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<p>Created page with &quot;= One-shot Eberron Intro = * In Sharn ** Long-running civil war ** Sharn remains neutral, ideal for merchants, travellers, egg salesmen, and refugees ** Houses persue agendas...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>= One-shot Eberron Intro =<br /> <br /> * In Sharn<br /> ** Long-running civil war<br /> ** Sharn remains neutral, ideal for merchants, travellers, egg salesmen, and refugees<br /> ** Houses persue agendas in Sharn, do politics<br /> * In the Golden Horn Inn<br /> ** Morgrave Uni employing us<br /> ** Prof. Yarnnith Moonsong needs help recovering artifacts<br /> * Eggsellers yelling at each other<br /> ** Volkas-dwarf agrees with one<br /> ** O’hardigan likes hard boiled eggs<br /> * Skips reaches for an egg, O’hardigan goes for her daggers<br /> ** Garret hits O’hardigan with Friends<br /> * Skips gives Garret a coupon for free 20 eggs<br /> ** Garret approves, tells barkeep to get us a round of drinks!<br /> ** Dward approves<br /> * Wench Inventory<br /> ** Grey hair / grey skin<br /> ** Regal<br /> ** Regular wenches<br /> * Skips goes to say hello to the grey/grey wench<br /> ** Skips hits on her and throws her money<br /> ** She transforms into a large, burly, hairy man<br /> *** “You’re doing what now.”<br /> ** Skips gives her a coupon, but she crushes it<br /> * Dorf is Duandor Mistbeard, Pirate<br /> ** From “The Principalities”, a bunch of islands, each ruled by a &amp;lt;&amp;gt; prince!<br /> * “All of your tabs have been closed, airship leaves at dawn!”<br /> ** Man comes out<br /> ** Looks Important, wearing Fancy Clothing<br /> ** Thuggish people point us towards low rent inns<br /> ** Report to airship dock at dawn<br /> * Stan overheards prof. speaking to assist<br /> ** “The Boromar pulled a lot of string and paid a lot of coin for this”<br /> * We wake up &amp;amp; arrive at Airship Docks<br /> ** Prof nowhere to be seen<br /> ** Assistants are loading us onto The Cloud Sliver<br /> ** Crates being loaded by dockworkers<br /> * Silver Codex has been asked to assist with loading crates<br /> ** Helps w/out complaint<br /> * We lift off!<br /> ** O’hardigan brought hardboiled egg cart<br /> ** Skips insults a thug over their enjoyment of an egg<br /> ** Starts re-frying scrambled eggs w/ cinnamon<br /> ** Gathering a crowd!<br /> ** Stan O’haridgan won’t give me an egg even though I am Ghallanda !<br /> * Skips offers an egg popsicle (fried scrambled egg on a stick) to Garret<br /> ** Wat.<br /> ** But tries it anyway<br /> ** Not great, peasant food<br /> ** Prestidigitations the cinnamon out w/ black pepper, warms it up<br /> ** Offered hard-boiled egg on a stick by O’hardigan<br /> ** Prestidigitations some salt into it, much better<br /> * O’hardigan puts a hard-boiled egg on a stack &amp;amp; gives it to Skips<br /> ** Long argument about eggs on sticks<br /> ** More arguments about eggs on sticks<br /> ** DM: You have free run of the airship right now, but feel free to continue bickering about eggs.<br /> * O’hardigan is making more money than Skips right now!<br /> * More activity on the deck! People are bringing stuff down from the cargo hold<br /> ** Rope, hooks<br /> * O’hardigan asks an assistant where we’re heading<br /> ** He’s kind of a jerk<br /> ** Steals an egg!<br /> * Duandor determines we’re headed off course!<br /> ** We are worried!<br /> * Someone yells at us to get rope<br /> ** We all look at Silver Codex expectantly<br /> ** Silver Codex sees a door ajar on his rope quest<br /> ** But just gets the rope.<br /> * O’hardigan &amp;amp; Silver Codex overhear:<br /> ** Prof has Cannith connections<br /> ** That’s how the ship’s gunna bring us home, right?<br /> ** Hah, “professor”<br /> * Garret looks off edge of ship<br /> ** Spots another ship, we’re heading towards it<br /> * Prof shows up, looks like a predator<br /> ** Looks at other ship as if its prey<br /> ** Telling people to uncoil ropes, prepare hooks<br /> ** Duandor suggests these are sky pirates.