Duskfalls demise

Scribe Notes

Summary

Adventure: Duskfalls demise
GM: Julia
Season: Summer 815 wk
Night: Tues in Onehunga
Level: Medium

Party

1. Bromli - (m) Dwarven Fighter-Namer - Nick
2. Henric - (m) Dwarven Fighter-Mind Mage - Chris - Scribe
3. Lyric - (f) Dwarven Charmer (E&E) - Michelle
4. Mario - (m) Human Lothario-Mind Mage - Dean - Party Leader
5. Penni - (f) Elven Healer-Namer - Lisa
6. Thaeuss - (m) Elven Binder - Stephen - Mil Sci
7. Mayhem - (m) Halfling Shadow Weaver - Jim

Employer

Special Dwarven Consul to Duke Leto of Seagate - a position that is currently vacant.

Mission

'Find' the Special Dwarven Consuls and then complete various tasks that are the responsibility of the office... Meet with deep Dwarves and sort out whatever they want so they'll go home.

• Consult the Dwarven Seer about the Death Walkers
• Investigate reports of the Death Gatherers/Walkers on the surface.

Pay

A very reasonable donation to the Duke for his appointment of a position with income

A donation to the joint-race task force from the deep Dwarves

Scribe Notes

Session 1 - Guild Day and party that night

We have a party consisting of three dwarves (my lovely sister Lyric, the stoic Bromli and I – Henric), a dark-aspected Halfling named Mayhem, Thaeuss the infamous elven binder and 2 humans with Mario the fine upstanding merchant lothario and Penni the beautiful republican.

The Duke of Carzala has a problem to do with some dwarves and he’s willing to appoint some of us a Special Consuls to the dwarves (for a one off payment of 2,000sp) to get it sorted.

Some of us consider this a good idea and so 5 of us volunteer to pay the dauke for this honour while Thaeuss and Penni decide against it. We are invited to the evening soiree at Castle Chilton that night where we distinguish ourselves in many ways before we meet the Duke where we get a quick overview of the issue and some of us swear fealty before being passed on to his steward Sir Bryn.

The gist is: There’s a nice square off to one side of the castle and some dwarves recently arrived and dug it up claiming it to be a sacred meeting ground for the peoples and they were there to meet with others. Now because these seemed to be capable and high ranking members of the dwarves who couldn’t be persuaded to stay in an inn like most others, the duke decided to deal with it using his local fixers – aka the Seagate Adventurers Guild – aka us! We are to discover what the dwarves want and solve it to their satisfaction and enable the square to be repurposed once more or some other similar civil construction issue to be resolved. We agree to the duke’s terms and set about having a good time that night.

I had gleaned some tips on how to find a female companion from my fellow party members and while Mayhem said just pay them, Mario said talk with them, feign interest in whatever they say, let them talk (especially about themselves) and keep them happy and entertained. I went with Mario’s advice!

I met nice dwarven lass named Morlar who was very keen on me, so much so that she let me walk her home. I found out later that my sister in her stunning blue formal gown had shadowed us home and lurked in the alleys while I took her to her door, introduced myself to her kin and walked off as a gentleman should.

Meanwhile an older dwarf came up to Lyric hiding on the corner alley and asked if she was ok and needed somewhere safer. She replied “yes, of course” and pulled a small stick out of her cleavage and crushed it to become her war-hammer. He went away mumbling that she had a fine weapon rack for a young dwarf.

The night otherwise passed uneventfully into hangovers and regrets.

Session 1 - Investigations - 2nd of Meadow

We arose the following day and from various locales rendezvoused at the guild where we got our hangovers cured and became slightly more presentable. We get the results of some research we had commissioned yesterday which revealed that yes the square they have taken over was a historical meeting location between Elves, Dwarves and humans some 200 years ago.

We go down to the square and discover it’s more like a dwarven field camp with pits, tunnels and the like. There are a lot of runes about and looks like they have some very useful and unique magic at their disposal.

