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| + | This session started after the big spider fight and the search of the building above. The Company still had areas to search in the caverns below so they made their way back down and then to the north, through the tunnels. As they did, they stopped at spots that seemed likely to have a possible concealed door. Cal-El and Eryn searched multiple spots but found nothing. They made their way back to the first chamber. There was a path leading off to the east along the northeast wall. Eryn searched down the passage to the end, which she could see as soon as she rounded the corner. There was rubble scattered about from the collapse of the walls and the ceiling. It didn't seem unstable and there didn't appear to be anything captured by the falling rubble. She searched the rubble carefully and found nothing. They left that little cave and moved back to the area where they'd found Fredrick. | ||
| + | The tunnel continued east from there and they went that way to see what they might have missed. The webs in the area were pretty thick and as they began making their way down the tunnel, they were attacked by three of the regular giant spiders. Xor, Cal-El, and Eryn formed a line, becoming a wall and blocking the tunnel. They waited for the charge to reach them. Xor was attacked and missed. Cal-El was attacked by another spider and missed. The third spider was unable to get close enough to attack. Eryn attacked the spider on Xor and hit it. Xor hit it as well. Cal-El attacked the spider facing him and hit it with his offhand weapon. Symon fired his slingshot and missed. Angelique fired a bow shot and missed. She and Xor also missed their second attacks. Finally, Xor took out one of the spiders. Cal-El took out the next one. Xor turned and took out the last one. | ||
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| + | Eryn and Cal-El moved down to the end of the tunnel and found some more Svarts and some Web sacks with spider eggs. Xor moved up with the torch and burned the egg sacks. Eryn searched for any concealed doors and found none. The party returned to the tunnel that lead up to the house in the town. They climbed up into the back room of the house. They moved into the main room and before leaving the house, decided that they should take advantage of the privacy and rest there. They did that and nothing happened. When they woke, it was morning and they gathered themselves up and headed out into the town. They made their way to "Fred, Freddie, and Fredricks" | ||
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| + | They reached the end of the hotel and turned south. They didn't see anything at first but as they approached the shop, Eryn saw four people standing around another one that was bound, gagged, and nealing. That one was Cassandra. They were just west of Fred, Freddie, and Fredrick' | ||
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| + | The crew holding Cassandra said, " | ||
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| + | More people started showing up, carrying bows trained on Eryn and Cal-El saying, "Get all your friends out here!" | ||
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| + | One of the blind guards raised his sword and swung downward trying to hit Cassandra who had fallen over unconscious. He successfully hit her. Xor ran around the building and paused to see what was ahead. Xor charged through the blind men and headed straight for Roger. One of the blind men took a swing at the sound but missed. One of the other blind guards stepped towards where he last saw Symon and took a swing but missed. Zara jumped back to watch, clapping, and saying, "This is going to be fun!". The person behind the building moved up to attack Angelique. He hit her. One of the blinded men took a swing at Xor and hit him. Eryn moved to a location with a good view of Roger and fired, hitting him. Cal-El moved up and hit the guy that just hit Xor. Angelique drew out her mace and attempted to hit the man who hit her but missed. Roger adjusted his position with regards to Xor, took a swing at him, and missed. As he did that, he called out, "Kill them! Kill them all!", apparently expecting Zara to do something to help. Eryn called out, " | ||
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| + | Symon cast Web, covering a lot of the battle area. He backed away from the man in front of him and moved toward Fred, Freddie, and Fredrick' | ||
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| + | Xor finished getting out of the Web and took a swing at Roger with his fist and hit him. The man attacking Angelique suddenly straightened up and began coughing and choking, and then fell flat in front of her. That's when Angelique noticed a tiny dart sticking out of his neck. She glanced around but saw nobody around who could have fired it. Symon moved to get a better angle on Roger and used the wand of Paralyzation against him but it had no effect. The archers behind the Web backed up a little looking concerned at Zara. Eryn moved to stand over and cover Cassandra and fired on one of the men hitting him, dropping him. Angelique moved around the building and fired on one of the men and hit him. Eryn and Angelique both fired on that one again and hit him. | ||
