Great pic! Quite a unique Lothario (great career, BTW)! He must have other attributes than a pretty face. ;)

I put in a word with the big guy.

Awesome! Great write-up. He’s quite a tough badass.

In looking through my notes, I see I did another adventure with Valda in Halakh (maybe where they can meet up?). I’ll spare you the gory details, but here’s a summary of the adventure. She arrives seeking an agent of the Witch-Queen who has led her there…

1. Hooded Gazes in the Flesh Chattel: Valda, warrior princess of the Bloodwolf tribe, explores Halakh’s slave market, unaware she’s being stalked by cultists of Nemmereth. Attacked by three robed acolytes, she swiftly overpowers them in a brutal skirmish, then vanishes into the crowded streets, leaving onlookers in awe of her prowess.

2. Shumat Djin: While evading capture in Halakh’s slums, Valda encounters the disfigured hermit Shumat Djin. He warns her of impending danger and offers to help her escape, but only if she agrees to a perilous mission. Intrigued, Valda agrees, setting out to free a prisoner from the dungeons in exchange for Shumat’s assistance.

3. A Desperate Fight in the Night: Valda infiltrates the palace to rescue the prisoner but is discovered by guards. She battles fiercely, but the reinforcements are too many, and she’s ultimately subdued. As the druids of Nemmereth continue their dark procession nearby, Valda falls unconscious, her mission thwarted, for now.

4. Pain and Suffering: Awakening in a torture chamber, Valda faces a lecherous executioner. With sheer will and ferocity, she overpowers him, breaking free from her bindings and escaping. She arms herself with a torturer’s blade, now fueled by both vengeance and survival as she plans her next move against her enemies.

5. To Challenge the King: In the palace temple, Valda discovers that Maharan Jool, initially thought to be a prisoner, is actually a leader of a rival druid faction plotting against King Zomat Deshkar. As Maharan declares his intentions, Valda is drawn into a deadly clash with his robed henchmen. She fights them off and confronts the king, who, impressed by her strength, pledges to aid her quest for vengeance against Maharan, now revealed as a significant threat to his rule.

6. Precipice of Doom: Valda chases Maharan across the palace rooftops amidst a hail of arrows. She fights him in a final, deadly struggle, but he escapes into the night. Disheartened yet undeterred, Valda flees into the city’s maze, vowing to continue her pursuit.

7. Traitors and Traitors: In Shumat’s lair, Valda learns of Shumat’s betrayal and confronts both him and a wounded Maharan. She defeats Maharan in a fierce struggle, but Shumat manages to escape before revealing the information she seeks. Frustrated yet resolute, Valda sets off, determined to hunt him down.

8. The Defeat of Shumat Djin: Valda tracks Shumat through the slums, cutting down his hired thugs with relentless ferocity. With Shumat finally cornered, he reveals a clue about Alrak Gim: a minstrel cherished by the desert folk of the Beshaar, who may help Valda locate him. Leaving Shumat defeated and broken, she turns her sights on finding this mysterious minstrel, her next step toward vengeance.

9. Halakh the Intriguing: In the aftermath, Halakh is abuzz with rumors of the fierce warrior woman who brought upheaval to the city. As the people of Halakh debate her legacy—hero, rogue, or myth—Valda slips away, her next steps unknown. Her legend as the Ice Princess lives on, a chilling reminder of her relentless quest for vengeance.

I have some thoughts about a beginning. More on that later. In the meantime, can you come up with a list of all known NPC’s that have crossed One-Eyed Norf (still living)? I’ll do the same for Valda and we can use those for some fodder. You can have other things on your list than just strictly NPCs. Places, items, plots are fair game. Include any unresolved threads. Although we won’t need to play off of these, they can serve as potential elements for our “tween” story that connects our two characters.

Awesome! I got a response from Simon about creating a thread in Cryptic Writings for our game. I usually do two threads, one for in-character, and one for out of character, but I'd suggest just one for not mucking things up too much and commandeering the whole site.

I'm actually not suggesting using the possible plots (although we can use some of those when they come into play). I'm thinking we can create our starting NPC and Threads lists from these and generating some random content with Mythic. I'm still putting my list together. Do you think you can curate that a bit into a simpler list for NPCs (may include some other things as mentioned before)?

Beshaar sounds like a potential meet-up since Valda was also going there... But we can also ask Mythic all about it as well. There are a couple of interesting backstory generators, one in Mythic Magazine (MM #8), and the other in Mythic Variations. The one in MM expands the latter one, but it's pretty simple: the backstory is run like a series of random events on the following table until the last one is reached, and then interpret. It will create some new plots and NPCs as well as draw in an old NPC or plot.

