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Session 8: Blackwater Farms

by Gek Ferox

Travel 17-19/5/1436


Blackwater Farms
  • Marsh has sunk a couple of houses, eerily silent, sinkhole in corner of building, purposly made- there is a tunnel inside the wall heading East towards the mountains, maybe made by the Trogladites and purposely caved in so the tunnel can't be seen

  • Leather armour had been ripped off a person and a pierced hole in the chest looks like from a spear, snapped sword, no acid damage (not an Ankheg), letter soaked in water so illegible, all metal has been ripped away and taken

  • Barn with a couple of ripped open barrels either with rotten food or nothing inside, dagger- has trogladite blood on it from over a few days and less than a few weeks ago, hole in wall that goes outside looks like they ran through the wall, leads to prints that look like footprints with armour on them- either fullplate or halfplate, they come from the windmill go into the house and then leave through the hole in the wall

  • This place had been fully abandoned before the trogladites were here, someone came here since then and had an encounter with trogladites

Following Prints
  • When the prints go into the treeline they drastically swerve and start picking up speed into a run, spear jammed into a tree looks like a trogladite spear- trogladite would have gotten the spear back so either died, had to keep running and no time to get it or gave up early for some other reason

  • The prints join to the road not running anymore, prints are hard to follow now, tracks leave the road- we're going to Dullman's Rest- small fort made by adventure used as communal place of rest


Dullman's Rest 19-20/5/1436


  • Gunther Whitebeard- Dwarf in fullplate armour, likely the man whose tracks we had been following, fully asleep

  • Group of people have the Ralken League sigil on their cloaks, Viper Brotherhood (their company name or something), told us the Dwarf's friend died, the elf recognises the spear from the tree was made by a blacksmith from Shelon, they're investigating chanting coming from the forest perhaps a cult, Otar legend- half dragon terrorising the place

  • 12 people in black robes come in wearing cloaks and hoods covering their faces, gilded trim on the cloaks, identical to the people who Demeter had hired to collect bodies ect.

  • Loud thudding footsteps coming from the distance, Vermeer is here, Red Slaad next to him, Vermeers jaw hinges open more than is should and sorta croaks and then the Slaad starts spriting towards us, Vermeer disappears

  • As the Demeter cultists get killed by the Slaad they are smiling and laughing, two spellcasting cult dudes, one has a white masks and says "The honour of Dullman's Rest shall be upheld, your blood shall not be spilled today" then enters his tent and doesn't help, he uses a black and purple scythe as his spiritual weapon

  • Demeter is here

  • Niamh asks if she can talk to Demeter- "your connection to her no longer matters, the Queen of Blades has protected you" they are her retainers and lowly servants, they gave Niamh a bag of coins from Demeter as a gift

  • Demeter left in a spell circle either teleportation or concealment, the circle must link to another circle

Continue reading...

  1. Session 1: (Very) Humble Beginnings
    19-20/4/1436
  2. Session 2: The Search Begins
    20-28/4/1436
  3. Session 3: The Worldshade Caverns
    28/4- 7/5/1436
  4. Session 4: A New Face
    7-11/5/1436
  5. Session 8: Blackwater Farms
    17-20/5/1436
  6. Session 5: Battle Toads
    11-16/5/1436
  7. Session 9: Mystery in Daylight
    20-21/5/1436
  8. Session 10: Questions Unanswered
    21-26/5/1436.
  9. Session 6: An Old Friend
    16/5/1436
  10. Session 11: Preparations
    26-30/5/1436
  11. Session 12: Hidden Below
    30/5/1436
  12. Session 14: Fruition
    2-3/6/1436
  13. Session 15: The Hunt Begins
    3-12/6/1436
  14. Sesssion 18: The Battle for Black Pearl Keep
    14-15/6/1436
  15. Session 13: Blessed Spirits
    30-31/5/1436
  16. Session 17: Infiltration
    13-14/6/1436
  17. Session 19: Daytrip to Silcerion
    29/6- 4/7/1436
  18. Session 16: Diplomacy
    12-13/6/1436
  19. Session 20: Evasive Manoeuvers
    9/7/1436
  20. Session 21: Rocky Road
    9-10/7/1436
  21. Session 22: Getting Personal
    10-13/7/1437
  22. Session 23: The Penuntimate Hunt
    13-14/7/1436
  23. Session 7: The Road not Taken
    16-17/5/1436
  24. Session 27: The Katsuko Estate
    23-29/7/1436
  25. Session 28: Inherited Nightmare
    29/7/1436
  26. Session 24: A Prayer Answered
    15/7/1436
  27. Session 24.5: The Rise of the Queen of Blades
  28. Session 25: Homeward Bound
    15-22/7/1436
  29. Session 29: Susanoo-no-mikoto-no-katsuko
    29-5/7-8/1436
  30. Session 30- Tower Defense
    5-14/8/1436
  31. Session 31: Treacherous Travels
    15-1/8-9/1436
  32. Session 32: Far from Home
    26-11/8-9/1436
  33. Session 33: Two Steps Forward
    11-16/6/1436
  34. Session 34: One Step Back
    17/6/1436
  35. Session 35: Into the Unknown
  36. Session 36: Katabasis
  37. Session 39: Fear of the Dark
  38. Session 40- Pearl of the Sea
  39. Session 41- The Calm
  40. Session 42- Katabasis Act 1

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