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| + | Symon tried the paralyzation wand again and this time it worked. As Roger approached Zara with his sword drawn, prepared to do her harm, he suddenly froze in place. Eryn rolled Cassandra over, pulled the gag from her mouth, and poured in a dose of a potion of extra healing. Zara got up and appeared to be in a little pain. After a quick glance at Roger, she turned and looked east, like something caught her attention. Xor moved up to hit Roger Cal-El took two hits at the only man from the original three around Cassandra and killed him. Angelique fired at the one leaning up against the wall of the building to the west hitting it. It was at this time that an unnatural feeling of fear overcame some of those locked in battle. On the Company' | ||
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| + | The Company quickly finished off the remaining crew after that. Zara seemed happy watching the chaos as Puppy helped finish off the last of Roger' | ||
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| + | Angelique said, " | ||
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| + | They searched Roger and found that he was wearing leather armor that looked very nice. He had a nice sword as well as 100 gold pieces and a potion. They search the other guys and found some nice armor. One had scale mail that looked really nice. There were some nice long swords. They also had about 50 gold each. The archers had 50 silver pieces between the two of them. Their equipment was just common armor and bows. Angelique collected it all into the bag of holding and said, " | ||
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| + | Zara said, " | ||
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| + | They finished decapitating the bodies just to make sure they wouldn' | ||
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| + | Cassandra asked, "You heard what happened on Frosthaven, right?" | ||
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| + | Eryn warned them of the traps at the entrance to the docks area. She had them stay back as she moved down there and disarmed them. They all moved to the main building, on its north side, to the metal door there. The door wasn't locked so they went in. It was piled up with boxes and barrels. They had labels, with some of them labeled " | ||
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| + | Eryn went to a desk and started looking through it. There were documents on top which were mostly inventory sheets and manifests. Roger' | ||
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| + | Eryn said she was trying to think of some way to use the fact that Roger was no longer running the operation here and use it to their advantage. She said, "Can we send a note down to Theo, I don't know exactly how we would do it, but letting him know that Roger and his crew have been retired and that we are now running the operation up here and ask him what he would like us to do next." | ||
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| + | Symon said, "This still doesn' | ||
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| + | They continued discussing the situation when they heard rapid banging on the door. Symon asked Cassandra if they were expecting someone. She said she didn't know who that might be. Eryn called out, "May we help you!". The voice from the other side of the door was that of a woman. She said, " | ||
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| + | They decide to follow. Eryn directly with her and the rest spread out so they were not a single easy target. They headed north through the town to the nice farm just outside of the town to the north. As they reached the farm, she stopped and pointed saying, "Back there, by the chicken coup!" | ||
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| + | The tracks went out the western side of the fence. Symon asked the mother how long he had been missing. She told him that she put him to bed last night and all he could talk about were adventures and the mystery of the chickens. She told him that there were other people to handle that but he apparently tried to go out and investigate it himself so. Cal-El had found where he had hidden in a crate and obviously, something happened to him. She said she got up this morning and went to wake him and found the bed empty. She eventually found the mess in the chicken coup. Eryn told her that in case she finds him before they do, we'd already solved the chicken mystery. She said that's good. The Company kept following the footprints west. Cal-El was able to follow the tracks easily. It eventually crossed the road at an angle headed slightly north. They followed it into the woods. Symon noted that they were spent on spells and if we ran into somebody out here, someone should be wearing the ring. It was decided that Cal-El should be wearing it. So he put it on. | ||
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| + | They continued following the tracks. The tracks were not hard to follow and eventually came to a little clearing where there was evidence of a battle. Broken weapons and shields were laying around, and blood was everywhere. There were no bodies. Cal-El examined the footprints to see who besides the goblins might have been involved in the battle. He saw the goblin prints and intermixed in those were tiny bare feet. Based on the numbers, he determined that they were outnumbered three to one. They determined it was likely Xvarts. Cal-El went around the perimeter and found the Xvart footprints leading off to the northwest, then turn to go dead north. After some time, the tracks angled back toward the road and eventually reconnected with it. They determine that they were getting to be a good distance north of Stonebridge. They followed the tracks for about an hour or two when they started noticing a smell in the air. | ||
