It started with some player plotting for an hour, as the Thassians came in from all sides
Wizards got cracking, one disappeared early, the other hit the Nestorians with Ice Storm.
The team got down in the keep, covered well, very little ability for the Thassians to hit and kill from afar.
Scorch lit up, with a fireball onto the onto the other Thass wizard and the surrounding
Justus setting fire to hay bales and shoving ice blocks down the stairs at people.
Senko was picking off Thassians with his dagger bombs against those scaling the walls, before his grenade took out most of the Thassians but opening a hole in the wall.
Scorch hit the other wizard with a silence spell, who retaliated with magic missile
Parallax held the central chamber, before dealing with the new Senko-door,
As the invisible wizard appeared behind scorch, nearly wiping him out.
Hayden and Joe worked it to have Scorch charm the wizard (Sparkmaker), and Justus got off some clutch heals, and then shoved the Sparkmarker over the edge into the raging waters below the tower.
Parallax saw the last few off, as Justus scared the pants out of the rest of them, and they fled.
Balazaras arrived to scare off the remaining ones, as they claimed they would bring back their own dragon and finish them off.
Our Bronzie picked up the Marines, and headed home, giving the team some basic advice.
As they rest, they are visited by the astral Dojo guardian, and got the jist of the whole situation, before sailing into the harbor, acing the stealth roll, and pulling the dingy up by the back of the Order of the Eyes.
You return to your true selves, from the mundane lives of office workers, standing before an Eldritch beast of terrifying proportions.
“So, Senko Slyfingers, you stand here, you chose to come here, now your choice faces you. Where hath thou placed their loyalty, with the goals of simple, frail mortals, or instead to follow my eternal will?”
“I propose you this deal, simple as it may be, I will remove the touch of mine cousin from your mine, and I will grant you a Boon that will aid you with your Lich problem. If you choose to follow deeper into my service, so too, will grow the boons you receive.”
In exchange you will owe me three favours, of my choosing, which when asked of you, you will complete with all due haste and urgency.
The Boon of the Violet King
Upon acceptance, he felt his body going through changes,
Your skin drops a few shades, heading towards a sickly purple tinge.
There is an ache in the centre of your forehead, as if something new is growing there.
Three small mushrooms grow from your toes. Toes that are now small tentacles that you have strange level of control over (Advantage when Climbing Barefoot)
Some small abilities come to you,
You have the ability to cast Hunger of Hadar, once per long rest.
You Gain the ability to cast Identify as a ritual.
A small pouch filled with tentacles of some sort. Also a bag with 5 small pearls and 5 small owl feathers within.
Along with some other, more effective ones.
Mauve Blade of Matinduar (Matt-in-doo-ah) You gain the ability to summon a blade made of a mysterious purple crystal, wrapped in ragged cloth rags for a hilt. The blade is dripping from the tip, and as the liquid hits the floor it sizzles, and dissipates with a hiss. This dagger acts as a +2 Magic Weapon, and deals 1d6 Necrotic Damage on a hit. The Dagger has 3 charges, and when thrown can use a charge to detonate into a purple cloud 10ft in diameter, dealing 2d8 Acid Damage, Con Save DC15 for Half. 1d3 Charges can be recovered per day, by meditating with the blade at dawn and re-pledging oneself to the Violet King
Glare of the Forgotten God *As you approach a victim while not in combat, you may petrify them with a vision of the hidden presence behind your eyes. If the victim fails a Wisdom Saving Throw, it will be paralyzed for up to 30 seconds, or until it is sufficiently startled awake by a companion or loud noise. *
Mantle of Violet You call forth the essence of the Violet King, causing the room you’re standing in to pale, as if the color of reality is being sapped away. All shadows deepen and darken, and Dim Light will become Darkness, and Bright Light will become Dim, as Dim will become Darkness.
And the King will smile at you and say: “The first challenge has been overcome for you, and my Shoggoth has also been recaptured and fed, this deal is good for us both.” Before he fades away slowly, disappearing from sight, his chains dropping to the ground next to you.
Behind you a small archway appears, showing through it the entry chamber to the dungeon.
The Front Door
The remaining Orcs are cowering inside the entryway, and struggle to describe what happened, just that the riders came, started yelling about killing ‘The Guardian’ when they saw the severed Shoggoth Tentacle and went frothing mad, and tried to force their way in.
The Orcs held them off for a while, but just as they were about to fall, something happened outside and when they looked again, it looked like it does now, with over 100ft from the doorway being coated in a thick coating of blood and body parts.
Nothing larger than a joint is recognizable, seeming though that every single thing outside the door have been ripped to pieces all at once, in the most violent way possible.
A very quiet projection of the Violet King echoes around the room, first the exhalation as if of someone stretching, the in a smug tone “You’re welcome”
The Orcs look at you, horrified.
Fairies and Foibles
When past the next crossroads, they found Godmothers Gate.
A small cluster of large tree stumps, larger than usual, maybe 5 ft tall each, and quite large across as trees go, 12-14 ft. A weak presence can be felt in the air, as if a lingering aura of the grove that once stood here, now receding.
Two stumps in the center, are far larger than the rest, and occasionally the light passing between them seems to shine an odd hue History – This feels a lot like that time we met a fairy godmother Nature – These trees are similar to what you’ve heard of Elven groves and their Heart Trees
A poor Astral Squirrel was summoned, and intimidated through the portal, before the group joined, and through the shimmering field to the glade of the Godmother, a long forest path leads to her, who is hovering before you, dressed again in her green and black ball gown. Her cat-eyes squint as she looks at you for a moment, pursing her lips before she speaks
“Well this is distressing boys, you’ve lost your Scaly little friend, the thief has joined the Anathema, and the big angry boy can jump now, not quite the progress I was hoping to see next time I saw you. And you dear paladin, can you correct this ship to a holy course or are we – oh, Paladin of Kellok? Ah. I see. Playing with fire are we?” and she chuckles to herself lightly “Ah well, times they are a-changing.”
She leans in peering specifically at Senko, “What did the king gift you? A weapon to bring down the lich? Some ancient horror to release upon him? What was it?”
You spoke with her, looking for hints, and giving away a few things about the encounter with the Violet King, eventually the topic of Tangor came up, which she pled ignorance of who that could possibly be. Kangrog saw the trick, and declared her fake.
The Godmother laughs
The glamour and illusions on the glade melt away, along with the disguises from the Lich himself, who was appearing as a faerie godmother. “Well done, simpletons. I haven’t had fun like this in the better part of a century.”
