METACHAT: The Unburning (D&D5e)

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Willy, Electrix, here is Bobo's house:

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Bobo shares a tenement apartment in the Poor Quarter with two other cannibals. They are not of the same tribe or race as Bobo. One is a skinny dwarf and the other is a short human, but the racist Dragonborn landlord put them all in the same room because he assumed that all cannibals are the same tribe.

Neither of Bob's room-mates speaks Common.

The room is on the third floor of a big featureless five-story apartment block. Unlike most of the buildings in the Poor Quarter, it has outer walls made of brick, but the floors and most of the interior structure is made of wood. The building is in the part of the Poor Quarter where fire is possible, and from the one window, Bobo can look out and see the rubble of Shortbig House 3, the huge neighboring tenement house that collapsed in The Tragic Fire last month.

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Decorate your room (and your room-mates) however you see fit :)

Gizmog, here is Cece's "home"

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It is illegal to sleep overnight anywhere within the Smokefields district, which makes it a perfect place to sleep overnight.

Most of the illegal residents of the Smokefields circumvent the law by becoming nocturnal, sleeping in the day, and working all night in their kitchens, bakeries, foundries and blacksmithies, So for a homeless young sorcerer, who doesn't mind the sound of hammers on anvils or the smell of goats being roasted, the numerous trash-bins of the Smokefields make a perfect place to sleep the night away.

Of course, Cece isn't the only homeless person in Great Bakak no have noticed how great the Smokefields is for begging scraps and sleeping in trashcans, so she always has competition.

One of the best places to sleep are the big metal bins behind the University Satellite Campus Tent. The bins rarely contain rotten maggots or molten slag, and sometimes they are mysteriously fresh-smelling as if the student wizards have been throwing away the by-products of experimental Pleasant-Odor incantations. Besides, most of the other homeless folks stay away because they are too frightened of the Satellite Campus, just because it sometimes burns down in a magical hail of roiling elemental carnage-- as if someone sleeping in a sturdy metal trash-bin would care about a thing like that!

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For clarification, the main campus of the University of Bakak is located in Temple Hill. That is where all the big marble lecture halls and laboratories are located. The Satellite Campus is only used by the Elemental Gnostics department, and has about the same size (and air of respectability) as a large circus tent.

Awesome, this will work just fine

Moved sheet over here. Love the house and I don't think I need to change the backstory. Seven years seems like a reasonable amount of time to survive there, the nocturnal element is almost exactly what I was thinking, and who wouldn't want to live around mad scientists?

Awesome! I guess Ebald would fill his house with pretty utilitarian chairs, tables ect, nothing terribly fancy. One thing of note is he'd probably not have any vases in the house, because they bring back bad memories. He keeps flowers in a potion flask he picked up while still working at the university, which works fine but sometimes on a quiet night you can vaguely hear the flowers meow.

Also I think I'll have my parents live off in Fantasy Florida, because that sounds amusing.

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the quirky recurring villian of the ohr community

I have a metal barrel in the back alley that I have turning into a cooking pot. I also have a wool blanket made from my last sheep. It smells pretty bad because it was not tanned properly. I haven't decorated a lot because I don't plan to stay long.

I try my hardest to make friends with my roommates. I would try to teach them some of my tribe's traditional songs and dances (although Bobo isn't much of a musician).

Bobo's Equipment:
1x hand axe (From chopping wood, meat, and skulls.)
1x staff (It is a shepherd's crook.)
1x helmet (It is adorned with with sheep horns.)
1x cloak (Made from sheep's wool. It is died a deep burgundy color.)
1x boots (Made from soft tanned lambskin. They are very comfortable!)
1x loincloth (He doesn't like to wear it, but has learned that he must.)
1x waterskin (It is the bladder of a sheep.)
1x belt w/ pouches (Contains a few coins and some dried meat.)

I love that the most good and kind member of the whole party is the cannibal :D

Be aware that even though fire is possible in Bobo's part of the Poor Quarter, it is illegal. Both the law enforcement and the Guild if Cooks will come down hard on anyone caught cooking outside the Smokefields district. Tons of people do it anyway, just don't get caught! (And also because cannibalism too!)

So I've been having second thoughts about having Kailyn be a cleric Graz'zt. Definitely going to keep him a cleric, but Kailyn worshiping Graz'zt (A CE demon lord) seems a bit too similar to Kalar worshiping Dispater (A LE devil lord). Problem is, haven't found an Evil deity that has a focus on hedonism and/or... how shall I put it... "carnal delight" perhaps.

Any ideas for an alternate CE deity?

Found one. Changed Kailyn's backstory slightly, but around 90% of it is still applicable.

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Being from the third world, I reserve the right to speak in the third person.

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The team is looking great! In spite of the big crowd, I have decided to keep us all in one adventure thread, all going for the same goal. I am going to be the slowest cog in this machine, so I shouldn't overcomplicate things needlessly from my end ;)

Let's talk equipment and money!

