Rokka is a strange little creature. Standing at an impressive 2'6" tall, the slender burnt orange kobold stands out among her peers for a few reasons. For one, her natural breath attack shines in several variants. For another, she wasn't eaten by the white dragon she served when she went a little too far.
Xeozaephuth, the Alabaster Tyrant of the Tagorlar, did not take kindly to the kobold's inventive streak. Her inventions were always disrupting the flow of things in the old Dwarven keep the clan had found. From general disruptions to explosions, Xeozaephuth grew tired of the kobold who couldn't just ransack and pillage like she was told. So Rokka was given a choice. Set aside these old contraptions she had been building from Dwarven scrap, or leave the clan in peace. She chose the latter. It's possible Xeozaephuth spared her simply because he knew she would taste like oil, and wasn't worth the breath attack.
She's been on her own for a while now, exploring the Frozen Sea of Anauroch, until wandering down the Fork Road westward. Her only guidance during this five-year-old trek was one of the robotic contraptions she's been slowly modifying to be her ally. Eventually naming him Wilson, a totally original name, the steel defender became her greatest ally. Finally, a dragonkin that wouldn't be so annoying! Wilson and Rokka were, and still are, an inseparable duo, though this hasn't helped Rokka all that much in her ability to integrate into society.
The kobold is very driven by her curiosity, typically landing herself in trouble more times than she can count. She enjoys stopping to smell the roses (or in this case, ruins and junk). She loves collecting things, learning things, breaking things apart, putting things back together, tinkering, building, and exploding! She'll eat just about anything, too. Wilson is clearly the brains of the operation.
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Khoravaire is known for many talented House Agent. Errokkadaen of House Kundarak refused to settle in the crowd. A bronze dragonborn abjurer, Errokkadaen was a dangerous sort that longed for mastery of wards beyond the monetary valuables. When her home was threatened by Xeozaephuth the Alabaster Tyrant, a Dracolich with no ounce of mercy, Errokkadaen finally found her muse. Her wards were sought after to keep undead at bay, especially the forces of the Dracolich. But the draconic entity took offense. Errokkadaen grew cocky as well. She followed a lead with her familiar, a vicious doberman named Wilson, and intended to do away with Xeozaephuth for good.
But the Dracolich was cunning. Errokkadaen fell against her nemesis. Xeozaephuth was one to play with his toys and would not simply kill the thorn in his side. He cursed her to be what she despised- a servant to dragons- locked her memories, told her she was abandoned by her clan, and tossed her far away. To the deserts of the Anauroch. Weak. Alone. And with nothing to protect her.
Road to Baldur's Gate
9 Eleint, 1502 DR
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Our party of Maze, Orri, Tealight, Wuyon'e, and myself, pursued leads within Baldur's Gates, for a hint of where to locate permanent teleportations. Greeted by Blaze Darth Silvershield of the Flaming Fists, we appeared in the Lower City to investigate leads. Our first stop took us to Jopalin's, where the titular half-elf gave suggestions on where to explore. We sought out the temple of Umberlee, Sorcerous Sundries, and the Elfsong Tavern in that order. At the Water Queen's House, an acolyte requested we scrub barnacles off the bottom of a ship, made easier with clerical spells. At Sorcerous Sundries, a flock of birds arriving spelled chaos until we could evict them. At the Elfsong Tavern, two of our clerics engaged in drinking to bond with the common folk. We headed to the High City for work, convincing an old man to obey curfew through threats. The High House of Wonders, a Gondian temple, tested our mettle in invention. After that, we went home.
Errokkadaen
The Color of Imagination
2-3 Eleint, 1502 DR
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we were summoned by virginia sinns some goblin lady near loudwater because she wanted to get special pigments for her daughter cinna sinns who got majorly into painting! we had to go into the stillwood to get stuff. mushrooms, spider carapaces, venom sacs, ore, flowers, and stuff. so we went out!
to be honest it was pretty straightforward besides the fact that we all almost died :( there were mushroom guys and we fought them and azrael fell from the sky as a mammoth. then we fought a buncha spiders and they went down pretty quick because we made the azrael mammoth really big. then we fought some shambling mounds in a field! no mammoths this time.
when we brought all the stuff back miss virginia paid us for our time. but her kid had already moved onto another hobby. kids are weird.
