The Yeti Army Report

General Summary

Brilsi 34 - Cyren   Cyren is tracking another group of humans from the outpost keep who have fled north. They have at least a ten hour start on him. He decides to rest at the abandoned castle and start fresh at sunrise.   When morning comes, he heads off alone to the north. Weather is nice, so no interference there. However, five hours out he hears wargs. He quickly takes off his snowshoes and scrambles up a tree. Once in the tree, he settles in and pulls out his air bow (a magical bow that renders the effects of wind null when shooting). He shoots two times quickly, aiming to disable the warg. He cripples the it.   Five more wargs come from the trees. One of them is snowy white, thus much harder to see. It appears to be the leader. Cyren shoots it in the shoulder, crippling it (for now). It goes down, but remains conscious. It's angry, but cannot do anything. The other four continue to approach Cyren using the trees as cover, so he can't easily shoot at them.   Cyren prays to Atrethea for favour. One of the wargs has the snow from a tree fall towards it, so it dances out of the way, exposing it. Cyren shoots it, crippling it. It passes out, so Cyren puts it out of its misery. The other four flee, two of them helping the injured pack leader. Cyren climbs down from the tree, as he is sure they have left. He thanks Atrethea.   Realizing that he needs to find a way to catch up the refugees, Cyren decides to travel as hard as he can, pushing through the next night, as well, to catch up to the refugees. Nothing bothers him in the night, which is highly unusual.   Brilsi 35   After traveling all night, Cyren comes across a group of humans surrounded by at least 10 goblins riding wargs. The goblins ride around, once in while turning in and trying to attack past the humans' spears and shields. One of the humans already lies outside the circle, dead.   Cyren realises that no-one see him. He sets up ready to use his weapons in order - crossbow, bow, then sword and shield. He shoots the crossbow, killing the warg he aims at instantly. He then shoots another warg, crippling it. Because of his distance, he keeps picking off wargs and goblins as they charge up the hill towards towards him.   Because of his skill and higher ground advantage, Cyren is able to hit several of the goblins and wargs, which causes them to flee. Once they flee, Cyren goes and puts any injured wargs out of their misery. There is one goblin with a shattered arm. Cyren sets this, and leaves the goblin behind. He then leads the humans back to the castle, which will take two days, bringing the dead human with, so that they can give him a proper burial.   Brilsi 37   Cyren goes back to the castle, and discovers that there is someone inside who has fortified it. Using his excellent tracking skills, he scouts it out and finds that there are at least 50 people in there (not sure what species). So Cyren sneaks his group past to shelter in the hidden bunker. Everyone is safe!   --------------------   Brilsi 34 - Ivan and Adaon   Adaon spends an hour teaching Ivan to fight while under the influence of the spell ablative ice. Adaon prepares another spell, Snow Scream, which is VERY difficult and large, so Adaon casts it from stored energy he has in an ice node. {Note: nodes are a special term that Adaon uses for when he stores specific elemental energies to use in his spells. This is much like storing spells in a staff for later use, which is a common practice for wizards to do.}   Adaon thinks hard about how to deal with the small military force.   As they approach, Ivan shoots the scout who is at the camp perimeter. However, he hits him in the belly, and the scout screams as he dies, alerting the camp. Adaon runs to the fallen body and begins his spell. This will take 34 seconds to cast, so Ivan has to keep him safe for that time period. Ivan shoots another scout, killing him. The spell goes off.   The spell is so powerful that the army is incapacitated or flees, except the land dragon and its trainer, who charge after Adaon.   Adaon casts a nature spell that quickly grows a tree from a seed that he has. This impales the land dragon through the chest, killing it instantly. The rider falls, spraining his ankle. He tries to flee from Adaon, but cannot move quickly enough. As Adaon and Ivan get close he falls to the snow, disappearing. Adaon casts "quake", which half buries the guy. Adaon pulls him from the ground. Meanwhile Ivan has to shoot at a scout. He misses. The scout has also shot, and hits Ivan in the groin. Luckily, Adaon's spell, Ablative Ice, kicks in and halves the damage, with armour, there is no damage.   They shoot at each other again, the scout misses. But Ivan hits for 16 damage in the shin, crippling him. Adaon and Ivan go to him. Adaon grabs him and looks deep into his eyes -- Adaon asks him, "What's going on?" The man is stunned due to fear, and does not answer. Therefore, Adaon looks into his brain. He sees that the man was expecting to raid nearby settlements and take what he wanted. He then tells Adaon that there were just over 100 yeti, 40 goblins, 20 humans, and 20 wargs, plus the land dragon in the army. Adaon knows that there are other creatures that the goblin seems not to know of.   