Kailyn

Equipment looks great.

Your rent is 50 gold a month. Your current total savings in 20 gold.

You have not purchased rabbit food yet this month.

Rasvim

You have a ton of stuff in your inventory, but since you are a hoarder living in a junk pile, I am going to allow it. Make a note that all your stuff is filthy and of low quality (it still all works, except for the lantern which is badly broken, and the rations which are super-duper-rotten)

Your rent is zero and your savings is zero.

You have 2 Kobold trinkets. I don't know where to find the loot table, so you can make them up, or I will make some up for you.

Ebald

Your equipment looks great.

You have no rent but you owe 3 gold per month property taxes. Your current savings is 29 silver

Sharn

Your equipment looks great.

Your rent is zero.

Your total life savings is 2 copper-- just enough to get high before the job interview! Or eat a healthy breakfast, whatever.

Petrol

Your equipment looks great!

Your rent is zero, and definitely nobody will murder you in your sleep tonight

Your current savings is 5 silver

Normin

Your inventory looks great.

Your rent is 3 gold, and your savings is 3 gold.... I think this makes you the most financially stable member of the party? Maybe? Gnomes don't eat much, right?

Bobo

Your inventory looks great. Please copy it into your character sheet whenever you get a chance.

Your rent is 20 silver, and your savings is 20 silver

Cece

Your inventory is good, except I am nixing the 10 rations. You have zero rations. Also, your daggers are very obviously stolen kitchen knives (but still function like normal daggers)

Your rent is zero and your savings is zero


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We will probably start the quest as soon as tomorrow!

Mogri, your character can still join when you are ready-- we can just pretend they slept in a bit on the morning of the job interview :)

Trinket table (copied from a PDF so the formatting is weird, each line has two trinkets, one from different columns from the PDF):
TRINKETS d100 Trinkel
d100 Trinkel 27 A shard of obsidian that always feels warm to the
01 A mummified goblin hand touch
02 A piece of crystal that faintly glows in the moonlight 28 A dragon's bony talon hanging from a plain leather
03 A gold coin minted in an unknown land necklace
04 A diary written in a language you don't know 29 A pair of old socks
05 A brass ring that never tarnishes 30 A blank book whose pages refuse to hold ink, chalk,
06 An old chess piece made from glass graphite, or any olher substance or marking
07 A pair ofknucklebone dice, each with a skull symbol 31 A silver badge in the shape of a five-pointed star
on the si de thal would normally show six pips 32 A knife lhat belonged to a relative
08 A small idol depicting a nightmarish creature that 33 A glass via I filled with nail c1ippings
gives you unsettling dreams when you sleep near it 34 A rectangular metal device with two tiny metal cups
09 A rope necklace from which dangles four mummified on one end that throws sparks when wet
elf fingers 35 A white, sequined glove sized for a human
10 The deed for a parcel ofland in a realm unknown 36 A vest with one hundred liny pockets
to you 37 A small, weightless stone block
11 A l-ounce block made from an unknown material 38 A tiny sketch portrait of a goblin
12 A small c10th doll skewered with needles 39 An empty glass vial that smells of perfume when
13 A tooth from an unknown beast opened
14 An enormous scale, perhaps from a dragon 40 A gemstone that looks like a lump of coai when
15 A bright green feather examined by anyone but you
16 An old divination card bearing your likeness 41 A scrap of c10th from an old banner
17 A glass orb filled with moving smoke 42 A rank insignia from a lost legionnaire
18 A 1-pound egg wilh a bright red shell 43 A tiny silver bell without a c1apper
19 A pipe that blows bubbles 44 A mechanical canary inside a gnomish lamp
20 A glass jar containing a weird bit of fiesh fioating in 45 A tiny chest carved to look like it has numerous feet
pickling fiuid on the bottom
21 A tiny gnome-crafted music box that plays a song 46 A dead sprite inside a clear glass bottle
you dimly remember from your childhood 47 A metal can that has no opening but sounds as if it
22 A small wooden statuette of a smug halfiing is filled with liquid, sand, spiders, or broken glass
23 A brass orb etched with strange runes (your choice)
24 A multicolored stone disk 48 A glass orb filled with water, in which swims a
25 A tiny silver icon of a raven c1ockwork goldfish
26 A bag containing forty-seven humanoid teeth, one 49 A silver spoon with an M engraved on the handle
of which is rotten 50 A whistle made from gold-colored wood
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PART I I EQUIPMENT
dlOO Trinkel dlOO Trinkel
51 A dead scarab beelle lhe size of your hand 79 An invilalion lO a parly where a murder happened
52 Two loy soldiers, one wilh a missing head 80 A bronze penlaele wilh an elching of a ral's head
53 A small box filled wilh differenl.sized bultons in its center
54 A candle lhal can'l be lil 81 A purple handkerchief embroidered with lhe name of
55 A liny cage wilh no door a powerful archmage
56 An old key 82 Half of a floorplan for a lemple, caslle, or some olher
57 An indecipherable lreasure map structure
58 A hill from a broken sword 83 A bil of folded clolh lhal, when unfolded, lurns inlo
59 A rabbil's fool a slylish cap
60 A glass eye 84 A receipl of deposil aI a bank in a far.flung cily
61 A cameo carved in the likeness of a hideous person 85 A diary wilh seven missing pages
62 A silver skulllhe size of a coin 86 An empty silver snuffbox bearing an inscription on
63 An alabaster mask lhe surface lhal says "dreams"
64 A pyramid of Slicky black incense thal smells very bad 87 An iron holy symbol devoled lo an unknown god
65 A nighlcap lhal, when worn, gives you pleasanl 88 A book lhallells lhe slory of a legendary hero's rise
dreams and fali, wilh lhe lasl chapler missing
66 A single callrop made from bone 89 Aviai of dragon blood
67 A gold monoele frame wilhoullhe lens 90 An ancienl arrow of elven design
68 A 1.inch cube, each si de painled a differenl color 91 A needle lhal never bends
69 A cryslal knob from a door 92 An ornale brooch of dwarven design
70 A small packel filled wilh pink dusl 93 An emply wine bollle bearing a prelty labellhal says,
71 A fragmenl of a beauliful song, wrilten as musical "The Wizard ofWines Winery, Red Dragon Crush,
noles on lwo pieces of parchmenl 331422.W"
72 A silver leardrop earring made from a realleardrop 94 A mosaic lile wilh a mullicolored, glazed surface
73 The shell of an egg painted wilh scenes of human 95 A pelrified mouse
misery in dislurbing delail 96 A black pirale flag adorned wilh a dragon's skull
74 A fan lhal, when unfolded, shows a sleeping cal and crossbones
75 A seI of bone pipes 97 A liny mechanical crab or spider lhal moves aboul
76 A four.leaf elover pressed inside a book discussing when it's not being observed
manners and eliquelle 98 A glass jar conlaining lard wilh a labellhal reads,
77 A sheel of parchmenl upon which is drawn a complex "Griffon Grease"
mechanical conlraplion 99 A wooden box wilh a ceramic boltom lhal holds a
78 An ornale scabbard lhal fils no blade you have living worm wilh a head on each end of ils body
found so far 100 A melai um conlaining lhe ashes of a hero

