Missions: Telemancy I, II, III and IV employing SOAK.
Telemancy Ring - use unknown even to Katie's people. (Where did it
come from? Order of the Ring?)
Temple, The - on Vorn, also known as "The Temple Temple Temple" to
distinguish it from other "temples" on Vorn. The home of the Alliance
Grand Council and The Twins. See The King.
Temple Kerisvexai - Vornish place that Wernor got a ride to in May
3202.
Temple near Roanoke - orcish temple where Tico Puente died "with a peaceful soul." [Same as the yellow powder ring temple?]
Temple of Friendship - see the Friendship Temple.
Temple of Mother of Kings - Temple of Mother of Kings - most holy site in Amhar. Same as Temple of Zionmara?
Temple of Pyatnitsa - in Sprinal Tap. Explored by SOAK in 10043.
Temple of Zionmara - Wizard King Casa I summoned rocks from the sky and summoned giants to build the Temple of Zionmara. Same as Temple of Mother of Kings (?) - most holy site in Amhar.
Terebinthium - a valuable metal and/or crystal, the Vorn equivalent of
mithril. The pure form is bright,
transparent yellow.
Impure form has a slight yellow tinge. Found radiating anti-magic in the
Sprinal Tap, Uchebnik Peninsula, Odylic Mt. on Botnia. It should probably
be kept in lead to shield its anit-magical properties. Component for
detect antimagic, antilight and dispel antimagic.
Crystals
of terebinthium were found in the skulls of animated skeletons by the Mock
Turtle group.
Terra, Min (Matt A) - Member of Omnico. An intelligent, attractive
human female engineer and swords-mistress. Killed on Illum Alpha while
levitation-jumping off a cliff - 14 Aug 10040. Missions: Diplomat
Transport (?), Ilmenite Mine, Illum Alpha.
Terrerno - on Vorn (?). There's a labyrinth there where The Captain
proved useful. About 10-15 resistance fighters plus a blind psionic and a
heroic longsword fighter with a kickin' sword and super chainmail
(details?) escaped alive vs. hundereds of ecks, drow, rogs (?), maybe
balryg, etc. There were an extimated 150 enemy casualties. Characters
involved: The Captain, Cinar, Maroczy, Chinar.
Terrerno Code - ?
Thais (NPC) - icily pragmatic female orc assistant of Cyrus of
Guernica in leading the resettlement mission that the Vyrican Reclamation
Expedition "helped."
Thar, Rajendra (NPC) - a mysterious, superpsionic who had a dozen
souls stuck in his head, including (briefly) Peregrine Falcon. He claimed
to be "The Emperor of Cis-Glacial Tanora "
As a riverine biologist from Micklegarth City/State University, he was
being held in Melanchthon for a ransom of 100k crests worth of perfect
emeralds by a group calling themselves "The Mourning Glory." Rescued by
the Order of the Ring in [date] in the "Rajendra Rescue" mission.
From Peregrine Falcon's reflections from between 10040 (?) and Jan.
10043. "...It's been what I've been told was two years since I last saw a
familiar face, the face of my brother... The horror on his face, on
Rajendra's face, then the heavy weight fell upon me... Then... Darkness...
I'm told I died [during that Rajendra Rescue mission?], that Rajendra was
the instrument of my resurrection. He saved my soul within himself, and
Astro repaired my shell...
Apparently something in the resurrection went awry, and Eomel's spirit
was linked with mine - and both of us were entombed in my body. He,
however, gained control... and I was trapped below... I wonder now if
Rajendra did that on purpose. He told me when I met him that he was hunted
by "the turtle" [and] his mind told (more yelled) that he was the Emperor
of Cis-glacial Tanora. "Save yourselves," he said, "I am worthless." How
ironic that in the end he saved me. They tell me that Rajendra was "messed
up" after the resurrection. From what they describe it sounds almost as if
he was soul-cleaved himself. I wonder if Eomel and I are not the only ones
inhabiting this body, I wonder if Rajendra finally found a way to shield us
both from the evil for a time, hiding us behind the guise of the
non-psionic longsword fighter... "
I remember the Dark Ones. Nazguls, I'm told. They stormed the complex
and destroyed Rajendra... "
Thatcher, Joe (?) Beermaking & cricket-playing human, born in 1024?
Theta, Colonel Abraham (NPC) - Confederate Army (?) at Command
Headquarters in Dun Cess as of 1 April 10042. Point of Contact for SOAK's
Bridge Mission.
Thierry, General Yorick (NPC) - Dun Cess Command, Confederate Army
at #1 Headquarters Square / Dun Cess // CDC as of 1 April 10042. Sent
Bridge Mission offer to SOAK on behalf of the allied military forces of the
Confederacy, the Republic, Gailinia, Allotrope, Pieschland, Iceland,
Mickelgarth and Port Darthur.
Thitherbrain, Adso (NPC) - Member of OMNICo. Killed by Ecks on
Illum Gamma. Missions: Sprinal Tap, Illum Gamma.