<br /> ** Yells at us to get to work<br /> *** Garret starts enchanting hardboiled eggs for consumption<br /> * AIRSHIPS COLLIDE.<br /> ** People fall off<br /> ** Our people start teathering to the other ship<br /> ** Professor dual wields wands and starts firing on the other ship<br /> ** Yells at us to get over there<br /> ** Crews are slaughtering each other<br /> ** O’hardigan’s egg cart want overboard !<br /> ** Mace swing knocks an egg out of Garret’s hand<br /> * Garret sets out his Ghallanda badge w/ the eggs<br /> ** “Refreshments when you need them!”<br /> * Skips stabs somebody in the neck, killing them instantly.<br /> * Battle ends<br /> ** Handful of survivors on The Cloud Sliver (inc. prof moonsong)<br /> ** Everyone is exhausted<br /> ** Lots of dead<br /> ** Party lived! Duandor is tired though.<br /> ** Garret goes to look for booze to serve people<br /> * Ominous groaning and cracking<br /> ** Airship is … shifting<br /> ** Floor boards start snapping<br /> ** The Cloud Sliver is critically damaged<br /> ** Other ship looks OK<br /> ** Still secured to other ship<br /> * Garret runs for it<br /> ** Everyone gets across<br /> ** Prestidigitation’s the ropes on fire<br /> ** Prof. goes back to his quarters, whining about this not being to plan<br /> ** Realizes ropes are burned, can’t make it across<br /> ** The Cloud Sliver sinks below the clouds, out of our sight.<br /> ** Skips tosses an egg where the ship sank.<br /> * We’re all alone on this airship<br /> ** Heavy damage, holes in deck, ballista bolts sticking out of stuff<br /> ** Garret goes to look for alcohol<br /> ** O’harigan looks for a kitchen<br /> ** Duandor looks for navigator room<br /> * Garret finds a cargo hold<br /> ** Ropes, chains, pulleys, multiple tiers<br /> ** Sees many warforged bodies scatted on the bottom of the hold<br /> ** Garret thinks “oh shit this is a cannith transport”<br /> ** No booze, leaves hold, tries to pile rubble in front of it so nobody else notices<br /> * Duandor is locked out of the pilot room<br /> ** Needs a key<br /> ** Goes to look for one in crew quarters<br /> * Stan O’hardigan finds lots of Cannith insignia embroidered on stuff<br /> ** Page w/ coded symbols<br /> ** Pockets it<br /> * Skips explores ship for a bed<br /> ** Puts matresses together to make a big matress fort<br /> ** Naps in Fort Skips<br /> * Silver Codex looks for library, document repository, anything<br /> ** Finds a lab<br /> ** Lots of arcane contraptions broken<br /> ** Bubbling liquid on the floor, eating away at enchanted wood<br /> ** Determines lab was for experimental warforged components<br /> ** Acid was probably for a weapon<br /> ** Intact bottles in room, one of which may neutralize acid<br /> *** Pours it on to try to stop hull from being destroyed<br /> ** Grabs an intact bottle of acid for … safe keeping.<br /> * Garret reports the cargo hold had nothing exciting in it<br /> ** Duandor questions that<br /> ** Garret friends + deception checks that shit<br /> ** Duandor reports we need a key<br /> *** O’hardigan asks if we can pick it, says no, too complex and magical<br /> *** Garret suggests having warforged punch it open<br /> * We head off to find it<br /> ** We’re pretty racist<br /> ** Don’t remember warforged’s name<br /> ** “SILVER BOOOK! OI SILVER BOOOOOK!”<br /> * Silver Codex explores further, finds damaged warforged stuck to the walls<br /> ** Inert (never been alive)<br /> ** Lab was probably creating items to use w/ these warforged<br /> ** Gigantic juggernaught strapped to the back of the room<br /> ** Largest warforged Silver has seen<br /> ** Lots of spikes and weapons<br /> ** (ooc: is that the goddamn lord of blades?)