Session 0: The Beginning

General Summary

Our story began with the party arriving at the remote mountain village of Marlgrave, this small town was located in the Spine of Kallex just a day's journey north of the Feyline. The group has been assigned to travel to this town that has been suffering from an increased amount of troll attacks. This is a job that has been created directly by the Dagger Guild because they have constructed a new tavern in the town and have an interest in seeing it grow so that they can create more business in the area.   The party consisting of a Cleric, a Witch and a Red Mage arrived in Marlgrave on the 4th of Winter's Morning. The air is already cool and winter can be felt in the near future by all but there is no snow on the ground yet. The area is mountainous and heavily forested, the roads are unkept and narrow in a way that makes travel treacherous without the monsters and orcs that make their home in the Spine. With the sun already dipping down in the distance the group finds themselves in the newly built tavern, the Silver Scale which has everything a tavern could be expected to offer but is lacking the expected customers. Nonetheless, they were able to meet with the Tavern owner who had become a resident of the town no more than 2 weeks prior. This white Dragonborn is named Teekel Swiftclaw, hopeful and with a knowledge of various drinks around the continent but overall without a large amount of common sense.   The group spends some time talking to the few locals in the tavern, finding that they are drained and feel the situation is hopeless as Trolls keep raiding the town, destroying buildings and pushing past any walls that have been built. This makes it almost impossible for supplies to be delivered, with the onset of winter many of the citizens wish that they could leave as many of the guards already have. After this, the group scouts around the town and visits a watchtower that is little more than a ropeladder leading to a high point on a nearbycliff. They also visit a shrine to an animal lord, a demi-god of the Ursakin known as Freena the One-Eyed.   After this they spend time examining the buildings that have been destroyed and their proximity to the center of town as they look for patterns. They determine that there never appear to be more than 3 trolls attacking from the tracks shown, that the buildings appear to be destroyed farther away from the center of town where the path to the shrine in the mountainside is located. While doing this investigation they are surprised that a troll has quietly crept into the town and has decided to look into the kitchen window of the tavern. The party quietly tries to take their positions around the building to ambush the troll but while they prepare the troll smashes the wall on the side on the tavern and siezes the tavern owner. The party launches their ambush and after a risky fight they manage to bring the beast down with no casualties and reduce its body to a smoldering heap.