Sean – Tepet Lintol – Master Sorcerer and ruler and rightful heir to Tepet.
Jeff – Tepet Barad – General and landed baron.
Mike – Tepet Katel – Warrior extraordinaire and brother to Lintol.
Tom: Cathak Jory – Sorcerer and spy master.
The group agrees to try and get the Priest that is disrupting the south of the Dragon Blooded lands. The idea is that this will increase Lintol’s prestige. Based on Jory’s intelligence they learn that this guy can make people fanatical followers with a single touch and they learn the name of the town where he is. The group decides to leave the army behind and travel by Lintol’s sorcery due to the distance involved.
Jory and Katel go into the town to try and scout it out. Right off the bat Jory is suspicious given the armor and weapons being made but the complete lack of visible soldiers. It’s a fairly small village but he wants to perform the most innocuous activity possible. They go to the store and he asks to buy bread. The shop keeper is asking unusual questions, and Jory is cautious but not sufficiently cautious since the store keeper asks why they want five days worth of bread but have no means of carrying it. He then switches to two days, but says that the nearest town is 5 days away and that traveling without leave will be vagrancy. They buy the bread and leave.
The two do not notice that they are followed by a group of 25 soldiers. As they approach the group, they immediately demand that the group pay a fine for vagrancy. The group asks some questions and the head of the 25 soldiers (gruff and authoritative) immediately then says that they need to move on or be arrested. Then he increases the fine. The group finally agrees to pay the fine (since it is a pittance) but in the process Jory is highly annoyed and asks the guard’s name. At this point, the guard (who had effectively asked for a bribe) immediately tries to arrest everyone. Since the group is not sure if the guard work for the local baron or not, after Katel struggles, the rest of the group gives up and Katel surrenders as well.
It turns out that the soldiers are working for the renegade priest who is also a powerful First Age soldier. He tries to compel the group but in the process, Jory breaks free using the powers of his bonded demon and moves to stop him, and then the whole group begins to break loose from the bonds holding them. Lintol and Katel work together to free Lintol’s hands. They are doing alright but in the process the Solar uses an incredibly powerful social charm that forces everyone to work with him, but only Lintol and Jory realize that they have been affected. So negotiations open. At this point the Solar initiates ANOTHER powerful social charm and convinces Katel and Jory that his is the right way of thinking. Lintol is the only member of the group not affected by the Solar’s effect.
The Solar offers to help the group with the understanding that in exchange Lintol come back and help his cause to unite the Empire under his rule and fight the things threatening creation. The group leaves, with the Priest’s offer to provide troops likely to be accepted and none of them knowing for certain who is affected by what. Upon return the group decides to keep the whole affair quiet lest they be accused of conspiring with a Solar. It is decided that the group will go to the Satrapy of Blackrock, which Jory’s intelligence has told them is ripe for revolt against their own rebellious Satrap.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Restoration of the House of Tepet - Russel's Exalted Game (Session 1)
Sean – Tepet Lintol – Master Sorcerer and ruler and rightful heir to Tepet.
Jeff – Tepet Barad – General and landed baron.
Mike – Tepet Katel – Warrior extraordinaire and brother to Lintol.
Tom: Cathak Jory – Sorcerer and spy master.
Lintol’s older brother, and heir to the house and best candidate for the Scarlet Throne had died under mysterious circumstances and was banished by the remaining Council Members. Jory, Katel, Barad and Lintol all met to discuss the status of the house in its fallen state, and the realm in general. In the process of doing this, a spy from another house was caught. Upon investigation, Jory discovered that all of the houses in House Tepet were riddled with spies because of the terrible finances of the house. Many options were considered, including attempting to gain extra soldiers from the Red Piss Legions, to finding lost artifacts, to building up new legions from scratch.
Lintol revealed a hidden manse where the group could discuss their plans in private. It was then determined that the best action for the group was to go after a Solar Priest who was instigating rebellion in the south part of the realm, thus enhancing Lintol’s reputation and helping to refute allegations by the council that he had slain his brother.
Lintol also cast a ritual which set the four of them up as a brotherhood dedicated to restoring Lintol, restoring Tepet and restoring the realm.
Jeff – Tepet Barad – General and landed baron.
Mike – Tepet Katel – Warrior extraordinaire and brother to Lintol.
Tom: Cathak Jory – Sorcerer and spy master.
Lintol’s older brother, and heir to the house and best candidate for the Scarlet Throne had died under mysterious circumstances and was banished by the remaining Council Members. Jory, Katel, Barad and Lintol all met to discuss the status of the house in its fallen state, and the realm in general. In the process of doing this, a spy from another house was caught. Upon investigation, Jory discovered that all of the houses in House Tepet were riddled with spies because of the terrible finances of the house. Many options were considered, including attempting to gain extra soldiers from the Red Piss Legions, to finding lost artifacts, to building up new legions from scratch.
Lintol revealed a hidden manse where the group could discuss their plans in private. It was then determined that the best action for the group was to go after a Solar Priest who was instigating rebellion in the south part of the realm, thus enhancing Lintol’s reputation and helping to refute allegations by the council that he had slain his brother.
