Session 9

Sessions

Session 8

Session 9 – Silver doesn’t glow like that

* Rei opens the door and they leave Greydon manor, they briefly talk to the groundskeeper.
* The party decided to go counter clockwise around the lake to Pike Dock to see what is there
* A few hours into the journey they run into a pack of six wolves and two dire wolves, Tetzo charms three of the wolves who assist in the fight, and the party takes on the rest and after helping with the fight Tetzo sends the charmed wolves into the forest.
* After the battle the party finds a mound, Rei and Tetzo notice it is not natural, they dig it up and find a mostly desiccated body, it was dressed in black with a black star amulet, a potion of water breathing and some broken glass. Tetzo recognizes faint traces of a toxin that is fatal.
* In the night during Rei’s watch, Rei sees a shadow cross the moon and the lake begins to glow about 500 feet out he tries to swim out and gains 2 levels of exhaustion as the glow fades glow fades, Rei turns around and manages to get back.
* Rei wakes up Prim and tells her about the glowing lake, she is not sure she believes him.
* On Prim's watch she is sitting by the fire a bit away from the rest of the party when suddenly there is a man sitting next to her by the fire he is tall and dressed in white and introduces himself as Glen, Prim asks if she can help him, and he says, “You will try, but you will most certainly fail.” Prim notices the water is glowing and when she turns back Glen is gone.
* Prim wakes up Tetzo for his watch and tells him about Glen and the glowing water, Tetzo tells her off for not waking the rest of the party when there was an intruder. During his watch Tetzo sees the lake glowing and notes the location of the glow in the lake.
* In the morning Rei takes some Scarlet Bovine and grows wings.
* Tetzo heads out into the lake and Rei flies out with Prim on his back. Tetzo swims to the bottom but doesn’t find anything. He comes up and Rei and Prim have caught up, Thiana is still swimming out to the group. Tetzo throws the potion of water breathing to Rei and dives again, Rei chugs the potion and dives into the water. When he hits the water, Prim only goes in a couple of feet before losing her grip and being flung out of the water by the air trapped under her. Thiana catches her.
* Under water Tetzo is looking for anything under the water that might have caused the glow and Rei is catching up to him. As he searches he spots a glow and sweeps away some silt to find a crystal sphere that is faintly glowing.
* Tetzo returns to the shore and meets Thiana and Prim drying off with a bit of help from prestidigitation. Rei has trouble swimming back b/c of the soaked wings but fortunately can breathe under water for the swim back.
* Tetzo reports to Drum who is very pleased that they have found the Tempest Orb, he instructs Tetzo the turn in the Orb in to the LHD’s agents in Xyrix and as a reward for his excellent work and returning the Orb that was stolen from his clan, Tetzo is given the opportunity to return home to his clan. He happily accepts.
* The party heads back to go to Widow’s Port.

Session 9 – Dwarves and Bael and kobolds and elementals!

* After passing Greydon Manor the party heads into the Bronlis/Maglar pass, three hours into the journey past the manor the party notices a dwarf standing on a rock formation off the path. They call out to it and it starts and dives out of view.
* Tetzo makes to cast an attack at it when the party is surrounded by dwarven guards. Rei and Prim calm the situation and talk to the captain who says his guards are usually more disciplined but are distracted by the problems they are having in the mine. Prim offers to help.
* Tetzo opts to part ways at this point as he a determined to get home. Prim and Thiana say good-bye and Rei is very sad to see Tetzo go. Tetzo gives his silvered +1 club. Tetzo heads off into the rest of his life.
* The rest of the party head into the Dwarves’ Stronghold and talk to the sergeant who advises that last night a main barrier wall in the lower mine collapsed and a swarm of copper kobolds invaded chased by something scarier.
* The team is granted permission to access the dwarf’s market place and do some shopping and have something to eat before going into the mine.
* As they are assembling, the orange fox team's tattoos burn briefly and a new team member appears in their midst, and they all meet Bael the Tiefling Paladin from The Kiln.
* After a short introduction they head down the steps to the lower mines, where they immediately run into a swarm of copper kobolds who seem to start attacking but not very enthusiastically. The party is doing very well when Bael and to a lesser extent Thiana listen to the kobolds just want to get out, so Bael takes them all to the entrance and lets them out into the dwarves living area and tells the guard to treat them good.
* The group head further into the tunnels and runs into an air elemental, they seem to be doing well against one but then they run into another air elemental and another…
* Bael calls for the party to retreat as the team is trying to retreat, Thiana is thrown against a wall, Rei manages to pass between two of them and Bael and Prim are clear when a sudden roar echoes through the tunnel blowing most of the party off their feet, and the elementals seem to be standing down as the party quickly exits the mine.
* When the team gets to the main market they see a cart with a bunch of copper kobolds in it being told off by a dwarven schoolmarm.
* Bael and Thiana talk to the sergeant who thanks them for their work and agrees to give them some reward for their work. Thiana finds an inn and turns in for the night.
* Prim b-lines to the bar and gets as drunk as possible Rei follows her to keep an eye on her. They discuss the situation. Prim takes a hangover cure and sobers up.
* Bael joins them and the incident in the capital city comes causing Prim to get irritated at having something she has already apologized for repeatedly brought up. Rei then agrees to drop it on the results of a rock-paper-scissors competition.
* Prim intending to go back down into the mine, heads back to talk to the sergeant, she finds him talking to an older looking dwarf in a silver breast plate, when he leaves, the sergeant tells Prim that an ally has informed them the mine is cleared and the dwarves may return to the mine.

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Session 10