Game Log 2020-12-14

The session began with the Tribe discussing the amazing tattoo that Evresh had made for Arkenite.  Entropy quickly volunteered for a tattoo of his own, as Arkenite saw a vision through his truly remarkable tattoo Evresh gave him.  Entropy mentioned he would like to maybe be able to phase through walls if that was a thing, and Evresh set to work on a white and purple tattoo on his left leg.  After a few hours, an amazing spectral tattoo, with flames climbing seemed to burn into Entropy’s leg, and he ran at the wall phasing through, and again before spending too long in the wall and being Shunted out taking damage as a teachable moment.

Me next stepped up, requesting the same tattoo from Evresh, and Evresh set to tattooing the same magical power into Me, with a much more nature based growing feature.  After finishing this tattoo, before Me could even try the tattoo out there was a knock at the door, and Me and Entropy talked quickly and agreed to both phase through the walls to see who was knocking on the mansion door.

They phased through the walls on either side of the door, and Wicbert an employee of Cilla, who was the one knocking on the door fell backwards startled.  After a few seconds Me and Entropy turned back into solid form, and Wicbert noticing Entropy breathed a sigh of relief and felt a bit better about the ghostly figures who walked through the wall.  Wicbert mentioned he was sent from Cilla and passed a note over, along with a small bag containing 650 Platinum (Entropy’s first share of trading profit from Cilla for bringing her into the fold of the Clasp).  Wicbert further mentioned that an interesting trader “Thunk” was in the EnThanUs refugee camp.

Me and Entropy bid Wicbert a good night and had a quick heart to heart about her investment, and how Entropy had used some of Vaulk’s funds to give to Artemis to help her and Me was very touched.  After that they went back in to the group and discussed what to do next, deciding on going to see this Thunk down in the camp the next day.

The Tribe took an airship and a nice night’s rest, arriving at the EnThanUs refugee camp in the morning ready to trade.  Upon arrival at the Camp the Tribe debarked the ship and an older elf, with white hair and a green tunic met them, “Gillian” who was in essence the Dock Master.  Evresh and Me began to talk with this man about the camp and Thunk, and he made some highly racist comments about dwarfs in regard to Thunk, which soured the group on him instantly.

The Tribe then went walking across the camp towards the docks where Gillian pointed that Thunk was located.  As they walked across the camp they noticed that the camp was many times (7-9) times the size of EnThanUs the city, and the people here were downtrodden and not nearly as clean, bright and happy as the citizens of the City.

Me and Evresh began to talk with Allyria about Aldor and how he could let this happen to his people.  Allyria was upset about the camp and how the Elves were doing down here, but defended Aldor stating that Xendala, and then Ankiel in her visage had been in charge of the camp, and they had apparently been horrible caretakers of the people here.

Saddened by the turn of events and how the camp was set up the Tribe began to hear some carousing, and arrived at the Docks to see an array of Goliaths with Frost Hymia tattoos and Thunk, sitting on a barrel drinking heavily.  The tribe quickly talked and then Vimak, as a dwarf himself went up to bond with Thunk.  They talked, they drank and talk moved to trade soon, and Thunk jumped down off his barrel to go inside, as the group went inside Garin Elk Breaker, one of the Goliaths pulled up to Arkenite and they talked about Vaulk, Family, Arkenite’s father Gougon and Arkenite tentatively asked about his mother the Mountain Heart.  For a second Garin’s responded that yes he knew where Arkenite’s mother was and the tribe perked up before he said she was frozen in the grove decades ago.

Saddened but determined to solve the problem at the grove the Tribe continued in to Thunk, with Garin responding that if we were to go to the Grove he would love to be brought along to watch, saying he was in the Iron Ward in the Upper City of Kraghammer.

