Santanapped

Summary

GM: Terry
Season: Spring 822 WK
Night:
Location: Online
Level: Med

Party

1. Ishamael scribe
2. Uzi Urksome
3. Mayhem

Employer

No. 1 Hobbits' Detective Agency

Mission

Investigate possible kidnapping

Pay

500sp / week + expenses + loot.

Scribe Notes

2 Seedtime 822 WK

Vigor harrasses me around lunch time. Portal to Seagate.
Mayhem has an sentient spider called Hemlock Blackfang, who is an illusionist.
Sign contract for 500sp / week + expenses + loot.
Portal to Charity and week Sapphire at the Bronze Bullfrog.
Olu waffles about a war veteran Uffo Clayhanger, supposed to be dead, but appeared from the Greenwood in manicles.

• Agony, Rank 12, about three months ago
• Mistreated, signs of cold damage
• Wore iron manacles on his feet
• Aged as expected
• Hobbit

Spend some time powering up a large team of searchers and ask two astrology questions.

• Majority race of the captors - Elves
• Did he go off plane? - Yes

His clothes are raindeer from the plane of Winterland. Use a large bunch of crystals of vision to see a eliptical portal in the air, in a clearing in the forest.

3 Seedtime 822 WK

Fly back to Emmitsburg overnight and organise a beer and booze delivery.
Put into team Olive (us + Vigor). Fly up to Helen the Crazy Cat Lady. Cats don’t seemed to have noticed anything but they don’t really communicate back.
Head to see Polly with a wood axe from Helen. Get spell from the Tree but it has not heard of anything. Head into the forest and try to follow the tracks. Find tracks in the forest, looks artificial, with foot wide circular footprint.
The prints coming from NNW to SEE, and maybe less than a day old. We follow tracks, go SWW, then E, reach a clearing with a large pond (30 feet across), with a stream coming in from the N. Stream leaves the pond going S.
Attacked by a wood golem, which grabs Mayhem. Defeat it and it deactivates. Rank 10 animating magic. No answer from Magic from Portal. Fly up and is joined by Ledger Harfoot, a hobbit wearing chain mail.
He summons an alert team which turns up about 10 minutes later. Sapphire turns up and organises the team. We follow the tracks back. Get back to where we first encounter the tracks and follow them for another four hours. Gets dark so we stop for a break and then continue tracking through the night.
Around the false dawn we reach a small clearing, which contains an arch in air, which is opaque. After 90 minutes a backup team turns up. Head back to a clearing and get six hours of rest.
Tree is a Winterpine. Get winter clothes and a bag of potions.

• Waters of Healing [Rank 10] ×5
• Waters of Strength [Rank 10] ×2
• Wind walk [Rank 1] ×2
• Blackfire boom stick ×5
• Lightning boom stick ×5×
• Resist cold [Rank 10] ×3
• Restorative [Rank 10] ×3
• Strength of Stone [Rank 10] ×3

Witchsight Rank 20 Shadowform Rank 18 Quickness Strength of Darkness Rank 13 Mind General & Special CS Rank 10 Invisibility Head through portal into cave with a small entrance. Portal is inside bone circle, around 5 feet in diameter. The bones are part of the portal magic. The portal is Winter magic. Cross the bones and the portal popped and disappeared.

• North: Forest, a few hundred feet away
• East: Rolling terrain then a mountain, a few miles away
• South: A east-west mountain range, a long distance away
• West: A lake, frozen, a few miles across, with a river exiting to the NE.

No sign of habitation or artifice. The cave mount points SE and the cave is in a small hill. Found footprints of both of a hobbit and the golem.
Uzi finds the tracks, each head into the forest. The forest is woodlands. Lose the tracks soon after entering. Uzi puts up a crystal of vision so see lake turns into a river, so we follow lake edge.
Find deer, which we kill and butcher. Travel along for a while before finding a place to camp up. It gets dark after a few more hours. Mayhem flies up and spots a lot of light on high on the mountain to the east and some light in the forest, around 5 miles to the NE.
Put of crystal towards the mountain but could only see a forested valley. We fly up and spot the light about 4 miles away and a mile in from the river. We are attacked by an sentient undead creature with Mind Magics. It was defeated, at which point it dissipated.

