Forbidden Lands: Raven's Purge

Session 12: March 12, 2024 (33rd Day of Springrise, 1165 AS)  Dramatis Personae: Echo, Wolfkin Hunter, played by Mike "Burn the Bodies" P. Kelter Tealeaf, Halfling Rogue, played by Mike "Can I Pick that Laawk?" Y. Vinny Boombatz, Dwarven Fighter, played by Eric "Needs a Golf Bag for His Weapons" M. Quod Occurrit: The next day, Kelter manages to circumvent the lock to the other chamber, which was fortunately empty. They found a few treasure items: a bottle of wine, a waterskin that smelled of perfume, and some silver coins. Presumably the wine is long spoiled but you never know what preservative magic is in an old barrow. The ancient bottle is worth something to a collector for sure.  With the barrow thoroughly pillaged, they decide to explore a bit more of the city, not minding the rain. They come upon an old temple, and inside find a grisly sight: the bodies of two recently executed Raven Sisters with their throats cut, slumped over in a ring surrounded b...

Session 11: January 30, 2024 (31st Day of Springrise, 1165 AS) Dramatis Personae: Echo, Wolfkin Hunter, played by Mike "If It Moves, Shoot It" P. Kelter Tealeaf, Halfling Rogue, played by Mike "The Kite" Y. Vinny Boombatz, Dwarven Fighter, played by Eric "Dwarven Loremaster" M. Quod Occurrit: The party gets wanderlust shortly after clearing Weatherstone, and decide to see what else is in their neighbourhood. They decide to skirt the mountains and head southwest. Vinny decides he needs to get better with his equipment management skills before setting out, and tries unsuccessfully to improve his packrat talent, even with a bit of guidance from Kelter.  The dice had no encounters in store for our intrepid explorers, and in the distance they see what appears to be Dwarven city. Vinny confirms that it is indeed Dwarven architecture. He states that this must be Wailer's Hold, a settlement that was taken by humans in 867, after the Merromanian Dwarves abandon...

Session 10: January 16, 2024 (30th Day of Springrise, 1165 AS) Dramatis Personae: Echo, Wolfkin Hunter, played by Mike "Harpy Bane" P. Kelter Tealeaf, Halfling Rogue, played by Mike "Why Do I Have to Be Mr. Pink?" Y. Vinny Boombatz, Dwarven Fighter, played by Eric "I Think I'm Getting the Hang of This" M. Quod Occurrit: The heroes then had lunch, since fighting undead is hungry work. Their supplies were still holding out. They proceed by retracing the steps they took the last time. They investigate the chasm again, hoping for some sign of the Duke's war chest that they might have missed last time. They find exactly the same things they found last time, which were: zero zip zilch nada nothing nil bupkis diddly-squat bugger-all In that exact order. It was a bit of a pain in the ass getting down there and back again, resulting in pushed rolls for missile (attaching a rope via arrow), scouting, move, etc. Most of those rolls resulted in damage to our ...

Session 9: December 5, 2023 (28th Day of Springrise, 1165 AS) Dramatis Personae: Echo, Wolfkin Hunter, played by Mike "All These Humans Smell Funny" P. Kelter Tealeaf, Halfling Rogue, played by Mike "I Can Save Her" Y. Vinny Boombatz, Dwarven Fighter, played by Eric "No More Hammer Time" M. Quod Occurrit: It has finally stopped raining! In the morning, the party starts their return to The Hollows, breaking their vow to never return there for a second time. They had managed to salvage a good amount of gear off of Esgar and co., and figure some silver in their pockets is easier to carry around than more spare armaments then they are likely to need, and they can now afford to pay for some extra muscle. They skirt into a new hex for funsies, but regret it almost instantly. Vinny may not have the eyes of a hawk or the ears of a fox, but he does apparently have the nose of a hound. He notices it first: the smell of burning meat, followed by the sound of heavy fo...

Session 8: November 21, 2023 (25th Day of Springrise, 1165 AS) Dramatis Personae: Echo, Wolfkin Hunter, played by Mike "I Absolutely do NOT Smell Like Wet Dog" P. Kelter Tealeaf, Halfling Rogue, played by Mike "Do You Think She Misses Me?" Y. Vinny Boombatz, Dwarven Fighter, played by Eric "I Wish I Had the Chance to Miss You" M. Quod Occurrit: Back to The Hollows The first time our heroes left The Hollows, they promised to never go back. Guess what, they decided to go back. On their way back to The Hollows, our heroes avoid an ambush that involved bandits pretending to be injured merchants on the road, complete with blood poured on the ground, and animal entrails used to look like human ones on the "dead" bodies, which were actually bandits waiting to attack those coming to help. This was easily perceived by Kelter, who had taken point and scouted ahead. Unbeknownst to the characters, these were slavers who had hoped to sell passers-by for fun a...

Session 7: November 7, 2023 (24th Day of Springrise, 1165 AS) Dramatis Personae: Echo, Wolfkin Hunter, played by Mike "Just Because I'm a Wolf Doesn't Mean I Need a Bowl" P. Kelter Tealeaf, Halfling Rogue, played by Mike "Echo Needs to Go for Walkies" Y. Vinny Boombatz, Dwarven Fighter, played by Eric "Vinny Needs to Go for Drinkies" M. Quod Occurrit: The session started off with our heroes still in Pelagia, and they gather a bit more intel on Princess Arvia. It turns out that Kelter's paramour stands outside of the kinship of her clan. The rumour mill says this is because her mother had intimate relations with a stone statue (as one does) in order to offer her offspring to the dwarven god Huge.  Dwarves fear and are terrified by her, but nevertheless respect her as chosen of the god. Kelter has definitely punched above his weight with her. Hopefully she’ll let him live, as she’s essentially the dwarven Aragorn, albeit without the propensity fo...