Operation Parameters
| Date |
1492 DR, 11 Eleint
(03/02/2022)
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| Soldiers |
Aceso, Tavvok, Falyer, Alwin, Aujirgix |
| Status |
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| Casualties |
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Objective
During a previous mission, a group was able to assist Uosine in testing one of his highly effective "gadgets". We should continue to work with Uosine, in coordination with the Horsians, to help prepare for the upcoming raid. A group should go down to the Horsian output, and coordinate with Uosine and Horsians to help either hinder the enemy or help prepare/test other experimental gadgets. One possibility could be to block supply lines, be it the rivers that lead to the enemy output or the roads that are carrying bodies that are used to refill their ranks, but we should defer to Uosine and Horsians for what would be of the most value to them.
Observations
Jims are putting up some sort of barrier around camp
came upon a group of Horsian soldiers who were looking to the skies
2 bone devils; we were able to kill 1, and the other escaped
in total there are 7 bone devils in the area
Uosine -> said "U-seen"
Take a boy to the city of Horsa
- the great amazing; powerful; stupendous Uosine Jr.
- based on previous mission reports his real name is Mason.
- found this orphan, smart lad
made our way to the city of Horsa with minimal trouble
guard went to verify our documents given by Uosine
second guard came back and said "come with us... sorry Ambassador; Calliope wants to meet you"
went straight south... in the south-east is a decently large house, where we dropped off Mason
We made our way to the giant building, bar, in the center of the city.
Met with Calliope; guards obviously confused Aceso for the ambassador
We decided to stay the night in the city given how late it was, and how tired the horses were.
Sent message to Tel:
Tel:
unfortunate
imminent threat inbound toward area
hunker down; prepare yourself.
Aujirgix went down to investigate. Opened door and saw complete darkness.
the very shadow themselves will pull away at a man's strength
complete darkness envelopes city... but bar keep wasn't worried. The "lady" deals with it.
larger things that came through before -- they destroyed builds, but that before they secured the town
DO NOT GO OUTSIDE
Follow up
Survive the night, and return to the Fort
Preparation Details
Any information gathered from the hostage we brought the other day
their plans to attack enemy
Operation Details
Mission Details
Tel is usually not dressed like this... today she is BATTLE READY in full plate
"today could be a dangerous..."
Uosine -> Tel had the pleasure of meeting him about 10 years ago
- he is a drunk
- not can be trusted to follow through with what he says
- less sparkly version of the Jims
- his mind is top notch
- watch your fingers around his inventions...
Tavvok asked about barrier the Jims were putting up
- all she said is "hope we never have to use it"
Faint sound of rolling thunder in the distance
trail easy to follow
cross the bridge (Aludira)
woods grew thicker
spots of blood on the road... as if something happened
gets heavier -- less than a day old
not enough for one person
- grave wound but was moving
- starts where you are... grows thicker
- a pool of it.
Aujirgix approached.
seems to be a net pinned (metal pitons) into the tree.
- whatever was pinned in the net... got free
- see drag marks
- more blood there
Faint sound of thunder in the distance
faint piece of paper flies to his feet of Alwin
- water logged.
- "wanted poster for Barnabus P Barnabus"
- 500G alive; 250G dead
- Emblem of a stag (maybe? antlers; crown
Rest of the journey relatively quiet for 2-3 hours
there is this odd sound
- sound of flapping of wings in the distance
- hear it every 5 minutes or so
- might see faint block dot... ahead
- 200-300 feet
- black dot hovering... then two black dots
- one plummets from the first.
Order
-Tavvok & Aujirgix
Alwin
Falyer / Aceso in back
2/3 groups of Horsian soldiers looking into sky panicked
it's in the large tree!
it's coming! prepare yourself!
fairly large white mass in the branches.
turns out there are 2 of them!
coming from behind us (from the north)
one grabs Aceso flies up 75 feet and drops him
Aceso is messed up
Ghoul says in his head... "can't wait to meet you again".
keeps flying up.