<br /> * Silver Codex comes back<br /> ** Garret tells him to come open a door, kind of rudely<br /> ** We head back to the pilot’s nest<br /> * Silver Codex recognizes wood in the door is the enchanted floodboard wood from lab<br /> ** Enchanted wood, treated to resist blunt force<br /> ** Probably why the ship did not break like The Cloud Sliver<br /> ** Silver Codex thinks the acid can probs get through the door<br /> ** Pours acid on the hinges<br /> ** After a while, the hinges detach from the door and it pushes it off its hinges<br /> * We head in<br /> ** Pilot is dead, dagger stuck out of him<br /> ** Three crystal platters per side w/ alerts on them<br /> *** Vessel cannot move until holes are patched<br /> *** Cargo hold off balance<br /> *** Aurary is out of alignment<br /> *** Pilot missing<br /> * Pilot has a Cannith dragonmark<br /> ** Dagger sticking out of his head has Boromar sigil<br /> ** Garret finds it unusual a Cannith guy was piloting<br /> ** Says Duandor might be able to fly it!<br /> ** We move the dead body off the helm<br /> *** Garret takes dagger<br /> * Duandor tries to fly it, plates flash<br /> ** Nope<br /> * We need to fill some holes<br /> ** We also need the ship to recognize a pilot probably<br /> *** Garret suggests that he should cover himself in the pilot’s blood<br /> *** Gets some blood on him<br /> *** “Pilot Missing”<br /> *** Garret suggests more blood, but Duandor wants to try moving his body instead<br /> * O’hardigan &amp;amp; Garret head for one of the holds w/ supplies<br /> ** Planks, nails, adhesive<br /> ** Food (fruit &amp;amp; grains)<br /> ** O’hardigan mixes oats with adhesive to make plaster<br /> * Garret stops Duandor from going to the cargo hold<br /> ** Goes himself instead<br /> ** Chained warforged are a mess, chains help move them<br /> ** Five chains w/ wheel to align them<br /> ** Smol halfling w/ -1 str mod starts shifting warforged around w/ the levers<br /> ** GUNNA TAKE SOME TIME.<br /> * Silver Codex goes to work on the aurary problem<br /> ** Finds detailed paintings of the planes of existence in the aurary<br /> ** Complex formulae, warforged doesn’t go nuts when reading them<br /> ** Nat 20 arcana, knows how to align the realms!<br /> *** Form a planar convergence to realign the aurary<br /> *** Does that<br /> ** Aurary shines, identified as Xoriat (the Far Realm)<br /> *** Not much nown about it<br /> *** Almost all unknowable horrors of Eberron come from Xoriat<br /> * Cargo hold balance returns to acceptable tolerance (not ideal, but good enough)<br /> ** Garret blocks door to the warforged hold on his way out<br /> * We tell Silver Codex to try piloting it<br /> ** It says no, motions for Duandor to try again<br /> ** It works!<br /> *** Duandor feels connected to every part of the ship<br /> *** Can “feel” where everyone is<br /> *** Feels presence of warforged in the cargo hold<br /> ** Detects A LOT of Dragonshards<br /> ** Ship says to Duandor<br /> *** This unit requires repairs<br /> *** This unit will return to Sharn for repairs<br /> ** Pilots itself<br /> ** Duandor tells us<br /> *** Garret WTFs<br /> * Returns to Sharn, dock off of the Dura district<br /> ** Duandor hears “shutting down, repairs required, this unit will slumber until it is restored”&lt;br /&gt;<br /> <br /> ** Ship slides into the dock<br /> * We exit the ship<br /> ** Approached by dockworkers<br /> ** Important woman<br /> *** YOU! Off the ship now!<br /> *** Dockmaster<br /> ** Skips bribes her for 10g<br /> ** She says we’re cool, but Garret suggests waiting<br /> ** Sends Duandor to go get a dragonshard…<br /> * Skips sees something interesting as he explores the docks<br /> ** Wanted posters for us! Oh no!<br /> ** Guard spots Skips, demands a bribe<br /> ** Doesn’t have gold, tries to give him a coupon<br /> ** Wants to take Skips for a walk to his house…<br /> ** Menaces Skips with a mace.<br /> ** Throws a distraction egg, runs away!