People
Each person has a list of - Renown-receiving threads in Scalv
- A Rumour - Because it's been too long since I did, this is written from the point of view of a usual Scalv citizen. While it's written in an (attempt at a) funny way, it's a rumour that's heard throughout Scalv.
- A Random Encounter unique to them. An optional weird plot starter.
The rumours are for other pcs to play with - the random encounter is for the PC.
Arlo Creede
Name of Thread | Famous For | Amount |
[Broiling Lagoon] Catch a Dragon by the Tail | For helping an august and strange meeting of Dragon and Immortals. | 30 |
Bob: Hey, Jim , did you hear about him? Got snatched away by Chrien, I heard, and then came back.
Jim: I did NOT know that Bob. I heard that he has a magic hat.
Random Encounter
Arlo meets an elderly fella called Zedd who tells him he's a great wizard from another world. Zedd is looking for a strange mystic flower called the Danacop. He describes it as a magic glowing rainbow transparent invisible flower with miraculous properties. He's been searching for 48 years, but never found one.
Balthazar Black
Name of Thread | Famous For | Amount |
Cat Calling | For protecting a boat on its route. | 5 |
Listlessness Inverted | for being an active and unusual investigator | 5 |
[Seasonal Event] The Heart of Scalvoris. | For being part of the Heart | 15 |
Jim: Hey, Bob, did you hear that Balthazar is making a move to become the new Militant?
Bob: No, really? I heard that he'd been recruited as a monster-hunter by Saoire.
Random Encounter
Balth meets a talking dog. It's just a normal dog, but it talks. Only he can understand it (everyone else hears wuff wuff noises) and it follows him everywhere.
Bao Bao
Name of Thread | Famous For | Amount |
[Seasonal Event] The Heart of Scalvoris. | For being part of the Heart | 15 |
Bob: Jiim, Jim, drink up quick, I heard that Bao Bao is secretly a DRAGON
Jim: Shut up, Bob, you're drunk....
Random Encounter
Bao Bao is approached by a business owner who wants Bao to endorse his new product - Raccoon-skin caps
Darius Baer
Name of Thread | Famous For | Amount |
[Seasonal Event] The Heart of Scalvoris. | For being part of the Heart | 15 |
[Hopetoun] Scuttlebutt | For sending the ship of a Pirate Lord to Chrien's Locker. | 10 |
[Hopetoun] Boom Or Bust | For planning the defenses of a sizeable settlement | 5 |
[Hopetoun] Good Pirate, Bad Pirate | Darius' cunning inclusion of Liathen in the interrogation will get around, both among pirates captured by the authorities and among the populace. | 5 |
[Saoire's Dream] The Regifting | For meeting with an Immortal about a demotion of noble nature. | 10 |
[Hopetoun] Blood On His Hands | For helping the Haven refugees to make their way onto Balthazar. | 10 |
[Hopetoun] Trying To Stave Off Boredom | 'Taking a beat' in good grace with 'the men'. | 5 |
A Matter Of Urgensea | For meeting a council member on important security business. | 5 |
Jim: Did you hear about Baron Darius? Have you ever noticed how much like Saoire he looks? He's her mortalborn son, you know.
Bob: Now you mention it, when I picture Saoire with a beard .....
Random Encounter
Darius gets a stalker. She's tall, she's blonde, she's pretty. She sends him love notes and cakes etc.
Elisabeth Black
Name of Thread | Famous For | Amount |
[Broiling Lagoon] Catch a Dragon by the Tail | For meeting a dragon and several Immortals at once. | 15 |
Bob: Did you hear about Mrs Black? I heard that she ran away with Vri.
Jim: Yeah, I heard that, too.
Random Encounter
TBC if player returns, we'll tie it in to the return!
Kisaik
Name of Thread | Famous For | Amount |
[Sweetsong] A Concern on Unnatural Affairs | Becoming known to the Council | 5 |
[Seasonal Event] The Heart of Scalvoris. | For being part of the Heart | 15 |
Wrong Place, Wrong Time | Fought off some thugs in a street fight | 5 |
Jiim Did you hear about the tunawa in Sweetsong? He singlehandedly fought off three pirate ships!
Bob: I heard it was five!
Random Encounter
Kisaik finds that, while he hibernates, someone keeps sending a small trained bird to leave tiny tokens - berries, small flowers etc - when he wakes up, will he chase it up?
