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Ptolus: City of Promise
Six travelers from all corners of the Empire make their way to the city of Ptolus to seek the promise of their dreams. But what will they discover about the city, the world, and themselves?
Our Party
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Cheval Vargas Species: Human, male (dragon blooded) |
Mulwrit Sandhammer Species: Human, male |
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| Captain Otto von Liebnitz, of course, CEO and Chairman Species: Human, male |
Kekitat Species: Litorian, male |
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| Reqqast Bloodthroat Species: Assarai, male |
Côr D'wardal Species: Grailwarden dwarf, male |
Departed Heroes
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Grundric Stonelocks - Grailwarden dwarf, male, Expert 3 - Retired |
Burning Wheel Secondary Party
| Tearn Sullivan Species: Human, male |
Pieter Rau Species: Human, male |
Haraald Rau Species: Human, male |
Wyn Grey Species: Elf, male |
Fah' ???? Species: Gnome, male |
Roleplaying Information
Adventures
| Loot list | • | Ptolus calendar | • | Maquent's journal | • | Neveran's letter | • | The Book of Faceless Hate | • | Otto's Letters | • | Helmut's Notes |
Season 1
Episode 1 - Deja Vu   Our heroes meet, having had odd dreams featuring the rest of the band; protect Phon Quartermain from harm; take up offer to find missing child. | Episode 2 - Daughters and Brothers Visit Delver's Guild; case the warehouse where Phon's killers scheduled to meet contacts; join Delver's Guild; investigate Cock Pit; Otto bluffs local tough into revealing information on missing child. |
| Episode 3 - Let's Play House Our party locates and cleans out the old Peyton house, recovers the girl Dayna, locates and cleans out... I mean asks her father to take the girl out of town for a while, then secures that house. | Episode 4 - In Over Our Heads TBD |
| Episode 5 - Delving Begins TBD | Episode 6 - A New Plot? Our heroes do a quick search of the Black Swan, flee, watch it burn down, take a new job from Lord Zavere to take a new job from Linech Cran. |
| Episode 7 - Do The Job A boat is taken out into the bay, our heroes dive under and find the wrecked ship, sharks, and sahuagin, but no coffin... following a trail leads to a cave, with a coffin! | Episode 8 - Hideaway Our heroes dispose of the guards, free the slaves, explore the caverns, find the undead daughter, climb the stairs, and dispatch the residents. |
| Episode 9 - The Boys Are Back In Town After cleaning out the hideout, we find our heroes boating back to Ptolus, turning over the daughter, uncovering the father's plan, and burying him in his own plan. | Episode 10 - Heads and Statues TBD |
| Episode 11 - Down in the Depths TBD | Episode 12 - Clean Up On Aisle 3 TBD |
| Episode 13 - Luck Be A Lady Tonight TBD | Interlude  A side trip by Mulwrit uncovers much information. |
Season 2
| Episode 14 - The Grassy Gnolls Grundric leaves the party. Our heroes invade Shilukar's hideout. | Episode 15 - We Have Met The Enemy... Our heroes meet Shilukar... or do they? Cor joins the party. |
| Episode 16 - The Mansion part 1 Our party explores deeper into the Pythoness mansion and finds rats, ghosts, and whores! | Episode 17 - The Mansion part 2 Our party explores deeper into the Pythoness mansion and cleans it out. |
| Episode 18 - What Chaos Weapons? Our party emerges with the chaos weapons and quickly tries to destroy them! | Episode 19 - What Chaos Weapons? Part 2 A means of destroying the chaos weapons is found and utilized! |
| Episode 20 - Cleanup Once Again The group tries to clean up some of their most recent messes. | Episode 21 - Tapestries Ravel Phon is rescued from Helmut's house and escorted to the Pale Tower. |