With that the Tribe arrived in Thunk’s boat in his room and Thunk began to pull out his trading wares:

1)     Keoghtom Ointment – a healing salve that can cure poison and disease as well

2)     Potion of force resistance

3)     Oil of slipperiness

4)     Dust of dryness

5)     Periapt of wound closure – 557 gold

6)     Adamantine Half Plat – 1,075 gold

7)     Belt of dwarven kind – 9,700 gold

The party then went to talk among themselves about what they want to purchase.  Talk quickly turned to the Belt of Dwarven kind.  Being half honest, Entropy mentioned that the Belt is truly amazing, but he wasn’t sure if all of them together could pull together enough gold for that.  He did suggest though that it seemed Thunk may have come by this illegitimately, and suggested that he and Evresh disguise self as two police dwarves from Kraghammer and come demand he return the stolen goods.  As this discussion continued and Entropy tried to convince the party to go with this plan he saw out of the corner of his eye that Thunk was leaning back in his chair, flipping a black metal dagger, with a memorable hilt, and a gold chain hanging off of it.  Slowly, as in a movie reveal, Entropy’s eyes tracked down the chain noticing a blue dragon scale at the end of the chain.  Eyes going wide Entropy began to scream, and the session ended……

Eric…….. GRRRRRR

Addendum - tl;dr: Arkenite tries to mingle with his Goliath tribe and Harib BeastShadow insults his mother. They enter a honor match, sumo style best out of five. Arkentie marks the ring with Vaulk's three arrows. After 5 matches, Arkenite's left arm turns to pure ice as the three arrows shatter, and he throws that punk out of the ring. Harib is now an enemy for life.

Arkenite decides, not too subtly, to pull down the hood of his cloak and roll up the sleeve to show off his circular tattoos and then start to mingle with the members of the Fryst Hymiea tribe.

He walks over to a small group with Garren Elkbreaker and Harib Beastshadow amongst others. After a few questions, Garren tells Arkenite of the Fryst Hymia tribe, and a little more about the ceremony that was supposed to bring back the power of the Ice Primordial, where it failed and froze the best of the tribe including Arkenite's mother. Garren tells of Arkenite's father, Gaugon, who was believed to have thrown himself off a cliff, performing the Leap of the Eternal and killing himself. Then how this was not true. Garren was keeping Gaugon's secret. Gaugon was actually searching for Arkenite without a hint or clue for where to start, until he finally passed and with his last dying wish, pleaded to keep Arkenite safe. Billy Dee, or Dispater, heard this final wish and answered in kind.

Harib then started bad mouthing Arkeniite's mother, Vaga. He had strong feeling that it was Vaga's fault that the tribe was split. It was her fault that the best of them were turned to ice. It was her fault she tried to do this and fight against Thordak. And she was the problem, and the tribe was never the same ever since her treachery.

Arkenite not take this well. "You left the tribe. You abandoned them there in that garden. Vaulk was the only one to stay and remain true." He got a little too close to his face, Arkenite still a little shorter than Harib.

"You have no honor here. You're the one that left." << here is where Arkenite fails his Intimidation roll >>

Harib then loosen his belt and drops his axes and weapons. "I challenge you to Code Duello."

"Yeah, what is that?"

Garren begins to explain that the Code Duello is an honor match to right any perceived wrongs and ...

Arkenite cuts off Garren. "I accept." The winner of the match will hold a Honor Contract over the loser and bind them until completion.

As people begin to gather around seeing the commotion that is starting. Arkenite drops all his weapons on the ground and then from his pack, removes some leather and unrolls it to reveal three arrows. The last three arrows that were removed from Vaulk's body as he passed. Arkenite spikes all three arrows into the ground in a triangle to mark the bounds of the ring

Garren then takes blue powder and fills in the rest of the ring, a circle about 6 feet in radius. Then he pulls out a leather strip roughly 3 inches by 4 feet and begins to wrap Arkenite and Harib's left wrists together. The match is best out of five. The victor is the one who can pull the other out of the ring three times. Garren spits on the ground, reach for the match.

As Garren counts down the first round of the match. Three ... two ... one ... and just as Garren counts down, Arkenite uses Druidcraft and surrounds Harib's wrist in branches, just enough to give Harib a pause as the count drops to zero and Arkenite hip checks him, spins him around and throws Harib out of the ring. << Arkenite winds his Athletics check with advantage >>

After resetting back into the room and fixing the leather once, more Garren counts down and this time Harib gets the drop on Arkenite. Harib grabs Arkenite by the belt and spins, throwing Arkenite over his head down to the ground out of the ring. The match is now tied. << Arkenite fails his Athletics check >>

Another reset occurs and Arkenite fights the urge to dip into his pouch and secretly take a bump of go-go powder. He does however look out to the crowd and searches out for Evresh. He locks eyes and gives a little nod to Evresh, hoping for a little bit of inspiration. << Arkenite succeeds his Sleight of Hand check and Evresh secretly gives him inspiration >>

The next round starts but the inspiration ended up not helping as Harib throws Arkenite once more out of the ring, << Arkenite rolls super low on both the d20 and the d8 and totally fails >>

2 - 1. Harib is in the lead.

