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Cyno's Role-Play: Scenarios: Silent Kingdom

Background

GM: Anyone who successfully rolls on the Town Lore or the Area Knowledge skill check will know these background information.

Ten years ago, silence fallen on the Kingdom of Fifty Reeds. People spoke, but no voice could be heard. Nothing made any noise. No one knew why. The king's Magician Council met and decided that an extremely powerful wizard could have casted the Permanent Silence spell on the kingdom. But in order to effect an area of 50 miles radius that it did, the wizard or sorcerer must be able to cast the spell with a great ordeal of power (70400 power points to be exact). The king announced a large reward to the land for anyone to come forward with potential leads to the cause of this problem and who might be involved. No solid leads ever surfaced.

There was an urban legend that an extremely rare plant grows on top of Mount June, a mountain peak in the Kingdom of Fifty Reeds. This plant is called Gensu. Every ten year, this planet will blossom and produce Gensu seeds. When each seed is consumed, the seed will provide the consumer with tremendous amount of power (1000 points) temporarily (6D10 turns). So theoretically, someone could have obtained and consumed a lot of Gensu seeds (71 seeds) to cast the Permanent Silence spell with a radius of 50 miles. In a way, by blanketing the entire kingdom with the silence spell indicated that the urban legend is, in fact, true. And that some had already gotten to the Gensu planet.

After learning about the Gensu planet from the Magician Council, the king sent out scouts to the Mountain top of June. At the base of the June Mountain cliff, the scouts found wooden planks attached to the side of the cliff, spiralling upward to the mountain top. Metal rings were attached to the cliff above each plank for tying ropes. The sounds found the Gensu plan on top of the mountain, but all of it seeds are gone. As the news spread through the land, a lot of folks came up with conspiracy theories on who and why Permanent Silence was cast on the kingdom. But no one, except the culprit, knew the true story.

The Magician Council has adviced the king that the only way to remove the spell is to gather enough Gensu seed to cast Dispel Magic on the silence spell. So the entire kingdom has been waiting this past 10 years for the Gensu planet to blossom once again.

Mount June

GM: Anyone who successfully rolls on the Mountain Lore skill check will know these background information.

June Mountain is a beatiful mountain, especially during the month of its name. It is ten thousand feet tall. But the first seven thousand feet is mildly sloped for an easy hike. The last three thousand feet is virtually a straight-up cliff. Over the years, adventurers have attached wooden planks to the side of the cliffs, as a spiral walkway to the top of the mountain.

It takes about three days to hike to six thousand feet, where snow starts to cover the ground. The snow-covered ground makes travelling difficult. Therefore, it takes a full day to travel from six thousand feet to seven thuosand feet. At seven thousand feet, it takes another full day to walk the wooden planks to the mountain top. The wooden plank is, no doubt, covered in snow. Travelling after sun down will slow the pace considerably. It's four times as fast to travel during the day as at night.