We begin this week’s session with detailing what our
characters did for three weeks (21 days) of
Dolgrin, curious about these newly found creatures encased
in amber, found a beast-man seemingly preserved in the ruddy stone. Taking pity on
the creature, the paladin breaks through the amber releasing the bestial
specimen from its cell. When it does the creature begins to revert back to its
smaller dwarf form. Naked and confused Dolgrin learns the dwarf’s name is Nobyka
and is suffering the effects of a type of *thropy and has been imprisoned for
about thirty years. Over the course of the first week of downtime Dolgrin uses
the heal skill and with his class abilities as a paladin removes the disease
from Nobyka. On the sixth day the heroes bring their new dwarf friend to the
Gallant to start a new life. Barit helps Dramen and gives aid to Nobyka as
well.
Rydin uses this precious bit of time to building influence
and to delve into local libraries and personal book collections, along with
Syrendross, to retrain some skill ranks into Knowledge (Truespeech). They do so
in the protections of a rope trick. For Rydin’s second week the magus retrainsa feat to power attack with the help of an elven swordsman from the border crossing as well as spending Rydin’s influence to gather the following
information:
Myrddin’s lost staff of power: Rydin realizes that even now
magical armaments and devices are taking on our character’s characteristics;
similar to that we are mythic encounters for enemies so too do the magical
items our characters carry becoming noteworthy and eligible for relic status.
Rydin gets a strong image of the staff that, by now is considered an artifact.
The staff is in fact one that was bestowed to Thaddeus Grellspit and was said
to have restored the elf to life several times leading some to believe Thaddeus
is still alive but is altered by repeated resurrection magics.
The Ring of Fire Cabal: a collection of evokers, magi, and
sword-sages who study offensive magics in an apprentice-master organizational
structure. They do not take contracts and do not purport as anything sinister. Finally,
there are thirteen masters and thirteen apprentices for a total of twenty six
members.
Tier Ne Somenhiem: The duchy has three cities of note-
Trusk, a port city; Somenhiem, the capitol; and Naper’s Dawn which is
historically significant as the king of the isles was said to have ended the
Pirate Rebellion there shortly before the Sundering. Tier Ne Somenhiem
translates to ‘Heaven on Earth’ and is the proverbial land of milk and honey.
It is a land rich in resources and timber; the land is large with several small
communities; and it is a region affected the least during the Sundering.
Finally the Eye operates very discretely in this duchy.
Finally for Rydin’s third week of downtime the elf adopts a
workout routine to build his stamina and toughness adding four to his hit point
total. For Kotri, she enters the market to trade magical items.
Kyras fills his time writing spells on bark scrolls and
preaching the Green Faith while also looking for signs of the sinister ash druid. Kyras picks up a couple of acolytes who promise to spread the Green Word
along the River Road and set up near New Azurite.
Syrendross joins Rydin in the first week of downtime by also retasking skill points into Knowledge (Truespeech) thereby affording all arcane
spellcasting chgaracters proficiency with the rare skill. For the second week Syrendross
looks to the stars and continues to plot the course of the Evening Isles
concluding the Isles are roughly between Africa and South Americas in the
Atlantic Ocean southern hemisphere. This continental drift formula would later
be applied to the ways maps seen in Ferraq Tulle to come up with a way to apply a theoretical application to the earth in regards to the ways. Finally, the last
week was devoted to spell research. The first was Black Tentacles and the other
three came directly from the crystal tomes: Greater Ley Pulse (7th level Deep
Magic), Disruptive Aura (8th level Deep Magic), and Ley Surge (9th level Deep
Magic).
Lastly, Dramen fills his downtime with item creation,
upgrading items for his friends, and deciphering the Crystal Tomes for Juidor
and the Eye. In addition the boy-wizard learns that there was no ‘lie’ from the
dragons, instead in the third book refers to beings of virtue as immense
embodiment of heaven, but more importantly came a greater understanding of why
the ways was breaking down around Earth; not only because of its recent (in
cosmic terms) transition into its own plane of existence but how bubble
dimensions that had once surrounded Pangaea (term for pre-prime material earth)
broke down without the connection, like a broken circuit. Furthermore Dramen
discovers that the people who added their knowledge to these tomes ages ago
were trying to affect the ways with their magics and items of power; Sanger was
presuming ways to web new ley lines around Earth.
However, in the midst of this downtime the Virtuous Interlopers returned to the Gallant where they encountered the Contract Devil
who was trying to divert us from saving Arcanthorth Vigmatto from his brother Ferrum. After the battle, which saw many summoned bearded
devils, Dramen cast a sending to Arcanthorth to warn him. While the message
came late, we did injure the Contract Devil enough that the assassination on
Arcanthorth failed. We become certain the Devil was the result of our
characters defeating Bathanon and that Arcanthorth or one of his companions
achieved or gained a mythic tier. This is when the minions of Ash and Cinder
become known to us.
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| "Virtuous Interlopers!" |
At the end of the three weeks Dramen lets Juidor know that
we know more than we first indicated. While Dramen and the other heroes do not speak specifically
of dragons, opinions of Ferrum are not held in the highest regard and that Ferrum plots to kill his brother Arcanthorth. Rilenia is mentioned but Juidor laments these
Crystal tomes belong to the Vigmatto family. Juidor was chosen by Ferrum
because Juidor too did not benefit from the arrival of the Dragons of Virtue,
but after Ferrum was seen in strange company Juidor reached out to the Eye for
aid with the crystal tomes to have Ferrum’s claims verified. After Juidor asks
if there is anything he can do, he is advised to take what he knows to the King
of the Elves after he is told about or past exploits in Miar Moshea. He agrees
and says he will take what he has learned to Arcanthorth as well.
With three days of downtime remaining Dramen teleports
iMembers to Tier Ne Somenhiem for Yinrr and learns to recreate Sanger’s circle of
protection, the kind Maradrell creates on the side in Urbport. Dramen also
hears of Somenhiem Museum where the Eye discretely operates.
Day 157. Tier Ne Somenhiem where the land is green, rich,
and largely unaffected by the Sundering. One of the first amazing features is
the floating castle nestled near a shielding mountain range. Floating
companionably near the castle are two minaret towers, but more fantastic that
these were the fifty (five-0) large winged minotaurs. This vision
of floating castles and minarets results in dire flashbacks for Rydin/Myrddin;
reminding the elf of Vlad and his first encounter with Nissian as well as the
floating tower that had real connections to the negative material plane.
Day 158. We arrive to the sloping hills of Naper’s Dawn a
small city of cobblestone streets, gas lanterns, smoke stacks of industry, and tightly
packed buildings huddled in a lose crescent around three great wells, each with
their own names that also correspond to the major thoroughfares of Naper’s
Dawn. We quickly locate The Grumblebelly’s and decide where to make our presence
known.
We are awarded 4,000 xp and begin next session in Naper’s
Dawn.
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| Naper's Dawn |
