Tombs of Scoria: Episode 37

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== Synopsis ==
Anton and his companions, Tyrael and Imrik, decide to travel the safer route to the Devouring Marsh despite Anton's divination warning of dangers. They encounter various threats along the way, including spectres, ambushes by kobolds, and a mysterious serpent-filled twister. Despite these obstacles, they make their way through the forest, encountering villages, a hunting party, and the Army of Voraci's checkpoint, which they evade. They eventually reach Devouring Marsh with the help of brigands, and after dealing with a hydra and an invisible wizard, they continue to Keygate, gathering information on Lord Darren Gilroy. Upon learning that Gilroy is in Swampside, they head there, and after some reconnaissance, plan to attack Gilroy and his associates, the Dragon Knights, during the night.
==Recap==
=== 2nd September, 1512 ===
Anton casts and 2 :
Will we do well if we take the shortcut through the swamp?
*Woe, not viel awaits you on the way to the swamp.
Will we do better if we venture through the slower path
*Eyes will pry, the danger will lessen, the path is longer.
They decide to travel the safer route to the Devouring Marsh, Imrik casts and Tyrael goes into the Bag of Holding. Imrik himself into a pegasus.
Not even 10 minutes later, spectres come upon them despite invisibility. Imrik descends, the specters don't follow. Imrik flies low down to land, specters find them again. Anton casts Turn Undead, they continue, the ghost riders appear again. They trot along the ground.
The forest around them seems to be devastated by some unnatural force. A few hours later, the wind begins to pick up, they see a strange twister filled with serpents. They avoid it.
At the end of the day, they come across the mentioned path. They rest for the night. During Tyrael's watch, he hears something small. He takes out his spyglass and sees a kobold. He tries to sneak after him, kobold spots him. Tyrael wakes the brothers and they leave the area.
=== 3rd September, 1512 ===
They travel on foot because of interrupted sleep. As they walk down, Kobolts jump out of invisibility and ambush them, 100 or so of them. Kobolds swarm the brothers and drag Tyrael and Anton to the ground. Imrik manages to get out of the pile and casts 2 , killing every single kobold in the way. They look for the caster but don't find anything.
With the ring of true seeing, they see the burrow, decide to go their way. Along the way, they hear singing, cover their ears and continue. In the distance, they see a swinging lantern. It's a pair of horses with a rider, raising a flag with a sigil of Voraci. Imrik casts . Anton casts and talks to passerby, he hails Voraci and says he's transporing weapons. Anton doesn't hail Voraci back and casts . They rummage trough the drivers cart, it's full of arrows, on the bottom, there is a hidden trapped department, gold and gems inside. Anton wants to kill the raider. Imrik argues against it. Anton slits the man's throat anyway. They take the horses and set the cart on fire.
=== 4th-5th September, 1512 ===
The next 2 days pass by without a problem.
They leave the forest and see a settlement. They rest and avoid the village.
=== 6th September, 1512 ===
They come across a hunting party in the forest. Anton casts and asks how to get to Devouring Marsh. He gets directions and gives the hunters 10 gold.
Rest of the day, they pass a few villages and spend the night. Before sleep, Imrik scouts the surrounding.
=== 7th September, 1512 ===
There is come across the Sundoren lake and a small town, Brygga, next to it. They pass through town, nobody stops them. Anton stares one of the villagers down, he kneels and says ‘Lord Gilroy’.
In the next town, Terina, there is the checkpoint of Army of Voraci. They turn back and travel off the road. Riders are sent out. In the evening, they hear bells in the town they went around. In the sky, there is a singular human with a spyglass that spots them. They go and Imrik turns into a pegasus. They reappear in the foothills. Imrik turns into a robin and scouts. They go around the towns and head into the forest.
They head towards the river and exit the forest 3 days later.
=== 10th September, 1512 ===
The brothers follow the road south. They come across a group of brigands. Anton casts again and they negotiate. He offers the brigands 100 gold for some information. Brigand leader, Kael, is glad they are not a part of the army and asks if they are looking for Orb of Winter. Anton replies they are looking for Devouring Marsh. Kael tells them to follow the river until they hit Falaror, then head south past Stonkarr. Anton asks about the name Gilroy, Kael says Lord Darren Gilroy is one of the dragon slayers. Kael offers to escort them, Anton pays them 100 gold to bring them to the swamp.
=== 17th September, 1512 ===
They get to Devouring Marsh about a week later. Anton asks them to get the brothers to Keygate or if they want to work with them to take down Lord Gilroy. Brigands are glad to help them travel around, but they are not up for a suicide mission.
Kael tells them the whole area south of the Marsh is covered in snow, nobody knows what causes it. It is rumoured to have an Orb of Winter that is causing the snow.
=== 18th September, 1512 ===
They head through the Marsh. Anton casts . Imrik casts .
One of the brigands signals a warning. Anton talks to him, it is the Hydra of the swamp. A few hours later, they hear signs of a wagon. Wagon and Kael talk, Tyrael sees an invisible wizard on the cart. The talks go smoothly, the block in the path is cleared and they spend the night with the people on the wagon.
During Anton's watch, Imrik wakes up to something rustling him. His bag is open and his spellbook halfway out. Imrik the wizard, grabs him and covers him in snow. They wake the rest of the camp, signal to the invisible wizard.
Anton one of the travellers. The brigands descend upon them and beat them. Anton talks to the brigands and they agree to ransack the traveler's cart. Imrik looks for the wizard's spellbook. Anton takes his spell components and lets the wizard go.
=== 19th September, 1512 ===
They make their way through the swamp and get to Keygate. Brigands get a room for them and ask around for Lord Gilroy.
After the brothers go to sleep, Imrik comes down to the tavern. He hears a couple of people talking in Eridonian. The woman introduces herself as Ariel, her sister Rosa and their friend Helen. Imrik introduces as Jonas. They make some small talk. They are from Redport, Imrik tells them about the Demon Invasion of Eridon. After some talk, they go their separate ways.
=== 20th-26th September, 1512 ===
The brigands found out that Lord Darren Gilroy passed through a few days ago and is currently in the Swampside, about a week's travel away.
They get to Swampside and sleep.
=== 27th September, 1512 ===
Lord Darren Gilroy has 3 associates, they are known as Dragon Knights - 2 warriors, a cleric, and a wizard. The warrior was wounded in the previous excursion to the swamp to kill the black dragon.
The brothers discuss how to kill them. They wait for nightfall, Tyrael tries to find and spy on Dragon Knights. He spots a magical building in town.
After notifying the brothers, they decide to attack them the very night.
==Experience==
No exp this session
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