Thiverol - a Thiverol boat was used by the Mock Turtle Group to reach
Pavimentum in early March 10044.
Thogrom, Noruas (Chad) - A warrior, not a fish and an obedient
huntsman. Member of the Tim and Werner Group.
Tholar
As of today, the twenty-eighth of April, Tholar is not yet invested, but it
seems only a matter of time before the great road south to Dun Cess is
overwhelmed, held as it is by only a fraction of a division. A continuous
stream of women, children, and cowards pours out of the city toward the
salvation allegedly to be found in the southern provinces.
Perhaps ten thousand barbarians now wave their spears and axes before the
walls of Tholar; some additional twenty thousand are expected to arrive
within three weeks. The drumming and shrieks of battle are terrible to
behold
It is said that Tholar's military governor pleads daily with General
Intrilligator to not destroy the bridges between the cities, seeing in this
a casting of his city before the coming hordes. Sadly, it may be that
mankind must trust to the Ophir and hope that God and Nature have more
desire to see civilization survive than that civilization itself."
-- Alexander Kinnead
GENERAL WRIGHT MARCHES TO THE RELIEF OF THOLAR From the Dun Cess Herald:
[10044 MAY 25]
"To the sound of heralds trumpeting a triumph that had not yet been won,
General Wright's eight thousand veterans left Aachen on the twelfth of May
and marched to the relief of the beleaguered garrison of Tholar.
General Wright clearly intends to assault the attackers from behind in order
to open the road from Tholar to Dun Cess, but the numerical similarity on
which he counted may need to be abandoned; even in the gloried aftermath of
Tholar's repulse of the attack of the tenth, another advancing column was
spotted from the vantage of the prime tower. These reinforcements could
bring the Egyebrech presence from ten thousand warriors to as many as
sixteen thousand. In addition, the new column brings with it gigantic
engines of war designed to substitute stone, flame, and pestilence for the
gentle rains to which the humble farmers of Tholar are accustomed.
Even now the five thousand defenders of Tholar are steeling themselves for
the second assault, almost certain to occur before General Wright's soldiers
reach the battlefield.
And, as before, the seven thousand soldiers from Mickelgarth remain in
Distown and Fort Dodge, basking in the thanks of the townsmen they have
saved and the minimal glory of the parade ground, disdaining the risk of
valorous death closer to the focus of history's lens."
-- Alexander Kinnead
Thoreau - one of the original gods.
Thorn, Kiphelm (?) - impeached Wizard General formerly representing Pandoland. "Don't know too much about him. Seemingly cool for a military type."
He, along with Tim Da Reaper, Werner Gunthor and Guanerius Guaneri, was
condemned to death for treason as a result of a misunderstanding of the
events surrounding the removal of the Captain and the loss of the black
box, for disobeying the Alliance Council and for their apparent dealings
with the enemy.
Thrax, Kendra - A woman who is strong and fierce of soul.- head of the Ilico Trading Co. which is a front for the Order of the Ring. Believed to be rather old - around 60. Has a twin sister. Ring Bearer and wielder of The Captain at one time. Member of the Order of the Ring. Known alias: Katie Resnick. Missions: Persand Portal.
As Katie Resnick, she recruited the Delmarintha Dig group to go to Persand with her. There she faced down a wraith (possibly a ringwraith) who wanted her ring, and engaged in a semantic argument with it. She tricked it by pretending to throw the ring down the bottomless hole it called "The Abyss." (It dived in after it.)
She disappeared with the Persand Expeditionary Force in November 10039 while fighting Mowcrot (?) in Persand using the ring and a phase sword.
It seemed that some of the predicted effects of ring use were visible in her, although it's not clear that she was being "corrupted" or controlled by The Enemy. She may well be a ringwraith now, just from using the ring so much.
Thug (Chris) - very confused male Vornish tribal gnome from Shudar
Barg's village, who was allowed to join the Sword Group. He got stung by a
scorpion in teh Desert Ruins, and then the camel carrying his body went
down in the Black Rider's phalanx of undead.
Thumbelina (Nick) - Member of OMNICo. Disappeared with the Persand Expeditionary Force while swimming to shore to complete a mission on Persand. Presumed captured. Missions: Sprinal Tap, Illum Gamma, Persand Portal (?).
Thurbin (NPC) - name given by one of the Mourning Glories at the
house in Melanchthon where the Order of the Ring went to ransom Rajendra.
Tiger creature/wyvern - large flying "tigers" usually seen with
riders, sometimes skeletal.
According to El Ouhd, in April 10038 OMNICo spotted a "tiger wyvern"
that is known to come from another world.
