Session III Report: Better Days
General Summary
We return to our heroes around the campfire in Ivnieth's now abandoned lair as they have something to eat and talk among themselves a bit. As the sun descended into evening, they set up their watch rotation for the night and settle in for some rest, Mielikki taking the first two shifts as she need only trance for 4 hours a night, followed by Vimley and Claudette. The night went by pretty uneventfully, Mielikki having a quiet conversation with a familiar-to-her voice and catching one of the Kobolds from a little way down the mountain trail peeking in on the group, and during Vimley's watch it started to rain. Not too long after dawn the following morning, the group packed up and made their way back down the trail, once again encountering the two Kobolds who wasted no time in approaching the party to prompt them for word of what they know of the black dragon. Upon mention of killing the young black dragon tensions began to rise and seeing Mielikki a little flustered, Ineia jumped in to set them straight. At this, the Kobolds returned to trying to light their campfire in the rain and the party continued making their way along the mountain trail, handily getting past the crumbled path with some clever use of Mold Earth and a rope and crossbow bolt. Once reaching swamp level, Ineia took her leave to head north, letting the party know that she will be in touch in 5 days time to check in on them and what they find at the anomaly. While passing what remained of the giant snake they had fought the previous day, Vimley pulled her crossbow bolt free, while Taliesin pondered his actions, choosing to see what would happen if they fed this half of a now-rotting snake to their newly found Bag of Devouring. Cautiously dropping it into the orifice, the bag chomped and devoured it. So they named it Chewie and continued towards Shairdsmire, where they went straight for the reeve's manor to hopefully find Veliko Kulak at his home. His husband Aelfric informs them the Veliko isn't home but can be found at the barn or maybe in the tavern so our heroes made their way to The Gilded Goat, where Veliko was anxiously having some food with his friends. He quickly took his leave to step outside with the party where they discussed what they found in their investigations. Upon learning that Shairdsmire was free of the black dragon's tyranny but perhaps on peril of the rest of Rania, Veliko decided that it made sense for the heroes to hold onto the treasure they recovered in the lair and take the reward if they were to go out there and take on this threat. With that and the promise of helping to spread the word that Shairdsmire is once again safe and looking to open up trade routes, our heroes said goodbye to the dreary little village, the place that brought them together, and turned south, venturing once more into the swamps, following whatever dry land they could. Along their way, they were witness to a strange presence, a woman with pale skin, curled auburn hair decorated with white flowers and a pale green dress just walking through the foliage ahead of them... and then vanishing. Three times they saw her, with the third disrupted by a second figure, a tall fox-like creature with much longer legs and a dark mane wearing leather pauldrons leapt at the woman, looking right at Taliesin with glowing green eyes before they both disappeared and it felt as though a weight was lifted from the travellers.
Rewards Granted
16 gold pieces, 28 silver pieces, a small carved statuette of Aerich, Roc feather 8 servings of freshly found food
Missions/Quests Completed
- Completed the Shairdsmire prologue
- Started making the way to Helzand
Character(s) interacted with
- Ineia
- Kriv and Sora
- Bag of Devouring
- Aelfric Kulak
- Veliko Kulak
- Danil
- Sokol
- Relga
- Wendel
- Swamp Creature
