Randir

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7/31/2021

  • We enter the room with the noon-day sunlight
  • The whole room's ceiling is gone
  • In the middle of the room, there's an enormous pile of oversized kindling.... aka a nest
  • It smells nice but there's a putrid smell... a dead wyvern
    • A pretty big wyvern
  • There's a bunch of scattered feather... some longer than we are tall
  • Randir sees scattered pieces of metal and glass...
    • The glass looks like it's pieces from a bowed disc
    • The glass looks worn
    • The glass and metal were originally part of something HUGE
  • Ulertu reads some runes, they mention "The Black Sky"
    • The Giant King (from a previous session) opposed the Black Sky
  • Ulertu finds a locked box and uses a key he's been holding on to since before this gang got together
  • Inside the box
    • A cloth pinned to a piece of metal, an ororoboros sigil on the cloth
    • A Clutch of Letters
      • The letters seem to be correspondence between three parties???
        • Someone is trying to investigate the glyphs here
        • There two runes on a letter, a sigil for the Black Sky and an arcane lock
        • The last letter mentions "people camping in the woods" aka US
    • A small stone that looks very worn / handled
      • A Stone of Good Luck (+1 to saves, +1 to ability scores)
    • A Scroll Tube
    • Inside, a scroll of Daylight
  • Ulertu gives Randir the Stone of Luck (aka a Luckstone)
  • Theo gives Randir the scroll of Daylight
  • Theo and Randir go to investigate the nest
    • Why does this bird stay here? Is this bird super duper natural?
    • There isnt anything magically enhanced here
    • There's a strong thrumming of magic coming from the rock slab nearby that Ulertu read from
    • The bed of the nest is very soft and cool from grass settled in the base of it
  • Pallas passes over a feather
    • 8ft long
  • Randir surmises that this bird is going to have a wingspan in the triple digits
  • We ponder the magic coming from the tablet / rock slab
    • Is it keeping the bird here?
    • Is the bird guarding the slab?
  • Theo does some DIVINE SENSE on this bad boy
    • The air becomes sharp and crisp as Theo pushes his will out to the stone
    • Theo sees images of Giants performing magic on this stone sometime in the past
    • The power in this stone isn't good or evil, but it is protective
  • We perform a ritual to remove the power from the tablet
    • CHARISMA SAVING THROWS
    • An explosion of light and energy and power washes over uses
  • Suddenly, Randir is in the woods... the sun is setting
    • It reminds him of home... it's not his forest but it feels like home
    • There's a fragrence of life
    • The pendant of petrified iron feels like it's moving under his shirt
    • He pulls it out to look at it... it feels warm like it's full of life but looks black, void black
      • The pendant begins to change, the heart of the wood becomes... seeable, feelable. It's glowing
    • The wood is more stone than wood, but life comes in anything
    • The orange power blossoms from within...
    • Randir sees a moment coming where there is danger, Randir (or one of his friends) are in danger
      • A calamity befalls them
    • But Randir KNOWS how to prevent this from happening
  • Jump back to Theo and Pallas and Ulertu...
  • Similar bits happen to Ulertu, Theo simply sees us blink away
  • Back in the real world, Randir's Pendant is now amber and speckled with starlight
    • It's a Stone of Fates
  • Everyone gets some goodies
  • Theo saw the magic of the tablet dissipate
    • He's confidence anyone in the area also saw this happen
  • AND THEN THE BIRD APPEARS ON THE HORIZON
  • Don't worry, Randir just turns into a Giant Eagle and Ulertu elarges him
    • Ulertu and Theo get on his wings, Pallas gets into a claw
  • WE FLY
  • Ulertu and Randir use some BRAND new abilities to MAX OUT THIS ROLL
    • DC 25??? MORE LIKE WE ROLLED A 26 and get to the ground, saving everyone
    • But the Eagle tears at Randir as the giant eagle
  • Randir pops back to himself but is still grappled by the eagle
  • END OF SESSION


