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Wvaske: Current-truth cleanup (issue #2): move change commentary to edit summaries/Talk; session citations become numbered references

2026-09-15T18:39:15Z

Current-truth cleanup (issue #2): move change commentary to edit summaries/Talk; session citations become numbered references

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	=== The Bow ===		=== The Bow ===
	Carl owns an '''enchanted bow''', and by all recorded evidence should not. During the voyage home across the [[Sea of Moving Ice]] ([[Session 50 - Reforged in Hell, the Voyage Home (2026-06-14)\|Session 50]]) his running gag was '''missing every single shot with it and hurling it to the deck in disgust'''. The party's institutional memory of this is total: when Captain LaRustah assigned Carl to accompany them ashore, [[Baelgrum]]'s welcome was, verbatim, ''"Maybe just leave your bow on the boat, buddy."''		Carl owns an '''enchanted bow''', and by all recorded evidence should not. During the voyage home across the [[Sea of Moving Ice]] <ref name="s50">[[Session 50 - Reforged in Hell, the Voyage Home (2026-06-14)\|Session 50]].</ref> his running gag was '''missing every single shot with it and hurling it to the deck in disgust'''. The party's institutional memory of this is total: when Captain LaRustah assigned Carl to accompany them ashore, [[Baelgrum]]'s welcome was, verbatim, ''"Maybe just leave your bow on the boat, buddy."''

	'''The gag paid off in Session 52.''' In the turnip-wagon ambush Carl was revealed to be an '''Arcane Archer''', carrying a stock of special arrows — including shadow arrows (2d6, with a Wisdom save rider). He fights at range and knows it: the DM, on his tactics, ''"He doesn't want to be that close. He's still going to shoot. He's, you know. He's gonna do the right thing. He's just gonna do it from further back."''		'''The gag paid off in Session 52.''' In the turnip-wagon ambush Carl was revealed to be an '''Arcane Archer''', carrying a stock of special arrows — including shadow arrows (2d6, with a Wisdom save rider). He fights at range and knows it: the DM, on his tactics, ''"He doesn't want to be that close. He's still going to shoot. He's, you know. He's gonna do the right thing. He's just gonna do it from further back."''
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	Carl is now, unambiguously, party-adjacent family.		Carl is now, unambiguously, party-adjacent family.

	=== The Catapult — the Redemption of Carl (Session 53) ===		=== The Catapult — the Redemption of Carl <ref name="s53">[[Session 53 - The Battle of Nuts Deep (2026-08-09)\|Session 53]].</ref> ===
	When the [[Cult of the Dragon]] hit [[Nuts Deep]], Carl ran '''straight for the catapult''', checked it over ("''It's in good condition — I think it'll fire!''"), cranked, aimed, loaded one of the strange mucus-wrapped burst-stones, and '''fired''': the stone '''split apart in the air into a rain of projectiles''' across a wide area — 30 damage, Dex save — wiping out the northern zombies and a skeleton archer in a single shot. The table, in chorus: "''Let's go, Carl.''" / "'''The Redemption of Carl.'''"		When the [[Cult of the Dragon]] hit [[Nuts Deep]], Carl ran '''straight for the catapult''', checked it over ("''It's in good condition — I think it'll fire!''"), cranked, aimed, loaded one of the strange mucus-wrapped burst-stones, and '''fired''': the stone '''split apart in the air into a rain of projectiles''' across a wide area — 30 damage, Dex save — wiping out the northern zombies and a skeleton archer in a single shot. The table, in chorus: "''Let's go, Carl.''" / "'''The Redemption of Carl.'''"

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	=== Role in Campaign ===		=== Role in Campaign ===
	Carl crewed [[Captain LaRustah]]'s longship through the entire Sea of Moving Ice expedition — the voyage north, the shipboard battles against the ice spider queen, the [[Hydra]], and the [[Dragon Turtle]], and the passage home ~~([[Session 50 - Reforged in Hell, the Voyage Home (2026-06-14)\|Session 50]])~~.		Carl crewed [[Captain LaRustah]]'s longship through the entire Sea of Moving Ice expedition — the voyage north, the shipboard battles against the ice spider queen, the [[Hydra]], and the [[Dragon Turtle]], and the passage home <ref name="s50" />.

