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Quarion Xiloscient Background

March 4, 2015 By Ben Leave a Comment

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Let’s be honest, this posted by accident. Don’t get me wrong this is something we wanted to share with you guys, but it wasn’t scheduled to post today. So enjoy the little audio component with me and Reid if you can and dig into some of the story lore if you desire. Thanks for your support, enjoy the by accident bonus episode.

  • Quarion’s father is Penlod Xiloscient: Duke of Merici (Mare-uh-see).  He is part of the original elves who inhabited the land that was claimed by and united as Felicia (Fe-li-see-a) by Human Murdok Stromal 350 years ago.
    • Penlod has never taken Quarion off the estate. Quarion has noticed over time that is father is a great deal of a shut in and also not completely sane. He has an unhealthy obsession with rapiers so much so that he has spent more time with them then Quarion, he claims that the halls of his keep are a better place than the rest of the world, and he grumbles angrily to himself sometimes when alone as if he is fighting with someone.
  • Being of a noble line, with a father who was there to see it all happen, Quarion was privileged to  learn the true history behind Felicia’s uniting. The history told and taught by others under orders of the last 9 rulers.
    • The human Murdok Stromal came to the land with ten thousand men of many races, majority elven and human. They were all slaves until Murdok led a rebellion and they fled from their land across the Tiber (Tib-er) ocean.  They worked within a plant creating clockworks for a man known as the Emerald King in the land of Samara, and had stolen parts over time to build a large raft like hovercraft which Murdok had designed. When it was completed Murdok convinced all the plant workers across a large whole of the land’s assemblies to destroy their work places and those clockworks that were in charge of reporting back to the King or winding his soldiers. They made it to the Land now known as Felicia and vowed to gain support through alliances and use their tools and knowledge to build up a force to protect if the Emerald King sent minions across the Ocean. Felicia was mainly inhabited by spaced out families of Elves, some druidic in nature, sects of dwarves which kept separate from the elves, and a united society of Dragonborns with provinces throughout the land.  The elves welcomed their brothers in the race among their people and supported their brother’s friends.  The dwarfs were promised technology from Samara if they were to share their land and help.  But the Dragonborns threatened to send the slaves back to their master as this was their way and beliefs.  Because of this the elves out of a desire to protect their kin, the dwarves interested in the technology, and Murdok with his army of ten thousand went to each province and asked for amnesty, if this was not granted they were forced to destroy that province.  Ultimately to this day no one has ever come from Samara to regain their slaves.
    • Elven history- Murdok had found safety and employment by the elves who allowed them to live alongside their people. This though was not enough for Murdock who, though free, felt as though he just went from working from one master to another.  He schemed with his now freed elven companions to sow the need for a united kingdom due to the threat that the Emerald King would be to their land and how he would ravage nature with his poison.  The elves being peaceful people who desperately desired to protect nature were easily convinced.  Murdok set forth himself as leader and with the support of his elves brought his united treaty to all the people of the land.  The dwarves joined the nation for technology to sunder stone like never before and cut precious stones in ways never thought achievable.  The elves agreed to rule provinces of land they already owned and take on the exiles. But the Dragonborn people did not fear the Emerald King and were content, not being part of a nation.  They were not against its formation, only asked to keep their land and be worked around within the nation as separate territories.  Murdock feared a people not under his control and spread the lie among all the people that the Dragonborns would sell them back to the Emerald King.  That they were a threat to unity and peace.  Murdok’s ten thousand’s fear of slavery, the Elves fear of destruction of their nature, and the Dwarves fear of loss of precious stone fed the lie until all were willing to raid peaceful Dragonborn camps without discussion with its people or warning.  Killing many and driving them North from the South.  The battle continued until it reached the mountains of Veyrin where an estimated population of 40 Dragonborns destroyed a great army of 4000 pursuing soldiers within one day.  Penlod was not a fighter but there was a tale of the God’s of the Dragon’s ending this internal war.  With the Dragonborn number so few by this point Murdok completed his kingdom preparation of clearing out most of the internal lands and began building up his army and empire.
    • In time the technology his fellow slaves produced convinced and replaced the olden ways of many elves who found lives of leisure. They were attracted to the life within cities and the affluence it brought (elves being the primary land owners and richest) moved from their forests there.  This is the fate of much of the south where elves sold their land as stock in trading to technology tycoons or unions who wished to rise on the economic ladder. There are a few noble elves in the north who have not forsaken their ways, maybe due to their resolve or maybe to the distance from these great and enticing cities.
  • Merici is located just north of the capitol in what would be considered midland. Its land is fertile due to its location on the fork of Trinada (Felicia’s largest and longest river) and Trina (a river that forks off of Trinada.  The land of Merici serves as basic training for the nation’s army and has been so since Murdok started the nation.  Additionally Penlod collects monthly salary for the use of his land and pays no taxes for the past 350 years.
  • Quarion’s Mother is unknown and left while he was very young.  His father has never given him information other than that she ran away with a lot of money.  Quarion has never seen his father leave the estate and does not believe he ever chased after her.
  • North on Trinada is a small farming town known as Galdahon which supplies food to Merici for the army and Penlod. It is a different kind of Farm in that the Elvish owner Rog is direct descendant of the original owner (still alive) Yiren.  The farm is known for its natural/druidic way of caring for the land and employs elves, half elves, and humans as equal owners of the estate. Some argue that its food is the best but many in a blind test cannot tell the difference.
  • Quarion, still respectful towards his father, has asked to take leave to learn and experience the country in which he will inherit a keep. He has headed north and reaches Fingon’s Farm outside of Tribeck when the story starts.

