Friday, September 19, 2014

Session 61 - Rushlight Tournament

NPCs
  • Madame Duclarion
  • Nunzio Arpaia, master of ceremonies
  • King Irovetti
  • Martro Livondar, ruler of Daggermark
  • Marnius Cherlorne, ruler of Gralton
  • Raston Selline, ruler of Mivon
  • Ullorth Ungrin, ruler of Tymon

Notes
  • Visit the mysterious Madame Duclarion's Menagerie, where she gives her card if they PCs are ever interested in making arrangements with her for securing the fantastic and fabulous for her show.
  • An audience with King Irovetti where some small chat occurs.
  • The first event it is an archery contest which Daggermark wins.
  • The second event is a test of skill in the axe where logs are chopped down, that Red March wins.
  • The third event is one of boasting, which Daggermark wins.
  • The last event, the Midnight Joust is won by Pitax, with Red March winning the right to joust against the former champion.

Session 60 - Pitax

NPCs
  • Drey Yarnes, priest of Calistria
  • Atalia Gitaren, headmistress of the Pitax Academy of the Arts
Notes
  • The city of Pitax, Tarnished Jewel of the River Kingdoms, is explored.
  • The market at the Square of the Common Man proves to be a minefield for charlatan's selling false wares.
  • At Calistria's Cathedral they meet Drey Yarnes, the resident priest and notorious bachelor.  He explains many of the current going-ons in the city.
  • The Falling Star Tavern ran by the fallen Liacenza bandit house, is busy with young conspirators and those who wish to voice their opinions of the government.
  • The Academy of the Arts is ran by Headmistress Atalia Gitaren, whose students spew out publicly funded affronts to good taste.
  • The Red Crescent Theater puts on a play that is poor, crude, violent, and borderline pornographic, with bad actors.

Session 59 - Armag The Twice-Dead

Notes
  • A dozen animated skeletons found in a cavern knee deep in bones.
  • Zorek, the guardian of the tomb is fought in an inner temple to Gorum.
  • Armag The Twice-Born is slain along with his bloody skeleton champions.  The greatsword he wields, Ovinrbaane, is dumped into the portable pit, untouched.

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Session 58 - The Black Sisters

Notes
  • The hallways of the tomb are covered in deep fog.  The Black Sisters are stumbled upon at the entrance.  They fight with their Babau servants.
  • A test of strength involving large boulders, and a test of endurance involving walls of ice are undertaken and passed.
  • An iron golem made in the image of Gorum is fought.

Friday, April 4, 2014

Session 56 & 57 - Liberation

Notes
  • Drelev and Imeckus ambush the party.
  • Drelev is slain.  Imeckus escapes.
  • Lady Quintessa is nowhere to be found.
  • The Baroness is charmed and later dropped off in Restov with a swordlord ally.
  • Hill giants are found living in the courtyard, and are slain.
  • Numesti is set up as temporarily in charge until Fort Drelev can be made part of Red March.
  • Information on Armag's Tomb is discovered.  The party heads that way, but first they use teleports to quickly save Numesti's daughter and several other young women being held as prisoners.
  • The Tiger Lord vanguard fights it out at the entrance to the tomb.
  • The session ends on the 18th of Desnus as the party enters the cleft that is the entrance to Armag's Tomb.

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Session 55 - Black Pudding

Notes
  • The secret passage leading under Drelev's Keep is found on the shore of Lake Hooktongue.
  • Jumped by some black pudding that take the shirt off Shoda's back.
  • Numesti is freed and armed.
  • Using secret trapdoors the group makes their way to the fourth floor and Drelev's bedchamber.  But he is not there, and Pawvul glimpses an odd shaped cloud of dust outside the window...

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Session 54 - Refugees

NPCs
  • Raj, head of the "Dancing Jackals" family troupe.
  • Merkov, former mercenary of Drelev's company.
Notes
  • Encountered a group of refugees stranded en route to Pitax.  Tazol heals the wounded.  Merkov tells Occam about a secret passage to the keep.
  • A hydra is slain.
  • Three giant snails are harvested for their acid.
  • A library and cathedral is built in Port Jackal.
  • Session ends in Port Jackal on the 7th of Desnus.

Friday, January 24, 2014

Session 53 - The Bog Striders

NPCs
  • Tok-Tekt, bog strider.
  • Ka-Kekt, son of Tok-Tekt.
Notes
  • Fort Wyvernstone built overlooking the bridge.  The road to Wyvernstone is not drawing the trade traffic desired, likely the situation at Drelev will have to be dealt with before the trade will flow.
  • The Kobold population has exploded over the last year.  Thousands of kobolds inhabit the Red March, clustered around the silver mines.
  • Built city walls around Port Jackal.
  • An island of bog striders is discovered in the Slough.  Tok-Tekt talks with the group, and tells them about their constant fights with the Boggard and the recent capture of a bog strider.
  • The captured bog strider is discovered in the M'botuu camp.  He is rescued and returned.  Tok-Tekt points out some of the things they are looking for in the Slough.
  • A cave of Chuuls is stumbled upon.  The Chuuls are slain.
  • The session ends in the Slough during the day on the 4th of Gozran.