| Episode 22 - Kill the Wabbit [1] Our party investigates guild politics, slays Shilukar's cardboard cut-out, and... | Episode 23 - Kill the Wabbit, Part 2 [2] Now our heroes face the remnants of Shilukar's horde! |
| Episode 24 - A Month of Sundays [3] Our party takes some well-earned rest, then tries to reclaim the Pythoness Mansion. | Episode 25 - The Boy Who Could Sing [4] The musical episode -- cancelled due to knock-down drag-out donnybrook? Or must the show go on? |
| Episode 26 - Cults Across Ptolus [5] Iltumar gets mixed up in something, our party stops it. | Episode 27 - Going to the Doctor [6] A visit to the Surgeon in the Shadows to rescue a friend, and in other news... |
| Episode 28 - The Apartment [7] After cleaning the Surgeon's hideout and scaring him off, our heroes head for the apartment complex, site of "The Experiment"... | Episode 29 - The Apartment II: The Revenge [8] Exploration of the doomed apartment building continues, with a clearing out of most of the second floor, rescuing of some survivors, and a general torching of the place to the ground. |
| Episode 30 - Sewer What's New? [9] Our heroes head down into the sewer beneath the apartment building and uncover secrets. | Episode 31 - Surely, Temple! [10] Under the Entrance to the Temple, a Temple! |
Season 3
| Episode 32 - A Challenger Has Appeared! TBD |
People Met
| Episode | Name | Description | Disposition |
| 1 | Brother Fabitor Thisk | Priest at St. Gustav's Chapel | ally |
| 1 | Meada von Rustal | Head Priestess of Teun | contact |
| 1 | Phon Quartermain | Seamstress at Saches | rescued occasionally |
| 2 | Taltos Urnst | Alchemist in Delver's Square Undercity | contact and business relation |
| 3 | Mand Scheben | Head Priest of Asche | ally |
| 4 | Karetsan | Leader of Zar'At | contact |
| 4 | Nivae Tamelli | Erstwhile head of Knights of the Chord | acquaintance |
| 5 | Cardalian | unknown halfling lady | enemy? |
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| 6 | Lord Zavere | Lord of Castle Shard | contact/employer |
| 6 | Lady Rill | Lady of Castle Shard | acquaintance |
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| 6 | Seanus Lathan | halfling employee of Linech Cran | ran away |
| 7 | Alssan (Sir Jingles) | Assarai former slave | current slave |
| 7 | Dockmaster, the | dockmaster | contact |
| 7 | Sturm Slavent | captain of Arrowhead | ship captain |
| 9 | The Iron Mage | mysterious mage in patchwork armor | strange glance of recognition |
| 12 | Thollos Shever | head of House Shever, technologist | contact/ally |
| 13 | Naillis Deverini | gnome male proprietor of Pointy Hat | enemy/contact |
| 13 | Narasha | lady satyr guest of Castle Shard | interest of Otto's |
| 13 | Tasilicus Rhendrom | human wizard in the Pale Tower | contact |
| 13 | Iltumar Shon | human armorer apprentice | admirer |
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| 19 | Jevvica Nor | Human transmuter wizard | contact |
| 19 | Aoska | Half-celestial paladin | contact |
| 19 | Korben Trollone | Human crime lord | contact/conquest/enemy |
| 21 | Jamila Nox | Human Fate Weaver | neutral party |
| 21 | Menaster Orrund | Human Fate Weaver | follower of Reqqast |
| 25 | Dullin Balacazar | Human boy tenor | grandson of the Balacazar family |
| 27 | Kinion Luth | Surgeon in the Shadows | elven chaositech surgeon |
| 29 | Rhinnis | Minotaur pit fighter | Chaos cult contact |
Rules
We will be using the Burning Wheel Revised rules.
Setting Details
 Ptolus from the sea |
 A battle above the streets of Ptolus
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What Is Ptolus?
Ptolus is a big city, second largest city in the Tarsis Empire. About 75,000 live within Ptolus, second only to Tarsis itself. Ptolus sits on a bay on the northwest reaches of the Empire, and as such, it tends to run its own affairs with little direct control.
