Session 2: The Journey Begins Report
General Summary
10th of Seeding Start
After the adventurers met up by the bookstore to find Mortem, they noticed that No'it was not looking too well. Volte watched as No'it fell to the ground; asking for assistance they picked the cleric up and entered the bookstore once again. Calling out for aid, the lady of the bookstore came over and had them place No'it on the couch in the adjoining room. Determining that it was just heat exhaustion, she offered to take care of No'it while they others went on with their day. As they go to thank her, Mortem realizes that he never actually asked her, her name. She brushes off the question, but Moonlight comes in and introduces himself. For a moment he is distracted by the tome behind her that has shimmering effects coming from the pages. She tells them her name is Gin, and then explains that she enjoys crafting spells, but she needs someone to test her latest one out on. Moonlight offers to be the test subject and Gin then casts the spell on him. Immediately, Moonlight falls to his knees; his mind feels as if it is being slashed but he also cannot help himself and cries out that he will provide any information that is required. With a wave of her hand the spell is dispelled and she smiles at its success. Gin then looks to No'it with a look of knowing, but says nothing to the party.
Drex also finds the book that Volte was reading the night before, hoping to read it on his own time without the others around. Mortem and Volte are discussing their deities, loanlo and Millverne, when acolytes from the Church of Loanlo walk over and agree that little compassion should be shown to others who do not believe in their Goddess. As the remainder of the group exits the bookstore, there are many things happening all around. a small child is huddled hear a stall crying, a burly man is about to hit an elder, a flamboyantly dressed man is placing something on the notice board with many people coming up and signing papers, and 3 men are walking with intent towards the bookstore.
Drex and Mortem go towards the child; Volte watches the fight and Moonlight looks on to observe everything. Before this, the 3 men pass...the half orc smells of forge, the human smells of food (everyones favorite meal; they each smell something different though), and the half-elf produces a feeling of happiness and laughter, followed by floating dandelions.
Mortem is scary to the child, but Drex is able to talk to him to figure out what is going on. He followed his mother into town without her knowing and she walked too fast and he lost her. She headed towards the Elven Settlement. He is around 7 years old and acts as if he is younger, Drex is able to figure out that he must have lead a sheltered life.
Volte watches the fight as it starts; he watches the crowd as no one stands in to help. Volte eventually takes cues from the crowd and tells the burly man to stop. The burly man states that the old man stole from him and no one ever steals from him. Volte speaks to him and Moonlight then casts message into the burly mans head stating the half orc shouldn't speak to him like that. The burly man drops the older man on the ground....Moonlight then starts to instigate the crowd to take the burly man down; about 10 of them take the suggestion and jump on him. The old man runs off, leaving his cane which helps him walk, behind. Moonlight picks it up.
Volte and moonlight eventually catch up to Mortem and Drex, who are walking the child to the Elven settlement. Volte heads into the Rune makers store asking if they could do something to his crossbow. The Runemaker states they can for a fee and to leave it there about a week. Volte exits and is able to meet up with the group as they exit the Elven settlement.
As Volte was at the runemakers store, Drex and Mortem enter the settlement area with the child and find a guard to hand him to. They leave and the group heads towards the bookstore again. They enter and are able to see Gin talking with the half orc, handing him the sword that No'it was looking at and they are able to hear her say the word Maul. The men eventually leave and Gin is now alone with Volte. He asks her if these are the weapons of Millverne Steamvault. She is surprised and said she would look into it.
The party finally exits Oakenhost and heads into the Pervoyen forest towards Falseshield. They are then engaged in combat with large spiders found in the trees. During combat, Mortem is taken down with one bite from the spider. Moonlight takes a killing blow with Jim's magic missile and Drex goes and feeds Mortem a potion of healing. He then uses that bottle to collect poison from 2 of the 3 spiders, collecting enough to coat a blade once. After an hour, Mortem is finally able to move again and they head further into the forest. The night creeping in. The party is then engaged in battle once again, this time against Drow. One drow is able to escape while the rest are felled by the group. They find a spider climb spell scroll, 2 spider pendants, grappling hook with 100ft silken rope, 6 pitons, a hand crossbow, 7 crossbow bolts.
As they rest for the night, Mortem takes first watch and his turn is quiet. Drex takes second watch and sees 2 badgers pass by the party but they keep to themself. Moonlight takes 3rd and 4th watch and decides to ritual cast identify. As he is doing this a group of scouts comes by; they are not threatening and he asks what they are looking for. They tell him to mind his business and they head forward. He discovers the spider pendant is cursed completely with no benefits. He then discovers the spell scroll is a second level spell called Spider climb. He sits and inscribes it in his wizard book as his second shift starts. Another scout with 2 blink dogs and 2 posionous frog creatures comes to the party; the dogs running up to moonlight cause other party members to wake up. Drex talks to the scout and gives her information about the Drow they killed and how one ran off. She advises that if they come in contact with her amphibious companions on their own, they better hope they can hit first. She leaves with her animals.
The party checks in with each other and describes what each person saw during their watch. It is now the 11th of Seeding Start. Mortem puts up a prayer to Loanlo and for the first time she answers back with "protect your friends"; this scares him as he has never heard her speak to him before. He has also had the word friend thrown around to him a lot the last day and is unsure what a friend actually is. Continuing south, they come to a fork in the road. Volte knows that heading east will bring them to the rockbasher tribe, while heading south brings them to falseshield.
preacher mortem
Volte Jolkt
Drex the knowing
Report Date
25 May 2022
