Evening, Ulanra 9th - Noon, Ulanra 10th
Reassembled
Chapel of the Crow
So Much Hate
Between the Rows
The Siblings
Justice
Aftermath
Experience: 1527 xp each (20,500 total, LEVEL UP 10)
Chapel of the Crow, 2400
Little Darlings, 2400
Recover the Siblings, 2400
Moral Choices, 400
Happy Thanksgiving Bonus!
Magic: n/a
Money: 2000 gp worth of rubies from the chapel coffers (333 gp/rubies each), 300 gp in the collection box (50 gp each)
Loot: 3 riding horses (previously described), 4-person carriage, 2 carts and 4 oxen, mundane supplies (mark on your sheets), farm tools (as needed), Nel's Crutch (Portia)
NPCs:
Raggamoffyn, the object of worship and praise by the Kindred, "exarch of the Dark One", cause of a mass murder of farmers, children and travelers; turned out to be Nel's rag doll, buried in the fields, the only thing her cruel mother ever gave her and the means in which she maintained her power; Relic burned it up
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Session 47: Horror
Evening, Ulanra 8th - Evening, Ulanra 9th
(Summary by Chris)
With Relic torn limb from limb and the Quakeheart lost, the group found themselves in a difficult predicament. Kaylan remained among the missing. Selja had fled, her wherabouts similarly unknown. The Kindred ruled the city, flocking about in their maniacal celebrations, kicking around the bits and pieces that remained of Relic.
Thamior remained unconscious, knocked out by Relic to prevent him from searching desperately for Kaylan. Portia and Diana hid with the unconscious Thamior in a small niche in the floor shown to them by Patrick and Lindsay Henry, two children not part of the Kindred. Thamior eventually came around and talked with a third child Percival Wright who begged Thamior to find his missing brother Bremen.
Meanwhile Diana began hatching a plan for how they could defeat the Kindred. Diana asked Portia to build one of her bombs. Diana’s plan involved getting to the Mills, using Thamior as a lure to draw the Kindred into one of the mills in which Portia’s bomb would be hidden, then detonating it after Thamior had escaped. The three of them could then mop up whichever Kindred remained.
They had to wait many excruciating hours for the sun to come up and the Kindred to disperse before they could move to the Mills. Finally Portia, Diana and Thamior were able to make their break for it, bringing the three children with them and collecting whatever parts of Relic they could find.
On the way a shadowy figure dumped a sack in the street near their location. Thamior wished to continue on but Portia and Diana wanted to investigate the sack. It turned out to hold Kaylan, nude, covered in slime, unconscious and apparently raped. Her clothes were left in a pile near her. Thamior was naturally distraught, and they brought the unconscious Kaylan to the Mills.
There more horrors awaited! Selja was found in a similar state as Kaylan, nude, covered in slime, unconscious and apparently raped. Some children hiding in the rafters claimed a demon had done the deed. Soon the demon in question, Jeda, deformed, angry, looking part like a spider, returned, taunting the group. Thamior and Portia looked intent on running out into the night after her, Kaylan only just began to revive and Selja remained unconscious. With her careful plan beginning to come undone, Diana made a passionate plea to the group not to let emotion get the better of them. The day to punish Jeda for her crimes would come, but for now, Diana implored, they had to remain focused on defeating the Kindred. Diana’s argument held sway and they plan was put into force.
Thamior managed to sneak into the fields where the Kindred were worshipping their “diety” Raggomuffyn. He managed to strike their leader, Nel, and snatch Bremen, running back to the Mills with the Kindred in hot pursuit. He lead the Kindred into the center mill, where Portia’s bomb awaited. Jeda confronted him here, but Thamior teleported away. Portia detonated the bomb and Diana, Kaylan and Selja rained magic down on those that remained.
Diana’s plan worked! Only Nel, leader of the Kindred remained unaccounted for. Jeda managed to escape somehow, taking Quakeheart with her. Meanwhile, Relic’s dragonfly began the long process of reassembling him. Thamior worked to console Kaylan and Diana relaxed in the afterglow of a day that turned out a lot more positively than it had started.
