Ragnar the Young

Ragnar's player requested I post him online for reference:

Ragnar the Young, Tharbrian Fighter Level 3

XP bonus (+10%)

ST 17 (+1 +1)

DE 16 (+1 -2) Jump 11'+1d6'

CO 16 (+2)

IN 12

WI 9

CH 13

Al. CG

Speed 90'.

Hit Points: 31

AC 3 (scale 6, -2 DEX, -1 shield), THAC0 base 18, melee/missile 17, non-prof 19

Weapon Proficiencies: Broadsword (3 slots, x2 spec), Shortbow (2 slots, proficient)

Wpn: Broadsword (x2 spec) THAC0 14 (+3 spec +1 STR) dam: 2d4+4 (S&M) /1d6+5 (L) (inc +1 STR +3 spec) ATT 3/2

Wpn: Shortbow THAC0 17 damage: 1d6/1d6 FR: 2

Cash: 10 cp, 5sp, 39gp

Companions/Slaves:

1. Miss Lucy Prentice - graduate student of CHER, Cambridge. Shapely brunette. From Earth 2009

2. Lani Chapman -  from Earth-1994

3. Maria Torelli - from Earth 1994

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From BoTW:

Ragnar The Young

Rank/Position/Concept: Ex Gladiator Slave guard, whose disdain for the casual

mistreatment of the slaves he regards as highly dishonourable

, he's assisted the slaves to escape in the hopes that at the very least they

will be able to take some of the slavers and their less

enlightened guards with them.

Sex: Male

Species: Human, Tharbrian

Homeland: home village has been reducing yearly following a major outbreak of

some illness, those left are dwindling as the village is in its death throes

Age: 18

Height: 5 feet 11 inches

Weight: 170lbs

Colour of - Hair: - Eyes: - Skin: Black extremely short hair, green eyes

Appearance: imposing for his age, leanly muscled

Clothing: common tunic and breeches, leather armoured greaves

Demeanour: grim and yearning for a glorious death or possibly a glorious story prior to death

Motivations: Ragnar is fed up being the poor offspring of a famous warrior in

the village, finding the words of the elders who remain there to be hurtful

where they are not actually so.

He wishes to make his own way in the world and achieve fame to equal his sire

Background: Forced to seek employment as a guard for slavers due to the collapse of his home villages ability to raid...
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CHARACTER ATTRIBUTES LL

Class: Fighter Level: 3 XP: 5001

Stats / LL Bonuses (refer to rulebook)

Str /17

Dex /16

Con /16

Int /12

Wis /9

Cha /13

Broadsword, Scalemail w Scale hood, common helm with faceguard, roundshield

Equipment: bedding roll, 7 days rations, flint & tinder, backpack

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The Adventures of Ragnar the Young, 4433 BCCC




Day 182 - Windgod Hills - No sooner had Ragnar rescued a pretty little blonde girl from the Ape, Kang, than she vanishes in a sparkle of white light! Lucy Prentice looks down at her own body, as if expecting to vanish too, but remains solid. Ragnar and Lucy trek on south through the hills.

Day 183: Windgod Hills. They trek on. The peak of Lagh Anon rises close by to the west.

Day 184 - Moving south, Ragnar & Lucy encounter friendly Ibyx Clan Altanians, 77 strong, who permit them to stay with them for two nights (184, 185) and trade for supplies - food, and footwear for Lucy. After initial misunderstandings with a couple of Altanian youths, Lucy discovers it's safer to pose as Ragnar's slave-girl. Eventually they are directed on south, with advice to look out for and avoid the vicious Datta Goblins. Beyond Goblin territory lie human lands and possible means back to civilisation.

Day 186 - Bid the Ibyx Clan farewell, continue south with two guides.

Day 187 - At the edge of Ibyx Clan territory The guides leave, with some advice: "Continue south through the Hills, avoid the Ape-Man Jungles to the east. Once the hills end, you will come into jungle to the south. Beware of dangerous beasts. Veer south-east towards the coast. This will take you further from Goblin territory. Eventually you will come to the River Ayesha. You will need to cross it to continue south."

Day 188 - The Hills descend into Jungle, Ragnar and Lucy veer SE as instructed, towards the coast.

Day 189 - Trekking through hot and humid Jungle. Ragnar's scalemail is hot and uncomfortable compared to Lucy's sandals-and-loincloth.