Several attacked the Greymar Grendling Group in 10043 from the fortress
at the Grendel's Cave. Peregrine Falcon: "Suddenly a tiger creature with
two riders (one human, the other skeletal) lept from the complex to assault
GG... I saw a second tiger creature climbing into the air behind the cover
of the cliff... One of the tiger creatures appeared to have no skeletal
rider, but I did not get an incredibly good look... I tried to mind disrupt
the driver, but it appeared to have no effect. Similar disappointment as I
attempted the same on the tiger itself. Saul shot a lightning arrow,
striking the human rider of one of the tiger creatures, knocking him clean
off it. The tiger is distracted from GG, and dives for its rider, the
skeletal companion on the back catching him from the air and laying him
over the creature. I am told that I grabbed De's ankle while she battled,
and one of the tiger wyverns landed to apparently finish me off. My body,
suddenly engulfed in flame latched onto the tiger, and both burning headed
to the plunge pool. The cat drowned."
Tim and Werner Group - adventuring group on Vorn and another (?) world, currently on Todtham having ended up there in
the botched "black box" escape from the Fire Dwarven Necromantic Research
Facility (?). Lead by Werner and Tim Da Reaper. Known or suspected members: Tim Da Reaper, Guanerius Guaneri, Werner Gunthor, Twilight van der Rohe, .
Started out when Tim da Reaper joined Wizard General Werner Gunthor to set up an expedition to the Friendship Temple to get the black box from Magos. (See the Friendship Temple.)
Events that followed: Argue Argue Argue Argue Argue. Absconded with the box, saw a Virtual Magos. Argue Argue Argue Fly to Pandoland against Twilight's advice. Find out Pandoland was a non-optimal place to be. Argue. Guanerius joins us. Fly off across the world headed for the Grey Dwarves, who (I think) live in that big bunch of mountains we're supposed to cross. Argue some more.
At some point in their adventures: "As I remember it, we were at the same kind of point at which we have found ourselves again and again in Vorn-- we have more people than the Pegasi... could carry, so we needed to decide who would be left behind... Shroud and the two burly EO ops with black earrings with him were basically trying to take over the group... The two EO ops argued more calmly and rationally than Shroud (no surprise) but basically it was because they were [El Ouhd and] eighth-level fighters in several weapons AND linguists AND proctologists AND could fold paper-clips into shapes representing ancient Orcish Virtues AND knew how to tie knots and sail ships... which is to say, they were NPCs. The rest of the party was trying to vote... but Shroud and his companions argued that voting was stupid because rationally they were the people to take on the mission because they were so much better than us... after the EO operatives had succeeded in offending everybody present enough to provoke harsh words that Guanerius swung into action, beat the crap out of the two ops (I think in fact that he killed them) and left Shroud hanging by his fingers off a cliff after *ripping* the black earrings off with one yank and throwing them over the cliff...
What about our meeting with Poppy-Torr? (And Shroud) In this instance, the EO agents were slightly less domineering in their approach because the rest of us were not as weak, although they may have learned from the fatal error of the earlier band of EO ops, and they were in the command of Poppy, who is about five orders of magnitude saner and smarter than Errington.
The box seems an ideal tool for collecting people for the virtue puzzle at the other Ziqqurat; if GG can use it with sufficient accuracy to scoop up the personnel we need and bring them to the front door of the Ziqqurat (which would make an excellent base of operations, since it is so defensible; in the worst case we can hole up in there and be totally inaccessible, or spring all sorts of fascinating traps... ) Last I heard, the territory beyond those mountains was full of all sorts of horrid monsters and hostile races of which we had only heard rumours previously.
The current (as of August 1994) brain-damaged mission is to go flying (on pegasus) over 400 miles of nasty mountains. Beyond the mountains is uncivilized land with all kinds of nasties- Trolls, Wyverns, etc. Think of the Sprines on EOW. A mountain climbing/ orienteering god could be very useful.
The above mission was delayed for the assault on the Fire Dwarven Necromantic Research Facility when the team got sidetracked in Salami, the last outpost of civilization before the Arnsata Mountains.
Timanor Mines - on Vyricaa. Set up to mine ice from the southern coast of
Vyrica. The area was attacked by an unknown monster (balrog?) and the
monster's hunters found the Arboreal Portal.
Time-Warp - term for poorly understood time altering phenomena. See Bermuda Parallelipiped, The Captain, Persand Island/Portal, Time-Warp Group.
Time Warp Group (circa the future)-- went through the Bermuda
Parallelipiped and found themselves far in the future with the war over.
(And get Ryan H-H to fess up to what happened to his aunt.)
Members: Desmond Bailey Lientious III.
Also, what is known about the history of the war from the Time Warp group? I'm working under the assumption the future is immutable (hopefully not). How long did the war last? What parts of the world do the Eck control? All of it? How is the eck government's treatment of humans, elfs, etc? Are they slaves?
Tims, Herschel () - not captain of the Dawn Treader, but leader of
Team Alpha. Picked up Keiko with a group of Sudibin refugees. Helped
transport the Pike Group to Persand Island on the Eck Temple Mission.
Tiphon - dwarvish god of beauty and jewels.
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