Eberron:Adventure/2019-08-09

One-shot Eberron Intro

• In Sharn
  • Long-running civil war
  • Sharn remains neutral, ideal for merchants, travellers, egg salesmen, and refugees
  • Houses persue agendas in Sharn, do politics
• In the Golden Horn Inn
  • Morgrave Uni employing us
  • Prof. Yarnnith Moonsong needs help recovering artifacts
• Eggsellers yelling at each other
  • Volkas-dwarf agrees with one
  • O’hardigan likes hard boiled eggs
• Skips reaches for an egg, O’hardigan goes for her daggers
  • Garret hits O’hardigan with Friends
• Skips gives Garret a coupon for free 20 eggs
  • Garret approves, tells barkeep to get us a round of drinks!
  • Dward approves
• Wench Inventory
  • Grey hair / grey skin
  • Regal
  • Regular wenches
• Skips goes to say hello to the grey/grey wench
  • Skips hits on her and throws her money
  • She transforms into a large, burly, hairy man
    • “You’re doing what now.”
  • Skips gives her a coupon, but she crushes it
• Dorf is Duandor Mistbeard, Pirate
  • From “The Principalities”, a bunch of islands, each ruled by a <> prince!
• “All of your tabs have been closed, airship leaves at dawn!”
  • Man comes out
  • Looks Important, wearing Fancy Clothing
  • Thuggish people point us towards low rent inns
  • Report to airship dock at dawn
• Stan overheards prof. speaking to assist
  • “The Boromar pulled a lot of string and paid a lot of coin for this”
• We wake up & arrive at Airship Docks
  • Prof nowhere to be seen
  • Assistants are loading us onto The Cloud Sliver
  • Crates being loaded by dockworkers
• Silver Codex has been asked to assist with loading crates
  • Helps w/out complaint
• We lift off!
  • O’hardigan brought hardboiled egg cart
  • Skips insults a thug over their enjoyment of an egg
  • Starts re-frying scrambled eggs w/ cinnamon
  • Gathering a crowd!
  • Stan O’haridgan won’t give me an egg even though I am Ghallanda !
• Skips offers an egg popsicle (fried scrambled egg on a stick) to Garret
  • Wat.
  • But tries it anyway
  • Not great, peasant food
  • Prestidigitations the cinnamon out w/ black pepper, warms it up
  • Offered hard-boiled egg on a stick by O’hardigan
  • Prestidigitations some salt into it, much better
• O’hardigan puts a hard-boiled egg on a stack & gives it to Skips
  • Long argument about eggs on sticks
  • More arguments about eggs on sticks
  • DM: You have free run of the airship right now, but feel free to continue bickering about eggs.
• O’hardigan is making more money than Skips right now!
• More activity on the deck! People are bringing stuff down from the cargo hold
  • Rope, hooks
• O’hardigan asks an assistant where we’re heading
  • He’s kind of a jerk
  • Steals an egg!
• Duandor determines we’re headed off course!
  • We are worried!
• Someone yells at us to get rope
  • We all look at Silver Codex expectantly
  • Silver Codex sees a door ajar on his rope quest
  • But just gets the rope.
• O’hardigan & Silver Codex overhear:
  • Prof has Cannith connections
  • That’s how the ship’s gunna bring us home, right?
  • Hah, “professor”
• Garret looks off edge of ship
  • Spots another ship, we’re heading towards it
• Prof shows up, looks like a predator
  • Looks at other ship as if its prey
  • Telling people to uncoil ropes, prepare hooks
  • Duandor suggests these are sky pirates.
  • Yells at us to get to work
    • Garret starts enchanting hardboiled eggs for consumption
• AIRSHIPS COLLIDE.
  • People fall off
  • Our people start teathering to the other ship
  • Professor dual wields wands and starts firing on the other ship
  • Yells at us to get over there
  • Crews are slaughtering each other
  • O’hardigan’s egg cart want overboard !
  • Mace swing knocks an egg out of Garret’s hand
• Garret sets out his Ghallanda badge w/ the eggs
  • “Refreshments when you need them!”
• Skips stabs somebody in the neck, killing them instantly.
