Thin Ice

Scribe Notes

Summary

Adventure: Thin Ice
GM: Chris
Season: Spring 819 wk
Night: Tuesday
Location: Chez Ellis
Level: Medium

Party

• Haedric - An Ice Mage - played by Stephen (Scribe)
• Raseri - A Celestial - played by Ciaran
• Aloysious - An Air Mage - played by Nick
• Everan - A White Necromancer? - played by Dean (Mil Sci)
• Lyric - An E&E - played by Michelle
• Mayhem - A Celestial - played by Jim
• Heddi - A female Giant - played by Julia

Party leader yet to be determined as the lasies weren't present at the time

Employer

Davos, The Baron of Bryshande.

Mission

Hired to do a stop the endless winter which is still in the far north and has been for 18 months now, which has caused a number of people to flee south to warmer climates and the law level in the area is degrading as well as the larger than normal number of animal attacks.

Pay

10k each plus bonuses

Notes

This is a follow on adventure from Trouble in the Spine

Scribe Notes

Keliserae
Mistress of the Western Web,
Station Head: Brastor, sentient humanoid section.
Greetings Lady,
Our infiltration of the Western Kingdom proceeds apace. As I have mentioned to my handler, the much admired and deeply missed 4^th poisoner, Atropos Nightsinger, as a consequence of committing myself to the contracts of the Adventurer's Guild, I have acquired some little training in their arcane arts. Even as I pen this missive, my capabilities increase and my power waxes with the passing of each season to the greater glory of the Saenath nation, may the abdomen of the Great Mother swell.
My host has taken a contract north of where I lair, a place called Bryshande, which is run by a local lord whose rank is "baron". I refer you to my previous communication (a miserable and poorly-written message, I cover myself in humility to bring it to your most penetrant attention, knowing that you will immediately deduce that he owes fealty to another of higher rank). As it happens, on a previous contract, my host had managed to establish certain paths of a mystic nature such that he could readily travel there. I opined that, aside from ease of travel there and back again, further inroads into the local infrastructure might be possible.
The messenger sent by the baron is a squire by the name of Michael. As I have mentioned in my previous scrivenings, the Ice Queen is active, and in the area, winter has continued unabated, hindering trade and traffic, quite aside from making it difficult to live there. Indeed, a fort we had taken from frost giants, snow goblins and winter wolves, has fallen back into the hands of the Ice Queens forces and, it seems that some three hundreds of humanoids have died.
And, upon mention of death, Lady, I wonder if you have given thought to the recently vacated position of 4^th Poisoner? I draw your attention to my maturing abilities and loyalty to the Great Mother, may Her abdomen increase.
However, to return to the information at hand, the Ice Queen has caused an enormous and apparently hollow block of ice to encase the fort, and, perhaps more alarming, roughly half of the three hundreds slain have risen after death, and, perhaps, indicates necromancy. In yet more alarming news, Lady, we discovered that a "wedding" between an ice princess called "Hnoss" and a Lord of Death called "Eurynomos" is planned. We await further intelligence to decide if these are extra-planar entities, but it may please you to note that we have this as a result of a frost giant unfortunate enough to have been interrogated. Alive, presumably.
One of my host's companion is a human by the name of Everan, who has some passing expertise in interfering with the dead. He also claims to know how to use libraries, although he failed to gather anything of value from local ones so went to look at one the elves (a humanoid with significantly enhanced life expectancy) owned. This involved traveling to Alfheim, and upon doing so, researched the names Hnoss, Eurynomos and Frostfel. Yes, mistress, I know. I have absolutely no idea where that name came from, but according to the necromancer, that is what he did. It turns out that Hnoss is a reference to a Lady Volkfangr, that there is an ice queen by the name of Froja, who was or is a goddess of love, war, death and ice.
It is possible that Everan garnered the name from Vidal, a dragon of his acquaintance, who claims that the untimly death of Casca, the daughter of a king, will negatively affect his own plans, and he advises the necromancer to look for a red door famed in gold. This, apparently, will open to provide something useful. He goes on to say that a statis weapon (sic) was involved at the point of the previous encounter. Once again, the generosity of dragons leave us breathless.
On a more prosaic note, my host discovered that mystic travel to Kanstyn and Course was entirely possible, but not to Bryshande, where there was some kind of resistance. We decided not to push the issue, since we were only intending to get information at the moment. Instead, we interviewed his local contacts.
And so it is, Lady, that I would like to expand upon an observation that I have previously made. I know this information strikes against all that is decent and honourable, but it is clear, Lady, that my host engages in coition with his contacts on every occasion that the opportunity presents, and yet emerges with every appearance of life. Indeed, he seems quite enlivened. I know, great Lady, deeply unnatural, but it is, as I say, completely true. I have taken samples and made measurements. I forward my findings to you under separate cover that the matter may be investigated by those better able to draw the appropriate conclusions.
In any case, as a consequence of talking to his contacts, we discovered that

a group of some two hundreds of refugees were attacked on their way south by a pack of arctic wolves supported by snow goblins near the mountain, and as they neared Kanstyn, another pack of local wolves.

there are five other adventuring groups in the area, from Freetown, Sanctuary, Tac, the Gattar Depression and Adjepbar, each group containing a couple of support mages and an attack caster. It seems that the team from the Gattar Depression was the only one not to worship the local "doxies".

As I uncover more, Lady, I shall send it on. If you have any intelligence that you deem wise to pass on to me, I remain
Your obedient servant,
Hemlock Blackfang, 5^th Poisoner

Places visited and Locations looted

• Bergelfen
• Alfheim
  • Winter Garden
  • Erlangene, home of The_University

Mil Sci

Watch Order

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
Aloysious		Haedric				Raseri				Aloysious
Everan			Lyric			Heddi			Mayhem

Skirmish Formations (Front)

Default 1 2 3 4 5 6

Double File 1 2 3 4 5 6

Single File 1 2 3 4 5 6

Long Duration Buffs

Magic	Rk	Effects	Dur	Ft / Day	Al	Ev	Ha	Ly	My	Rs	He
Resist Cold	9	+3 Temp Gauge, -4 Cold Dmg.	5.5 hrs	1 Ft	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Witchsight	13		7 hrs	1 Ft	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
...	..	...	...	...	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
...	..	...	...	...	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Short Duration / Situational Buffs

Magic	Rk	Effects	Dur	Ft / Cast	Al	Ev	Ha	Ly	My	Rs	He
Vapour Breathing	6		3.5 hrs	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Ice Traversal	12	4 targets, +5 tmr over level ice/snow.	4h 20m	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Featherfall	6		3.5 hrs	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
...	..	...	...	...	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Calendar

Spring: Thaw 819 (10)
	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
	28		29		30		1		2		3		4
Spring: Seedtime 819 (11)
	5		6		7		8	Rites of Thunor	9		10		11
	12		13		14		15	Equinox	16		17	Eostre	18
	19		20		21		22		23		24		25
	26		27		28		29		30		1		2
Spring: Blossom 819 (12)
	3		4		5		6		7		8		9
	10		11		12		13		14		15		16
	17		18		19		20		21	Floralia	22		23
	24		25		26		27		28		29		30	Walpurgisnacht