Day 190 - Ragnar and Lucy spot ahead of them the statue of a huge wolf, and forewarned they manage to avoid the terrible Basilisk, a 6'+ 8-legged petrifying lizard, though as they creep away Ragnar catches a sight of its fat grey tail among the trees.

Day 191 - Lucy and Ragnar come across a fully furnished chariot, mired in the muck. Very strange. They leave it and head on, Ragnar spots huge boar tracks. There is a fierce lightning storm that night.

Day 192 - Around noon Lucy and Ragnar come out on a sandy beach overlooking the blue waters of the Straits of Maerstag. After trekking some way along the beach, they come across a campfire at which a ship's foraging party of six men is resting and cooking a sheep-sized cabybara. Their ship can be seen in the bay, being repaired. Ragnar approaches and talks to the men, who prove friendly - the ship is a fast CSIO (City State) ship, the Keen Kraken under Captain Kothy Penderghast, come from Antil with a cargo of Antillian silks, and a few female slaves (the latter news causing nervousness from Lucy). The crew stopped in to take on fresh water, hunt, and make some repairs following the storm last night, which did some damage. Captain Penderghast happily offers Ragnar a ride, in return for his services as a marine guard and general helper. With the alternative being weeks in goblin-infested wilderness, Ragnar accepts. Lucy is put to work in the ship's galley, helping the cook.



Days 193-232 The Keen Kraken sails swiftly south, stopping in at the island trading post of Mysk before heading on south and east around the Pazidan Peninsula, entering the Orichalan Straits between Pazidan and the Isle of the Blest. She stops in at the port of Ludgates to trade, before passing the straits and turning north up Pazidan's eastern coast. Averaging more than 45 leagues/135 miles a day with a fair wind, the ship sails swiftly north, stopping to trade at the ports of Zothay and Kauran before heading out to sea to avoid the fierce Skandik raiders at Ossary. Eventually she passes the Pagan Coast, through the Mouth of Raglaroon, and enters the Estuary of Raglaroon, a great fjord-like cut several hundred miles long and several miles wide. After an uneventful journey up the Raglaroon, with the dark bulk of Dearthwood to starboard (right), she reaches the docks of the City State on Day 232 - Samhain, the Day of the Dead. The Keen Kraken will be in her native port several weeks for extensive repairs, to trade, and to give the crew a chance to work on their marriages with wives long-unseen. Or just get very very drunk. Captain Penderghast bids farewell to Ragnar, at least for now, with advice that if he's looking for an Inn the Pirate's Cove Inn on Sea-Brigand's Street is an honest place, though Ragnar lacks much coin for a private room... But surely a city as great as this must have opportunities, right?
 
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Arrival in CSIO




Eventually Ragnar and Lucy bid Kothy and his crew goodbye, and set off into the city, heading north along the docks as per Kothy's directions. Lucy sighs: "My hair stinks of pig-fat from weeks in that galley, I could really do with a bath..." She pauses as you notice a group of four pig-faced humanoids regarding you from the quayside - Orcs! In the City! But other passers by are ignoring them - it must be normal, here.



The biggest Orc sees Ragnar pull Lucy closer and chuckles nastily, leering at her well-rounded form, but there are lots of sailors, dock-whores, fish-wives and others still around, and the Orcs don't make a move towards you.



Eventually the road you're following, Bywater, leaves the docks at a large brightly lit building signed "Hippotier's Bazaar", heading north through an area of shops and warehouses. There are many masked revellers on the streets, frenetically celebrating Samhain, the Day of the Dead. At a closed Bakery you turn right onto Sea Brigand's Street and spot the Pirate's Cove Inn ahead on your right.



Entering the Inn, Ragnar sees it bustling with sailors, buccaneers, and a smattering of adventurers. Loincloth-clad slavegirls bustle around bringing ale, gruel, crab-cakes and fish stew to the clientele.



Marcus, and Malenn are sat at a table, having just completed their Paladin training at the Temple. They see the young Tharbrian warrior come in, accompanied by a shapely dark-haired slave girl in black loincloth and sandals. The warrior wears black Scale armour.





Ragnar, Evening Day 232



After rescuing Sara Brightpage from the Badl, while relaxing in Ragnar's arms that night after a hot bath and much rumpy-pumpy in their fairly clean Inn bed, Lucy Prentice starts talking about something that's been on her mind.



