Session 3: The Road to Solarius

## **Session Recap**

At the start of the session, Iraprath goes straight to the mayor to explain what happened with the goblin tribe leader, and where the bodies are. The mayor was thankful, and gave them 700 gold and 3 healing potions. She also directs them towards Maglore, the town's cartographer, for more work on an expedition to some ruins in the woods. She told them how it paid gold, Iraprath doesn't understand the appeal. They go to wait for the party by the town's entrance.

The party reunites with Iraprath, and after hearing about what the mayor said, chooses to take the job. They head down to the town's guild hall, and are introduced to a joyful-looking, hyperactive human woman named Maglore, who greets the party with a bright smile and is seemingly constantly optimistic about the expedition and the dangers that come with it. She offers the party 40gp each to help her , as well as letting them keep anything they can find within the ruins.

When the party got to the ruins, they came to a giant stone battlement, with two stone statues standing guard. When they tried to enter the ruins, the statues animated and attacked the party. The rest of the party defended against the statues, as Loramae and Maglore snuck inside the ruins and opened the doors. Mid way through the battle, Iraprath triggered a burst of the Chaos Arcanum, and was sent away to the Elemental Plane of Earth. When they arrived there, surrounded by rocks and dusty plains, they had their first encounter with an Abyssal entity, The Stalker. They took a mass amount of psychic damage, and were thrown back through to the Material Plane unconscious. The rest of the party had been taking a short rest by the door of the ruins, and were immediately rushed to heal and console a distressed Iraprath after the experience.

When the party entered the ruins, they took the time to investigate. Alexi found 3 heavy crossbows and a bag of 300sp. Alomit found a chest with 245gp inside of it, as well as 40 arrows and an hourglass. Iraprath found 3 healing potions in a dusty old box. Rusty and Creature found a Ring of Jumping wedged into a crack in the wall. After their investigating they met up with Maglore within the ruins, as she’s mapping them out excitedly on the floor. She lead them into a circular chamber somewhere else in the ruins, and they discover a mural dedicated to the old bearers of their god's marks. One of which was Iraprath's father, Aelrindel Argentaamn, bearing the same symbol as Loramae.

Afterward the expedition is concluded, and they'd explored everything they could, Maglore took the party back to Beowich. Once there, they all recieved their payment. As she was paying them back at the expedition office, they heard a bloodcurdling scream outside in the town plaza.

The party went out to investigate in the town plaza, and they saw the body of a priest hanging from the front of the town hall. A hysterical priest was on his knees in the plaza, screaming about how Azthar has cursed them all. Investigating the body revealed soot on the body, metal shavings embedded in the victim's palms and forearms and a letter from the blacksmith’s wife, talking about an affair the two were having.

Their investigation continued at the blacksmith’s house and revealed his wife, who looked completely distraught. Two guards were seen leaving the premises as the party approached. As the party talked to her, they discovered her husband had been murdered that morning, with his head shoved into a forge full of molten metal. The investigation of the forge revealed a half-melted brass pin, and they managed to put together that the badge belonged to the deputy mayor.

Loramae, Rusty and Alomit went to go apprehend the deputy mayor themselves, and ended up bringing him to the mayor. They questioned him, discovering that he’d been obsessed with the blacksmith’s wife for many years, and wanted to kill her lovers so they could be together. As a reward they received 20gp each, as well as a cart for their travels.

After that, they met with the caravan heading to Solarius, introducing themselves to the man who runs it, Nalder Teray.

## **Information learned in the session**

* There have been people marked with these symbols before them, seemingly going back centuries ago
* Iraprath's father, Aelrindel Argentaamn, was one of the people marked with these symbols.
* Common people in the Republic are seemingly afraid of the wrath of Azthar

## **Milestones Reached**

*No milestones were reached this session.*

## **Featured Characters**

### The Party

* Alexi the Great
* Alomit
* Beaker
* Creature
* Iraprath Argentaamn
* Loramae Cazenave
* Pebble
* Reais
* Rusty Sideris-Matsouka

### New

* Maglore
* Mayor of Beowich
* Nalder Teray

## **Items/Rewards Gained**

* 700gp and 3 healing potions (given by the mayor)
* 3 heavy crossbows and 300sp (found by Alexi)
* 245gp, 40 arrows and and hourglass (found by Alomit)
* 3 healing potions (found in an old box by Iraprath)
* A Ring of Jumping (found by and worn by Rusty)
* 40gp each from Maglore
* 20gp each and a cart (given by the mayor)