[My notes suggest this session took place in August of 1999. It would have been on a Saturday, but my notes did not say which Saturday. This is the first time I made any note as to when the game was played.]
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 4 Begins, August 17-20, 17 IC
The group was recalled to Freegate shortly after the beheadings were reported. The trip took four days and Casvia left the group in disgust once they returned to Freegate. Mikal also left, accepting a request to secure rare components for a ritual to destroy the orb from Dangar's vision. His ability to ride Meep made him ideal for this mission. [Mikal's player was moving to a different state to take a new job and would no longer be available to play as this was long before Discord or Roll20 existed and playing face-to-face was the only option.]
August 21
Rumors about the goblin impaling incident started circulating through the university and then out into the city at this point. The University officials weren't certain what to do with the Outlanders. On one hand, they were clearly performing atrocities, but on the other, Tim had discovered a very volatile substance that had great potential in the war against the Horde. They finally decided to table the decision until after the war.
The militia unit, along with the other Outland University Militia (OUM) teams, were being boarded in one of the on-campus dormitories. Tim spent the night of the 21th at the High-Energy Thaumatics building with several of the grad students preparing more of what becomes known as “Tim’s Double Distilled”.
[A side note on the geography of the City of Freegate. The city is located atop a mesa in the middle of a two-mile wide chasm. The chasm itself is over 125 miles in length, with the greater Tabor River running through the bottom, nearly a mile down at the point where Freegate stands. Two adamantine bridges link the city to the canyon rims, where there are minor fortifications and some accumulated out buildings. Outlands University is on a separate branch of the mesa and connected to the main part of the city by a shorter adamantine bridge. The city is very old.]
August 22
As a result of his all-nighter, Tim was late to a meeting of the surviving OUM groupleaders. His sleep deprivation caused him to barely remember the details of what he’s supposed to discuss with his team. Once back with the Outlanders. he told the party two of the options available (guarding the humanoids in Outtown [one of the districts inside the city walls] and checking out the Sewers) but could not remember the remaining options. He designated Aureme as his deputy, told her to attend the follow-up meeting at 3pm, and then fell into a deep sleep, snoring noisily.
When Aureme arrived at the 3pm meeting, clearly not knowing what was going on, the Militia Commander was angered by this lack of discipline and respect. He deliberately misheard Aureme volunteer her group for any duty but sewer duty and assigned sewer duty to them as a punishment. This sparked an unusually violent reaction from Aureme and Darian, who took some of their displeasure with Tim out on Tim.
August 23
The morning of the 23rd, a very unhappy group headed to the main office of the Sewer Workers Guild to report for duty. While being briefed by the Guild Master, the room they were in was lowered from the street level down to the sewer level [it was essentially an elevator]. When the doors opened back up and Aureme discovered she was far underground, she had a very violent reaction to "being tricked underground" [she apparently was very claustrophobic]. Rather than subdue her, the Guild Master returned the room to the surface and sent the party back to the University for re-assignment.
The Militia Commander re-assigned them to Ambush duty against the Horde.
August 24
In the morning, Tim's Outlanders, down to 4 members, gathered supplies and headed out of Freegate. They traveled a full day in a curving arc down stream and then started their approach to the Horde. They spent the night hiding a half day's ride from the river in a copse of trees. Careful observation of the Horde's approach allowed the Outlanders to establish the patrol pattern for the bat riders.
August 25
They spent the morning judging the Hordes movement rate by how fast the bat patrols advanced their patrol patterns.
Shortly after Noon the party started moving towards the river. Using gaps in the patrol pattern of the bat riders, they moved in behind the Horde.
About an hour before nightfall, they came across the remains of a farmhouse the Horde had ransacked and stripped. While investigating this, they spotted a fire elemental that was spreading fires on the Horde’s flank. Tim used a telekinesis spell to move a bottle of his Double Distilled towards the elemental. The elemental noticed the bottle once it was within thirty feet and shot a fireball at it.
The resulting explosion knocked Tim off his feet, 70 yards away, and nearly killed the elemental. Tim immediately sent a second bottle at the elemental. The elemental missed it several times before Tim slammed the bottle into the ground at the elemental’s feet. The explosion, while powerful, was nowhere near as devastating as the first bottle. Despite this, it was enough to kill the elemental.
The party immediately rushed out of the vicinity and towards the river before the bat patrols started swarming the area. They hid among some rocks, hoping the widening search pattern of the bat riders would miss them.
Session Ends.
Happening Off-Stage
Rumors about “Tim’s Outlanders” and their barbarity start spreading in Freegate, mingling with other rumors about Tim himself. Some are appalled, some approve, but most cannot fully believe the rumors. The Rare Art Brotherhood (RAB) decides to be a little more cautious about dealing with Tim.
The goggle fragments Dangar sent back from the Bat Meat Incident have been fused into wearable lenses. Unfortunately, they are still full of fractures and give a penalty to PER when Dangar's head makes rapid movements, like when he is in combat.
Against the Horde
Session 5 [Not Yet Posted]
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