Lucy: "Mmm...Something I've been meaning to talk about, but I didn't get a chance earlier. About a week ago I got a chance to speak with the two slave girls Captain Penderghast kept in his cabin. I heard them talking together, and their accents sounded familiar, from a place called America, on my world. So I thought they might be from Cambridge, brought here by Myuni and the experiment. But when I spoke with them - they said they were from Boston, a city in America, but they've been here about six months, long before I arrived here. They arrived on a beach near Antil, and were picked up by the Antillians. Their names are Lani Chapman and Maria Torelli. The older woman Lani was a schoolteacher, and Maria was a pupil at her school..."



Lucy pauses.



"And they told me that when they were brought here, the year was 1994, but when *I* was brought here it was 2009! 15 years later! And that's not the strangest thing... I just had time to ask who the President of America was, and they said Bill Clinton! But on my world the American President in 1994 was called Ross Perot... So it seems that they're not just from a different world, they're from a different time-line. What do you think it means?"



Lucy looks over at Ragnar to see if he's still awake.



"Do you think we should try to talk to them again?"



>>Turn for Ragnar:

"Lucy, I think we should talk to them again, if we get the chance to do so. But I'm not sure when we will see the Captain again to be able to do it. What do you think it all means, they are from some alternative version of your own home? Is Myuni to be trusted...well I suppose speaking to the two girls will reveal how they came to be in their predicament."<<



Lucy has half-risen, leaning on her left elbow alongside Ragnar. She nods thoughtfully.



Lucy:

"I think you persuaded Kothy not to sell them for a few days, I think he said he'd keep them in his cabin onboard the Keen Kraken. But I expect he'll sell them at the Slave Market eventually. I remember he said he didn't think his wife would let him keep them."



She sighs.



"I don't know if it's possible for you to buy them? I think the forty gold pieces we got today is quite a lot of money, but..."



She shrugs.



OOC: With his experience working for slavers, Ragnar would know that a typical female slave fetches around 15gp, as opposed to 20gp or so for a healthy male, but notably good-looking ones like Kothy's pair are typically more like 25gp each.



Pics of Kothy's Cabin Girls on my new CSIO game-blog! >:)

http://smons.blogspot.com/2010/08/kothy ... girls.html

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Day 245



Having rested for several days and healed under Lucy's tender ministrations, Ragnar makes his way down to the docks, Lucy in tow. He soon finds the Keen Kraken, undergoing a major refit and refurbishment in preparation for its next ocean voyage. Captain Penderghast greets him cheerfully as usual:



"Ah, there y'are, ye young whippersnapper! Just in time, I was just about to sell the girls at the Market today!"



Kothy has the slave girls brought on deck, blinking in the morning sunshine and looking rather nervous. Both wear slave colllars of leather and iron with attached length of chain, the older redhead Lani is wearing rather worn white stockings and suspender belt, both are otherwise nude. Lani blushes under the leering gaze of the assembled crewmem, while the bottle-blonde Maria seems rather brazen, sticking her chest out to emphasise her melon-like breasts. Ragnar notices that both girls have the stylised hawk symbol of Antil branded on the back of their left thighs, a slave brand. Lucy nods to them.



Kothy:

"They're well-used, but in good health. Ye take good care of them now Ragnar, they've brought me much pleasure!"



Both cabin-girls start as Kothy gives them a friendly slap to their bare bottoms for emphasis.



Kothy:

"Ah, the things they can do with their tongues! Why, sometimes I just like to watch 'em go at each other..."



He sighs happily in his little reverie. Lucy nods to Kothy, twirling a short length of cane she picked up from the dockside and trying to look like a 'First Girl'.



Lucy:

"Don't worry Captain Penderghast, I'll make sure they're well trained and cared for."



Penderghast looks at her a little quizzically.



"Aye Lucy girl, I'm sure you will." He turns to Ragnar.



"So, sixty gold. I have their ownership chits from Antil. We'll say you bought 'em from me at sea, that way you're not liable for the local sales tax."



Ragnar hands over the 60 gp (leaving him 10 cp, 9sp, 62gp by my count) and Kothy passes him two lead circles with the girls' names and dates of capture. Ragnar takes the slave girls' chains, Lucy lightly swats both their bare behinds with her cane to get them moving, and you lead them from the ship down onto the dockside.



You bid Kothy farewell, then head back to the Pirate's Cove Inn with your three-girl entourage. Luckily the rooms are big enough for four people.