	In [[Session 51 - The Red Gold Reckoning (2026-06-28)\|Session 51]], with Luskan gripped by the red-coin paranoia, LaRustah lent Carl to the party as a local guide — "someone from Luskan that can help you out if you need it." He earned his keep quietly and immediately: leaning in at the Kurth bridge to explain that '''Ship Kurth''' runs the district, the docks, and the smuggling, that passage means greasing the wheels, and that the going rate is ''normally'' about a silver per person (the corrupted guards were demanding a gold). He stayed at the party's elbow through the entire coin investigation — the shops, the heists, the forge — without once deserting, and the party covered his bridge tolls throughout.		In [[Session 51 - The Red Gold Reckoning (2026-06-28)\|Session 51]], with Luskan gripped by the red-coin paranoia, LaRustah lent Carl to the party as a local guide — "someone from Luskan that can help you out if you need it." He earned his keep quietly and immediately: leaning in at the Kurth bridge to explain that '''Ship Kurth''' runs the district, the docks, and the smuggling, that passage means greasing the wheels, and that the going rate is ''normally'' about a silver per person (the corrupted guards were demanding a gold). He stayed at the party's elbow through the entire coin investigation — the shops, the heists, the forge — without once deserting, and the party covered his bridge tolls throughout.
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	* [[Session 52 - Nuts Deep and the Turnip Wagon Ambush (2026-07-12)]] (conscripted escort; Arcane Archer; '''first kill''')		* [[Session 52 - Nuts Deep and the Turnip Wagon Ambush (2026-07-12)]] (conscripted escort; Arcane Archer; '''first kill''')
	* [[Session 53 - The Battle of Nuts Deep (2026-08-09)]] (catapult gunner; Action Surge double kill; '''level 7''')		* [[Session 53 - The Battle of Nuts Deep (2026-08-09)]] (catapult gunner; Action Surge double kill; '''level 7''')

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Wvaske: S53: the Redemption of Carl — catapult gunnery, Action Surge double kill, level 7

2026-08-09T19:23:22Z

S53: the Redemption of Carl — catapult gunnery, Action Surge double kill, level 7

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	== Carl ==		== Carl ==
	'''Carl''' is the bosun aboard [[Captain LaRustah]]'s longship, and — since [[Session 51 - The Red Gold Reckoning (2026-06-28)\|Session 51]] — the occasional, visibly perspiring escort of [[Deez Nuts]]. As of [[Session 52 - Nuts Deep and the Turnip Wagon Ambush (2026-07-12)\|Session 52]] he is a conscripted member of the company's travelling party, and — at long last — '''a killer'''.		'''Carl''' is the bosun aboard [[Captain LaRustah]]'s longship, and — since [[Session 51 - The Red Gold Reckoning (2026-06-28)\|Session 51]] — the occasional, visibly perspiring escort of [[Deez Nuts]]. As of [[Session 52 - Nuts Deep and the Turnip Wagon Ambush (2026-07-12)\|Session 52]] he is a conscripted member of the company's travelling party, and — at long last — '''a killer'''. As of [[Session 53 - The Battle of Nuts Deep (2026-08-09)\|Session 53]] he is also '''the party's artillerist''', and '''level 7'''.

	=== Description ===		=== Description ===
	A Luskan sailor of no remarkable appearance and entirely remarkable persistence. Carl sweats when given dangerous assignments, accepts them anyway ("Aye aye, Capt'n"), and stays at his post long after any sensible person would have remembered urgent business elsewhere. The table's simultaneous verdict, both statements true at once: ''"Carl is sweating"'' and ''"Carl is very excited to be with us."''		A Luskan sailor of no remarkable appearance and entirely remarkable persistence. Carl sweats when given dangerous assignments, accepts them anyway ("Aye aye, Capt'n"), and stays at his post long after any sensible person would have remembered urgent business elsewhere. The table's simultaneous verdict, both statements true at once: ''"Carl is sweating"'' and ''"Carl is very excited to be with us."''

	[[Keyleth]]'s standing theory: ''"Carl looks so concerned… He's an empath. He feels their pain."'' And, more charitably: ''"His luck'll start getting better, he's just had a bad run."''		[[Keyleth]]'s standing theory: ''"Carl looks so concerned… He's an empath. He feels their pain."'' And, more charitably: ''"His luck'll start getting better, he's just had a bad run."'' She was right.

	=== The Bow ===		=== The Bow ===
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	Carl is now, unambiguously, party-adjacent family.		Carl is now, unambiguously, party-adjacent family.

			=== The Catapult — the Redemption of Carl (Session 53) ===
			When the [[Cult of the Dragon]] hit [[Nuts Deep]], Carl ran '''straight for the catapult''', checked it over ("''It's in good condition — I think it'll fire!''"), cranked, aimed, loaded one of the strange mucus-wrapped burst-stones, and '''fired''': the stone '''split apart in the air into a rain of projectiles''' across a wide area — 30 damage, Dex save — wiping out the northern zombies and a skeleton archer in a single shot. The table, in chorus: "''Let's go, Carl.''" / "'''The Redemption of Carl.'''"

