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* [Q]: "Who do you follow?" | * [Q]: "Who do you follow?" | ||
* You are separated from the others and run until you no longer can. Then, on the edge of collapse, you catch up with the dog you followed and end up asleep next to it. | * You are separated from the others and run until you no longer can. Then, on the edge of collapse, you catch up with the dog you followed and end up asleep next to it. | ||
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[[Mattiverse Next - Session 7]] | |||
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* Beldon busies himself with bringing the fallen members back up, while Bobwhite uses a mage hand to investigate the curtain. | |||
** Behind it is a large altar. A sword, large enough to be unwieldy for anyone smaller than an Ogre, lays across it. In its middle, there is a brazier set aflame, with a silvery rod in the middle. | |||
** Bobwhite extracts it. The group is immediately beset by a voice like squirming spiders in their heads: | |||
* It introduces itself as the [[Master of Hounds]], and thanks them for turning its prison into its lair. In return, it offers safe passage. | |||
** The Rindherders are not into this development, but given their state, decide taking it up on that offer is the better idea than pressing further into the dungeon. They got what they came for, and it is time to leave. | |||
* As promised, they are able to leave the cave. In the twilight, they are stopped short by none other than Gerom and his band of assholes. | |||
** He wants the wand. His connection to it, and how he tracked the halfling boys down, are unclear. He offers up that it's simply one of the gifts "Ma" has given him--she loves all her brood, but loves him just a little bit more. | |||
** Everyone but Bobwhite notes that he is saying "Ma" in a different way than they did growing up. From him, it sounds more like "Maw". Bobwhite is too busy causing mischief with his mage hand. | |||
** He also says that he doesn't really want things to get violent, but that that is the difference between them leaving with just the wand, or leaving with everything they own. | |||
* It goes against every fiber of Bobwhite's being to do so, but he capitulates. With a stroke of fast thinking, though, he decides Gerom doesn't know which piece of the Lance they have--he gives up Good Luck, rather than the one they have just picked up, reasoning that the unknown might provide more opportunity than the known. | |||
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[[Mattiverse Next - Session 11]] | |||
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* Some monologuing happens: | |||
** He mentions his High Priest, who summoned him here. | |||
** He mentions a Spider Queen, who sounds ''fabulous''. | |||
** He says they should join up. | |||
* The party then finishes off the phisrazu and his tone changes | |||
** "Kneel before me!" he says, as he then casts a ''suggestion'' that splashes spectacularly against the field of scrappy luck that has evidently enveloped the party and fails utterly. | |||
** He refers to himself as a [[raklupis]], as in "Feel the wrath of the cult of Raklupis!!", which were his words before turning into an even more massive, even uglier dog-demon thing than the phisarazu. | |||
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[[Mattiverse Next - Session 12]] | |||
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Before the Ubrekti-Halfling war, the Halfling economy was fairly robust. Nomads are raiders and traders both by nature, and much halfling tribal wealth came from the position as intermediaries between the various human kingdoms of the Far West, the Elven lands of the Costal North, and the Dwarven and Gnomish lands of the far East. It is likely that the legendary halfling fortress (thought to be in the [[Crogbon]]) was based on one (or several) real locations where halflings would store their wealth and protect passages into their "Midland Empire." Halflings war was a skirmish and retreat model, as holding territory long term was not their jam. | |||
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The first halfling and Ubrekti warriors clashed during the Third Ponic War. As Ubrekt and the Dogriders warred in the wake of that conflict, halflings had an early advantage against the heavy infantry and light infantry based army of the time. Dogriders could easily harass the slow moving Ubrekti legions and retreat suffering minimal damage themselves. The early phase of the war was basically this stalemate: the halflings could not successfully assail the fortresses the Ubrekti built around the Stormchalice ("Our Lake") while the legions of the Ubrekti were hopeless against the dogriders, even as the dogriders themselves were outnumbered. Hadrian began to invest heavily in importing Petaran and Odessan horses and developing light and heavy cavalry wings to support the legions. The developing Ubrekti light cavalry wasn't terrific or anything, but it was enough to protect Legion flanks and supply lines and to give chase to the dogriders. Heavy Cavalry developed more slowly, but the overall trend of mixed unit tactics developed by Hadrian (The demigod or his descendants depending on the historian) over the course of his war with the Halflings not only - inevitably - carried the day, but also was the same basic model used by the successor Ubrekti Republic to expand across almost all of the mainland. | |||
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[[Category:Mattiverse Next|04]] | [[Category:Mattiverse Next|04]] | ||