I have been running various role playing games for about 20 years now. During that time I have created several different worlds. The world I am running these days was created around 1985 or so. I have been running it ever since.

I use my own set of rules which is a skill based system. Almost any kind of character can be created using these rules.

The game continues in Water Valley, Mississippi on Saturdays. If you're interested in playing, please e-mail me at hshere@greendragon.com!

The calandar and time scale for the world is at the bottom of this page.

* 26 Battle 919 *

The game began in a town called Swift River (a small elven town about 15 days ride north of Three Rivers - the largest elven city in the world). One of the characters (Jake) is the grandson of one of the elders on the council of Swift River. Late one night, Jake's mother was kidnapped. Jake and a friend were quick to follow the kidnappers into the forest. The trail led to a camp where a couple of humans were sleeping. The humans were not involved. They were just in the wrong place at the wrong time

Everyone returned to Swift River to put together a party to track down the kidnappers and rescue Jake's mother. An elven tracker went on ahead of the group as they began the journey south towrds Three Rivers. Only the tracker was a good enough horseback rider to have any chance of catching the kidnappers.

The next day, the group came across the dead body of the tracker. He had been ambushed by one of the kidnappers who had led the group in the wrong direction. The group decided to go west instead of south to Tanoc. Tanoc is a human city in the middle of the plains. Since the humans were human, it was likely that this was where they were headed.

* 27 Battle 919 *

A few hours of riding brought the group within site of a small tower. Tanoc was still a ways off. During the night, a strange chanting began to come from the tower. They went to check it out.

A warrior who served Ares (god of war) was chanting to attract warriors that he would be able to batte in praise of Ares. The group entered and battled the warrior. They had help from a halfling who had been watching the tower for a few nights (he claimed this was because of the chanting, but, he seemed like a shady character).

The defeated the warrior, but, Jake was nearly killed. If it weren't for the healing potions they found in the tower, Jake would have died.

The halfling decided to become the new owner of the small tower and so he stayed behind. The rest of the group continued toward Tanoc...

* 29 Battle 919 *

The ride towards Tanoc was going slowly since none of the group had ever ridden horses before. On the second day of the journey they saw a lone rider coming towards them on the road. They slowed and waited to see who it was.

It turned out to be Jake's mother (Sylvie) who had escaped from the kidnappers during the night. She had scattered their horses to get a head start on them and ridden as fast as she could back towards Swift River.

While a captive, she overheard their plans. They had kidnapped her and used magic to read her mind. They wanted to know about the people on the council in Swift River. Their plan was to kill and take the place of a few of the council members. The kidnappers were servants of Tazella (goddess of trickery and vice). The temple of Ra (god of the sun) had captured some items after defeating a warrior named Landor. These items were in the Ra temple in Swift River. They were protected with magic which prevented anyone who served an evil religion from getting to them.

As council members, they could convince some unsuspecting people in the town to go in a bring the items out of the temple where they would have no protection. They would then steal them and escape the village.

Sylvie wanted the group to go to the Ra temple and get the items and hide them somewhere where the Tazella worshippers couldn't find them. They didn't like this plan.

They decided to take Sylvie back to the small tower and then they would return to Swift River to warn everyone of the plan. They would try to determine who the imposters on the council were without alerting them to the fact that they knew what was happenning.

Once back in Swift River they quickly determined that none of the council members had been replaced. They were confused for a short time and then they realized that Sylvie must have been the one impersonated. She had wanted them to get the items and then she would steal them. The rushed back to the small tower with some additional elven warriors to confront whoever had taken her place.

* 31 Battle 919 *

When they arrived, the halfling was nowhere to be seen. Sylvie shedded her disguise and introduced herself as Katrina, priestess of Tazella (Tazella is the goddess of trickery and vice). She said she would trade Jake's mother for the helm of chaos (the most powerful of the items that was locked inside the Ra temple). They offered her gold to tell them where Jake's mother was. She told them and then used a magical darkness to try to escape and would have succeeded if the group hadn't threatened to burn the tower with her on the roof. She surrenderred.

Later, during the night, she cast lust spells on the two elven warriors who were watching her and escaped into the night with their help.