			He wasn't done. When the necromancer hatched five skeletons at the foot of his tower and two archers climbed to shove his backup off it, Carl '''two-shot one archer, Action Surged, and killed the second''' — revealing Fighter levels nobody had confirmed. He took 10 damage from an arrow, was patched up by Squire V's Cure Wounds (11), and held the position to the end, "very relieved" when [[Baelgrum]]'s spirits mopped up the skeletons around him.

			He is now '''level 7''', and paranoid enough that he voluntarily stands lookout on the catapult platform.

	=== Role in Campaign ===		=== Role in Campaign ===
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	In [[Session 52 - Nuts Deep and the Turnip Wagon Ambush (2026-07-12)\|Session 52]] he was '''ordered''' to go with them out of Luskan entirely. The DM, to the party: ''"You're free to say no. Uh, Carl, you're not free to say no. Um… you're ordered by the City of Luskan to do everything in your power to ensure that the Deez Nuts are successful."'' And then, immediately: ''"you hear him under his breath just sort of say, God damn it."''		In [[Session 52 - Nuts Deep and the Turnip Wagon Ambush (2026-07-12)\|Session 52]] he was '''ordered''' to go with them out of Luskan entirely. The DM, to the party: ''"You're free to say no. Uh, Carl, you're not free to say no. Um… you're ordered by the City of Luskan to do everything in your power to ensure that the Deez Nuts are successful."'' And then, immediately: ''"you hear him under his breath just sort of say, God damn it."''

	He marched south with them, drank at the [[Bronze Blades]]' outpost, ~~and~~ killed a man on the road to [[Elturel]].		He marched south with them, drank at the [[Bronze Blades]]' outpost, killed a man on the road to [[Elturel]] — and now serves as gunner and lookout at [[Nuts Deep]].

	=== Relationships ===		=== Relationships ===
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	* [[Deez Nuts]] — assigned escort turned comrade; they are extremely proud of him		* [[Deez Nuts]] — assigned escort turned comrade; they are extremely proud of him
	* [[Luskan]] — his home port; knows how the city actually works, including the parts that don't appear on any ledger		* [[Luskan]] — his home port; knows how the city actually works, including the parts that don't appear on any ledger
			* '''Diana''' and '''V''' ([[Squires of Deez Nuts]]) — his self-appointed backup during the Battle of Nuts Deep

	=== Appearances ===		=== Appearances ===
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	* [[Session 51 - The Red Gold Reckoning (2026-06-28)]] (escort and guide through cursed Luskan)		* [[Session 51 - The Red Gold Reckoning (2026-06-28)]] (escort and guide through cursed Luskan)
	* [[Session 52 - Nuts Deep and the Turnip Wagon Ambush (2026-07-12)]] (conscripted escort; Arcane Archer; '''first kill''')		* [[Session 52 - Nuts Deep and the Turnip Wagon Ambush (2026-07-12)]] (conscripted escort; Arcane Archer; '''first kill''')
			* [[Session 53 - The Battle of Nuts Deep (2026-08-09)]] (catapult gunner; Action Surge double kill; '''level 7''')

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Wvaske: Session 52 ingest: Carl is conscripted as escort, revealed as an Arcane Archer, and lands his first kill ever — the bow gag pays off

2026-07-13T19:16:14Z

Session 52 ingest: Carl is conscripted as escort, revealed as an Arcane Archer, and lands his first kill ever — the bow gag pays off

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	== Carl ==		== Carl ==
	'''Carl''' is the bosun aboard [[Captain LaRustah]]'s longship, and — since [[Session 51 - The Red Gold Reckoning (2026-06-28)\|Session 51]] — the occasional, visibly perspiring escort of [[Deez Nuts]] ~~through the streets~~ of [[~~Luskan~~]].		'''Carl''' is the bosun aboard [[Captain LaRustah]]'s longship, and — since [[Session 51 - The Red Gold Reckoning (2026-06-28)\|Session 51]] — the occasional, visibly perspiring escort of [[Deez Nuts]]. As of [[Session 52 - Nuts Deep and the Turnip Wagon Ambush (2026-07-12)\|Session 52]] he is a conscripted member of the company's travelling party, and — at long last — '''a killer'''.