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| + | Xor and Eryn thought it smelled like bar-b-que, good bar-b-que. As they got closer, the others picked it up to. They continued on and began hearing some kind of commotion ahead. They decided they needed to get off the road so they did. They continue moving off the road to the north and started hearing these little voices chanting and carrying on. They eventually came to a clearing and looked out on it to see what looked like a huge camp of Xvarts. Actually, it appeared to be two large camps of Xvarts, one group on either side of the road. Xor identified the cooking smell as that of a horse. In the center of the road was a dias. One Xvart was sitting there and he appeared to be some sort of Shaman. There were two Xvarts on either side of him. They looked more important than the other Xvarts with bigger head-dressing than the others, like they were leaders or kings. One group on one side of the road had red paint on their faces and the other group had blue paint. | ||
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| + | Just past them, tied to a rock, there is a human. He was an older man stripped down to the waist. Tied up and gagged sitting next to him was a little boy. Off to the side, there was a horse that had been butchered and they were cooking parts of it all over the camps. From one side, a Xvart came out and yelled something that seemed to inspire a cheer from that side. He keeps shouting out something that nobody understands. He points to one side and a couple of other Xvarts run out carrying what looks like a shield. Maybe it was the man's shield. He holds the shield up while shouting something else they cannot understand. The Xvarts as a whole ooo'd over that. Then he points to the red leader and the blue leader and they both hollar something. A single red Xvart came out of that group and then a blue one came out of the other group. They had bows. The man in the middle shouted something else and then walked behind the red one and tapped him on the shoulder and a cheer went up. The red Xvart fired at the old man tied up just missing him. There was more cheering. Then the Xvart with the shield pointed to the blue Xvart and he fired at the old man. It nicked the guy. More cheering and shouting went up. He handed the shield to the blue guy who went running off with it into his camp. | ||
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| + | The main guy started trying to calm both sides down and went to pick up and return with a pouch. He shouts out something and the two groups murmured amongst themselves. The main guy opens the pouch and pulls out some papers that were rolled up with a seal on it. He breaks that and throws it aside. Then he pulls out this box. Everyone got quiet carefully watching. The man opened it and pulled out this pouch. He reaches into that pouch and pulls out a huge diamond with a blueish tint to it. It almost glows. All of the Xvarts are stunned, gasping at it. Then they heard a deep bark from a Xvart that appeared to be very muscular and strong. He points at the diamond and it appeared to the group that he was indicating, "Give it to me!". The main guy drops it on the ground. This big guy danced around, showing his muscles and pointing at it. From somewhere in the group came a raspberry sound. An arrow flies out and hits the big guy in the ass. He dances around in pain as the other Xvarts laughed. Everyone paused and looked at the diamond and look at each other and all hell breaks out. They all pile onto the stone biting, scratching, gouging, stabbing, and ripping at each other. It was complete chaos as they fought over the diamond. | ||
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| + | This went on for a while until finally they were either all dead or injured. Both the kings got swept up into it and they were dead. Some ran off. It quieted down to a few moans and groans from the ones that were still alive. Xor marched through the piles of people, headed to where he last saw the diamond. He didn't find it laying round there. It's all been trampled down and the area is very bloody. He couldn' | ||
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| + | Thgey tried to communicate with the man but he was gone. Cal-El found the saddle and looked over it. It was kind of unusual and had an emblem on it. It's an emblem of a wolf, but it's diffferent looking. It was definitely the emblem of the wolf of the north but different than any they had seen. Cal-El found his clothes and was able to determine that he was a courier. The normals wolf emblem of the north has a silver band around it with white and gray coloring. The emblem they saw there here had the wolf in it but with a background of green, gold, and like these rainbow colors. Angelique checked the man out and determined there was nothing they could do about it. Xor passed the papers to Symon. It read, | ||
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| + | The Dragons Vale | ||
| + | Year of the Silver Dragon 2364 | ||
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| + | Allistar Finch, Esq. | ||
| + | Grand Guild Master Executor, Adventurers Guild of Paldegora | ||
| + | Seaspire, The Emerald Coast | ||
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| + | Allistar, | ||
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| + | I would say you did not expect to hear from me ever again, thinking as most that I and all my people were dead and forgotten. Something that I deserved and earned for my actions. | ||
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| + | We are not. | ||
