Session 21 Report

General Summary

Follen 16 Redfall 834EA

While Pōtiki, Harthe and Suiadan Innion discussed what to do next after dispatching Captain Adzel in the bandit stronghold outside of Maksary, they were suddenly interrupted at several more bandits came running in from the north eastern door. The party killed a couple as they came in and then a large tiefling woman came in and quickly assessed the scene, including the dead Captain on the floor. She asked if they were good. They said yes so she quickly turned on the rest of the bandits behind her and helped the Venturers to kill the last of them. The tiefling woman introduced herself as Jodariel Balakin and told them about how she had been tasked to infiltrate the stronghold to find out what Captain Adzel was up to. The venturers tried to read her motives and found her trustworthy. While fossicking around the room, Jodi was able to find a key under a false bottom of one of the desk drawers. They were about to try see if it fit in the locked chest, when a stone paperweight on the desk started to shake and a projected image of an elven man with long slicked back blonde hair appeared above it. Harthe was suddenly struck with a flash of recognition of the face and had a long forgotten memory hit him of running away with his parents and being chased by the elf and several other people. The elf deduced that the party were the adventurers were the ones wiping out some of his lowly hirelings and told them they would not be able to stop him from finding the artifacts. They tried to ask him but he did not listen. They asked him what his name was and he told them they could call him the shadow duke. He then disappeared again. Shu then tested the key on the chest and found it fit perfectly. He unlocked the chest and was immediately hit with a wave of psychic energy but was able to easily shake it off with no negative effects. Inside the chest they found a note that identified 'The Shadow Duke' aka the mysterious 'Y' by name - Yaseen. Buoyed by their discovery of a lead at long last, they started to discuss how to leave. Jodi told them there was a teleportation circle in the kitchen storage room that the bandits used, but first she had heard that there were people imprisoned in one of the rooms of the stronghold that she wanted to free. She led them towards where she believed them to be so that they could release them. On the way, they found a large room filled with an incredible amount of treasure. They scooped up as much as they could carry and then carried on to the next room from where they could vaguely hear voices. They entered the room and found several people in cages and one strapped to a table with two bandits standing over them with torture implements. The party fought the two bandits and killed them. They then released each of the weakened prisoners who identified themselves as Astrid, a female gnome, Isadora Millen, a female human, Osane Boroughs and Ivetta James, non-binary humans, and Silveril Shi'mynk and Zelph Shi'mynk, twin male elf brothers, and learnt how they had been targeted because of their magical abilities. Astrid told them there had been more prisoners but some didn't survive while most of the others were taken away. Most of the prisoners had come from Maksary and the surrounding regions, while others had been abducted in and around Grechia. Some from their homes, others from the road. Astrid told them how most of the bandits had been recruited from Maksary and nearby towns and some therefore had knowledge of who were magic users in the towns and brought them in. The Venturers took the prisoners to the dining room and Jodi organised food and drink for them from the kitchen staff who seemed grateful enough just to be left alive, not being trained in combat themselves. While the freed captives were eating and regaining their strength, Suiadan, Harthe and Po discussed how to divvy up their findings. Po pointed out that many of the weirder items they had found were probably magic items and probably belonged to the former prisoners originally. They decided to not take the items out into the open in front of the distracted diners after all. Jodi then led everyone to the kitchen storage room where the teleportation circle was held. Harthe took the time to note the design of it in his spellbook for when he has developed his skills enough to master teleportation magic. Jodi then activated the teleportation circle and they all went through with Astrid, Osane, Ivetta, Silveril, Zelpha and Isadora and found themselves in the forest again just a few metres from the stronghold. Harthe copied down the design for this teleportation circle into his spellbook as well. Jodi told the group that she had been sent to infiltrate and investigate the bandit stronghold by Glynna Willowbank from Maksary temple of Unnia and that she needed to report back to her. The others agreed to go with her since they were heading to Maksary anyway. Upon arriving in Maksary, Astrid, Osane, Isadora, Ivetta, Zelph and Silveril arranged among themselves places to stay among those that already had residences in the township. They thanked the Venturers for their rescue and apologised that they did not have enough room to accommodate them as well. Slightly put out having remembered the local tavern did not have accommodations either, the party was advised by Jodi that there would be lodgings available for them at the temple. They arrived at the temple as the sun was setting and found Glynna, a halfling woman cleric who was immediately excited at Jodi's arrival the news she and her new friends brought. She told them how she had found out about the stronghold by communing with Unnia after being concerned about the notices for mercenaries around town and hearing reports of people going missing from their homes. She told them how Jodi had shown up and Unnia had guided her to recruit Jodi to investigate. Upon hearing they were looking to stay the night at the temple, she immediately declined their request and insisted instead that they all come to stay at her house. She finished her work, paid Jodi, then lead them to her house. At first sight, the halfling house looked far too small to accommodate them and the group looked at each other askance as they considered how they would even get into the door. As they stepped through into Glynna Willowbank's home however, they entered a large lavish home overlooking a beautiful glittering lake (they noted that this was odd as there was no lake near Maksary). While in the library, Glynna talked more with the party, helping Pō to learn more about her patron, and about Kuzmjir, telling them that Kuzmjir and Unnia were allies. Glynna told Po that Te Tauheke was a champion of Kuzmjir before he died but no one knew what happened to him after he died. Pō told Glynna how they had heard that Te Tauheke was sending souls to Orther instead of Kuzmjir and that the land the spirit of Te Tauheke was occupying in the Lyushin Wilds was supposedly corrupted. Glynna told them it was worrying to hear the souls were going to Orther and that the land corruption was possibly due to thinning of the already thin veil between the Material Plane and the Shadowfell Plane in the area there, but that she would do some more research and contact her associates for more information to help. Pō asked about how Glynna talks to her god and communing, telling her how they had been able to do it once at the Grechian Temple of Kuzmjir but wasn't sure how to do it themself. Glynna spotted Po's sickle and asked to look closer at it, commenting that it looked familiar. Pō handed it over and Glynna identified it to have been Kuzmjir's sickle. She tole Pō that before the gods left this plane, they left behind tools to help if The Betrayer Gods returned. She told them that it will get stronger as Pō gets stronger and more proficient. She also told Pō that it will help them to commune with Kuzmjir once a tenday. Harthe watched and assessed the trustworthiness of Glynna and perceived her to be fundamentally good and helpful and motivated to learn and help. Feeling confident in this, he brought out the items they had found in the bandit stronghold and she helped them to identify each item and their use. Having talked into the night, Glynna then bade them goodnight and headed into one of the rooms she had told the group were hers. Suiadan then handed Jodariel a significant sum of money and asked her to look after his friends when he left for the Feywild and recruited her to the Venturers. She agreed. Harthe then disclosed the memory he'd had of Yaseen running his family out of the town he'd grown up in and how he couldn't anything else from before then and little beyond being on a ship for a long time, fire, and then waking on the beach without his parents. Puzzled by this but not sure what to do about it they then each went to their individual rooms to sleep, Pō first going to find a tree outside and sending their gathered souls down through the roots of the tree before finding their room and rest for the night.