“So the old King gave you nothing useful, at all? I have nothing to worry about still? Interesting, you really are doomed this time, if you’re the best the living can manage”
At that Senko attacked with his new dagger, striking into the Lich’s breast, who reacted by seizing Kangrog with a Paralyzing Touch, freezing all of his body except his axe-arm, as Justus smote down the foul Undead with the the grace of the Elder Flame.
The lich hits with a cantrip, then is smacked with Flashy twice, taking 60-odd damage after resistances applied. He cast CloudKill, dropped almost everyone under 5hp, got jumped by the Squirrel, Smashed it on the floor, and cackled and made snide comments and left.
Back on the Trail
Exiting the Faerie grove, seated on a stump opposite the portal is a small squat demon, that takes one look at them, deeply sniffs the air, and asks in the voice of Slurg “you reek of Lich-Musk, Kangrog, have you no shame? Did you at least kill it?”
The Imp is here to chat, having felt the recent actions and locations of the party. He also wonders if there is a reason why Kangrog is only using half of the axe? Asking for it, he utters the command word, and it turns into a double-ended double-headed longaxe, with both ends aflame.
The Axe Now grants the use of the Whirlwind Attack ability.
Whirlwind Attack. You can use your action to make a melee attack against any number of creatures within 5 feet of you, with a separate attack roll for each target. If used in combination with a Potion of Vaulting, the Barbarian can roll to hit all creatures along the path of his flight.
There are a number of other symbols on the sign, that at first seem like they are just parts of the woodgrain, but Senko quickly recognizes as thieves cant, telling of Soldiers at Alduin’s Cove, specifically Nestorian ones. Thassian Soldiers are said to be in Tos Calos, along with something he cannot quite make out, but could be either ‘Weapon’ or ‘Ritual’, along with the symbol for ‘Limited Time’
Smugglers Cove
Smuggler’s Cove is nothing more than a barely held together building, an old holdfast and a few barely tended fields next to it, shrouded on 3 sides by sharp cliffs and the ocean.
Looking at it, you notice a few things immediately; Perception, The Holdfast seems to have once been built here to look over the little cove, which is one of the only parts of the visible coastline without a rocky reef or sheet cliffs to assail. Insight, you recognize a pile of dung as that of a Dire Tortise, of which you only know of a single one. Nature, the waters nearby seem teaming with life, the land is bare, and barren. Except for the presence of a single, slightly too large squirrel watching you from the top of a far off hill. Well and the soldiers too.
Scattered around the fort, is a group of fighters, none in uniform except for a simple Red cloth tied around one of their boots. One, sleeping next to the stable, appears to be wearing caster’s robes of some type, several have impressive looking iron crossbows and well made and maintained weapons. These guys give off an air of capability, if danger was to appear, it would be met with force, immediately.
As you think that, Captain Horn drops his invisibility, standing next to you. “Oh it’s you! welcome lads, we’ve been looking for you since that deal with the Teleporter. Welcome to the last outpost of the Empire west of Relast!”
He has two squads of the Third Legion Marines here with him, including a couple of spell casters. Can help with Tangor, but for now offered food and rest.
We wandered around and meet the Nestorians, The specialty NPCs are
Fire Wizard – Scorch
A wizard of the Cult of the Elder Flame,
Greets Justus with a “Brother Knight” and a head nod. Justus vs History DC 3 to know if he knows the return greeting “Brother Magus” (May-Gus)
We didn’t meet these, due to time, but for reference: 3rd Legion Marines, 4th Company, 7th and 7th Squads.
Ricky Five Fingers – Used to have six, Lost one, now I got five. Whats so weird about that?
Squint – Sharpshooter, Half Blind
Moneybags – “Can I borrow some of your arrows?”
Toothless – He’s got three left.
Kipper – Newest guy on the squad “He can’t even swim!” – Everyone laughs
Thieving Sonny – “Mah name iz a warning, if you fink about it”
Lucky – Currently has an eye-patch, bandages on both forearms, and walks with a limp.
Mad Dog Daryl – Don’t ask, and definitely don’t find out.
Snakebite Says hello to the guys, asks how his investments paid off for them, and says he has some really nice stuff, but it’s all on Turbos pack and he will sell it to you later on.
Captain Horn Motive: He is also here looking for a few other things, the captain of the guard here is likely to have information on Thassian movements to the east of here where the real action is, so she is looking to maybe take the guy captive, or at least get any notes from his office.
When they talk to Horn, He gives the situation with the Thassians;
They took the town a week ago, pushing the small NIS office out of town,
The thieves guild are on the Nestorian take, and got word to the guys right before the Thassian’s arrived.
They are located to the south of town, near the cemetery,
They traverse the sewers of the city to get around.
As Thass took the town, they fired a Nestorian patrol boat in the habour to stop word getting out,
the marines outside are the remnants of that boat, some truly nasty fighters.
The Nestorians and Thassians are not currently in a state of war, Horn needs to get word back to the homeland about what’s happening here to get us but her teleport ring is out of charges.
The Thassians are preparing for some sort of ritual, and ransacked the town for certain holy items and spell reagents.
They also hold all gates and ports in and out of the city.
The undead from Morvail are marching across the plains laying waste to everything in their path, they seem dead set on Nestor itself
All legions are being recalled, all forces are heading for the Triforts to use the ancient defences there to try and hold back the tide.
In the meantime, the Goblins of Garithmaroc, a city below the plains, are having the only success in the area, under the command of Blacktooth the Shaman, occupying a huge swath of the undead horde
without the goblins, they undead would already be in the capital.
After this exchange, Scorch perked up, as one of his scrying wards had been dispelled, at the same time a horn sounded nearby, and Thassian squads appeared, coming your way.
We start with the traders Crass and Calvin, Sevillian traders of the Orc attack who are are now camped a day or so to the south. The camp prior where we met the orcs was previously theirs.
They had wares for sale, but also news of the world, having recent camp south from the wildling tribes of the desert, having traded basics for barrels of beautiful aquamarines and lapis lazuli from a secret location the natives will not reveal
We chat briefly about the gems and detect an essence to them, probably evil in nature.
Purchases Made:
Kangrog – 2x Vaulting + 1 Great Healing = 270gp
Justus – 2x Vaulting = 250gold
Pallarax – 1x Greater HP + 2 Healing Potion + 30ft of Rope = 81 gold
Leaving Gold Reserves of:
Kangrog – 329gp
Pallarax – 160gp
Justus – ?? We used Senkos Money
No Items were sold to the merchants
Arrival at the Ruins
You traveled two days to arrive at the ruins of Mekk, which when you arrive is disappointingly nothing more than a small square building the in the middle of the desert, with a wooden door set into it (probably preserved by the heat?).