6/26/2021

  • We head into the cave
  • We try to sneak around some lizards..
  • BUT IT'S A BIG FIGHT
  • RANDIR GET'S SWALLOWED WHOLE
  • But we survive
  • We head onward but discover a scroll in a small alcove (there's a +1 dagger and 5gp 3cp)
  • It seems some folks writing in elven say that they want to protect the tower and the giant eagle....
  • Pallas finds ash and asks, "Could this have to do with the assassins from last night?"
  • Shiiit. It might.
  • Pallas asks, "Should we destroy this place?"
    • Theo: "If it has to do with my father, then yes."
  • We gotta see why the Order of the Dragon has to do with this place
  • We head out of the cave, upward
  • We pass through a hole in a wall where a slab of stone used to sit
  • We enter the tower....
  • A huge circular room... looks like it may be made for giants.
  • We take a short rest (and get some HP + spells back)
  • In our rest, we look around a bit.
    • Climbing the stairs here is gonna be a bit tough
    • The large door of this room heads to a building attach to a building at the base of to tower
  • The only ways out of this room seem to be:
    • Through the big door
    • Repelling down the side of the building
    • Back through the cavern
    • Up the stairs
  • So we head up the stairs that are very worn (just from time)
  • We make our way up the stairs... BARELY
  • We get to a cracked door, the light of noon-day sun shining through
  • We squeeze through... and we're in the highest room of the tower
  • END SESSION

6/2/2021

  • We wake up and decide to set a bunch of traps for the giant eagle
  • A pit + magical plant growth (Randir)
  • A fire-bomb ewok-style trap (Theo)
  • A crossbow trap with 20 bolts (20d6) (Ulertu)
  • We sleep again and wake before dawn
  • Pallas noticed splashing in the night, Randir (as a badger) goes to investigate
  • He sees tracks but can't figure out to what, some sort of large, stinky lizard
  • We head to the tower with Pass without Trace
  • We come to an underbrush and Randir notices the same smell he noticed from the stinky lizard... and a huge impact as if something fell from high above
  • We figure something was dragged in to an opening under the tower...
  • We look into the opening and see that it eventually slopes down to water
  • Ulertu notices some bits noted on the walls written in "Academic Cant"
    • To go up, go down
    • The notes are above
  • Randir says, "nah, let's do waterwalk"
    • Cast as a ritual
  • Pallas gives us a little boost and we see a large reptile
  • It slips into the water
  • Theo knows that we're in a lizard den...
  • And the session ENDS

5/8/2021

  • The townsfolk show up to the end of the fight and Kass tells us we should chat
  • She suggests we go off to the tower without her
  • Randir suggests that we try to reason with the eagle...
  • She says it might be possible... but good luck
    • If it does come to blows, she tells us that we should plan with some traps
    • She's dropped some traps in the area already
  • Randir knows (after some thinking) that reasoning with this GARGANTUAN eagle might not be possible
  • He suggests surveying the area tomorrow as a beast
  • Ulertu reads a cool book that he has
    • An old Giant had a rookery of fuckin eagles!?
  • We get to the ruins and seek out Kass' trap materials
  • Randir turns into an elk and investigates the area, heading toward the lake
    • Randir sees footsteps walking along the beach
  • We camp for the night and then we get JUMPED
  • We blast these dudes to hell but we leave one alive
  • Turns out these dudes work for Theo's dad
  • This dude only wants to talk to Theo, so Ulertu and Randir walk away a bit
  • This guy believes humanity is not permitted in the world
    • The older races shape everything and control the lesser races
    • "Even the gods seek our demise"
    • The Order of the Dragon is a promise/will to show the older races that we are capable
    • Their goal is to make a mark on the world like the old races did
    • Not as individuals but as a people
    • They want to create a place for humanity
    • "As long as the empress lives, humanity will not be able to choose their own destiny."
  • Theo kills the dude.
  • We ask a lot of questions about... everything in the world
  • There is a silence in the forest a long while
  • Theo's dad is a bad dude. Pallas vows to stand by Theo if it means bringing that man to justice.
  • We rest. Phew.
  • AND WE LEVEL UP

