View
Wed 6th Sep 2023 10:22

Session Eleven: Games, rides, and fortunes at the faire

by Asharene Shadowthorn

We are right outside of Hammerfell, and Joe is really excited about a Githyanki egg she has in her room and can't wait to show it to us.
We notice there are no guards at the gate to let us in, and Joe finds an empty tankard on the ground. It smells of Pumpkin spiced ale. We see that the trees behind us are red, yellow and orange, indicating it might be fall?
 
It was spring when we were here before. Elias sends up his familiar and he sees a dwarf lying face down on some rocks. We hear snoring from him. Joe recognizes him to be Doegon, the son of a chairmaker and the guard at the door. He's really wasted.
 
Ash turns herself into a Mole to try and dig underneath the door to see if she can let everyone in from the other side. As she does this, Dermish uses Thaumaturgy to yell really loud and the dwarves let us in.
 
The dwarves on the other side are also really wasted. Apparently it's the last day of Brewfest. We've lost a large amount of the year apparently.
 
Elias goes over his ledger to see if there are any folks here that were scammed by Barrett. Elias wants to still make this right if he can.
 
Joe gives us a tour of the place. Angst talks to Franz about the best way to kill a demon, because he tried to kill some demons when he was younger. Franz says that cold iron weapons are the best way to kill a demon.
 
Joe talks to an old friend named Hilda, and tells her about our adventures in the Abyss. She is super shocked about it and don't understand how or why we would go there.
 
Joe asks about cold iron forging and where we can get some weapons. This is a process that was lost a long time ago, and there are no known weapons that exist anymore.
 
Joe says we can talk to Hagar, the Metallurgist here to learn more information.
 
Hilda tells us that things have been very weird and political here with some outside dwarves. Some dwarves from Eldoria showed up here, they've gotten themselves onto the high council here. There are a lot of folks upset about this.
 
We head over to where Hagar is. He's standing on a ladder, and Angst climbs up and scares the shit out of him. Then everyone climbs the ladder, and he's like WTF?
 
Anyway, we head over to his office. He tells us if we can get some cold iron he may be able to forge it. We can find some from the center of a meteorite OR from deep in the underdark.
 
We run into Blackwood who have been here for several months. QM and Elias's mom are there as well. They haven't been able to make it out of Rimstone Reach due to giants blocking the path. Elias's mom has some kind of un natural necromancy sickness. Someone named Andromeda helped out Elias's mom. He approaches and Elias stands in between them and Angst does divine sense and realizes that this Andromeda is some kind of undead creature. Elias's mom said that she helps make Andromeda stronger in exchange for his help. He claims to not be harming her, but we suspect that he is. She's very pale and sickly looking.
 
Angst casts "Control Undead" and succeeds. He is able to get the truth out of him. They have a symbiotic relationship. He takes care of her and she takes care of him.
 
He claims to have saved her life and throws in Elias's face that she would be dead without him, and says that it is Elias's fault. He says people are hunting her and trying to kill her and he brought her here to keep her safe.
 
We learn he is a Vampire spawn. He says Elias's mother willingly gave him her his blood to make him strong so he can protect her.
 
Angst compels him to tell the truth and he says he had the best intentions for his mom. He claims not to be using her. He's lost his master, and he's on his own. Ashe tries to convince him to join their group and leave Elias's mom and he can feast off the spoils of anything we kill moving forward.
 
 
 
He claims that he and his mom care for each other very much, BUUUUT his mom probably would like for the two of them to bond, so he agrees to go with us.
 
Eric has to leave at this point, BUT Elias does want to confront Blackwood about this whole situation with his mom and this vampire. We may have to retcon this a bit.
 
We decide that we will head to the underdark to try and find cold iron after we leave here. First, we want to see QM, and Joe wants to catch up with her family. Meanwhile, Angst says he doesn't want to see QM again, because he doesn't want him to have to mourn his death a second time if he dies again.
 
Angst goes to the market and agrees to meet us at a statue an a certain time. We go try to find QM and are told he went to investigate the tents that popped up mysteriously.
 
We try to go see Joe's parent's but they aren't home and are expected to be where the tents are.
 
However her brother Dow is home. I guess his life has been pretty terrible lately because of pressure or something.
 
We head to the tents to try and find QM and Joe's parents. There we see that it is The Sanguine Moon Fair. Nobody seems to know how the faire got here, because the paths are blocked by giants. The giants are unusual, because this isn't an area where you usually find them.
 
Anyway, we play some games. Win some prizes. Franz wins a quiver of endless arrow that he may give to Elias as a gift since he can't use it. Angst isn't having fun, so he agrees to just be the dunkee for the dunk tank. We participate in a trivia game and win.
 
Dermish hears from a fortune teller that his parents are not his own. He is the heir of a great magical library of knowledge. His true parents, when he finds them, they will give him an amount of knowledge that will enable Dermish to surpass any other wizard on this plane of existence.
 
Ashe needs to learn how to love and be loved in return before she can start her journey.
 
Joe learns that as long as Angst has the support of his friends, he's going to be ok.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Continue reading...