1-13 NEW NPC
14-21 NPC ACTION, OR NEW NPC
22-28 NPC NEGATIVE, OR NEW NPC
29-35 NPC POSITIVE, OR NEW NPC
36-42 NEW THREAD
43-55 CLOSE A THREAD, OR NEW THREAD
56-64 SUBJECT NEGATIVE
65-72 SUBJECT POSITIVE
73-78 CONNECTION, NPC TO NPC
79-86 CONNECTION, NPC TO SUBJECT
87-100 COMPLETE, OR NEW THREAD

We could each take turns generating one (ignoring a result of 87-100 on the first four rolls). What do you think?

Gundarr_the_Great wrote:

That is good news to hear!  Any idea what to call this campaign, I called my solo adventures the Lemurian Tales.

Sounds good to me, although just have some patience with me for this process since I have played Mythic by myself but never with anyone else before.  I can make the NPC lists simpler for you if you like, but can you give me an example, please? Do you mean like just pairing down the NPC list to essential people that might likely appear instead of every character who appeared in the adventures?   

I am currently playing the adventure of the Desert of Doom, and it looks like One-Eyed Norf will arrive back in Halakh for his ending point (we'll see), but their meet-up will be after this adventure, so it can be wherever you want.

Sure, we can call it "Myths of Lemuria", "Champions of Lemuria", "Legends of Lemuria", or whatever you like it. I don't even mind "Misfits of Lemuria".

For Valda's lists, I might have something like:

NPCs.

King Zomat of Halakh (Valda)
King Bley of Parsool (Valda)
Erion Khul the assassin (Valda)
Shumat Djin the Treacherous (Valda)
Kichika Dalan of Nemmereth (Valda)
Alrak Gim, agent of Methyn Sarr (Valda)
Wendil, cherished minstrel of the Beshaari (Valda)

Threads.

Track Alrak Gim (Valda)
Exact vengeance upon the Witch-Queen (Valda)
Perfect her skill as an assassin (Valda)

We would combine Norf's with Valda's. These will be the Mythic Lists for our backstory session (if you don't mind trying), as per p.44+ in Mythic 2e. Do you have the second edition? If not, no worries. We certainly don't need it. We don't need anything extra.

Last edited by roryb (10/15/2024 6:48 pm)

Okay! Nice. Let’s try this to create a little cohesive backstory. This will take place after Norf’s current adventure. I guess we should treat that as vaguely as possible because we don’t know the outcome of his adventure yet. We can take turns rolling events and piece together what it all means. Hopefully, we get something compelling that gives some rich context for starting our game (and then we can launch that thread).

Each prompt should spur a bit of discussion. Let’s leave most of it vague until we have the whole thing.

Combined Lists:

NPCs.
  
King Zomat of Halakh (Valda)  
King Bley of Parsool (Valda)  
Erion Khul the assassin (Valda)  
Shumat Djin the Treacherous (Valda)  
Kichika Dalan of Nemmereth (Valda)  
Alrak Gim, agent of Methyn Sarr (Valda)  
Wendil, cherished minstrel of the Beshaari (Valda)
Madame Loviise of the Brothel of Loving Embrace (Parsool)  
Bella Coza of Malakut (One-Eyed Norf)  
Boss Bardhyl of Parsool (One-Eyed Norf)  
Wild Bora, Regul the Raider & the pirate crew of the Plunder (One-Eyed Norf)  
Lady Arlana Vestel, pregnant noblewoman of Satarla (One-Eyed Norf)  
Sky Captain Vitan Nor, sky-pilot and nobleman of Satarla (One-Eyed Norf)  
Acolytes of Ku-Aya of Zalut (One-Eyed Norf)
  
Threads.
  
Track Alrak Gim (Valda)  
Exact vengeance upon the Witch-Queen (Valda)  
Perfect her skill as an assassin (Valda)
Low-born father of an unborn baby with nobility status (One-Eyed Norf)  
Acolytes of Ku-Aya seek revenge for humiliating their mistress (One-Eyed Norf)  
Looking for quick coins to fill the pockets (One-Eyed Norf)

First Backstory Event: 70 — Subject Positive. The description in MM describes it this way: Since a Backstory can be about anything, Subject means whatever or whomever the Backstory is being generated for. Something negative or positive happens to the Subject. Roll on the Action Meaning Tables for inspiration on what happens.

I’ll assume at this point it’s about Valda.

Action Meaning Tables: Trust Riches.

It sounds like during Valda’s travels, she stumbles into easy loot and it allows her to buy her way (their way?) out of some tricky situation. Maybe this is where she stumbles upon One-eyed Norf for the first time. I would assume so. Maybe he’s surrounded by angry Beshaari toughs after stumbling upon holy land? I don’t know, but maybe a bribe is enough to change the situation in her (their?) favor. What do you think?

Remember we’ll keep it mostly vague until we have all of our prompts and get the “Complete” entry.