Before the building is a semi circle of five grey stone obelisks, standing out against the stark yellow sand. They are each wrapped in vines, that have sprouted vibrantly pink roses.
As you arrive, a cloud of dust is approaching from the North East, looking most likely to be riders, but coming from the blood ranges.
Kangrog in his infinite wisdom threw a throwing axe at a pillar before talking to anyone, leading to purple tentacles to emerge from the ground in the form of a Shoggoth, as known as The Guardian to local tribes.
Kangrog sets the sucker on fire (to little effect), before arranging a mass charge with Justus and the Orcs, before deciding to lead by jumping over the eldritch horror- who promptly slapped him down to the sand, prone.
Justus follows up with a massive Divine Smite, seeing 40 damage in a single hit, followed by the Orcs and Parallax who mob the horrific twisting and shape changing creature, lighting and long spears flashing in the white hot rage of the desert sun.
Seeing the effects of destroying a pillar, the orcs and party concentrate on those, freeing the best from captivity, and then realizing what they’ve done (released an eldritch horror), they quickly gathered bows and shot the thing before Parallax beat it senseless while channeling his Ki. It sunk back in the sand, seemingly dead.
The Shoggoth took several Orcs with it.
Our Heroic and Noble adventurers did not check for loot, continuing to enjoy the challenge of a life of poverty and non-magical weapons 🤭
Justus and Parallax at work
Into the Ruins
Barak Bogchugger, suggests the orcs hold off whatever it is approaching from the North East while the players investigate. Not to be beaten to anything, ever, Kangrog bum-rushes the door, and… finds himself in a dank dark cave, before a rushing river with a fallen bridge no where to be found and yet another opportunity to jump forth!
The Party join him, and they jump/rope pull their way across the gap, and into the dungeon proper, where the next corridor showed the age of the ruins, where most traps were quite visible, jutting up floor stones, rusting nozzles for acid.
Parallax disarmed a few traps with a slid ice block across the floor, before the Barbarian and Paladin develop their new fusion dance;
The Aegis Whirl Kangrog Holding Justus in a bride carry, shield facing out, as he whirled around with his Axe and Justus Shield blocking 8 of 10 traps (somehow?!)
From there, the rune was touched, and the false door opens.
The Aviary – Cutscene Segue
Midway down a long hallway is a simple door, with the sign “Aviary” next to it in the Mekkian script.
The Aviary The door opens to the start of a spiral staircase that leads upwards. From what you can see from the space in the center, the staircase goes on for some way, as tall as any tower’s staircase you’ve seen before.
The Aviary – Climbing You climb for a long time, the length of which is hard to perceive, before the stairs finally end at a small landing with a small archway leading out onto a small ledge, overlooking a vast, green vista. A Giant Eagle sits perched on a small tree by the doorway, and it turns it’s head to stare one eye at you, before blinking softly and turning back to stare down below. It pats the stone next to it with it’s massive wing tip, and beckons with it’s head, chirping something. (“It’s been long since someone used that door, come and see this wonder”) The stone is, rather close to the edge though…
Below is the valley of Twilight, a massive V shaped valley formed of the meeting of three mountain ranges, funneling everything traveling between the three regions through a single choke point.
The Eagle is showing you the works of construction of the enormous obsidian black tower below, in the center of that vast choke-point.
Huge blocks of Light-draining stonework are floating up and into place as the wizards and masons below work, and floating high above it, seems to be the architect and master of the design.
Below him, is a large wooden platform, upon which seems to stand a troll. This Troll appears to be commanding a vast undead workforce, building the other city walls of what will one day be an immense city in scale and size, with walls larger than even maybe those of the great Iron Gates of Ran.
Survival DC 18 – You can feel eyes on you, other than the eagle.
The Aviary – The Chat The Eagle gives another series of chirps, pointing at first the Troll, then the floating wizard. chirping the words, “The Last Mekkian” and below that is a stick figure in robes, with the words “Lord of Darkness”. He watches you for your reaction to this, seeing none, he hops back down and waddles back towards the door you came through
You note behind him, or rather probably now, perhaps she is a her, as there is a large nest above and behind the door you came through, and behind that is the peak of the mountain.
On said peak of the mountain, is an Eagle twice the size of the one you are currently speaking with, with a wingspan of probably 120ft. He is calmly staring directly at you, un-movingly.
You understand and relate more with squirrels now.
Passage
Coming to a collapsed passage, they looked around and couldn’t find the secret door to the old prison, but did find a small crack in the wall that led on-wards in a new direction.
Justus successfully avoided the traps of the non-present Kobold (hmm, but where is it though?!), and navigated the tunnels to avoid the giant rolling ball.
🙁
Acid River
The Kobold tunnel ends at the start of a massive flow of acid, high above it with a landing in sight on the other side. Forgetting to look around, Kangrog quaffed a vaulting pot, then went for a strength potion.
Sensing what he was doing, Justus grabbed his own potion of vaulting, and gave the barbarian a hand, grabbing Parallax between them and helping the flightless dragonkind his first taste of what his ancestors once felt as they soared between ancient peaks.
It was a very cool move, I forgot at the time, but +1 Inspiration for all who read this.
The Library
An Optional Side Quest, that could have been skipped, but the lovely players decided to indulge me.
Entrance
The library should be a normal door that leads in my tiles, an open room with furniture and horror, looking like the study location of the owner of the dungeon, or some other wizard. There was a treasure chest in the corner that turned into a mimic when Parallax indulged the DM and opened it.
The grandfather Clock was also a mimic, a hostile one, and joined the battle. When killed it returned to the form of a clock.
After they defeat it, another mimic (an Ancient One who can speak common) spoke up from the bookcase and thank them for getting rid of the little bastard who took his place centuries ago, and returns to the trap.
He also warned them of the Others scouring the dungeon seeking the treasures still left in here, telling that they can consume and control people, and to be wary.
Behind the Hidden Door
Turning the Clock will open the hidden bookcase, and the Ancient Mimic helped them out, musing that his only living creche-ling is now living in some Nestorian city, Shodon? Shado? Shaddar?, and he might visit now the guardian out front is gone.
Behind it lies the book bound to the floor in chains, along with the table with glowing pages upon it.
