DFE 17 Notes (Laura)

Ok, last session started in the Asmal village, in the underground chamber, looking at the rings.

1) There were six rings, arranged with five of them in a pentacle and the sixth ring in the center. The outer five rings resembled those worn by the Five First Formed we have encountered, and were inscribed with the names of the five elements in the Primal language. Orrin's ring is earth, Alassra's is fire, Namanda's is wood, Bartis' is water, and the fifth one is air (Jaicinteleq later learned from Pandora that this Primal being is named Anilo.) The rings radiated strong magic, flowing from the central ring (which was blank and Pandora confirmed was not worn by one of the Primals) to the other five.

2) Aegeia escaped from Loic's attempts to corral her and ran to the rings. The water ring flew to her and she took it. She said she had felt a compulsion to reach for the ring and it came.

3) Loic and Jaicinteleq began trying to call the wood ring. Jaicinteleq was thinking that since the ring was Namanda's and Namanda had given them the na'ama kittens, that they had a special connection with her. However, it could also be because they are rangers and it is a Wood ring. In any case, the ring does come when either of them call it. Loic has it now.

4) Deucalion did some psionic and bardic stuff, culminating with making a circle around his head as if there were a crown there, and the unmarked central ring flew to him. When asked what he did, Deucalion would only say that he "just figured out who the ring wanted to be with and became that."

5) The party tried a few different ideas to attract the other rings but they did not work.

6) Lohanna, the young native priestess came running in and called the fire ring to her, then went running back up to the village, where a crowd had gathered and the villagers were starting to argue with each other.

7) Leonus picked up the remaining two rings by hand with the intention of examining them more later and we went to the village.

8) Meanwhile the facade of the building had started self-repairing. However this was still not sufficient to read the scratched out name that was written there, nor did making a rubbing reveal the incisions beneath the scratches. (Jaicinteleq and Kakra had translated these inscriptions between sessions, they were Chla Nachran words written in Fey characters.)

9) The jungle commando team set up a counterambush in the jungle while Levon the missionary gave a fire and brimstone speech to the agitated natives. Jaicinteleq noticed large beasts coming their way through Friendly Forest.

10) Short, brutal combat ensued. Spoiler: We won. ;)

11) The chief began arguing with the missionary, who pointed his cross at him as if to divinely smite him, but the cross sputtered and failed to work. Lohanna used a prayer and a ball of fire fell from one of the trees overhead killing Levon instantly. The natives could not find the other missionary, Anna. Their religious crisis resolved, they began burning all their Bibles and the possessions of the missionaries.

12) The party found Anna, who turned out to be a brainwashed young teenager and also pregnant by her husband Levon who is also her brother. Those Christians can be kind of pervy, sez Jaicinteleq. Party convinced natives not to kill Anna and took her as their prisoner instead. Talking to her and having Deucalion read her mind we learned that her tyrannical father is desperate for her to have this baby for some reason apparently unknown to her and she fears he would kill her if she miscarries.

13) Party discussed plans and alliances. The chief was willing to work with us but did not want to commit his warriors to a combat he thought might be futile, although Lohanna was substantially impressed by our ability to have successfully ambushed those beasts and riders (whose names I did not write down.) Lohanna asked us to please accompany her upriver to look for the native prophet Manlo, who the MacAnnies had chased away. The party agreed.(edited)

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14) Our current plans were to first go upriver with Lohanna, find Manlo, and possibly check out the ruins up there, which we had learned the MacAnnies had made mysterious trips up there and they might have been up to some kind of no good that might be worth learning about. Second, we sent the two women we rescued from the plantations back to rendezvous with their people. The more leaderly of the two had a plan to join forces with the mercenaries there, which the second woman agreed with, and our idea was to re-establish the sooka trade between the Asmal (who grow the sooka), the plantation slave women (who are from a tribe that used to man the fort before the MacAnnies), and the mercenaries (who are from Stormreach and could handle that leg of the trading operation.) Possibly also the canoe people for transportation. Third, with these plans in hand, we were going to return to scout out Fort MacAnnie and plan its downfall.(edited)

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15) There was also a casket of some reddish wood that one of us found. I don't know what became of that. Jaicinteleq asked Lohanna about the large bone she had found in the pipe and learned it was a giant's bone from a long-ago era.

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And that's all I had.

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Hope that helps, see you tomorrow!