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Session 36, The Ruins, The Boy, and Loraine
Paldegora
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Session 36 – 2024-03-02
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Summary
The Party was pretty badly beaten. They had just killed Mathias, Yaokum, and Jarah. Earlier they’d killed Sarah and many of her guards. They’d had little time to recover. They all looked at the map on the table and looked through the telescopes to get their bearings. They’d all seen the ruins, the downed airship, and the mountains they were to get through. The ruins were closest while the ship was a little beyond that and mountains, of course, at the limits of their sight. They determined what items they’d found were magical. They had ten items to identify. They will rest the night here and travel north in the morning. They’d have to identify five items at a time, each night, before resting to allow some time for Symon to recover each night before starting out again the next day. They picked places to rest in the temple structure. Eryn squeezed in a bath before resting. Symon questioned George Mary for a while before going to sleep. George Mary described the world, from a pirate’s perspective of course.
The next morning, they stocked up on supplies, packed them on the horses, and left. The terrain was mostly flat with little cover save the constant low-hanging mist. That provided excellent cover. That day’s journey passed uneventfully. That night, before they rested, Symon identified five items. The armor was +4 black chainmail, Cassandra took that. The ring was a ring of protection + 1, Angelique took that. The gauntlets were gauntlets of Ogre Power, Eryn took those. The glasses were spectacles of understanding, Cal took those. The wearer can read any language and understand it. Yoakum's cloak was a cloak of protection + 1, Symon took that. It looked warm.
They rested and Cal saw, or thought he saw, something in the mist. It sort of formed and then dissipated. It was disturbing enough he woke Xor to help but nothing else happened. Cal woke up everyone just to make sure nothing too weird had happened. Everyone seemed fine. They returned to sleep. Xor woke again for his turn. He had a similar experience. But just watched for anything to happen. Eryn woke and he told her what he’d seen. She checked the horses and made sure everything was okay and the rest of her night was uneventful. They woke and traveled again for another day. And that night, they identified the rest of the items. The mace is a mace +2, +4 against undead. The ring was another ring of protection +1. The wand was a wand of paralyzation with 6 charges, and the other wand, a wand of fear with 6 charges. The potion was a potion of speed. Angelique took the mace. Symon took the wands. The potion went into the general pile to see who needed it later. Cal took the last ring of protection +1.
The night passed without event. They ate a bunch of the apples the next morning as well as gave some to the horses. The apples would start going bad soon. They set out on their path and about midday, they slowed as they heard voices, human voices, ahead. There was shouting and talking. Cal moved forward to check it out while Eryn and Xor spread out and backed him up. The rest pulled off of the path in case it was a group moving up the path. Cal found the ruin and the shouting was coming from there. The woman and boy from the kitchen in the temple behind them were present. The woman was dead, and a man was threatening the boy. This didn’t sit well with Cal. He’d practiced whistling the night before, so he tried that. It wasn’t very loud. Just as the man raised his sword to strike the child, a woman came out of the woods beyond them and attacked. Cal made his move then as the rest moved quickly up to help. The fight lasted several rounds. Xor took the worst of it on their side. Everyone took the worst of it on the other side as they all died.
Loraine Gregory introduced herself. They discussed what had happened. Angelique told her about the demise of her sister Agatha. They told her they had cleared out the structure. They discussed the airship and decided that it wasn’t fixable, at least by them. They discussed the other stations, Grey Station and Fire Station. They discussed the dragon Grizzolo, King Lundor, and Mudock who was sent to get help. They told her how they’d come across him and were unable to save him. How they’d taken up the mission but realizing that they couldn’t make it to Allistar Finch, they moved north to try and help themselves. They showed her the map they’d found in Nordain Hold. She looked at it and explained that they weren’t allowed to enter from the other side because of the guardian. Loraine asked if she could travel with them and they agreed that would be good. George Mary will take the boy and follow the river, coming up, west to the ocean. He invited the boy to join his crew. The boy accepted which made George responsible for him and the boy responsible for George. They are crew and as such, they’ll be there for each other. Symon gave the boy Persephone in a way to make the boy happy, protect the cat, and give them something that Tinkle could locate later if and when needed.
They set up a watch and rested, preparing to leave the next morning.
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