This is a Skill Challenge, 10+/-, Success/Fail = 4, Using skills to gain advantage for the rolls, the
Aids Used – Using Investigate and searching the room gave advantage on one roll, they find a Book title that contradicts one of the thesis titles on the trap, but proves another. +adv – Arcana gave advantage for a single roll, with knowledge that the center rune in a trap usually needs to be flowing with positive current, and might be a correct pick. +adv – Insight – The Writing implements and candles seem to indicate the trap maker is right handed, and more likely to put the correct picks on the left + Adv. – Survival – The hairs on an arm lift as they touch a wrong card +adv – Religion – One of the papers has an obvious misspelling +adv.
Tome of Wisdom
Behind the door is a Tome of Understanding, which gives +2 Wisdom permanently, this was identified by the group, who have started reading it to Kangrog out loud, and thus the whole party is going to share the benefit when it applies (up to 6 days)
Outro
What happens next?! Will Kangrog ever get to Jump again? Will Parallax punch anything? Has Senko applied his epic stealth so well he was there the whole time? Find out next time, on Dragonball Z! at D&D!
Discuss with a Djinn Named Gusto that he will stay here, but will initialize the teleport portal for the Group.
Head to the Teleporter
In doing so, you travel first down some passageways, with Gusto opening two different secret doors to open to the next region.
All areas seem to have been abandoned for a least a season or more, due to the dust laying around.
As you arrive in the portal room, you find the signs of a battle in here, dried and desiccated limbs, dried pools of blood.
It seems to have been a last stand of the monks as they let others get away.
Oddly, almost all of the bodies in the room are around the edges of the room, there is almost a 30ft circle in front of the portal steps that is clear of all bar two bodies, both in the exact center of the empty circle, and coated in a very fine covering of black dust or ash.
Later, this would be identified as the effects of a Bead of Force, as one was found in the room, and the black dust is assumed to be a used/dissolved stone.
The High Monk – One specific form, laying on the steps of the portal, is wearing the robes of a High Monk of Kithloth, His end appears to have been from the massive crater in his chest, that looks like one of Asim’s lightning blasts.
A small ring can be found on the Monks left hand, a small band of reddish stone, with a simple, small blue gem inset in band, that glows slightly when hidden from the light. (Protection +1 AC and STs)
as you shift him to get the ring, a small black sphere falls from a packet in his robe, measures 3/4 of an inch in diameter and weighs an ounce.
Senko knew this to be a Bead of Force from his past (History Check to Identify)
The Guardian – On the steps, almost on top of the High Monk, is an armoured figure in a cloak the same blue as the Monk.
It appears he died protecting the monk, looking as though he jumped in the way of a particularly nasty dagger that is entangled in the dusty dry tendons skin and bones left of the warriors neck. (a Dagger of Venom)
His chain mail armour is an odd purple hue… Identified by Justus to be Adamantine Chain Mail
The Half-Alchemist – Behind the Monk, the bottom half of a figure lays halfway into the portal, as they were sliced in half horizontally.
Around his waist lies a pouch that was severed in half, and within it is a couple of vials, one looks to be a potion of healing, the other is labelled “Burnt Othur Fumes“, below those, folded into a small leather pouch, is an Alchemists kit.
Bodies in the Circle – One the figures in the center of the empty circle, you find them both to have a sigil of a bloody eye on the front of their chest. Each of them possess a scimitar, a leather sheild that looks suspicious human in colouring.
One of them has a Bastard Sword of Sharpness
The other, is wearing a set of completely normal clothes, that, seem to weigh far too much (eventually ID’d as Glamoured Studded Leather (+1 AC) )
Around the room, on the other bodies in the room if searched, are a few other items to be found
Medical Kit with 4 uses.
83 gold
A tobacco pouch
A spyglass of decent make and quality.
Some minor weapons and Armor of various less-than-stellar quality and age, but useful if players want to switch up. (None taken)
Mattock
Say Goodbye to Mattok, who is going to head South again, towards Relast and the Wander-Where. He is open to being contracted again, but will want more money because he knows you’re likely to let him die in combat (like, you know, you did 😉 )
The Portal – **Cutscene #1
Gusto opens it, but is unable to connect, instead showing an inky black void.
An C&C Era EVA Lady keeps repeating that ‘Unable to Connect, Network Registration has been blocked, please contact your Portal Guild Helpdesk for further assistance‘
The players did not contact the helpdesk.
A voice emerged from the portal, but seems directed at someone else. The voice was distinctly… Draconic.
“Xenth… some adventurers are trying to connect the Woken Winds portal, are these the ones you mentioned?”
Xenth’s voice will reply a few moments later
“Yes, thank you Balazarass, I’ll take it from here.”
Then to the players.
“You can hear me, but I will not be able to hear you. Let me re-connect this portal temporarily to the network, it should connect in a moment. Once it turns violet, it is ready to use, but note, it will drop you at the Tos Calos portal, which is in the Town Square where you may have company. Alright, one moment…”
The portal will slowly fill with color, first icy white, then blue, and settling into a whirling vortex of Violet and Mauve.
In the center, faintly through the whistling streaks of powers beyond ken, you can see tall stone walls, towering over a dry sandy hill, below which a nearly dried up river runs weakly into the bay.
A large keep is on a cliff overlooking both the port and the town, and a large tower seems to be set on the opposite corner of town.
Appears, by all effects, to be Tos Calos, at long last.
Justus went First, Senko Second, Parallax.. well…
The Connection Sure is Wonky
As the Senko steps through the portal the portal flashes Red just as the person steps through, and then back to a whirling vortex.
Balaz again : “Lady Sorceress, it appears the connection is unstable”
To which Xenth replies: “No, someone in Tos Calos is fighting me… I should have this. Whoever is remaining, go. Go now!”
after stepping through
Between the Ways
You all appear on a flat grey disc, around 12 ft across, floating deep in the gloom of the abyss. You are all placed equally, about 1ft in from the edge of the disc, facing each other. Despite there being no point of refence, in both air currents, G forces or visible landmarks, you feel as if the disc is flying along somewhere in breakneck speeds.
Within seconds, the blackness around you turns a bloody red, then flickers back to black and red again before settling onto black again before you hear Xenth exclaim “Hold on!!” before screaming and being cut short and going completely silent.
While the Abyss was red, you could see vast shapes floating in the clouds above and below, some serpentine, some indescribable.
