The Second Age - Session 2

Onsday 15th Zeptambor, Year 599

Having eliminated the bandits, our brave heroes without a name (yet!), sat down and chilled a bit, pondering their next move, while healing up. Velkin took a walk around (not inside) the Castle of Flames, looking for perhaps a cave or something else of interest. He soon came running back, having spotted 4 bandits returning from the hunt with a deer.

Our heroes hid in camp, ready to ambush. When they (the bandits) were close enough, Amul charged in, swinging his fullblade with fury. What at first seemed like a walk-over, turned out to be lethal. A few lucky strikes and both Amul and Garel-kai found themselves unconscious, hovering on death's door. Luckily for them, Tokiel's chose that moment to really get in gear and show the bandits just how powerful a sorcerer's magic is, killing almost all of the remaining
bandits, with the last one fleeing quicker than you do before an angry Red Dragon...

On the bandits the heroes found a treasure map.

After that fun-filled incident, the party decided to not stick around. It might be too dangerous, what if more bandits returned. Velkin and Amul got the idea to disguise their tracks and numbers, and then they all left with the mules and wagons, heading east back to Fallcrest. Or rather, heading east right into the woods, stopping once out of sight to rest, because several were pretty beat up by now, and they had no desire to navigate the big and rather dangerous Silent
Forest at anything less than full strength.

Velkin found them a suitable place to rest and hide, and they crashed for the rest of the day, talking about the treasure map and what it meant. Nothing happened during the night either, and at first light, the heroes continued.

Torsday 16th Zeptambor, Year 599

Most of the next day was uneventful. They traveled east for the whole day, until they were tired. Velkin found them another spot to rest, and after some food, the party crashed for the night, electing to guard-duty in two's.

During the night, they were approached by a Unicorn whose corner of forest they were now in. It wanted to know what they were doing there, but they convinced it that they were merely passing through with some merchant wares, and that they meant no harm to the forest. Rather flabbergasted of having met a real Unicorn, they completely forgot to ask it's name before it was gone.

The next day they continued east, with Velkin on point. Around midday, he suddenly heard some arguing in an unknown language. Stealthing ahead of the others, he found 4 goblins arguing (over something) over the body of a human. An attempt to lure them into a trap failed, and Velkin suddenly found himself running back to the others, with 4 howling goblins on his heals.

The goblins fought in an uncharacteristically disciplined way, using their shields to cover for each other, but little good did that do. Our heroes killed them all the same, although one (Velkin) was down and counting.

After the fight, they continued so quickly they completely forgot to check what the body was.. aah, being a newbie again ;)

Later, towards sunset, as they were approaching civilized lands, they ran into Robin the ranger, who was out hunting goblins and kobolds. They had a little talk with him, but soon moved on, making it to Fallcrest late evening.

Before heading to bed, they went and finished their business with Amara, each getting paid 100 gold pieces for their hard work. They inquired whether she had more work for them, but she said that if they wanted to work, they should talk to the Lord Warden. With the multiple goblin and kobold attacks and with zombies and skeletons running wild in Fallcrest a couple of nights ago, surely the Lord Warden had something they could do.

They decided to get some sleep and headed back to their "rooms" at the Lucky Gnome Taphouse.

Freeday 17th Zeptambor, Year 599
After having only slept a couple of hours, Velkin awoke in the middle of the night to the screams of a woman, coming from outside on the street. He looked out the window and saw a skeleton who had ripped out a rib and was using said rib to bore into the chest of a woman.

Yelling for the others to wake up, Velkin opens a window and tosses some magic at the skeleton. Kavaki jumps out of the bed, graps weapon and shield, and jumps out through the window, pulling with him the window frame. But out he got, and between the two of them, the skeleton soon died. But it was too late to save the woman. The others arrived, and they headed out into town to find out whether there were more instances of undeads slaying defenseless victims. But having to wait for the armor-wearers to put on armor cost some time, and by the time they got to the square, the skeletons and zombies had all been slain. They tried to track the undead, but lost the tracks around the bluffs. They figured the undead had come from the crypts built in the bluff, and returned to bed, as they could not find any more clues.

Lordday 18th Zeptambor, Year 599
Once awake, Velkin and Kavasi headed to visit the wizard in his tower, in order to get identified the new staff of Velkin. But no one was home. After that, the party headed up to see the Lord Warden. He accepted their help, and told them they could either go after kobolds, goblins or handle undead in town. They decided to spend a night laying in ambush near the crypts, in order to perhaps catch a skeleton or two. Or maybe the evil necromancer they think is behind the undead attacks.

Night came, and the heroes hid, waiting for something to happen. Suddenly Velkin spotted some shadowy figures in the middle of a break-in. The thieves (all but one) were attacked and slain inside the house, and as they prepared to turn the last one in, he offered them something better. He told that weird things were happening in the thieves' guild, that a woman called Mistress Adele had taken over the guild, controlling almost everyone with the help of magic. He also told that one of the guild's hideout was in the deserted Moonsong Temple. For this information, he was let go, before the guards arrived.

Sonday 19th Zeptambor, Year 599
The next morning, the heroes packed their bags and headed out, aiming to find the pesky kobolds who had attacked the farms several times within the week. They easily found the tracks and followed them into the forest, to the Jade River. The followed the river and the tracks downstream, where there was a possibility of passage. Part of a bridge was still standing, but in order to get to and from the bridge, there was a lot of jumping from rock to rock. As they were almost over the river, 5 kobolds came out of the woods. They had been hiding, waiting for the right moment. Battle started, and it soon proved to be a precarious situation. Velkin was unable to get from rock to rock without help, so he was stuck out on the bridge, 45 feet from land. The others were trying to get to land, but they were assaulted by gluepots and many other things from the kobolds' slings. Kavasi was seconds from dying for good and Garel-kai was in a rough place as well, but, as often before, the heroes managed to get the upper hand at the end.