The Village Rescues Report

General Summary

Brilsi 38 The plan from here is to travel to Nalkon. Adaon is concerned about the refugees that fled the demon infested castle who had struck out towards Nalkon. Ivan says they could look but are likely to just find corpses.   Adaon contacts Catalina to learn about demons. In contacting a demon, can he use an illusion to pronounce the name, with his intent behind it, will that work. Because it is coming from his mind, she tells him, the demon would then connect to him directly. It won't even see the illusion but will go straight to the wizard.   Adaon speaks to the knight who oversees the refugees and asks where to look for the other group. This is likely the river is what they are following to the capital, Nalkon. Cyren volunteers to do this, but Adaon says that he can travel much faster if he takes air form.   Adaon teleports within a day’s travel of the castle, along the river, staying a little north of the river, so that he can still see everything. After traveling for several kilometres along the way, he sees signs of where a large group of people have left the river and headed south. He follows this for a few km and sees that they have set up a sheltered area, including basic fortifications (that could be build within a day). Adaon scouts the area in air form, so he cannot be seen, then decides to materialize in the centre of camp. He announces himself before doing so. Upon materializing Adaon can see that he is covered by at least three bowmen. He discusses leaving the area and helping them head to Valkra. The person Adaon is talking with is very distrusting and accuses Adaon of being an imposter.   Eventually Adaon gets to talk to Lady Gudrun, the heir to Northkeep, and she recognizes him, which allows everyone to start the preparations to travel with Adaon. He’s going to use a hardened air barrier to keep the storm from destroying the camp while they pack up, then he’ll set the portal in the most sheltered area of the encampment. {Note: once ratified by Althea, Lady Gudrun will be Baroness of Northkeep.}   After 90 minutes, the scouts and outriders return to the encampment. Then Adaon makes the dome of hardened air, which will protect everyone from the worst of the storm. After a while it will look like a giant igloo. This costs him 57 manna. After a couple more hours everyone is ready and Adaon makes the ice archway and creates his portal for everyone to go to Valkra through. The portal costs him another 173 base manna. Everyone flees!       After a bit Adaon speaks with Gudrun and finds out where outlying villages are so that he can go and alert them. There are two that are in stress, currently being raided by Gnar and goblins. The trio of heroes prepares for battle and transports to the first of these two villages. As Adaon arrives, he quickly hides and begins to cast his portal. Just before it opens, he is spotted and shot at. The arrows bounce off the magic shield he cast upon himself. Four goblins charge! And Ivan and Cyren walk through the portal, just appearing out of thin air. One of the goblins stops, stunned by this. Ivan and Cyren quickly dispatch the remaining three.   Cyren then takes off from the group looking for battle. He comes across five goblins, whom he quickly defeats, killing three and disabling one, while the last one flees. Adaon uses magic to disrupt a group of six goblins fleeing with loot. They panic from his magical attack, dropping their loot and running away in all directions. Ivan fights a large gnar, whom he handily defeats and captures.   Second village… It is very cold when you arrive. You look around and see that there are several frozen figures in the streets. After a second look, you see that a couple of the figures are goblins, but most are human. The group does a quick exploration of the town. Cyren finds a cellar in one of the houses where there are 2 children, a young woman, a dog, and an incredibly old couple hiding. Once he realizes that there may be more of these hiding places, he searches the town and finds 16 more children and 6 women. Adaon helps get them all back through the portal.   So…   Our heroes plan for their travel to Nalkon City. Ivan asked the Chujarai if they have the airship ready, and they do. So, they can carry the 14 crew members and about 3200 pounds of extra people and the food/cargo for them. The plan is to deal diplomatically with the king of Nalkon. Dathania and Talia would like to go with, as well. This gives them bit of a vacation and adventure.   Brilsi 40   They load up the Chujarai airship and travel to Nalkon City – no adverse events along the way (weather is okay and no encounters). Upon arrival a couple of griffon riders fly up to the ship and ask why they are there. Once Adaon speaks with them – identifying himself and his group as emissaries of Queen Althea – they are escorted down to land in a safe area. Session ends here.