The Sky changes again, this time a great white tear appears high above you, as if light was streaming into the realm from another. A great vision appears, of what seems to be a gargantuan bloodred eye, filled with Galaxies and Pubescent Stellar Masses, appears distantly beyond the crack, before zooming in towards you, as if something on the outside is trying to peak in.
The very fabric of reality starts to scream around you, the molecules shrinking in both fear and pain, as a huge…. thing… starts to press in on the cut and tear at the edge, as if it was a finger, slowly widening the crack in reality.
Xenth’s voice appears distantly, Chanting what appears to be something, which only Parallax heard: “GetOutGetOutGetOutGetOut! GET OUT NOW!”
Before yet again falling to silence.
The crack continues to widen, and matter, either Light or Dark, Material or Anti, is rushing out through the void.
This world, it turns out, may in fact, be ending at this very moment.
++ Intermission ++
As Senko panicked about the lack of a door to ‘Get out’ through, a voice slices through the chaos, the same draconic one as before:
“Xenth is gone, I will aid thee, head into the light”
As it says this, a light appears in the center of the platform you stand on.
Dont go into the light? The rift continues to grow, the thing gets into the astral pocket, and the player is lifted from the disc by the thing beyond, and the player must roll a new character.
The Desert You find yourself tumbling onto a blisteringly hot sandy waste, with nothing in sight except some tumbleweeds, an arroyo, and mountains far, far to the east, and a small pathetic road near where you stand.
The dragons voice echoes faintly in the back of your skull before it fades for good “You are as close to your destination as I dared, The city is to the south-west. Avoid discovery.”
The Plants / Snappers Cut Less than a half day south of the landing, is a large, old riverbed, filled with vicious snapping trees and savage looking briar thorn bushes.
The trees behav
A path leads to a serious of perilous pillars of rocks between the snapping trees, that will need to be leapt between to softly cross, though truly, nothing here felt ‘safe’
The crossing was made initally with some rope walking, desperate climbing, and some flaming fists to burn holes in the Fauna/Flora hybrid where needed.
Senko looted someone who hadnt made it in the past, finding a symbol of Justaro, Lord of Justice and Righteousness and some other common items (see: loot list)
Then someone used Water Whip, and much like sharks in the sea, or Zombies in 28 Days Later, ever plant in the riverbed turned to focus on the players and some started relocating closer. fuck.
A mad dash for the end was successful, with only Senko close to limb loss.
Little did they know, someone had been watching.
Senko Crosses – Cutscene #2 The minute Senko crosses the riverbed, a vision slams into his consciousness, taking over all he can see, hear and feel.
He sees a flicker of images at first,
an Iron knight flying over a massive city by a warm lake
A circle of thirteen sickly grey flames, circling a blue one that is roaring inside a glass orb.
All but three of the grey flames are almost out, flicking on their last legs. Of the three, one feels familiar.
He sees the underground lake where he met this curse, but he is standing on the sand at the bottom of the lake, staring at a huge carved face of jade, lying on its side. He is listening to it, but of what it says, we do not hear.
He sees Tos Calos again, but this time under siege by a vast army of desert warriors. It seems to be early Summer (maybe a month or two away).
Finally, he sees himself, resplendent in epic armor, wielding a firearm of some sorts in one hand, and a glowing green rapier in the other that cuts through flesh as if it was butter. He is fighting, against figures you cannot see, but you hear it’s labored, mechanical breathing in the darkness around him. A serpentine voice whispers in his mind before he returns back to normal: “Your Journey will be dark, and full of Death. Find us, Free us, and we will protect and provide”
He feels a pull, somewhere to the west of here, on a different heading to the road.
Empty Camp w/ Hungry Hungry Orcsies
“There is an empty camp off the side of the road ahead, alongside some small dunes. The campfire still appears to be smoldering with a small wisp of smoke rising into the air from the little remaining fuel. The camp seems to be setup for maybe 3-4 people, with a tent and a few bedrolls laid out and look to have been used at some point in the past. Cooking and eating utensils are left near the fire, and there appears to be a post where mounts would have been tied if someone was here. There is no sign of life in sight, other than some errant tumbleweeds rolling past.”
They Approach from far off, and have a chance to look around and scout, Senko just misses seeing the give-away (Meta)
Parallax cleverly sparks the flame high, with a small cantrip, causing something in the shadows to flinch but not reveal itself, and the party started circling the camp.
As Justus saw the hiding orcs, Parallax trod on one in the sand, and much like Dune (no relation) the Orcs jumped out of the sand and started a standoff with the players.
A deal was struck, the players would give food and suppliers, and the Orcs would join them in 3 days, at the Ruins of Mekk.
Senko really wanted to check out some heavy crates, but the orcs were cagey and wouldnt allow it. They looked heavyBarak – NPC Notes
Motivation: They are hungry and poor, and regret ever coming down out of the mountains to the south, but they know without good supplies to help them get home, or without good loot to buy their way back into the tribe with, they would never survive.
The Blood Rage: A history DC 3 will remind people the Orcs, Ogres and Giants are all cursed with Berserker rage by Slerikek.
Leader: Barak Bogchugger. Smarter than the average Orc, but can be bought off. Knows a good deal when he hears it, and keeps the long term goal in sight: Getting out of this fucking desert.
The Traders We end the session, arriving at the traders, a few miles south.
Sasha SlowScale warned Crass and Calvin, Sevillian traders of the Orc attack, and they are now camped a day or so to the south. The camp above was theirs, having fled the orcish attack.
They have wares for sale, but also news of the world, having recent camp south from the wildling tribes of the desert, having traded basics for crates of beautiful aquamarines and lapis lazuli from a secret location the natives will not reveal. They managed to escape with one of their three chests, and would greatly appreciate the other two being returned to them for a great reward.
Players are able to request the traders have items, and I will (probably) set it up for next fortnight.
The group started in a dwarven hall, long abandoned, having recently held the presence of a large Blue Drake – Charonatar the Dread – who departed after they opened the gate for it (while torching Parallax & [Name Unconfirmed]).
Things found:
The Runes on the Gate, Arcana showed that the runes were tuned to go off in the event of not using the pass phrase
Further Inspection showed that they are also tuned specifically towards a few species of enmity of the dwarves, Dragons, Orcs, and the like.
Nest of Charonatar the Dread‘s nest, really nothing more than a large circle of dust in the back corner of the hall. Insight – The rats and other random beast carcasses near the door seem to have been placed more for blocking of drafts than for actual waste or feeding, as nearly all are fully intact. History / Animal Handling – Dragons don’t need to eat to survive.
