Myfanwy, Durin, Lars, and Vulko set off on adventure!
Hills, Ruins, a Magnificent Tree!
Circumnavigate the ruins, making our way towards the tree.
A person hiding in the ruins?
Myfanwy investigates: it’s dim inside, maybe runes on the wall, but no sign of the person.
We march on towards the tree!
Vulko will lead the way, despite not knowing anything about pathfinding.[PATHFINDER test, Vulko uses his FOOLHARDY trait for -1D, and fails the test]
We make some noise, but make it all the way there.
Huge raptor flies down, and it scoops Vulko up, but they have their staff in hand!
“I regret nothing!”
Session 2 May 12th, 2022
Around the tree are bones, bleached by the sun.
That’s when we hear a screech from above, and a gigantic bird blocks our view.
Vulko snatched up, but smacks the bird squarely in the neck before he’s carried away too far. He lands with surprising grace. [FIGHTER test, +2D from Trait, +1D from Fresh. 6 success. Raptor rolls 2 successes.]
The group tries to scare away the bird, making loud noises and swinging their weapons about.
A conflict ensues! [DRIVE OFF, Disposition 9 vs. Disposition 6]
Myfanwy maneuvers into position to draw the bird to her. Seemingly it works, the bird swoops down to attack. Durin moves in to attack with his battle axe, with Vulko’s aid they weaken the birds resolve. The bird attempts to defend itself, but Vulko continues the combat with further aid from Durin and Myfanwy!
Durin and the Bird attack one another, but with Vulko’s aid the bird is driven off, but the party is quite exhausted.
Surveying the scene, a nest high above, something glittering perhaps.
Lars can tell the tree gives off magical energy.
Myfanwy thought she saw a creature behind the tree, but as Lars walks around the tree trying to understand its nature he encounters nothing. [LOREMASTER test, failed]
Myfanwy finds some sticky substance on the ground. Silky, like a spider web! And then a spider drops down, knocking her into the pit! She catches a thick spider web before falling to the bottom. [SCOUT test, failed]
Vulko rushes over to see what’s happened, calling out to her! She’s fine. Another dead halfling across from her, she fishes a notebook from his desiccated body.
Durin manages to help her get out with his rope and grappling hook.
The book is hard to read: “God … Shrine …”. Will take work and time to understand.
The group return to the smaller ruin they found earlier.
Some silk dolls near the entrance way. Almost like a voodoo doll.
They look like Durin and Vulko! So eerie Lars burns them.
A staircase leads down into the dark, which they investigate.
They find a hole in a wall, it leads off into the darkness. They are about to move on when they hear a sigh. “Samiha?” Vulko stage whispers. “Yes?” she replies.
The party tells her they are here to rescue her, but she doesn’t seem keen to come out!
Lars demands she comes out! [PERSUADER test, trait against himself, failed]
She says she’s comfortable and won’t leave … Lars hears some hissing at the edge of his hearing!
Session 3 May 19th, 2022
A hissing static noise, but we can’t determine where it’s coming from. Everywhere?
Myfanwy doesn’t like any of this, she wants to get the women and get out of here!
She squeezes through the hole in the wall.
A pool of water on the other side, and a walkway cuts across it. At the edge of the torchlight is a statue.
A young woman lays by the pool, near the hole, her hand in the water. Dressed in shepherd’s clothes that now hang loosely on her body. She looks like she’s wasted away. It must be Samiha!
Vulko clears the hole, widening with the help of Duran and Myfanwy. [LABORER 5 dice vs. OB2, barely passed]
Their torchers sputter out. Plunged into darkness they can hear the sounds of their breathing, and this strange hissing. Duran lights two more torches for the team.
They pass the women through the hole.
It’s likely time to rest! [CAMP!]
A chill runs through the air! [Camping event]
Vulko is exhausted, and falls asleep deeply knowing Durin is on watch. [RECOVERY 6 vs. OB3. Success, barely.]
Durin draws him map
They leave Samiha behind, and move through the hole to explore further. It’s still quite cold and chilling.