  1. Session Zero Summer Camp years
  2. Session One: Shadows of Deception- There's demons in town
  3. Session Two: "Bread, Faeries, and Maleficarum: A Confectionary Conundrum"
  4. Session Three: Shadows of Enchantment: Confronting Demons, Trapped in the Fey Wild
  5. Session Four: Ensnared in the Fey's Embrace: A Scarlet Salvation Saga
  6. Session Five:
  7. Session Six: Missed this session
  8. Session Seven: A black dragon in disguise
  9. Session Eight: Tuning Fork of Unknown planes
  10. Session Nine: Welcome to the Abyss
  11. Session 10: Escape the Abyss
  12. Session Eleven: Games, rides, and fortunes at the faire
  13. Session Twelve: Fake Dwarves and Stolen Treasure
  14. Session Thirteen: A purple worm fight and a reunion with a dad
  15. Session Fourteen: A party, A fight and a funeral.
  16. Session Fifteen: Raising Zariel, Saving Andromeda, and making Dermish the ruler of the 9 hells
  17. Session 16: Crossover Aftermath. A fight against Demons
  18. Session 17: Bael's Gate- the 15th of Azuthair
  19. SEssion 18: The Big Cheese and the Way of the Cheese
  20. Session 19: We're making this shit up as we go.
  21. Session 20: And She was Seven
  22. Session 21: I think we have to kill my Aunt.
  23. Session 22: All roads lead to Eldoria
  24. Session 23: A heist given away, and lots of fire.
  25. Session 24: The fall of the house of Harcleave.
  26. Session 25: So many quests. So little time
  27. Session 26: The Living Flame
  28. Session 27: The Living Flame
  29. Session 28: So many things to do and a new place to live I guess
  30. Session 29: The magic school hidden in the Shadowplane
  31. Session 30: Curse of Slaad
  32. Session 31: The Good the Bad and the Oblivious
  33. Session 32: A Harcleve Family Reunion
  34. Session 33: Will the Real Aria Silvermist Please standup
  35. Session 34: Sisterhood of the Traveling Sword
  36. Session 35: Storming the castle of Loadagraph
  37. Session 36: We defeat Loadagraph and have a reunion with Morpheus
  38. Session 37: One Flou Flou over the Dragon's Nest
  39. Session 38: New friends and Floof Hoof reunites with Lukai
  40. Session 39: Murdering Orcs and getting ready for the adventures ahead
  41. Session 40: The Ambushers become the Ambushees
  42. Session 41:
  43. Session 42: Wizards, Lizards and kids in cages! Oh My!
  44. Session 43: Thunderstrike at Crow's Crossing
  45. Session 44: Travel to Pontimunde
  46. Session 45: Adventures in Pontimunde
  47. Session 46: A Reefining: A Who Dun it on the Voyage to New Galvania.
  48. Session 47: See Hunter for notes
  49. Session 48: On our way to Lupine
  50. Session 49: Wolves, Owlbears and Rocs OH MY!
  51. Session 50: Mansions, Rifts of Insanity, and Treasure Chests Oh MY!
  52. Session 51: Adventures in Anastas Village
  53. Session 52: The Magnuses attack the village because of us
  54. Session 53: An ooze named Denise- Meeting the werewolves
  55. Session 54: In which we perfectly impersonate the Magnuses
  56. Session 55:Motes of Shadow
  57. Session 56: Hydyr kills his brother and we meet Mordenkainen
  58. Session 57: A trip to the hells and seeing our old friend Dermish
  59. Session 58: Randi missed
  60. Session 59: Court Dates and Demon Princes
  61. Session 60: Gold returned, saving the Miners and Elois mom, Arud. .
  62. Session 61: Three Brides, an Elephant and a Death.
  63. Session 62: The Red Party Heist
  64. Session 63: The White Party- Oh hi Lyra!
  65. Session 64: Off to the Pyramid- Oh hi Ash!
  66. Session 65: Pyramids, Puzzles and snakes
  67. Session 66: An out of this world fight with Neo the Lid.
  68. Session 67: We defeat the Magnuses
  69. Session 68: Saving the werewolves from the mindflayers
  70. Session 69: Just a tiny group in a regular sized world
  71. Session 70: Randi Missed
  72. Session 71:
  73. Session 72: Fighting fucking moon dragons
  74. Session 73: A fight with Zozth
  75. Session 74: Zozth Fight part 2
  76. Session 75: Is that a sex thing?
  77. Session 77: Terry! Noooooooo!
  78. Session 78: Adventures in a new world???
  79. Session 79: There never was a Hilda and a Helga
  80. Session 80: Actually there WAS a Hilda and a Helga
  81. Session 81: Into the Underdark
  82. The Journal Entry’s title
  83. Session 82:
  84. Session 83:
  85. Session 84: Saving Milikie and getting the rat tale
  86. Session 85: Deals with gods of death
  87. Session 86: The Final Session
  88. NEW CAMPAIGN Characters
  89. The Journal Entry’s title
  90. The Journal Entry’s title
  91. 3- Evangeline is back (after 2 missed sessions)
  92. Clearing out the grave of the Unknown King
  93. Illegal jobs with no training.
  94. Assassination or no?

Hello! <3 I hope you are having a nice day!

Find your way!

Resources

WHO WE ARE

LEGAL

Get the news

Worldbuilding Academy

Listen to our Podcast

Gold Ennie 2019 for Best Digital Aid
by 3 Armored Kittens · Prodromos v.1.1 - World Anvil 0.9.15.050 © 2017-2025 [en] | Anvil Time: 23:21, Jul 20 2026