Witch Hunt

Scribe Notes

Adventure: Witch Hunt
GM: Jacqui
Session: Autumn 824
Night: Tuesday 7pm
Location: Online while the scaffolding is up then at Chez Smiths
Level: Low/Medium

Party

1. Angus "I dinna wanna be Scribe" McLeod - Caledonian Namer - Keith - Combat Monkey
2. Argus - Dwarf - Sam S - Cook - Combat Monkey
3. Vargr - Earth Mage - Connor - Combat Monkey
4. Uthgard - Elemental Giant - Anne - MilSci - Archer
5. Kurt - Human - Bernard - Scribe / Cook - Caster
6. Eydis - Dwarf - Kelsie - Mind Mage (Strong in Mind, not so much in body)

Full if in person later in season?

Employer: The Three Witches of Silverstream (Granny, Fanny and Margaret)
Mission: Looking for Witches
Plane: Alusia
Pay:
Days on Adventure: We'll know when we get back

Scribe Notes

Maps

Ranke Silverstream

Session 1

Travelling to Silverstream

We are hired to go check up on / find some witches who might be missing around Silverstream. There is speculation about a certain guild member who has been looking for witches being responsible for this, as the possibly missing witches do not belong to the guild.
We discuss pay, which is somewhat lacking in raw coinage, making our expenses tight. Something about 8000sp worth of amulets and potential loot.
Introductions are made, where people discuss what they can do after the employer leaves. I assume some of these things are also kept secret or not explicitly discussed as they don't need mentioning. After the meeting we went questing for Greaters and other supplies.

2nd Fruit
The day dawns suspiciously fine, and we get everyone down to the docks on time. We get led by Haggity to a Caraval called Cry of the Serpent. It's a very unsuspicious name. The ship is basically a ferry that runs between Seagate and Dar and maybe onwards to Sanctuary. It'll take a day to get to Dar so there is no in-ship accommodation but they do serve breakfast and lunch.
We met the first mate, Theo Docherty and discover that the Captain is a water mage called Samuel Ramsey. For some reason, the rest of the passengers were rather wary of us, probably because we were carrying a lot of weapons and we had to promise to keep them sheathed unless the the ship was attacked. Some of us thought that was not our problem but a few disagreed, stating it was our job to protect people.
We clarify that there are at least six places we need to visit. Shepperton-Ashwick (Henry Stepford (Male)), Hunstanton (Edith Carver), Avonhithe (Mirovella), Dottery (Petunia), Castle Carlow (None, Baron's Contact Captain Pevensy), Grafcombe (Hardy Weatherwick), Windermere (Waverly Wot (Male), Pip (Apprentice)). [New Hope (formerly High Loggerim)? Casterford?]. Haggity is coming with us the whole time and will handle the locating using a special witchfinding wand, which only had a range of one mile, that had been crafted by Granny. Our job was to make sure she stayed safe, extricate the other witches from whatever predicament they were in, and see them safe.
We also find out about our employers. Granny is elderly and she sounds scary as she knows stuff, stuff you wouldn't think she knows. Fanny on the other hand is a more motherly type woman who has published cookbooks. And it appears the youngest of the three, Margaret, is Haggity's aunt. The cottage has a front door that opens up in Silverstream and a back door that opens in a small village named Woody Hollow. Presumably it helps Granny keep an eye on local politics.
We arrive in Dar that evening and stay in the Barge Inn. Watches were maintained during the night but nothing unusual happened.

3rd Fruit
We run our way to Silverstream following the barge trail which led around Lake Darwent, following the river. On the way....

Session 2

... we are attacked as we reach a small stream crossing, after departing from the barge trail. Angus let Argus borrow his dwarven waraxe as Argus didn't have a decent weapon. Initially, two Orcs open up with Giant Composite bows, with another four Orcs hiding in the bushes as well. Angus and Vargr charged up to the bowmen in order to take them out. Four more orcs, including their leader, who was wielding a rather nice sword, emerged from the trees. Traps of trip stones had been left on the bridge to slow us down but Vargr was able to 'teleport' behind the archers. Unfortunately he ended up being surrounded by those six and a brutal fight ensues, with Vargr being knocked unconscious at one point. Angus laid in with his claymore but that proved less effective than expected. Kurt, Eydis and Haggitty cast spells, while Uthgard was firing arrows, and Argus did some sort of charge attack with the help of a golem pig. It looked rather grim for a while but eventually, we prevailed.

Session 3

We get to Silverstream and meet with the three head witches (Granny, Fanny, Magritte) and get the rest of the witches' names (See session one notes), but they don't know anything else, having not even sent messengers to see what is going on. Maybe this is something that should be remedied.
We find accommodation for the evening in the Pig and Whistle, and the night passes uneventfully.