4/3/2021

  • We make our way towards a village on the trail
    • The sign we see reads: Fennel Ridge
  • The village is around the widened river we've been following
  • A woman with a boat pulls himself across the river to us using a slack line
    • She has a raven on her shoulder
    • Her name is Kass and she's a Ranger
  • Randir tells her that we ran into some Drakes up river
  • She seems a little concerned and asks if she needs help can she call on us
    • Randir is MORE than willing to offer their help
  • We walk into town and see everyone gathered near the tavern, a huge party kind of thing is going on. Everyone is eating and having a good time.
  • We meet Lang, he's a little confused by us
  • Turns out he runs the [Something Cabbage]
  • Dude's impressed by Theo's armor
  • Turns out two Order of Truth guys came through Fennel Ridge not too long ago
    • Young guy, blue skin
    • Big man, pointy teeth
    • Ulertu knows these folks
    • They were heading north
  • Two other cloaked individuals came through as well
    • Nursing injuries, paid in full, left the next morning
  • Could those two dudes be League of Assassin dudes???
    • OH SHIT THEY MIGHT BE
  • We do some canoodling in the town, folks seem to like us
  • The two dudes had gone to see some nearby ruins
    • The Lonely Tower
    • The river opens to a lake, and the Lonely Tower is nearby
  • Lang says there's a beast that hangs out in the Lonely Tower
  • Lang says some odd things have been happening since the two dudes came through
    • Kass says there were footprints that folks should be on the lookout for...
  • We talk to Kass
    • She tells us about beasts that have been attacking... maybe Wyverns?
  • We ask about the Lonely Tower
    • There might be a GIANT EAGLE in the tower?
  • We decide to sleep, we'll meet Kass tomorrow
  • We walk the village in the morning
  • And then some dude comes running into town, something's attacked a farmer
  • We get to this farm, and there's fuckin drakes and goddamn wolves
  • They're attacking Lang who came to get fooD!!!
  • WE FIGHT
  • A WYVERN SHOWS UP
  • IT ALMOST GETS AWAY
  • KASS KILLS IT
  • AND A FUCKIN GIANT EAGLE SNAGS IT OUT OF THE AIR AND FLYS WEST
  • It's heading to a dark spindle.... The Lonely Tower

3/28/2021

  • The flames pouring down these statues become two spectral figures made of ETHEREAL FLAME
  • WE FIGHT
    • More spectral creatures show up
    • Randir loses some permanent HP (long rest will fix)
  • Thank the gods for Moonbeam and a Paladin
  • After the fight, Randir's sword is still slightly vibrating
  • What else lies here?
  • We walk for a bit and find another room
  • There is a seal on a rock... on the ground
  • We investigate
  • Randir medidtaes and casts Detect Magic as a ritual
    • He sees into the "magical ethereal realm of magic"
  • He hears a voice, sad, "Free me...."
  • Randir pushes, "Why?"
  • "I have been trapped here for so long, please release me..."
  • Randir breaks from his trance and tells Ulertu and Theo what he heard
    • He believes whatever is being held by this seal is trapped, chained by the magic
  • We decide tobreak the seal and free the spirit
  • AND THEN THE PLACE STARTS TO CRUMBLE
  • Randir casts Haste on everyone
  • We manage to make it out alive
    • Thanks Haste!
  • We run out of the collapsing hillside
  • Pallas is very confused
  • We head over to a creek to rest
  • Pallas says, "Perhaps you releasing this power was releasing something back to nature itself..."
  • Randir ponders on this, "This power was great... larger than a creek, a bird... something... " He can't find a way to describe it
  • We think on this for a while
  • Randir feels a breeze and notices a type of reed he can use to make into upgraded armor
    • His focus on this is peaceful and intent on the task
  • A small white fin swims up the river and JUMPS OUT AND ATTACKS Randir
  • FUCK
  • We kill two of these monsters... and there is silence.
  • They were drakes
    • They served larger, greater serpents
  • Ulertu knows that the Giants bent the lesser serpents to their will
  • There have been rumors from the rangers that they need to deal with monsters like this...
    • Remember the dude in White Tree?
  • We figure out that if there's two here... there's probably more.
  • Pallas heals us a little
  • Pallas also notes that there is a town near by. Perhaps we should head there
  • We pack up and head toward the town on our horses as the sun sets
  • AND WE LEVEL UP (7)

