We should move this discussion to the party thread.
You only had four hired swordsmen and all four of them were killed by the giants. Same with the guard dogs you bought. There are no more guard dogs for sale and the hired swords in town do not wish to accompany you as they saw those that went with you come back dead.
How big is the flap? I am wondering if it is big enough for a giant to move threw. That is if we are able to see roughly the size of it. Not really sure about the lighting and our range of sight, or how good our sight is. I was wondering about the Paladin's detect evil too. Did he not detect any evil or hasn't concentrated long enough for an accurate reading?
Edited: Oliron on 21st Aug, 2010 - 11:29pm
This isn't really a question posed to KNtoran but more a question for the entire party. I don't know were we want to discuss this topic but as it is a rather large question encompassing many angles and topics I thought I would post it here.
I am voting that we give a mutch smaller portion of the loot to the newer players. They did not really partake in the killing of the giants. Further Eth was almost non existent in the battle. Not to say she should not get a good cut but I think it should be reduced because she did a lot of hiding and did not really fight or heal till the very, very end. Plus she is a druid, druids don't know gold from acorns.
I am also thinking now that we have a huge sum here we should look into compensating the families of the soldiers who died, if they have any. Possibly making some sort of memorial to them, however small.
This is a ton of gold and I am sure we can work out some amount that works for everyone. Also there is a lot of equipment here that may be magical. I am just saying lets not be stingy now that we have this gold. At the same time lets be fair in how we distribute it.
We have Oliron, Beast, Ryorst, Eth, Rei, Akog, Nei (Did I forget someone?).
Nei, Akog, and Rei are completely new and helped kill the last giant.
Beast has been here since the beginning and helped kill the last hill giant.
Eth was present for the first two hill giants, has been here for a good amount of time, but only helped kill the last one.
Ryorst has been here for a good amount of time and helped kill all three.
Oliron has been here since the beginning and helped kill all three.
I am not the treasurer and don't know how the gold is going to be distributed, but as the party leader I think I should point this out. At the same time I would like to strongly suggest the entire party, at this point, come up with some really good ideas on how to use a large chunk of this money for the entire party.
Such as building a fort, buying off some officials, throwing a really awesome party (just kidding), things like this.
Personally, I think we should look into seeking out a powerful mage and paying him to "assist" us in ending this orc threat. He would have the ability to scry and stuff. Probably find out exactly why they are here and what exactly is behind it all. Possibly even help us take down the root problem that we are facing, just a thought.
Then again we are not bound by anything to even stop the orc threat. So the gold could go to anything really. Maybe KNtoran has an idea how to spend the gold even?
Eth was THERE for the fights, even if she didn't accomplish much. I think that entitles her to a fair split of it. How about this?
We got basically 160,200 gp.
30,000 to Oliron and Ryorst.
25,000 to Eth and Beast
10,000 to each Rei, Akog, and Nei
8,700 to the party fund.
1,500 on identify castings.
Then we can split the (magical?) items once we know what they do, if anything.