Dwarven Halls,
Elsewhere in the keep, we didn’t find a large of amount of goods or anything of interest to loot. The Keep itself is quite small, with little else apart from a few dormitories, offices and a small forge.
There was a ledger left on a desk in an office, someone’s attempt at leaving behind an account for anyone coming after them, but apart from messages about dwindling rates of ore coming from the nearby mines, and plans to relocate, there is little of interest to be found within.
Except, upon further review by Senko, there was a small coded message on one of the last panels, it seemed to refer to a location in the main Hall, nearby to one of the pillars.
Finding a stone on the wall that is loose. When pushed further, the stone starts to slide across to reveal a small chamber chiselled out from it.
Senko felt a small wire pull tight as he opened the panel, and was able to unlatch the trigger and open the chamber fully. Combining their Arcana skills later, the guys would determine that was a Chain Lightning Spell Trap, that probably would have finished off the party.
Within was revealed a small treasure trove for an adventurer, a small dagger with a silvery edge, three arrows with bright yellow fletching, a vial of some silvery liquid, a bottle of Grease, and what appears to be 2x potions of healing from their labels
The party was able to identify every item via detection rolls, as below.
Cache Loot:
A small dagger with a silvery edge – great for managing undead with resistance to normal damages.
Three arrows with bright yellow fletching, the feathers of the Callipis Canary is known to be used for the crafting of simple arrows beyond that of mundane means. (3x Arrows +1)
A vial of some silvery liquid, known to be a Potion of Speed
A bottle of Grease,
What appears to be 2x potions of healing (labelled)
The Dwarven Way Entrance, noted in several locations in both Dwarven and Undercommon on signs, the Entrance to the ways can be found at the back of the halls, near the mines.
The Entrance has been partially collapsed by a cave in, but has plenty of room at the top for a humanoid figure to fit through.
The Dwarven Way
On the other side of the cave in, they find what is effectively a rest stop. On one wall is a large rectangular map, carved onto a plate of bronze that is probably 8ft across by 4ft tall.
On it, are shown a number of settlements, and the paths that cross the earth between them, along with notations near certain landmarks and cautions. Unfortunately, most of these notations are written in dwarvish, however the major towns do have their names also noted in undercommon in brackets and italics. Some of those shown in the local region are SkyShaft, Hammercrack, and luckily, the next destination, Kharak Lohdar.
The Way Ahead shows a small Underfort on the way, although it is set away from the main pass and could probably be bypassed if they wanted to. The Keep seems to be the connecting point of 3 converging paths, the keep you’re in, the one you’re headed to, and one from out to the west somewhere.
The only thing out west is the Waxing Wastes, and the Blood Raiders of Slerikek, so you can’t think of a good reason for there to be a tunnel going that way on the map… But it could take us to Tangor…
The Cavern Bridge
A long, dimly lit, 60ft long, 5ft wide, stone bridge of terror lied before us. It was great! The solution was simple: Use Senko as bait.
Parallax tied a rope to him, sent him on his way with a lantern. The Lantern’s light spooked a number of bats, which Senko dodged.
Realizing more must be coming, he dropped down to drive a piton into the ground, while Labrador sized Giant Bats sailed through the space he had just been in, just giving him a bit of a jostle.
Secured, the guys headed on wards, back into the tunnels of the Ways for two days of nervous
The UnderKarak
*A small Kharak, a guardhouse or way station, lies before you.* *A once solid stone door lays on it side, open to all comers, from within the door you can see a flickering of fire or torchlight emerging. Perhaps an ancient flame, enchanted to stay lit, or perhaps a new friend to meet?*
We had the option to go around, but we wanted to see what was inside.
First Room
The first room was taken to be where a party was sleeping, as per the journal of Helmvor of the Flames, a local wizard.
He notes in recent entries that he was hired by another wizard along with a few other adventurers and local goblins to help defend him while a ritual was cast to reveal and unlock some ancient treasure.
With some deep Insight, Parallax proposed that Helmvor’s prose does suggest that he doesn’t quite believe this wizard, but some references to debts and ‘those looking for me’, which may suggest he doesn’t have a lot of options.
Some Flour and Booze and Bedrolls were found, determined roughly by species by the odor pouring from some.
5 Goblins
2 Bugbears
3 Humans
In one of the packs, some Oil of Sharpness was found, and applied to 5 of Senko’s arrows, making them +3 Magic Weapons for an hour
Second Room
The next room was a hero moment for Senko, sneaking open a door to an old shrine of some old forgotten deity, he saw four goblins.
Three seated and facing opposite towards the alter, the final gobbo is standing behind the altar, arms wide, as he proselytizes to those before him about the glory of the great god “Kallok, Oldest Flame of the Flamey Ones”, with his eyes shut tightly.
Senko snuck into the room, and started surgically taking Goblins out one by one, with rapier sneak attacks to the brain stem.
As the preacher finished his sermon, he opened his eyed to sight of Senko, ten feet away, aiming a hand crossbow at his face. As he died, the Goblin claimed he would have served Senko if he had asked.
Room Three – The Blood Wizard
Moments after the door is cracked open, you can hear a loud inhale of breath from across the room, followed by the words “I smell Scales, Silvered Steel and the blood of a Sennite. Ware the doorway, trouble arrives before us“
*In font of you is an ancient burial chamber, centered around a single large, latched, sarcophagus. Beyond it, is a man dressed in dripping red robes, standing between two altars covered in items and tomes. To either side of the room is three other humanoid figures, one in robes, and the other two wearing armour and bearing weapons and looking ready for a fight”
A sound of movement and snuffling is heard to one side of the door, revealing there might be more to this room than first expected (2 Bugbears) The figure in the dripping red robes appears to be slightly hazy, as if something is either messing with the air or vision between you two.*
Within, a blood wizard was attempting to resurrect and free an ancient Vampire Lord of the Night Council of old. The fight begins as the whole party takes some form of Haste.
Parallax struck first, and Senko took put the flame wizard Helmvor down to 0hp on the first round, before pulling back and dropping grease in the doorway.
The lady barbarian charges headlong, as does a bugbear, the grease is ignited, and it got messy from thereon out. The Blood Wizard is nearly finished as the guys clean up the room, and some lightning breaths burn him out from the inside to clear the room.
Session was ended there prior to any looting or discovery, and Parallax and Senko push up to Level 5.
A frontier town on the edge of the Waxing Wastes (ex Bloody) to the west, Tos Calos sits on the only river in the very south of the wastes, and is also situated at the mouth of the only pass heading in or out of the wastes.
