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Janet Forbes

Hi, thanks for stopping by! I'm Janet Forbes. With Dimitris, I founded the World Anvil platform to help others (and myself) write novels, build worlds and run Tabletop Roleplaying Games! I'm also a published fantasy author and the game designer of "The Dark Crystal RPG" (Riverhorse games and Jim Henson Company) and for Kobold Press, Infinite Black and others! <3

     
Sat 31st Mar 2018 11:14

Session 1: In which Graal finds work, and more

by Graal

The Arrival


 
Graal was sitting in a somewhat shady pub - the Jolly Rancor , waiting for work to find him, when he was summoned by the gnome proprietor Sangriss, also known as Wine-Mom. She engaged the services of various reprobates and soon the group were on their way to Jade City in a maglev cargo container - much the cheapest way to travel. There was some discussion of the job they had been engaged for - a heist to recover an object from Jade Town Secure Holdings, part of the Lethaw Banking Guild. Much of this passed Graal by. On arriving, they made their way to a pre-arranged apartment.
 
Graal Journal 1 Entry 1

 
WENT TO BAR FOR WORK MET NOM LADY. HAD WORK WIF SMASHIN SO WENT TREN TO JADETOWUN. TOOK A BIG PISS. NOW WAYTING IN HOWS. BORD. GRAAL.

 

Day 1


 
Sebastian acted as a 'face man', engaging the receptionist in pleasantries to secure an appointment to deposit a token item and, later in a date. Both turned out to be opportunities to learn more information about
Jadetown Secure Holdings. The institution is rather run down, and its business comes largely from government subsidised contracts to hold non-display items of cultural significance for various museums. Torrus managed to plant a wire, and the bank's network became ours. Graal spent much of the day standing around and scratching his posterior.
 
Graal Journal 1 Entry 2

 
STOOPID DAY. WEN TO RUBBER BANK. STOOD ABOUT. NO MASHIN. WENT HOME. EVRYFING GREEN HERE LIKE ME. BUT DIN SEE NO OTHER ORCS. GRAAL.

 

Day 2


Following a successful first day, the preparations were in place and the heist began. Graal, along with Eddie Riggs and Bumblebee , were to act as a distraction, ensuring that any security was focused towards the lobby.
 
Graal Journal 1 Entry 3

 
MOR STANDING. TUDAYS WEN WE GRAB THE STUFF. JUS HERD MASHIN FROM BLU BOY. SMY TURN NOW. GRAAL.

 
Once the guards were suitably dealt with, Graal found little to engage his attention. Eddie suggested that he head down the stairs to the secure holdings facility beneath, to assist Sebastian and Torrus. When he arrived in the room, Sebastian seemed to be experiencing some sort of turn. He was attacking Torrus, and blood was pouring out of his nose. Graal did the only logical thing when two brothers fight - he pulled the little one away from the big one. Usually this is for the good of the horde, but even Graal understands that smaller members, whilst they may never pass on their puny genes, can be valuable servants and carriers of lesser items.
 
Sebastian by this point had managed to croak out an explanation - "it is the ring". Of course, Graal knew little of what had happened previously - namely, that Sebastian and Torrus had succeeded in opening the lock box they were supposed to steal, and revealed a dangerous ring of power. Torrus rashly instructed Graal to grab the ring. And he did.
 
Graal's eyes fill with the glorious sight of Orcs raised once more to bloodbattle, quelling and dismembering strange, lesser creatures. There is the iron scent of war in the air - of piss and blood and triumph. This is the future for his people, not the burning crews, not the grunt work. This is where they belong. His ears throb with the beat of war drums, spurring him to the kill. And he is ready to answer that call. So ready.
 
"There will be blood."

The major events and journals in Graal's history, from the beginning to today.

Sangriss will set off a diversion (another bank heist, simple money plumb). Arranged a skycar for getaway - our job is to break in, retrieve the stuff, and get out.

01:01 pm - 30.03.2018

Sangriss still with us. In the cargo containainer. Cargo includes oil, produce, machine parts. Sangriss projects a holographic image. The bank is on the top side in a central district amongst a bunch of governmental buildings. @[Lethaw Banking Guild](organization:31851e22-5069-406f-bab3-aa38191559e0) Lathor Banking guild (lathor is god of greed, etc) They control all the money.

12:58 pm - 30.03.2018

Bran's Grove hot, humid and foetid - built on a swamp, ground filled with detritus to make stable and added oil rigs. Take a cargo lift up to the maglev. Thick, dense tropical vegetation rises all around us. (Oaken Rift is megacity 1 Jade Town has somehow maintained the light open sapces - a city of two halves; used to be on the ground, but the rich built masive stone pillars and built a second layer - the under city and the above city)

12:47 pm - 30.03.2018

10,000 credits each, & any other lock boxes we can grab.

12:26 pm - 30.03.2018

Jade Town Secure Holdings. Items more than money. Retrieve a lock box.

12:24 pm - 30.03.2018

Hot gnome in the room in a business suit topped with a leather jacket. Has a large machete (butter knife) strapped to her thigh. Sangriss. Put the job offer up on the flex system. Rob a bank.

12:23 pm - 30.03.2018

Room 206 in the jolly rancor - small 1 bed room - 3x5m

12:18 pm - 30.03.2018

oil town

12:17 pm - 30.03.2018

City: Bran's Grove at the pub/nightclub "Jolly Rancour "(run by Wine Mom) - the place to get things. An 'informal job market and black market office'.

12:14 pm - 30.03.2018

Planet Daxu. no raods between cities. Space ships (epensive are void ships) The dwarfs were the first to discorver space travel and have monoplised it. Largely peaceful. Wiht advent of info age, all the old grudges died down.

12:05 pm - 30.03.2018

The list of amazing people following the adventures of Graal.

Played by
Janet Forbes

Hi, thanks for stopping by! I'm Janet Forbes. With Dimitris, I founded the World Anvil platform to help others (and myself) write novels, build worlds and run Tabletop Roleplaying Games! I'm also a published fantasy author and the game designer of "The Dark Crystal RPG" (Riverhorse games and Jim Henson Company) and for Kobold Press, Infinite Black and others! <3


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