Session 20: Timara's Champion
General Summary
Previous Session: Session 19: The Clutter Beneath
The Lads left the Silk Guild, leaving the village and heading towards the town of Norlun.
On the way, they discuss how they intend to deal with Zesto once they reach his headquarters, Zesto's Finest.
Hettle, while resting during the trip and guarding the Party that night, had nightmares of the destruction that befell his birthplace.
They wake the next morning and continue travelling, along the way they are stopped by a gang of bandits joined by a woman in light blue cleric's robes.
Combat ensues as the bandits fire their crossbows at the Party and they charge the bandits. Several of the bandits are killed, as they refuse the Paladins' offers to surrender and live.
Willow fires his longbow at the cleric which strikes true but flies right through them with no effect. More attempts are made to hit the cleric but they, too, pass right through.
Jaraleto deduces and announces that the cleric is an illusion, and Skha'k manages to catch a glimpse of someone hiding in the nearby bushes with the same attire.
Jaraleto notices this person as well and Willow shoots at them, causing the cleric to yell out in pain, and revealing their location to the party.
Before they have a chance to escape, Hettle casts Heat Metal on the cleric's dagger which causes much of their body to be engulfed in flames, killing them instantly.
Of what survived on their body, the party finds the cleric's holy symbol depicting a dagger shrouded in mist, their ornate silver dagger, and a scroll case containing a crudely drawn map.
The map depicts the road they are currently on and a dotted line through the forest south of Norlun. The map also shows the holy symbol pointing to an altar at a marked location.
The party takes this and follows it for several hours before reaching a clearing with a ruined temple and 2 bandits standing guard outside.
The party attacks, Hettle causing one bandit to flee in terror inside, and killing the other one.
The party then surrounds the temple and enters, swiftly dealing with the other 4 bandits inside.
After the battle, Jaraleto make several attempts with the holy symbol on the statue behind the altar to no effect.
Glen takes the holy book on the altar and reads it; the book has many lines telling their followers to cause mischief, deceive others, and enjoy the fruits of trickery.
Glen then takes the holy symbol from Jaraleto and places it onto the altar, and the commanding, feminine voice of Timara, Lady of Trickery echoes in his mind.
She laments Glen's wasted devotion to Bane and offers him greater power in exchange for devoting himself to her, asking that he complete a small quest to prove himself first.
She tells him to sneak into the Church of Good Fortune in Norlun and steal a precious holy symbol from a chest in the high priest's office, undetected.
He must then bring the symbol back to the Temple of Timara and place it into the stone bowl on the altar.
Glen accepts, and a radiant white-blue glow surrounds Glen, bestowing him with the gifts of Timara to aid him in retrieving the amulet.
Next Session: Session 21: Thief of Good Fortune
Rewards Granted
Cleric:
Ornate Dagger
Holy Amulet of Timara
Map to Temple of Timara
Temple Bandits:
3 SP
5 CP
Character(s) interacted with
Cleric of Timara
Timara, Mistress of Mischief
