Just Deserts

Summary

Scribe Notes

Adventure: Just Deserts
GM: Dean Ellis
Session: Winter 813wk
Night: Tuesday
Location Chez Ellis
Level: Low/Medium
Party:

• Definitely Tsayoi - Giant Fire Mage (Chris)
• Hypothetically Rahne - Human (f) Warrior E&E (Stephen) Scribe Mil Sci
• Surely Lyric - Dwarf E&E (Michelle) Party Leader
• Freshly Quentin Ulysses Ash Orc Warrior (Sean)
• Randomly Lila - Dark Celestial and Air Human (Kelsie)
• Barely Prue Human (f) Water Mage (Julia)
• Possibly Elgar Elven Mind Mage (Neil)

Employer: Rais Haytham of the Taghlib tribe

Summary: The guild has received a visitation from a powerful shaman (Raytharm) of the Taghlib tribe named Irfan. He asks on behalf of his glorious leader that the guild send a party of luminous individuals to find that of the desert, that is not of the desert. There may be some translation issues. They offer echoes of the desert waste as payment. There may be some translation issues. They hope many powerful woman of the north come to be sacrificed on the green altar. There may be some translation issues.

As far as the guild can tell the tribe is based in the Five Sisters just south of the Gatar Depression

Scribe Notes

South by South East

In Winter the Desert calls
Sacrifice needed
By which hand is blood spilled?

Duesday 1st Frost 813wk

We are gathered by guild administrators as the offer of employment was delivered by a form of rune visitation. We introduce ourselves, organise roles and review the available information. In addition to the brief notes above (which they admit may have been mistranslated) they believe that the unknown thing in the desert has relevance to or will be a danger to us in 'the north' and will pay us 200sp per week to investigate (plus reasonable travel costs). We are concerned about the references to sacrificing northern women and ask the guild to commission astrology readings as to the meaning of the sacrifice and whether this tribe intend us harm. After some discussion we agree to fly via Brastor and the Gatar Depression, partly because we are already familiar with most of the route, and we hope the Taghlib tribe or someone who knows them will be near the old trade road. Also of concern is language, none of us and few in the guild speak Five Sisters Trader, we split up to try different solutions.

I head to the guild library to copy or borrow scrolls with the basics of the language. Most of the others head to town to find a native speaker among the merchants, sailors or diplomats in Seagate. Tsayoi finds a local factor who has a worker from the Five Sisters in his employ and negotiates for his services for the afternoon. Ferzil knows of the Taghlib tribe, they are usually near the southern edge of the Gatar Depression, midway between the coasts. He teaches us a few basic phrases and gives us some instruction in etiquette. Prue, Elgar, and Lyric gather the necessary components for Lyric to create language potions.

Guild Astrologer Visions A sea of broken glass High Towers A mage in a red turban on a high spire

Do our employers intend us harm? They seem tough but fair, something hungers for Prudence

What is the meaning of the sacrifice on the green altar? A pile of cushions within rounded silk walls

W'nsday 2nd Frost 813wk

Up before dawn to cast wings, we fly south east towards Brastor as the sun comes up. We reach the foothills west of Brastor around lunch and land to eat, Prue hurts her ankle on landing so we make our way to a nearby village to shelter for the afternoon and evening while the ankle is healed.

Th'rsday 3rd Frost 813wk

Up before dawn again and then flying on towards the Inn at Fort Gryphon in Gryphon Pass which we reach in the early afternoon where we are welcomed by Lyric's brother Henric. Also at the inn is Albrecht of Grymeron and a couple of his guards. We catch up on news since we last saw him. At my request he creates some of his language potions for us to speak Five Sisters for the season.

Frysday 3rd Frost 813wk

Setting out early again we fly east to the barrier mountains, through a gap into the Gatar Depression then further east to the trade road and south following the road to Sumaldi. As we approach Sumaldi we bear west, land and walk to the western edge to set up a discrete camp.

Reference

Buffs

Magic	Rk	Effects	Dur	Ts	Ra	Ly	Qu	Li	Pr	El
Shadowform (Li)	13	+28% Def	13.5 hours*		Y			Y		Y
Enchant Weapon (Ra)	8	+9% +4 Dam	13 minutes
Shadow Wings (Li)	6	36 mph (234 miles)	6.5 hours*
Waterproofing (Pr)	6		39 hours*
Water Breathing (Pr)	6		13 hours*
Waters of Strength (Pr)	7	[D-2]+7 PS/MD	40 mins		PS					PS
Fire Armour (Fire Spirit)	10	44 ablative fire	21 hours*
Fire Proofing (Tsayoi)	6	Prot from fire	13 hours*

Enhance Enchant (Lyric)

Rk 10 (* indicates enhanced duration)

Greater Enchntment (Rahne)

Rk15 +16% on Magic & Combat

MilSci

Skirmish Formations			Watches
Default Rahne Tsayoi Lyric Lila Prue Quentin Elgar	Double File Rahne Tsayoi Lyric Lila Prue Quentin Elgar	Single File Rahne Tsayoi Lyric Lila Prue Quentin Elgar	3-4 Hrs per Watch A. Lyric & Elgar B. Lila & Rahne C. Tsayoi & Prue D. Quentin

Loot

• Echoes of the Desert
• 1,000sp each for travel costs and advance on guild rates
• Scroll of 'Beginners phrases in Five Sisters Trader'

People

Ferzil

Junior trader from Five Sisters, our language tutuor for an afternoon in Seagate. Blood donor.

Albrecht

Goblin Alchemist and Merchant from Grymeron. Met by chance in Gryphon Pass, provided language potions (rk 8 Five Sisters for 1 season).

Places

Brastor

border village,

Gryphon Pass

Fort Gryphon

Gatar Depression

Sumaldi, a jungle oasis, ruined city, on old trade route south, near Argon's watch. Known / Rumoured denizens - A couple of dozen Size 8 goblin shock troops, half a dozen hobgoblin weapon master NCOs, handful of very swarthy spell caster orcs (swarthy, even by orc standards), perhaps a hag, one or two minor deaths, more dates than you can shake a stick at. Also a large number of Entropy Monkeys whose known/suspected affect is that they stop movement and cause creatures who stare at them or stay near them (conjecture both) to freeze and suffer stasis effects - probably to their detriment.

Calendar

Winter: Frost 813 (7)
	Moonday		Duesday		W'ansday		Th'rsday		Frysday		Reapsday		Sunday
		Samhain	1	Guild Meeting Seagate	2	ABC Fly to Brastor	3	CAB Fly to Gryphon Pass	4	BCA Fly to Sumaldi	5	ABC	6	CAB
	7	BCA	8	ABC	9	CAB	10	BCA	11	ABC	12	CAB	13	BCA
	14	ABC	15	CAB	16	BCA	17	ABC	18	CAB	19	BCA	20
	21		22		23		24		25		26		27
	28		29		30		1		2		3		4
Winter: Snow 813 (8)
	5		6		7		8		9		10		11
	12		13		14		15	Solstice	16		17		18	Yuletide
	19	Days of Chaos	20		21		22		23		24		25
	26		27		28		29		30	Twelth Night	1		2
Winter: Ice 813 (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