<br /> * We bribe the dockmaster<br /> ** With one dragonshard<br /> ** She’s boromir<br /> ** Friends + Persuasion gets her on our side, will keep people away from out ship<br /> ** Tells us we’re wanted, guards are looking out for us<br /> ** Recommends Half-tusk Fabricators can repair ship, Sebestian<br /> * Duandor goes to see about repairs for the airship<br /> * O’hardigan buys eggs<br /> * Garret finds something to cover his face in the crew quarters<br /> ** Silver Codex looks for a hood too<br /> * Duandor finds Half-Tusk, androgen half-orc tinkering inside<br /> ** It’s Sebastian<br /> ** Asks about airship repair<br /> ** Comments on it being an unusual airship<br /> ** “The Gold Stream” is now our ship name, apparently.<br /> ** Gunna be expensive<br /> ** Proposed Duandor helps him out, and repairs will be free.<br /> *** Need a bit of time<br /> *** Could do some basic repairs over a few hours, to get it repair-worthy<br /> *** Needs a ride out of here ASAP, can’t explain why<br /> *** Agrees. Staff start picking up the shit in their shop.<br /> ** Returns to ship ahead of repair crew, approached by Dockmaster<br /> ** Looting dragonshards :V<br /> * Stan O’hardigan looks for an inn<br /> ** Finds an inn w/ a gnome being ejected<br /> ** Gnome shouts about not meaning to grope somebody<br /> ** Brushes dust off his robes, wanders towards Stan<br /> ** Gnome suddenly spins &amp;amp; looks Stan in the eye<br /> *** I CAN FEEL IT<br /> *** He can sense the crypted text in Stan’s pocket<br /> *** Stan says he’ll hand it over if he can find him a bathtub<br /> *** Willing to give it in exchange for a room<br /> *** “They won’t let me back in!”<br /> *** “FIND ME A DIFFERENT INN THEN”<br /> ** That happens<br /> *** Boil eggs in the bathroom<br /> *** Gnome comes to the bathroom<br /> *** Shows gnome a good time (boiling eggs)<br /> **** Gnome documents the process<br /> *** Asks is Stan is a 4th-generation egg boiler<br /> **** Gets a long lecture on O’hardigan family history<br /> *** Wants to write a book about Stan<br /> *** Has trained member of House Sivvis on this encryption technique<br /> *** Asks if wants notes translated<br /> **** Illiterate.<br /> **** Offers to take the gnome to us so we can discuss decrypting<br /> ** Puts all the boiled eggs in the blanket off the bed for transport.<br /> * Garret tries to pass the buck to the Ghallanda Viceroy for Sharn<br /> ** Buck is passed back, wants to secure the dragonshards<br /> ** Sends Garret back to bring the ship to a safer port<br /> ** Finds repair crew, gnome<br /> *** Gnome has a Sivvis mark<br /> *** Garran d’Sivvis<br /> * Prof. Moonsong is back<br /> ** Just walks right on to the ship like he fuckin owns it<br /> ** Was abandoned by his House (???)<br /> ** Skips approached, Prof pulls a wand.<br /> ** Offers us $$$$ to help him<br /> ** Tells us to get on the fucking boat<br /> ** Gunna sell the dragonshards &amp;amp; warforged<br /> * Wants to leave, ship needs repairs first<br /> ** Sebastian gets to work<br /> ** Duandor helps<br /> ** Garret makes coffee<br /> * We hear click THRUM<br /> ** Crossbow turret is fired from a higher part of the dock<br /> ** Right through Prof Moonsong’s chest, flinging him off the ship.<br /> ** We are charged by Clan Boromir<br /> * Sebastian steps his shit up<br /> ** Duandor runs for the pilot room<br /> ** Garret pulls up the gang planks to make boarding harder<br /> ** Boromir try to jump the gap<br /> ** We pelt them w/ hardboiled eggs!<br /> * Duandor gets to the helm<br /> ** Ship is repaired enough<br /> ** WE GO UP!<br /> * We see planks on the side of the ship begin to separate and form arms<br /> ** The ship punches the dock and shatters it, killing Boromir<br /> * We argue about where to go<br /> ** Sebastian &amp;amp; Duandor want to leave Sharn<br /> ** Garret wants to stay in the city, find new dock<br /> ** They win<br /> * HUGE EXPLOSION in the distance!</div>

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