Session 3 recap – Calendar dates – 5th of Springwane, left Voltaine. 15th – Arrived at the Mountains of Peril. 19th – Arrived at Grizdak.
Downtime –
- Moradin and Ousk – Went and did some crimes. They were mildly successful and also saw that there is quite the rival, to the point of animosity, between Voltaine University and the Institute of Technological Advancement from Steamforge. However, Moradin hasn’t shown up at the Staggering Pony to travel back to the Mountains of Peril with the party.
- Rhint did some research in the library about his mysterious book and worked in the town as a tinkerer, slowly building his reputation in this field.
- Percival was blazing up with Cheech having a language exchange.
- Grimjaw spent time at the Twincase of Tonic brewing potions of various descriptions.
The adventure saw the party respond to the threat of the Crimson Whisperer. They ventured back into the Mountains of Peril, following the threatening view of a magical pink maelstrom amongst the clouds of the mountains. They chose to take the most direct route, which unfortunately was the least paved.
Percival used some magic to make a floating barge of ice and the party sailed down the river. They spied some flying creatures pass overhead one night and met them the next day at a waterfall. Three harpies remained out of seven but the fight was still quite hard. Ousk discovered that rapiers are great, Rhint did some sweet martial arts and Grimjaw and Percival both succumbed to the alluring song of the Harpies (and took a 60 ft tumble into the waterfall waters below).
Thereafter, the party found a settlement just west of the pink maelstrom. It was the goblin city of Grazdak. They deceived the ‘welcoming party’ by pretending to be allies of the Crimson Whisperer. However, the new leader of Grizdak, Snivel Moldysnout, wanted them to prove their loyalty by dealing with the usurped traditionalists, led by Fatal Axe Snotgurgle and none other than Flickertongue Hexwhisperer.
Session 2 recap – Calendar journey began 16th of Springrise returned to Voltaine 31st of Springrise.
The party descended out of the mountains and encountered an ogre and goblin team, Flickertongue Hexwhisper and Grunk. They were traveling to Bogwitch London to get away from the poor choices of the Black Sun clan who had thrown their lot in with the Crimson Whisperer. She was looking to trade and bought a heavy crossbow as well as exchanged information for one opal earring. The Crimson Whisperer had the goblins raiding for metal and mining for Luminite.
The party moved into the Haunted Swamp. Grimjaw encountered some orcs, fighting in the swamp but managed to sneak away from the fracas. Then, the party stumbled upon a quintet of gnomes, stuck in spider webs. They freed most of the goblins but alerted the giant spider and combat was on. Rhint went down with poison and Grimjaw dug deep to produce a devastating shot. Of note, Moradin squirted poison in his face trying to extract the spider’s poison sack. The leader gnome was Minxi Twincase of the Twinshot of Tonic herbs and potions store in Voltaine.
The final encounter on the road home was a bard in the forest, Saal Firebrand. He was happy to meet some travelers on the road and wondered if he would be able to accompany them to Voltaine. Rhint wasn’t having any of it and tried to subdue Saal, to no avail. Saal’s swords flashed twice, downing poor Rhint. Saal then took to the forest, fleeing.
In Voltaine, Cheech’s house was ransacked but his evidence was stored safely in an invisible lock box only visible to him. Ousk played his flute in the Staggering Pony and the party relaxed after a long journey back.
The session ended with vision of a carriage, taking a bejeweled man in black leather, a dragon born lady in fine garments and well dressed bard out of the city, headed north. The leather clad man made a promise to get pay back upon the party for meddling in his affairs.
Rumours-
- Soldiers are gathering in force in Ironhelm Keep. People in other cities are becoming nervous about this activity.
- Goblins have increased raids on villages in the fringes of the Red Grove and the Haunted Swamp.
- Anomalous explosions have been reported in the Duskfall Expanse, origin unknown.
Session 1 recap – Calendar – Left Voltaine 1st of Springrise, arrived at the Black Mines 15th of Springrise.
The party was outside a cave entrance in the Mountains of Peril. They climbed up and bribed a blind guardian goblin monk to gain entrance. Then they avoided a collapsing mineshaft by cutting the fuse to have a cave lion bound overhead and tear into the goblins ahead. Finally, the party had a major battle in the lumonite mine but not before luring the boss out and incapacitating him. The heavy rock fall of goblin sabotage made the battle more dangerous than first thought. The party had to climb out of the mine through a newly opened hole in the ceiling of the mine.
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