Rewards Granted

700CP 6000SP 2700GP 90PP
1 diamond worth 200GP
3 black jasper gems worth 80GP each
Jade bracelet worth 30GP
Opal locket worth 100GP
3 potions of superior healing
1 potion of stone giant strength
Slippers of spider climbing
Cloak of elvenkind
Amulet of potection against detection and location

Missions/Quests Completed

Completed the bandit stronghold of Maksary

Character(s) interacted with

Created Content

Notes

NOTE FOUND IN LOCKED CHEST IN CAPTAIN ADZEL'S QUARTERS

Dear Adzel, It is an honour to have someone of your calibre join my ranks. I wish to send you to captain your own team in Grech. I will send more information outlining your orders in due course. In the meantime, I suggest setting up an outpost and recruiting members to do our bidding. For security, I suggest using codes in correspondence and discussion. I will henceforth refer to you in letters as A. I will only be known as Y or The Shadow Duke. Gratefully, Yaseen

Campaign

Venturers of Iklarel

Protagonists

Pōtiki

Suiadan Innion

Jodariel Balakin

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8 / 8 HP

STR

DEX

CON

INT

WIS

CHA

Harthe

Report Date

04 Oct 2020

Primary Location

Maksary

Secondary Location

Glynna Willowbank's home

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Session 21 Report

General Summary

Follen 16 Redfall 834EA

Rewards Granted

Missions/Quests Completed

Character(s) interacted with

Created Content

Notes

Pōtiki

Suiadan Innion

Jodariel Balakin

Harthe

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