Rock and Stone
| Rock and Stone | |
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| Date | 2024-09-21 |
| Storyteller | giantspacecatgirl |
| Tier | High Expert/Low Master |
| Player Characters | Aster, Kirrily, Sahona, Taru |
| Rewards | 200xp |
| Result | Success |
| Author | Unseelie |
| Downtime | 3 days |
Associates grudgingly assist a dwarf by killing a chimera and chasing away a medusa.
Log
First off, this isn't over yet. I fully expect we will need to return since Irena Igneous got away and certainly hasn't given up on her plans yet.
But to start at the beginning: We, Aster, Kirrily, Sahona and I, were hired to deal with kobolds who caused miners to disappear. As it (very) soon turned out, the kobolds were not to blame, but rather had been incredibly tolerant of the dwarves that invaded their home.
What rather caused the disappearances and also caused the kobolds fear was something hidden deeper in the mine that turned the miners to stone. Suspecting a basilisks we moved in following the kobolds' directions and were soon attacked by three Xorns, creatures that, according to Sahona, are not capable of turning flesh to stone. They were quickly dealt with and we pressed on.
Deeper in we found the tracks of what we assumed to be a chimera, a suspicion soon confirmed by Sahona who scouted ahead. It was a rather unusual beast, sporting the heads (and abilities) of a large yellow roc, a cave worm, and a witchwarg. Despite its fearsome appearance, it did not pose too much of a danger. Even while flying to the top of the surprisingly high cave, it could not escape Kirrily's flight and the gigantic form that Sahona took.
However, during our fight Irena Igneous, a medusa several of us have met before in a previous mission, showed herself and attempted to turn us to stone. While she did not succeed, we, in return, could not do anything against her escaping underground. We do not know what she was after, but it cannot have been anything good. Another mission will be needed to deal with the threat she poses.
However, beyond this, the expedition revealed another glaring problem: The commissions posted to associates are not properly vetted. It was our luck that Myrmyra Mightreach acted incredibly suspicious and the kobolds were willing to talk rather than their experiences driving them to defensive behaviour, otherwise we may have taken the mission as original posted and dealt with the supposed threat rather than the real one. It is clear now that Myrmyra and his miners are the invaders.
While there are no laws so far outside Onadbyr, we cannot let Associates be used to enact, essentially, banditry. To invade the homes of a peaceful tribe in the name of a money-hungry client. At the very least Myrmyra Mightreach must be blacklisted by the council, but beyond that rules must be put into place to prevent something like this from happening again. In addition I advice caution to all associates, to ensure their employers are trustworthy and the mission is, indeed, as it was stated.
Signed,
Tarina Autio, Associate of the Round Table.
| Rock and Stone Part 2: The Revengeance | |
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| Date | 10/5/24 |
| Storyteller | giantspacecatgirl |
| Tier | High Expert/Low Master |
| Player Characters | Aster, Pomba, Sahona, Taru |
| Rewards | 250xp, Boots of Bounding, 2000 gp, scrolls of Magic Passage (1x) and Liminal Doorway (1x) |
| Result | Success |
| Author | Pomba |
| Downtime | 3 days |
THE REVENGEANCE
Pomba came to hang out with Sahona in some mine that had a bunch of dwarf statues in it for some reason, and we had to clear it out for the kobolds who lived there. There was a couple of snakey looking guys and a lion with a man's head on it who told us riddles that we solved easily because we're incredibly intelligent. Every month has 28 days, everyone knows that, even Pomba! So it let us go deeper into the mine and there was a couple of medusa ladies hanging around, one told us even more riddles before leaving, and then the other one attacked us with her weird chaos creatures, but right as Pomba started to have fun wrestling some of them, Aster knocked out the Medusa in a single hit and when she got better she called off her critters so Pomba let it go. When she left we went in deeper to find a stone medusa, but Pomba thought medusas turned other people to stone and not themselves? The air in that room felt gross and Sahona got a tummy ache, and then Aster accidentally stepped on the stone medusa whose name is Irena. She's convinced to run away and fake her death some how, so we leave the gross room and start to leave, the dwarf statues gone now. The lion man was gone but the snakes were still there and attacked us, but we beat them up too. Apparently the dwarf boss was a jerk and so the kobolds sealed up the mine with explosives after we left, and when Sahona fixed the stone dwarves (who were apparently real dwarves and not just statues!), someone killed their boss.