Much still awaited the group…Nel and Raggamoffyn, as well as Jeda. But for the moment, momentum was on their side…
Experience: 566 each (18,973 total)
Rousing Speech, 400
Successful Plan, 400
Battle of the Mills, 2,200
Reuniting Brothers, 400
Magic: Percival's Ring (unidentified)
Money: 2400 gp off various Kindred, mostly Lawpounder (400 gp each)
Loot: none
NPCs:
Percival Wright, noble boy of twelve from Edmark who was stolen away to this land; lost his brother in the confusion of the attack; begged Thamior to help him find his brother; has a new look on elves since Thamior saved his brother, and rewarded the feladrin his magic ring
Bremen Wright, a Nors toddler of noble blood and Percival's younger brother; was to be taken into the fields for Raggamoffyn, but Thamior saved him; called Thamior father and allows him to treat him as such; reunited with his big brother
Wordgiver Nel, a blond girl with a crutch, no older than ten, who made a deal with Raggamoffyn to steal away all the grown ups in her Saspish village and there around; once an abused, crippled daughter who was worked like a slave; the only one who speaks with Raggamoffyn, hence the title, and delivers his word to the masses; on shaky terms with Lawpounder
(Summary by Chris)
With Relic torn limb from limb and the Quakeheart lost, the group found themselves in a difficult predicament. Kaylan remained among the missing. Selja had fled, her wherabouts similarly unknown. The Kindred ruled the city, flocking about in their maniacal celebrations, kicking around the bits and pieces that remained of Relic.
Thamior remained unconscious, knocked out by Relic to prevent him from searching desperately for Kaylan. Portia and Diana hid with the unconscious Thamior in a small niche in the floor shown to them by Patrick and Lindsay Henry, two children not part of the Kindred. Thamior eventually came around and talked with a third child Percival Wright who begged Thamior to find his missing brother Bremen.
Meanwhile Diana began hatching a plan for how they could defeat the Kindred. Diana asked Portia to build one of her bombs. Diana’s plan involved getting to the Mills, using Thamior as a lure to draw the Kindred into one of the mills in which Portia’s bomb would be hidden, then detonating it after Thamior had escaped. The three of them could then mop up whichever Kindred remained.
They had to wait many excruciating hours for the sun to come up and the Kindred to disperse before they could move to the Mills. Finally Portia, Diana and Thamior were able to make their break for it, bringing the three children with them and collecting whatever parts of Relic they could find.
On the way a shadowy figure dumped a sack in the street near their location. Thamior wished to continue on but Portia and Diana wanted to investigate the sack. It turned out to hold Kaylan, nude, covered in slime, unconscious and apparently raped. Her clothes were left in a pile near her. Thamior was naturally distraught, and they brought the unconscious Kaylan to the Mills.
There more horrors awaited! Selja was found in a similar state as Kaylan, nude, covered in slime, unconscious and apparently raped. Some children hiding in the rafters claimed a demon had done the deed. Soon the demon in question, Jeda, deformed, angry, looking part like a spider, returned, taunting the group. Thamior and Portia looked intent on running out into the night after her, Kaylan only just began to revive and Selja remained unconscious. With her careful plan beginning to come undone, Diana made a passionate plea to the group not to let emotion get the better of them. The day to punish Jeda for her crimes would come, but for now, Diana implored, they had to remain focused on defeating the Kindred. Diana’s argument held sway and they plan was put into force.
Thamior managed to sneak into the fields where the Kindred were worshipping their “diety” Raggomuffyn. He managed to strike their leader, Nel, and snatch Bremen, running back to the Mills with the Kindred in hot pursuit. He lead the Kindred into the center mill, where Portia’s bomb awaited. Jeda confronted him here, but Thamior teleported away. Portia detonated the bomb and Diana, Kaylan and Selja rained magic down on those that remained.
Diana’s plan worked! Only Nel, leader of the Kindred remained unaccounted for. Jeda managed to escape somehow, taking Quakeheart with her. Meanwhile, Relic’s dragonfly began the long process of reassembling him. Thamior worked to console Kaylan and Diana relaxed in the afterglow of a day that turned out a lot more positively than it had started.