2/13/2021

  • We run off of the street knowing the city guard would be after us for killing two of the monks
  • We take a short rest
  • Randir makes a promise that he will see those monks die by his hand
  • He's not sure if they can continue with the Cinder Root Trio...
  • but we need to tell Bell and Dove what happened, at least
  • We head back to the inn... sneakily. Trying to avoid the guard.
  • We go back to the inn where Elena died
  • We sneak in and find a notebook on Elena's person
    • She's been tracking these weapons being brought into the city (as she said)
    • She was following up on the containers
  • She was investigating the Shipping guild
    • She was looking for a dude for Avadon Mar
      • This is the dude we kind fought when we FIRST got to the city
    • But Avadon Mar isn't the head honcho. She was looking for his boss.
  • She scribbled the sigil of House Grey
    • Also within that sigil is a serpent??
    • The serpent resembles dragons of olde (in a circle like an Ouroboros)
      • Ulertu knows more about this
  • We take Elena's body back to the Cinder Root Trio
    • There's a montage of emotions, fading to us on a hill on the North side of the city.
    • We give Elena a proper burial, there's a lot of crying
  • They're going to bring Elena back to the Cinder Root
  • Randir refuses to travel with the Bell and Dove as they head back to the Cinder Root
    • He's clearly very upset about Elena's death but he pushes them away claiming they need to do bigger things and doesn't want to endanger them
  • Dove presses a locket into his hand, a locket that Elena wore.
    • Randir weeps as he hugs Bell, and he apologizes...
    • In his mind he's crying he's thinking about Theo and how he came back and why Elena didn't and why did this happen and why now and why not her and...
    • Bell leaves him with parting words, "There will be times when you feel alone, but someone is there."
  • We leave the city on horseback
  • Theo and Randir talk
    • Theo tells about his past... which is... dark.
  • Randir gives a speech about how strange it is who you connect to and who connects to your life... He's overwhelmed with emotion.
    • Fuckin hell, Randir is very emotional about the people of this world
    • "The forest is all ebb and flow in life, but in the civilized world... there's something different." Life is more precious to him here.
  • We make our way to the Sunfields
    • This is the place where the Great Emperor was first injured and his blood was spilled
    • Takes a few days to cross through the Sunfields
  • OH and Pallas is with us
  • We come across a very angular, not-natural looking, 40ft+ tall, grass covered... thing?
  • Randir casts Detect Magic as a ritual
  • Ulertu climbs the hill thing?? He gets to the top and it's weirdly flat.
  • Randir detects Conjuration magic.
  • Ulertu digs down about 2 feet and finds solid stone
  • Ulertu and Theo hammer into the stone and.... fall into the space within the obelisk thing
    • Randir warned them...
  • Randir creates a climbing rope to get down to meet Ulertu and Theo
    • He stabs a javelin into the ground and ties a rope to it
  • This place is full of old, crumbling carpets and niceties
  • Ulertu thinks this either a home or a tomb for a giant.
  • We travel into the tomb futher, Ulertu finds some text:
    • "Here lies Lord Dobvir, King of the Sunfields, he who faced the black sky"
  • A feeling of unease rushes over us as we see some sort of movement in the eyes of these huge statues...
  • The Amber Blade begins to shake.. he unsheathes it and it gives off a soft amber glow.
    • Randir remembers: "This blade is of the mountain"
  • As Randir looks up at the eyes, dark flames POUR out of the eyes of the statues......... FILLING THE CAVERN
  • UH OH

