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Session 11 Der/Ead/ |
Equinox (modified version of D&D adventure) |
| Brenna's adventurers travel along the Old North Road for three more weeks until they approach the abandoned city of Tarleikos. One day from Tarleikos, on a grassy hill that once had a keep, Taliriana remembers her previous life as Illuin, who died on that hill 2400 years ago fighting in a battle between the elven army of King Dorthonion and the goblin army of Ethelion, now known as Angmar the Witch-King. She is disturbed by this ill omen, and the adventurers travel on towards Tarleikos. They reach the abandoned city on the afternoon of the last day of the year, and find there a strange black and white building that is out of place in the rubble of the abandoned city. The adventurers investigate the building, overcoming several statues of wolves and tigers that come to life when approached. Ulfgar looks into two mirrors and is attacked by two simulacrums of himself, one after the other. The adventurers overcome both before deciding to leave the building for the night. At sunset, the building disappears. It reappears at dawn the next day, and the adventurers re-enter the building. They destroy one mirror and take down the other, wrapping it in blankets and carrying it outside, before continuing on into the building. They find a stranged winged woman, who attacks Eadric after giving a terse warning, and kill her and a male counterpart that she summons with an enchanted bracelet. Brenna's adventurers leave the building shortly before it disappears. Summer 1393 AUC and the first day of 1394 AUC | |
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Session 12 Der/Ead/ |
A Kiss of Death (modified version of AD&D adventure) |
| Brenna's adventurers complete the survey of Tarleikos, then travel back towards Vestad along the Mountain Road. Three days inside the border, they reach the village of Paderborn just before sunset. At the gates, Garl Ferfeld stops them and asks if they have seen his missing daughter, Ana, but they haven't. Garl and the adventurers are attacked at dusk by five ghostly wolfmen, who demand the return of a clay tablet in Garl's possession, and their pack of wolves. They drive the attackers away, and go with Garl to his hall for their reward. Garl has recently found and looted a tomb, and the now-broken clay tablet was the seal on the greatest treasure of all, the golden coffin that still contains a woman's dessicated corpse. Garl's servants tell him three adventurers broke into the hall and robbed him at dusk, a woman, a giant and a dwarf. Only half of the clay tablet remains, as Ana took a quarter and the adventurers took another quarter. Marcus spends an hour translating the message on what remains of the tablet while Jonyn and Eadric go to the inn and talk to Tasha, another adventurer who arrived at Paderborn that morning. Brenna's adventurers follow the robbers that night, losing the trail for several hours because of magic before finding it again, rest during the morning, and resume the pursuit the next afternoon. They find the remains of the three adventurers an hour after dusk, apparently torn apart by beasts. After recovering the stolen treasure and burying the remains, Brenna's adventurers hurry back to Paderborn, where the dessicated body in the golden coffin has been properly buried and nothing untoward has happened. Next morning, the adventurers explore the looted tomb, finding and destroying five skeletons under the floor. When they return to Paderborn, they learn of a hue and cry for one of the local youths, Brin, who was last seen at the inn. At the inn, they find Brin's dessicated corpse in a cupboard. Realising that the original inhabitant of the coffin escaped, killed Ana and disguised her absence with Ana's corpse, the adventurers force Tasha to accompany them as they search the inn's cellar without success. At dusk, they return to Garl's hall, where four of the ghostly wolfmen appear and demand the clay tablet. The adventurers give them the three quarters of the tablet they have, but Garl strangely insists that it is his to keep and leads an attack on the wolfmen with Tasha's help. The remaining wolfman approaches from the burning inn with the last quarter of the tablet, and Tasha is forced to reveal herself in a vain effort to prevent the five wolf priests re-uniting the tablet and forcing her back into her golden coffin. Shamed by his failure to defeat the wolf priests and his weakness in being controlled by Tasha, as well as being distraught at the revelation of the death of his daughter, Garl kills himself. The village priest arranges to bury the golden coffin under a large stone cross, and offers the now cursed treasure hoard to Brenna's adventurers. Ulfgar accepts. Late Summer 1394 AUC | |
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Session 13 Cin/Ead/ |
The One-Eyed God (modified version of Dragon Warriors adventure) |
| Brenna's adventurers say farewell to Derrin and return to Manderley Hall via Orviet, Cerradyn and Valan. Lady Brenna introduces them to her newest adventurer on retainer, Cinder, and grants them a season to rest and conduct their own business. Early in winter, Marcus receives and accepts an invitation to visit his cousin, Lady Mara Garan, at Threehills Manor. One morning, Lady Mara tells Marcus "you can stay here, you won't be in the way" and rides off towards the three hills. That evening, the ravens have returned to Manderley Hall from the three hills, there is a storm raging overhead, and Marcus has a vivid dream in which a man called Tarfil Tarfin's son appears. Tarfil claims to be a distant ancestor and the king buried in the three hills at the barrow called Valour Hall. He warns Marcus that Mara will be sacrificed to dark gods at dawn so that his uncle, Lord Anton Garan, can live again, and that the sacrifice will desecrate his barrow. Marcus summons the other adventurers, and they go to the three hills and find Valour Hall. The adventurers find the ghost of Lord Anton and kill his servants, Gaberk the dwarf, a boar-man called Lode, and a large wolf-elf like one of the two non-human creatures they fought under the Black Obelisk at Navyn. During the battle, Jonyn fails to leap across a pit and falls a long, long way. Taliriana summons Jonyn to her with the enchanted bracelet from the tower at Tarleikos, and the impact of landing almost kills him. While he is falling, a winged man appears above the pit, carrying two scrolls. He tells Anton's ghost that he has breached the agreement, and uses a scroll to compel Anton to descend down the pit. The man tells Marcus that, if he ever wishes to contact him, he should come to the pit and call for Ildyr. The wolf-elf compels Mara to attack the adventurers, but she breaks free of his enchantment when faced by Marcus. After the battle, the adventurers explore the rest of the barrow, finding Tarfil's body. Ulfgar explores some narrow crawlways that nobody else can fit through, and is evasive when asked what he found. They leave the barrow and return to Threehills Manor at dawn. That afternoon, a messenger from Manderley Hall delivers a letter to Eadric. It is from Miles Bashere, and asks him to come urgently with as many allies as possible. Late Summer to Early Winter 1394 AUC |