WotL OOC Thread II

[TristenC]

Ismene!" Haahqae, his next arrow already nocked, notices Ismene get torn into viciously by the Histachii. Letting the arrow loose to strike down the vile creature who did such a think, Haahqae makes his way around the grease (or in it if need be) to get over to the wounded gnome. "Are you alright?"

Action: Shoot at Histachii then move to Ismene.

*Facepalm*

Did you seriously just attack then walk towards the only living thing that can still kill you, while holding a ranged weapon? At 1 hp?

... I don't have enough bandages for this $#!7

It seems you are tires of playing this character... though you're doing his 3 wis proud

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[Haahque]

Thanks,

Haahqae is a hero! (At least that's what he thinks)

Also he can't die, it's never happened to him before so how could it possibly happen to him now? That would be like... rewriting the rules on which the world's built, and that can't be a good thing, so Haahqae can't die.

He's also willing to walk into his own grease spell if need be, to add to the wisdom of the situation.

[chese780]

Felran moves around the grease to reach Staff Wielder.
Arulia moves toward the Staff Wielder but cannot reach her as Felran is in the way.

Did I just?

"You see kids, sometimes it's better to have a higher initiative."

[JadedDM]

Staff Wielder is down anyway, so...

[TristenC]

I believe the phrase is 'Yoink!'
Gobbo lobs FTW

[TristenC]

[OOC: Just want to check, who all has been injured? Ne-Chanz, Xyleena and the gnomes? Anyone else?]

Arulia took an arrow, as well.)[/color]

[Ooc: To the knee? ]

[djhyland]

Arulia took an arrow, as well.

(OOC: Not to the knee, thankfully. Her adventuring career is still viable!)

[BishGada]

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(OOC: If game time extends or the commotion will get nearer Tulbas will wake up and try to get his stuff back from the chest. (Hoping Leota left it unlocked while running into the fight)).

[BishGada]

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(OOC:
After explaining draconians have no females I better understand where all this conversation is coming from... It seemed VERY weird at first. I thought it just JadedDM jesting with Horizon. Similar to the conversations regarding her relationship with Norris which is described as perfect for her, but still she doesn't find him appealing. (Again, I didn't know until recently she was in love with the elf guy... It seems I have a lot of gaps in my knowledge... Maybe I should read a book and come later..)

Anyway I don't know if there is an explanation why draconians have no females... My knowledge in DL is limited, but if I understand correctly, emm.. the "bad guys" (Takhysis or the dragon lords?) collected dragon eggs, put them in a lair or some pond and used a ritual that instead of dragons, draconians hatched from the eggs. But there are female dragons so why the ritual changed the sex and not only the species?)

[TristenC]

Yeah, it was weird to me too. When Kendra said
""Except we have breasts and our privates are a little more protected than yours.""

I fully expected her to follow up with something like "so we don't get kicked in the junk for asking stupid/offensive questions"



Hmm... deadpool even looks like a draconian there...

[JadedDM]

Big spoilers ahead, for anyone who hasn't read the original three books.

Yes, Draconians are created by corrupting the eggs of good dragons (which is unknown to anyone but the higher ups in the army at this point). There are corrupted female eggs, but they were never hatched. The Draconians were meant as temporary soldiers, and once the war was won, there would be no use for them. So no need for females, no need for further breeding.

During the Chaos War, the female eggs are found by the Draconians and hatched. But that won't happen until 383 AC, which is 32 years from our current game.

[BishGada]

I see... Interesting. Who found the female eggs?

[djhyland]

I could be wrong, since this is one of the Dragonlance novels I haven't read, but I believe it was a regiment of draconians under the leadership of one Kang, as detailed in The Doom Brigade. After the advancement of the timeline to the Chaos War, I kind of lost interest in the Dragonlance novels. Of course, that might have also been due to discovering better fantasy fiction than TSR's novels.

That's not to say that I didn't love the TSR novels. I inhaled them for a while, buying a new one every time I scraped together $5.27 (the cost of the $4.95 novel and the Minnesota sales tax at the time. I still remember that price some 20 years later!). But while they were perfect for the young teenage me, they didn't quite age well as I got older.

[JadedDM]

Yes, it was Kang's regiment. I loved the Kang books, they were probably my favorite DL books outside of the original holy six. It was interesting to me how draconians went to shallow, one-note villains to a complicated race on their own. I was so sad when they stopped writing them. (They were written by Weis and her husband, who divorced. Of course, now nobody writes DL novels at all anymore, sadly.)

I remember one of the later Fifth Age books had a scene in Solace where it described several races wandering and mingling, including a male and female Baaz that were sightseeing, and I was like, "Wow, they've finally transitioned fully from monsters to people."

[BishGada]

When they are people it completely changes the picture. They have civil rights, emotions, families.. and you can't just go and hack them mindlessly anymore.