Back at the Inn, Lucy Prentice addresses the girls:



"So, Lani, Maria. Officially you're Ragnar's slaves, and I think we better stick with that. I've been in this city long enough to see that slave girls are safer than free women, generally speaking. As I told you, I'm a scientist - and I'm looking for a way to get us all home, or at worst, as near-home as possible. In the mean time we need to make the best of things. Ragnar is helping us. We're doing some 'adventuring' to make money, so we can pay a Sage or Wizard to help us. Any questions?"



Lani Chapman and Maria Torelli look at each other, then to Lucy.



Lani:

"H-how long do you think it will take? We've been here so long already, I didn't think we'd ever get home..."



Lucy shrugs.

"As long as it takes. It could be never. In any case you'll need to serve Ragnar and do what we say, if you're going to get through this."



Both slave girls look nervously at the young Tharbrian...



GM: Book-keeping: Ragnar has another 9 days of training to level up, now with 3 dependents that's 2sp (room) +4sp (food) = 6sp/day times 9 = 5 gp and 4sp.

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Day 257-4433 BCCC, lunchtime



Ragnar's Shopping Trip



Ragnar leaves Lucy Prentice, Lani Chapman and Maria Torelli with Learned Varixion while he goes shopping for travel supplies. Dresses are expensive and it's warm enough that you don't need to worry about clothes to keep the girls warm (You're only about 9 degrees north of the Equator, although it is an ice-age planet!), even the nights are warm this time of year - in fact Lucy has been complaining about the muggy heat quite frequently - but bedrolls for their delicate hides would be a good idea, and stout walking sandals for the road. They probably wouldn't say no to a loincloth, either, although Lucy does seem rather keen to keep them 'knowing their place' as low-rank nude slaves - ostensibly for their own good! Hmm...

Ragnar reflects on the practicalities of officially manumitting (freeing) Lani and Maria - from what Kothy has told him, he'd need to go to the government offices on Slave Market Plaza and buy them manumission papers for an outrageous sum - 200 gold each, Kothy said! Well, if Lucy can get them back to their home Plane he won't need to worry about such legalities.



Ragnar yawns as he heads down Bywater road, checking out the market stalls. Lucy has been particularly enthusiastic in her lovemaking this past week, perhaps to demonstrate her possession of Ragnar to the newcomers, leaving Lani & Maria to watch from the other bed. They don't seem to mind - the two often sleep in each others' arms, and sometimes in the small hours as Ragnar lies awake he hears the sounds of subdued love-play issue from their side of the darkened room. Ragnar has heard of the Ladies of Ghinor, said to prefer each other to their effeminate menfolk, and slavers often train girls to perform such acts for the owners' own amusement. It must simply be compensation for their jealousy of Lucy and lack of access to himself, that'll be it...



Something else to consider buying - a horse. Ragnar's heavy Antillian scale armour slows him down, and the girls don't look strong enough to carry much of a weight without being slowed likewise. He's heard that the big Horse Market is the best place for fine steeds, but it lies a long way off, just by the Gate of the Gods, within the walls on the south road out of the City State - probably the best thing would be to buy a horse there when leaving. A good riding horse costs more than most slave girls, though, at least 25 gold... Expenses, expenses... *sigh*



Heading down the street, Ragnar locates a tailors' stall he remembered passing earlier, and peruses the wares. He checks his purse - currently has Cash: GP: 39 SP: 0 CP: 10 (it's 10 coppers to a silver, 10 silvers to a gold). Some things he could get:



Bedrolls, padded - 4 sp each. Could probably make do with 2, 1 for him & Lucy, 1 for Lani & Maria, making 8sp total.

Blanket, wool - 1sp each, 4 for 4sp. Could double as clothing at a pinch. Proper linen dresses are 3gp each.

Loincloth, soft linen - 1 sp each, 2 sp for 2. Although wool loincloths are only 5 cp each, 2 for 1 sp if the girls don't mind a bit of itching!



Nearby is a shoe stall. Sandals - 5 sp each. 2 for 1gp. There are some striking soft leather thigh boots that would look good on Lucy, but they're 2gp - and she already has sandals.



Ragnar also looks for rations - looks like standard rations (2 lb/person/day) will set him back 2sp/person/day, ie 8 sp day, making Inn food seem cheap by comparison! Dried Iron Rations weigh half as much, but cost a whopping 6 sp/person/day.



Sacks, large, hemp - for carrying rations and such - 15 cp each. Or proper leather backpacks are 2 gp each.



GM: Let me know what Ragnar is buying (you can refer to OSRIC equipment list for stuff not listed above, but prices vary).

