Session 28
General Summary
Recap
Saga figured Starlit tears out in the cathedral. Old grumpy man found it but doesn't tell anyone where.Headed out but couldn't find the bandits or traces of them. So we went back to Harbeld.
Back at town we found the sus party. Colored smoke drugged everyone.
Summary
We woke up feeling hungover and Alexander was missing. We found numbers in charcoal on our arms and chatted to some other people who went to the glade to check if they remembered. They din't and the numbers was a bew thing'We went back to the glade to look for Aexander hoping to find a lead. We only found some dust on the stone table were the cultist gave his speech and the tracks from the barrels of last night. Following the tracks we found signs of a fight and a tree with a swordcut with necrosis around it. From the tracks we learned that Alex must have fought with a gnome/halfling and 3 humans. We found him a little later with a hole in his arnor and a caved in chest. After providing emergency care, Alex told us he recongised one of the cultist from a bounty poster back in Pravh, Mazil a convict who tried to twist nature to his will. The cultists tried to attach an odd paste to Alex but he burned it off. Saga took Alex t the temple of Kishar for healing and thanks to Archibald, a petal of the Starlit Tears and a prayer to Kishar he was cured of all ailments even those he sustained from his own cursed sword. A miracle as he never managed to do so.
Since his armor is broken Alex is going to ask Mary if she knows agood blacksmith that can work fast to fix his armor, while Saga and Muireall went to rest back at the inn. Arti is going to try and shadow Alexander to make sure he isn't attacked by cultist in town since they know his face.
Session Notes
Smoke takes away clarity, we wake back up at the camp with all masssive hangovers. Even Arti who doesn't drink.There is no recollection of what happened at all.
Muir starts drinking, Saga hurls at the sight of whisky.
We remember barrels being rolled in and incense being lit.
No recollection of coming back.
charcoal numbers on the arm: 36
Alexander is not with us. o no
He didn't sleep in his bed.
He is missing once more.
Arti is photophobic due to the hangover feeling
bacon helps against the feeling
muir is 15 number on arm
saga is 42 number on arm
3 peeps look slighly hungover (not as much as us but still)
woman in 30-40s deosnt look like a hunter and two hunters
woman says water and grease helps
brought glade in forest by friends (hunters), weird that water at feet
she had the number 21: numbers are a new thing
guys dont know how he got back, smeared the charcoal
we go looking back for the glade and alexander
saga leads us straight to it
The Glade
no peeps pushing up water from groundstone table still there
arti investigates the table; some prints that someone was there, table is smeared in soot/charcoal/incense - fine powder on it but cant identify mixtures of 2 dusts
muir retraces steps: tries to recall but just blank
saga looks around: traces of peeps moving through the forest all around the glade no specific direction
you can see the entire glade
could see the peeps with barrels coming
but had clear view on everyone
dusts smells like charcoal and incense
going to look at where barrels came from
it is a clear path of crushed foliage and dirt
we follow it down path goes for a long while
along the path is a damaged tree with enormous gash in it with a blackness spreading around it
like it is rotting from the wound
resembles the boogeyman of seeblick
since we are the only ones from seeblick arti assumes it is sign by alexander
clearly a sign of a scuffle and some blood
there was a fight here
the only thing with gash is the tree
5 peeps footprint
alexanders is there clearly: simple but reinforced - heavier and also tinier gnome/halfling and 3 human 1m80 peeps
we follow alex's track go down the road
1 of the 5 tracks just ends
one person vanished of the tracks
we continue to follow alex's trail
half an hour later
a figure sitting off on the side against a tree
slumped down sitting there
one knee up back to the 3
footprints have fallen away into actual mud
it is alexander - he is not entirely lucid
hes breathing but no reaction from him
theres a hole in his chain armor in his chests
got his lung collapsed
chest caved in
saga cured wounds him
he is unconscious
alex has a lot of scars on his torso still has his lazarus bell golden holy symbol
saga recognises the flower not the deity thats tied to it
he mostly has old injuries old scars
he has either taken quite a few blows in his life or has been tortured
muir doesnt see any footprints besides alexander
believes alex hid here and collapsed
next to him is charred to the ground burnt
a streak a foor in lenght thumb wide
something got burned here not sure what
similar to the table dust here
the forget me not incense stick got burned
they wiped his memory or tried to
i feel like shit - alex
he was chasing peeps got hit by smt and then crawled away
one of them has magic
who it is; he saw bounty poster in pravh his name Mazil
we all went weird and he couldnt snap us out of it
they tried to attach a paste to him during the fight and h burned it off
paste from odd jar
alex is not letting go of the sword in his hand
we go back to town
Town saga goes with alex as a warhorse to cathedral
Archibald walks over and tells saga to move alex
places alex in a garden
archibald scans alex
how did you break them did you fall?
archi takes his tools (some look gardening tools) turns to cairn: in Sylvan he says a prayer
praying to the goddess of nature to lend vitality to mend his wounds
walks to singular flower garden - takeds single white petal of the starlit tear which sheds gossimer like dust
rolls the petal up in his fingers and presses it to alex chest
cairn glows brighter and then petal is gone
alex's pain is gone
archi puts tools away again
hell be fine please i wish to return to my gardens
doesnt reply to saga's questions and moves away
i couldnt let go off it-alex
he takes off glove - hands have no wounds blistering even though that saga couldnt heal that in seeblick
flower fixed it? or Kishar?
muir and arti
we head to temple arrive half an hour lateralex still shirtless but looks completely fine
sword back in scabbard
he is feeling fine
muir questions him about rotten cut
alex's sword does that
info about Mazil
he's an escapee from prison
he tried to twist nature
hes a supposed druid
tried to animate tree to claim an entire district fro himslef
he fled, destruction of property and murder warrant
got caught sent to the goal
should still be there so it is weird he is here
this is not just a bandit
they did weird number thing and took 2 or three of the numbered peeps
they went different directions
alex is gonna check in with mary to see if she knows a quick good blacksmith
red mist escaped from scabbard when alex puts it away
mazil not sure if leader or follower type
whatever he is doing we need to stop it
he would love to use the mush to his own end
can't really inform town as they could be part of it
need oil for lanterm
muir and saga go back to the inn
wait for alex
arti will follow alex to see he doesnt get hit by cultist bandits in town
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Arti
NASaga
NAMuirreal
NACharacter(s) interacted with
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Alexander will look for Mary to see if she knows a fast blacksmith to fix his chainmail.
muir and saga go back to the inn to wait for alex
arti will follow alex to see he doesnt get hit by cultist bandits in town
In game date
1051 AS, 25 October
1051 AS, 25 October
Report Date
30 Nov 2024
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