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==Scribe Notes==
==Scribe Notes==
Party travel south to Arnsferry, uneventful traveling, party get to know each other.
SECOND DAY OF APRIL 1990
Weather cold. Party travel south from Arnsferry intending to stay at Slippery Rock. Mist closes
in around party:
Note about mists, the mists was very thick and decreased
visibility quite quickly to about 5-10 feet.
It became apparent later that the mists were the source of
plane travel between our home plane and ’Katarkas’, and also
between the plane ’Katarkas’ and ’Gundorak’.
After walking south-west for most of the day we passed the turn off to Whitehill (The stone
marker was in place at this time).
At some stage after this Sheminar, who is an air mage, attempted to control the mists and backfired, she
was dazed and confused and wandered away from the party into the bush.
The party continued to travel and after a distance that should have carried then well past Slippery rock, the
road began to disappear. While the party discussed this they noticed Sheminar was no longer around.
After the mist cleared we walked northward up the road looking for any sign of Sheminar. As we were
traveling we noticed that the season had changed to autumn (leaves were yellow/bronze) and that the moon
had changed phase to 3/4 waxing. We "D.A’d" a plant and found plane of origin to be Katarkas.
We continued up the road and were lucky enough to find Sheminar’s tracks leading west into the woods,
we followed and soon found her, dazed and amnesiaced in the woods.
Sheminar said she had met a nice woodcutter called Luke, Luke had given her a cloak and some soup
because she was wet and cold, She did not remember who she was, or who the party was. It began to get
dark, and the party decided to visit Luke’s hut.
We heard noises in the woods and howling to the south. Rafael decided to go and investigate the noises.
While he was gone we talked to Sheminar. The silence was broken by a roar and crash of
trees being torn apart. Rafael’s speed in returning to the party was only surpassed by the speed of Chalis
climbing the nearest tree. Hum changed into a boar and charged to help Rafael (boars do that). In the
ensuing combat Rafael managed to flee what turned out to be a ’Greater Werewolf’ and leave Hum to die at
its wicked claws.
The party was attacked by another were but managed to kill it, Carol distracted it while Thoric hit it
repeatedly with her silvered battleaxe. Rothgar, after self immolating and watching, moved out of his fire to
attack the second were but was killed.
Carol and Thoric killed the second were as it was attempting to climb Sheminar’s tree.
After the fight Sheminar identified one of the weres as Luke (both had returned to human form after dying).
Rothgar ’recovered’ with the aid of a trollskin, we carried Hums dead body to Luke’s hut and stayed the
night.
It was during this fight that Chalis showed his true colours, initially climbing a tree and afterwards being to
scared to come down again. Upon hearing of Hums death Chalis suggests eating his body (it is still in boar
form).
Chalis continues to suggest eating Hums body, Carol manages to restraining herself from killing Chalis.
During dinner Sheminar told us that Luke was going to take her to see ’the Doctor’, she also mentioned a
town to the north called Harmony.
Night passed without more events.
THIRD DAY OF APRIL 1990
Party awakes, eats, and Purifies. Jack performs a Ritual of Speaking to the Dead on a were:
WAS THE INFORMATION REGARDING ”THE DOCTOR" CORRECT?
The doctor is good but not in the way. Lord of the mind,
healer and mage, understands all teachings are sage.
ARE ALL OR MOST PEOPLE IN THIS WERE CREATURES LIKE OR SIMILAR TO
YOURSELVES ?
Masters in all that they survey as the true lords power will
hold sway.
IS THERE A HEAD WERE?
Katarkas’s curse master and lord.
Walk to cart and horses and travel north along the road to Harmony.
Harmony is about the size as Arnsferry but has a large stone wall around the outside.
We arrive at gates of Harmony, after talking to guards we discover the pledge to get into town:
Oh Harmony, Oh
Harmony A city grand and
truly free Oh Harmony,
Oh Harmony ’tis thee I
always long to see To
Harmony, To Harmony I
pledge eternal loyalty.
The lyrics suck but its a good way to please the locals and it saves a few silvers getting in the front gate.
We stayed in the ’Metal Unicorn’ Inn where the barman was called Sven. Sven and the other older people
around town talked common badly. The children seemed to have a better grasp of
the language leading me to suspect that there was a recent interaction with a different culture.
Some party members manage to get Hum raised from the dead, but the healer said he could do nothing for
Rothgar’s infected condition and that the weres curse would change him. The physician seemed distressed
by our presence, and advised us not to mention the werewolves so we left quickly.
FORTH DAY OF APRIL
1990
The party split into three
groups:
GROUP A (Jack, Sheminar and Rothgar)
This group terrorised the local school looking for
maps.
GROUP B (Rafael, Chalis and Carol)
This group went to see the mayor and convinced him
that we were a scout group for an invading army.
GROUP C (Hum and Thoric)
This group did the least damage, they silver coated
some weapons and built Hum a wooden trotter and
hand for his missing one.
Upon returning Carol and Sheminar were both concerned about the groups social and geographical
blunders and suggested that they leave quickly. This is an obvious case of female intuition and sensitivity
getting the feeling of the local people. Jack was also concerned, but he is just a kid so what would he know.
A group of town guards came and took Rafael and Chalis for questioning. Carol thought it was unfair to go
to jail for someone else’s stupidity and hid. The rest of the party denied all knowledge of Rothgar and
Chalis.
Sven’s son, Betrie, had on Rafael’s request had been gathering information for the party. He had found a
local Lady called Akriel who was looking for Adventurers and arranged a meeting.
We met Akriel at the golden harp who said something to the extent of:
Hi, I’m Akriel, daughter of lord Akron. I am in love with a good man by the name of Doctor Dominiani
and I wish to marry him.
BUT my father, Lord Akron, who is also a good man, wishes me to marry my cousin Anton. While I also
love my cousin Anton, there have been a number of marriages inside the family and this has caused some
illness’s. My father is suffering from this illness.
My father is also studying how the mists work, but his illness has prevented him from completing his work.
If he could complete his work he could probably get your group back home.
What I want you to do is get a magical artifact called the Crown of Souls from a valley to the east of here
called the Valley of Bones. With this magical artifact the Doctor can heal my father and the combination of
gratitude and the restoration of his healthy mind should be enough to convince my father to let me marry
the Doctor.
After some haggling over prices and directions to the Valley of Bones we asked Lady Akriel to arrange the
release of our fellow party members and provisions for the trip. We also arranged to meet her at the Old
Karatakian Inn at Skald.
Sound convincing to you...?
Crown of souls sounds more like some necro control device than a healing artifact.
Anyway, far from home with very little prospect of getting home any other way, we decided that this was
as good a way of getting home as any. We managed to find out that the crown of souls hadn’t been seen for
years and was last seen in the valley where bones walked.
So, we sat down for a hot dinner, some of the party went down stairs for a drink, and Rothgar the elf turned
into a stinking great big savage wolf, leapt through a second story window and fled down the street. We
decided if we should follow or not, but after a few moments, and many screams from the locals, decided it
would be better for all involved if we caught Rothgar and calmed him down a wee bit.
The party followed Rothgar through town, at wasn’t hard we just followed the blood and dead bodies. We
finally cornered attacked and were savaged by Rothgar the Werewolf, wow this bastard sure can party
when you get his hair up. The town guard thought it a bit strange when we wandered past with his body,
but the wall of ice we left behind was enough to catch their attention while we left.
===5 April 1990===

