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[edit] LPNN (Judge: Manzanita)

Rystil Arden's brief summary: Wererats attacked, harassed, and nearly killed the entire group because they didn't have silver weapons and were weak, plus the wererats had a bat swarm they could control. Then they got silver weapons but weren't attacked by wererats. Then they reached the town where the murdered girl lived and found that the only clue was an alchemist's potion. Moving past a tree that ran away, they found the crazy alchemist with one of the wererats in human form, and they anticlimactically defeated them almost immediately. Unfortunately, they didn't even get to keep the alchemist's spellbook because the town wanted to have him serve hard time healing them, so they left with little more than the weapons of the wererats to sell for gold, plus a small reward.

Originally posted by rln:

In this thread, adventurers travelled to the village Rangarata to discover who had murdered a woman. The thread was abandoned by its original DM and brought to a close by the judge, Manzanita. Nimisgod took over judging.

Rangaratas location and the way there

• The actual location of Rangarata is contradicted a couple of times times in the story, particularly by the map posted. It could be easily explained by saying the lad explaining it didn't have a very good idea of the larger geography...
• To get there from Orussus, you go south & west past Allimon, then southwest (on a road not marked on any map). Rangarata lies "halfway to Lathirn and a bit to the West".
• It takes five days to walk from Orussus to Rangarata by way of Allimon.
• If you go 2 miles past Allimon, there's a well-used campsite in a clearing near the road.
• Allimon is referred to as a small town/village at some points. Perhaps the party actually visited a small village outside Allimon? In any case, it has a two-story inn called "The Rovers".
• The forest around the clearing is pretty young. Fields were cleared maybe 150 years ago, but the forest has taken the area back now.
• The forest around the clearing is home to deer, and also to the Spotted Woodpecker, a rare, solitary bird that makes moss nests in tiny holes on the northward ide of half-rotted trees.
• A plant called "Old mans curse" can be found in the forest. It causes a rash on contact. other uses are unknown.
• Another days walk to the southwest, there's another clearing often used by travellers.
• A short (perhaps 15 minutes?) walk into the forest from this clearing, there's a hill where the top is surrounded by some large rocks, making it a very defensible camp site.

Rangarata and surroundings

• Rangarata and a nearby settlement is referred to as "towns" by the inhabitants, though in fact they are rather small villages.
• The Dettikyll river flows through Rangarata. It is a slow-moving river that is slow enough to accomodate shipping goods on boats.
• On both sides of the river near Rangarata, fishermen try to get a good catch.
• (Assumption) Supposedly, the Dettikyll river would flow through some larger city further up (Lathirn) and down to the coast (through Drolai or Travilis)
• There are cobras near Rangarata.
• Kopasker the Alchemist lives in a cottage a few miles outside of town. It is through a dark wood where hunters have been known to disappear. The party encountered an assassin vine there.

NPCs in Rangarata

• Hal & Dora, farmers. Owns sheep. Well-off, as far as farmers go.
• Hallidor, son. Well-liked in the village, but some see him as a trouble-maker. Has a cousin in Orussus.
• Hallidora, daughter (murdered by Tryggvi). Not very popular in the village.
• Gerpir, grandma to Hallidor & Hallidora (senile)
• Dagmar, maid to Hallidors family.
• Sindri, Hallidoras fiancee, friend of Hallidor
• Krafia, admirer or Hallidora, shy, from a wealthy family.
• Kopasker the Alchemist (Clr1/Drd1/Wiz1, specialist Alchemist and Potion maker) can make alchemical items, potions and poisons.
• Tryggvi the river trader (Rog2/Ftr2), lived in an unnamed town near Rangarata also on the Dettikyll river. He was sentenced to death for the murder of Hallidors sister Hallidora, but escaped. Has some connection with an old mob-type organisation, the Conclave.
• Sigurveig the midwife, visits Rangarata and nearby villages, selling potions (in wooden bottles, with badly-spelled identifications burnt into the bottles with rusty nails.
• Tasha, a girl once bitten by a Cobra, rescued by Kopasker.

Conclave

• The Conclave is detailed further in the Enworld world guide. It should be noted that the Conclave has had Wererats among their ranks, or at least employed them as muscle.

El Jefe: This was a completed adventure, although the original DM dropped out and a judge finished it. There was a reasonable amount of geographical information, but some comments will follow in a discussion post.

• There is a town in EnWorld called Rangarata, 5 days from Orussus and halfway to Lathirn.
• There is a river in EnWorld called the Detikyll, within sight of Rangarata.
• On both sides of the road from Orussus to Allimon is a young forest, having been harvested maybe 150 years ago.
• Two miles west of Allimon is a clearing to the south of the road, caused by ground too rocky for trees to grow.
• Much of the land between Allimon and Rangarata can be described as light forest, reclaimed farmland, gently rolling hills, and occasional scrubland.
• A day south of Allimon in the direction of Rangarata is a rocky, defensible hill, some 50 feet tall and surrounded by forest.
• The only Inn proper in Allimon is "The Rovers", located roughly in the center of the town.
• Rangarata is not large enough for an inn.
• Hallidor�s farmhouse in Rangarata is painted yellow.
• Hallidor�s farmhouse in Rangarata has a barn.
• There is a market on a dirt road in Rangarata.
• Rangarata is a small town, and a simple foot chase could easily lead all the way from the market to outside of the town.
• There is a large, dark, forbidding wood about an hour�s walk from Rangarata.
• A faint trail through the dark woods near Rangarata leads to a cottage near a small brook.
• The cottage in the dark wood near Rangarata has two floors.
• The cottage in the dark wood near Rangarata measures 70 by 50 feet.