The goblin tells Adaon that leader of the army was someone who may have been human, unless he was a very tall goblin, since he was at least 6 feet tall. He was dressed all in white. Adaon casts out a detect mind spell to see if there is anyone waiting in ambush. There are two, one goblin and one human. Adaon takes out his bow and shoots at the goblin, hitting him for 3 damage to the face.   He shoots him again in the thigh, crippling him. The other guy is shooting at Adaon. The other guy shoots Adaon, but Adaon has a spell that reflects the damage back. He flees.   Adaon and Ivan decide to follow the army. Adaon casts his detect trap/ambush spell as they follow. They see that the army was scattered. As the proceed to the centre of the area, Adaon's detection spell goes off. Ivan throws his hammer into it, and it disappears into the snow. He calls it back. They realise that the trap was magical. They do not investigate the trap further.   The pair decide to follow the biggest clump of boot tracks. Adaon casts Breath of Wind so that they don't have to breathe for a while, which will prevent them from suffering from oxygen deprivation, regardless of elevation or exertion. This also prevents them from tiring as quickly, (adds +3 to con checks for stamina).   After 90 minutes they come across two corpses, which are partially looted. Another 90 minutes and they can see the group, which is 8 goblins, plus another figure that they can't tell whether it's human or goblin, and two wargs. Adaon casts an illusion that makes them all white, camouflaging him and Ivan.   Adaon is worried about Windigo in the army, which he did see earlier signs of - up to 40 of them. The fleeing goblins continue into the foothills. After a couple more hours, Ivan realises how far north they are heading, and they are getting into gnar territory. The pair decide to shoot at the goblins. Ivan shoots at a warg, while Adaon shoots at a goblin. Ivan kills the warg, while Adaon injures a goblin in the neck. The goblins flee! As they push forward, Ivan shoots and cripples the other warg.   Ivan and Adaon let the goblins flee. They then decide to go back to the castle. Adaon says they should walk back. An argument ensues, as Ivan doesn't want to walk. Adaon explains how long it will take to get the mana back. They decide to port. Adaon uses his magical sword to port back to the castle courtyard. It is occupied. He immediately sees the danger of an occupied castle and ports inside the dungeon guard room. It is empty. From here he makes a gate for Ivan to come through.   [GM note: The castle is occupied by demonic forces. They have decided that this would make a decent outer base to use. There are several humans and goblins here being used as regular forces, a few gnar, and more than a dozen demons. They are working under the direction of a major frost-demon. The major frost demon will send weaker demons to do its bidding before it engages anyone. There will also be innumerable imps and small fiends hanging around at random.]   As they proceed to leave the dungeon area, Adaon sees a small creature, no more than 5 or 6 inches tall, dive into a rat hole, frightened by their presence. He tells Ivan. When they get to the top of the stairs, Ivan listens at the top of the stairs and hears Gnar speaking about eating humans. They also recognize goblin accents. They rush into the area and Adaon goes to punch the 2 goblins, while Ivan is left to fight 3 gnar.   Ivan breaks the first gnar's arm with his hammer, Adaon knocks out both goblins. Ivan hits the next gnar for 13 damage to his shoulder, breaking its shoulder. The final is scrambling to flee... Adaon attempts a knee kick, but misses, the gnar starts screaming and running. The hallway frosts up and temperature drops by 30 degrees. The gnar screams in fear and runs down a side hall. The temperature continues to drop, even Ivan is getting cold.   Adaon casts a warmth spell to keep them warm. It drops to -50, but they only feel it as if it's -20. Ivan kicks the door in front of them, and feels like he just kicked a wall. So, Adaon casts shatter on the door. Ivan then kicks it down, destroying the door. The room they enter continues to fall in temperature, so Adaon counters with fire magic, heating the place up. This infuriates the demon, so it continues to fight as best it can. Adaon is hurting it. The demon moves to a different area and continues to freeze things. Another frost demon comes to its aid (there are a few of them).   After several exchanges, they manage to halt the advance of the ice. They proceed down the hall. As they do, a third demon appears behind them. Adaon attacks it with psychic lance; it doesn't effect the demon.   The demon attacks Ivan, scratching through his armour. The wound burns, but Ivan is tough and manages to ignore the pain. He hits the demon, but it shrugs it off.   Adaon decides to wrestle the corporeal demon (the non-ice one). As he jumps onto it, Ivan tries to grab it but misses. The demon realizes that Adaon is on it; it disappears, taking him with.   [Session ends here.]

Missions/Quests Completed

• Cyren has managed to save the human refugees from the overrun castle.
• Ivan and Adaon broke up the yeti army, destroying the spell that held the army together (even though did not know that. The spell was tied to the land dragon's rider, with his death, anything holding the army together is no longer in effect.

Notes

The trap in the camp held three prisoners. However, because it wasn't investigated, the prisoners were left behind. By now they have frozen to death.