4th Fruit
We have breakfast, then head out of town to the East, then Horse go fast our way in the direction of Hunstanton.
Arriving a couple of hours later, we get to the farming and orchard village, where Karl takes us to Edith's hut, which is up a short path to a gate, then past an almighty gaggle of geese to get to the front door. Uthgard went first, as the geese had a hard time pecking her through her armour. The door was locked and bolted from the inside so Kurt tunneled a hole in the wall. Once inside we searched the one room hut then Hagitty pointed out that the witch finder stick was pointing upwards. So we find Edith hiding in her attic. Once we calmed her down she told us that a week ago, a group of orcs killed one of her geese, broke in, and searched the place. She also heard one of the orcs say 'Find the Witch' so she was sure she was the target so when we arrived and set off the goose trap, she assumed that they had returned.
We offer suggestions, like letting the village know that this had happened a week ago and that she should take a boat heading to Silverstream and stay with the head witches.
Nothing more of note seems to come out of the conversation with our current knowledge, so we headed onward from there towards Shepperton-Ashwick.

Session 4

We stop for lunch and head to Shepparton-Ashwick, arriving early evening at the Black Bridge Inn. We get directions to Henry's cottage from the guard but stop for the night. Angus talks to the local farmers, swapping farming stories and playing cribbage. They tell him they haven't seen the local witch for the last two weeks and those that went to check assumed he wasn't home. Also, something was worrying their sheep.

5th Fruit
We head up into the hills for a few minutes, stopping to talk to some sheep. We find signs of a struggle at Henry's hut and a several weeks-old half-eaten meal. Nothing has been looted from the hut, so we concluded it was some sort of abduction. Tracks were found going back the way we had came.
A few wolves and a dire wolf, who was the leader of the pack, attack the sheep while we are present, and we kill none, much to Angus's annoyance. We offer to relocate the wolves (but not the dire wolf) to another wolf pack in a less civilised area. We also discover that the dire wolf was associated with the Maquis of Corruption.
Angus makes terrible puns as we question the sheep, only finding out that 'some people' took Henry away. It was possible that they were orcs.

Session 5

The Dire Wolf, who we discovered was around 200 years old, says something about a master, a minion of A Demon, going missing roughly five moons ago. This Master was not the Shepherd of the area, who we guess is Henry. The Dire Wolf was then dispatched to it's Plane of Origin.
As we leave the hut, the trail fades out, and we head back to the village, along with three wolves. The locals mutter things about Baron's laws requiring wolves to wear collars, so we organise some temporary ones and some materials to make permanent ones before heading to Puddlington.
There, we find a suspiciously idyllic halfling village with a human-sized inn, the Rusty-Blue Fairy.
They tell us about some newcomers to the area, at the same time as Haggity mentions she has detected a witch. This surprised her as she was unaware there was one here.
Angus, on arrival, decides that it is evening somewhere and starts drinking. Haggity points out a younger halfling girl (Amelia Buckthorn) who she identifies as a witch. They also throw food at us and engage in traditional halfling activities. Angus decides to give this inn a 'Four star rating'.

  Eydis about Uthgard - We haven't voted her party leader and she's already bossing us about and counting our food. 

The party shows subtlety and tact, including Angus after his fast drinking session, and we get an older woman who calls herself Lucinda talking to us. They came here fleeing the Drow war from Farrington-Gurney in Northern Aladar. Then, about three months ago, they were attacked, and the girl's teacher was kidnapped. The party decide to camp for the afternoon and night here.

6th Fruit
We leave in the morning and travel north to Withywindle-on-the-Marsh, a half-land / half-water-based town in a marshy area, arriving near lunch. There, we are met by an elf who is very worried about common snakes and spiders. He also tells us that the road doesn't go further north and we would be better off taking the barge upriver. After some discussion, the party decided that relaxing the day and taking the barge tomorrow was the best plan, so we stopped, fed the wolves, and took some time. The barge would arrive at Windermere around evening. They don't have a local which but, each equinox, Mr Watt comes down from Widermere to do what is needed.

Accommodation for the night was at the Spreading Willow Inn. It was inside a very large tree and, at the accommodation level, there was a balcony around the tree which provided nice views of the river and surrounding landscape. The food was mostly pescatarian which was basically fish served with rice, dried waterweed, and washed down with wine. Three and a half stars mostly because of the view and the restful evening.