The group used ether magic to open a gate to Tanoc. This allowed them to get to Tanoc well before Katrina could. They went to place where Katrina had said Sylvie was being help (an Inn and Tavern called "Mary's"). The owner said she would check the rooms the next morning, but, she didn't think anyone was being held captive in her Inn. They left and Jake tried to use divination magic to read Mary's mind. The spell was blocked and Aelric (another of the group) knocked Jake out to keep him from casting other spells in the middle of the night in the city. Mary came out and said to tell Jake (when he woke up) that he had lost her good will and she would no longer help him in his search for his mother.

The group returned to the Inn that Hassan was raised in and waited until dawn...

* 32 Battle 919 *

While some of the group search the town and ask questions about Katrina and Sylvie, Jake gives money to Aelric and Exar go to the market and buy a healing potion for him. For a while, they tell Jake that someone tried to hit him over the head and rob him, but, later he is told who really hit him. While asking questions in Tanoc, the group meets a strange warrior named Hashizo who is interested in adventuring.

Late that night, the kidnappers location is found. They are in a run down inn waiting for Katrina to return.

* 33 Battle 919 *

At dawn, the room with the kidnappers is surrounded and an attack is plan. The noise from those planning the attack alerts the kidnappers and they are able to escape with Sylvie out a second story window. Jake and a few others are waiting outside and the kidnappers are captured and Sylvie is rescued.

The group gets horses and rides back to Swift River to rest and spend some time training.

On the way back a lone Orc tried to convince the group that they were surrounded. This plan failed, the Orc was defeated, and a box with a dragon egg was taken from the Orc.

* 39 Battle 919 *

Once the group arrived in Swift River, rumors are overheard about a nearby dragon which is very upset. It seems to be moving from village to village wreaking havoc. The group determines that they need to return the egg to the dragon to make it happy. They set off to find the dragon's lair in the forest.

* 39 Battle 919 *

Once they find it, Hashizo takes the egg and gets the dragon's attention. He starts running away from the dragon through the trees. The dragon follows and smashes down trees trying to get to Hashizo and it's egg.

While this is going on, the rest of the group rushes into the dragon's nest and picks up anything that seems to be valuable and/or magic. They then open a gate back to Swift River. Hashizo puts the egg down and runs through the gate.

Once back in Swift River, they spend some time determining what kind of magic items they have stolen and spend just over a season training.

* 50 Death 919 *

One of the items found in the dragon's nest was a glass jar with a reptilian eyeball floating in it. Exar asks someone at the temple of Athena about it. They tell him that it is evil and it should probably be destroyed. He should be very careful not to open the Jar as it has good religious magic on it to contain whatever is inside.

Exar then goes out behind the temple of Athena and opens the jar. His plan is to eat the eye. < Yuck! > Unfortunatly for Exar, the eye has other plans. When the jar is openned, the eye leaps out of it and hits Exar in the face. He falls unconsious.

When the group realizes that Exar is missing, they set out in search of him. He is found the next morning with his hands and face covered in blood. The remains of a dead squirel is found nearby. When they look at Exar's face, they can see that one of his eyes has been replaced by the eye from the Jar. Jake takes the Jar and keeps it just in case.

Exar is told that the eye belongs to a demon. It takes control of him during the night and forces him to kill small animals and cover his hands and face with the animal's blood. If this happens enough, the eye will sumon the demon into Exar's body. Exar decides that this is a bad idea. If Exar can keep this from happenning for 1 season, the curse will be broken and demon will lose all power over him.

The temple of Athena offers to send 4 warriors with Exar in his travels and help protect him from the eye.

* 51 Death 919 *

The group gates back to Tanoc in hopes of tracking down Katrina. They don't find Katrina, but, they do hear rumors from the Barony (an island kingdom about 3 weeks travel away) that Baron Jason has been killed. He was killed my a magical playing card shaped piece of bone which had his name inscribed upon it. A few other local lords have also been killed by this same kind of magic item. The magic required to create an item like this is beyond most sorcorers in the world.

After a little more research, it is found out that a sorcorer named Maximillion Storm created a magical machine which creates these cards. Maximillion Storm was a young child (about 8 or 10 years old) who used magic as if he were much older and had an evil streak that drove him to try to conquor the world. No one at hand can explain how this can be until the temple of Varuna captured him and found out that he had been possessed since a very early age by his great aunt Maura (a powerful sorcoress who was killed decades before). The temple of Varuna freed Max from this possesion. Doing this removed many of his memories and most of his powers of sorcory. The machine he created was never found.

