Earthquake in Cormyr [Archive] - Wizards Community

Earthquake in Cormyr [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Sucineri
04-26-04, 05:34 PM *Note - I copy/pasted from the general DM board on what I should do and got no answers so I moved it here instead and deleted my previous post*

Okie..my party is currently in the sunless citadel..they MAY get to level 4 in it since I am switching some stuff around..but when they are just before the room with the hole in the ground leading down to the sub-level of the citadel I am going to say that they feel a mild tremor move through the ground and they see dust being shaken loosely off the walls and the ceiling, and maybe some things falling off shelves or tables..as they feel that they will hear some screaming as in that room with the hole (which doesn't exist in my edit til the earthquake hits) which is because there are goblins using pickaxes and shovels to dig there since they had some hints that there is a great treasure down there..but what is really on the lower level is a group of I was thinking some good aligned possibly halflings..or something that worships a god of trickery..

There will be a halfling druid with all these halflings and for some reason or another he rides a bulette (which is how the halflings got there in the first place..taking the bulette tunnels from the surface some miles away down in there..possibly from the Dalelands?) and they use bulettes as mounts to hunt down food on the surface and carry it back down to them..there will be a shrine, maybe some huts or something also down in there..probably get rid of all the actual rooms on the lower level and have it just be a big cave..or possibly some rooms that were more naturally formed (not build with bricks and marble and stuff, but dirt walls and rooms that were dug out).

When the group is done with the adventure they will get back up to Oakhurst to find panic on the surface and the mayor will tell the group there has been a disaster..there was an earthquake in Cormyr (my Oakhurst is in "The Stonelands" just west of Tilverton) and there are huge fires, and looting and all kinds of stuff happening around the capital area and the cities around there and that any able-bodied citizens of Cormyr are being urged to travel and help in the chaos.

Maybe I will have there be some kind of conflict between Cormyr thinking it was Sembia who somehow created the earthquake..when it was the Zhents from the Moonsea area..

Anyone have any good additions they can think of?
Sucineri
04-28-04, 04:18 AM Almost been a day and a half so I bump a little bit..and I was asking for some kind of helps to maybe fill in the blanks here or there.

I got a basic idea, but there are no specifics or anything..would it be possible for a bulette to be living with halflings underground peacefully possibly as a pet, or a druid's companion or something like that some how? If not then is there some other big burrowing animal like a bulette or ankheg or something that might not just kill halflings and stuff?

How does the Zhent armies tend to fight..do they hire people and just say "go here and destroy stuff on the way there" or do they keep ordered formations and all that?

How might I get Cormyr to get pisssed off at Sembia for the attack when it is really the Zhents doing it from up north and not the east? Or maybe the Zhents just take advantage of an earthquake/huge-fire instead of be the actual cause of it?
rottenking82
04-28-04, 02:10 PM The Zhents like to fight in phalanx formations, or at least that's what I thought I read in the Lords of Darkness supplement.

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Sucineri 04-26-04, 05:34 PM	Note - I copy/pasted from the general DM board on what I should do and got no answers so I moved it here instead and deleted my previous post Okie..my party is currently in the sunless citadel..they MAY get to level 4 in it since I am switching some stuff around..but when they are just before the room with the hole in the ground leading down to the sub-level of the citadel I am going to say that they feel a mild tremor move through the ground and they see dust being shaken loosely off the walls and the ceiling, and maybe some things falling off shelves or tables..as they feel that they will hear some screaming as in that room with the hole (which doesn't exist in my edit til the earthquake hits) which is because there are goblins using pickaxes and shovels to dig there since they had some hints that there is a great treasure down there..but what is really on the lower level is a group of I was thinking some good aligned possibly halflings..or something that worships a god of trickery.. There will be a halfling druid with all these halflings and for some reason or another he rides a bulette (which is how the halflings got there in the first place..taking the bulette tunnels from the surface some miles away down in there..possibly from the Dalelands?) and they use bulettes as mounts to hunt down food on the surface and carry it back down to them..there will be a shrine, maybe some huts or something also down in there..probably get rid of all the actual rooms on the lower level and have it just be a big cave..or possibly some rooms that were more naturally formed (not build with bricks and marble and stuff, but dirt walls and rooms that were dug out). When the group is done with the adventure they will get back up to Oakhurst to find panic on the surface and the mayor will tell the group there has been a disaster..there was an earthquake in Cormyr (my Oakhurst is in "The Stonelands" just west of Tilverton) and there are huge fires, and looting and all kinds of stuff happening around the capital area and the cities around there and that any able-bodied citizens of Cormyr are being urged to travel and help in the chaos. Maybe I will have there be some kind of conflict between Cormyr thinking it was Sembia who somehow created the earthquake..when it was the Zhents from the Moonsea area.. Anyone have any good additions they can think of?
Sucineri 04-28-04, 04:18 AM	Almost been a day and a half so I bump a little bit..and I was asking for some kind of helps to maybe fill in the blanks here or there. I got a basic idea, but there are no specifics or anything..would it be possible for a bulette to be living with halflings underground peacefully possibly as a pet, or a druid's companion or something like that some how? If not then is there some other big burrowing animal like a bulette or ankheg or something that might not just kill halflings and stuff? How does the Zhent armies tend to fight..do they hire people and just say "go here and destroy stuff on the way there" or do they keep ordered formations and all that? How might I get Cormyr to get pisssed off at Sembia for the attack when it is really the Zhents doing it from up north and not the east? Or maybe the Zhents just take advantage of an earthquake/huge-fire instead of be the actual cause of it?
rottenking82 04-28-04, 02:10 PM	The Zhents like to fight in phalanx formations, or at least that's what I thought I read in the Lords of Darkness supplement.