Kotton
Name of Thread | Famous For | Amount |
Dancing and Indigestion | for dancing well in mixed company | 5 |
Bystanders | For helping a small girl | 5 |
Helping a Teddy Find its Rightful Home | For resolving the playground altercation. | 5 |
A Final Reward for All Writing | For passing a qualification in the Scalvoris University. | 5 |
Alcohol, Brick Walls and Philosophical Stars | For proposing an improvement in processes at work. | 5 |
Skin Conditions and What to do With 'Em | Word will get around that Worick's scribe is a sharp one | 5 |
A Gamble of Gin Rummy | For eagerly playing a bad hand, and losing the pot. Kotton's Tablemates didn't mind. | 5 |
It's Fine if it's for Religious Reasons | For telling a funny joke/story at a bar to a pretty lady. | 5 |
Talks Amongst the Fire | For displaying bravado among friends around a fire. | 5 |
An Adventure in Riddle | Part Three | For winning a small scavenger hunt/puzzle/game with a group. | 5 |
An Adventure in Riddle | Part One | For making a good impression on a partner, and taking part in a group event. | 5 |
Vri and the Revelations of His Domains | Even though it was a private meeting, a Champion's attention is nothing to scoff at. | 5 |
Butterflies | For brightening a little girl's day. | 5 |
Observational Training | 5 |
Bob: You know that Kotton? I heard that they're a Grand Great Revealed Attuner Mage
Jim: Really? Oh my god, are my thoughts safe!?
Random Encounter
Kotton is approached by a card shark who wants Kotton to play - and lose - a few games of cards for him, then to win.
Kura Wolfsdotter
Name of Thread | Famous For | Amount |
Recruiting The Rangers | 5 | |
[Seasonal Event] The Heart of Scalvoris. | For being part of the Heart | 15 |
[Slag's Deep] Canary in a Coal Mine | Another council meeting that amounted to nothing for the people! Hope rebellion does not spring up! | 5 |
Bob: Kura's the original Cadouri, you know. First one Saoire made. Originally, she was a beaver.
Jim: Saoire's prototype, yeah. I believe it.
Random Encounter
Kura meets a woman who completely and utterly believes that she (the woman) is Karem. She tells Kura that she's Karem. Other than that, she's entirely sane and ok. But nope. She's convinced.
Makar Hollowbreak
Name of Thread | Famous For | Amount |
[Wilderness] Psssssst... Get down before it eats you | For freeing a family of tunawa from certain doom. | 10 |
If you're not an rodent, please say Ay! Ay-Ay | For helping to shore up the lack of hunters from the attacks on the Rangers. The extra help is appreciated | 5 |
Jim: I heard that there's a spy from the Eternal Empire in the Woods. Here.
Bob: Yeah, I heard he's authorised to negotiate us becoming part of the EE.
Random Encounter
Makar comes across a hermit who has shunned mortal communication / connection for the last 30 years. He has a lot to learn about the world as it is.
Nir'wei
Name of Thread | Famous For | Amount |
[Sweetsong] A Concern on Unnatural Affairs | Doing the work of the council | 5 |
[Seasonal Event] The Heart of Scalvoris. | For being part of the Heart | 15 |
Jim: Did you know, Nir'wei used to be the Emperor of Rynmere?
Bob: I heard that he got deposed when the peasants revolted.
Random Encounter
Nir'wei is approached by a student at the university doing a paper on him. She is young, intense and has limited social skills. Her paper is entitled "Nir'wei: Saviour or Madman?"
Oram Mednix
Name of Thread | Famous For | Amount |
[Seasonal Event] The Heart of Scalvoris. | For being part of the Heart | 15 |
[Slag's Deep] Canary in a Coal Mine | Another council meeting that amounted to nothing for the people! Hope rebellion does not spring up! | 5 |
Jim: Hey, where's Oram gone to?
Bob: I heard that he ran off with Elisabeth Black on a secret mission for Cassion!
Random Encounter
Oram is approached by a young man who is seeing spirit-squirrels everywhere. Talking spirit squirrels who are telling the young man to go find Oram.
Praetorum
Name of Thread | Famous For | Amount |
[Seasonal Event] The Heart of Scalvoris. | For being part of the Heart | 15 |
[Broiling Lagoon] Catch a Dragon by the Tail | For helping an august and strange meeting of Dragon and Immortals. | 30 |
Bob: You know that Ithecal who hangs around in Haven a lot? I heard that he's actually a cadouri illusionist.
Jim: Really? He's good!
Random Encounter
Prae is approached by a leatherworker who wants to make ithecal-specific boots and gloves and would like Praetorum to endorse them.
Ralgar Warborn
Name of Thread | Famous For | Amount |
[Scaltoth] Death does not rest | For finishing your betrayer in a duel to the death. | 10 |
[Scaltoth] Freedom | Returned from the 'dead' | 5 |
Rorom
Name of Thread | Famous For | Amount |
Before We Starve, I'll Die with a Hammer in my Hand | You're fast getting a reputation as a crucial part of village life | 10 |
Breachfang's Mantle | Helping out for no other reason than because he can | 10 |
Jim: Have you heard about Rorom, the new guy in Harvardr? I heard that he was killed at sea and revived by U'frek.
