Red Red Wine

Summary

Scribe Notes

Adventure: Red Red Wine
GM: Chris C
Season: Winter 813 wk
Night: Thursday
Level: Low-Low Medium
Location: Royal Oak/Onehunga

Party

• Mario Pavoni The Party Employer - A Human Mind Mage, played by Dean
• Mungo Third Son - A Hair Mage, played by Michael M
• Poppy - A Warrior, played by Karen
• Boabdil - played by Antonio
• Mayhem - A Hobbit Namer, played by Jim

Game Details

Employer and Mission Details

The party Employer is the scion of a rich family that has lost a valuable ship The Late Harvest and its contents in the Far SE Archipelago. He seeks a band of competant adventurers to aid him, beautiful human females preferred but other entertained. The ship was en route between the Pavoni Vineyards in Lunar and Port Avalossa along with sundry other cargo and it failed to dock in Chingkapur as expected as well as failing to arrive at Port Avalossa as its final destination.

See Autumn 813.

Pay

Guild rates plus bonuses - to be negotiated with the party employer

Scribe Notes

Mayhem's Notes: Went shopping. Got some meat and a bonfire itemised. Looked for explosives. None.
Went out. Got laid. Had a smoke.
Got on boat. Got sick. Went ... away somewhere, probably south. Fenced in the rigging.

Got on boat. Got sick, went away somewhere, and I'm saying it's south. Fenced in the rigging.

1st Frost 813wk

Menolly writes:
Guild Meeting Day

We meet up in one of the Guild Meeting Rooms with our employer, Mario. He’s a male human, a wine merchant and Mind Mage. Also there is Mayhem, the male hobbit who is a Namer and an apothecary. Bobdul is a human ranger, very tall. Poppy, a female human gypsy warrior.

The job is a wine boat of Mario’s family has gone missing. We need to find the boat and get it returned. And there are 5 Guild members on the boat too. So they are now missing. We need to find them too. One of the crew is a water mage.

The boat traveled part of the way to it’s scheduled destination. It got as far as Port Ebola and left there. But didn’t make it to Port Avalossa in the Theropsid Isles. The boat travels there with wine, trades them and collects spices and fruits and other things from the Isles. And then goes back home.

So we plan to catch a boat to it’s last know location and try and find out what’s happened. Retracing the boats footsteps. So we discuss payment, expenses and plan for locating missing boat. We discuss protect and buffs and what we need to do here before we leave. Greater Enchantments are discussed. Mario offers to cover some of the expenses so we can all get some protect.

Poppy spends 2400sp to upgrade the job offer so she has 3 areas covered by the Greater. We also discuss tropical areas and inspect repellants, winter clothes for the nights and when we round the Cape of Maelstroms. It will be cold but the final destination is ain tropical jungle. While preparing for the trip Poppy checks out any scribble notes in the library about the Therupsed Isles. She makes some notes and gets some copies of what Guild maps there are of the area. She also buys $500 of dies and other items for working cloth with an idea of trading them at the end or along the way.

Mario, Mayhem and Bobdul go out on the town. The One-Horned Goa’d Temple is having a festival so eventually they all end up there for revelry.

5th Frost 813wk

Arrived in St Hylena at dawn, Departed at 9am heading south towards Raniterre.

Mayhem's Notes: Got off boat, had a look around, met some women with architecture. Assaulted their south-facing features. Had a smoke.Picked up some Urgla and some other stuff named Jyice which looks useful if we can find a way to distill it down and pour it into a grenado.

9th-10th Frost 813wk

Arrived in San Carlos, a port in greater Raniterre at 7am, Departed at 10am headed to round the Southern Horn known as The Cape of Maelstroms on route to Ebola.

Mayhems Notes: Arrived somewhere reasonably nice. Had a look around with Mario wearing his family's colours. Very pretty. Followed some guy who was interested in Mario.
Went to a nice house that looked as if the second storey windows were easy well-appointed. Feminine cries within, followed by a young and extremely swollen human girl appearing at afore-mentioned window, uttering pathetic cries of 'Mario, Mario, wherefore art though,Mario?'. We left, sudden like, brisk saunter, then jog, then sprint for the boat, which was making ready to go away somewhere that I'm pretty sure was south.
Got on boat. Got sick. Fenced in the rigging. Apparently Mario knew swollen girl. Carriage appeared on dock and waved at us. Well, think they were waving. Couldn't see weapons, anyway.