Arkenite psychs himself up after being on the ropes and resets once again, and this time knocks his knee into Harib's weight bearing knee, knocking him off balance and throwing Harib down into his back out of the ring. << Arkenite succeeds his Athletics check >>

The match is tied, 2 - 2.

After resetting once more, Garren proclaims, "And how we see who is the better warrior in this match. Will it be Harib .... or will it be Arkenite...?" As he points to Arkenite, Arkenite says, "The better warrior here is my mother." as he spits on the ground.

The spit has a slight hue of blue. << Eric makes Ryan roll for a random thing and gets a 19. Who knows what's going on here >>

As the match starts, and blue mote of light emerges from the spit on the ground and travels back to the first of Vaulk's arrows that are spiked in the ground. Then to the other. And then to the other. And blue light forms between all three arrows and form a blue light .And in a moment, Arkenite's entire left arm from shoulder to fingertip turns to ice. Moveable and cold and gripping Harib. Arkenite grapples him and wrestles and throws him out of the ring. Arkenite doesn't even look, only holding up his arm and looking at the ice. Crystalline and shimmering. Blue and ice cold. It then slowly turns back to normal flesh and bone.

"Wait no. Wait ... " Arkenite spits on the ground again to see if it happens again. It does not.

"See? This is what I told you!" Harib yells out. "Nothing but trickery and games. He has no honor and relies on these games to help him through."

"Well maybe you're the one who strayed from the tribe. You left them. You abandoned them. My new tribe and myself ... we're the ones who will solve what you could not."

Before Arkenite could ask a Honor Contract out of Harib, he gathers his things and readies himself. Rather than be debted with this demand, Harib chooses to ostracize himself from the Fryst Hymeia tribe, no longer able to return to Kragghammer.

Harib walks off, not to be seen again.

Garren then congratulates Arkenite on the victory and lets him know that if they ever back to Stilben, they will always have a friend at Thunk's Trade Shop, and that we will always have a home with the tribe at Kraghammer.Addendum - tl;dr: Arkenite tries to mingle with his Goliath tribe and Harib BeastShadow insults his mother. They enter a honor match, sumo style best out of five. Arkentie marks the ring with Vaulk's three arrows. After 5 matches, Arkenite's left arm turns to pure ice as the three arrows shatter, and he throws that punk out of the ring. Harib is now an enemy for life.

Arkenite decides, not too subtly, to pull down the hood of his cloak and roll up the sleeve to show off his circular tattoos and then start to mingle with the members of the Fryst Hymiea tribe.

He walks over to a small group with Garren Elkbreaker and Harib Beastshadow amongst others. After a few questions, Garren tells Arkenite of the Fryst Hymia tribe, and a little more about the ceremony that was supposed to bring back the power of the Ice Primordial, where it failed and froze the best of the tribe including Arkenite's mother. Garren tells of Arkenite's father, Gaugon, who was believed to have thrown himself off a cliff, performing the Leap of the Eternal and killing himself. Then how this was not true. Garren was keeping Gaugon's secret. Gaugon was actually searching for Arkenite without a hint or clue for where to start, until he finally passed and with his last dying wish, pleaded to keep Arkenite safe. Billy Dee, or Dispater, heard this final wish and answered in kind.

Harib then started bad mouthing Arkeniite's mother, Vaga. He had strong feeling that it was Vaga's fault that the tribe was split. It was her fault that the best of them were turned to ice. It was her fault she tried to do this and fight against Thordak. And she was the problem, and the tribe was never the same ever since her treachery.

Arkenite not take this well. "You left the tribe. You abandoned them there in that garden. Vaulk was the only one to stay and remain true." He got a little too close to his face, Arkenite still a little shorter than Harib.

