Dark Age of Eracost Session 21

From my perspective playing Fingol.

Party

• Baron Fingol Innes, Navgarine Keeper of the Stars 5

• Kilosz the Cataphract, Fighter 3

• Tavenna, Navgarine Keeper of the Stars 3

• Iazhir, Dragonman 2

• Ranenno, Forester-Bard 1

• Saporobir Caan, Explorer 4

• Bartosz, Fighter 2

• Arananno, Navgarine Battlemage 1

• Ransolnan, Navgarine Battlemage 1

• Karmrakir, Tratkean Thief 4

• Nalin, Assassin 1

• Gregosz, Fighter 1

• Baron Gregoire, Paladin 3

Recap

Oct 14, 427

Fingol, Gregoire and Karm visited Earl Ilcarion. After some discussion about our adventures, we told him about the threat of the Unpledged in Amtolosz and offered to take care of them for him. In exchange, we agreed upon a delay of 4 months in the levying of tribute upon our barony in the east. Karm attempted to argue that more land should be part of the deal but the Earl didn’t agree.

Fingol picked up the monster parts stored at his cottage.

Oct 15

On the way to Vigilant Keep, we stumbled upon a shortcut in the wilderness, speeding our trip. We then ran into some bandits on the road. They should’ve known who they were dealing with. Fingol goaded them by demanding a show of fealty to himself as the local baron, and they drew swords. They were blasted apart by lightning with scarcely a blow stuck. As a show of extreme force to discourage further banditry in his lands (and make a bit of coin), Fingol and Tavenna carved out the bandits’ hearts and put them in metamphorae for potion ingredients. A barony forged in the blood of brigands and traitors against all lawful civilization… yes, that sounded good in Fingol’s ears.

Oct 16

Fingol inspected Vigilant Keep and her new guard. Finding the fortress in good order he paid a bonus to the mercenaries and stored his newly acquired goods in the workshop.

Oct 17

Returned the Amtolosz using the shortcut. Karm had remained behind, plotting with the Unpledged - he had convinced them to join in an attack against the heaven-daughters, but planned to double cross them. Together we informed the earl of the planned ambush.

Oct 18

Having some time before the planned attack, we set out to explore the navgarine city where Esquire had once slain a dragon. In the forests, we happened upon a hidden location - a shallow canyon encircled by rocky cliffs, but we decided it was not close enough to the dungeon for our camp.

Oct 19

Entered the ancient city of Blessed River and explored a round tower which we hadn’t entered before. We encountered no enemies except 8 giant rats, and in the center, totally unprotected, was what appeared to be the rumored staff! A long wooden staff with a metallic rod and crystal tip was held by an old dusty corpse lying on the ground. A plinth held the inscription:

“He who mistakenly ventures into this place, let him only take this staff in his direst need.”

Completely undeterred, we took the staff.

Exploring further, we found a hole in the floor leading to a basement.

Strategic Overview

Experience

Reserve xp: 346

Fingol Keeper 5         14961 / 29120

Kilosz Fighter 3         7070 / 8000

Tavenna         Keeper 3         5517 / 7280

Iazhir Dragonman 2 4338 / 5120

Ranenno         Forester-Bard 1 1778 / 1980

Domain

Vigilant Keep

Barony of 1 6-mile hex

Land value 5

Population: 86 families

Stronghold value: 60,000gp

Mercenary garrison (210gp / month):

• 10 light infantry

• 8 heavy infantry

• 6 bowmen

Notes:

• Keep contains an alchemy lab worth 4100gp

Expeditionary Force

Fingol, Tavenna, Iazhir and Ranenno on riding mules

Renenno’s Wolf

Armored War Bear

Kilosz on Medium Warhorse with backup War Mule

Animal handler with 2 hunting dogs, 5 war dogs

Baggage train of 9 draft donkeys

Mercenary squad of 5 spearmen, 3 crossbowmen

Finance

Pre session: 2062gp

expenses:

3 st. metamphora 15gp

Bonus pay to the mercenaries 100gp

gain:

none

Post session: 1947gp

Dark Age of Eracost Session 20

 From my perspective playing Fingol.