• Battle ends
  • Handful of survivors on The Cloud Sliver (inc. prof moonsong)
  • Everyone is exhausted
  • Lots of dead
  • Party lived! Duandor is tired though.
  • Garret goes to look for booze to serve people
• Ominous groaning and cracking
  • Airship is … shifting
  • Floor boards start snapping
  • The Cloud Sliver is critically damaged
  • Other ship looks OK
  • Still secured to other ship
• Garret runs for it
  • Everyone gets across
  • Prestidigitation’s the ropes on fire
  • Prof. goes back to his quarters, whining about this not being to plan
  • Realizes ropes are burned, can’t make it across
  • The Cloud Sliver sinks below the clouds, out of our sight.
  • Skips tosses an egg where the ship sank.
• We’re all alone on this airship
  • Heavy damage, holes in deck, ballista bolts sticking out of stuff
  • Garret goes to look for alcohol
  • O’harigan looks for a kitchen
  • Duandor looks for navigator room
• Garret finds a cargo hold
  • Ropes, chains, pulleys, multiple tiers
  • Sees many warforged bodies scatted on the bottom of the hold
  • Garret thinks “oh shit this is a cannith transport”
  • No booze, leaves hold, tries to pile rubble in front of it so nobody else notices
• Duandor is locked out of the pilot room
  • Needs a key
  • Goes to look for one in crew quarters
• Stan O’hardigan finds lots of Cannith insignia embroidered on stuff
  • Page w/ coded symbols
  • Pockets it
• Skips explores ship for a bed
  • Puts matresses together to make a big matress fort
  • Naps in Fort Skips
• Silver Codex looks for library, document repository, anything
  • Finds a lab
  • Lots of arcane contraptions broken
  • Bubbling liquid on the floor, eating away at enchanted wood
  • Determines lab was for experimental warforged components
  • Acid was probably for a weapon
  • Intact bottles in room, one of which may neutralize acid
    • Pours it on to try to stop hull from being destroyed
  • Grabs an intact bottle of acid for … safe keeping.
• Garret reports the cargo hold had nothing exciting in it
  • Duandor questions that
  • Garret friends + deception checks that shit
  • Duandor reports we need a key
    • O’hardigan asks if we can pick it, says no, too complex and magical
    • Garret suggests having warforged punch it open
• We head off to find it
  • We’re pretty racist
  • Don’t remember warforged’s name
  • “SILVER BOOOK! OI SILVER BOOOOOK!”
• Silver Codex explores further, finds damaged warforged stuck to the walls
  • Inert (never been alive)
  • Lab was probably creating items to use w/ these warforged
  • Gigantic juggernaught strapped to the back of the room
  • Largest warforged Silver has seen
  • Lots of spikes and weapons
  • (ooc: is that the goddamn lord of blades?)
• Silver Codex comes back
  • Garret tells him to come open a door, kind of rudely
  • We head back to the pilot’s nest
• Silver Codex recognizes wood in the door is the enchanted floodboard wood from lab
  • Enchanted wood, treated to resist blunt force
  • Probably why the ship did not break like The Cloud Sliver
  • Silver Codex thinks the acid can probs get through the door
  • Pours acid on the hinges
  • After a while, the hinges detach from the door and it pushes it off its hinges
• We head in
  • Pilot is dead, dagger stuck out of him
  • Three crystal platters per side w/ alerts on them
    • Vessel cannot move until holes are patched
    • Cargo hold off balance
    • Aurary is out of alignment
    • Pilot missing
• Pilot has a Cannith dragonmark
  • Dagger sticking out of his head has Boromar sigil
  • Garret finds it unusual a Cannith guy was piloting
  • Says Duandor might be able to fly it!
