Brinksmanship

Game Title: "Brinksmanship"
Date: June 21-22, 2003
Game Location: Gorim’s Pass, Thorin, near the Pathfinder Hold
OOG Location: Bluff Mesa Group Camp, Big Bear CA
Plots: The past two weeks have been a time of 
ritual in all of Thorin. Known as the Rites of the Crafter’s Forge, 
dwarves and those who live among them gather to celebrate the glory of 
craft and construction. The fifteen days culminate in the Consecration 
of the Forge, marked by midsummer’s eve among the surface dwellers. It 
is an auspicious day for the opening of new mine shafts, the completion 
of projects, or the finalizing of marriages.
Gorim’s Pass, a tiny human trading town nestled between mountain ridges 
ten miles east of the Thorin/Gesnor border, has looked forward to the 
occasion for months, for it marks the opening of the highest passes into
 Thorin for the short trading season. For decades, these humans have 
lived off of the trade that comes through the pass and small gold 
panning operations in the mountain streams. Business relations with the 
nearby Pathmaker clan have always been cordial.
This year, however, the festive atmosphere has been strained. Tales of 
spies and stranger folk have worried the Thorin government. New security
 has been posted at the borders, which means fewer traders coming to 
look over Dwarven wares or to sell grains and meat bound for the 
northern holds. In Gorim’s Pass, tensions have arisen with the impending
 completion of the Pathmaker’s new “Great Passage,” a tunnel through the
 peaks which threatens the humans’ livelihood and rights to “surface 
gold.” Even the honor paid the Pathmakers by the impending arrival of 
Headmen from three of the eldest clans in Thorin, to observe the final 
opening of the shaft, has done little to improve things.
And now, word is spreading that the tunnel opening has collapsed…
Cast (?)
Dave Miner as Dermot and Captain Thavos [NPC]
Michael Slusser [GM] as
Constance Phillips as Lady Antillia Geoffrey
David Peek as Baron Heinrich von Schlachtenflussen
Brandee Kinney-hurd as Lady Lillee Orchester
Dave Chamberlain as Bert the Miner, Undead, Lizardman [NPC]
Andrew Gaughen as (Some Dwarf leader-type), Undead (Darian?)