Some more trinket lists here: https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/5e_Trinkets

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<TheGiz> oh hai doggy, oh no that's the straw that broke tjhe came baclsb

Yeah, that's about what I thought. Ten days of food would be crazy and take all the fun out of it. Cece is also probably going to start the campaign sleepy, due to the nocturnal lifestyle and the meeting being around dawn. Is that meeting board something everyone would've seen? Is it generating a buzz around town?

There is no serious buzz about the job posting for the Arcane Firefighter's guild. It was a small posting on one of the many bulletin boards in Marketday square.

Everyone who wants to can roll a d20 and add your WISDOM modifier. If you get 10 or higher, read the following:

There IS a lot of buzz lately about the fire that collapsed Shortbig House 3 in the Poor Quarter last month, killing like 100 people.

You guess that the posting might have something to do with that, but a Guild Of Arcane Firefighters seems like a whimsical and silly reaction to it in a city that has been almost completely fireproof since the dawn of memory...

And since when does the Mayor or the Lord Treasurer care about anybody in the Poor Quarter anyway?

I imagine I'll be doing most of the rolling in this campaign, but just for kicks I might ask you to roll for stuff like this. Can't let me have all the dice-fun.

Welp, wasted my first natural 20 of the campaign :P

Mildly curious, what do people use for lighting in the parts of the city where fire doesn't work? :/

I'm guessing just regular sunlight and magical sources of light for those fortunate to have them.

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<TheGiz> oh hai doggy, oh no that's the straw that broke tjhe came baclsb

In the better appointed parts of the city (Old Bakak, Temple Hill) magical lighting is ubiquitous. Everybody has magical lighting in their houses, and there are even magical streetlamps.

The same goes for Granary Hill and Marketday, where most residents and business owners can afford at least a few magical lamps, and the municipal magical streetlights exist, although they are sparser, and don't necessarily run the whole night through.

In the Poor Quarter, both the part where fire is impossible, and the part where it is merely illegal, people paint their buildings with bright whitewashes to maximize sunlight reflection at dawn and dusk. Mirrors or polished metal reflectors are popular in some of the better edges of the Poor Quarter, if they don't get broken or stolen.

But mostly, people in the Poor Quarter skrimp and save until maybe they can purchase one tiny magical glowing trinket for the family to huddle around at night, or they buy cheap disposable 1-time-use magic lights for emergencies.

Illegal fires in the flammable part of the Poor Quarter are most often small cooking fires in the middle of the day when they are unlikely to be spotted.

People in the Poor Quarter go to bed early... or they walk over to Marketday to party in a tavern.

In the Smokefields, people burn any dang thing they please.