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Ep. 7 Home is Variably Priced

March 1, 2015 By Ben Leave a Comment

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This is it, the moment you have all been waiting for. An episode about bartering for services with NPC’s. Hey, that’s D&D for you. There are also some quick and simple homebrew games to simulate an eating contest and tree climbing event, though they weren’t as entertaining as i had hoped since not many of the players wanted to partake in them.

Flank us in the normal places. I’ll be here using a total defense action or in 5E I guess that would be Dodge…maybe I should be ready to use a Help action instead…but that would require someone adjacent to me.

Shout out to Zaran Black for his kind review on iTunes. Thanks to all those who are helping to support the podcast by telling others and listening in each week.

 

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Ep. 6 Home is Tellus

February 22, 2015 By Ben Leave a Comment

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Our rather level headed party takes their time to leave town with the newly freed, prisoner of werewolves, Mytha Light. Ultimately they give her what she wants and accept the plot hook desperately thrown at them by the DM, but before doing so they:stop by work to give notice, notify the authorities of the going ons that they experienced, discuss purchase of farm animals, and check out a book on Dad jokes at the local library.

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Ep. 5 Home is Far Away

February 8, 2015 By Ben Leave a Comment

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The party struggles to not allow outside game knowledge effect in game knowledge as they quickly identify and kill the prison guard and then proceed to attempt to kill some of the helpless prisoners, *sigh* only in D&D. Listen in and you may find that you would have made the decision too if it was your gaming group. There is some science experiments and cadavers at Unity in store. Hope you enjoy. Thanks for those who have rated and reviewed, feel free to reach out with your thoughts and comments at contact@pathlesspod.com.

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Ep. 4 Home is a Cell

February 1, 2015 By Ben Leave a Comment

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Roll some initiative for roleplaying.  There is much for the character’s to do and learn and where better to learn than an university?  You will see the dramatic climax of the broken elevator, then have your heart broken by the romantic tension between Quarian and a certain Astronomy Professor, and finally be outraged when Notch illegally uses his in game powers to get closer to Quarian’s girl.

Real happy with the audio quality on this one, because I always focus too much on the technical and I’m sure no one else cares. Tune in next week to hear about a contest we are doing in a desperate plea to get more iTunes reviews and feedback (Don’t let this discourage you from providing feedback and reviews now…they will be grandfathered in.)

