This page is for tracking the alignment activities of the party…
Neutrality is the absence of declared bias. In an argument, a neutral person will not choose a side.
- Apical Meristem (Chaotic Good) – Laughs at the misfortune of others; assisted in the kidnapping and torturing of a lawyer; condoned arson; bad breath; pays too much for tent-tops; embezzeled 1000 platnum pieces from the Crusade; attempts to hide his identity by faking a limp and using stilits; sent a bag of severed tongues to a public official; embezzeled 1200 gold and sundry magic items from the Crusade for a (partly) bogus expedition; deliberately hires unqualified people for “adventuring duties” knowing that they will be quickly killed; jumped onto the burning platform to save an innocent scout; Rescued prisoners being held by orcs (for money); Freed female hostages being held in a kobold breeding project (for money); Donates to the Self-Reliant shrine generously; takes sole credit for “good” actions while ignoring the fact that other party members were involved in said incidents as well; sold untraceable stone daggers and torches to mentally unstable individuals; offended by Sengazia politics; talked to Heleth to encourage her to be more self-reliant; fought off all assistance, in a hypnotized state, and died embracing self-reliance; takes his time resurrecting; new icon looks dorky; elbowed Spandau roughly in the ribs when the Druid was being restrained
- Big Jim Umbrage (Chaotic Good) – At least in his view he is; enjoys assulting random people; bullies people into buying goods of low quality; bad tempered; kipnapped a lawyer to torture for information; condoned arson; harrasses the neighbors with harpoons and scatalogical torture; threw darts at random individuals at the Horse’s Head Inn, because his sleep was disturbed, causing a minor riot; uses extremely obnoxious and agressive behavior while haggling with shop keeps; penny pincher; tossed an unconscious man to be eaten by a pack of ghasts so that he (and others) could escape; lit a torch in a public square without having the authorization to do so; openly brags about embezzeling 1000 platnum pieces from the Crusade; worked at a guard for the public burnings; sent a bag of severed tongues to a public official; gives great parties; embezzeled 1200 gold and sundry magic items from the Crusade for a (partly) bogus expedition; unflinchingly hires unqualified people for “adventuring duties” knowing that they will be quickly killed; Ordered the mutilation of several corpses including fallen party members; donated 1 foot of catgut to Will the Wagonmaker when he was down on his luck. Assisted Apical in performing good acts for money; sold untraceable stone daggers and torches to mentally unstable individuals; deeply offended by the lack of social justice in Sengazia; advocated leaving helpless NPCs behind, unguarded, in the wilderness; promised silence in exchange for cash, then blabbed about the matter all around town; impatient; threw a helpless and suicidal captive into a room containing a hungry tiger; threatened a prisoner with castration but didn’t follow through; mugged a random individual in the Noble district and accused him of heresy; urinated on a pervert’s head and took 2 copper pieces from him; threw a bag of flaming oil into a crowd (but was trying to save someone else at the time) casuing a riot; showed mercy to a guard at the burnings rather than gutting him like a fish; Attempted to save the lives of Apical (failed) and Skon (succeeded) from being devoured by a Ghast, using a rope and grappling hook; stole gruel from Monk’s dining hall rather than hand over a sandwich to Confused Foreigner; threatened a random monk; caused his brother to break his vow of silence; beats on fellow party members while they are mentally incapacitated; gives One-Eyed Thief the “Staff of Fire” (short range of course) with command word “al-a-ka-zam” because it is funny; shoved Spandau through a door into a dark tunnel containing unknown dangers; pegs someone in the head while teaching Big Tuna how to us a sling, then hands the sling to the kid and leaves; has a wooden staff painted red for his Stafff of Fire “joke”; attempted to extort the party for more than his share of treasure; verbally abuses hirelings; hired a runaway child and callously attempted to send him into combat.
