Letter to Hastsel King - and Who is Meino?

Game session: 05-Oct-2019

Party group:
Luther, Narcan, Putz, Uvarum, Kursk, Imlazor, Malas and NPC Kursk
 
Anansimon 4th to the 7th
Celebrated at Boggs Landing the rescue/release of prisoners. Brand declared to be shield warrior to Kursk. Boggs Landing leader, Baron Maynor, requests the group to take a letter to Hastsel King. Medwin our NPC cleric decides to retire from adventure life. Luther growls at him, "Likes the glory and gold but no guts for the guts and gore!". Make it to Hastsel and pass off letter to the king, who seems not to care. Part of group goes to local library to scurry among blasted dusty musty books to learn anything about lost elf colony. The rest of us crew are looking for some drink when we pass what looks to be a "Gandalf", local slang for vagabond mage tricksters that wander from town to town and sometimes chased from town. Dang burned Erde tattoo got an itching and we just got to follow this feller. Now Kursk, no idea what it means to follow casual like. So he just blows right into the store this Gandalf type entered, asked some questions and next thing Gandalf is a gone like snap. I think Putz put the eye on this fellers mule and cart, happens to find an old odd leather book. Reads like some journal thing and some crew planning to off Aginor the dragon, including some mage named Meino. By Aule's Nads that sounds like interesting. So somebody thinking right, thinks the mule will lead us to our "Gandalf" camp and gave it a gidda-yup. Around out to the country we go, for a good day. Got attacked once by three bees as big as the mule itself. Those got buzz-it splat right quick.
 

Game session: 19-Oct-2019

Party group:
Luther, Uvarum, Kursk, Imlazor, Malas and NPC Kursk
 
Anansimon 7th to 14th
The mule, leading the group right to an old sturdy small barn. Imlazor goes chat up a farm family we see nearby who say they get paid to take care of the mule when the owner is around who matches the description of who we seen. Luther finds a trail from the barn and it ends at a clearing. Imlazor believes that a magic house used to be here and then notices the group being watched magically, scrying is what he says it is. Next morning, Uvarum says he got a message from a bird from Fandae telling group to head north to meet Ildrane, elf lord of Ildranes Grove, a settlement to learn about humans.
 
Meet Ildrane the high lord himself. Nice enough to give us all nice elvish cloaks with elvish magic to help hide. Luther was polite enough to not tell him he was wasting some good cloth with this motley crew. Ildrane only had passing knowledge of a lost elf colony in the swamp and heard vague rumors of some orb they allegedly used. Imlazor spent some time reading that old book and found out some crew did attack Aginor but they failed. The name Meino came up and story was from about 100 years ago, Meino survived but was cursed or tainted in some fashion.
 
Head back south to Hastsel by way of Ramoth Creek to chat with the Baron there. Got him informed of what goblins are doing, the rescue of some prisoners. Luther suggests, if he had not done so, the Baron send letters to coordinate help with Ildrane and Skodorak against the goblin raiders. GADzooks, heading back to Hastsel to once again go thru musty dusty library to find any tales or stories about Meino but only found bare general information. Luther decides got better things for his time, and was correct. Met with a fine slender human lass barmaid, she of long black hair named Liesl, next morning she said come back and see her again when it town.