	=== Description ===		=== Description ===
	A Luskan sailor of no remarkable appearance and entirely remarkable persistence. Carl sweats when given dangerous assignments, accepts them anyway ("Aye aye, Capt'n"), and stays at his post long after any sensible person would have remembered urgent business elsewhere. The table's simultaneous verdict, both statements true at once: ''"Carl is sweating"'' and ''"Carl is very excited to be with us."''		A Luskan sailor of no remarkable appearance and entirely remarkable persistence. Carl sweats when given dangerous assignments, accepts them anyway ("Aye aye, Capt'n"), and stays at his post long after any sensible person would have remembered urgent business elsewhere. The table's simultaneous verdict, both statements true at once: ''"Carl is sweating"'' and ''"Carl is very excited to be with us."''

			[[Keyleth]]'s standing theory: ''"Carl looks so concerned… He's an empath. He feels their pain."'' And, more charitably: ''"His luck'll start getting better, he's just had a bad run."''

	=== The Bow ===		=== The Bow ===
	Carl owns an '''enchanted bow''', and by all recorded evidence should not. During the voyage home across the [[Sea of Moving Ice]] ([[Session 50 - Reforged in Hell, the Voyage Home (2026-06-14)\|Session 50]]) his running gag was '''missing every single shot with it and hurling it to the deck in disgust'''. The party's institutional memory of this is total: when Captain LaRustah assigned Carl to accompany them ashore, [[Baelgrum]]'s welcome was, verbatim, ''"Maybe just leave your bow on the boat, buddy."''		Carl owns an '''enchanted bow''', and by all recorded evidence should not. During the voyage home across the [[Sea of Moving Ice]] ([[Session 50 - Reforged in Hell, the Voyage Home (2026-06-14)\|Session 50]]) his running gag was '''missing every single shot with it and hurling it to the deck in disgust'''. The party's institutional memory of this is total: when Captain LaRustah assigned Carl to accompany them ashore, [[Baelgrum]]'s welcome was, verbatim, ''"Maybe just leave your bow on the boat, buddy."''

			'''The gag paid off in Session 52.''' In the turnip-wagon ambush Carl was revealed to be an '''Arcane Archer''', carrying a stock of special arrows — including shadow arrows (2d6, with a Wisdom save rider). He fights at range and knows it: the DM, on his tactics, ''"He doesn't want to be that close. He's still going to shoot. He's, you know. He's gonna do the right thing. He's just gonna do it from further back."''

			Then he put a shadow arrow through '''[[Garrick]]''' and dropped him. The DM: ''"I think this is the first time you've seen him hit something."'' The table came apart — Baelgrum: ''"Carl! First blood!"'' · Shade: ''"Carl did a murder."'' · Karma: ''"I knew you could do it, Carl."'' · Gootcha: ''"One of us, one of us."'' · Baelgrum, twice, once at the kill and again at session's end: ''"We're getting him drunk tonight."''

			Carl is now, unambiguously, party-adjacent family.

	=== Role in Campaign ===		=== Role in Campaign ===
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	In [[Session 51 - The Red Gold Reckoning (2026-06-28)\|Session 51]], with Luskan gripped by the red-coin paranoia, LaRustah lent Carl to the party as a local guide — "someone from Luskan that can help you out if you need it." He earned his keep quietly and immediately: leaning in at the Kurth bridge to explain that '''Ship Kurth''' runs the district, the docks, and the smuggling, that passage means greasing the wheels, and that the going rate is ''normally'' about a silver per person (the corrupted guards were demanding a gold). He stayed at the party's elbow through the entire coin investigation — the shops, the heists, the forge — without once deserting, and the party covered his bridge tolls throughout.		In [[Session 51 - The Red Gold Reckoning (2026-06-28)\|Session 51]], with Luskan gripped by the red-coin paranoia, LaRustah lent Carl to the party as a local guide — "someone from Luskan that can help you out if you need it." He earned his keep quietly and immediately: leaning in at the Kurth bridge to explain that '''Ship Kurth''' runs the district, the docks, and the smuggling, that passage means greasing the wheels, and that the going rate is ''normally'' about a silver per person (the corrupted guards were demanding a gold). He stayed at the party's elbow through the entire coin investigation — the shops, the heists, the forge — without once deserting, and the party covered his bridge tolls throughout.

			In [[Session 52 - Nuts Deep and the Turnip Wagon Ambush (2026-07-12)\|Session 52]] he was '''ordered''' to go with them out of Luskan entirely. The DM, to the party: ''"You're free to say no. Uh, Carl, you're not free to say no. Um… you're ordered by the City of Luskan to do everything in your power to ensure that the Deez Nuts are successful."'' And then, immediately: ''"you hear him under his breath just sort of say, God damn it."''