7th Fruit
Breakfast was a surprisingly delicious rice porridge. The Barges and Bill, the driver, arrive mid-morning, and it takes us a few hours to reach Windermere being conveyed by an earth mage based mage current. The Bouncing Buttercup Inn, run by Bill Potter was recommended to us and sure enough it was early evening when we sighted a walled town on the west edge of Lake Windermere. After disembarking, we get directions to Waverly's shop, located on 70 Simmery Avenue. The shop was an alchemical shop with the sign Y W Watt Witch on the door.

Mr Waverly Watt was in and says that Pip has been missing for ten days. He was out at the time but Ms Maybelle, the housekeeper, said that she heard an altercation when some people turn up and knock Pip over the back of the head and drag him off. Pip was described as a fifteen-year-old boy with brown hair and eyes.
Hagitty finds us a direction, using triangulation and the wand, leading us to a decent-sized, free-standing building in town. It seems to be an Inn called Half Orc's Head. We work out that a dozen possible captives are in the basement, a couple of dozen other minds in the basement, and a couple of dozen more in the main room. Some of the captives downstairs may be young people, possibly children. We are considering some options.

Session 6

We head to the guards and meet with Captain Jamison.
They don't have any real knowledge of their own, but organise to do some guard things tomorrow lead by Smithers.
We stay the night in the bent pin inn.
8th Fruit

Mil-Sci

Daily pattern

‘’How much time does the party spend sleeping, eating, traveling, doing rituals, etc each day’’

Travel Magics

‘’What travel magic options does the party have, how far per cast/or per day if duration is longer than usual travel time.’’ ‘’Can the party eat/sleep/etc on the mode of transport.’’

Watch Order

Angus

Vargr

Argus

Kurt

Eydis

Uthgard

Marching Order

Skirmish Formations (Front)
Double File	Single File

Buffs

General Buff Notes

Buffs listed in the table don't need to be detailed, other buffs not on the table must be mentioned at the time they are cast.
Y means always on, N/- means never on, 'Sit.' means when the party has time for buffs before a fight.
Weapon Spells which weapon/s it is going on normally should be noted also

Long duration buffs

Magic	Rk	Effects	Dur	Angus	Argus	Brutus (P)	Vargr	Uthgard	Kurt	Eydis	?
Cat Vision (Ku)	11	See in dark to 160'	12 Hours	Overnight	N	N	N	N	Overnight	?	?
Strength of Stone	8	PS or EN +8	9 Hours	Sit	?	?	Y	?	?	?	?
Name (??)	##	????	# Hours	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Name (??)	##	????	? Hours	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?

Short duration buffs

Magic	Rk	Effects	Dur	Angus	Argus	Brutus (P)	Vargr	Uthgard	Kurt	Eydis	?
Durability (Arg)	??	Extra Armour	120 minutes?	Sit	N	Sit	N	N	N	?	?
Diamond Weapon	10	+10% s.c. Enemy weapons fumble 5% more.	15 Mins	Sit (Claymore)	Sit (Battleaxe)	?	?	N	Sit (Mattock)	?	?
Creating Rune Weapon	9	[D-5] + 3 Acid Damage	14 Mins	?	?	?	Y	?	?	?	?
Name ???	??	????	? Mins	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?

Skills and Abilities

Magic	Rk	Effects	Dur	Angus	Argus	Brutus (P)	Vargr	Uthgard	Kurt	Eydis	?
Ranger Detect trap/ambush	-	Chance to detect outdoor ambushes and traps.	N/A	?	?	?	?	?	91%	?	?
Ranger Tracking	-	Tracking, modified by time / entities.	N/A	?	?	?	?	?	85%	?	?
Name ???	??	????	? Mins	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?

Loot and Expenses

Significant Items

• 2 * Orc Bows
• 1 * Somewhat Magical 'Bastard' sword.

Minor Items

• 6 * Chainmail.
• 5 * Battle Axe.
• Miscellaneous stuff.

Calendar

Autumn
	Moonday		Duesday		W'ansday		Th'rsday		Frysday		Reapsday		Sunday
	Lugnasad
Fruit (4)
			1	Guild Meeting	2		3		4		5		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
Harvest (5)
							1		2		3		4
	5		6		7		8		9		10		11
	12		13		14		15	Equinox	16		17	Seagate Autumn Fair	18	Seagate Autumn Fair
	19	Harvest Moon	20		21		22		23		24		25
	26		27		28		29	Michaelmas	30
Vintage(6)
											1		2
	3		4		5		6		7		8		9
	10		11		12		13		14		15		16
	17	Blood Moon	18		19		20		21		22		23
	24		25		26		27		28		29		30	Beerfest