We hail the workings and take ourselves and our alcoholic beverages down into the ‘camp’ and start to talk over a few drinks. The elder dwarves welcome us as ‘Seekers’ who have come to the meeting place. They have blackskin w flecks in it and we greet one as Oakenbark from ‘The Strong Mountain’.

We consume beverages and he explains that they have some seers who never fail to be right and when they say the sky will fall then the sky will fall.

The seer is very old and has been mumbling about the dark circle rising, death constructs, missing people, the herald of darkness, death-walkers wandering the land in an undead clump and more.

We are tasked to talk with the seer and investigate what is being prophesied

Session 2 - Off we go - 3rd of Meadow

We consume a great deal of seeker food and we awake from their effects (and the Rune portal travel) inside the Great Mountain within the Dragonspine Mountains on top of a mithral dias festooned with runes of travel. We are deep under the mountain in a nice cold chamber hewn from the rock of this interesting mountain. The 100ft tall roof above has a mossy which emanates a dull light.

We meet some dwarves named Darina, Dree (f), Kildree and Dwon.

We are given Fungballs to help recover our lost fatigue.

Its around noon and we are shown whats been assembled here by the farsighted dwarves and we review the prophecy made a month ago by the seer.

We are shown the direction to the seers chamber but informed that each must travel a new path to get there and so without a map but with a great group of adventurers we head on down into the depths which get more and more dark and forbidding to those used to sunlight and open air.

We come to a chasm and are attempting to negotiate its passage when we are ambushed by spiders and other nasty types. Combat ensues ....

Fight with giant spiders (non-sentient). Abilities to cast webs as strong as steel, paralyse, poison. Kill several, capture one of the biggest, take some eggs.

Session 3 - In the depths - 3rd of Meadow

Heal wounds, eat, rest a couple of hours and harvest silk and stuff.

Branching of tunnel with choice of 3 games, participate to proceed. We choose checkers and make it with some serious wounds that we are able to heal.

Dark room of fear, fight with Lyric's haughty Elves.

Steep ascending tunnel, camp for night part way up. Dreams. Gather copper ore (10k) and malachite (3k).

Session 4 - We see the light - 4th of Meadow

The night passed uneventfully in a physical sense but several of us have had disturbing dreams.
I dream of a necromancer (evil of course) living under the earth. He stands over a large evil looking egg which I see cracks in and ..
Mayhem dreams of 3 women knitting a tapestry. The tapestry is tapering and the women start to cackle and
Mario dreams of a bright star, gates being sundered and a great smoke pouring forth from there …

Once we awaken somewhat rested we are determined not to sleep down here again if we can possibly avoid it. We breakfast and then set off again up the rough path.

We emerge into alpine valley. Squabbling young dwarves (seekers sent before us) including Namer and Rune mages. Find and talk with Oracle. Visions, dreams, plans.

She (the Dwarven Seer) is Rex, the sibyl of the dwarven race and one of 10 Sibyl's on Alusia. The Sibyl's are all racially defined.

Dwarven Oracle Plan: Gather samples from the leaders of the races in the 'western kingdom' area, make a poultice from them, apply it to the ancient Elven throne in Confederation Bay to enhance the lifeforce of the represented races so they'll survive the coming darkness.

Night passes

5th of Meadow

Spend the night - more dreams. Send the seekers to report back to the elders.

Fly west to near the ice road then south parallel in hops until Lyric locates the smaller Death Gatherer she dreamed of. With emerald wings we fly close to the broken ground towards the DG, spot a good crevasse to lure it into then land and start to prepare our ambush.

Session 5 - Ambush Day - 5th Meadow

Walls, Golems, Wards, Weapon of Flames, and a traditional layer of leaves and sticks over the dead-fall. Thaeuss and Penni fly out to harass and lure the DG which works. It flings Spectral Vultures as it charges after them but they're too slow to keep up.

