Session 14: A New Day, a New World

General Summary

DATE:10/02/241-04/03/241

• Following the victory at the Temple of least resistance, party gathered together to rest and recuperate
• Next day, as the bodies were collected and the various funeral preparations began, party interacted with various NPC's such as Xanustair, Feno, Sarqinor and Elin
• Ashlanders left shortly after the battle, the Siraen's collected their dead and left the next day, the Qhymos Priests performed ritual burials nearby, the bodies of Nythrion's fallen vanish during the night and the Monks of Least Resistance prepared a hundred pyres for their fallen
• Xanustair offered the party an item to call for the Monk's aid whenever they felt like they needed it, and told Bubba that he did not have to come back right now, though they would all prefer it if he did
• Gideon took the catatonic Narron back to Kharahal before the party leaves
• A small group of Laylos 'horsemen' erect a pillar south of the Temple and, upon closer inspection, it is learnt by those that can speak Enurdass that it is a chronicle of the battle and a warning to those that might harass the Monks
• Grimmie vanishes for 10 minutes and returns with a talking cat called Scribe, their new familiar
• The journey back is mostly uneventful, with Grimmie searching for Mithril Bucklers and Adamantine Rings in each settlement (to no avail), while Lohren meditates and 'prays' to various figures each night (including his Shogun Hirokoshi, Ylros, Aion and finally generally to his friends), occasionally getting a response (Aion was very confused)
• When moving through the valley's of Artia the same 'wyvern' that they saw last time returns, this time hunting the party, though through some quick thinking and identifying, Grimmie learns it is actually a Lesser Dragon, and that it can be lured away by changing the path of their scent, which he does and the Lesser Dragon flies off
• In Mosfel, the party sees that there are new banners flying on the walls, the Sootguard outside the walls are gone, and large numbers of caravans are arrive at and leaving the city (Banner is a black field with a ring of Bloodvines, with a small silvery ring at the center)
• Lohren Paints a memorial for those Nythrion Priests lost at the Temple of Least Resistance and hands it over to be given to Perit
• The party spends the night in the Minotaur's Horn
• Arriving back at Kharahal the next day the party immediately splits into smaller groups to perform their own actions
• Lohren visits the Custodian to update her and inquire about his last requests
• Grimmie still can't find any information on Marren, learns that David is blaming himself for what happened and is punishing himself for it, Weeping Steve is oddly calm, Samiel and the Changeling that took up his identity had a fling but Samiel is just kinda dealing with his shit while Weston is clearing house at the Dive Bar
• Bubba heads to the lake and proceeds to lift weights for three hours, suddenly gets real buff (Bubba has an eight pack, Bubba is shredded)
• Jarren heads home and spends time with his family

Two Weeks Later...

• Grimmie takes two weeks to prepare for the mission to find Marren, recruiting some of his friends as well as Steve
• Lohren spends his time spending his hard earned money on some new equipment
• Bubba goes to therapy
• Jarren makes some shit and spends time with his family
• Day of the mission arrives, party gathers at the LAR DMG and descends on a Drillship to one of the base camps, and begins their search
• Steve leads the party to where they were when the Revenants began to attack, where they learn that Marren was driven south
• Following their trail, which at some points it doubles back is suddenly stops due to Marren trying to hide their trail, the party eventually come to a 90ft drop down onto a Duregar road
• Using a very thin and dangerous path the party descend and find the remains of a slave caravan which seemed to have been brutally torn apart
• More tracks lead to another scene, a camp of some sort that has dozens of human-sized iron cages, and around a dozen dead Duregar
• The last fallen Duregar, seemingly killed while trying to crawl away down a tunnel, also lies nearby a large number of tracks, many of which are of bare feet
• These tracks lead to an underground lake, surrounded by bio-luminescent plants, being fed by a waterfall on the far side
• Following what tracks were present in the cave's dirt, the party are led to the base of the waterfall, where they abruptly end at a mass grave of Duregar
• At this point it is noticed that a party of eleven Duregar is trying to approach the party in stealth, with weapons drawn
• As they get within 100ft Lohren pops his fog belt, two smaller parties of Duregar (4 in each) move to flank the fog while three hold back with crossbows
• Grimmie flashbangs everyone and eliminates the eastern group with a fireball (Bubba suffers greatly at this effect)
• Before the western group can recover something in the foliage begins to eliminate them, with what remains being taken out by Lohren and Jarren
• Something with a grappling hook launches out of the foliage and slams down on one of the crossbow Duregar, once again vanishing under the foliage
• The other two are disabled by the party, though their sudden ally kills them before they can be talked down, and they move towards the waterfall
• As they move past Grimmie, he notices that the figure is Marren, though incredibly disheveled and acting strange
• Marren recognizes Grimmie, but seems to talk only briefly before walking through the waterfall and climbing up behind into a narrow passage
• Grimmie follows Marren into a large cavern lit by a fire where around forty humanoids are present, all without shoes and wearing ragged clothing, most being children
• Marren briefly introduces these people to Grimmie before moving over to a makeshift box, retrieving some sort of white stone, crushing it and then snorting it, at which point Marren's behavior seems to change to what Grimmie remembers
• The pair quickly update each other, then plan to escort all of the people within the cavern to the base camp
• Three teams are set up, one at the front of the column, one at the back and then one to monitor things between
• Upon arriving at the cliff face, which will take much time with all of the children, Steve leaves down the road to engage a Duregar party coming towards them, returning later covered in blood (not his blood)
• Apart from this there are no real issues with getting the people back to the base camp, though they nearly have to wait the night out down the bottom due to new regulations
• After returning the survivors to the surface, Marren proceeds to drink a bit and then pass out, while the party head back to their homes

Rewards Granted

• Ordered magic items from Grimmie (If you ordered them)

Missions/Quests Completed

• The One Dwarf Army

Character(s) interacted with

• Aion
• Ariadna
• David Ansuranth
• Samiel Therossi
• Weston Garcia
• Weeping Steve
• Khontu Yuste
• Ylros
• Ayred Dharal

Report Date

23 Oct 2022

Primary Location

Kharahal

Related Plots

• ACT ONE: The Cad

Related Characters

• Aion
• Ariadna Carda
• Ayred Dharal
• David Ansuranth
• Khontu Yuste
• Marrin Corvent
• Qhymos
• Weeping Steve
• Weston Garcia