02-18-2014, 10:33 PM
Session 3
The characters wait, wondering if attacking a tower full of orks and servants of Coot, is the wisest move. Finally, Lyanne Lyamford exists the tower and rides her horse away from the valley. The PCs give chase, but none of them can catch up with the young woman. The PCs decide that what's in the tower is more important than tracking Ms. Lyamford, at least for now.
The characters face many dangers such as a drunken ogre (who is made drunker still by a gift of a nice whiskey bottle by Baldur Wilde), a trapped treasure chamber, a ghost naga guarding a library, a minotaur geoler and an allip. They find a few friends in the person of several dwarves which they free from their cells. Through their exploration of the tower, they learn of the following:
- Caliburn Redwind was vivisecting dwarves and gnomes to figure out the secret of their magical resistance or abilities ;
- The tapestry, when in contact with a magical platinum needle, show the way to the city of the keepers of the lore of the Ancients;
- A people named The Ancients came either from the stars or from the abyssal depths of the ocean and served a being of great power.
- The Ancients saw three visions of the future and decided to leave forever, plunging into the sea.
Fortunately, they also find the platinum needle, much gold, but not much anything.
The PCs fight Caliburn Redwind and his balebourne orc lieutenant on the top of the towers, along with the dwarves and the three remaining pterodactyls, for good measure. It is a tough fight, Baldwin and Mirko go down and so does a dwarf. Baldur is grievously wounded. The orc is killed by the remaining dwarves and Redwind manage to fly away. The PCs flee from the winged beasts.
The PCs rest in Redwind's chamber. Unbeknown to them, the ogres and orcs fight one another, each blaming the other on the fact that none of their masters have shown themselves.
The PCs can safely exist the tower, using the bodies of dead orcs and ogres as bait for the pterodactyls. They stop by at a local mine operated by a gnome and several dwarves, killing the giant spider that had claim a part of the mine as its territory.
Finally, they can use the platinum needle on the tapestry in Lyamford Keep. The geometric figures on the tapestry rearrange their shape to form a map of the North and show, as a star, a location near modern-day Archlis.
The characters wait, wondering if attacking a tower full of orks and servants of Coot, is the wisest move. Finally, Lyanne Lyamford exists the tower and rides her horse away from the valley. The PCs give chase, but none of them can catch up with the young woman. The PCs decide that what's in the tower is more important than tracking Ms. Lyamford, at least for now.
The characters face many dangers such as a drunken ogre (who is made drunker still by a gift of a nice whiskey bottle by Baldur Wilde), a trapped treasure chamber, a ghost naga guarding a library, a minotaur geoler and an allip. They find a few friends in the person of several dwarves which they free from their cells. Through their exploration of the tower, they learn of the following:
- Caliburn Redwind was vivisecting dwarves and gnomes to figure out the secret of their magical resistance or abilities ;
- The tapestry, when in contact with a magical platinum needle, show the way to the city of the keepers of the lore of the Ancients;
- A people named The Ancients came either from the stars or from the abyssal depths of the ocean and served a being of great power.
- The Ancients saw three visions of the future and decided to leave forever, plunging into the sea.
Fortunately, they also find the platinum needle, much gold, but not much anything.
The PCs fight Caliburn Redwind and his balebourne orc lieutenant on the top of the towers, along with the dwarves and the three remaining pterodactyls, for good measure. It is a tough fight, Baldwin and Mirko go down and so does a dwarf. Baldur is grievously wounded. The orc is killed by the remaining dwarves and Redwind manage to fly away. The PCs flee from the winged beasts.
The PCs rest in Redwind's chamber. Unbeknown to them, the ogres and orcs fight one another, each blaming the other on the fact that none of their masters have shown themselves.
The PCs can safely exist the tower, using the bodies of dead orcs and ogres as bait for the pterodactyls. They stop by at a local mine operated by a gnome and several dwarves, killing the giant spider that had claim a part of the mine as its territory.
Finally, they can use the platinum needle on the tapestry in Lyamford Keep. The geometric figures on the tapestry rearrange their shape to form a map of the North and show, as a star, a location near modern-day Archlis.