Much still awaited the group…Nel and Raggamoffyn, as well as Jeda. But for the moment, momentum was on their side…
Experience: 566 each (18,973 total)
Rousing Speech, 400
Successful Plan, 400
Battle of the Mills, 2,200
Reuniting Brothers, 400
Magic: Percival's Ring (unidentified)
Money: 2400 gp off various Kindred, mostly Lawpounder (400 gp each)
Loot: none
NPCs:
Percival Wright, noble boy of twelve from Edmark who was stolen away to this land; lost his brother in the confusion of the attack; begged Thamior to help him find his brother; has a new look on elves since Thamior saved his brother, and rewarded the feladrin his magic ring
Bremen Wright, a Nors toddler of noble blood and Percival's younger brother; was to be taken into the fields for Raggamoffyn, but Thamior saved him; called Thamior father and allows him to treat him as such; reunited with his big brother
Wordgiver Nel, a blond girl with a crutch, no older than ten, who made a deal with Raggamoffyn to steal away all the grown ups in her Saspish village and there around; once an abused, crippled daughter who was worked like a slave; the only one who speaks with Raggamoffyn, hence the title, and delivers his word to the masses; on shaky terms with Lawpounder
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Session 46: Suffer the Children
Morning, Ulanra 8th - Evening, Ulanra 8th
An Eerie Land
Morning proved the same weak sunset as the previous day, all this cursed land could muster.
House of Clues
Puzzling It
Takeshi's Haunting Memory
Strawbed
Wild Ride
The Lonely Road
Snatched
Darling Little Chapel
Patrick and Lindsay
Kindred
Into Hiding
Limb from Limb
Relic stepped out into the open, appearing as a weathered swordsman, to confront the hundred raucous children that poured from the fields. Once sighted, there was a rush of gasps. Grown Up was spoken like a curse between their gritted teeth and the youngest of the bunch unleashed a hail of stones and sticks, while the older in the bunch ran to the houses and the barns. Relic was dinged a bit, but nothing he hadn't suffered before, and fired a few warning shots. His bid to tame this ornery bunch was further complicated when those same older children, which perhaps had been fleeing, returned with sickles, scythes, hammers, hoes and shovels. They charged as a second wave, this time unleashed a terrible barrage which nearly brought the machine man to his knees. A leader emerged then, an ugly seventeen year old with blunt features and black, beady eyes. He lifted wool shears and charged. Relic tried to blast him, but in the confusion of little, groping hands and a rain of blows, he missed. The boy lifted those shears and plunged them into the robot's neck, severing the unseen chords which powered his positron brain. His last cry was more of an electronic noise and he fell silent.
The others watched horrified from their hiding places as the children piled onto Relic, bits and pieces of him flying in the air and being floated on the crowd. Relic was torn asunder, and the leader lifted Quakeheart, blazing orange, into the air victoriously. He took the top half of the robot's head and wedged it on his head as a new helm, then lead a cheering Kindred to the carriage and horses. Climbing onto the roof, he was paraded around town.
Lingering by the fields with a dozen or so mean-looking teenagers was a little girl with blond hair and brilliant eyes, leaning heavily on a crutch, observing.
Selja left Colta in the care of the boy hiding out in the mills and ran to the fields, her mind set on a vengeful blaze. In the schoolhouse, Diana clamped her fist over her mouth to keep from screaming, Portia right beside her, Thamior still unconscious, and Patrick and Lindsay tugging her gently out of sight.
Experience: 567 xp each (18,407 total)
A House of Clues skill challenge, 800
Lonely Road skill challenge, 1200
Survivors of Darling (4 x 400), 1600
Magic: n/a
Money: n/a
Loot: 4 horses: young bay mare named Colta, mature bay mare, piebald stallion, dun stallion, 1 4-person carriage, 1 cat (magic?) named Shilo, 1 pig (magic?)
New NPCs:
Shilo, fat house cat; Diana suspects he's magical because of a wink and a smile he gave her
Pig (unnamed); Relic's new pet, found sleeping in a child's bed; Suspected might be a transformed farmer, though no one detected any enchantments on it
Colta, young bay riding mare; Selja's new best friend found locked in the stables and slightly starved
Patrick Henry, a boy of seven who hides in the schoolhouse in Darling, a place the Kindred are loathe to visit, and forages when they're out on their Fieldmeets; parents were snatched by Raggamoffyn; helps the group escape the Kindred (mostly)
Lindsay Henry, a girl of fourteen who hides in the schoolhouse in Darling and forages with her little brother Patrick; a frantic and motherly figure, she's always concerned with her brother's safety; begrudgingly helps the group back to their hideout, though refuses to house any animals for the telling noises they make
Oscar Mercy, a boy of twelve who hides in the old mills outside of Darling; one of the "Darlings", children who don't belong to the Kindred
The Kindred (organization), field-worshiping children based out of Darling with a hatred for Grown Ups and affliliate with Raggamoffyn
Lawpounder Malvern, ugly teenage leader of the older kids who pummeled and dismembers Relic; wielded wool shears; now possesses Quakeheart
Raggamoffyn (mentioned), strange being in the fields who snatches folks; praised by the Kindred and celebrated in Fieldmeets
New Monsters: Black Witnesses (crows)
New Quest: Little Darlings
Uncover the mystery behind the empty farmlands
An Eerie Land
Morning proved the same weak sunset as the previous day, all this cursed land could muster.