- Spandau Traskellion (Neutral) – hesitated at murder; uncaring at loss of NPCs; attempted to lock the party into a house with a wraith whom he was convinced would kill them all; narcissistically vain; sells urine to people claiming it’s an unguent that will cure all of their ills; dumped a naked and unconscious lawyer in the slums; condoned arson; poor at training animals; unhygenic; frequents low quality whores; greedy; gleeful over embezzeling 1000 platnum pieces from the Crusade; misogynistic; never creates enough goodberries; runs away from combat; inability to hit the chamber pot; embezzeled 1200 gold and sundry magic items from the Crusade for a (partly) bogus expedition; laughingly hires unqualified people for “adventuring duties” knowing that they will be quickly killed; kicked a eunuch in the crotch upon first meeting him; had a peasant devoured by a swarm of rats for the offense of punching him; kicked a man while he was being mugged by Big Jim Umbrage; stole firewood from a beggar’s lean-to in order to supply the stick and urine store; fed a goodberry to Ornery Ex-Cooper once, saving his life; shows nothing but contempt for his loyal minions; habitually lied and blamed Apical for using the Gefilte latrine; poor impulse control; shirks responsibility; left helpless party members behind to be eaten by a Ghast; stole a magic dagger from Heleth while in the middle of combat; “saved” Ex-Scavenger; molested Castara while she was dying and unconscious; repeated and deliberate callousness towards his befriended dog; beats on fellow party members while they are tied up & mentally incapacitated; wound up Big Jim and got thrown alone into a deep part of a dungeon; used Meld With Stone to hide while the rest of the party was engaged in combat; stole loot from downed enemies while the party was still engaged in combat; Use Stone Meld to save himself while the party was engaged in combat and taunted the party while doing so; Taunted a fat runaway child repeatedly, coincidentally saving his life when he drove him away from the party.
- Heleth (Neutral) – Pyromanic: gleefully condones arson, burned down a monastery; burned down a lawyer’s office; attempted to set fire to a party member’s bed; thief: ex) stole 8 gold; dishonorable: ex) sneak attacks, hits people unaware; Passive aggressive; Vengeful streak; some Sociopathic tendencies; seething hatred of domineering men; whiny; tortured a lawyer by stabbing him in the knee; carried out mutilation of corpses; planning to screw over the party (probably); complains to the manager; marble fetish; doesn’t know how Conan got caught; embezzled 1200 gold and sundry magic items from the Crusade for a (partly) bogus expedition; can’t remember the doppleganger password; rolls poorly for initiative; dimly hires unqualified people for “adventuring duties” knowing that they will be quickly killed; broke into the neighbor’s house and left them 10 gp; donated to the Self-Reliant shrine; purchased the Ingardo home for a generous price and gave them time to move out; often drags unconscious NPCs out of harm’s way; left helpless party members behind to be eaten by a Ghast; becomes embroiled in petty personal disputes in the middle of combat; has heavy flow menstruation cycles which cause twice as many random encounters to attack the party; rummaged through Big Jim’s backpack for healing potions while he is paralyzed; keeps offering money to NPCs in combat but then never pays up; loses track of her XP and does not have character sheet available for play; helped herself to an unidentified suit of magical leather armor; left the party in the dark and slept rather than scouting.
- Grimkas (Neutral) – Grumpy; snotty attitude; talks down to people; bald; unimpressive combat skills; callously recommended not assisting Apical; caused the rest of the party to be assaulted and nearly killed by a bunch of Bugbears; poor impulse control; changes his mind like a woman; tried to put on some magical chain mail the party found on a halfling, without permission; did not report Heleth to other party members; secretly enjoyed watching Heleth change her armor in front of him; assaulted and killed a dwarf guarding a door based on nothing but some vague intelligence about a cult from the East allegedly being based in that building.

These really paint quite a picture.
Louis did a lot of work. When I created the page I listed the names and alignments and only added that Spandau hesitated at murder. Louis filled in all the rest, and I added impatient to Big Jim. If you look carefully you will see that even the pieces that are similar across characters (i.e. “adventuring duties”) is slightly different per character. What loving detail. I would argue that we did not embezzle the Crusade either time. They got (or will get) what they want. Work smarter not harder.
Actually I added most of the detail up unitl “adventuring duties”. Again you won’t give me credit!
Fine. I officially give Dan credit for documenting the jackass activities our characters have performed in a gritty, shit-storm campaign world with a judgmental tone.
Just because I’m not crying, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t hurt.
Also the semicolon is the appropirate punctuation between entries.
Thanks Prof.
We did too embezzle the money. We were suposed to use the money to pay for items, instead we kept the money and covered up the theft. That is basically the definition of embezzelment.
It’s spelled “embezzlement” or “embezzled”. For future reference.
Fuck you George.
