| Location: | Beorunna’s well, Moonwood |
| Session at a glance | New characters and key characters this week: A sleeping Uthgarde Shaman woman who is woken by Miss Moss A teenage warrior Uthgarde Another Uthgarde who shows them around About a dozen Uthgarde in total A fearsome beast, a Mantacor with body of a dragon and head of a lion in the spring ————- Where we left off: The adventurers are in the cavern, that is a sacred place for the Black Lion Uthgarde tribe, where they are dining and preparing to camp the night. They are aware the relics are under the stone altar that appears nearby. There are also totems. The Red Tiger tribe is coming to meet them in about 3 weeks. They have been accepted as they showed the coin from the previous tribe. Only the Shaman seems hostile towards them. They need to work out a strategy for finding the relics and taking them with them. —– Loot: Quests:– Taking relics from the Barbarian burial grounds to the All Father Collecting relics will give them access to paths to the Storm Court (1/9 collected – the Shield from the Valley of Kedrun – currently displayed on the side of the dragon boat) – Accessing the King Hecaton conch to root out the evil in the King’s court – Seeking the powerful weapon in the possession of Cerise (Hecaton’s daughter on the throne) – Avenging the slain cloud giant (Igorn) who was killed by his father |
| Last week (flash backs) | Early morning, they are walking through the dense pine forest towards the cavern they saw from the airship. They see tracks. It is very still. They walk towards the well. They see a clearing up ahead. There is a rope hanging from a pine tree, going down into the darkness. They move down towards the rope and begin climbing down. They can see a faint dusting of snow. It is an enormous cavern. They can see the tree roots in the air pushing through the dirt and stalactites on the cavern roof. It seems like a circle of the ground has fallen through. They climb down and gather in a small circle of light. Underneath one of the trees they can see a figure lying motionless under a blanket of leaves. Miss Moss walks over to investigate. She can see the head of a woman poking out from a blanket covered in snow. She is breathing faintly, she is asleep, with markings consistent with Uthgarde. Miss Moss calls out to her, “Hello, Hey lady!” At enormous speed, the woman leaps to her feet and pulls out her weapon. Miss Moss indicates that she’s not going to hurt her. Gunther plays the lute. They all pull their weapons. She dashes off into the darkness. Leshanna casts a rope trick and they all climb up into an extra-dimensional space. Thoradin starts having flashbacks. Leshanna pulls the rope into the extra-dimensional space. Miss Moss sits down near Thoradin so he is not alone. After a brief strategic chat, they leave the safe space. In the distance from the West they can hear faint trickling of water. They make a friendly fire, prepare tea and food while Gunther plays music and they wait for the woman to return with reinforcements. Thoradin wanders in the direction where they woman ran. The sun has risen in the sky. From where he stands he can see a wall in the east. In the North East, Thoradin can at least a dozen people standing in the dark, very still. He creeps back to the others and alerts them. Leshanna releases Rillix towards the Eastern side. Through his eyes Leshanna can see three tents set up. Lined up in front are rows of Uthgarde and they are all staring up at Rillix. He can see a fire pit that is out. Leshanna summons him back. As he flies back, Rillix can see in the far side of the cavern there is a spring – a lake with bulling water. Miss Moss pulls out the coin token from the previous Uthgarde tribe and waves at them, calling out random names of the Barbarians they’ve met before. They hear murmuring. A small Barbarian comes out from the crowd and approaches them. He steps out into the light and walks towards them. He has his hand on his weapon as he approaches. Miss Moss holds out the coin and keeps her hand in sight to show she is not drawing her weapon. He climbs up to where they are. He is a teenager, a young warrior who is facing up to one of his first tasks. Miss Moss remembers some teenage slang from her teenage friends and says them at him. He looks up with confusion and smirks slightly. He holds his hand out to see the coin. She keeps it in her palm and even though he clearly wants to take it, he regards it and then returns back to the rest of the group. All of them start to walk towards them, they are not being hostile. They follow them back to their tents. In the campsite, they see the woman who is clearly a shaman. There’s no apparent chief in the group. Thoradin asks “Where is your chief?”