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| + | I regret what I had to do. Just know that I have suffered and paid for my questionable choices. Some things are far worse than death itself. | ||
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| + | After the defeat of the dragons, I found and took the Dragons Vale as the spoils due me because of the destruction and war unjustly waged against my kingdom. | ||
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| + | Yes, the Dragons Vale is not a myth. It does exist. It is where my people and I have settled these long years now past. | ||
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| + | For a long time, my people thrived in this magical land. However, a shadow did fall over us. I shan’t speak of that now. It is a tale too long to detail in this letter. Just know that a gilded cage is still just a cage. One in which we have all become trapped. | ||
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| + | You may remember the young copper dragon Grizollo I captured and forced to my will and service. He has broken a treaty with me and returned in violation of the agreement. I have found I can no longer sense him or control him! The power I once wielded now seems to have faded away. | ||
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| + | Grizollo is gathering his kin in an attempt to retake the Dragons Vale. Once he has done it, he intends to release vengeance upon all the people of Philannan. There is now no kingdom to stand in his way. He and his brethren will storm down upon you out of the North like a gale. He will destroy all your cities, villages, crops, and people and leave nothing but ashes and desolation. | ||
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| + | I am now the only thing standing in his way. | ||
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| + | To succeed in this, he needs what I have hidden so he can unite all the scattered Dragon Spawn under his banner. He wants the vast horde of dragon gold I took from them upon my victory. The gold means nothing to me. It is all but useless. However, he has taken the one thing that is most precious to me. He has taken my daughter hostage and threatens to kill her unless I relent and leave the Vale. | ||
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| + | How could a Copper dragon be capable of such acts? | ||
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| + | I understand the mind of a dragon better than any. I remind my weak advisors of this, as I do with you now, a dragon is still a dragon. Its color does not matter. In this, he will ultimately succeed. We can not hold for much longer. | ||
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| + | Know this. I will not allow my daughter to die, no matter the cost to all of Philannan. | ||
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| + | I have only been given until the turn of the year to comply with his demands. | ||
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| + | I ask not for myself or even for my people. I ask for my daughter, who is truly innocent in this. | ||
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| + | Enclosed you will find two rare and priceless blue diamonds. One is yours to keep. The other is to compensate the Guild and the families of the ones I betrayed. Use it also to finance outfitting an expedition and send help to us once again. | ||
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| + | The Dragons Vale is hidden and guarded. Inside a pillar in the throne room of Nordain Hold, you will find a hidden compartment. There I have placed a map. The map shows the way to the secret entrance to the Dragons Vale. Beware the Guardian! | ||
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| + | I ask you to send me only your best. | ||
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| + | Time is short. | ||
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| + | The dragon storm will soon break upon you all. | ||
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| + | In all haste, | ||
| + | King Lundor Nordain, | ||
| + | Emperor of the Dragons Vale, Lord Regent of Coldspire, Master of the Wolves of the North, and King of all Nordunlun. | ||
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| + | ====== | ||
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| + | Thus ends chapter two "The Road North" | ||
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| + | Chapter 3 will be called, " | ||
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| + | Exp's - 500 General and 924 + 10% or 1016 | ||
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| + | 50 gold | ||
| + | 10 silver | ||
| + | 2 copper | ||
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| + | Eryn tried to assign a value to the blue diamond but rolled poorly. | ||
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| + | The timeline is we are in late fall, moving toward the end of the year. It is middle of the 11th month. They are about a month and a half out from the deadline. | ||
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| + | It was decided that if we avoided Frosthaven, it would take us about a week and a half to get back to Three Points Inn. | ||
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| + | Dragon' | ||
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| + | They search some more and find the bag that held the box but there are no more boxes or diamonds in it. | ||
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