Tombs of Scoria: Episode 07

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== Synopsis ==
The McGary Brothers meet Clertus and the Queen in Wikkthronrarenta, where Clertus provides them with a list and map of valuable items spread across various locations. After a brief discussion, Clertus suggests they target easier items first, while the Queen informs them about ongoing looting in Eridon. The brothers plan to confront a Mistryan convoy despite uncertainties about its loot. They gather supplies, with Imrik studying spells and Anton training his mouse. Disguised as peasants, they travel to Bon' Theris, secure a ship captained by Clammy, and sail to Shelterwood, learning of a royal wedding. In Shelterwood, they face minor challenges and then proceed to the Teatherwilds, where they find a suspicious tavern and gather information. They cautiously track a Mistryan caravan in Cauldron, using invisibility spells to remain undetected while planning their next move.
==Recap==
=== 11th August 1511 ===
The McGary Brothers meet up with Clertus and the Queen in Wikkthronrarenta. Clertus says he has a grand list of items to equip the party with and a map with the locations of said items.
They ask him to tell them about the list, and Clertus tells each of them what items would be most beneficial to each of them. Clertus accidentally calls Tyrael Anton, they correct him and Imrik gives an eye to the Queen.
Tyrael
* Head - Hat of Disguise
* Neck - Amulet of Health
* Shoulders - Cloak of the Cheetah
* Armor - Set of Green Naga hide
* Arms - Bracers of Archery
* Hands - Gloves of War
* Ring 1 - Ring of Free Action
* Ring 2 - Ring of Fire Protection
* Feet - Boots of Speed
Imrik
* Eyes - Glasses of the Arcanist
* Neck - Amulet of Shield
* Shoulders - Cloak of Displacement
* Body - Robes of the Magi
** Clertus mentions he is unsure if they can find this, but it would be beneficial
* Arms - Bracers of Shocking Grasps
* Hands - Arcane Gloves
* Ring 1 - Ring of Free Action
* Ring 2 - Ring of Fire Protection
* Feet - Sandals of Speed
* Belt - Magic Sword Belt.
* Weapon - Staff of the Magus.
Anton
* Head - Circlet of Insight
* Neck - Amulet of ESP
* Shoulders - Cloak of Plenty
* Body - The Armor of Rohana
* Hands - Gloves of War
* Ring 1 - Ring of Free Action
* Ring 2 - Ring of Fire Protection
* Feet - Boots of Striding and Springing
* Rohana's Shield and Spear.
If they desire something else he says he can try to locate it. Clertus says they should look at the easy items first, and walks over to the map.
The Queen talks about looting and tomb raiding, what's been going on in Eridon, and there's a small convoy in Mistrya, they have been looting the area south of Stromheim. They have been collecting the miscellaneous items, of magical and gold. Clertus kind of interrupts her and says that it probably not what they want to do since the items from the Mistryan may not be any good.
Clertus then goes over his list.
# Tomb of a minotaur, Angus Heraford, on an isle near Caldonia, where the brothers should be able to find his gear. The tomb's island is outside the operations area of the Caldonian Expedition.
# In the middle of the Drakken Wastes inside a deep canyon is the tomb of the dwarf Vlad Ormore. Vlad should be buried with gloves of war, boots of speed, ring of free action.
# The lair of Hydroxis the Mist Dragon, in the misty valley, north of Hillsborough. There is supposed to be cantines of endless water (gifted from the Baron of Redport). A deceased witch companion of Hydroxis had the Arcane Gloves & the Staff of the Magus.
# Off the West Coast of Akuba is a sunken sky temple, once devoted to the sky faction of Nadinis. Inside should be a crystal scrying orb, Glasses of the Arcanist, Circlet of Insight.
# In the Riverlands is where the Vampire Cassandra is. Cassandra is known to have taken from the Halflings a Hat of Disguise, Gloves of War, Bracers of Shocking.
# There is a Green Dragon on Paradise Island, Abraxia, where the Gnomish Kingdom of GNoME is. The dragon is said to have magical wands, staves, scrolls, potions.
# The green dragon Xorathis of The Overgrowth in Mahtava. Her treasure is unknown but could be the greatest.
# A blue dragon Azoron who lives in the Draken Ridge. Has a ring of protection from fire at the least, many be has more anti-fire enchantments due to her surviving fights against the more powerful dragon.
# The Tomb of Rohana, in the Wekasha Bluffs, west of Abenkai.
# Balurion the Bronze Dragon who lives at the north end of the Draken Ridge who might have useful magical items.
As the McGary Brothers speak with Clertus, the Queen is called away by a knight with grave news from the front lines of the war.
The McGary Brothers they decide they will deal with the Mistryan convoy in Eridon first, despite it being a gamble since they don't know if the convoy managed to loot anything valuable.
=== 12-14th August 1511 ===
They talk about their plans on how to hit the caravan.
They also plan and pack for going into the Teatherwilds.
During the days Imrik reads from Babylon's Spell book to find out more of the spells within: (, , , , , , , , , , , .) Afterwards Imrik needs to be healed by Anton due to the book injuring Imrik. The next day Imrik reads more of the book and finds is the last 2nd level spell in the book.
Anton trains his mouse Tennes how to scout.
=== 15th August 1511 ===
The party leaves Wikkthronrarenta and travel down the road to Bon' Theris.
