The Princess and her Promise

General Summary

"I'm going to need that pickaxe now.....For the Bounty Hunters of Naraz Uth, you understand"
".....No, this is not the time or the place for this, Julie please we have to help the children."
"Dammit! Fine but we continue this later!"

— Alleria and Verne negotiate in the Shining Mines

Julie is not a heartless woman and with the party stood at gunpoint she had to make a choice. Get what she came for or save the children? Verne sensing the weakness in her resolve pleaded with her to lower her weapon and allow the Mocking Jays to help the frozen and defenceless children that they came to rescue. Julies' eyes darted from the children to the party and back and with a curse from her lips she lowered her Arcane Shot and rushed to help the little ones.
Outside the mines, Jun and Shiver shared a moment of pause and a small conversation with the two rescued children. Promising them that no matter what they will get them back to Vidantis and find them a priest. The blinded boy with a keen ear spots Shivers' voice was not from WIdows Tear.

"Where are you from?" Enquired Jacob, his voice stretched and tired
"A place that is some distance from here, A place known as the Crows Nest" Shiver replied throwing his cloak around the children.
"Will my sight recover? Will I get my eyes back?" the boy's voice faltered near the end of his sentence, betraying his emotion.
"We will find a priest and you will have your eyes back" Jun Chimed in.
"And if I don't?"
"Then there are some professions where you do not need your eyes" Replied Shiver as he secured the boy and his sister under the coat.

Shiver and Jun then leave the boy to venture back inside to help the rest of their party.
Inside the mines, the situation starts looking dire, Verne and Julie are now holding up a frozen child preventing them from falling into the lake. The group work quickly and hard for their prize. As they worked the children free of their preserved state the ice underfoot started to crack and splinter revealing a frozen lake below. Alex wasn't quite sure underfoot and while he pulled the childfree the ice underneath broke plunging him into the icy depths. Shiver quick to react pulled Alex free from the ice saving him from drowning. With the combined effort of the whole party and Julia the party rescued the four remaining children.
When the group left the mines Juila informed them that their business was unfinished...that while she was soaked through and tired of the battle within the mines she had neither the stomach or appetite to kill the mocking jays. In fact, she would like to discuss an opportunity further. Julia informed the party she is staying at the "Over the Barrel" inn in Vidantis and they should seek her out there when the day is done. The party and Julia returned to Vidantis to claim their reward for rescuing the children.

Tying up the Odds and Ends

Before meeting with Julie the party decided to tie up some odds and ends around town. They visited Justice Burr, the man responsible for finding the children to inform him of their rescue and then to the Woodcocks house for their claimed reward. 3,000 gold pieces for the safe return of Jacob and the other children. On the way to Over the Barrel, the party stumbled upon Yani who was in town for the festivities. He inspected the party's current progress with his mark and slipped the party another matter they should look into. The party, with some still distrusting of Yani, agreed to find his next set of three items.
The party moved onto the arranged meeting at 'Over the Barrel' inn. Shiver noticed a bard playing off to the side as the party enter the establishment. From his lute strummed tunes of woe tidings and begotten fates. The bard appeared to be playing a death melody to an empty tavern. Devoid of all people spare the Party. Shiver decided to join him to make small talk and eventually usher him away while Jun, Alex, Verne and Glim all made their way to the bar. Verne asked the bartender if there have been any new arrivals. Particularly an elven lady at which the bartender explained that actually there had been. A lady booked into a room known as Alleria. The bartender went to her room to summon the lady.
The person who walked down the stairs was beautiful and fair. Her hair no longer constrained by the necessities of adventuring flowed freely to her shoulders, her garb replaced with clean and pressed linen and her face soft and round. She let out a smile as she observed the party standing around. Ushering the party upstairs she explained her situation

"The Bounty hunters are a group of people who desire to be godlike, they have found, because of me a source of that power. The Eidolons are creatures of immense arcane energy. It was an eidolon that gave my father unnaturally long life. The creature betrayed my father and could not stop his mind slowly wilting and weathering as any precious flower would. She says looking at Verne.

"My Father was not evil and in his age and frailty banished me by mistake. He did not recognise me as his own daughter. I hired the bounty hunters to smuggle me back into Brekka but by the time I arrived and saw my father the Bounty Hunters took the summoning token and killed him."
"What do they want now, these bounty hunters?" Enquired Verne for the group
"They want to conquer Thame, to expand the Westerfield territory, make Thame weak and all the while make it look like the work of Widows Tear"
"That cannot just be it?"
"If the Ravenous have joined them. Then they are nothing more than power hungry beings obsessed with control" Chided Alex who was listening intently to the conversation.

Alleria told the party she wished to return to Thame and set things right. She went to see her father to take the Eidolon off him, but not by force. Her bloodline and lineage made it hers. She was the king of Thames daughter, Making her Princess Alleria, a name she would like to be called every now and again while in Thame. Alleria told the party that there was going to be a two-pronged attack tomorrow night. An attack she was meant to be a part of...and if she returned to the Bounty Hunters unharmed it would look suspicious for her....with a sigh she accepted what must be done. she needed to be beaten and her new acquired friends looked up and set bout their task. Beating the princess to make it look like she had been in a battle.

Talking to a God

The ruse completed the Mocking jays turned to the Pathfinder and the meeting point of the Bounty Hunters. They sent messages forward to Bastion, the target of one of their attacks. They would intercept the other. As the pathfind lurched on to the parties new destination the group hoped to make good progress. They arrived with several hours to spare. The Pathfinder found a bank of clouds and hid all the while making preperations for Ship to Ship combat. Shiver, Verne and the Mocking Jays wanted the ship ready should it come to battle.
On route and during the night Glim had a dream. Luna stretched out before him seeming to go on for miles, as the sea lapped against the ground and the air embraced him Dr. Whoot landed on the prow of the airship. When Glim moved over he sees over the bow of the ship into a great tearing of the land. Something or someone carved chasms deep into the soil of Luna and inside the soil, there was wriggling and flying, the sound of flapping wings carried to the Pathfinder. The very scratches themselves all seemed to originate from a small town with a windmill at its centre that stretches to the clouds. Before a beat of Glims Gnomish heart, a voice is heard behind him. Glimoria the god of magic with his brown hat with golden trim talks to Glim. Allowing him to ask questions. Glim looks below one more time and asks.

"What is down there?"
"Dragons, guarding something buried deep, deep below us" Glimoria responded
"What is below us?"
"Necris, a creation of my Grandmother Solaine....the most powerful one of their kind and the first to feel a mortal death"
"Who was he killed by?"
"Bhaal, My grandmothers' brother...the creator of your race, of all races" Smiled Glimoria overlooking Glim with pride.
"Who is the dragon"
"Finis, the Eidolon that led the rebellion against Solaine...The one who demanded a grave for Necris and a monument for his sacrifice"
"Where is the monument now?"

Without answering Glimoria looked up and as Veil came across the sky plunging the world into darkness...

Rewards Granted

3,000 Gold Pieces

Missions/Quests Completed

The children of Vidantis have been rescued and returned safely home.

The party must now intercept a meeting between the Bounty Hunters and a dead and departed Alice. The Mocking Jays hoping to get there before the meeting takes place.

Character(s) interacted with

Alleria / Julie - Member of the Bounty Hunters and unlikely Princess
Yani the Marksmen
Glimoria the God of Magic

Report Date

04 May 2019

Primary Location

Vidantis