CoS Session 27: Temple Preservation

General Summary

6/4/875

• The party heads up to Avicenna towards the Temple of Murdane, an ancient building in honor of the god Helm's dead wife
• Azrael warns that Avicenna’s trying to destroy it
• Party will pretend to be farmers on the way there
• Medraad and Elan disguise themselves to hide races
• Sebastian found a new magic serum to give his cow Belle
• It makes her milk taste like a different food each time!
• They make it to the Avicenna/Gameth border, Gamerian squad stops them
• Lt. Cordray, Vera’s husband, stops them from passing
• Party tries convincing him to let them through, he refuses
• Eventually Cordray suggests party take the mountain pass instead
• So they do

7/2/875

• It’s a long trek through the mountains
• The trail is narrow, barely wide enough for wagon
• After failed survival roll Medraad, Elan, Sebastian fall off trail with the wagon
• Nikolaj avoids the collapsed trail, and party’s relatively unscathed
• They’ll have to reunite in morning when trail converges
• That night the party sets up campfire, Medraad notices cave few yards away
• He goes inside, contacts Man in Black
• Man in Black, smoking cigar, explains why Murdane’s important
• She was Helm’s wife, died in ancient battle of gods
• If her temple’s destroyed, Helm may fall into Coven’s hand
• Man in Black leaves, Medraad sees stone giant once shadows clear
• Boss Fight: Stone Giant
• Elan and Sebastian hear stone giant roar, run to cave
• With Fear cast by Elan, giant flees deeper into cave away from party
• Party notices a couple of dead Avicennan soldiers before leaving cave
• Medraad finds a note on one of them about a ‘bird in the hand’
• Elan brings one of the dead soldiers back from dead for a few minutes to ask him question
• She puts on disguise, pretends they’re soldiers from the future
• Soldier died hunting down stone giants
• Can’t say much about Bird in the Hand, only worked on frontier
• Says they’ve been researching it for years on the island of Charybdis
• Then he dies
• The party starts running out of the cave when they hear the stone giant coming back
• They find Nikolaj a few hours later, rest for the day
• It’s not that long until they come across Temple of Murdane
• It’s a massive monument chiseled into side of mountain
• Helm’s worshippers built statue, altar, stairs in her honor
• Avicennan soldiers are unloading wagons, moving something at its base
• Party comes up with plan to infiltrate Avicennan garrison
• Medraad and Elan will disguise themselves
• Nikolaj will be invisible
• Sebastian will pretend to be incomprehensible mountain guide
• So the party travels down mountain and approaches Avicennans
• Medraad shows them some fake papers and convinces them
• A couple of guards want Sebastian, a halfling, to leave
• Elan and Medraad convince them to let him stay if he’s tied up in wagon
• So the rest of party explores temple and camp
• Major Komene, head of garrison, introduces self
• Medraad helps party unload wagons
• They’re full of explosives, being placed at temple pillars
• Elan flirts with Major Komene
• Nikolaj checks on temple and Major’s tent
• He finds some maps of enchanted locations and temples
• There’s also a letter about the Bird in the Hand
• That night the party decides to sabotage the Avicennan camp
• Elan gets the thirty some-odd soldiers good and wasted
• She performs a touching rendition of an Avicennan anthem
• They all fall asleep or into deep stupor
• She even seduces Major and gives him spiked drink
• The others deal with the explosives up at the temple
• Medraad defuses half of the explosives
• Sebastian, Nikolaj and him move the rest of them into camp
• They set up some wires and fuses to the explosives
• Elan checks on Major one last time before detonation to kill him
• Oh, but he’s awake again with an automatic crossbow
• She takes damage running away, but she gets back to party wagon
• Right as they reach wagon, the entire camp is engulfed in a massive whitish-greenish explosion
• Some of the temple steps are singed, but it’s safe
• Party doesn’t stick around for long, worried about reinforcements arriving

7/3/875

• The party receives a crow from the Handgun
• They give the crow the Major’s shiny medallion, and in return they receive a message from Azrael
• Job well done, now they need to head to Ravi for next assignment
• After minute of violent retching, crow throws up four bags of 300GP
• The party sticks to back roads and trails, comes across big guy with black beard
• He’s riding very small horse, and it’s Helm
• He thanks them for saving his wife’s temple
• Helm can’t promise he’ll join Rexfur’s pantheon
• But he’ll go whichever way Erivo goes
• Elan convinces him to talk to Roland once in a while
• The party keeps a low profile most of the time
• A villager notices Elan’s half-elf ears
• She somehow convinces him that they’re the latest fashion in Kanara
• Also, an update on Catriona and Roland in Gameria
• The two of them hang out every now and then
• Alma has gone clean after being saved from Court
• She still works in the Temple of Erivo, Catriona stayed in town
• Roland has a bit of a slow transition to political life
• He goes to the fighting pits to blow off steam
• Theron tells him to go easy, she is pregnant after all!

Report Date

30 Mar 2019

Primary Location

Nestorian Mtns.