away.
We had, during our negotiations with Joparg, mentined taking him to the surface, just so he could see it. I think I would like to do this, and possibly take more than just him, to show them what it's like up there. I'm not sure what effect that would have, or how wise it is, I just like giving people things to make them happy (and like me more). 'Cause people who like me are less inclined to kill me.
We did see their mess hall, for a bit. I know why this one is called a mess hall. It should be 'The Hallowed Hall of Messyness', because it's the messyist hall of eating I have ever seen. They eat these clear fish which are fried and battered in spices (which Caulwen said are prety much all poison, so I guess Kuo-Toas are immune to poison - good thing I did not try to use any black lotus root on them, that would have been a waste of 4,500 GPs).
Well, off to the sacrifice I go ...
AV
To begin with we started off by begining our time by starting to argue over the merits of raising Joparg or not. I was fully against it - I didn't want to spend our money to raise him. I had thought to raise him previously, and was kind of excited by the idea of it, but at the time all I could think of was that we had nothing to show for this whole debaucle, and we had lost a good deal of equipment (in what Caulwen carried), and we had lost Caulwen. I was happy just to trade his corpse back so they could spend their own money and raise him. But everyone else was against what I was against. So I let them raise him. And it was only then that things became interesting for me.
We decided to let Celery talk to him and flex his wings to try to intimidate him into submission. That didn't work to well. But raising him naked did a good job of putting him off his guard. So we questioned him and showed him the Reaver and showed him how we could make it smaller and make it able to get through the smaller hallways to attack his people. That's when the bargaining began. At first he just said his people didn't care if he lived or died and we would get nothing from them, so we said we would just kill him (again) and be done with it, but he wasn't fond of that idea (most usually aren't). So we talked some more and figured out what he could give us, and what we would give him. We were willing to give him back to his people, and take the Reaver with us to go terrorize a drow city (we discovered these Kuo-Toas are most definetly not drow friends, they are isolationists who do not worship their normal god, Blipdoolpoolp, and actually have designs on taking over the entire world for their own). And what we wanted was Caulwen, her stuff (all of it), and tribute for us to go away (basically). He complained that they had paid tribute to no one in the past 17,000 years, and all that, but he agreed to it in the end.
Then we started in with the cultural questions. It turns out Bellumthain has a curious sense on humor (like myself), and that Desicrist is culturally curious as well (again, like me). The difference with Desicrist, I think I have ascertained, is that we have been traveling in places of a mundane nature to him. We have been traveling in human lands with well 'documented' peoples. But now we are in fish-folk lands, in a place with absolutly no documentation at all. And for me, all the human lands I have traveled in have been interesting because humans are so different than hin, yet I find myself to be more like them than the hin I grew up with. Maybe I'm a lightfoot in a strongheart's body. And, actually, Deicrist, I think, likes to watch cultures and make notes about them (and probably write books about them), and I just want to be in and live the cultures (so in the case of one which sacrifices people to their god I'm not to inclined to participate).
All that aside, beholders still suck.
So Joparg spills his guts, after covering his folds, and we start in about the hows and whys of the whats and whos of his people. We give him a bit of information, but mostly get more from him (he is, after all, planning to invade, take over,and destroy all non-Ramanos Kuo-Toans and everyone else. Even though Desicrist sees nothing wrong with it since it's a false god, I still don't want to encourage it.
This is when the best part happens (and of course it's my idea, 'cause I seem to be the only one who thinks this way). I suggest to Joparg that we use the Reaver (which we have subdued into serving us) to improve Joparg's position in his Kuo-Toa land. We make it appear as if he is able to banish the Reaver somehow (even though he knows it is really under our control and will come back if we want it to). The way to do this is through the 'tribute' paid to us. Joparg basically buys protection from us, by purchasing the 'magic ring' that controls the Reaver (really Thraxel's protective ring). This puts us in a better position becasue it makes it so that the Reaver is still alive (to them) and is under their leaders control (to most of them), but really under our control (to Joparg) and helps keep him from doing anything bad to us. Also, (and also a great idea) Thraxel had Joparg publicly declare us honered guests of these Kuo-Toas for our part in removing the Reaver - and therefore making all this killing really just a big misunderstanding (which it really was, on there part anyway {the misunderstanding being that they could actually defeat us}).
So, now, being honored members of these Ramonos worshiping Kuo-Toas, we have to go watch the sacrifice of a failure, to their god (the failure being one of the guys we left alive to propogate the myth of the Reaver being in their area and killing their people & unhatched children). I winder if Kuo-Toan infants would qualify for the Fulgar tea set, 'cause I really don't feel like they qualify as infants in the same way a hin or human infant would. And these people don't mind sacrificing to their god, so maybe it would not be to much of a difference to sacrifice one infant each year in order to keep the Reaver away.
We had, during our negotiations with Joparg, mentined taking him to the surface, just so he could see it. I think I would like to do this, and possibly take more than just him, to show them what it's like up there. I'm not sure what effect that would have, or how wise it is, I just like giving people things to make them happy (and like me more). 'Cause people who like me are less inclined to kill me.
We did see their mess hall, for a bit. I know why this one is called a mess hall. It should be 'The Hallowed Hall of Messyness', because it's the messyist hall of eating I have ever seen. They eat these clear fish which are fried and battered in spices (which Caulwen said are prety much all poison, so I guess Kuo-Toas are immune to poison - good thing I did not try to use any black lotus root on them, that would have been a waste of 4,500 GPs).
Well, off to the sacrifice I go ...
AV
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