Air Bastards of the Shattered Queen

Summary

Adventure: Air Bastards of the Shattered Queen
GM: William Dymock-Johnson
Location: William's house
Season: Spring 817 wk
Night: Mondays
Level: Medium. No, really.

Party

Mayhem the As Yet Unhung, Shadow Weaver, Stealth specialist, hobbit - played by Jim
Anooke Eskimo ice mage played by Michael Haycock
Pierre an Illusionist hobbit played by Ian
Henric Henrikson, a dwarven mind mage - played by ChrisC
Everan - A Human Scholar played by Dean Ellis.
Quentin Ulysses Ash, an Orc Warrior Namerish (Sean)

Employer: Anghamrabad, a clerk.
Mission

Flying ships. Shadow demons. Complete bastards.

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What? You need more?

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Oh very well. Raiders from the Shadow Realm have appeared demanding payment, often in the form of lifeforce / souls and then taking it when people won't cough up. Find out what the bloody hell is going on and stop it. Oh, and they have made off with a High Lady of Alfhiem. That may be important too.

Scribe Notes

Session 1 - meet, brief, etc

We met at the guild and ... ... all got eaten by demons.(nearly)

Our erstwhile employer seemed to be worried about the shorter end of the party. Apparently, he has the idea that we might borrow some of his things. At least he didnâ€™t eat our dwarf this time. Our Mission is to rescue the high lady of Alfhiem by next Tuesday week. This to stop the involvement of Isil Eth who if she becomes involved will cause severe repercussions. Discounted tactics to delay Isil Eth include starting a major land war in Asia - somewhere near Hindia (note this was one of the more sensible suggestions), kidnapping her, shopping expeditions etc. After interviewing Mayhemâ€™s prospective father in law, we make our though a portal to Ladlaugh. The place is busier than I remember it.

There is a shipyard for floating ships. They look pretty. Inside one that hadnâ€™t been completed there was an unreal clock that some elves were singing to. Mayhem locked the door to keep it safe and we were ushered out on suspicion of being hobbits. We decide to go under cover of darkness to borrow the unreal clock, if we havenâ€™t already. The search of the closets proved inconclusive. Henric bravely 'occupied' the elvish female guard while the rest of us used a warping of the wood on the bottom of the vessel (a previously unnoticed - lower entrance) to enter the ship. We put in a temporary illusionary replacement clock and borrowed the original for some 'servicing'.

In the morning, we found out that some runes said that the Lady was taken but not why she in the grove where she was taken. We also do not know what music to play to the clock. It is decided that we will go out into the forest and that we will play with some levers on the clock.

After some lever pulling we go back into town and we find sick elves attending a party at the palace. A plague from the Marquis of Archers. It is the 8,000th year of Glorath rule (1600 after Panjari). We find and CURE Lady Heleria. We liberate some artifacts to preserve them for future use and leverage

Back to the woods and more lever pulling. In town, there is a 30-foot-tall black pyramid. Rapid backing off ensues. Should we take some hoard? Some more fiddling with levers. There is a deserted village. When are we? There is a 14-year-old elf. He is to become the 23 legion. He is not beaten on principle (i.e. he will catch up to us eventually) Henric gives him a prophesy for his future which gives him a glorious warrior path to follow with the love of his life at the end.

Some for lever pulling and we find the remains of a huge city. â€œHere is the site of the rebirth of the Elves. If you look to the left you will see the remains of the placeâ€ â€“ a very chatty Gollum. When are we now?

Session 2 - More Time

Some questioning of the gollum lets us know two things. One he is the last one because there are no more binders and two it is 807,204 years since Panjari. Also there are elves hiding in the trees that are being hunted by the tree squids. The elves are shorter than I remember and they are short lived now. Quentin tells us that the furry tree squids are Squibbons(They carry straws). The tree squids tell us they are Engineers. Given what I our long term human was doing to them at the time I tend to believe them.

We are grateful that we made it out of the squid era so after some careful study by our resident philosopher buttons are pushed. The trees are now rotten and there are lots of webs. A dead person who had a wiggly dagger told us that his stop the living trick didn't work and he promptly died when he got here. We are we believe in the shadow lands. A shadow hunter called Narell tells us of drow that did not pay after asking for help.Narell is hunting trackers (9 armed starfish with tentacles) and would like us to stop scaring his prey. Also ghoul jelly goes well with trackers. He tells us of a magic grove where the there is life magic.

From the grove there are the tracks of five entities. 2 with claws, 2 with hooves and a person. we follow them to a clearing and find the tracks stop. Popping up above the trees revealed a massive light plume towards the north east. We decide to back to the grove. Once there we talk to an elvish herbalist for ages and discover the entire grove is a magic symbol.

In town the Lady we are trying to rescue is not so much missing as not here. Some invisible vulture men come through and steal some stuff from the council chambers. We decide it is time to eat so we seek out food. while there I check if I have left/will leave a note for myself. Apparently I have / will do so we take off in hot pursuit with some light meals.Back through the grove and there is screeching and the Vulture men are surrounded by undead white apes. After some messy fighting stuff we talk to the vulture men and find out they have stolen paper and ink to make peace.

Places/Planes visited

People Encountered

Exarel: Air Bastard owed money for his services to Rashak
Vulture Man Helmsman: A vampyre, not too pernicious.

Buffs & Mil Sci

Lucky Numbers
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Long Term (assumed always on)

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Short Term

Magic (caster)	Rk	Effects	Dur
Witchsight (Mayhem)	12	See in darkness 150'/75', penetrate Invisibility < Rank 13	6½ hrs
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Watch Order

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
Player1		Player2				Player3				Player4
Player5				Player6				Player1

Marching Order

Skirmish Formations (Front)
Default Player1 Player2 Player3 Player4 Player5 Player6	Double File Player1 Player2 Player3 Player4 Player5 Player6	Single File Player1 Player2 Player3 Player3 Player5 Player6

Loot

Some stuff we lifted from an elf party at Ladlaugh when they were all krrfed up to buggery;

Cash and equivalent

Calendar

Spring: Thaw (10) 817wk
	Moonday		Duesday		W'ansday	Th'rsday		Frysday		Reapsday		Sunday
		Candlemansa	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
Spring: Seedtime (11)
	28		29		30	1		2		3		4
	5		6		7	8	Rites of Thunor	9		10		11
	12		13		14	15	Equinox	16		17	Eostre	18	Seagate Spring Ball
	19		20		21	22		23		24		25
	26		27		28	29		30		1		2
Spring: Blossom (12)
	3		4		5	6		7		8		9
	10		11		12	13		14		15		16
	17	Returning Home	18		19	20		21	Floralia	22		23
	24		25		26	27		28		29		30	Walpurgisnacht

Air Bastards of the Shattered Queen

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