-R\&W <3
Kobold Kidnapping
26-27 Eleasis, 1502 DR
poke the kobold who works at the syndicate got a ransom note! there was supposed to be a 2500gp sum to pay at the river by "T.L.S" to get the six captured kobolds back! so we went to the river and cyrus handled negotiations because hes real good at that. the guy we met didnt have proof besides a scale that the kobolds were alive so cyrus said hey go bring some? so they did. we noticed they did magics to hide their footsteps. they got back a while layer and cyrus tricked the guy to grab him but it didnt work and we got ambushed kinda :( real speedy guys who couldnt get pinned down and they were invisible and it was a lot and real rough. but we made it somehow and the kobolds the one guy brought didnt die!!! we took a rest.
part two involved getting to this cabin. i made an illusion that sounded like the real guy and then aber whacked a guys head. i killed so many people. we freed the kobolds outside then found a basement and freed the last of the kobolds. then i touched a cool lock but it zapped my brain but i got better.
we went home and poke was really happy and then offered to make me another wilson which was REALLY COOL <3333 and NOTHING ELSE WAS OFFERED!!!!!
we did it!!! -R\&W :D
The Masked Liason
12 Eleasis, 1502 DR
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so this lady named captain ilyra venn of the lords alliance wanted us for this weird mission. apparently theres been all these space distortions everywhere around neverwinter and they found the body of this agent, teren aldren, and his badge was weirdly warped. but his notes say he was hunting down leads including this guy named tavian rusk in the city. we talked to another agent when we got there, found out that a bunch of magic ingredients and conduits were going missing. aldrens note originally said keep rusk alive so we can figure out whos stealing what.
cyrus knew a guy in the city for bounty hunting so we followed him and found this whole space distortion (super cool!!!!!) at a mystra altar. the acolyte lady was keeping everyone back but there were two people trapped in there. so i saved the day!!!!!! because errokkadaen is real good with wards and such and i guess i was channeling or something. orri threw me in there to help get the guy out and i think i married him (the guy) (not orri) (unless?) (lol). the contact pointed us towards the docks of the city so we went thataway.
a bunch of thugs had our guy, the rusk guy! so we intervened. orri almost died. then wilson died. :( cyrus went all beast mode? the fight was kinda scuffed i mean we split up immediately but like what choice did we have but it worked out so its okay! wilson got better. and rusk told us what he knew! theres some warehouse theyre shipping things out of. seems like its this big smuggling situation and theyre shipping things north (luskan? further??). all these ward things and rusk got real into it? like how gambling is wrong but you get addicted. he got us this crate of real good stuff including a bunch of spellwrought tattoos that are kinda protective in nature in my opinion which is cool. oh yeah there might be animated armors and something called an aegis up that way so good luck to you suckers who go up there. its me. im suckers.
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think im gonna take a nap for a while... -R\&W
The Courting of Fire
21 Flamerule, 1502 DR
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there was a book thief! at this library in the city of phlan. the lord sage of phlan reported that a couple guys went missing named tibeem and spernik. they stole some books from the library and replaced em with forgeries. we snooped around and found the guys had connections to some cult of dragons! so we went out there. found out tibeem had been arrested and murdered. so we went off!
at the entrance there were hiding kobolds and i warned em to leave but there was a fight and they all died :( then we went inside. fought some zombies. fought some oozes. took a rest. fought some ghouls. not a pleasant place! but fun to poke through.
then we got to spernik who fought us despite hesitation. we rallied some of his kobolds to our cause to join the syndicate! captured spernik. looted a lotta books off him and some keys.
the next rooms were lil alcoves with keys. we plugged em into the door and found a cool pedestal with these red glowing runes and undead! scalebinder skovac said for us to not bother so we said okay and didnt. he said he used to work for the circle of the scale some druid group? but then a dragon named scorlworyx aka the scorching wind attacked and skovac entombed himself inside. the device (apparently tiamat the dragon lady made it) could be used to control dragons but theres this fear of what a dragon could do with it.
we took the keys and agreed to keep em away from the door. and chat with skovac sometimes through the door :) took spernik back for arresting and got money!