The town is home to all manner of law-evading peoples, from deep sea pirates, to treasure hunters of the wastes, through to dark priests and sorcerers, and is ruled by the little known figure of the Baron of Wax.
Heading north from Rizden, do the party travel, heading to see Xenth on this endless quest for a mystery goblin we can barely remember.
We are traveling a day or so north, until we are past the river crossing where there will be a signed trail, that heads westward and up into the foothills of this spur of the mountains, to the Windy Vale, where Xenth’s tower has been marked on our map.
At the river, there are also three travelers on the far bank, some looking wet, as though they have recently crossed the river. Upon recognizing Baelor (who had already recognized them) and his guard, the party rushed the ford, at the same time he was asking (see: screaming at) the armoured figure to “get them” as they had “followed me!”
At that, the Thassian rangers hiding under the Pass Without Trace spell, emerged from the trees and opened fire with crossbows. Kangrog & Pallarax have to wade slowly across the river, after Kangrog tries to jump all sixty feet in one hopeful, yet mediocre dive. Putting their respective abilities together including one demonic axe, they create a wall of steam, protecting them from fire (Providing Half Cover).
Unfortunately, the enemy cleric had cast Bless on the troops, and countered the effect.
Finally close enough, Pallarax drags Baelor’s guard into the river with Water Whip into the wall of steam, causing him to die screaming in the shallows as his face slowly boiled off.
Kangrog (too rage-filled to even notice the six or so arrows sticking from his chest) used the screaming guard as a launching pad, leaping at the Thassians with spears and splitting one in half and gaining Inspiration.
A frenetic brawl broke out. and Baelor scampered off on the horses. Kangrog chased the Cleric around the map, Pallarax chose to blow a man inside out by breathing lighting down his neck.
After the combat, the Party found another Cipher Book, this one fused shut by a lock, along with 9 gold. The armour and weapons were left as they bore Thassian sigils on them. The bodies were left where they fell, to feed the vultures, one assumes.
The Shrine
The next day, they travel the trail into the foothill’s of the Wardens, the surrounds changing from evergreen to a sparse and rocky vistas. By noon, you are on trails with sheer cliffs to one side, and sheer drop offs on the other, but the trail seems well travelled, and is comfortably wide that you can still walk two abreast without nearing either edge.
A couple merchants have passed you through the day, coming the other way from the valleys above, when asked, they mention there is no dangers ahead on the pass out of the ordinary, that the Baron and the Lady Sorceress keep the area well and safe from most harms.
In the early afternoon, they come across a small Shrine to Kithloth, Lady of Winds, in the side of the pass, that has a strange feeling to it, and under close inspection shows it has been corrupted, with the colours wrong, the symbol of the 4 lines of air was upside down.
An astral projection of a wind spirit is shown to Pallarax, as the cliffs shake and a single dark figure with long red hair blowing in the wind appears emerging from the back wall of the shrine. She stands draped red in cloth hanging lifeless, staring at you, weeping rivers of blood. Long iron chains, wet with blood hold her wall, and she trashed against them weakly.
Once the source of the curse, a small blood sigil on the rear holding the ward in place is scratched off, she reappears and purges Slerikek from the valley
. As a thanks from the Lady of Wind, another astral presence flutters into your senses, projecting in front of you is many faintly glowing purple lines, fluttering about as if they are the wind itself.
The flicker and flutter for a moment before coming together to form the shape of you, in your monk robes of your home temple. You follow through a series of gestures, that when complete have your form shoot a burst of wind from it’s hands, The symbols imprint in your mind, and Pallarax now has the Fist of Unbroken Air Monastic Tradition.
The Beholder Lair
Further on that day, as you pass through a small little valley filled with life, you find first and odd scorch mark and a pile of ash on the ground. Beyond it a small trail leads off, and as it curves away in the distance, there is fantastically realistic statues a Dwarf and Human, carved in a way to seem like they are running away in terror towards you.
Do you wish to explore the trail further, or continue on your way? “Fuck that, no”
A wise choice for two level fours.
A visit from Horn
That night, as they setup camp, an unsuspecting gentleman in some fairly nice gear drops by to ask about the mountain of corpses back at the river crossing.
He reveals himself to be Captain Horn of the Nestorian Guard, but you’re pretty damn sure he’s NIS through and through.
He convinces them to sell them the Cipher for 200g, so he can take it back to Nestor for study and possible counter espionage operations as they had been struggling to crack the code the Thassians were talking in (like some random captain would know that).
He admits they were Thassians, and that bad times might be on the way. Comments he will report in the Beholder’s lair, claiming to have gone inside for a ‘quick look’ on his way past.
Slurg is a Daemon, found in a old and dying tree behind Blackthumb’s Roadside Repairs, in the small village of Rizden on the Alecton Way in 1212 NR, trying to sell Tangor’s location for a soul.
Slurg has implied he needs a soul to buy his freedom from his ‘master’, and attempts to bargain for a soul at every given opportunity. What that soul will actually be used for, has not been disclosed at this time.
He also appears geas-stricken as to not reveal who his master is, or his plans.
Player Interactions
Slurg has struck a deal with the Player Character of Kangrog, paying all his gold, a magical keg and a promise of ‘his next magical item’ in exchange for 1d6 fire damage added to the axe.
No greater specificity was given than that, leaving the Daemon fully in control of the relationship for now.
Little more than ten buildings in total, Rizden is nothing more than a few houses that have sprung up next to a traders stop along a major roadway.` Frequented by no one other than the transient and transitioner, the locals are aware of world events outside of their local region, hearing many things from many mouths in passing, and might know a thing or two, if one were to ask…
The party approached the town, and chose to visit the Inn first.
An Alehouse Drake was chained up outside, not showing any visible issues, other than a sign that read “Do Not Feed” Senko managed to pat said Drake, and also getting his hand back just in time to get away without a scratch (The sign would continue to frustrate and drive all actions of the party until such time as the Alehouse Drake would be fed)
Went inside the Inn to meet the folk:
Snakebite Is sitting by the fire, casually trimming his nails with a ridiculously large knife, and humming an ancient long forgotten melody of Mekkia
Gave 200gp to each player for the Ankheg shells.
This has been retconned into a Stone Bank account for each player
We will do the setup process when in town
Kangrog has purchased a Keg of Oskar‘s Booze for 50gp
Oskar is a Brewmaster of Skyshaft, travelling the lands selling his wares.
