Questioning chirine ba kal - part II

**Hrugga** · 09-15-2017, 05:20 PM

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

Well, let me look at my notes...

In general, I and Vrisa had steel armor and good weapons; I had my 'enchanted' mace and she had her 'enchanted' sword. The rest of the party were usually magic-users, so little or no armor - and any they did have would be chlen-hide - and the usual assortment of knives, poignards, daggers, and maybe a regular mace or two. No steel. When sailing with Harchar, Vidlakte and his marines all had chlen-hide armor and weapons - no rust to worry about, Ken pointed out to Phil. Narkhodlan added to the fighters when he came along in the later 1980s; Chris had steel armor, and a steel sword like the Glorious General did. So, out of eight to ten people, two to three to four fighters in good gear, and the rest as 'soft' magic-users / sorcerers.

The magic-users usually had an Eye or two, with usually three to five assorted ones in the whole party. For 'oddball / unique' stuff, there was Harchar's 'dimension hopper', but that wasn't ours; I will look again, but I don't recall us ever having any really cool or powerful stuff in the party. We lived by our wits, which was a challenge given how wily and clever Phil was; by most gamers' standards, we were pretty under-powered and lightly equipped.

Oh, wait - we had one of the Helmets of the Three-Pointed Star, for the first couple of years of underworld crawls; came in handy, a few times. That was it, as I recall.

Eyes were nominally personal items, and so got used in small-scale stuff like underworlds or skirmishes. As the Glorious General said, their ranges are usually too short and too limited for large-scale fights. They are devastating in PC adventures, which is why we tended to let the PCs in the party do our scouting for us - they were pretty effective in killing things. Most of the time, anyway.

Does this help?

Ahhh Uncle Greetings,

Please elaborate on the Helmet of the Three-Pointed Star...Thank you.

H:0)

**Gronan of Simmerya** · 09-15-2017, 05:27 PM

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

I remember you did have a +1 sword; it was a gift from Serqu, as I recall.

Sounds right, perfect for a younger clan-brother whom you expect will probably die a messy but heroic death.

**chirine ba kal** · 09-15-2017, 05:27 PM

Originally Posted by Hrugga

Ahhh Uncle Greetings,

Please elaborate on the Helmet of the Three-Pointed Star...Thank you.

H:0)

It's a magical item from the original EPT list. You put on the head of a dead PC (or somebody), push the button, and they come back to life. I used to use it all the time for players like Origo; I always carried a little whisk broom and dustpan to collect up the ashes that were all that was left after one of his attempts to master the technology of the Ancients. I'd sweep him up, pour him into the Helmet, and push the button. As humor around the game table, it never seemed to get old.

**Hrugga** · 09-15-2017, 06:24 PM

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

It's a magical item from the original EPT list. You put on the head of a dead PC (or somebody), push the button, and they come back to life. I used to use it all the time for players like Origo; I always carried a little whisk broom and dustpan to collect up the ashes that were all that was left after one of his attempts to master the technology of the Ancients. I'd sweep him up, pour him into the Helmet, and push the button. As humor around the game table, it never seemed to get old.

Ahh, I see it now. It's number 11...Number 9 being the Gloves of Chiren�, Demon-Warrior of the N'lyuss!!!

Thanks,

H;0)

**chirine ba kal** · 09-15-2017, 06:27 PM

Originally Posted by Hrugga

Ahh, I see it now. It's number 11...Number 9 being the Gloves of Chiren�, Demon-Warrior of the N'lyuss!!!

Thanks,

H;0)

Why, yes, it is.

And the gloves you mentioned are still sitting in my basement, next to my armor.

My ancient namesake is a pretty decent person, if you ask me.

And yes, he does make at appearance in TSTPT...

**Gronan of Simmerya** · 09-15-2017, 07:58 PM

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

It's a magical item from the original EPT list. You put on the head of a dead PC (or somebody), push the button, and they come back to life. I used to use it all the time for players like Origo; I always carried a little whisk broom and dustpan to collect up the ashes that were all that was left after one of his attempts to master the technology of the Ancients. I'd sweep him up, pour him into the Helmet, and push the button. As humor around the game table, it never seemed to get old.

It never did, did it!

**Hrugga** · 09-15-2017, 08:17 PM

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

Why, yes, it is.

And the gloves you mentioned are still sitting in my basement, next to my armor.

My ancient namesake is a pretty decent person, if you ask me.

And yes, he does make at appearance in TSTPT...

Uncle,

Waiting patiently...!!!

H:0)

**chirine ba kal** · 09-16-2017, 07:41 AM

Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya

Sounds right, perfect for a younger clan-brother whom you expect will probably die a messy but heroic death.

Yep; as I recall, you got it after winning the Gold of Glory, as a personal gift from your general. Me, I think he had his eye on you from that point on...

**chirine ba kal** · 09-16-2017, 07:43 AM

Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya

It never did, did it!

No, it never did. The sense of comic anticipation to see how he'd blow himself to bit this time was always worth the time, and I think that both he and Phil got a kick out of the fun of matching wits over some Mysterious Object. I thought that we'd burst from trying to keep straight faces during the process...

**chirine ba kal** · 09-16-2017, 07:44 AM

Originally Posted by Hrugga

Uncle,

Waiting patiently...!!!

H:0)

Thank you! Going over to the new shift and position on Monday, and I expect my productivity will dramatically improve as a result. The three buck an hour raise might help, too...

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