Tales
Tales from the Tavern
Character lore, world-building, and the fates of the fallen from our adventurers.
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Bound to Revenge
Drithligh
“Taken down by her soul bound uncle”
Slain by The Unseen Arbiter
Sold into slavery before she was born. Her mother and grandfather manipulated. The family business and their agency lost by betrayal from within. A pact with demons to rest a once lost weapon from th
Disgruntled Former Employee's revenge does not go as expected.
Tusk
“He just hated Wizards so much!”
Slain by GCotter
Tusk was not with the party long, initially he took a job with the Adventuring Guild on behalf of the local Wizarding College to "liaise" with "less sophisticated" adventuring parties visiting the cit
A Patron's Oversight
Waiwer Sstasywie
“Wai barely trusted his Patron, turns out, even that was too much.”
Slain by GCotter
After weeks of travel and days of planning, Waiwer and his team were making steady headway into the vaults of the flying mageocracy of Sama Kh'Udha, where painful visions from Levistius, Wai's patron
Manathyr: A world Broken, A future unwritten
There are no true histories of Manathyr……only fragments left behind. Songs carved into stone. Ruins swallowed by sea and sand. Whispers carried on storm-winds that no scholar can truly explain.
What not to do
Icarus
“He died as he lived - enchanted by shiny things”
Slain by James_Harte
Icarus was a curious, eclectic, kleptomaniac aasimar artificer with a penchant for pyromania found as a baby in a patch of cabbages and taken in by a couple in the city of Ignaria. They had a thirst f
Dante's Inferno
Dante, Private First Class
“That thing in the chest. It was there all along!”
Slain by Rui
A chestburster came out of him while so close to the medical lab! If only they decided to go there earlier! Well, at least Iona made a few good jokes out of it.
Ariarcus Needed a Hammer
Hammer, Private
“Who would think X-Stims would do this to your body?”
Slain by Rui
Fooled by a Weyland-Yutani agent with some "X-Stims" filled with Draconis Strain, his chest ended up bursting into outward ribcages, a chestburster making its way out of him.
A Butcher At The Abandoned City
Le Bob(-spierre)
“Decapitated at the Abandoned City, after losing the hearts of his skeleton crew”
Slain by ROR
In a swift progression from the guillotine to the gallows to the gatling gun, Le Bob's revolutionary career was often misconstrued as bloodthirsty – now known as the Butcher of the Abandoned City. Aft
A Soul Wandering The Longmoor
Han Solo (no relation)
“Butchered at The Abandoned City for a dead man's revenge”
Slain by ROR
He traded a gun & an arm for some wine and Brie cheese, but unfortunately his blood bought a better deal. When storming the Abandoned City's fort, he took a shotgun tripwire to the face. But death was
Executed At The Abandoned City
Captain Napoleon
“Butchered at The Abandoned City in the midst of surrendering”
Slain by ROR
Some say it was Captain Napoleon's hubris that sank the illustrious ship Paris Is Burning. But those loyal to his leadership know these tactics let him walk right up & retake many a city in his earlie
A Martyr At The Abandoned City
Marie, child of blasphemy
“Butchered at The Abandoned City in defense of her crew”
Slain by ROR
Marie had a rocket launcher & the acrobatic know-how from a life in the crow's nest. None of this makes you invulnerable to bullets. Credit for the killing: Ada, our butcher.
Was he even trying?
Bawb Wyld
“The nat 1 was, as it turns out, the highlight of the evening”
Slain by Mike O'Regan
Poor Bawb, so tired from boozing and schmoozing, failed to even climb the 4ft ditch that barred his way at the start of the adventure. A Nat 1 and an audible crack later, his soul left the realm as fa