I for one am good for a short or long rest but at least lets wait until the trog horde thins out inside the ruins before we decide to trek further in.

I for one am good for a short or long rest but at least lets wait until the trog horde thins out inside the ruins before we decide to trek further in.

In the mean time... Tell the story of your people for the kobold to share.

True, either way I'll be giving some of Roy's backstory.
I'll write something out within the day.

I vote for at least a short rest. I need to attune to my breastplate.

I for one am good for a short or long rest but at least lets wait until the trog horde thins out inside the ruins before we decide to trek further in.

ah but whilst the trogs are all gathered in one place is the best time to make our move! If we take a long rest we have to wait out the rest of the day and the night. unless you want to set off in the darkness.

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ah but whilst the trogs are all gathered in one place is the best time to make our move! If we take a long rest we have to wait out the rest of the day and the night. unless you want to set off in the darkness.

I have dark vision :P Not a problem.

I should work on a post.

true but we haven't decided to take a short or long rest yet.

Short seems to be majority

sounds good.

@Lucius Cypher do we know much about what traveling to Nurn proper will be like? how long it might take and so forth.

@Riaxh

Nada. Even if you had tried to do prior research about Nurn, information is scares, all the stories are conflicted with one another, and the only one consistent thing is that the port town exists. Even when lies immediately beyond changes depending on where you got your source.

And I can certainly tell you no one has ever mentioned cyclop being within the ruins of Brighthaven before. A little something special just for you guys.

@Riaxh

Nada. Even if you had tried to do prior research about Nurn, information is scares, all the stories are conflicted with one another, and the only one consistent thing is that the port town exists. Even when lies immediately beyond changes depending on where you got your source.

And I can certainly tell you no one has ever mentioned cyclop being within the ruins of Brighthaven before. A little something special just for you guys.

Would the bard know any of these stories? Legends and Myths are often born from truth after all. Though, they do change with time as they are told mouth to mouth.

@Tangletail

Roll me a history and I'll give you some stories she might've heard.

May I do one as well?
I'd like to see if Roy knows some stories considering he traveled to Norn on a hunch based on stories.

Sure go for it.

I suppose an 18 would be sufficient?

Well... Lilt has performance still... the dice can't take that from her with double proficency in performance. Ha...hah....hah....eeeh...

But I guess a low history on this makes sense... as the origin of stories and songs get muddled or lost with time. She could know one or two, but wouldn't know what it actually was associated with.

@Tangletail

There have never been tales of kobolds who have ever gone to the island and return alive. Hell not even if any dragons who have gone to the ruins and returned. Certainly tales of dragons who live there, but the stories about them seem to make the dragons out more akin to mad beasts than wise and cunning creates kobolds generally worship and follow. Indeed it seems like most of the tales she would know about the ruins are various cautionary tales, as they all end in some form of tragedy brought about either due to the adventurers own bad luck or foolishness.

@Searat

While you e heard these same tales, rarer still are those who have gone to the ruins for a sufficient amount of time and return alive and well. While every one of those person has died already, they have left behind some writings of their experience. Among the writing there are some common threads; Brighthaven is flanked by two massive mountain ranges. The range to the east is said to be rich in mineral resources such as black steel and silver steel, also known as adamantine and mythril respectively. Indeed it’s bt unusual to find fully crafted weapons and armor made of such valuable materials, fully enchanted with powers that allowed one adventurer to turn the tide of war for his nation. That being said what lives in those caves could be anything between a civilization of goblins, a clan of drow, or a massive organization of mind flayers based on their descriptions of octopus head humanoids.

The mountains to the west is homes to what few humans have survived in the island. Heavily fortified and equipped with all manner of weaponry scourges from the ruins of Norn, it would be nearly impossible for you all to break through, but if you could control these mountains you would have a safe haven to return to. Most of the humans hav turned to scavengers and raiding what few populations still exist, but anyone with a brain would realize that there’s no way they can live off banditry when there isn’t anyone foolish enough to try and start farming on Norn. So just how have these “humans” survived so many years with little to no food or water? A mystery indeed...

Lastly the most o secure rumor lies beyond Brighthaven. Of all of those who managed to survive the city, only one could speak of what he found beyond the treacherous jungle that blocks bright haven from the rest of the ruins. Though he came back blind and cripple, he remembered that there were no ruins at all; there was nothing. Nothing but an abyss, and beyond that, was not death or destruction, but a realm that mirrors our own yet at the same time exist only in ones own perception. This story had a lot of ramble nonsense that was both complex and contradictory, so believe what you will. The only reason this story is known is because there is solid proof via multiple witnesses and an ancient artifact that he had indeed gone to the ruins, and the experienced had changed him permanently before he had died so many years ago.

@Tangletail

There have never been tales of kobolds who have ever gone to the island and return alive. Hell not even if any dragons who have gone to the ruins and returned. Certainly tales of dragons who live there, but the stories about them seem to make the dragons out more akin to mad beasts than wise and cunning creates kobolds generally worship and follow. Indeed it seems like most of the tales she would know about the ruins are various cautionary tales, as they all end in some form of tragedy brought about either due to the adventurers own bad luck or foolishness.

That... actually is surprisingly a lot more than I expected. And surprisingly quite a bit to work off of.

To the Kobold, that almost implies that there were a community of red dragons constantly fighting for status. They are known for going on blind rampages and destroying everything if they learn that another dragon did something that raises their status. And targeted attacks if they discover something had been stolen from them, or if something valuable that they want is in a certain area. If these were incredibly frequent... than it means that there was certainly fierce competition for something they wanted. If not that, then something there that would certainly draw interest.

Which implies they at least had some knowledge of something valuable in a general area. (And a potential risk of a dracoliche). Would she have vague knowledge of a few frequent targets from those stories, directions, or ancient names? Or would they need to search around for clues to such attacks - which would likely be near the mountains assuming her assumptions are correct.

@Duthguy@Riaxh@rush99999

Don't forget to tell your stories!