"You have no honor here. You're the one that left." << here is where Arkenite fails his Intimidation roll >>

Harib then loosen his belt and drops his axes and weapons. "I challenge you to Code Duello."

"Yeah, what is that?"

Garren begins to explain that the Code Duello is an honor match to right any perceived wrongs and ...

Arkenite cuts off Garren. "I accept." The winner of the match will hold a Honor Contract over the loser and bind them until completion.

As people begin to gather around seeing the commotion that is starting. Arkenite drops all his weapons on the ground and then from his pack, removes some leather and unrolls it to reveal three arrows. The last three arrows that were removed from Vaulk's body as he passed. Arkenite spikes all three arrows into the ground in a triangle to mark the bounds of the ring

Garren then takes blue powder and fills in the rest of the ring, a circle about 6 feet in radius. Then he pulls out a leather strip roughly 3 inches by 4 feet and begins to wrap Arkenite and Harib's left wrists together. The match is best out of five. The victor is the one who can pull the other out of the ring three times. Garren spits on the ground, reach for the match.

As Garren counts down the first round of the match. Three ... two ... one ... and just as Garren counts down, Arkenite uses Druidcraft and surrounds Harib's wrist in branches, just enough to give Harib a pause as the count drops to zero and Arkenite hip checks him, spins him around and throws Harib out of the ring. << Arkenite winds his Athletics check with advantage >>

After resetting back into the room and fixing the leather once, more Garren counts down and this time Harib gets the drop on Arkenite. Harib grabs Arkenite by the belt and spins, throwing Arkenite over his head down to the ground out of the ring. The match is now tied. << Arkenite fails his Athletics check >>

Another reset occurs and Arkenite fights the urge to dip into his pouch and secretly take a bump of go-go powder. He does however look out to the crowd and searches out for Evresh. He locks eyes and gives a little nod to Evresh, hoping for a little bit of inspiration. << Arkenite succeeds his Sleight of Hand check and Evresh secretly gives him inspiration >>

The next round starts but the inspiration ended up not helping as Harib throws Arkenite once more out of the ring, << Arkenite rolls super low on both the d20 and the d8 and totally fails >>

2 - 1. Harib is in the lead.

Arkenite psychs himself up after being on the ropes and resets once again, and this time knocks his knee into Harib's weight bearing knee, knocking him off balance and throwing Harib down into his back out of the ring. << Arkenite succeeds his Athletics check >>

The match is tied, 2 - 2.

After resetting once more, Garren proclaims, "And how we see who is the better warrior in this match. Will it be Harib .... or will it be Arkenite...?" As he points to Arkenite, Arkenite says, "The better warrior here is my mother." as he spits on the ground.

The spit has a slight hue of blue. << Eric makes Ryan roll for a random thing and gets a 19. Who knows what's going on here >>

As the match starts, and blue mote of light emerges from the spit on the ground and travels back to the first of Vaulk's arrows that are spiked in the ground. Then to the other. And then to the other. And blue light forms between all three arrows and form a blue light .And in a moment, Arkenite's entire left arm from shoulder to fingertip turns to ice. Moveable and cold and gripping Harib. Arkenite grapples him and wrestles and throws him out of the ring. Arkenite doesn't even look, only holding up his arm and looking at the ice. Crystalline and shimmering. Blue and ice cold. It then slowly turns back to normal flesh and bone.

"Wait no. Wait ... " Arkenite spits on the ground again to see if it happens again. It does not.

"See? This is what I told you!" Harib yells out. "Nothing but trickery and games. He has no honor and relies on these games to help him through."

"Well maybe you're the one who strayed from the tribe. You left them. You abandoned them. My new tribe and myself ... we're the ones who will solve what you could not."

Before Arkenite could ask a Honor Contract out of Harib, he gathers his things and readies himself. Rather than be debted with this demand, Harib chooses to ostracize himself from the Fryst Hymeia tribe, no longer able to return to Kragghammer.

Harib walks off, not to be seen again.

Garren then congratulates Arkenite on the victory and lets him know that if they ever back to Stilben, they will always have a friend at Thunk's Trade Shop, and that we will always have a home with the tribe at Kraghammer.