And the game is afoot!

At the moment, your characters are on board the Swallowtail, a twenty-man longboat from the port of Egede, in the service of the City of Brevoy, a Duchy nominally in service to the Empire of Cheliax. It has been a long journey from Egede, almost two months traveling along treacherous rivers, and then nearly a week without any sign of civilization besides skulking goblins and the scent of lizardmen from the river's shores.

Your characters each hold a charter and Writ of Passage (see the documents section) from the Lord Mayor of Restov with your instructions. You are to explore and map the Greenbelt for Brevoy. Yours is one of four groups of prisoners, adventurers, or soldiers sent south into the Stolen Lands to defeat the resident creatures and bandits and, hopefully, to establish one of four new nations in the River Kingdoms.

Please take this time to introduce yourselves a bit and ask any questions about the Stolen Lands that you would like. In the game thread you may make any knowledge, gather information, or other checks if you think they will help. The captain is already Helpful to you, so further diplomacy checks are unnecessary.

I at first read, "execution by sword or rope" as "execution by sword or rape" and thought, "wow, I'm glad I put olive oil in my list of items."

James, with regard to the Skype game, will we be doing it on Gametable?  If so, can you link us to the exact download so we don't have to worry about differing versions?  Much appreciated!

Good question Alix - I'm on my old laptop tonight (it's more portable than my other and I'm at Charles' place), so I'll confirm version #'s for gametable/mapmaker tomorrow.

Link for Gametable download: http://sourceforge.net/project...les/Gametable%202.0/


Also, here is the document charging you lot with exploring the area and slaying bandits, which is also in the Documents section:

A Royal Charter

Be it so known that the bearer of this charter has been charged
by the Swordlords of Restov, acting upon the greater good and
authority vested within them by the office of the Regent of the
Dragonscale Throne, has granted the right of exploration and travel
within the wilderness region known as the Greenbelt. Exploration
should be limited to an area no further than thirty-six miles east and
west and sixty miles south of Oleg’s Trading Post. The carrier of
this charter should also strive against banditry and other unlawful
behavior to be encountered. The punishment for unrepentant banditry
remains, as always, execution by sword or rope. So witnessed on this
24th day of Calistril, under watchful eye of the Lordship of Restov
and authority granted by Lord Noleski Surtova, current Regent of
the Dragonscale Throne.
This message was last edited by the GM at 03:41, Tue 08 Nov 2011.

Random crimson throne thing I saw on the PFd20:
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classe...sable-company-marine

I saw that, it was pretty sweet.

Did you see this feat?

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/...s/companion-figurine

But where's the panther figurine option?!

Also, there are extra PF rules for Girard!

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/gamema...g/performance-combat

Note that Pg 11 of the Players Guide has a map of the lands you came from. Your last location was in Restov, in the bottom right corner.

But where are we on that map?

I'm ready to head out if everyone else is.

You guys are so far south that you are off the map. Assume you're about 3 inches further along, or ~72 miles.

Just to be clear, you guys are not "the reinforcements" - this is the 1st you've heard of the post having problems, and your job is to map this area and clear it of bandits. With that said, if Oleg's having bandit troubles, then it is part of your job description to murder-death-kill them.

Some silly Hot Fuzz trivia:

-Simon Skinner ("I'm a slasher!") is played by Timothy Dalton...I did not realize that

-Features four actors from various Lord of the Rings adaptations. Peter Jackson plays "Santa Claus" in the opening montage. Bill Nighy (he's the Love Actually guy) played Sam Gamgee in the BBC Radio broadcast. Cate Blanchett (Galadriel, also CSI girlfriend for main character). Martin Freeman (sergrant at start) will play Bilbo Baggins in Jackson's film of The Hobbit.

In reply to Akal (msg #22):

happy thanksgiving everyone.

Whoo, they put up the picture I wanted.

James, link your were-spider template link.  I want to do some theory crafting with it, but I can't find it anywhere.

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/re/20040621a

And the build that used it:
http://www.giantitp.com/forums...06&postcount=106

Much obliged.  Check out the Sword Spider in the Monsters of Faerun Compendium.  I think it would make an awesome entomanothrope.  The ECL is steep, but its basically just LA +2 on top of 5 HD of awesome.  Check it out.

Woot! Penny Arcade actually mentions Pathfinder in a comic!

http://penny-arcade.com/comic

Read my post before checking the link

http://oglaf.com/masquerade/3/

You'll get what I mean

Just warning, it's Oglaf, so definitely NSFW
This message was last edited by the player at 22:20, Thu 01 Dec 2011.

DM needs to railroad us into more encounters.  It seems like we do more talking about what we're going to do then doing anything.

DM will take that as an affirmative that ya'll are ready for the encounter then.

Charles must have gotten back from work around 2 or 3 am last night (2nd night in a row for the poor guy), so I will forgive him for not posting in the combat :P

Charles, when you do post, here's what has happened in the round so far:

1. My round.
2. Desra sneaks into position
3. Girard moves into position and demands a surrender.
4. Desra backs him up with her own bluff
5. Happs screams "Never give up, never surrender!" and is promptly beheaded by Girard.
6. Desra shrugs her slim shoulders and runs her cool steel straight along her bandit's neck, giving him a second smile along the jugular
7. Your move
8. Panicky-looking remaining bandits' move.

As you guys can see, I have posted a number of possible quests that are listed on the wall of Oleg's trading post. Whenever you want to discuss them, I suggest using the inter-PC chat thread rather than the main one. Over time you will of course encounter more quests - this is a little over half of the ones in this module alone.