2/13/2021

  • We run off of the street knowing the city guard would be after us for killing two of the monks
  • We take a short rest
  • Randir makes a promise that he will see those monks die by his hand
  • He's not sure if they can continue with the Cinder Root Trio...
  • but we need to tell Bell and Dove what happened, at least
  • We head back to the inn... sneakily. Trying to avoid the guard.
  • We go back to the inn where Elena died
  • We sneak in and find a notebook on Elena's person
    • She's been tracking these weapons being brought into the city (as she said)
    • She was following up on the containers
  • She was investigating the Shipping guild
    • She was looking for a dude for Avadon Mar
      • This is the dude we kind fought when we FIRST got to the city
    • But Avadon Mar isn't the head honcho. She was looking for his boss.
  • She scribbled the sigil of House Grey
    • Also within that sigil is a serpent??
    • The serpent resembles dragons of olde (in a circle like an Ouroboros)
      • Ulertu knows more about this
  • We take Elena's body back to the Cinder Root Trio
    • There's a montage of emotions, fading to us on a hill on the North side of the city.
    • We give Elena a proper burial, there's a lot of crying
  • They're going to bring Elena back to the Cinder Root
  • Randir refuses to travel with the Bell and Dove as they head back to the Cinder Root
    • He's clearly very upset about Elena's death but he pushes them away claiming they need to do bigger things and doesn't want to endanger them
  • Dove presses a locket into his hand, a locket that Elena wore.
    • Randir weeps as he hugs Bell, and he apologizes...
    • In his mind he's crying he's thinking about Theo and how he came back and why Elena didn't and why did this happen and why now and why not her and...
    • Bell leaves him with parting words, "There will be times when you feel alone, but someone is there."
  • We leave the city on horseback
  • Theo and Randir talk
    • Theo tells about his past... which is... dark.
  • Randir gives a speech about how strange it is who you connect to and who connects to your life... He's overwhelmed with emotion.
    • Fuckin hell, Randir is very emotional about the people of this world
    • "The forest is all ebb and flow in life, but in the civilized world... there's something different." Life is more precious to him here.
  • We make our way to the Sunfields
    • This is the place where the Great Emperor was first injured and his blood was spilled
    • Takes a few days to cross through the Sunfields
  • OH and Pallas is with us
  • We come across a very angular, not-natural looking, 40ft+ tall, grass covered... thing?
  • Randir casts Detect Magic as a ritual
  • Ulertu climbs the hill thing?? He gets to the top and it's weirdly flat.
  • Randir detects Conjuration magic.
  • Ulertu digs down about 2 feet and finds solid stone
  • Ulertu and Theo hammer into the stone and.... fall into the space within the obelisk thing
    • Randir warned them...
  • Randir creates a climbing rope to get down to meet Ulertu and Theo
    • He stabs a javelin into the ground and ties a rope to it
  • This place is full of old, crumbling carpets and niceties
  • Ulertu thinks this either a home or a tomb for a giant.
  • We travel into the tomb futher, Ulertu finds some text:
    • "Here lies Lord Dobvir, King of the Sunfields, he who faced the black sky"
  • A feeling of unease rushes over us as we see some sort of movement in the eyes of these huge statues...
  • The Amber Blade begins to shake.. he unsheathes it and it gives off a soft amber glow.
    • Randir remembers: "This blade is of the mountain"
  • As Randir looks up at the eyes, dark flames POUR out of the eyes of the statues......... FILLING THE CAVERN
  • UH OH

1/23/2021

  • We spend a week in Caer Sen to chill, make potions, buy a map
  • Randir gets a new fancy Wooden Flute with the help of Dove
    • He plays some music with the Cinder Root Trio
  • We decide we're going to travel with the Cinder Root Trio
  • But also before we leave...
    • Elena thinks she may have info on who smuggled weapons and poison into Caer Sen
      • May be connected to the shipping guild
  • Pallas is gonna be travelling with us, dude got left behind by his crew
    • HMMMMMM
  • Randir runs into Torbin Lockewood before we leave
    • He apologizes for how he acted
    • He wants to be better about how he feels
    • He remembered his grandfather coming back as a monster...
      • Dude probably was brought back as a zombie
    • Two dudes hug
    • "If you ever have anything you need in the city, I'd be happy to help you."
  • ON THE NIGHT BEFORE WE HEAD OUT OF TOWN
  • Elena drops an animal messenger on our door
    • She knows who snuck in the weapons to Caer Sen
  • We go to investigate
    • Randir turns into a horse so Theo can ride, Ulertu takes his horse, Twill
  • Elena tells us via squirrel to head to a tavern at the end of the docks
  • We get to the tavern and unsuccessfully bully a tavern worker into telling us where Elena is
  • We see two half-elves eying us pretty hard and go to speak to them
  • It doesn't go anywhere as Randir hears a crash upstairs
  • We run upstairs see two more lves with the same tatoos as the other two we saw
  • We push past them, and find Elena. Dead.
  • Randir remembers: these are league of assassin elves.
  • Randir casts haste on himself.
  • We run and run and run catching up with these elves
  • We fight. We go all out. Theo and Randir end barely alive.
  • Two go down, two escape.
  • Randir cries out. Chasing after the elf. Unable to come close to catching him.
  • Someone has called the city guard.

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