Session 7: Fort Strongbow Report

Octavius and Masked Master go to Gallows Rock to renew their months. They meet Vaern

They encounter a party of Vestidians under Rouland the One-Handed that are executing a man and a woman who had stolen from the granary of Lord Wimark of Dagmar's Finger.

They head north and find Fort Strongbow - a haven of ghosts

Vaern tries to push through the beams, and in doing so sees a ghostly scene of people in the tower. He drops the beam, which triggers some supernatural event. He sees the whole scene as though it were flesh and blood, and is led by a soldier.

Torvald touches a sword that is on the rack and takes it, and is transported back six years to when the fort was being attacked by Typhon. He is in a room of wounded, and an officer comes inside asking for more soldiers for the walls. Torvald is dragged out to the palisade walls and sees the absolute terror of the demons beyond.

Vaern visits a tower, and finds the ghost of a small girl. He goes up the tower and finds her skeleton in a barrel. The scene becomes flesh and blood once more, and the girl is in the barrel and needs help. Vaern pulls her out, turns around, and sees dead bodies inside the tower. They head down more and see more bodies in a pile. They try to go through the door, and they are met with the towering form of a demon. He slashes down at them, the girl shrieks, and he wakes up.

Aedugar of Roldor is the commander of the fort defenses. He has gone mad. Octavius is corrupted by a knife among some ashes and burnt wood. He tries to resist, but is corrupted. Like a possessed man, he rambles on about a sacrifice and saving their souls. He plunges the knife into the Masked Master's chest after breaking his sword.

Octavius is banished from Gallows Rock and loses his rights to land. He leaves Dornum to go northwest and hunt down Nezhar, his singular duty above all others.