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Session 7 - 21JUL2024

Attendees

  • Tim ✅
  • Walter ✅
  • Erica ✅
  • Jin ✅
  • Nick ✅
  • Alex ❌

Copy/Paste Source: ✅ ❌

Recap to Current Situation

  •  We researched dragon necklaces, made friends with a single mom and kid, and ended up getting transported to a mysterious place from Erica's dreams...

Session Notes

  • The figure in this room apologizes for the abrupt way in which we were summoned
  • He says that we can refer to him as "The Archivist," working for the Council of the Few
  • He was unaware of us until we started making inquiries into dragon artifacts
  • When he learned more about us, he was relieved to find out that we were not the other group of mercenaries, members of Red Omen
  • He asks if we want to do some work for him to work against the Red Omen
  • Red Omen info
    • order that existed >3000 years ago
    • thought not to exist any longer
    • if it was alive, but in hiding, then it is likely most well informed about artifacts
  • The Archivist is hoping that we can help go to the Grayogen Empire to ask the Empress,Empress (also known as the Oba), Lalali-puy, for cooperation against the Red Omen
  • He says to ask the Empress, "Are you aware that Rajat still exists?"
  • He can also help us get into the Empire
  • Currently the Empire is having trouble with rural villages having their population suddenly disappear
  • We hand The Archivist the amulet to examine and he says that the Cantrell family history about heroes is likely exaggerated
    • Upon inspection, he believes that the amulet belonged to Naezo, a dragon heroine that protected the weak with a fiery temper
    • Her residual magic resides in the amulet
  • The Archivist thinks that the hobgoblins were being attacked because the Red Omen wishes for hobgoblin extermination (as one of their goals)
  • We also ask The Archivist about "The One," previous owner of the VARDIS
    • He says that The One is an extra-dimensional being, history is full of them
    • Striking up bargains with warlocks to grant temporary power for some future cost
    • Most beings like this try to remain anonymous, so The One might be a bit different in that regard
    • In his youth, The Archivist ran across a similar being that The Archivist turned down
  • Jin asks The Archivist about the Graves family
    • Investigating birth records, Mrs. Graves is 35 years old, no father of the kids on record
    • Completely unremarkable

  • Quest begin: Seek audience with the Empress and collaborate to thwart the Red Omen

  • Next steps:
    • Go back to Wudu, say our goodbyes, fetch our VARDIS (and Porkchop)
    • Head outside of town, somewhere unseen, teleport away to the Grayogen Empire
    • Doing this, Jin inspects Osulf, the kid, and finds traces of magic on one of his shoes
  • Jin reads the scroll to use the teleportation scroll
  • He does a great job and we teleport right to where we were meant to, just inside the border of the Grayogen Empire
  • We are in a temperate rainforest (think Pacific NW), weather is a little windy with light mist
  • Our VARDIS is now located on the side of the road
  • There is some motion ahead of us on the road, with armored humans approaching us
  • Nick recognizes the banners as the colors of the Grayogen Empire
  • Walter and Erica are driving the VARDIS and greet the soldiers
  • We are welcomed by the soldiers due to our paperwork
  • They want us to help them out with some things and will offer us a payment of 100 gold
  • The captain's name is Adare Havsa
  • We are asked to investigate a village whose population recently disappeared
  • Villages have been disappearing since 5 months ago
  • New village disappears each three weeks like clockwork
  • Looks like people just literally disappeared
  • ~30 soldiers in the town
  • Upon investigating:
    • The captain says this happened ~3 weeks ago
    • However, nature has reclaimed too much to have just happened a couple weeks back
    • The recent growth in the forest show that the tree roots are all growing in one direction toward the town
  • We ask if there is a map of the empire with the town that have disappeared
    • The map shows that the towns closer to their border have been effected first, moving closer to the center of the empire
  • It is clear from arcana investigation that magic is influencing the natural growth here, possibly from a spirit of some kind
  • Detecting magic reveals that this is due to the effect of transmutation magic
  • We relay all this to the guards
  • Bordering countries:
    • Acium
    • Whisper of Revan
    • Cormendia
    • some other one I missed the name of
  • Our current plan:
    • This happens every three week - this village was the most recent one - it happened here ~3 weeks ago
    • Next village over is ~1 day from here
    • We are going to head over to the next village and get that village evacuated
  • We quickly make our way over to the next village over
  • We approach the city with the message that the villagers are in danger due to a rampaging nature spirit
    • We ask for volunteers from within the populace to help fight back
    • Erica tries to persuade the residents to help out, but fails
    • However, Jin lies to them about being helpful and is able to gather ~10 posse members to help out and get a couple families to skip town (~20 people)
  • That evening, the weather was remarkably average for that time of year and location...
  • Jin sets out members of his posse on patrol
  • After a couple patrol rounds, one of our patrol groups fails to return
  • The missing patrol last went to the North of the village
  • Investigating where the patrol went missing, we see drag marks heading into the forest
    • There is nothing unusual about the trees/roots
  • We ask the other posse members to rouse the town and gather in the center of town since there seems to be some kind of attack
  • The group goes deeper into the forest, looking for what caused the patrol to go missing
  • We are assaulted by a sweet smell and survive a charisma saving throw
  • We know enough to know that we just survived an attempt to put us to sleep
  • As Nick asks some nearby roots about what is going on, we are assaulted by some tree people (Blights X6)

  • Roll Initiative

  • We killed the blights and Nick is almost dead, but Erica is able to reluctantly save him

  • Combat ends

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