Session 9

Transition from Tower to Town

• We are sending a note back through the box
  • with an image of the idol
  • The note we got said: Helped Rantham. What idol?
    • Helped Rantham
      • This is a patron of the arts in Revenant
• We are about to head back to town
• We were in the tower for about 24 hours
• We return to our horses and riding at about mid-afternoon
• We stop to take a long rest
• Overnight
  • I take the first watch
    • The idol has an aura of golden magic
    • I can see it even though it is in a bag
      • (rolled a 20)
  • Lorien has the second watch
    • (also rolled a 20)
    • Sees nothing
  • Cosimo
    • Falls asleep and has some rations stolen
  • Thranely
    • Looking for the stolen rations
    • Doesn’t find anything
  • Merkin
    • Sees a faery dragon as it steals more of Cosimo’s rations

Insect riding bandit encounter

• Next morning, continue towards outwatch
  • 2 hours out (out of 4) from town
    • A man riding what seems like a large insectoid rides out in front of us
    • Has some serious weapons that have clearly been used
    • Behind us a group of bandits holding large bows pointing at us
• Merkin is trying to talk up this guy
  • He compliments his insect
  • He’s trying to lie to him about where we’ve been
  • Merkin convinces the bandit leader to take 2 gold from 3 of our party to let us pass
    • I refuse and try to intimidate
    • Merkin convinces them to let us pass
    • I’m pretty mad about not being able to fight, but we move on
    • Merkin convinced them that were were lost in the woods for a long time even though we matched the description
• We’re taking it slow down the road with two members flanking in the forest
  • We end up in a fight with the bandits
  • Thrainli binds them up in grass, many fall of their horse
  • We basically kick the shit out of the group and kill the leader and many try to run away
  • I loot the corpse of the leader
    • I find 12 gold plus the letter
  • I take parts of the ankheg carapace to make into bracers
• We try to interrogate the bandits we captured
  • They say they were hired but don’t have information
  • They think a rich brat hired them
• We send them back to Bobnut to work for him
  • We call them the icicles
• We also get a sketch of the person who hired the bandits

Returning to Town

• We slowly make our way back to town
• We start to see more people on the roads
• No inns
• We find an out of the way area to camp
• Thrainli and Merkin head to camp to get stuff
• Merkin comes back with a pearl
  • Casts identify on the statue
• Thrainli finds out the sketch is of the Baron’s nephew

Statue Information (after identify)

• Heavy, glowing
• Holy statue
• Very old
• Doesn’t match the gods we know
• Goddess of healing and light
  • Fae ish magic
  • Seen through a distorted mirror
• Get the feeling that this is an object designed to heal
• Spell equivalent of something like greater heal
  • Can probably be used once per day

Returning to talk to the Baron

• As we go up the road toward the castle and knock on the gate we are greeted by a guard
• 10 minutes pass and the gate is opened by the manservant who arranged everything
• He asks if we were followed…we tell him they are dead
• We hear a pair of feet dashing down the hallway
  • It’s the baron’s nephew
    • He asks us for the idol to give to his uncle
    • We are refusing
    • He orders us to give him whatever we were supposed to give to his uncle
    • Nephews name is Claudius
    • We pin down Claudius
    • The guards come and decide to take us to the Baron to settle things
• We get to the Baron’s room with a person we assume is the Baron
  • He’s dressed in plate armor
    • With the helmet
  • Baron laboriously walks towards us
  • Buzzing overtones to his voice
  • I hand him the statue
  • He asks who has the sack on his head
  • We reveal it to be Claudius
  • Manservant tells us to leave the guards
    • He closes the door behind us
• We follow the manservant and the Baron
  • There is a room that is emptied out the middle
  • And there is a ritual on the floor
  • Various objects in a circle
  • Baron puts the statue in the at a point in the circle and stands across from it
  • Manservant picks up an old tome and starts to put together some ritual
  • Merkin helps to do the ritual since he knows healing magic better
  • A deep pulsing sense of relief is felt and then magic is channeled into the Baron
  • The Baron breathes deeply and looks perfectly normal and healthier
  • Says he owes us a great debt
  • We help him get the armor off
  • He doesn’t stick anymore
  • Baron asks us to keep the info in confidence that we talk about
    • Info
      • Baron has been getting sicker and sicker
      • Felt his body changing and bones shaping
      • Felt like he was morphing rather than dying
      • Baron will take care of the problem of his nephew
    • We ask about Rantham
      • We ask for an introduction
      • We ask about other objects in the tower
        • We don’t get much information
      • I ask if we can keep the idol
        • Somewhat reluctant to give it us
          • We can use it whenever we wish
    • Rewards
      • Manservant is to take us to the armory and we can pick one thing
      • I take a hungering mace and pay to have it converted to a great axe