			He marched south with them, drank at the [[Bronze Blades]]' outpost, and killed a man on the road to [[Elturel]].

	=== Relationships ===		=== Relationships ===
	* [[Captain LaRustah]] — his captain, whose orders he follows even when they visibly terrify him		* [[Captain LaRustah]] — his captain, whose orders he follows even when they visibly terrify him; she has now formally seconded him to Deez Nuts
	* [[Deez Nuts]] — assigned escort ~~and guide~~; ~~fond of them, frightened~~ of ~~them, possibly both in equal measure~~		* [[Deez Nuts]] — assigned escort turned comrade; they are extremely proud of him
	* [[Luskan]] — his home port; knows how the city actually works, including the parts that don't appear on any ledger		* [[Luskan]] — his home port; knows how the city actually works, including the parts that don't appear on any ledger

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	* [[Session 50 - Reforged in Hell, the Voyage Home (2026-06-14)]] (bosun on the voyage; the bow)		* [[Session 50 - Reforged in Hell, the Voyage Home (2026-06-14)]] (bosun on the voyage; the bow)
	* [[Session 51 - The Red Gold Reckoning (2026-06-28)]] (escort and guide through cursed Luskan)		* [[Session 51 - The Red Gold Reckoning (2026-06-28)]] (escort and guide through cursed Luskan)
			* [[Session 52 - Nuts Deep and the Turnip Wagon Ambush (2026-07-12)]] (conscripted escort; Arcane Archer; '''first kill''')

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Wvaske: Create NPC page for Carl the bosun (player-known facts from Sessions 50-51)

2026-07-06T13:17:36Z

Create NPC page for Carl the bosun (player-known facts from Sessions 50-51)

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== Carl ==
'''Carl''' is the bosun aboard [[Captain LaRustah]]'s longship, and — since [[Session 51 - The Red Gold Reckoning (2026-06-28)|Session 51]] — the occasional, visibly perspiring escort of [[Deez Nuts]] through the streets of [[Luskan]].

=== Description ===
A Luskan sailor of no remarkable appearance and entirely remarkable persistence. Carl sweats when given dangerous assignments, accepts them anyway ("Aye aye, Capt'n"), and stays at his post long after any sensible person would have remembered urgent business elsewhere. The table's simultaneous verdict, both statements true at once: ''"Carl is sweating"'' and ''"Carl is very excited to be with us."''

=== The Bow ===
Carl owns an '''enchanted bow''', and by all recorded evidence should not. During the voyage home across the [[Sea of Moving Ice]] ([[Session 50 - Reforged in Hell, the Voyage Home (2026-06-14)|Session 50]]) his running gag was '''missing every single shot with it and hurling it to the deck in disgust'''. The party's institutional memory of this is total: when Captain LaRustah assigned Carl to accompany them ashore, [[Baelgrum]]'s welcome was, verbatim, ''"Maybe just leave your bow on the boat, buddy."''

=== Role in Campaign ===
Carl crewed [[Captain LaRustah]]'s longship through the entire Sea of Moving Ice expedition — the voyage north, the shipboard battles against the ice spider queen, the [[Hydra]], and the [[Dragon Turtle]], and the passage home ([[Session 50 - Reforged in Hell, the Voyage Home (2026-06-14)|Session 50]]).

In [[Session 51 - The Red Gold Reckoning (2026-06-28)|Session 51]], with Luskan gripped by the red-coin paranoia, LaRustah lent Carl to the party as a local guide — "someone from Luskan that can help you out if you need it." He earned his keep quietly and immediately: leaning in at the Kurth bridge to explain that '''Ship Kurth''' runs the district, the docks, and the smuggling, that passage means greasing the wheels, and that the going rate is ''normally'' about a silver per person (the corrupted guards were demanding a gold). He stayed at the party's elbow through the entire coin investigation — the shops, the heists, the forge — without once deserting, and the party covered his bridge tolls throughout.

=== Relationships ===
* [[Captain LaRustah]] — his captain, whose orders he follows even when they visibly terrify him
* [[Deez Nuts]] — assigned escort and guide; fond of them, frightened of them, possibly both in equal measure
* [[Luskan]] — his home port; knows how the city actually works, including the parts that don't appear on any ledger

=== Appearances ===
* [[Session 50 - Reforged in Hell, the Voyage Home (2026-06-14)]] (bosun on the voyage; the bow)
* [[Session 51 - The Red Gold Reckoning (2026-06-28)]] (escort and guide through cursed Luskan)

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