Randir

Randir is a Firbolg

Play Notes

6/22/2019

• We move through the door which was magically locked (the puzzle was to turn off the lights!)
• We come across a man with his mouth sewn shut!
• We fight the guy (because we had no choice!) then find some scrolls and books in a chest.
  • His body has flecks of metal in it?!
• We investigate the hallway and hear chanting coming from a room. A fight breaks out!
• 5 priests (mouths sewn shut) + a big baddie show up. WE FIGHT!
• Randir turns into a badger, burrows and flanks the fight!
  • The head priest gets bit by Randir and his bark-armor gets pulled out, there are bits of metal dug into his skin beneath the bark?!
• We find
  • 4 daggers (not great)
  • Priest's Scepter
  • A bag of arcane components - the bag is dope, the components are not
  • A worn (broken?) wand in a cool sheath
  • A super ornate squarish talisman
• Randir mentions he met a blacksmith/arcanist in Leaf who was very talented with metallurgy
  • His name is Gregor McFarland
• The room we found the priests have a summoning circle in the middle. Lots of tools and implements.
  • But we also see metal fibers growing out of a pile of stones in a corner
  • Lots of rudimentary symbols and images of a spirit/deity/god below the mountain
• Randir touches some of the fibers. They're sharp, serrated even, but also springlike. And cold
• We discover some tombs in this ritual room, but decide to not disturb the dead...
• We move on and find a room with a diagram that has some working notes on it trying to figure it out
• We find the priest's room and a chest in it: Fine clothes, fine shoes, boots, ring, notebook, papers and journal
• We leave the cave... fresh air, whew
• We see a cow and a dwarf on the road, the dwarf is Stone (yes, like the rock). Randir finds this to be HILARIOUS
  • Stone lives up on he mountain at the Ember Peak Monastary, "It's a way to live. We decide to live simply."
  • He doesn't know of any gods living in the mountain, but the metal shard/grass... that seems slightly familiar.
  • People settled in this area trying to escape "the war"
  • Many monsters lived in this land... they're mostly gone, but "we don't travel much at night for a reason."
  • Two folks from the city came up the mountain, they were exploring the eastside of the peak near East Cliff

6/15/2019

• The festival is beginning
• We meet a warrior (Human) and a half-elf druid
• Randir warns the half elf about the bad monster (corrupted mountain lion)
  • Randir is very freaked out by this corruption of nature
• Before they leave to "go adventure", Randir warns the half-elf that he must heed his warning
• The half-elf gives Randir a pendant of petrified Ironwood, in the shape of a a teardrop
  • He senses some kind of power in it, but not FROM the wood.
  • He puts it on and senses a presence of home...
• We decide to head out into the mountains towards where we think the clay came from
  • We bought some poison cure and a potion of healing
• We travel for the rest of the day and rest
• In the night, Harold the Ranger shows up and let's Randir (who is on watch) that he has been investigating the caves and have marked the ones he cleared / investigated
  • He warns them about the mountain being perilous for people who are not prepared to climb
• We push into a cave, and find it worn...
• We discover a few rusted bits, but then... A SNAKE! IT'S CORRUPTED!
• We kill the snake and find some papers! And a DOOR!!!!

Side notes

• Ironwood is a holy tree in the forests for Randir
• The trees are never harvested, but instead are used when branches naturally break or lightning strikes
• Speaking to Ironwood trees is like speaking to an old wizend monk who only speaks in high metaphor
  • If you can interpret these trees well, you are something of a holy person in the forest