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-r\&w :D
Package Delivery
24 Flamerule, 1502 DR
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we went to see this drow guy in silverymoon at the unicorn's horn named venel! he wanted to deliver a package to his grandma elizabeth baentyl, a human lady, but there was this big festival about communion and the city goin on so he was too busy as a guard to go deal with the package. we got paid to wander off and do all that. heavy package with evocation inside.
some wizards were doing a cleaning spell but then it went MAJORLY WRONG! and there was a real weird magic surge. a monkey stole the package! but the magic stayed on the fritz so cyrus got big and blue and orri also turned into a monkey and it was sheer chaos but we survived. and the monkey's owner came for george (not orri) and apologized and gave us an eyeball as an apology. is that normal here?????
then we walked through town still following directions and a bunch of people were dancing. i joined in until someone broke a drum and then everyone collapsed? because they were enchanted to dance for like EVER and they got tired. they thanked us. a kid almost threw a potion of animal friendship (???) at us but azrael caught it and we saved it for later. chekhovs gun-style. then we passed a street where animated armors and displacer beasts attacked! we were okay though orri ate cobblestone and wilson struggled a whole bunch against em. they turned into ink when they died so i didnt get any cool pelts but we stay strong.
finally got to gramma benedryl's place and gave her the unopened package. it turned into a spread of breakfast foods! we enjoyed it with her until the worst of the festival chaos died down and then we went home. :)
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-R\&W :D
Secrets Gathering Dust
8 Flamerule, 1502 DR
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we were hired by nahaunglaroth, the blood of morueme, the sky surge. some blue dragon? idk but he sent this bugbear named hario (lol) who had a scroll requesting our help. go raid this wizardly spot where a wizard of undeath died undeadedly. dragon wanted skull and staff. so aber, evander, forvist, glitrende, snap, and wilson and i went!
a short way into the graypeak mountains we got there and saw a sign in undercommon- "here lies phineas the sallow. try not to wake him or feel his wraith." not wrath? whatever. saw a elf or drow mosaic on the ground. saw a portcullis with a button beyond it. headed through the non-port door despite knowing it was trapped. it sounded a real loud alarm and then ghouls and shadows ran at us! we were okay but those shadows really hurt and scared us.
there was a hall with a guillotine trap, then another room trapped. some skulls released flammable gas. we kept on the plate to not trigger the rest. i opened a door and then there were more ghouls and shadows! during the fight i forgot about the gas and used fire and we got all blown up but it hurt the undead more. then we all took a super secure rest.
in the next room was a lever and a chest. evander pulled the lever. we heard a noise elsewhere (the portcullis!). i tried disarming the chest but failed and set it off. the door shut and forvist and glitrende got separated from us! they had an adventure on their own while we hurried through a sewer grate to avoid falling pressure spikes. next room had an acid trail flowing towards us. aber was walking around through it to investigate and we found a real nice room with sarcophagi! decided to keep exploring to try and find fovist. aber fell into a pitfall trap. wilson and i got them out. then we reunited with forvist who almost withered away and died by other shadows.
during our reunion evander opened the sarcophagi and got attacked by phineas and some skeletons. we raced to get forvist across the gap and to the room to save evander and win! and we did!!! no one important died. we looted phineas and skedaddled.
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-rokka :)
Big Problems
27 Kythorn, 1502 DR
a town called daggerford wanted help! they were friends with these giants but lately theres been problems with the giants of the maelstrom nearby, stealing and eating the cows. :( so we were summonned! asrael, jueinuma, and rokka (me!!) went out. chatted with alekka golt, this old lady who fought in the local mission. and farmer jenkins, a really nice and really sad farmer whose cattle got ate. and then there was illan darosi, this no good merchant guy who was a THAYAN IN DISGUISE. but we didnt know that yet. he gave us all these traps and stuff and wanted us to capture and kill the hill giant responsible.
things got fishy. the farm showed giant tracks, and cart tracks, and humanish footprints? so we followed them into the woods nearby. found this big ol field of dead cows. but they were killed by knives, not like giant swords or anything. and then during the rain there was this cool storm giant man, torosius, who seemed kinda sad. :( he talked about how thayan guys typically caused problems, and they might be blaming giants to get a cultist foothold in daggerford! jue REALLY didnt like that... and azrael was mad because he remembered darosi dropped out of merchant school (i forgot what he said, something about a license). i wasnt listening because i got to ride on torosius shoulder :D
we got back and convinced alekka, but darosi was rallying up people. calling us bad names. but were like SO GOOD at persuading. and then azrael snatched a wig off a lady in the crowd and i got it :) but she was thayan and thats why we did that. so we FOUGHT!!! it was fun. jue was real good at stabbing. azrael got good spells. and i kept yelling. oh and azrael hit a guy and made him sleep. anyway WE WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we got good things and went home as some sorta saviors of daggerford. never been a hero before. feels good.
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im gonna give the wig to wilson :) -rokka