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Summary

GM: Mike
Season: Winter 821 WK
Location: online
Level: Med-High

Party
  • Merco - all around great guy and excellent card player
  • Sabastian - man of many talents
  • Ishamael - sophisticated gentleman and master brewer
  • Uzi - Orc of breeding


Employer
Sabastian, having his arm very twisted by a Fey Avatar
Mission
Stop the "temple" under Lightning Lake exploding and turning the local area into a large hole. A Fey Avatar is insisting...

See the previous scribe notes

Scribe Notes

Festivities

The annual Yuletide festival was always looked forward to by the locals, but this year it had extra meaning as the witch was dead and the locals had Ishmael and Sabastian to look after them. Much of the village have been upgraded, with a new mill, and some retired King Rapiers had settled in the Phaehyll. As well as sharing their wisdom they had taken charge of the militia, which was now formidable.

There had been weeks of preparation for the festival, Alia had been working hard to organise the event. On the eve of the event some unexpected visitors had arrived; Merco to discuss traps and Uzi to have his iron claws repaired. They stayed overnight and joined in the festivities - it was a long day of merriment with many speeches, much dancing and the draining of Ishmaels new beers. In the evening there was a combined fireworks and flying display by Sabastian. As the evening wound down a storm erupted over the lake. Ishmael, Uzi, Merco and Sabastian retired to the villa to watch the what was the biggest lightning storm in years from the library while the exhausted and happy villagers retired to their houses. Things then went very wrong.

Things go Wrong

Old Meg, a local, joined the party in the library. She faltered as she entered, all the candles flared and she stared speaking in an unearthly voice. She was possessed by Baroque, who we believe to be an avatar level fey lord who explained there was an ancient agreement that the liege lord of the area (Sabastian) was obliged to travel to a temple at the bottom of the lake and “maintain” it before it could vaporise the local area, which would happen in 12 days. Baroque made veiled threats against both Sabastian's family and the villagers, insisting Sabastian is bound by the ancient agreement and he'd best get on with this...and also he was getting pacted. Left with little choice, given the threat to his family and the danger to everyone, he agreed. Baroque agreed to be summon five times to assist and will provide a boon to people if they succeed. If they fail his backup plan would hopefully address the problem.

Baroque summons I'gor, his minion, a tome imp, from a book in the library, berated him, and explained he had escorted the witch in the recent maintenance and can provide us direction of how to get there.

People and Places

Places

  • Lake "Temple": (Aka Temple of Time and Space, Temple/Tomb of Chaos, Tomb of the Lost Ones, The Portal Palace) located at the bottom of Lightning Lake has a number of portals that connect to all sorts of places, it has guardians. The temple needs to be maintained every 6-7 years otherwise it will explode and destroy the area. The witch had maintained the temple around twelve times, was a master of herbalism, alchemy and mechanics – so these are the required skills. She was escorted by I'gor and her guards, so there is some danger. Baroque hasn’t been involved in maintenance for over a century.


  • Whitebarrow Manor - Fortified Manor overlooking Lightning Lake and Phaehyll village.
  • Phaehyll - isolated area with a hobbit village, near Lightning Lake
  • Lightning Lake - adjacent to Whitebarrow Manor about 4 miles long and 1 wide with steep forested sides, notorious for its lighting storms.
  • Lakes End - Village on north end of Lightning Lake with wall and ditch on all sides.

People

  • Baroque - a fey lord with an avatar level aura. The witch, the previous ruler of Phaehyll, was pacted to him.
  • I'gor - tome Imp and minion of Baroque. Currently kicking around with Ishamael.
  • Mistress Lizzy Borden - Grand daughter of Cora Krupt, the deceased Water Mage across Lightning Lake.
  • Vigor Silentfoot – Hobbit detective
  • Jago Wanderfoot – exHobbit rapier
  • Begga Bracegirdle - exHobbit rapier
  • Bingo Brandywood - exHobbit rapier

Buffs & Mil Sci

Loot and Expenses

Calendar

Winter: Frost 821 (7)
Moonday Duesday W'ansday Th'rsday Frysday Reapsday Sunday
Samhain 1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 1 2 3 4
Winter: Snow 820 (8)
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 Solstice 16 17 Preparing for Festival. Merco and Uzi arrive. 18 Festival. Baroque arrives
Yuletide
19 Days of Chaos 20 DoC2 21 DoC3 22 DoC4 23 DoC5 24 DoC6 25 DoC7
26 DoC8 27 DoC9 28 DoC10 29 DoC11 30 Everything explodes if the party fails
Twelfth Night
1 2
Winter: Ice 820 (9)
3 4 5 6 First Plough 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30