Revision as of 07:27, 14 March 2026

Scribe Notes

Summary

Adventure: Crown of Souls
GM: Martin
Season: Summer 791 wk

Party
Employer
Duke of Carzala
Mission
People have been disappearing on the track between Whitehill and the main road (between Arnsferry and Slippery Rock). It wouldn’t seem suspicious normally except that a half a dozen mounted cavalry have also gone missing.Guild adventurers have been hired to investigate the reasons for these happenings, and if able to, put a stop to them.
Pay
Pay rate set a 200 sp per week.
Original Scribe Notes
Media:Snsu9102.zip

Scribe Notes

Party travel south to Arnsferry, uneventful traveling, party get to know each other. SECOND DAY OF APRIL 1990 Weather cold. Party travel south from Arnsferry intending to stay at Slippery Rock. Mist closes in around party: Note about mists, the mists was very thick and decreased visibility quite quickly to about 5-10 feet. It became apparent later that the mists were the source of plane travel between our home plane and ’Katarkas’, and also between the plane ’Katarkas’ and ’Gundorak’. After walking south-west for most of the day we passed the turn off to Whitehill (The stone marker was in place at this time). At some stage after this Sheminar, who is an air mage, attempted to control the mists and backfired, she was dazed and confused and wandered away from the party into the bush. The party continued to travel and after a distance that should have carried then well past Slippery rock, the road began to disappear. While the party discussed this they noticed Sheminar was no longer around. After the mist cleared we walked northward up the road looking for any sign of Sheminar. As we were traveling we noticed that the season had changed to autumn (leaves were yellow/bronze) and that the moon had changed phase to 3/4 waxing. We "D.A’d" a plant and found plane of origin to be Katarkas. We continued up the road and were lucky enough to find Sheminar’s tracks leading west into the woods, we followed and soon found her, dazed and amnesiaced in the woods. Sheminar said she had met a nice woodcutter called Luke, Luke had given her a cloak and some soup because she was wet and cold, She did not remember who she was, or who the party was. It began to get dark, and the party decided to visit Luke’s hut. We heard noises in the woods and howling to the south. Rafael decided to go and investigate the noises. While he was gone we talked to Sheminar. The silence was broken by a roar and crash of trees being torn apart. Rafael’s speed in returning to the party was only surpassed by the speed of Chalis climbing the nearest tree. Hum changed into a boar and charged to help Rafael (boars do that). In the ensuing combat Rafael managed to flee what turned out to be a ’Greater Werewolf’ and leave Hum to die at its wicked claws. The party was attacked by another were but managed to kill it, Carol distracted it while Thoric hit it repeatedly with her silvered battleaxe. Rothgar, after self immolating and watching, moved out of his fire to attack the second were but was killed. Carol and Thoric killed the second were as it was attempting to climb Sheminar’s tree. After the fight Sheminar identified one of the weres as Luke (both had returned to human form after dying). Rothgar ’recovered’ with the aid of a trollskin, we carried Hums dead body to Luke’s hut and stayed the night. It was during this fight that Chalis showed his true colours, initially climbing a tree and afterwards being to scared to come down again. Upon hearing of Hums death Chalis suggests eating his body (it is still in boar form). Chalis continues to suggest eating Hums body, Carol manages to restraining herself from killing Chalis. During dinner Sheminar told us that Luke was going to take her to see ’the Doctor’, she also mentioned a town to the north called Harmony. Night passed without more events. THIRD DAY OF APRIL 1990 Party awakes, eats, and Purifies. Jack performs a Ritual of Speaking to the Dead on a were: WAS THE INFORMATION REGARDING ”THE DOCTOR" CORRECT? The doctor is good but not in the way. Lord of the mind, healer and mage, understands all teachings are sage. ARE ALL OR MOST PEOPLE IN THIS WERE CREATURES LIKE OR SIMILAR TO YOURSELVES ? Masters in all that they survey as the true lords power will hold sway. IS THERE A HEAD WERE? Katarkas’s curse master and lord. Walk to cart and horses and travel north along the road to Harmony. Harmony is about the size as Arnsferry but has a large stone wall around the outside. We