4 Seedtime 822 WK

Using a few crystals we scry a small fortification. There are a number of fires visible with a few figures on the wall. We fly up the river half a mile and find a trail from the river into the forest. Spot hoof tracks and possibly cart track.
We walk along the track until we reach the village. We sidle around the village and send in Mayhem to take a look around. Inside the village there is large pine tree with a dwarf impaled on a spike at its top.
The NE building looks to be with a number of dwarves and hobbits in bunk rooms. The E building is similar. The circular stone building is a food store room. The building to the S is a wood mill. To the N of that is a small accommodation, well kitted out. The are some sets of leather armour. The building to the N of it manufactory with a forge.
The building NE of the gatehouse is a store room with lumberjack. The main large building to the NW. The W chimney has smoke coming out. The E chimney has no smoke. The Eye dropped out when trying to go though the walls. There is a balcony all around the first floor of the building. On the western wall there are stables with reindeer.
Mayhem sneaks into one of the bunk room and finds a dwarf from Kanvar. Find a dwarf from Alusia. There are few others from different plane of origins.
Rest until before dawn then hide out in the trees to the south of the gate. Hear speech in elven. After a while hear singing the company antham. After an hour work gangs start to head out. Each worker has a collar with a bell on.
Follow group of two hobbits and four dwarfs. There are no guards with them. They travel for about half an hour before they reach their work site. Mayhem tries to communicate with a hobbit that is in another tree while the dwarfs work on the cutting down the first tree.
Question a hobbit, who says there are three ice elves in the village. All are possibly spellcasters, probably Ice. Offo used a stolen portal device. Get bones and ice crystal from mines, which is in the mountain to the east.
Most of the hobbits in the mountain and the hobbit (Boso Bracegirdle) been here around 25 years. Bell looks to be a simple bell without any magic.
Same three elves for all his time here (25 years). Dwarf on the tree tortured after Offo escaped.
People get escorted into the big house by the statues.
The plan

• Go in at night
• Going in with Walking Unseen & Invisibility
• Clear barracks

We sneak in and take out one of the guards on the wall. Then murder everybody in the barracks. We break into the big house through a window on the ground floor.
Explore the lower floor, the NE room is a wardrobe, the SE room has a bone circle portal. Room to S of the N corridor have hobbit servants. To the NW is a large kitchen, currently being worked by two hobbits. To the SW is a dining room with a long table, with three chairs and it set for breakfast.

Enter the lobby and head up the stairs. Attack elf, who turns to snow twice before finally being killed. He may have cursed Ishamael.

• Rapier
• Dagger
• 5 golden rings
• Potions
• Amulets
• Loot from the house, including spices
• Find various valuations

Demok Icepack, elderly dwarf. Ice crystals are in mines to the SE. Village to the SW, on the western side of the lake, called Tagos.

• Next delivery is three weeks ago
• No visits scheduled

Godobald Gamgee was in the mines. There are dozen elves as guards. A few dwarven guards and around 50 people. 1. Ring of pain resistance - no charges 2. Frozen time - no charges 3. Fire resistance - minor 4. Wintersight - 5. Cold beauty - does not effect emotions The potions are healing potions. Weapons have ice enchantment, medium level. Get some additional gingerbread men. Get amulets of luck, fear (aqulegious) and elder flowers.
Find a marble bust of an elderly elven face. It speaks and the nature of magic in alchemical knowledge.
The elves worship the Red Father, who is absent, and they are trying to bring it back.

5 Seedtime 822 WK

Wake around 9am.