DG goes into the pit as planned though it vomits putrescence over as as it goes in, golems lay into it, we assault it with thrown magical weapons from above. The DG vomits at us, throws more spectral Vultures but we shelter in Necro counterspells, then it throws parts of itself (undead horses) up to engage us, then throws a different horse that seems to be its original/central body. The central body merges with another part of itself and tramples us, we assault it and Penni gets the death blow to finish it off. Mayhem is caught outside of the counterspells and killed by the Spectral Vultures.

Finishing off the remnants, patching of wounds, resurrecting Mayhem, counterspelling the Vultures, gathering the Dark Phoenix feather that was the 'heart' of the DG, then fleeing out of the war zone.

Camp in a safer area, away from settlements. Divining and examining the Feather, we think the Dark Phoenix it came from is bigger than a Roc. It was corrupted in the egg by Phenex and Naberius. It's feathers can be used to create DGs. The feather will drain the living on contact.

Night Passes

Session 6 - Return to the Mtn - 6th of Meadow

Fly north and east, back to the Dwarven oracle. Report on the findings and then wait while he divines the feather himself and tells us what we already know. We question her (turns out the Oracle is a woman - who can ever tell with Dwarves) further on her plan to protect the people of the west and then agree to attempt it.

Fly back to the guild, commission a philosopher to gather what they have on the Kingstone, stay the night.

Early morning portal to Tycho, have breakfast, some shopping, arrange a discrete ship for departure on the evening tide.

Once at sea we fly from the ship north towards the Temple of Fate. After a few hours we are intercepted by a dusky beauty of a Titan, she points out we are heading for the Gryphon Mountains, redirects us towards the temple and requires us to deliver a message (that the Demons are necessary) to the fates in return for her inconvenience. She would also like us to remove the Calimar from the gates of Hell, if they remain they may succeed in their goal.

On approach a light Titan flies up to meet us, declares Bromli (in his flying form) is an abomination and kills him. We land, recover Bromli (back in Dwarven form), resurrect him then proceed on foot. Three Light Titans are sitting with one Dark Titan at the foot of the stairs engaged in intense discussion, one of the Light Titans discretely waves us on, we take the hint and walk quickly.

At the temple we are met by the mother, we deliver the message, ask the question we thought we should ask (is the Oracle's plan a good thing) and then after hinting we ask for help and guidance with our task. Agreeing to place ourselves in fates' hands we receive further advice and help.

The coming darkness is now a certainty, events have progressed too far for other outcomes to be likely. In their focus on the way on hell, the Elements of Fire have been remiss in maintaining the balance of the elements, this has placed the sun at risk. Someone should chastise them and get them back to their duties. It is not too late to stop the Dark Phoenix. In gathering the hair for the life poultice, we should not gather too much or from those that are too powerful, nor should we gather too little. Success and the ideal duration of effect depend on the right balance.

Session 7

We fly back to Tycho and portal back to the guild to rest.

The next day we set out flying across to Brandenburg, landing near a small village to spend the night at their Inn. Culture clashes over the large shared bed and varied expectations, no fowl on the menu due to cool fire.

Next day we fly west then north up river and then west again to Grobbenbonk's tower. There we meet with him, explain, negotiate, and in the end distastefully bribe him to donate some hair to protect Goblinoids, one of his guards is more easily convinces to donate a hair to protect Ogres.

Then a short flight to Orc town and simple bribery to acquire a hair to protect Orcs.

Flying back to the coast to camp for the night then most of a day flying back over the sea to Seagate.

Heading for the head of the sweetwater we fly upriver then lose it in the sea of grass, back tracking we reacquire it but need to walk or boat to avoid losing it again - part of its nature. We walk for a while then Henric reveals the boat in his pocket and his water magics to propel it. Mage current takes us up stream until duck when we pull over to rest.

During the night we are assaulted by Nixies. Fatal aquatic romance is thwarted and we find ourselves with a petrified Water Elemental that is still active in some sort of crystalline form.