House of Clues
Puzzling It
Takeshi's Haunting Memory
Strawbed
Wild Ride
The Lonely Road
Snatched
Darling Little Chapel
Patrick and Lindsay
Kindred
Into Hiding
Limb from Limb
Relic stepped out into the open, appearing as a weathered swordsman, to confront the hundred raucous children that poured from the fields. Once sighted, there was a rush of gasps. Grown Up was spoken like a curse between their gritted teeth and the youngest of the bunch unleashed a hail of stones and sticks, while the older in the bunch ran to the houses and the barns. Relic was dinged a bit, but nothing he hadn't suffered before, and fired a few warning shots. His bid to tame this ornery bunch was further complicated when those same older children, which perhaps had been fleeing, returned with sickles, scythes, hammers, hoes and shovels. They charged as a second wave, this time unleashed a terrible barrage which nearly brought the machine man to his knees. A leader emerged then, an ugly seventeen year old with blunt features and black, beady eyes. He lifted wool shears and charged. Relic tried to blast him, but in the confusion of little, groping hands and a rain of blows, he missed. The boy lifted those shears and plunged them into the robot's neck, severing the unseen chords which powered his positron brain. His last cry was more of an electronic noise and he fell silent.
The others watched horrified from their hiding places as the children piled onto Relic, bits and pieces of him flying in the air and being floated on the crowd. Relic was torn asunder, and the leader lifted Quakeheart, blazing orange, into the air victoriously. He took the top half of the robot's head and wedged it on his head as a new helm, then lead a cheering Kindred to the carriage and horses. Climbing onto the roof, he was paraded around town.
Lingering by the fields with a dozen or so mean-looking teenagers was a little girl with blond hair and brilliant eyes, leaning heavily on a crutch, observing.
Selja left Colta in the care of the boy hiding out in the mills and ran to the fields, her mind set on a vengeful blaze. In the schoolhouse, Diana clamped her fist over her mouth to keep from screaming, Portia right beside her, Thamior still unconscious, and Patrick and Lindsay tugging her gently out of sight.
Experience: 567 xp each (18,407 total)
A House of Clues skill challenge, 800
Lonely Road skill challenge, 1200
Survivors of Darling (4 x 400), 1600
Magic: n/a
Money: n/a
Loot: 4 horses: young bay mare named Colta, mature bay mare, piebald stallion, dun stallion, 1 4-person carriage, 1 cat (magic?) named Shilo, 1 pig (magic?)
New NPCs:
Shilo, fat house cat; Diana suspects he's magical because of a wink and a smile he gave her
Pig (unnamed); Relic's new pet, found sleeping in a child's bed; Suspected might be a transformed farmer, though no one detected any enchantments on it
Colta, young bay riding mare; Selja's new best friend found locked in the stables and slightly starved
Patrick Henry, a boy of seven who hides in the schoolhouse in Darling, a place the Kindred are loathe to visit, and forages when they're out on their Fieldmeets; parents were snatched by Raggamoffyn; helps the group escape the Kindred (mostly)
Lindsay Henry, a girl of fourteen who hides in the schoolhouse in Darling and forages with her little brother Patrick; a frantic and motherly figure, she's always concerned with her brother's safety; begrudgingly helps the group back to their hideout, though refuses to house any animals for the telling noises they make
Oscar Mercy, a boy of twelve who hides in the old mills outside of Darling; one of the "Darlings", children who don't belong to the Kindred
The Kindred (organization), field-worshiping children based out of Darling with a hatred for Grown Ups and affliliate with Raggamoffyn
Lawpounder Malvern, ugly teenage leader of the older kids who pummeled and dismembers Relic; wielded wool shears; now possesses Quakeheart
Raggamoffyn (mentioned), strange being in the fields who snatches folks; praised by the Kindred and celebrated in Fieldmeets
New Monsters: Black Witnesses (crows)
New Quest: Little Darlings
Uncover the mystery behind the empty farmlands
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