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.┬áYarnnith Moonsong needs help recovering artifacts
• Eggsellers yelling at each other
  • Volkas-dwarf agrees with one
  • OΓÇÖhardigan likes hard boiled eggs
• Skips reaches for an egg, OΓÇÖhardigan goes for her daggers
  • Garret hits OΓÇÖhardigan 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
    • ΓÇ£YouΓÇÖre doing what now.ΓÇ¥
  • Skips gives her a coupon, but she crushes it
• Dorf is Duandor Mistbeard, Pirate
  • From ΓÇ£The PrincipalitiesΓÇ¥, a bunch of islands, each ruled by a <> prince!
• ΓÇ£All of your tabs have been closed, airship leaves at dawn!ΓÇ¥
  • 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
  • ΓÇ£The Boromar pulled a lot of string and paid a lot of coin for thisΓÇ¥
• 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!
  • OΓÇÖhardigan 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 OΓÇÖharidgan wonΓÇÖt 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 OΓÇÖhardigan
  • Prestidigitations some salt into it, much better
• OΓÇÖhardigan 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.
• OΓÇÖhardigan is making more money than Skips right now!
• More activity on the deck! People are bringing stuff down from the cargo hold
  • Rope, hooks
• OΓÇÖhardigan asks an assistant where weΓÇÖre heading
  • HeΓÇÖs kind of a jerk
  • Steals an egg!
• Duandor determines weΓÇÖre 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.
• OΓÇÖhardigan & Silver Codex overhear:
  • Prof has Cannith connections
  • ThatΓÇÖs how the shipΓÇÖs gunna bring us home, right?
  • Hah, ΓÇ£professorΓÇ¥
• Garret looks off edge of ship
  • Spots another ship, weΓÇÖre 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
  • OΓÇÖhardiganΓÇÖs egg cart want overboard !
  • Mace swing knocks an egg out of GarretΓÇÖs hand
• Garret sets out his Ghallanda badge w/ the eggs
  • ΓÇ£Refreshments when you need them!ΓÇ¥
• 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 ΓǪ 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
  • PrestidigitationΓÇÖs the ropes on fire
  • Prof.┬ágoes back to his quarters, whining about this not being to plan
  • Realizes ropes are burned, canΓÇÖt make it across
  • The Cloud Sliver sinks below the clouds, out of our sight.
  • Skips tosses an egg where the ship sank.
• WeΓÇÖre all alone on this airship
  • Heavy damage, holes in deck, ballista bolts sticking out of stuff
  • Garret goes to look for alcohol
  • OΓÇÖharigan 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 ΓÇ£oh shit this is a cannith transportΓÇ¥
  • 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 OΓÇÖhardigan 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 ΓǪ 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
    • OΓÇÖhardigan 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
  • WeΓÇÖre pretty racist
  • DonΓÇÖt remember warforgedΓÇÖs name
  • ΓÇ£SILVER BOOOK! OI SILVER BOOOOOK!ΓÇ¥
• 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 pilotΓÇÖs 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 pilotΓÇÖs blood
    • Gets some blood on him
    • ΓÇ£Pilot MissingΓÇ¥
    • Garret suggests more blood, but Duandor wants to try moving his body instead
• OΓÇÖhardigan & Garret head for one of the holds w/ supplies
  • Planks, nails, adhesive
  • Food (fruit & grains)
  • OΓÇÖhardigan 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 doesnΓÇÖt 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 ΓÇ£feelΓÇ¥ 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 ΓÇ£shutting down, repairs required, this unit will slumber until it is restoredΓÇ¥
    

• • 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 weΓÇÖre cool, but Garret suggests waiting
  • Sends Duandor to go get a dragonshardΓǪ
• Skips sees something interesting as he explores the docks
  • Wanted posters for us! Oh no!
  • Guard spots Skips, demands a bribe
  • DoesnΓÇÖt have gold, tries to give him a coupon
  • Wants to take Skips for a walk to his houseΓǪ
  • Menaces Skips with a mace.
  • Throws a distraction egg, runs away!
• We bribe the dockmaster
  • With one dragonshard
  • SheΓÇÖs boromir
  • Friends + Persuasion gets her on our side, will keep people away from out ship
  • Tells us weΓÇÖre wanted, guards are looking out for us
  • Recommends Half-tusk Fabricators can repair ship, Sebestian
• Duandor goes to see about repairs for the airship
• OΓÇÖhardigan 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
  • ItΓÇÖs Sebastian
  • Asks about airship repair
  • Comments on it being an unusual airship
  • ΓÇ£The Gold StreamΓÇ¥ 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, canΓÇÖt 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 OΓÇÖhardigan 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 StanΓÇÖs pocket
    • Stan says heΓÇÖll hand it over if he can find him a bathtub
    • Willing to give it in exchange for a room
    • ΓÇ£They wonΓÇÖt let me back in!ΓÇ¥
    • ΓÇ£FIND ME A DIFFERENT INN THENΓÇ¥
  • 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 on OΓÇÖhardigan family history
    • Wants to write a book about Stan
    • Has trained member of House Sivvis on this encryption technique
    • Asks if wants notes translated
      • Illiterate.
      • Offers to take the gnome to us so we can discuss decrypting
  • Puts all the boiled eggs in the blanket off the bed for transport.
• Garret tries to pass the buck to the Ghallanda Viceroy for Sharn
  • Buck is passed back, wants to secure the dragonshards
  • Sends Garret back to bring the ship to a safer port
  • Finds repair crew, gnome
    • Gnome has a Sivvis mark
    • Garran dΓÇÖSivvis
• Prof.┬áMoonsong is back
  • Just walks right on to the ship like he fuckin owns it
  • Was abandoned by his House (???)
  • Skips approached, Prof pulls a wand.
  • Offers us $$$$ to help him
  • Tells us to get on the fucking boat
  • Gunna sell the dragonshards & warforged
• Wants to leave, ship needs repairs first
  • Sebastian gets to work
  • Duandor helps
  • Garret makes coffee
• We hear click THRUM
  • Crossbow turret is fired from a higher part of the dock
  • Right through Prof MoonsongΓÇÖs chest, flinging him off the ship.
  • We are charged by Clan Boromir
• Sebastian steps his shit up
  • Duandor runs for the pilot room
  • Garret pulls up the gang planks to make boarding harder
  • Boromir try to jump the gap
  • We pelt them w/ hardboiled eggs!
• Duandor gets to the helm
  • Ship is repaired enough
  • WE GO UP!
• We see planks on the side of the ship begin to separate and form arms
  • The ship punches the dock and shatters it, killing Boromir
• We argue about where to go
  • Sebastian & Duandor want to leave Sharn
  • Garret wants to stay in the city, find new dock
  • They win
• HUGE EXPLOSION in the distance!