Teaser - Episode Two: Summit on Adder Craig

Season One, Episode 2: Summit on Adder Craig

Wherein our heroes, after their last encounter with the Unbroken Border, have received the results of their intelligence gathering and learned that a small group of the Unbroken Border is gathering for a summit near the border with the Ashen Kingdom.  The summit is to be held on Adder Craig, remote and rumored to have strange ruins upon its peak, one could also see the border from the pinnacle of its height.  What action will our heroes take?  Will they spy upon the summit itself, will they seek to attack the attendees or will they turn their attention elsewhere and allow the Unbroken Border to meet and plot in peace?

 Opening Credits: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis "What Must Be Done" from The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford [Music from the Motion Picture]

Summary- Episode One: Checkpoint Char-Lay

Season One, Episode 1: Checkpoint Char-Lay

Wherein, our heroes, in the guise of the East Bay Company, procured raw leather, dyes and tanning supplies to use as a cover for their trade in the tannery village of Char-Lay. Having been tasked by the Steel Lady, leader of the Ever-Burning Cinder, with smuggling Alonzo, spy-extraordinaire through the supposedly lax checkpoint at the edge of Char-Lay.  

And the Season One Plot Line is...

It's official, the players have chosen the Season One Plot Line as...

Across the Ashen Border

   Wherein our heroes cross the perilous border between the Free Valleys and the Ashen Kingdom, the dangers they encounter, the rivals they find and those who attempt to stop them.

Soon the players will create their characters and their company (or companies), so watch for the first character summaries and backgrounds to appear in this space soon.

Season One Possible Plot Lines

Enumerating the five possible plot lines for the Players to choose from for Season One and giving example characters and companies.

Across the Ashen Border

 Wherein our heroes cross the perilous border between the Free Valleys and the Ashen Kingdom, the dangers they encounter, the rivals they find and those who attempt to stop them.

 Possible Characters: Tribute Exile, Caravan Driver, Down on their Luck Mercenary, Border Merchant   

 Possible Companies: Smugglers, Tribute Rebels, Unscrupulous Merchants, Tribute Nobles

Unrest in Last Rest

 Wherein our heroes find themselves in the midst of political turmoil in the city of Last Rest as one of the Five Families that rules the city sways and seems ready to topple.  Will our heroes seek to keep the status quo, foment total revolution or merely take advantage of the chaos to cement their own influence?

 Possible Characters: Noble out for Revenge, Beggar Spy, Status Climbing Merchant, Machiavellian Sage

 Possible Companies: A minor branch of one of the Five Noble Families, a minor noble family (not of the Five), Last Rest revolutionaries, Merchant Guild

What to Call the Last Port of Call

 Wherein our heroes are swept up in an attempted revolution that would break the rule of the Five Families of Last Rest over Restport.  Will our heroes support the noble family of Restport, a sailor democracy or a merchant oligarchy or will they make use of the chaos to enrich themselves?

 Possible Characters: Former pirate, Restport Noble, Power hungry merchant, Sailor Revolutionary

 Possible Companies: Revolutionary cell, pirate ship, counter-revolutionaries for hire, Opportunistic merchants

Unknown Legacy of the Last Hero

 Wherein our heroes discover hidden secrets about Gerard, the Last Hero who shattered the Old Empire and kept the Free Valleys unconquered.  What motivations send them after this hidden knowledge, who will they have to wrest it from and what will they do with it?

 Possible Characters: Knight who idolizes Gerard, Country Sage, Curious Noble, Sorcerer Historian

 Possible Companies: Knightly Order, Adventuring Scholars, Minor Noble Family seeking a connection to the Hero, Cult of the Hero

Seekers of the Lost Temples

Wherein our heroes seek out and explore ancient and ruined temples of the Lost Gods.  What treasures, mysteries or knowledge do they seek, who else haunts these old ruins?

 Possible Characters: Treasure hunter, Devotee of a Lost God, Antiquarian, Warrior troubled by prophetic dreams.

 Possible Companies: Sorcerer’s coven, Cult of a Lost God, Scavengers, Minor Noble family searching for a shortcut to power.

Setting Premise

Being a post in which the GM rambles on about some of the premises behind the home-brewed setting of Last Rest...  More to come on the setting once the players and their characters have added to it...

Character Creation Example

A blog post containing the Character Creation example I am including in my player's character creation packet.

Character Creation Example:

Edward thinks about the setting and decides he wants to play a beggar who is destined for greatness, he likes the idea of starting out hard-scrabble and having his character claw his way to the top.