  • We move the dead body off the helm
    • Garret takes dagger
• Duandor tries to fly it, plates flash
  • Nope
• We need to fill some holes
  • We also need the ship to recognize a pilot probably
    • Garret suggests that he should cover himself in the pilot’s blood
    • Gets some blood on him
    • “Pilot Missing”
    • Garret suggests more blood, but Duandor wants to try moving his body instead
• O’hardigan & Garret head for one of the holds w/ supplies
  • Planks, nails, adhesive
  • Food (fruit & grains)
  • O’hardigan mixes oats with adhesive to make plaster
• Garret stops Duandor from going to the cargo hold
  • Goes himself instead
  • Chained warforged are a mess, chains help move them
  • Five chains w/ wheel to align them
  • Smol halfling w/ -1 str mod starts shifting warforged around w/ the levers
  • GUNNA TAKE SOME TIME.
• Silver Codex goes to work on the aurary problem
  • Finds detailed paintings of the planes of existence in the aurary
  • Complex formulae, warforged doesn’t go nuts when reading them
  • Nat 20 arcana, knows how to align the realms!
    • Form a planar convergence to realign the aurary
    • Does that
  • Aurary shines, identified as Xoriat (the Far Realm)
    • Not much nown about it
    • Almost all unknowable horrors of Eberron come from Xoriat
• Cargo hold balance returns to acceptable tolerance (not ideal, but good enough)
  • Garret blocks door to the warforged hold on his way out
• We tell Silver Codex to try piloting it
  • It says no, motions for Duandor to try again
  • It works!
    • Duandor feels connected to every part of the ship
    • Can “feel” where everyone is
    • Feels presence of warforged in the cargo hold
  • Detects A LOT of Dragonshards
  • Ship says to Duandor
    • This unit requires repairs
    • This unit will return to Sharn for repairs
  • Pilots itself
  • Duandor tells us
    • Garret WTFs
• Returns to Sharn, dock off of the Dura district
  • Duandor hears “shutting down, repairs required, this unit will slumber until it is restored”
    

• • Ship slides into the dock
• We exit the ship
  • Approached by dockworkers
  • Important woman
    • YOU! Off the ship now!
    • Dockmaster
  • Skips bribes her for 10g
  • She says we’re cool, but Garret suggests waiting
  • Sends Duandor to go get a dragonshard…
• Skips sees something interesting as he explores the docks
  • Wanted posters for us! Oh no!
  • Guard spots Skips, demands a bribe
  • Doesn’t have gold, tries to give him a coupon
  • Wants to take Skips for a walk to his house…
  • Menaces Skips with a mace.
  • Throws a distraction egg, runs away!
• We bribe the dockmaster
  • With one dragonshard
  • She’s boromir
  • Friends + Persuasion gets her on our side, will keep people away from out ship
  • Tells us we’re wanted, guards are looking out for us
  • Recommends Half-tusk Fabricators can repair ship, Sebestian
• Duandor goes to see about repairs for the airship
• O’hardigan buys eggs
• Garret finds something to cover his face in the crew quarters
  • Silver Codex looks for a hood too
• Duandor finds Half-Tusk, androgen half-orc tinkering inside
  • It’s Sebastian
  • Asks about airship repair
  • Comments on it being an unusual airship
  • “The Gold Stream” is now our ship name, apparently.
  • Gunna be expensive
  • Proposed Duandor helps him out, and repairs will be free.
    • Need a bit of time
    • Could do some basic repairs over a few hours, to get it repair-worthy
    • Needs a ride out of here ASAP, can’t explain why
    • Agrees. Staff start picking up the shit in their shop.
  • Returns to ship ahead of repair crew, approached by Dockmaster
  • Looting dragonshards :V
• Stan O’hardigan looks for an inn
  • Finds an inn w/ a gnome being ejected
  • Gnome shouts about not meaning to grope somebody
  • Brushes dust off his robes, wanders towards Stan
  • Gnome suddenly spins & looks Stan in the eye
    • I CAN FEEL IT
    • He can sense the crypted text in Stan’s pocket
    • Stan says he’ll hand it over if he can find him a bathtub
    • Willing to give it in exchange for a room
    • “They won’t let me back in!”
    • “FIND ME A DIFFERENT INN THEN”
  • That happens
    • Boil eggs in the bathroom
    • Gnome comes to the bathroom
    • Shows gnome a good time (boiling eggs)
      • Gnome documents the process
    • Asks is Stan is a 4th-generation egg boiler
      • Gets a long lecture o