* 4 Rebirth 920 *

The cards that killed people locally were delivered by an organization known as "Shield". This organization specializes in delivering messages and packages without disturbing the contents. They also generaly don't reveal the sender's name and location, but, in the case of the cards, they did. This led the group to a small village a few days north of Tanoc called Garner. This village was very close to the kingdon of ColdWater. ColdWater is ruled by the priesthood of Dom (Dom is the god of domination and the god of the dead).

While in Garner, Jake was approached by a mysterious woman in the middle of the night. She told Jake that she knew that the machine was in the city of ColdWater and that she needed his group's help to destroy it. She explained that the machine worked by created a card for a specific person. All of the heroes she knew had already had cards created for them (multiple cards for some of them). One group that she had sent had been killed once they got into the room where the machine was being kept because the room had hundreds of these cards on shelves around its walls. She said that Jake and his friends were not well known enough to have cards with their names on them in the room and that they may have a chance to get close enough to destroy the machine. She gave them a long bow arrow with magic on it that she thought would destroy the machine.

* 10 Rebirth 920 *

Travel from Tanoc to ColdWater requires travel either around or across the Lake of Dreams. This is an enchanted lake rumored to have an island in the center of the lake which is the high temple of Untamo (goddess of sleep and dreams). The group finds a priest of Untamo named Serin who is willing to take them across the lake in his boat. He warns them that Untamo will give them visions during the journey which may help them with their mission. They accept his offer.

* 12 Rebirth 920 *

The journey accross the lake is supposed to take about 7 days. 2 days after they set sail, the boat runs aground during the night in a very thick fog. They explore the area that they have run aground in and find a cave with is very maze like. They make an attempt to pass through the maze and eventually they come out in a small building inside the city of ColdWater. They go out into the street and notice that it is quickly getting dark. Soldiers come out of nowhere and arrest them for violating curfer and carrying weapons with the city walls. They are given little chance to explain themselves and sentanced to death. They are to be hung in the morning. Morning comes quickly and the hanging is performed. At this point they all wake up on the ship as it is moving along the coast with the city of ColdWater in sight to the north. They thank the priest for his help and he takes his boat and leaves.

* 13 Rebirth 920 *

They find themselves about a days walk southwest of the city of ColdWater. They are observed by Cloud as they leave the boat. Cloud is from the nearest village and agrees to help get them into ColdWater. He gets local clothing and such from his village. A few of the characters remain near the lake and make camp. Jake, Chester, and Cloud travelled to the city and made camp outside the city gates and waited until morning.

* 14 Rebirth 920 *

The city guards said that the area was watched durig the day so they could safely leave their weapons outside the city gates. They entered the city and went to the marketplace in the center of the city.

The center of ColdWater is where the high temple to Dom is located. Other buildings used by the priesthood are also near the marketplace. They find the two story building that the woman in Garner said that the machine was in and look for a way in. It is fairly well guarded. Jake takes a juggling ball he has had for quite some time and throws it in through an open window on the second floor of this buidling when he thinks no one is watching. After a few minutes of silence, they find a secluded place and cast a gate to this object. This gets them into the building unnoticed.

They quietly take out a guard who comes into the room and stash his tied up body under the desk in that room. The next room they find has a sleeping person who is knocked uncnsious before they can sound an alarm. Jake finds the robes of a priest of Dom in the closet of this room and puts them on. He also takes 2 rings with Dom holy symbols inscribed upon them.

At the other end of the building they find a torture chambre where a priestess of Loviatar (Loviatar is the goddess of pain) is torturing someone. Jake commands her to release the man and she does so since he is wearing the robes of the god whom her goddess serves. This guise does not last long and she and a soldier attempt to capture the group. They bind the unconsious form of the priestess and warrior and Jake takes the ivory hilted dagger that is the symbol of Loviatar from beneath her dress. The battle with the priestess and warrior is not quiet and they hear others coming to investigate. They find a ladder leading to the attic of the building and quickly climb it to hide. They hear guards ordering that the building be searched. They stay hidden for a few hours.

