Player Characters
Dangar Stonekleaver - male dwarf from the Northern Dwarven Kingdom
Mikal Torvaldsson - human male, of the Uplander Clans
Darian Kyle - human male, formerly of the Imperial 7th Legion [deserter]
Aureme Anginsan - human female, formerly an Imperial Navy sailor (retired)
NPCs
Casvia - elf female from the Free City of Freegate, student at Outlands University
Session 3 Begins, August 15, 17 IC
Casvia returned from Freegate via her teleportation spell and brought back new orders for the group: find out the make up of the Horde and get the information back to Freegate. Mikal headed out on Meep that night to try and count camp fires. He saw that the Horde was advancing on both sides of the Greater Tabor River and apparently torching the countryside as it went. To investigate, he flew Meep low and fast over one of the burning areas and found what appeared to be a fire elemental was the source of the fires. Before he could see more he was chased away by a goblin batrider patrol. He returned to the Outlanders after losing the patrol.
Later that night, while the party was camping, they were spotted by a bat patrol. This patrol attacked fanatically, power diving at Mikal and Meep. After a mid‑air collision with the leader, Mikal and Meep were driven into the ground and seriously injured. Only Mikal’s possession of the Healing Rock [a magical healing stone] saved Meep from death. Dangar spent time looking through the remains of the patrol for their nightvision goggles and secured enough fragments for a pair. This becomes known as the Bat Meat episode. [Because players can be "witty".]
Mikal flew out on Meep again that night with Aureme to verify the party’s next campsite was still safe and to track the Horde's movements. Mikal told the remaining adventurers to meet him at the next campsite if he didn't return to this one in two hours. The rest of the Outlanders promptly forgot/ignored this plan and send Casvia back to Freegate.
August 16, 17 IC
Just before Noon, after waiting several hours at their campsite [while Casvia was back at Freegate making a gory spectacle of the battle scene and Mikal was at the next campsite wondering where they were], the Outlanders noticed dust trails heading in their direction. Judging that Casvia would return about the same time the goblin patrol(s) would arrive, Tim, Dangar, and Darian set up a hidden ambush and waited.
When the goblins arrived, they appeared to be a concerted effort to locate what was killing the bat patrols in this area. The "patrol" was made up of thirty goblin lizardriders and 20-30 batriders. The batriders spotted the party’s horses, signaled the lizard riders, and then flew high, to watch the battle.
Through the use of explosive spells and arrow fire, the PCs killed the lizard riders with light damage to themselves (except Dangar, who nearly died). Casvia, returning near the end of the fight saved Darian, who was watching her return point. At this point the adventurers remembered the back up site. Dangar and Tim started decapitated the 30 goblins and sticking their heads on pikes as a warning. [I was recently reminded they also used the goblin entrails to spell out, in goblin, "Go Away" in large letters on the landscape. These were the war crimes I was remembering previously.] Casvia was sickened and repulsed by the display. She and Darian headed to the next campsite where Mikal and Aureme were waiting, wondering what was taking the rest of the team so long. Once they finished their atrocities, Tim and Dangar cleaned up themselves and went to the next campsite.
Session Ends.
Happening Off-Stage
The Rare Art Brotherhood (RAB), a thieves' guild specializing in high-end luxury goods, is looking for the wizard who supplied them a fake gold ingot [one of the items the player characters kept from the El Djem Collection and sold later]. They learned the wizard's name is "Tim" by torturing Stefan the Red, Tim’s contact who brokered the deal. The RAB also learned Tim is currently out of the city on University business and decide to wait for him to return. The guild wants to find out how Tim made magical gold that did not detect as magical until it reverted to lead. Then they will make an example out of him, wizard or not. They also want lost revenues from both ingots as they don’t know if the other ingot is real or not.
DM Discussions
[Busy week during the Day Job this week and I did not have any spare time to edit this post and publish it until this weekend. To make up for it, I am working on the next post now (Session 4) and will have it queued up to publish on Tuesday, October 21.]
Against the Horde
Session 4 [Not Yet Posted]
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