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Back at the Sage's Guild



After about an hour's shopping, Ragnar returns to the Sage's Guild - his fellow adventurers have left - and a stout slave woman ushers him in to the antechamber, where Lucy is waiting with Lani and Maria.



Lucy: "Hello Ragnar. Learned Varixion told me a lot more about his visitor, Samuel, who bought the Radiant Crystal. I might not have this all straight - I have a good memory, but this is all third-hand information... From what I can gather Samuel was a pupil in high school, on a world like mine. He was in class when a kind of vortex sucked in the teacher and other students, who were all female. He grabbed a girl to stop her being dragged in, and was dragged through the vortex himself. On the other side was a huge tentacle monster, a kind of demon that had created the vortex, I think, inside a ring of standing stones. The demon had been brought forth by an Altanian wizard-priest, Zalgor, working for an Altanian, Baron Gorath, to create the Vortex. Varixion called him a 'Traitor Baron', I think that has a specific meaning in this culture. These Altanians are slavers, the Vortex Demon is a free source of other-world slaves for them... "



She pauses.



"When Samuel arrived, there were lots of female teachers and girls from Samuel's school and elsewhere, being held in the demon's tentacles. It was beginning to... to rape them. Zalgor was going to dispel the demon then, so the girls could be captured, but something went wrong, the demon struck the wizard-priest and knocked him out before that could happen. Baron Gorath tried to fight the demon, but it knocked his magic sword away, and was going to kill him... Then Samuel grabbed the baron's sword and attacked the demon. I think something happened to Samuel, some kind of power-surge - I've felt something similar myself, when Kang was chasing me, and again when I healed you recently. Lani and Maria say they haven't felt anything like that, though. Anyway, Samuel was able to drive off the demon, back to its home Plane, and save the Baron. The Baron, Gorath, was grateful and adopted him as his own son. That was several months ago (6 months), about the same time Lani and Maria arrived here. Since then Samuel's been looking for a way home, adventuring - and yesterday he bought the Radiant Crystal from Varixion. He's heading back now to Gorath's castle, by the Queans Waste in northern Altanis."



Lucy pauses again.



"From what I can tell, Samuel has been working with the Altanian slavers freely, and the slave girl with him yesterday was his own former teacher, from his school. I think he's gone native with the Altanians. He could be dangerous - and he was powerful enough to defeat the Vortex Demon. I don't know how he'd react to us..."

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Ragnar gets Lucy another short dress for 2gp (+3.4gp for the other clothes = 5.4gp total) - a red one to alternate with the blue one she has?



Back at the Sage's Guild, Lucy smiles delightedly at the new dress and boots:



"Thank you Ragnar, that's great!"



Lani takes her new loincloth gratefully:



"Thanks..."



She slips it on. Maria doesn't seem too fussed, but puts hers on too.



Lani and Maria however look disgruntled as Ragnar then explains his decision not to seek a way home right away. The older redhead woman speaks:



Lani:

"I... understand, but we haven't been here 15 years! It's only been about six months - just under four weeks here in the City, six weeks at sea, about fifteen weeks in Antil..."



Lucy frowns:

"Don't be silly Lani. Of course Ragnar meant the time which may have passed on your home Plane, if it's at the same time as mine, since it was 1994 on your world and 2009 on mine."



The younger blonde, Maria, shrugs:



"I dunno, I kinda like it here..."



Lani rolls her eyes at Maria.



Maria looks down, shrugs, blushing slightly.



"I mean, it could be worse... Although staying at the Inn all day is kinda boring..."



Lucy frowns again:



"Well you could be being rogered by some Orc, instead of under our protection."



She says curtly. Lucy turns to Ragnar.



"You're obviously right Ragnar, it would be foolish to go after this Samuel now, with what we know about him. I suggest instead we continue to amass funds, until we have enough to buy another Radiant Crystal, either here in the city or we could travel to where the Dwarves are and see if they have any for sale. We can try to get one for less than the thousand gold Samuel paid."



Lani and Maria reluctantly agree.



Lani:

"I suppose it's for the best..."



Leaving the Sage's Guild, you head back down Bywater Rd. Returning to the Inn and checking in with the bar owner Crusty Makadmer, Ragnar is told that Deod, Marcus & co have recently headed off to the Wild Boar Tavern on Shady Street, on a quest for the Five Level Dungeon - if he hurries he might still catch them.



Crusty:

"That's in the Thieves' Quarter, though - dangerous territory. You'll want to be careful. They ain't nice folks like us pirates."



He grins.