[December 15 through 20th – The Delvers Guild divided up the unclaimed magic items they had and then we scrolled time to the Royal Winter Ball.]
[This game uses the Fifth Revised Edition of the Hero System rules along with the Fantasy Hero supplement. This session happened May 23, 2022.]
Player Characters:
Jala – human female – a person of discretion, studier of Pact Magic with a focus on shadows
Ozrel Runeweaver – human male – Pugilist and Rune Magician
Zarek the Red – fox male – Golem-mancer
Vorgand – human female – Guildmaster and Chief Combatant for the Delvers Guild
Ricky the Astrologer – human male – Newly-minted specialist in Magic Circles and Teleportation Gates
Non-Player Characters:
Torsten, Fish, Harek – ex-bandits, now The Torchbearers for the Delvers Guild
Sunday, December 15th, 1st year of the reign of King Vladik the Gamesman
Morning
In the morning, Vorgand handed Lars 100 gold coins and the list of supplies Torsten requested the previous night. She also requested Lars have a proper banner quickly made for display at the Moon Manor. The banner would signal that the ruins were now owned and occupied by the Delvers Guild and hopefully keep the Torchbearers out of trouble with any law in the area.
[As a reminder, the Torchbearers (Torsten, Harek, and Fish) are the remains of a small bandit gang that the Delvers discovered squatting in the ruins when the Delvers first arrived. The two groups shared camp space for a couple hours before the sudden and inevitable betrayal by the bandits...which lasted all of 12 seconds as the bandit leaders and toughs were very quickly killed by the surprisingly powerful Delvers. After the first round of attacks killed all but 4 of the bandits, Nick gave the survivors a choice: accept paid work holding torches for the Guild while they explored or join their companions in death. The survivors immediately accepted the jobs as torchbearers for the guild, happy to avoid certain death. While one of the survivors (Kol) eventually deserted during a “supply run”, the remaining three are somewhat pleased with the current situation. They get paid in gold regularly, they are not expected to fight, good food is supplied (to avoid any further “supply runs”), and the work is at most one day out of seven. With the repair work they’ve done during the slack time and the furniture Jala brought them, the once ruined chapel is starting to get fairly homey.]
The Delvers used Ricky’s Gate to travel over to the Moon Manor and spent the morning going over the magic items they had recovered from various places and not yet doled out. After spending the morning discussing and debating the items, they were apportioned out.
- Vorgand took the Circlet of Mindblasting.
- Zarek took the scroll of Thaumaturgic Harness.
- Ozrel claimed the Liquor of Will (a potion) and the Necklace of Stormbeads.
- Ricky claimed the Scroll Covers of Preservation [hoping they would restore the extremely fragile maps in the moon ship], the Belt Buckle of Water-walking, and joint custody of the Pin of Invisibility with Jala.
- Jala took the Flaming Spear and joint custody of the Pin of Invisibility with Ricky.
The scrolls containing Protection from Air and Lifekeeping were unclaimed and will likely be sold, as will the potion of Clairaudience. Zarek needs to do research on the magical incense and the rune amulets to determine their functions.
Afternoon
Back in Aegea City, Zarek went to the library of Monarch University to start researching the unidentified magic items. He spent most of his time in the Elven Knowledge part of the library, which was 5 shelves of books, some of dubious accuracy. Luckily, Ricky had directed Zarek on which books to avoid. After spending the afternoon reading, the best he had were references in a theology book to "The 14 Demon Hunters", recognized only by their unique amulets and honored among elves, but no explanation given as to why they were honored, but the pattern on the amulets was the same as on the amulets the Guild had retrieved. The few references claimed the amulets protected the wearer from “the foreknowledge of the demons”. Zarek postulated that this was a form of protection from scrying.
Vorgand and Ozrel took the Torchbearers back to the Stone Halls and spent over four hours hauling the remaining 5 sarcophagus lids out of the lowest level of the Stone Halls to the Portal Chamber at the top of the Slanted Gallery. From there they hauled the lids through the portal to the moon for safe storage.
Jala made use of the Pin of Invisibility, wandering the city while invisible and satisfying her curiosity about the interior of various places she otherwise would not have been allowed in.
Ricky spent time at the Guildhall working on a new spell, one able to magically repair things that were broken.
Early Evening
On his way back to the Guildhall, Zarek stopped at a street vendor and picked up some food. He delivered the food to the elves spying on the Guildhall. He then sat with them for a bit before heading into the Guildhall. This confused the elves [and suggested to them their observation had definitely been noticed].
December 15th through 20th, 1st year of the reign of King Vladik the Gamesman
The Guild sent correspondence to the guild applicants, announcing their acceptance into the Delvers Guild. They also announced the first Grand Gathering of the Guild, set for the evening of December 24. The schedule of activities include: meals and drinks, membership oaths, and dancing. Lars was tasked with having the ballroom decorated for the event and to arrange for the display of items recovered by the guild. Lars and Vorgand would work together to select the proper items for display. The founders then spent the week either preparing for attending the Royal Winter Ball or pursuing their own research/training.
Vorgand spent the week practice dancing with Victor Yakovovich, her +1 for the Ball. By the end of the week they could dance well together so neither would embarrass the Guild.
Jala found a capable artisan and commissioned a quality set of goggles for later use as a magical focus. She also spent time dreading being the +1 for Bellinus Dragonslayer.
Ricky split his days, studying the each of the two scrolls retrieved from the Elven Imperial Shrine and getting a rough location of the Stone Halls based on his view from the moon. With his ownership of the Sentinel War Hammer of Alertness he no longer needed to sleep and was able to pursue all three goals at once. Both scrolls seemed to be early histories of the Elven Imperium, but Ricky did not recognize any of the place names given. Based on his observations from the moon, Ricky estimated that the Stone Halls were somewhere in the desert known as the Dreaded Emptiness.
Zarek spent time working on a spell to control the temperature inside of containers as part of his plan to duplicate the magi-tech devices in the galley of the moon ship. He took a break from this for a day and hung out with the elves spying on the guildhall, bringing his fancy magic pillow from the moon ship to sleep on. The elves, under orders to maintain observation of the guildhall, added this to their daily notes.
End of Session
Guild Postings
[I needed a break from writing these up and spent most of my spare time doing an unplanned revision of Adventures in the Green, Book I, Draft E. I looked over the Wilderness Exploration rules pamphlet I put together for the playtest and discovered I didn’t like a lot of the text. Rewriting it in the pamphlet required mirroring those changes in the main books and hey, I had a lot of redline edits and changes from the Saturday campaign, so I started including those. I also started more seriously rewriting sections in my own voice, which I had not fully decided on in the last edit for Book I, but had for Book II.]
[Editing is always a snowball like this – you can never make just one change and then come back later.]
[Anyhoo – that’s why there was no blog post last week. Sorry about that.]
Delvers Guild
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