Tavvok killed one... the other escaped
about 5 Horsian soldiers died
They said salvager rights -- they took armor and supplies we got potions and money of the fallen
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- in total there are 7 bone devils in the area
- it's what Bradley is here for.
Blade of the South -- Derick Shibnee
- self proclaimed
- the Horsian soldier we talked to
- ======REDACTED=====
Uosine -> said "U-seen"
- Klarion came a few times to help
Uosine's ask:
- Take a boy to the city of Horsa
- the great amazing; powerful; stupendous Uosine Jr.
- based on previous mission reports his real name is Mason.
- found this orphan, smart lad
- a dragonborn snatching children in the capital
How to get there:
Cut wide of the enemy camp...
- straight west, before cutting south
- there is no direct route, branching paths to the Horsa
- brandish your colors on arrival
- you will have special exception to enter city with the boy
- secured housing in the south
- the boy knows the way
- the boy is pretty good in a fight; has a decent pistol
- Uosine and the boy made the gun
- pulling the trigger on the gun makes him disappear for a minute
We rested for an hour since Aceso was messed up
boy rides with Aceso
flanked by the rest of the soldiers
- Uosine Jr, told us he took some of his dad's inventions (doesn't like the word gadgets)
- cobblestone road - king's road
-> west, and then south
We saw Horsian troops in the bushes protecting the road going south
- Uosine Jr calls out "Uosine Jr coming through"
Horsian soldiers wanted to see papers
Uosine Jr showed them papers
we were able to pass after a small discussion between Tavvok and two of the soldiers
Two guards form rank as we approach.
- iron gate behind them; somewhat ajar
- Aceso got down, and handed them the papers
- one guard left to check them
- explained where we came from
- had to search us
- the boy had a few things in his backpack that we thought might explode.
- gave the guards a few things
- an orb starts making noise, throws it to Aceso, throws it to Tavvok he chucks it... it disappears
- We gave up all the items to the guards...
- second guard came back and said "come with us... sorry Ambassador; Calliope wants to meet you"
- slightly confused we made our way into the city
- Uosine Jr lead us towards the house
- went straight south... in the south-east is a decently large house.
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x | wall
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water
The 0 is the house, x are two other houses. It's the peak of the triangle based on the two walls in the south-east corner.
we left the child in the house as instructed by Uosine
We made our way to the giant building, bar, in the center of the city.
everyone went inside initially, and Aceso stayed out with the horses.
Alwin eventually came outside, and Aceso told him to watch the horses
a local boy approached, and offered to watch the horses, but Aceso said that Alwin should stay with them
Aceso went in, and asked Falyer to stay with Alwin
Inside, Aceso/Aujirgix/Tavvok went to talk with Calliope
Heavy lightning and rain outside.
Calliope
- "who the fuck are you" --- explained the situation, why we were there, they obviously confused Aceso for the ambassador
- she was angry, but after the explanation, she understood the situation
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Made our way outside to find Falyer/Alwin/horses with the dead child...
- Alwin drank something from the boy that paralyzed him
- Falyer went outside to see the boy riding off with a horse
- Falyer shot and killed the boy...
- Aceso and Tavvok were quiet. Aceso just took his horse and left. The rest followed.
We decided to stay the night in the city given how late it was, and how tired the horses were.
Sent to Tel:
"Aceso. Outpost required delivery to Horsa city. Arrived late; staying overnight. ======REDACTED====="
Tel:
unfortunate
imminent threat inbound toward area
hunker down; prepare yourself.
TERRIBLE NOISES OUTSIDE
Aujirgix went down to investigate. Opened door and saw complete darkness.
light doesn't penetrate the darkness outside with his light globe
came back up and told us about it.
Went downstairs - bar keep provided us with some information on what's going on:
the very shadow themselves will pull away at a man's strength
complete darkness envelopes city... but bar keep wasn't worried. The "lady" deals with it.
larger things that came through before -- they destroyed builds, but that before they secured the town
DO NOT GO OUTSIDE
After this interaction we spent the night.
We commissioned a Horsian crew to bring back Alwin to avoid the danger.