• Hontrim Flintbelt (dwarf)
• Godobald Gamgee

Get a map of mine area. Head off into the forest. Travel through the forest. After an hour meet a elderly man. A DA shows him to be long lived but not colleged. Mind College is the best counterspell but he disappears off.
Travel though the day but run into a heavy snow storm so camp by a tree.

6 Seedtime 822 WK

Attacked by a troll some time after midnight. After a short fight it is defeated. Some blood is collected and the body is burnt with greek fire. Travel about 10 miles but the weather is poor so it takes most of the day. Camp near a tree.

Early on Uzi’s watch an old man turns up with a young orc, apparently from Alusia. It griefs Uzi and then disappears. Mayhem follows and asks the old man where he is from, and get the reply “Everywhere”. His highests ranked magic is “Futurescence”. He claims to help people make better decisions.

7 Seedtime 822 WK

Weather clears and we travel for a while before using some crystals to get a fix on the camp. Travel another few miles before reaching the camp. Set up a hide and scout out during the day. Mayhem scouts the wall but triggers some sort of magical alarm. Five elves appear, able to leap up to 30 feet in a single bound. Uzi and Ishamael Windwalk away.

12 Seedtime 822 WK

Spend five days observing. See three guards change on a shift. Shifts are 8am to 4pm, 4pm to 12am and 12am to 8am. Each shift has a couple of dozen people.

13 Seedtime 822 WK

Plan to go in around 4am. Find shaft going into the mine, it has a locked grate.

• Use enhanced characteristics potion
• Use silence poison
• Strength of Stone
• Use Necrontic poison
• Witchsight
• Shadowform
• Waters of Strength (+13 +15 = 28)

Go down shaft and find dumping hole for trailing and have to wait for two dwarves to empty a small cart on tracks. We follow the tracks to the south. In a cavern off to the side we encounter a elf, whom we kill. This corpse turns to a flock of calling birds.

• Use another silence
• Use 4 boomsticks to clear birds
• Use another silence
• Use basilisk on rapier
• Use Waters of Healing

Find more rooms and kill another four elves but two are not silenced.

• Use basilisk & necrotic poison
• Use Snake charm
• Use 30pt potion
• Use Bolt of Fire
• Use basilisk poison
• Use no magic poison

Killed 10 lords + red boss

• Rapier (from lord)
• Amulets (from lord)
• Cape
• Spear
• Whip
• Armour
• Boots
• Keys
• Rings

Loot manor and get

• 3 crystals
• Loot books
• Loot pictures
• Loot valuables
• Loot clothes

Speak to a dwarf called Stocket, who speaks common. Hobson Brockhouse stole a crystal. There are 63 dwarves in total.

• Send message with Amulet to get hobbits to head south along the river to the lake.

Use Walk in Shadow to move to cave.

• Use nails
• Use mana points

Manage to get a portal up and we get everybody through. The hobbits have built an enclosure around the portal area and guards watching it. The rescued dwarves and hobbits are handed over the Detective agency and they encase the portal in stone.

Calendar

Spring
	Moonday		Duesday		W'ansday		Th'rsday		Frysday		Reapsday		Sunday
	Candlemansa
Thaw (10)
			1	Guild Meeting	2		3		4		5	The Carzalan Generals Ball	6
	7		8		9		10		11		12		13
	14		15		16		17		18		19		20
	21		22		23		24		25		26		27
	28		29		30
Seedtime (11)
							1		2	Vigor approaches us for adventure	3		4
	5		6		7		8	Rites of Thunor	9		10		11	Return back through portal. Adventure finished.
	12		13		14		15	Equinox	16		17	Eostre	18	The Seagate Spring Ball
	19		20		21		22		23		24		25
	26		27		28		29		30
Blossom (12)
											1		2
	3		4		5		6		7		8		9
	10		11		12		13		14		15		16
	17		18		19		20		21	Floralia	22		23
	24		25		26		27		28		29		30	Walpurgisnacht