Mayhem's Book of Pointy Reckoning

No one so far, but it's early days yet.

Reference

Buffs

Magic	Rk	Effects	Dur	Ma	Mu	Po	T1	T2	My
Spell name (Cast by)			? hours

Enhance Enchant ??

MilSci

Skirmish Formations			Watches
Default	Double File	Single File	3-4 Hrs per Watch

Places

• St Hylena

• Raniterre

• San Carlos, a major town/port in Bretonnia.

• Ebola

• Chingkapur

• Port Avalossa

Calendar

Winter: Frost 813 (7)
	Moonday		Duesday		W'ansday		Th'rsday		Frysday		Reapsday		Sunday
		Samhain	1	Guild Meeting	2		3		4		5		6
	7		8		9		10		11		12		13
	14		15		16		17		18		19		20
	21		22		23		24		25		26		27
	28		29		30		1		2		3		4
Winter: Snow 813 (8)
	5		6		7		8		9		10		11
	12		13		14		15	Solstice	16		17		18	Yuletide
	19	Days of Chaos	20		21		22		23		24		25
	26		27		28		29		30	Twelth Night	1		2
Winter: Ice 813 (9)
	3		4		5		6	First Plough	7		8		9
	10		11		12		13		14		15		16
	17		18		19		20		21		22		23
	24		25		26		27		28		29		30

Awards

Mario	Mungo	Poppy	Boabdil	Mayhem	TBA3
1200	500	1100	1000	1150	0
After racial tax:
1200	500	1100	1000	1045	0
Weekly Bonuses:
0	0	0	0	0	0
Final Bonuses:
0	0	0	0	0	0
After Loot Auction:
Lucre (in Truesilver Guineas):
0sp	0sp	0sp	0sp	0sp	0sp

Note

This is a game for players with a low level (less than full 4 games) PC or an existing/new player wanting to roll up a new PC. A new PC can be rolled up with 50,000ep to start and no time constraint but may have no skill excessively ranked, no weapon above rank 6 and no magic ranked greater than rank 12. These guidelines are to ensure the PC is useful but not super skilled or super specialised in one particular skill, weapon or magic ability as starting PC's IMHO need a reasonable breadth of skills and abilities and a total specialist is both rare and endangered by guild standards.

• Any Brand new PC’s will need a written detailed write up that details the background for the PC, some history (use of other guild PC’s in backstory is OK if they happy with it and its logical), life goals and reason for adventuring with the SAG.
  I'm not expecting pages of stuff but some details that I may use in the game and it can be as little as a page of background.

• Any existing PC’s will also need a written detailed write up that details the background for the PC, some history (use of other guild PC’s in backstory is OK if they happy with it and its logical), life goals and reason for adventuring with the SAG plus some details of previous games (where they went, what they did, who they did it with and relationships etc).
  Again I'm not expecting pages of stuff but some details that I may use in the game and it can be as little as a page of background.

I will be awarding a valuable amount of Bonus EP at the start of the game (which can be used immediately) to players for good written background details and backstory according to how I rate the details.

These will help me and what the other players on the game visualise the PC and who/what they are to better mesh into the game.

The reason for the background requirement is that new PC’s often come ‘to life’ with no background, reason, design, goals or purpose and GM’s (IMHO) like the extra dimension of history to a PC so that they may employ character hooks to enhance play and it gives other players more texture to a character rather than a bunch of attributes, skills and abilities.

I'm also trying to encourage older players to roll up new PC's to play so they ahve a greater breadth of opportunity for play, rather than being stuck at the high + levels of the game.

Specific to me as a GM

I like being able to read what a PC is all about or at least a précis of such detail to give me a sense of knowing the PC so that I may then see them clearer and enable me to use some or none of the details for my own purposes such as adventure hooks and motivations etc. In brand new PC's it will also help remind the player about themselves until they have a firm belief and awareness of their latest persona.