Drank 4(of 20 max)
Before selling it to the Demon Slurg.-12cp for Ale drinks-10 sp for broken stool after the effects of Oskar’s booze wore off.Tossed 1 gp for Well
The drunk thief approaches the poor child (Purn) A small human child, maybe 8-9 years of age, that is drinking casually from a wineglass at the bar. She is a Artificer from the Pirtarvan Duchy, passing through on her way south, seeking the possible help with her reversed age mishap from the Elven Sorcerers in the Ancient Realms of Selendar
Finds out about her mishap, de-aging too far in an experiment.Found out about the Thassian – Nestorian Conflict in Relast.
Told them about the Activity in Morvail.
Offers to Enchant Weapons for 500gp
Kangrog spoke to Inga Ancient and wizened, she is potentially either short or tall of frame, but it’s hard to say with how stooped and bent over she is.
She cast Lesser Restoration on him in passing
Told him about a Wizard that might have work for them in town
Baelor asked Parrallax if he was Rogal.
Rust and Revlor are headed home
Revlor has lost his sword.
They’re going a very long way to avoid the Undead activity to the north.
When asked about it, Rust said the Smith wasnt home when he visited.
The Party leaves and heads over to see Gelpdor the Grand, Star Alchmemist The Tower Belongs to Gelpdor the Grand, Star Alchemist A sweet little wizend old gnome, wearing a pink shirt and bright blue pants. A Registered Alchemist of the Guild of Nestor, he is quick to tell anyone. Talks a lot about stars and Mani-Spheres, and Magnetti-Spheres and it’s all very confusing.
He had a quest for Roatating Soil, which was really just summinga huge Ankheg to do the work for him.
They rotated the crops and got 10gp and 333XP each
Asked and found out who Rogal is – The Blacksmith who goes by “BlackThumb” in town.
Back to Inn
Lunch for all – 10cp each.
They also found out that the Alehouse Drake is just a lil’ fatty on a diet
Back to Inn
Lunch for all – 10cp each.
They also found out that the Alehouse Drake is just a lil’ fatty on a diet
Heading to the Blacksmiths, Blackthumb’s Roadside Repairs they find it unoccupied.
As they go to leave, from the empty building noises of furniture moving can be heard.
Blackthumb comes out, sells some weapon Sharepening, and a Stave to Parallax.
Kangrog – had Axe Sharpened = -5s (+1 dmg next combat)
Senko= – 1gp Rapier, 2x Daggers > Each with +1 Damage in next combat
Parallax = – 5 sp for a Staff purchased.
They head over to a Demonically Inhabited Tree that has been given suss vibes to the spellcasters in town.
There they meet a sweet little demon named Slurg who offers to give them the location of Tangor in exchange for a soul.
They trick Slurg into giving away that he wants to use the soul to gain his freedom.
Instead, after a while of bantering and bickering, Slurg makes a deal with Kangrog: “All his money, the Magical Beer, and his next magic item” for 1d6 Fire Damage on Kangrog’s current great axe.
Gelpdor gives them 10gp each and a pat on the head for getting rid of the demon, and tells them to seek Xenth for help with finding Tangor in time.
The Thassian Spies
After the party figured out something was up with Baelor and the Blacksmith, they kept a watch.
Baelor was watched, dropping his packet of letters in the Coal bin at Rogal Blackthumb’s.
Senko stealthed in, then tripped, knocking over the coal bin.
Parallax, seeing this from the Inn window, unleased Kangrog upon the unsuspecting peace and quiet of the inn, creating a distraction to cover the noise.
Senko stole the packet, snuck off to read it, finding it to be in code.
He then B&E’d the blacksmith’s house, searched and found the trap door
(But not the password on the paper, as no one would until too late)
Went downstairs, with the Party in tow
Rogal having seen them go, follows and watches from afar.
They set off the trap, falling for the lure-tripline and missing the actual stone due to some shitty rolls.
Senko dives from the Boulder, but has his ankle crushed
Parallax runs too fast, so he gets up the ladder quicker, Kangrog does the same, but with 5ft to spare, Parallax getting him up the ladder with an assist.
They turn to find Rogal behind them, Kangrog sets his axe on fire and threatens him, and he runs off into the night.
Later, Baelor cannot be found either.
Meanwhile, Senko, on his own, opens the Cipher on the Altar, having an exchange with the person on the other side of the book: – Them: What News do you Bring? – S: [Cant remember, trying to guess the situation] – T: What News do you bring? – S: [cant remember, was about the packet of info] – T: Initiation Phrase? – S: Wait, there are people in the tunnel – **Book burns to ash.**
Returning to the Myconid, The Gardener, he gives each a pouch of spores as thanks. The spores will grant 3 rounds of haste if snorted, there are 6 uses in each bag.
The Gardener help’s by showing them a path out, via a channel of fresh air, leading to a series of narrow tunnels that lead upward to a place where it starts to branch out, into chambers of bones and spare carapaces, with the players determining they were in an Ankhegnest.
One returned with it’s feast of a still kicking horse horse, revealing a path to the surface but first getting off an acid spit and a couple of hits bringing Senko to the edge of death, before the cumulative assault of rapiers, lightning and fists brought down the beast.
Running to the surface to get out before stopping to heal, they were met at the entrance by a Hill Giant, Terr, who was quickly goaded into a rage by their slippery words and fast tongues, demanding they give back his child.
Deducing the Ankhegs must have him, they re-enter the nest, finding the child by a sleeping Ankheg that had finished feeding. A surprise rounds of damage smashes the best before it can rise, and they leave, dragging their spoils in the form of the carapaces.
Terr, gives his thanks, and promises to join them in a coming battle when required, and helps them break down the carcasses into a drag-able form of a sled made from a chuck of tree trunk he tears off.
Snakebite and Turbo
On the trail, the players come across a hunter/trader/tourist and his trusty companion, the legendary Snakebite and Turbo, travelers from Sevilla that seek out crazy and insane game and monsters, mostly just to see and witness them, but sometimes to help out towns from threats.
Snakebite has a chat with the players, mostly razzing them up due to their appearance, but he makes some basic trades with them, which will mostly be arranged nest session, but in the meantime they purchased a Newspaper, a Map of the Region, and he gave them directions to the nearest town, some 3-4 days away.
The carcasses were loaded up on Turbo’s cart, and he will join them in a village a day or so after them, as he has some folk to visit further along first but he first gave a warning that “this place don’feel righaat” and that he heard a pack of wolves ranging the plane a few nights back, and a pack of hyena’s the night before.
