Subject: MYSTARA-L Digest - 10 Jun 2002 to 11 Jun 2002 (#2002-150) From: Automatic digest processor Date: 12/06/2002, 17:00 To: Recipients of MYSTARA-L digests Reply-to: Mystara RPG Discussion There are 5 messages totalling 309 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. The NWN Mystara URL defective=?iso-8859-1?Q?=3F=3F=3F?= 2. The Demon adventure part I 3. The NWN Mystara URL defective??? 4. The NWN Mystara URL defective??? 5. The NWN Mystara ******************************************************************** The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp The Mystara Homepage: http://www.dnd.starflung.com/ To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 11:59:42 +0200 From: Thibault SARLAT Subject: The NWN Mystara URL defective=?iso-8859-1?Q?=3F=3F=3F?= the URL do not work at all!!!=3F=3F=3F=3F thib > Messsage du 11/06/2002 05:46 > De : Mystara RPG Discussion > A : > Copie =E0 : > Objet : Re: [MYSTARA] The NWN Mystara > > >> > I would definitely be interested in seeing screenshots. If you don't mi= nd, > I'd love to add them to the screenshot gallery we've started. > << > > Here they are. Made with the NWN beta toolset. You have my permission= to copy > them to your gallery (just give me credit for their creation). Hope yo= u enjoy, > and if anyone has comments about how they look, just drop me a line. > > http://www.geocities.com/chimpman.geo/images/Thy_Hattian.jpg > http://www.geocities.com/chimpman.geo/images/Thy_Light_Soldier.jpg > http://www.geocities.com/chimpman.geo/images/Thy_Light_Centurion.jpg > http://www.geocities.com/chimpman.geo/images/Thy_Light_Praetorian.jpg > http://www.geocities.com/chimpman.geo/images/Thy_Medium_Soldier.jpg > http://www.geocities.com/chimpman.geo/images/Thy_Medium_Centurion.jpg > http://www.geocities.com/chimpman.geo/images/Thy_Medium_Praetorian.jpg > http://www.geocities.com/chimpman.geo/images/Thy_Legions.jpg > > -John > > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > Rule #53. > If the beautiful princess that I capture says "I'll never marry you! Ne= ver, > do you hear me, NEVER!!!", I will say "Oh well" and kill her. > > from "A Guide to Becoming an Evil Overlord" by Peter Anspach > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!=3F > Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup > http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com > > ******************************************************************** > The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp > The Mystara Homepage: http://www.dnd.starflung.com/ > To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM > with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. > > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 14:48:16 +0300 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ville_V_L=E4hde?= Subject: The Demon adventure part I Here's the first part of an adventure I'm translating. When I get the time, I'll translate the rest of it and send it to the list. ---------------- The Daemon with the Saddened Countenance by Ville Lähde This adventure was originally published in the Finnish RPG magazine Claymore, issue 1/93 (the first issue). It was written explicitly for Mystara, for the area opened up by the official adventure X11: Saga of the Shadowlord, more specifically the borderlands between western Wendar, Andri Varma plateau, and the Great Northern Wildlands. It was written for a period when Wendar had a much lower population, and the western areas of the nation were scarcely populated. Also while writing this adventure I had some working assumptions: Wendar has a mixed population of elves and humans, the latter being of mixed stock of northern tribes and Thyatian settlers. Thus the close connection, actually an alliance between Thyatis and Wendar that is mentioned at the beginning of X11. During the time of this adventure the alliance has just been made, Gylharen the half-elf is already the ruler of the land, and several programs of borderland settlement have begun. Background information I At the urging of Gyhlaren and the Emperor of Thyatis, a group of a few hundred settlers left for the western Wendar and the Wildlands to find fertile lands. The group consisted of both Wendarian and Thyatian humans. After passing the scarcely populated western dominions of Wendar they reched the southern borders of the Wildlands. The prairie spreading before them seemed promising, and they didn't meet with any serious threats, only scattered tribes of kobolds. One night they saw a start shoot down from the heavens. The ground shook, and a huge ball of fire was seen further out in the plain. At the urging of their clerics the settlers set out to find the fallen star, and after a relatively small trek they found it, and with it something else: a perfect place to settle. A swift river run close, and nearby forests would provide them with wood. The eldest of their priests investigated the black lump of "starstuff" they had found, and decided that it was a sign from their patron Asterius. They founded a small village to that spot and called it Luminius, or Starlight of the Wendarians. The Star of Asterius would lie at the centre of their marketplace, always surrounded with offerings, as befits the Patron of Merchants and travelers. But very soon the village got into trouble, as people began to suffer from terrible nightmares, and bloodcurling howls broke the silence of the nights. Shepherds told that their flocks had gone mad with fear without any discernible reason. The highest-ranking priest pleaded to Asterius for guidance, but the patron remained silent. The next night terror struck Luminius. The village guardsmen were attacked by a being of shadows, one that awoke chilling fears from their very own being. All of the residents awoke from