. “Out on patrol, hunting.” They are the nomadic Black Lion tribe. This is a sacred place and ask them to follow. They walk down a path and see ledges that step up to the far corner of the room. On the top there are two totems that they recognise as the totems of the tribes. One totem has the skull of a lion covered in black pitch. The other is the skull of another animal that looks very similar, stained with blood. The other is the red tiger. There is a 9 foot long stone altar that is covered with the bloody parts of animals. This is a site of a very big battle with Uthgarde and a demon. They fought on top and the floor caved in. There are stories that the altar is the site of Uthgarde relics. Giant left things years before and their ancestors secured the relics. Thoradin asks to fill his canteen at the spring and the Uthgarde advise against it as there is a fearsome beast, a Mantacor with body of a dragon and head of a lion. It will eat them. They agree to stay for dinner and camp the night. Londer regales them with stories of their adventures. Miss Moss meets the Shaman. who appears very hostile towards them. They dine with the tribe and prepare to camp the night. |
| Previous encounters | GiantsHarshnagg the Frost Giant – waiting for them back at the temple A frost giant corpseIgorn the forlorn spirit (cloud giant) and his corpse – seeking vengeance on his father, Blagakis Slain Stone Giants at One Note, attempting to steal the boulder relic ——- BarbariansWormblood – the chief, slain in battle by the heroes in the Giant Temple, along with his allies, except Noori and Narft Merft, the temporarily second in charge while Wormblood was away Narft the barbarian who joined them to find the chief’s cousin’s daughter Noori – the chief’s cousin’s daughter – rescued from the cocoon. Now the new chief of the Barbarian village, cousin of the former chief. Kralk the Utgard Shaman and his three guards – Arznan – An impressive barbarian who ran to join the fights with the giants. He – Cell – a shaman – a pleasant-looking barbarian with flowers around her. A person of great respect. – Osler and Lefrond – young female (teenage) barbarians who admire Miss Moss. – Ofros – a young barbarian who challenged LonderDozens and dozens of barbarians from the camp Other: – Robed figures who shrank the Boulder relic – Beasts (elephant size) that the figures are riding on – WaspsSky Nugget: Miss Moss’ baby dragonKlauth’s subjects: The dragon cult: leather-clad humans on the red sky ship. Klauth – a Red Dragon – one of the oldest dragons in the land, He is incredibly evil. There are famous stories of him joining battles A trapped fire elemental: providing heat in the furnace on the sky ship A trapped air elemental: with a system of doors to activate the propeller An adult Remorhaz they battled and defeated A serpent like creature, a Couatul, imprisoned in the Barbarian altar |
| Oracle questions | How do we restore the Ordening? The only one to do it is the Allfather. He disrupted it to rouse his children from their complacency. Only he restores the ordening. How can we get the Allfather to restore the ordering? Root out evil in the court of the Storm Giants – the storm giant King Hecaton. You must visit King Hecaton’s court. How can we travel safely to the court of the Storm Giants? You must find King Hecaton’s conch to transport you there and root out the evil How can we find people or items to restore the ordering, including (and especially the conch)? You must prove your worth by finding some treasure. Barbarian kind built altars to Rutgar, their king atop these relics and surrounded the area with burial mounds. Go there and find the lost relics and bring them here to the All-Father as tributes. There are many paths. The more relics you bring, the more paths will be open to you. What more can you tell us about the missing King and the evil in the court of Hecaton? The evil in the court is from multiple sources, the King was undermined by his daughters Miran and Nimh, his daughters covet the throne. Where can we find 5 magical weapons that will help us in our battle? Giants do not entertain small-folk weapons. There is one weapon – the coral nora sceptre, wielded by Cerisa, the one who sits on the Storm giant throne. The daughter of King Hecaton. It is amongst the most powerful weapons known to giant-kind. |