Lintol also cast a ritual which set the four of them up as a brotherhood dedicated to restoring Lintol, restoring Tepet and restoring the realm.
Cathak Jory
(Slightly redone in chargen with the group)
Cathak Jory – Water Aspect Dragon Blooded Exalted
Str: 2 Dex: 3 Sta: 2
Cha: 3 Man: 4 App: 2
Per: 2 Int: 5 Wit: 3
Linguistics: 1 (Old Realm)
Abilities:
Lore: 3
Occult: 4
Stealth: 3
Bureaucracy: 4
Investigation: 4
Larceny: 4
Dodge: 3
Melee: 3
Presence: 2
Socialize: 3
Martial Arts: 1
Sail: 1
War: 1
Archery: 1
Performance: 1
Backgrounds:
Artifact: 4
Breeding: 3
Resources: 3
Contacts: Intelligence: 4
Contacts: Finance: 2
Contacts: Magistracy: 2
Contacts: Thousand Scales: 1
Contacts: Guild: 1
Merits and Flaws
Enemy – Cathak
Silver Tonged
Cache
Heirloom – Book of Lineage for House Cathak
Obligation – 2 (All children must be to House Tepet)
Charms:
Terrestrial Circle Sorcery
Emerald Countermagic
Demon of the First Circle
Infallible Messenger
Observer Awareness Technique
Finding the Water’s Depth
Thoughtful Gift Technique
Weapons: Jade Reinforced Breastplate
Daiklave
Yassal Crystal (Large)
Collar’s Dawn of Charging Light
Willpower: 7
B: 14
L: +12
Compassion: 3
Temperance: 1
Conviction: 4
Valor: 2
Essence: 3
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 29
Committed: 10
Jory was the third son in the line. For four generations, each controlling lord had had four children. Their blood line was always powerful but not in the top tier of house Cathak. They created a formula that worked fairly well. The first was to rule, the second became the master of secrets, the third worked for the Empire and the fourth learned the sciences. But Jory did not satisfy his father's expectations for military stratagem so he decided that sending him to work in the Imperial bureaucracy would work better. The diviners said he was likely to exalt in Water, despite the family's propensity for Air, from his mother's bloodline, but since he never exalted, his father quietly made arrangements for him to become a monk upon graduation instead since he proved moderately adept at martial arts.
He exalted the day his brother (the second) died, he exalted as water, not air. Jory's father took this as a sign from Heaven, and had Jory enrolled in the Heptagram, academy for sorcerer's only four months before he was supposed to graduate. But he proved an excellent student at sorcery, and was able to use these skills plus the contact network his brother had established to be an excellent master of secrets. As a sorcerer he was tolerated. His father had more tolerance for him than others in the house primarily because he was still able to perform many useful roles for the house.
Seven years ago, his older brother and father died in the day of great tragedy. Jory would become the ruling lord instead. Jory didn't want the job, but he had no choice. In some ways, he has done well, but feels less than up to the task.
Upon taking this mantle, he discovered the true source of the line’s power. They had been cheated out of their rightful portion of Cathak’s inheritance by the ruling council. In retaliation, Jory’s great grandfather Aliet Cathak had replaced the Book of Lineage, the artifact that listed the rightful portioning of all inheritances within Cathak delineating what belonged to whom and to what with an exceptionally clever forgery. For 20 years the Expediency Council ruled using the false document, when Aliet made known his deception. The power of the council would be shattered if the revelations were made known. As a result, Aliet and his line were restored the lands and power that were taken from them with the understanding that the Book of Lineage (still properly maintained and updated by Aliet) was never made public for fear of the damage to the delicate balance of power amongst the factions in the Expediency Council.
For sixty years a cold war began with the Council trying to retrieve the Book, and Aliet keeping it from them. Aliet’s spy network grew to exceptional proportions, and while Aliet and his descendants resented the council, they also desired the best for the house, thus using their network to aid Cathak gain as much Imperial aid as possible.
Upon learning that this crime had been going on, Jory was ashamed, since he felt that the line’s lands had been rightfully restored and that Aliet should have returned the book a long time ago, and that his ancestors should have done the same. And in the process of taking the book back to the Expediency Council he learned that the Council had entered its master stroke, killing his final living brother, seizing the family’s lands and thinking that they had taken the book from its rightful holding place. He further learned that his brother s and father had been killed for the same reason.
Jory fled Cathak lands where he was banished on the public pretense of ‘dishonoring the council’ and other nonsensical vagaries, whilst Jory took with him the Book, his inheritance and the family’s spy network. He also cleverly used his exceptional skills at Bureaucracy to lock up all the family’s lands in binding contracts for five hundred years such that those who stole them might be able to rule, but would never profit from them. He also managed a heavy degree of imperial interference and mandates thus ensuring the people he left behind were at least somewhat protected by the wrath of the rulers as well.
Unshielded and without a house, he made arrangements with House Tepet while they were still powerful, offering his resources and skills as a companion to the promising young Lintol Tepet whom he befriended and taught some sorcery that he had learned at the Heptagram. When the house fell, Jory became determined to help the house rise again to prominence by whatever means necessary.
