The Maelstrom Campaign - Chapter Two

The Road to

Radanha

Skaemon, Skye, Jessica, Teleran, & Coil

647 Post Maelstrom

The party wakes up in the Imperial camp, but there is nobody around. They hear people marching their direction from the west. The quickly pack up and continue on their way south. They are making good time, but they can hear the marchers coming up on them from behind. They decide to cut across the grassy plains to save time.
The make good time, but in the tall grass they run into a small pack of hunting lions. The party is able to easily defend themselves, but this gives the people marching the opportunity to catch up and they dispatch some riders to investigate the party. The party, still having a head start, runs for the nearby wooded area. They are able to lose the riders in the dense foliage and continue their journey to Radanha.
Once back on the road they reach a bridge they sail the Course Sea to Radanha. They run into two people arguing on the dock. A white Reptilkin, named Seion, and an older grizzled human woman, named Jess. They turned out to be council members of Radanha discussing the strange goings on in the city.
Seion doesn’t want to talk to the party, but Jess starts giving them information. Seion attempts to attack Jess for doing so, but the party stops him before he can kill her. They question Seion on why he would try to kill her and he explains that everything she said is illegal to talk about and if they were caught, they would both be executed.
After this debate, between the council members and the party, the party learns that the city wasn’t attacked when the mass siege happened. Seion also informs the party that the black robed figures showed up a month prior and met with the Proprietor of the City, Warren Somersett.
The Party decides to send Jess ahead and go into town with Seion. The councilman gets them into the city, using special privileges, even though the city is on lock down. Seion takes the party back to his estate and lets them stay there while they investigate.
As the day turns to night the party minus Coil go to an inn for food. While here Teleran eavesdrops on some people from the castle and learns that a lot of the problems are being blamed not on the Proprietor of the City, but on his friend, who showed up a month ago. The party finishes their food and heads their separate ways to investigate.
Coil heads to the palace instead to try and find out what he can. He sneaks in through a side servants’ door. The poor beaten down servants give Coil some halfhearted directions and he finds his way into the upper areas of the palace. He finds out that the proprietor and his friend were sharing a room and he does find the way to the throne room as well. He exits the palace through a nearby window into a central courtyard and attempts to slip over a wall. Coil kills a guard on the outside of the wall, by landing on him from above crushing him, but a guard inside the central courtyard sees this and runs for the palace. Coil bails and heads for Seions’ place, but runs into some more guards. Luckily, he is able to escape them with his identity still hidden.
Skaemon separates from the group after dinner and transforms into a large black owl. Skaemon then does aerial recon of the palace to check on Coil and sees they even have an airship floating above it. Seeing Coils escape attempt from the sky Skaemon swoops down and grabs the guard that spotted Coil. Skaemon lifts him into the air and drops him from a fatal height, but Skaemon in bird form is spotted by the guards on the towers. They attempt to spear the giant owl, but he is able to evade them except for a spear that just grazes his body. Skaemon manages to escape back to Seions residences as well.
Skye goes out drinking after dinner and meets a group of young people chilling. They are talking about how strange everything has been in the city. They inform Skye that the super wealthy are in charge of the city and that the Proprietor is the wealthiest man in the city. He isn’t considered a good person, but things have gotten worse since the Proprietors new friend got to town.
The party reassembles at Seions house and rests…