Party

• Baron Fingol Innes, Navgarine Keeper of the Stars 5

• Kilosz the Cataphract, Fighter 3

• Tavenna, Navgarine Keeper of the Stars 3

• Iazhir, Dragonman 2

• Ranenno, Forester-Bard 1

• Saporobir Caan, Explorer 4

• Bartosz, Fighter 2

• Arananno, Navgarine Battlemage 1

• Ransolnan, Navgarine Battlemage 1

• Karmrakir, Tratkean Thief 4

• Nalin, Assassin 1

• Gregosz, Fighter 1

Recap

Oct 4, 427

The party left Siaro, intending to follow up on the Magpie Men’s invitation to their hideout. The same day we reached Leverenso and put up some postings looking for a venturer (our previous venturer having become an ascetic).

Oct 5

Took the road north, passed nothing of interest except a patrol of navgarine soldiery. At night some falcons stalked the camp and Fingol ordered one of them shot, much to the disappointment of his animal-loving apprentice Tavenna.

Oct 6

We located the hideout. Met Namo, who was deep in conversation with a Roc! Karm attempted to ply his songs, but the roc pronounced them “tomfoolery,” which shook the faith of Gregosz, his so-called chosen one.

Namo filled in a few gaps in our knowledge. Contrary to what the priests in Siaro had said, Namo didn’t believe the glass ghosts were victims of the Grand Marshall’s Ordinance. Namo and Ierocain had researched together a sort of dimensional rift created by a pre-historic event called the Apprentice’s Gambit.

The Amari (valar-esque being) known as the Apprentice had attempted his own errant version of creation, leading to the formation of this rift in reality. This forced the remaining Amari to rush their creation of Illiras, leading to other problems.

Ierocain has now discovered how to create similar dimensional rifts, and has also discovered some sort of civilization outside the world our characters know. It’s from here that he has released the glass ghosts. He has also been dabbling with using the rifts to interact with the void, releasing monsters like the five specters bound in the magical vortex of his ruined academy.

All this began from a desire to stop the corruption of Gadaszin, but where Namo stopped short of dabbling in the void, Ierocain pressed on, thinking it was the only way. Namo now wishes to coordinate resistance to Gadaszin and Ierocain.

Finally, he informed us about a rumor: a holy place that remains pure in the midst of Gadaszin. He offered us the use of his workshop and library.

On the way back from Namo’s settlement, we made a valuable discovery, identified by Tavenna as over 13k worth of Tears of Nimone - a universal magic research component. Unfortunately it was 1300 st.

With our large donkey train and cart we managed to carry away 160 st of it.

Oct 7

We returned to Leverenso. In the evening, a strange elk crossed the path of Fingol and Karmrakir in the street. It spoke, saying “We are already rooted among you,” or something to that effect. A fight ensued, and the elk babbled insanely, saying it “sensed a seed among you.” We blasted it apart with lightning, as is tradition.

Waited in Leverenso to see if anyone would answer our henchman posting.

Oct 9

Fingol finished learning Wall of Thunder.

Oct 11

Left Leverenso, crossed the border to Rantal and headed south toward Amtolosz.

Oct 12

The great sheep massacre. We came across an unattended flock of sheep. Paranoid that they could be creatures of gadaszin, Sapporo and Karm began to slaughter them. A bemused Fingol watched as dozens of sheep were killed. There were no monsters. The party ate well that night.

Oct 14

Arrived in Amtolosz.

Three Avilian women were being escorted by the Keeper Racisil, who had some kind of white lines connected to their heads - a new form of natural power unknown to Fingol and Tavenna. Villagers claimed this was a blessing ceremony.

The heaven-daughters returned to a stone fortress, evidently constructed in the months we had been away.

Strategic Overview

Experience

Reserve xp: 346

Fingol Keeper 5         14916 / 29120

Kilosz Fighter 3         7048 / 8000

Tavenna         Keeper 3         5495 / 7280

Iazhir Dragonman 2 4316 / 5120

Ranenno         Forester-Bard 1 1756 / 1980

Domain

Vigilant Keep

Barony of 1 6-mile hex

Land value 5

Population: 86 families

Stronghold value: 60,000gp

Mercenary garrison (210gp / month):

• 10 light infantry

• 8 heavy infantry

• 6 bowmen

Notes:

• Keep contains an alchemy lab worth 4100gp

Expeditionary Force

Fingol, Tavenna, Iazhir and Ranenno on riding mules

Renenno’s Wolf

Armored War Bear

Kilosz on Medium Warhorse with backup War Mule

Animal handler with 2 hunting dogs, 5 war dogs

Baggage train of 7 draft donkeys

Mercenary squad of 5 spearmen, 3 crossbowmen

Dark Age of Eracost Session 19

 

