Trouble in the Spine
Summary
Adventure: Trouble in the Spine
GM: ChrisC
Season: Summer 819 wk
Night: Someday
Level: Low - Medium
- Party
- Haedric - our Conflict Resolution specialist played by Stephen
- Mavric - our Team Leader played by Lisa
- Aloysious - our Public Relations specialist played by Nick
- Raseri - our Security personnel played by Ciaran
- Mayhem - our other Security personnel played by Jim
- Celeste - our Hairy Great Haystack played by Dean
- Someone - played by Paul?
- Employer
- The Baron of Bryshande
- Mission
- There's trouble and strange goings on in the Dragonspine Mountains and things are going awry at this commercially valuable time of year. A party is needed to augment what few troops remain (the rest have been called up for service in the warmer south with the king) and keep the peace in the region and sort some things out.
- Pay
- Lands, Titles, Prestige et al.
Scribe Notes
This is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. No matter what anyone else may say.
Day 0 (At the Guild meeting) - We meet a man named Gerald at the guild and he tells us we need to go sort some funky weather out in the Dragonspine Mountains, there is also mention of Giant bandits or perhaps it was Giants and Bandits or perhaps it was Bandit Giants? Anyway, we hear the mission and Gerald gives us some time to vote on Party leader and whatnot. Much discussion ensues. A man named Tarahell Alatáriël introduces himself and then tells us of his step-daughter. He says Celeste is a bit feral we assure him we can handle her and all will be fine.
Mavric is elected party leader (only because she has the most experience). Haedric is our MilSci and I am left as the scribe (Lucky you)
Celeste is introduced to us. She is huge, has pointy teeth and sniffs everyone (Except Mayhem). After some extensive discussion Mavric decides we need some party rules. Party Rules: 1. Speak Common 2. Don't kill each other (Mavric thought this needed to be stated clearly, for the benefit of Haedric) 3. Listen to Mavric 4. Listen to Headric in combat
We have passage on the good ship Molly under captain Francis, on the next morning tide. After collecting some supplies we take go drinking and Mavric takes us to see a play. (with much drinking, fighting and fornicating, to the delight of Celeste).
Day 1 - The party boards the ship and cast off heading NNW. The ships navigator is a fool so I correct his mistakes and Magewind us to speed our passage along. The sea is a little rough for this party of land lubbers (myself excluded of course) so they get nice and drunk.
Day 2 - We arrive early morning in the port town of Gerbestadt and depart our ship. Conveniently within minutes of us arriving a large and violent storm appears out of nowhere (The Sudden Wind-Storm)so I promptly summon a cloud and we make a quick departure. On the cloud Mavric entertains the party with a saucy tale, the party (excluding yours truly) drink and enjoy the ride. We fly NW towards Barlton in Western Aladar to meet with the Baron's wife to get her to sign some papers.
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As we continue to fly we come upon a large storm in the area of Barretskyne we decide to avoid both of these issues, we backtrack a few miles, land and set camp to wait out the storm. During our descent, a large dark shape falls past us at great speed. We identify it as a dead Manticore. When we land we send our "advanced scout" (read as disposable) Mayhem to investigate. He reports back that it was killed by non-magical ice projectile or weapon of some kind. Mayhem loots spikes (8) from the Maticore tail.
The storm intensifies, lots of thunder and lightning, but completely natural as far as I could tell. We settle in for the night in an igloo courtesy of Haedric. During the night mayhem has a conversation with some rats (Hobbits, what can you do?) the party agreed that the chat was a little flirty. Mayhem brings the rat back to the igloo, it seems it is a dark celestial thing as the rat suddenly decides Raser is his new master.
Haedric wakes us in the very early morning, he has seen some humanoids skulking around our loot (Manticore body). Mayhem investigates, identifies them as Gnolls and we form a plan. Mayhem: "Lets give them a good killing!"
They are dispatched quickly. We loot the bodies and find:
- 10gs
- 60s
- 10c
- A ring with the seal of a noble house worth 97 gs
- A gold necklace with an enchantment -3 to percentile rolls
Mayhem's creepy spider eats many eyes.
Celeste and Haedric skin the Manticore. Celeste then disappears for a while. We head back to the igloo and interrupt Celeste and Gerald.
Amendment to party rules Rule 5. No coitus in common spaces.
We finish our rest and prepare to depart.
--- Day 3
We head out into the storm and as we travel it intensifies. I make a call and we land outside of a town called Corce to weather the storm. We find the Inn, eat and drink, Mayhem entertains himself in the usual way and Mavric performs with a local.
Amendment to party rules
A new party rule is added; Rule 6: No pets eating other pets.
The bartender tells us that a child is missing in the storm. So like the brave Heroes we are, we set out to find him. Albert, the missing child, was last seen in his family's barn. The barn had collapsed so we searched the rubble and found him wounded but alive. Haedric does some sneaky healing and we return Albert to his family. Mayhem reads his shadow, then for some reason decides to buy Albert (Hobbits, what can you do?) and his father agrees to send him for tuition to Mayhem at Seagate next spring.
We return to the Inn for the night and are lauded as Heroes!
--- Day 4
Deciding that the storm and mountain air currents make flying a little iffy we continue on foot. After a mile and a while we come across some very lifelike statues in amongst the trees and shrubbery. I wonder aloud if they might be the work of a medusa or basilisk, Mayhem reads shadows to confirm this. We then keep a very wary eye out and continue on the the asylum where the Baroness Lady Margarite Bryshante is currently residing.
Mil Sci
Daily Pattern
- Sleep/Camp
- Travel
- Meals
- Rituals
Hours of sleep for Ft recovery + Hot meal Ft recovery.
Travel Magics
Watch Order
Marching Order
Main body front:
Main body rear:
Tail Guard:
Formations
Single file:
Open area:
Buffs
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.
General notes.
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Long Duration Buffs
| Magic | Rk | Effects | Dur | Ft / Day | Al | Cl | Ha | Mv | My | Rsr | -- |
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| Name | ## | Does Stuff | ?? days | ?? Ft | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Name | ## | Does stuff | ?? hrs | ? Ft | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Name | ## | Does stuff | ?? hrs | ? Ft | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Name | ## | Does Stuff | ?? weeks | ? Ft | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Names | ## | Does stuff | ?? hrs | ?? Ft | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Name | ## | Does stuff | ?? hrs | ?? Ft | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Short Duration Buffs
| Magic | Rk | Effects | Dur | Ft / Cast | Al | Cl | Ha | Mv | My | Rsr | -- |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Witchsight | 12 | See in darkness as on a cloudy day 150 ft, 75 ft inside, see Rank 12 or less Invisible, Blending or any Unseen | 6.5 hours | 1 Ft | -- | -- | -- | -- | 
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| Featherfall | ## | Does Stuff | ?? Mins | ?? Ft | -- | -- | -- | -- | Sit | -- | -- |
| ## | Does stuff | ?? mins | ?? Ft | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Name | ## | Does stuff | ?? hrs | ?? Ft | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Loot
- Gold necklace, magical - subtracts three from percentile die result
- Gold ring, not magical - 97 gold shillings in value
Calendar
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