SUSPECTED of burning down a monastery. Please update Heleth’s entry or produce some concrete evidence.Note: Apical is not a ‘man’.Can also add: Passive aggressive, Vengeful streak, some Sociopathic tendencies, seething hatred of domineering men (due to Zabbi’s influence).
Was a willing victim but learning to think and act for herself with Apical’s guidance.
I’m
notable to edit.dimly hires unqualified people for “adventuring duties” knowing that they will be quickly killed;
~ in her defense she has always suggested they get hazard pay, better food and equipment and has provided these things herself when possible. She’s also made quite a few attempts at keeping party members from dying by trying to stabilize them or drag them out of harm’s way.
also- we have hired everyone from the adventuring guild- which means they went there of their own free will looking for such employment..
It would only be an alignment crime if we asked them to do something we ourselves were not willing to risk.. unlike say the crusade which knowingly hires and sends groups on suicide missions they themselves won’t go on.
Its not like we told the NPCs to go check out the bugbear caves alone while we waited outside
Nevermind the fact that the hirelings are frequently encouraged to take the lead and/or open doors on behalf of the party.
yes. Never mind that aspect, we don’t!
=)
This isn’t to list alignment infractions, but to objectively list actions of each party member. EWveryone is guilty of the “adventuring duties” action. There is no doubt in what were about with our hiring practices.
Objectively? Who can say what is truly objective? I mean, unless you SAW it, do you really KNOW?
As much as i detest being a rules lawyer, I feel that it is important to point out that monks must be lawful. I call bullshit on Aaron’s character.
This is despite the fact that upon looking it up. it does say alignment: any. Thats gotta be typo. Monks are simply not whimsical free spirits
So much for not being a rules lawyer
Rob: This is old school. His code can be whatever he wants for his character concept, as long as he follows it. In Apical’s case, he was trained in the monastery of the Self-Reliant.
Dan/Aaron: Dan did about 70% of the above, but I added stuff throughout by going through each past entry and cherry-picking more stuff.
Andrew: Those are your opinions.
Of course most of this is taken out of context.
I hold that deliberately is way better than unflinchingly, laughingly, or dimly hiring feebs. Deliberately is how the Self-Reliant hire lambs for their slaughter. I deliberately put myself in harms way constantly, and there is nothing wrong with being capable enough to know when to step up with a manazerie of losers as bully plumage.
That statement is so chaoticly good.
bah, monks didn’t even exist in “old school” DnD. In every edition from their introduction to present, with the sole exception of Castles and Crusades, monks have had a lawful requirement. Properly being “old school” implies that the game should be sticking closer to the old riules, not inventing new ones. I restate my earlier point that it must be a typo.
Not that I have any interest in changing Apical’s character, I just want to be right.
Oh my god, I’m becoming Spandau!
Who’s to say what is truly lawful in this land like no other. In this topsy-turvy land where secrecy is valued above all and magic is no rare, but certainly uncommon. A place where Gnomes grope and ankles are broken in the night. Perhaps the most lawful action is to survive.
Excellent summary. Vestibule is obviously a more compelling milieu than “Eberron” or the “Forgotten Realms”.
There is really no way for you to verify this “alignment” of which you speak, anyhow.
I should also point out that the book is on its 4th printing, and at one point they published errata, and Troll Lord Games kept it as Alignment: Any. I suggest you take it up with them.
AD&D 1st edition is pretty old school and they have Monks in it and UNlike Castles & Crusades they have a different alignment listed for Monks. We are playing Castles & Crusades not D&D. Get over it.
So you are saying that now you’re Chaotic Lawful?
My alignment is Self-Reliant. I am Apical Meristem.
Yeah Rob. Let’s try taking a few looks at your “true neutral” alignment. Plenty on the negative, not too much on the positive.
PC re-align thyself!
Dispassionately then. How’s that?
Uuuh, Grimkas isn’t bald… I am. Just wanted to sort out your obvious confusion.
Oh, and technically Grimkas is true Neutral.
You roleplay him bald. So you can see the misunderstanding.
True, I do play him bad-ass. I’ll try to play him more like you and your poncy, hairsute brethren next time….
Touche.
For the record, this may be my favorite line from the Alignment Report: “has heavy flow menstruation cycles which cause twice as many random encounters to attack the party.” HA! That’s freaking gold…..
Hey! I got pegged twice for abandoning the party with my stone meld! Unfair!
I am a whiny bitch of character. Whah.
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