Calendar

Summer: Meadow (1) 815wk
	Moonday		Duesday		W'ansday		Th'rsday		Frysday		Reapsday		Sunday
		Beltane Full Moon	1	Guild Meeting	2	Investigations	3	Off we go	4	Get to Oracle	5	Ambush DG	6	Rtn to Mtn after fight
	7	Fly back to Guild	8	Portal to Tycho	9		10		11		12		13
	14		15		16		17		18		19		20
	21		22		23		24		25		26		27
	28	Full Moon	29		30		1		2		3		4
Summer: Heat (2) 815wk
	Moonday		Duesday		W'ansday		Th'rsday		Frysday		Reapsday		Sunday
	5		6		7		8		9		10		11
	12		13		14	Midsummer Eve (Faerie Day)	15	Solstice	16		17		18
	19		20		21		22		23		24		25
	26	Full Moon	27		28		29		30		1		2
Summer: Breeze (3) 815wk
	Moonday		Duesday		W'ansday		Th'rsday		Frysday		Reapsday		Sunday
	3	Day of Death	4		5		6		7		8		9
	10		11		12		13		14		15		16
	17		18		19		20		21		22		23
	24	Full Moon	25		26		27		28		29		30

Reference

People

• Duke Leto of Carzala
• Sir Bryn of Carzala - A steward with Duke Leto

Life Poultice Donors

As leaders/representatives of their races, the following have donated hair to be used in the life-enhancing poultice:

• Regs - Dwarven Oracle
• Boulder - Giant
• Mordrin - Dwarf
• Amelia - Halfling
• Engalton - Human
• Sabrina - Elves
• Grobbenbonk - Goblinoids
• Grobbenbonks Guard - Ogre
• Grilsh - Orc (of Orctown)
• ? Lady Nicola - Shapechangers
• ? Lady Cher - Saurime

And the party.

Loot

(and expenses)

Item	Qty	Effects	Br	He	Ly	Ma	Pe	Th	My
Purchased
...	1	...
stuff
...	1	...

and consequences...

Penni, Thaeuss, Bromli, Henric, Lyric, Mario, and Mayhem have accepted a Fate:

Your zenith shall be your Nadir
From victory shall come despair
Find Nyx who dwells in darkness
Wrest from her the Harpe of brightness
And face the children of the night
Death stalks when the master comes to fight

While under this fate they cannot be affected by any other fates. i.e. A harpy cannot pronounce an evil prophecy.

Logistics

Buffs

Magic	Rk	Effects	Dur	Br	He	Ly	Ma	Pe	Th	My
Greater Enchantment (Ly)	12	+13%	Season	Y	Y	Y	Y
Durability (Th)	10	+3 AP, Unbreakable, 22lb limit	110 mins		+2	+2		+2	Y
Modify Aura (Th)	6	+/- 3 Levels	7 hrs
Instil Flight (Th)	10	40mph 650 lbs limit	5.5 hrs	-	-	-	-	-	Y	-
Linking Lifeforce (Th)	13	Reflect health within 1400 miles	Perm						P
Heroic Aura (Ma Self)	10	Allies:+3 SC,+1 Dmg,+6 Reaction and Fear ; Enemies:-3 SC,-1 Dmg,-6 Reaction and Fear	5.5 hrs	-	-	-	Y	-	-	-
Witchsight (Mhm)	6	See invisible etc	3.5 hrs	-	-	-		-	-	Y
Weapon of Flames (Ma)	7	+8% +4dmg	12 mins
Enchant Weapon (Ly)	7	+8% +43mg	12 mins

MilSci

Watches

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
Mario		Henric				Bromli				Mario
Mayhem			Thaeuss			Penni			Lyric

Skirmish Formations (Front)

Default Bromli Mario Henric Lyric Mayhem Penni Thaeuss

Double File Bromli Henric Mario Lyric Mayhem Penni Thaeuss

Single File Bromli Mario Henric Lyric Mayhem Penni Thaeuss