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Character Sheets

February 1, 2015 By Ben Leave a Comment

See below to links to Character Sheets. We will upload what we can in case anyone is interested. We got our pdfs from here.

1st Level

Quarion Xiloscient Level 1

Wimble Korren ‘Baybreeze’ Level 1

Notch Stern Level 1

 

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Ep. 3 Home is Uni

January 26, 2015 By Ben Leave a Comment

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The Story continues as our adventures explore deeper into the forge and the heart of education in the country of Felicia. We will be posting Lightlessness for two more weeks and then publishing another Pumpkin Spice Episode.  Don’t like it? Well let us know. We are literally available to communicate with in five different methods.

We have removed Tavern Talk out from this episode and will be releasing it as a download later.  We plan on doing all Tavern Talks like this in the future.

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Thanks for tuning in you D&D loving people. Love Your DM, Ben.

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Ep. 2 Home is on a Farm

January 4, 2015 By Ben 2 Comments

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We find our Adventurers united as a team working to investigate what is attacking the farm of an Elf named Fingon Meriwind. The members spend their free time drinking, pursuing personal agendas concerning their background, and balancing their adventuring life with a full time job.

Our Mic is still malfunctioning at the start of the recording so we are using the prerecorded welcome to pathless podcast and the same welcome to Tavern Talk as last time.

I know these episodes are long. Let us know if you’d rather we split Tavern Talks into separate episodes. Feel free to share it with a friend. We love just playing, but hope we can entertain a few as well.

Tavern Talk starts at 1:09:20 where we discuss combat in 5E compared to Pathfinder including movement, actions in combat, attacks of opportunity, flanking, and CR.

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Ep. 1 Home is Where the Dark is

December 29, 2014 By Ben Leave a Comment

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The start of an adventure…is always a bit rough. Getting players together, playing a new edition with new rules. So we spend a lot of time roleplaying and laughing.  When we recorded this I actually was really sick and out of it with a fever and swollen throat so though I pushed through there are a lot of pauses as my brain catches up to my mouth.

Additionally we lost our opening audio for one reason or another so my wife filled in the missing piece since my throat felt swollen shut.

Enjoy the story’s beginning. Feel free to reach out to us via contact@pathlesspod.com or any other social media.

We’ve added Tavern Talk which is after the play session discussing 5E as it compares with Pathfinder.  This episode’s topic is about making characters and what parts they’re comprised of in each edition.

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Ep. 0 Home is a Friendly Introduction

December 22, 2014 By Ben Leave a Comment

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Hurrah! The first season is starting and opens with my unedited, uncomfortable intro where I say exactly what’s on my mind related to our first season of the show, and first campaign in 5th Edition D&D…even if it is not proper English or may come off the wrong way.  I’m sure a post with mindless run on sentences will go well with it and when the players listen I’ll likely get picked on, but that’s the joy of putting yourself on the internet. I hope you’ll listen, but here’s the overview:

  • Opening Music
  • Intro by Ben the DM
  • Character Intro by Sam playing Tiefling Warlock Notch Stern
  • Character Intro by Matt playing Gnome Rouge Wimble “Baybreeze” Korren
  • Character Intro by Jeremy playing Dragonborn Barbarian Morva
  • Character Intro by Reid playing High Elf Wizard Quarion Xiloscient
  • Outro by Ben
  • Closing Music
  • Ben did not listen to this mp3 on his phone before uploading to the media server…which he always does because he doesn’t trust audacity. So let’s hope I rolled high in my craft audio file check.

Next week’s episode barring any catastrophes will be the new campaign for those wondering. Also we post every Sunday, sometimes late because my baby won’t fall asleep so I can’t start editing till 10 p.m.

Here’s a link for the website for those who are reading this through the RSS feed and want to leave comments on this episode or just look around.

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