their sleep, screaming and crying. It took days before their faces gained back the colour of life, and before their hands stopped trembling. But a couple of nights later the being of shadows attacked again, spreading terror. Even the excorcisms of the priest couldn't banish it, instead the priest himself fainted, with a look of utter horror on his face. In the midst of the turmoil caused by its attack, the being of shadow once again receded back into the darkness. Luminius waited for the next attack. At this stage the PCs are supposed to enter the village. Background information II Although the settlers did find an ideal location for their village by following the fallen star, the lump of starstone that they found would be also their blight. The starstone, most of it magnetic iron, twisted due to a twist of freak luck or fate intoa peculiar shape. Its twisted aura (or whatever) opened a rift between dimensions, straight into the Dimension of Nightmares. A being of Nightmares slipped into the world. As some learned scolars know, such beings can perceive our plane of existence, the three/four dimensions, only partially. But instead of that they can fully perceive the fourth/fifth, of which we can only see glimpses in our dreams, nightmares and delusions. To the people of Luminius this being was a living nightmare, terror incarnate. But whatever the villagers may think, it is not a bloodthirsty daemon. Very much like its own homeworld would be pure nightmare to us, is the world of humans an ocean of terror to it. Its "attacks" were actually movements of a bewildered and scared creature, who was trying to return home. After recuperating from the early schock the being tried to return to its world through the dimensional rift. But a legion of alien creatures had now camped around the portal to its home. Twice it tried to force its way through them to the portal, but the mere presence of these "nightmarish beings", the villagers, was too much. Now it is gathering courage for a new attempt. However, the being is not aware of one thing: the rift is no longer open. In addition to the settlers, the fall of the Star was also noticed by a renegade wizard who lives in "the Rainbow Cavern" on the northern foothills of the Andri-Varma plateau, where a river called Fengela plummets to unknown underground caverns. [I have a map of the general area and of Luminius, but since I don't own a scanner, you'll have to settle for descriptions.] He sent his servants to fetch the fallen star, but when they arrived the settlers had already camped around the "ground zero". So the wizard decided to settle for cutting a fragment of the stone during one night. When the stone was broken, the peculiar aura was disturbed, and the rift was closed. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 07:11:14 -0700 From: John Calvin Subject: Re: The NWN Mystara URL defective??? >> the URL do not work at all!!!???? << Blast that geocities! Let's try this again. If this doesn't work I will send the images directly to John P and hopefully he will post them on his site for others to view. http://www.geocities.com/chimpman.geo/nwnImages.html -John ===== Rule #53. If the beautiful princess that I capture says "I'll never marry you! Never, do you hear me, NEVER!!!", I will say "Oh well" and kill her. from "A Guide to Becoming an Evil Overlord" by Peter Anspach __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 09:33:27 -0500 From: John Polacek Subject: Re: The NWN Mystara URL defective??? Yeah, to link to images hosted on Geocities, you have to copy the link and post it in the browser. Geocities doesn't support direct hyperlinks to images. BTW, nice job on the soldiers, they look great! - I'll be adding them to the gallery shortly. > >> > the URL do not work at all!!!???? > << > > Blast that geocities! Let's try this again. If this doesn't work I will > send > the images directly to John P and hopefully he will post them on his site > for > others to view. > > http://www.geocities.com/chimpman.geo/nwnImages.html > > -John > > ===== > Rule #53. > If the beautiful princess that I capture says "I'll never marry you! Never, > do you hear me, NEVER!!!", I will say "Oh well" and kill her. > > from "A Guide to Becoming an Evil Overlord" by Peter Anspach > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup > http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com > > ******************************************************************** > The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp > The Mystara Homepage: http://www.dnd.starflung.com/ > To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM > with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. >
Ashlander Developer, Realms of Mystara Webmaster, NWN Mystara Project _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 17:12:43 -0500 From: John Polacek Subject: Re: The NWN Mystara Hey people, It's just been announced - Neverwinter Nights has gone gold! So, you can expect the game to hit store shelves in about a couple weeks, and plenty of Mystara-related material to start coming out after that. I look forward to being able to play with you guys! > > < Stephen's > Tomb at the end of X2 that I built using the NWN toolset. Here's the link > to > the gallery for those that may have missed it:>> > > Nice. > > I downloaded the ToolSet and tinkered with it some. It looks to be pretty > good, especially for a beta program. > > ******************************************************************** > The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp > The Mystara Homepage: http://www.dnd.starflung.com/ > To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM > with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message.
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