Party

• Baron Fingol Innes, Navgarine Keeper of the Stars 4

• Kilosz the Cataphract, Fighter 3

• Tavenna, Navgarine Keeper of the Stars 3

• Iazhir, Dragonman 2

• Ranenno, Forester-Bard 1

• Saporobir Caan, Explorer 4

• Bartosz, Fighter 2

• Arananno, Navgarine Battlemage 1

• Ransolnan, Navgarine Battlemage 1

• Karmrakir, Tratkean Thief 3

• Nalin, Assassin 1

• Gregosz The Chosen One, 0-level man teenager

Recap

Sept 27, 427

Having returned from Ierocain’s Academy with new information, we sent out the magpie belonging to the mysterious navgarines we’d rescued - the ones we assumed were the followers of Namo. We informed Onesvir of the Heaven’s Lance Academy of everything except the map pointing to Talbruin. Onesvir wanted us to leave Ierocain’s ruin alone. He said it was simply too dangerous to deal with. Didn’t have much else to add to our discoveries.

Sept 28

We waited for the magpie men to show up, and Fingol had some copies made of the map pointing to Talbruin, figuring that the knowledge should be preserved in case the party got themselves killed. He didn’t inform the party what was done with the copies.

Magpie men didn’t show up.

Sept 29

Karmrakir spent the day down on the docks of Siaro searching for likely contacts in the Nimonuin Trade Guild. He found some sketchy looking dock workers and brokered a meeting, to take place Oct 1.

Meanwhile a strange fellow entered the tavern - not the one we were expecting. A man in a dark cloak entered and immediately quarreled with the bartender. A black blade flashed, and the bartender was murdered. The party jumped into action and quickly discovered that the man had flesh of an incorporeal, glass-like quality. Weapons and fists passed through him.

Fortunately, Fingol’s choking wind seemed to work just fine, as did Kilosz’s enchanted navgarine sword. The creature was slain, and shattered into glassy shards. Fingol collected these into metamphorae.

Nobody seemed to have an answer as to where this guy came from, so we went to the local archpriest (custodian archpriest Melankaro) and found some minimal information - this was one of the spirits caught in the Ordinance of the Grand Marshall, forced to live on earth as ghosts. We sold the ectoplasmic glass to the temple.

Sept 30

Having hit 5th level, Fingol bought two spell formulae from the Heaven’s Lance academy and began to study new techniques.

Meanwhile, Sapporo went down to the docks to attempt his own interactions with the unsavoury types of Siaro. He also managed to find some likely criminal types. First, he paid them for a rumor:

“There’s an old navgarine place out to the east. A city ruled by Isluid. He built a maze, and hid in it a powerful staff.”

This corroborated our findings in the ancient city of “Blessed River” back in sessions 7-9.

Oct 1

Karmrakir went to a secret meeting with the Trade Guild.

Fingol and Sapporo met with Alcuin of the Magpie Men. We filled him in on everything that happened, and he said they believe the Amalgam has left Navgarin. Upon hearing of the glass ghost, he was very agitated, and dropped some of his secrecy. He gave us the location of his group’s hideout - in the woods east of Sarsanduil and north of Leverenso. His master (strongly implied to be Namo) would very much like to meet us.

Oct 3

Sapporo and Bartosz went to their secret meeting.

Strategic Overview

Experience

Reserve xp: 346

Fingol Keeper 4         14697 / 14560 (advances to level 5)

Kilosz Fighter 3         6938 / 8000

Tavenna         Keeper 3         5385 / 7280

Iazhir Dragonman 2 4206 / 5120

Ranenno         Forester-Bard 1 1646 / 1980

Domain

Vigilant Keep

Barony of 1 6-mile hex

Population: 56 families

Stronghold value: 60,000gp

Mercenary garrison (210gp / month):

• 10 light infantry

• 8 heavy infantry

• 6 bowmen

Notes:

• Keep contains an alchemy lab worth 4100gp

Expeditionary Force

Fingol, Tavenna, Iazhir and Ranenno on riding mules

Renenno’s Wolf

Armored War Bear

Kilosz on Medium Warhorse with backup War Mule

Animal handler with 2 hunting dogs, 5 war dogs

Baggage train of 7 draft donkeys

Mercenary squad of 5 spearmen, 3 crossbowmen