The party can see bones beneath the water. Some large swims, they catch hints of movement.
Durin wants to investigate the statue ahead, and the group follows.
A giant face carved into the wall on the back of the room. Her eyes are green gemstones.
“One of my favorite pictures is a group of adventurers just like ourselves, prying gemstones from a statue’s eyes. It’s a sign!”
Durin is intrigued, but before he can investigate more deeply, Myfanwy decides to search the statue and the area around it for traps. Vulko holds her torch as she looks. Durin refocuses his efforts to align with her work, looking at the masonry, etc. [SCOUT 3 vs OB2, failed!]
The thing in the water is a giant carp, which smashes into the path the party crossed, destroying part of it — it was a bridge.
The group is trapped in the middle of the water!
Myfanwy, doesn’t panic, but knows now is the time to snatch the gems.
As one might expect, some disquiet spirits make their presence known. They begin to advance on the party. Ghosts of people that look to have suffered from disease.
We must banish these creatures! [BANISH, Disposition 6 vs. Disposition 3]
These creatures shriek at us, but Durin defends us bravely with his dwarvish stoicism, with Vulko bolstering him with his bravado. But he can’t hold them back, he collapses in terror, this sitaution is to incongruent with his understanding of the underworld. [NATURE 6 vs OB3, Failed, 2 damage.]
Myfanwy attempts to distract, but the fear of losing to these ghosts is too much. [NATURE 3 vs. OB2,, Failed, 4 damage]
They knock out Myfanwy and Vulko!
The party awakens some time later, it’s pitch black. We have all our stuff.
Session 4 May 26th, 2022
The sound of lapping water surrounds us on three sides. Standing on a platform in a small room, standing on a colour mosaic. Made of precious stones. A gold centre. A strange device rests in the middle of this all. A walkway leads to a door.
Lars investigates trying to understand what this device or statue is. [LOREMASTER 4 vs OB3, Failed] This takes longer than he wants, and Lars gets ANGRY again, but realizes this is a condenser: it takes human emotion and turns it into essence.
Vulko finds that interesting, but is more interested in the jewels. Durin agrees. Before they dig them out, Lar’s interjects: “I have the perfect spell for this!” [ARCANIST 5 vs OB2]
Build a flat rubber tool for suction cupping out the jewels. We end up with 6D worth of gems split between two of us.
Durin crosses a small walkway to a door ahead of us, and investigates. A room full of rotting furniture.
Durin walks into the room, and is surprised by a monster! Stabbed by a knife! [HEALTH 6 vs. OB3, Durin spends a Persona point, still fails] Durin is injured.
They flee back to the other room, and manage to swim through an underwater tunnel back to the first room with a pool they were in.Vulko uses his empty wine skins as portable air to help Samiha make the swim. Durin is forced to deal with the giant carp. But they make it back out. [All the party take two conditions to avoid running the conflict.]
Loot:
Precious Gems 6D
Gems from the statue 1D
Scrolls
Hobbit Notes
At the gates to the town, Lars pauses to take a breath [HEALTH 3 vs OB3, fails], as does Vulko [HEALTH 5 vs OB3, success!], and Durin as well [HEALTH 5 vs OB3, fails]. They throw their scraps to the dog.
It’s fair day, people stream in, cows taken to market, the whole bag.
The town has Streets, Stables, Tavern, Shrine, Homes and a Market.
Durin sitting on a rock, surrounded by sheep, studies his hobbit notes. [LOREMASTER 2 vs. OB 2, success, and spend a fate for an additional success.] One of the pages isn’t even writing, just drawings of something clearly found in the ruins. Pictures of people who are ill in different ways. People walking in downcast, leaving bright, but clearly still sick. Under the statue a note that says “the women with nothing”, and under the face “the implacable visage”. “Shrine of Healing?” “Acceptance?”
Lars brews an incredible coffee, and feels less angry [ALCHEMIST 4 vs. OB3, success thanks to spending some fate].
The party pay their bills! Vulko and Durin succeed, gaining a resource. Lars fails, and they take his pouch full of gold as well!