=== 19th August 1511 ===
The brothers arrive in Bon' Theris, is a lovely seaside town, disguised as peasants. However Imrik quickly flexes who he is to the guard stopping them at the gate, and he lets them in.
They are looking for a boat to take them to. They find a ship looks to be nine people, they leave two behind to take care of the ship, while the seven others head into a tavern.
Imrik and Anton follow them into a dodgy-looking tavern, called the Dog Brown, a lively place, a piano, people being drunk, a mess sort of tavern.
Anton orders eight drinks, and walks over to a crew of seven people, and says in a pirate accent, they are looking for a ship captain. She notices a fake accent and asks what they are needing a ship captain for. They tell they are wanting to go to the Shelter wood, 100 gold, but there are Mahtavan pirates. Anton drops the fake accent and just says 200 gold then. Clammy, the ship captain, and Anton gets introduced.
They discuss Anton talking to a mouse and banter together. Anton says he can show the mouse can count and shows them. Anton tells Tennes to find a ring on the floor and it causes a woman to scream rat and there's a large commotion, a man with a cleaver asks Anton if he's seen a rat around.
=== 21st August 1511 ===
The brothers meet up at Clammy's ship, they board the Shellfish Slurp, and they take their private rooms in the ship.
Imrik learns the spells and over four days while at sea.
=== 23rd August 1511 ===
During the trip at sea, Clammy opens up some provisions to the ship and announces that there is a new Prince, Van Healsing, as he is marrying Crown Princess Lissandra (Queen Vuularia Wikk's daughter. Lissandra is the cousin to the McGary Brothers and they weren't invited to the wedding and were not aware this wedding was taking place at all.
=== 26th August 1511 ===
They get dropped off in Shelterwood to the west of Newfort. In the woods the brothers don't find any edible berries for Anton's spell. Imrik casts two chipmunks. The brothers cook and eat the chipmunks. And put the phantasmal candle, that summons an illusionary phantasmal. They put it inside of Imriks hooded candle.
=== 27th August 1511 ===
They leave Shelterwood about midday and head out into the Teatherwilds. As they settle in for the night, they see a bright light, northwest of their position, in the Teatherwilds. They see a few more lights, indicative of civilization. Four five miles out. They assume it's probably mercenaries. With magical light, Imrik takes a look with his spyglass. They go a few miles ahead, repack up camp. It's slow going through the planes, but after two hours of hiking. They see it's a tavern, at the edge of some trees. A sign with a flagon of ale tipped 45 degrees, with a circle with two lines going out of it. A stable nearby. They see a figure moving around inside the tavern, through the spyglass. They could come across anyone. They approach the building. They knock on the door. A young woman welcomes them, and she says that they are their first customers in weeks, welcome to the dot and dash. They are a bit suspicious as it's in the middle of nowhere, and she is quite pretty.
They talk a bit with her, and she pours ale for each of them and prepares rooms for them. They chat a bit with her about the Mistryian caravan of soldiers and pay her five gold for her information. She asks them to carry a sack of potatoes for her. Tyrael wakes up in the middle of the night, and moves silently, scoping the place out, and detecting noise to see if he hears her coming. He's looking for anything she shouldn't have, and large amounts of money, anything that would be out of place. He finds a strongbox. He picks it knowing that it's empty, nothing but flies. He heads back into his room.
=== 28th August 1511 ===
They head out in the morning. Looking for the Mistryan caravan. Anton attempts to Animal Friendship the dog, but it saves.
She hands them a handkerchief, each with a sandwich packed in. Anton casts Speak With Animals, on a dog. They follow him, Anton practically "steals" the dogs, feeling vengeance towards her, for shit-talking Drekis. Tyrael and Anton talk about the dogs, Anton makes Molly the dog bolt away, while sending the other dogs back to her. They meet up with the dog again. Imrik kicks the dog and tries to scare it away, making it run back to her. The dog bites him. Anton tries to talk the dog down. Molly bites Imrik heavily in the leg, and after some time, it runs back.
In the middle of a swamp, the find a weird log cabin, they power on.
=== 29th August 1511 ===
They see a giant a couple of miles out, but they just hold a low profile and pass him.
=== 31st August 1511 ===
They see a single rider, flying no banners, roaming across the Teatherwilds, Imrik suggests casting Invisibility on Tyrael, and using the cloak of the cheetah.
They talk and decide that if shit goes wild, they will meet up at the lady's tavern from earlier.
Tyrael follows the horseman, when he stops, to look around with his spyglass, Tyrael quickly jumps and snatches the spyglass out of his hands, Tyrael runs the fuck away, and the horsemen gallops away looking over his shoulder. Tyrael finds his party again. He tells them about what happened. Tyrael makes an educated guess that Mistryans are making camp in Cauldron.
They attempt to cover their tracks.
They sleep the night. And into the day to prepare their spells.
=== 1st September 1511 ===
They leave camp at noon. Going towards Cauldron. Anton and Imrik casts Nap and Invisibility, making them all invisible. They enter the ruined town, they see no people besides one in the watchtower. A geyser bursts filling the air with a mist. In the middle of town, there are tents set up. Barricades set up, made up loosely placed stuff, some of the tents are flying banners, and the biggest tent is flying the Mistryan flag, but not high enough, you wouldn't be able to see it outside of the town square. They see about 15 people. Imrik uses the ESP amulet and reads that they know that there are invisible people, at least the news from the rider reached them.
They head back to the tree and rest there.
== Experience ==
No exp handed out this session.
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