Cathak Jory – Water Aspect Dragon Blooded Exalted
Str: 2 Dex: 3 Sta: 2
Cha: 3 Man: 4 App: 2
Per: 2 Int: 5 Wit: 3
Linguistics: 1 (Old Realm)
Abilities:
Lore: 3
Occult: 4
Stealth: 3
Bureaucracy: 4
Investigation: 4
Larceny: 4
Dodge: 3
Melee: 3
Presence: 2
Socialize: 3
Martial Arts: 1
Sail: 1
War: 1
Archery: 1
Performance: 1
Backgrounds:
Artifact: 4
Breeding: 3
Resources: 3
Contacts: Intelligence: 4
Contacts: Finance: 2
Contacts: Magistracy: 2
Contacts: Thousand Scales: 1
Contacts: Guild: 1
Merits and Flaws
Enemy – Cathak
Silver Tonged
Cache
Heirloom – Book of Lineage for House Cathak
Obligation – 2 (All children must be to House Tepet)
Charms:
Terrestrial Circle Sorcery
Emerald Countermagic
Demon of the First Circle
Infallible Messenger
Observer Awareness Technique
Finding the Water’s Depth
Thoughtful Gift Technique
Weapons: Jade Reinforced Breastplate
Daiklave
Yassal Crystal (Large)
Collar’s Dawn of Charging Light
Willpower: 7
B: 14
L: +12
Compassion: 3
Temperance: 1
Conviction: 4
Valor: 2
Essence: 3
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 29
Committed: 10
Jory was the third son in the line. For four generations, each controlling lord had had four children. Their blood line was always powerful but not in the top tier of house Cathak. They created a formula that worked fairly well. The first was to rule, the second became the master of secrets, the third worked for the Empire and the fourth learned the sciences. But Jory did not satisfy his father's expectations for military stratagem so he decided that sending him to work in the Imperial bureaucracy would work better. The diviners said he was likely to exalt in Water, despite the family's propensity for Air, from his mother's bloodline, but since he never exalted, his father quietly made arrangements for him to become a monk upon graduation instead since he proved moderately adept at martial arts.
He exalted the day his brother (the second) died, he exalted as water, not air. Jory's father took this as a sign from Heaven, and had Jory enrolled in the Heptagram, academy for sorcerer's only four months before he was supposed to graduate. But he proved an excellent student at sorcery, and was able to use these skills plus the contact network his brother had established to be an excellent master of secrets. As a sorcerer he was tolerated. His father had more tolerance for him than others in the house primarily because he was still able to perform many useful roles for the house.
Seven years ago, his older brother and father died in the day of great tragedy. Jory would become the ruling lord instead. Jory didn't want the job, but he had no choice. In some ways, he has done well, but feels less than up to the task.
Upon taking this mantle, he discovered the true source of the line’s power. They had been cheated out of their rightful portion of Cathak’s inheritance by the ruling council. In retaliation, Jory’s great grandfather Aliet Cathak had replaced the Book of Lineage, the artifact that listed the rightful portioning of all inheritances within Cathak delineating what belonged to whom and to what with an exceptionally clever forgery. For 20 years the Expediency Council ruled using the false document, when Aliet made known his deception. The power of the council would be shattered if the revelations were made known. As a result, Aliet and his line were restored the lands and power that were taken from them with the understanding that the Book of Lineage (still properly maintained and updated by Aliet) was never made public for fear of the damage to the delicate balance of power amongst the factions in the Expediency Council.
For sixty years a cold war began with the Council trying to retrieve the Book, and Aliet keeping it from them. Aliet’s spy network grew to exceptional proportions, and while Aliet and his descendants resented the council, they also desired the best for the house, thus using their network to aid Cathak gain as much Imperial aid as possible.
Upon learning that this crime had been going on, Jory was ashamed, since he felt that the line’s lands had been rightfully restored and that Aliet should have returned the book a long time ago, and that his ancestors should have done the same. And in the process of taking the book back to the Expediency Council he learned that the Council had entered its master stroke, killing his final living brother, seizing the family’s lands and thinking that they had taken the book from its rightful holding place. He further learned that his brother s and father had been killed for the same reason.
Jory fled Cathak lands where he was banished on the public pretense of ‘dishonoring the council’ and other nonsensical vagaries, whilst Jory took with him the Book, his inheritance and the family’s spy network. He also cleverly used his exceptional skills at Bureaucracy to lock up all the family’s lands in binding contracts for five hundred years such that those who stole them might be able to rule, but would never profit from them. He also managed a heavy degree of imperial interference and mandates thus ensuring the people he left behind were at least somewhat protected by the wrath of the rulers as well.
Unshielded and without a house, he made arrangements with House Tepet while they were still powerful, offering his resources and skills as a companion to the promising young Lintol Tepet whom he befriended and taught some sorcery that he had learned at the Heptagram. When the house fell, Jory became determined to help the house rise again to prominence by whatever means necessary.
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