Pre-session
Since Tom decided to leave the dungeon we needed a replacement, which happened to be gerben, he’s going to play a socialite zenith. I needed to write tom’s character out of the game, but I wanted to keep stark, since I don’t want to make another party NPC. This session the players are going after the cause of a curse in the village Oakdale in the Dale Kingdoms, the travel towards the kingdom will take about a week.
Session
The players went back through the portal and went outside, they found barduk’s army where it belonged, but The bronze Pioneers mercenary company from nexus, which a scout of the army noticed crossing the river, arrived at this location too. They thought Barduk’s army were the bandits of blackedge they were send to eliminate, meanwhile Hypo got a letter by an artifact bird, from the watcher which had some very private information, which hypo didn’t disclose to the rest of the people, even Stark was left behind. Meanwhile, Gerben’s character, also got a message of a messenger and arrived in the city, after some information gathering, which included the fact that a part of the floor of the inn had a hole. He walked towards the valley and found a meeting of both the leaders of the companies. The other captain was a seasoned dragonblood and Barduk allowed him to inspect his army to verify their were not bandits from blackedge. After a few talks and after everything was rectified, Gerben was allowed in the party and they moved towards oakdale. Docjeni with his relay horse method went faster and was first, meanwhile the rest encountered a guild merchant with panda-people slave, which freekjan didn’t particulary like, but he couldn’t really convince the guildmerchant to release or treat his slaves better. Docjeni, arriving at oakdale found a barren ground, which was clearly cursed, no crops would grow on it, and entering the city he found the contact person Phil, who explained that the forgotten god put a curse on the Dale kingdoms and that it was Elsdale’s turn to undergo the curse, but since the leaders of elsdale struck a deal with the god, the forgotten god targeted oakdale. Elsdale was a sucky town which were very aggressive lately and wanted to own the other towns. There was a new guy in town that said the right words and knew what was happening to the town and explained everything, he is called righteous song and he was speaking to the population right now. Investigating, Docjeni saw the person speak to about 1000 people, since nobody had anything to do with the bad crops. The person was clearly speaking to create a hatred against the Elsedalers. Since docjeni said something bad he was chased by some of the crowd and rode out of the town with his horse. He met up with the rest of the party and they decided to investigate during the day, they had a talk with Righteous Song, and the mayor and it seemed like Righteous song had visions from gods and something about his facts was not right, like the fact that he found a letter in another destroyed town 20 years ago, completely intact. The players went on to investigate where the god of the city had been and entered his sanctum with help of a priestess. They were attacked by skeleton hands and escaped into the sanctum. In the sanctum they fired a trap and the priest and Stark were trapped, before they were freed the priestess was dying but our healer stabilized her.
After session
First session with gerben, although I had some problems with his immediate animosity with our dawncaste, before they even met, I think the character will l work out fine if he plays it more. I had to push the characters in the right direction of the god’s sanctum by sending the priest to them instead of them going to the priestess to talk, but that’s ok.