In the meantime, Xavier (one of those who stayed back by the place where the boat dropped off the group) sees soldiers in the village and finds out that they are asking questions about Cloud and the strangers who were seen here yesterday. He decides that he must warn the rest of the group before the soldiers get back to the city of ColdWater.

Xavier tries to open an ether gate to Jake. The gate works, but, it is not accurate. He gates into the city without being noticed. He glances around and sees a fairly expensive house nearby. He marches up to it and knocks on the door. When a man opens it and says "How can I help you?", something snaps inside of Xavier and he stabs him with his spear. He then notices that the man's wife and children are watching from the next room. He goes into the house and tries to keep them quiet. He can't, so, he takes them upstairs and locks them in a closet. He goes downstairs, kills the man, and steals his cloak and sword which have his family crest on them. He puts them on and goes towards the marketplace.

He is spotted by someone who knows the family and arrested shortly thereafter. He claims that he beat up some guy in the street and took the cloak and sword. The guy ran off. The guards go to the house and no one answers. He is given a swift trial and punished for stealing. While the trial is being help (in the marketplace), Cloud sneaks out of the building through a hole they make in the roof and comes around and back into the marketplace. Xavier is punished by being hit 3 times with a club by someone from the crowd. Cloud volunteers and gets to hit him. Xavier and Cloud leave the town and go back to the camp outside the city gates. Jake tries to do a gate to the room below the place in the attic where they have been waiting. The gate is not accurate and he ends up in the lake a few kilometers outside of ColdWater. Another gate gets him back to his sword at the camp. The guards see people come out of a gate and come over and tells them that ColdWater is always seeking sorcerers. The guards send word to the castle and someone comes to tell the group that they want them to server the city. They will be given a place to stay and paid well.

* 15 Rebirth 920 *

They decide to go to the castle to hear out the details to see if they can get another chance to get back into the building and because the deal sounds tempting. They spend the night in the castle and the next day some guards show up and say that Xavier is wanted for murder. He tries to escape and Jake helps the guards to capture him. He is taken away to the marketplace and tried for the murder. He is found guilty and his victom's widow is given a choice: have him killed or have him as a servent for the rest of his life. She decides she wants him as a servent. She says that the sight of his face is too traumatic for her and asks his face to be covered by an iron mask. They agree and have one put over his face. They also put a Dom ring on him which they claim will cause him to die if he is more than 1 kilometer from her at any time. It also prevents him from making any hostile actions against her and forces him to obey any direct command she gives him.

* 16 Rebirth 920 *

In the morning, the Loviatar priestess from the other night (Estarra) brings them breakfast and it is obvious that she knows that Jake and friends were the ones who she fought with. She tells them that if they agree to take a message to Serina (whose description sounds like the woman they met in Garner), she will see to it that they are able to leave the castle and the city safely. If not, she will not help them. Jake says that they will agree as long as he gets a kiss from the priestess. She kisses him and delivers a wrapped bundle which she tells them not to open and to give it to Serina personally. They then quickly leave the castle. The gate back to Swift River and spend some time training. They plan to travel to Foreman with the package for Serina.

* 29 Rebirth 920 *

While training in Swift River, Serina arrives on her way back to Foreman from Garner. They warn her about the package and she has some of her aids look at it. It is a card with her name on it. She has a group of people take it back to Foreman for her so that it can be studied. The group also tells her that they were not able to destroy the machine and returns the magic long bow arrow to her. She is not angry, but, she is disapointed.

During this time, Katrina shows up to cause trouble. She shows up and makes herself look like Cloud and makes Cloud look like her. Katrina (looking like Cloud) goes running off through town and Cloud (looking like Katrina) starts chasing her. Violence is avoided when Katrina's magic wears off and she escapes.

Game Master's Note

Everything above this point covers about 1 page of the timeline of the game. There are 3 more pages which come after this one which I need to put on this web page. There are just over 100 pages of timeline which come before the events listed above dating back to 31 Drought 872.

* Time Scale *

1 cycle = 7 seasons

1 season = 4 weeks

1 week = 14 days

1 day = 10 hours

1 hour = 100 minutes

1 minute = 20 segments

1 segment = 5 seconds

1 second = 1 real second

* The seasons are *

Rebirth

Growth

Harvest

Feast

Drought

Battle

Death