arrive at gates of Harmony, after talking to guards we discover the pledge to get into town: Oh Harmony, Oh Harmony A city grand and truly free Oh Harmony, Oh Harmony ’tis thee I always long to see To Harmony, To Harmony I pledge eternal loyalty. The lyrics suck but its a good way to please the locals and it saves a few silvers getting in the front gate. We stayed in the ’Metal Unicorn’ Inn where the barman was called Sven. Sven and the other older people around town talked common badly. The children seemed to have a better grasp of the language leading me to suspect that there was a recent interaction with a different culture. Some party members manage to get Hum raised from the dead, but the healer said he could do nothing for Rothgar’s infected condition and that the weres curse would change him. The physician seemed distressed by our presence, and advised us not to mention the werewolves so we left quickly. FORTH DAY OF APRIL 1990 The party split into three groups: GROUP A (Jack, Sheminar and Rothgar) This group terrorised the local school looking for maps. GROUP B (Rafael, Chalis and Carol) This group went to see the mayor and convinced him that we were a scout group for an invading army. GROUP C (Hum and Thoric) This group did the least damage, they silver coated some weapons and built Hum a wooden trotter and hand for his missing one. Upon returning Carol and Sheminar were both concerned about the groups social and geographical blunders and suggested that they leave quickly. This is an obvious case of female intuition and sensitivity getting the feeling of the local people. Jack was also concerned, but he is just a kid so what would he know. A group of town guards came and took Rafael and Chalis for questioning. Carol thought it was unfair to go to jail for someone else’s stupidity and hid. The rest of the party denied all knowledge of Rothgar and Chalis. Sven’s son, Betrie, had on Rafael’s request had been gathering information for the party. He had found a local Lady called Akriel who was looking for Adventurers and arranged a meeting. We met Akriel at the golden harp who said something to the extent of: Hi, I’m Akriel, daughter of lord Akron. I am in love with a good man by the name of Doctor Dominiani and I wish to marry him. BUT my father, Lord Akron, who is also a good man, wishes me to marry my cousin Anton. While I also love my cousin Anton, there have been a number of marriages inside the family and this has caused some illness’s. My father is suffering from this illness. My father is also studying how the mists work, but his illness has prevented him from completing his work. If he could complete his work he could probably get your group back home. What I want you to do is get a magical artifact called the Crown of Souls from a valley to the east of here called the Valley of Bones. With this magical artifact the Doctor can heal my father and the combination of gratitude and the restoration of his healthy mind should be enough to convince my father to let me marry the Doctor. After some haggling over prices and directions to the Valley of Bones we asked Lady Akriel to arrange the release of our fellow party members and provisions for the trip. We also arranged to meet her at the Old Karatakian Inn at Skald. Sound convincing to you...? Crown of souls sounds more like some necro control device than a healing artifact. Anyway, far from home with very little prospect of getting home any other way, we decided that this was as good a way of getting home as any. We managed to find out that the crown of souls hadn’t been seen for years and was last seen in the valley where bones walked. So, we sat down for a hot dinner, some of the party went down stairs for a drink, and Rothgar the elf turned into a stinking great big savage wolf, leapt through a second story window and fled down the street. We decided if we should follow or not, but after a few moments, and many screams from the locals, decided it would be better for all involved if we caught Rothgar and calmed him down a wee bit. The party followed Rothgar through town, at wasn’t hard we just followed the blood and dead bodies. We finally cornered attacked and were savaged by Rothgar the Werewolf, wow this bastard sure can party when you get his hair up. The town guard thought it a bit strange when we wandered past with his body, but the wall of ice we left behind was enough to catch their attention while we left.

5 April 1990

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