Bob: Really? I heard he defeated U'frek in one-to-one combat.
Random Encounter
Rorom is approached by a very odd professor at the university who is interested in researching the healing powers of whale blubber. He's quite obviously mad as a box of frogs.
Varlum
Name of Thread | Famous For | Amount |
[Seasonal Event] The Heart of Scalvoris. | For being part of the Heart | 15 |
[Broiling Lagoon] Catch a Dragon by the Tail | For helping an august and strange meeting of Dragon and Immortals. | 30 |
Jim: Hey, Bob, I was talking to Billy and he reckons that ithecal varlum bloke is actually the avatar of Faldrass. Like, he's the Induk himself.
Bob: Well,it's more likely than Ishallr, innit?
Random Encounter
Varlum meets a merchant who sells chilli peppers. Only chilli peppers. The merchant tells Varlum (most sincerely) that if he could just help him, they could BOTH make a lot of money. The big idea? The merchant believes that he'll be able to plant chilli peppers in Varlum's skin and they'll grow (between his toes). Honest. It'll work!!
Vega
Name of Thread | Famous For | Amount |
[Seasonal Event] The Heart of Scalvoris. | For opening your gob in front of the Immortal of Mentors | 15 |
[Sweetsong] Growing Deep Roots | For having a small meeting with the Pirate King. It's kind of a big deal, as lowkey as they keep it. | 5 |
[Broiling Lagoon] Catch a Dragon by the Tail | For helping an august and strange meeting of Dragon and Immortals. | 30 |
Bob: Put down the Baron's Brew, Jim...
Jim: No, that Vindecaldra was refusing to give her joojoo magic to these adventurers, but there's one' they fear. In their tongue, she is called draig-wed-ei-eni, Dragonborn! She thumped the dragon till she gave up the juice.
Bob: Mastes, Kata, and Syroa's underpants Jim. I'm putting you in a home.
Random Encounter
Vega is followed by what appears to be a child. But when she looks closer, she sees it is really just a ghost. Can she trust that it really was a child that met their untimely end? Or is it a ghost that simply forgot themselves? The most confounding part of it, is that the ghost resembles someone from her past.
Winston
Name of Thread | Famous For | Amount |
[Sweetsong] Hat's as good as a roof | The Pirates were thwarted, and will tell warnings to each other of the wiley ferret and his cursed chest. | 5 |
[Sclavaris Town] Winston's Zelmas Surprise | For being the recipient of a grand gift and surprise party. | 10 |
[Sweetsong] A Healing Ray is not a man called Ray that heals | For making a masterwork magic item. | 10 |
[The Docks] ...adopted parent? | For thwarting a kidnapping, and standing up to a pirate | 5 |
[The Docks] Do you take this slow-ass Ferret to be your... | for publicly celebrating a birthtrial. | 5 |
[Wilderness] Psssssst... Get down before it eats you | For freeing a family of tunawa from certain doom. | 10 |
[Sweetwine Woods] Spiders in the dark | For diispatching a mighty spider in an wee battle. | 5 |
[Seasonal Event] The Heart of Scalvoris. | For being part of the Heart | 15 |
[Saiore's Dream] Not wanting, just giving | Giving gifts in Saoire's realm. | 10 |
[Saiore's Dream] Meeting the family | For hosting a Duke in Sweetsong | 5 |
[The Feats of Strength] A magic blood bank | Were there when Rakvald transformed | 1 |
Bob: Jim, you know that ferret-fella did the whole Saoire thing? I heard that he and her were bumping uglies.
Jim: Saoire's getting herself some ferret loving? Niiiiiiice.
Random Encounter
Winston is sought out by a small cat cadouri who believes that she is being poisoned by her husband. Turns out to be a hairball.
Woe
Name of Thread | Famous For | Amount |
When Last We Dined | Being involve in dinner parties and portents | 5 |
Duelling Shotglasses | Meeting with a Pirate Lord and having a drink | 5 |
[Seasonal Event] The Heart of Scalvoris. | For being part of the Heart | 15 |
[Slag's Deep] Canary in a Coal Mine | Another council meeting that amounted to nothing for the people! Hope rebellion does not spring up! | 5 |
Jim: Did you hear about the Egg, Bob? I heard he's working with Ilaren and there's some kind of blood feud between her and Saoire.
Bob: He's got contacts in Rharne. Hmmmm.Suspicious.
Random Encounter
Woe gets a stalker/ super fan. Someone who loves him, wants to be with him / near him. Asks for his autograph. It's flattering, right?