The Warlords of Krahl - A Collaborative Writing Adventure

The plan was hatched in the Amethyst Tower - one of the few strongholds against Krahl, taken from them by the very elementals they summoned.

It was clear by this point that Krahl had an interest in the lands of Bren that went beyond mere political territory. While most of Krahl's conquests ended with a warlord marching into the capital and forcing the current ruler to surrender, Warlord Gring had adopted a different approach. His siege engines utterly destroyed the capital without any attempt at negotion, and then his army continued past the ruins until they reached the abandoned Brynwynd Keep.

Under Gring's oversight, the Keep was converted into a prison and soon began taking on prisoners from all over the Empire's vast territory. This was puzzling, as many of the prisoners hardly even seemed important; rumors started to surface that something more was going on at Brynwynd. The stories told of everything from sacrifices in a dark ritual to slave labor on a massive engine of war, but no one outside of loyal Krahlians had ever returned from the Keep to confirm a tale.

Yet all the stories had one thing in common. Whatever Krahl was doing in Brynwynd, it was of great importance to them. Stopping it would deal them a great blow.

The plan soon came together when someone realized there was a very simple way into Brynwynd - as part of a prison convoy. There was debate on the exact method of infiltrating it, but after a while it was settled, a small convoy located, and the plan was soon carried out.

Now, as a result of that plan, five adventurers are somewhere in Brynwynd Keep, hoping to defeat Warlord Gring and stop whatever scheme Krahl hopes to accomplish here.

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So a summary of all that, and an explanation of things not made explicit in there. Brynwynd is an abandoned castle converted into a prison, and taking prisoners from all over Krahl's territory for unknown reasons.

Now, my intention is that Leon was a prisoner on the transport coming in here. If you want, others among you can opt to be involved as now-rescued prisoners as well. Or if Truegreen wants to have some other explanation for how Leon ended up here, that's fine too; I'm just providing a convenient option for the backstory they gave.

The exact details of how you got in and where you are in the castle right now are left up to player discretion. You are also free to make up whatever you want about Warlord Gring that I haven't specified, and to devise an explanation for why, exactly, Krahl is bringing all these prisoners here. And pretty much anything else.

If anybody's stumped on what to do, feel free to ask other players for ideas. Work together! If you want to talk to people about ideas in-thread for whatever reason, or to clarify things that happened in a post, please do so in spoilers.

You can also feel free to hop on IRC to talk to other people about Krahl. You can go to #grandbattle or [url=https://mibbit.com/?channel=%23eagletime&server=irc.esper.net]#eagletime to attempt to find them, or if it turns out we have a lot to say about this game-thing in particular, I might make a channel specifically for Krahl-talk.