Gnome Way Home
Summary
Adventure: Gnome Way Home
GM: Martin
Season: Spring 823 wk
Night: various weekends
Level: Low-Medium
- Party
- Dart - Halfling Bard - Alex
- Roxanna - Human Mind Mistress - Paige
- Mattin - The Murder Hobbit - Kyan
- Kassian - Elven Druidic Cheesemaker - Grey
- Tharlin - Dwarven Air Mage - Conal PL
- Duvon - Dwarven Druid (m) - Dean MilSci
- Ari - Human Namer - Stephen Scribe
- Employer
- By way of an urgent request some days after the Spring Meeting asking for a Guild party for a rescue and recovery operation in a location the employers cannot operate due to events dating back to Autumn 790 WK (See Against ze Flying Nomes).
- Mission
- Find, secure, assist, and recover a valuable lost asset and several VIPs.
- Pay
- Yes... definitely... probably quite good.
Scribe Notes
Into the woods
- Frysday 18th Thaw
We're gathered for work in the early hours of the morning, a late and urgent request has come in from Gnomes to rescue a flying ship and crew that have crashed in Bowcourt south-east of Mure.
We gather equipment, do some rituals and head out.
- Greater Enchantment rk 20 on Magic for the season
- 6 x Restoratives 10/20
- 6 x Expired Healing Potions 2D10
- 6 x Special Potions
- Stoneskin
- Slow Trollskin
- Heroism
- Spider Climb
- Gullibility
- Vitality
- 6 x Oils
- Mending
- Sharpness
- Hair Restoration
- Barkskin
- Sharkskin
- Willowshade
We walk into Seagate to Seacliff Estate near Castle Chilton, there we are admitted to an enchanted Garden Gazebo.
At midday there is a lurching sensation, fortunately we're all inside, and then we're in a rose garden.
An elderly man (William of Mure, twin brother of Baron Henry) greets us, we're expected. It is a busy, well looked after estate in Armagnac.
William has gathered supplies for us, a lot of supplies: Food, tree clearing tools, mechanician tools & ropes, and more food. William's nephew Anton will take a ship with most of the supplies to Stormstout Brewery while we fly ahead to try to find the crash site.
The flying vessel is about 50' long with double that in wingspan. Our tracking device is pointing towards the Lupine Woods.
We have lunch, cast some spells (SoS & Flying), then take flight south-east for the Lupine Woods. Following the tracker as we get close, we land nearby on a bare hill with a magical circle of standing stones at the top - a barrow?. Counts as a Druidic Place of Power, associated with a power - Romulag. Ley lines flow around the barrow, it looks like this is probably a fey wood.
Rox picks up something watching us, sitting in trees, small with large heads and bodies but no apparent limbs. Plant-like, Tree Spirit (Kodama), Fae but not associated with any of the courts, Health/Growth ability. Kass talks to them, they are sad, trees were stolen, taken, drained. The rocks contain/seal un-life, rot. They have a friend, ???, not a false-friend. The friend checks on trees after big storms, last visited in winter.
About an hour through the forest, we come to the Gnomes and their crashed craft, feeling a bit sorry for themselves, hungry, & hurt. Sky Gnomes, recently affected by soft-fall magic.
- Splinge (Sterling Cogsprocket) has metal legs and feet. Extra long moustache & pointy beard. Was stuck in a tree - "easier to go up than down".
- Dunbar Stormkinder, pilot/captain, walrus moustache.
- Lorcan Skyratchet, peacemaker/leader.
- Eagan Firehand
- Tawnie Lodestar, engineer, built the ship.
- Tulla Goldhand, severe haircut.
- Pongo (Balthazar Wogglebottle), poisoned (ate red berries and toadstools when they got hungry), hydraulics engineer.
They saw a beacon light (coming from the barrow), came in for a landing, crashed into the trees.
During the night someone barefoot & invisible approached enough to see us before withdrawing, their tracks show them deviating to check us out while travelling north of us, east to west.
- Reapsday 19th Thaw
We walk back to the barrow.
Long ago, a great spirit/god of the forest became rotten, fell and was entombed/contained here. The circle syphoned & flared off (growth/life) energy from the barrow to keep it from building up. Many millennia old (Ancient Elven Empire or older). Broken 3 days ago, restoring the stones to their position won't fix it. The circle was built by great mages of the Elves and powerful Seelie Fae.
We see the prepared smoke signal rising from the Gnome camp indicating they need help.
Chapter 2
Calendar
| Spring: Thaw 823 (10) | ||||||||||||||
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| Moonday | Duesday | W'ansday | Th'rsday | Frysday | Reapsday | Sunday | ||||||||
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Candlemansa | 1 | Guild Meeting | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | . | |||||
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7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | |||||||
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14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | Urgent request arrives | 18 | Party assembled/depart | 19 | 20 | |||||
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21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | |||||||
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28 | 29 | 30 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||||||
| Spring: Seedtime 823 (11) | ||||||||||||||
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5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Rites of Thunor | 9 | 10 | 11 | ||||||
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12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | Equinox | 16 | 17 | Eostre | 18 | |||||
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19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | |||||||
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26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| Spring: Blossom 823 (12) | ||||||||||||||
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3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | |||||||
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10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | |||||||
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17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | Floralia | 22 | 23 | ||||||
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24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | Walpurgisnacht | ||||||
