Red Carpet Massacre
The adventure involves the Isles of Freedom.
Summary
Adventure: Red Carpet Massacre
GM: Mandos
Session: Autumn/Winter 813 wk
Location: Chez Mitchinson
Level: Medium
- Party
Icarone - Human Solar Celestial played by Manu Erwin
Teeanna, A Fae Princess and Mind Mage played by Hannah
- Dr Samuel - a Pacifist Elf played by Andrew
- Father Broc - played by Chris Caulfield
Adventure Full
| There's not so many now, still standing on their feet The knives are out and singing so sweet |
- Employer
- The Guild.
- Mission
- A boat is noted to be leaving Seagate Docks on the 8th of Fruit 813 with a large number of corpses on board.
- Pay
- Double Guild Rate plus salvage
Scribe Notes
8 Fruit 813
Teeanna, Dr Sam and I are at Dramus' when a guild security member requests Teeanna's assistance (and ours by default as we happen to there) to approach the D'Abran fae regarding what they know about corpses on a boat leaving the harbour as well as everything else going on in the aisles of freedom. Easy!! The gold dragon Roche is involved. Something about the drow per modern histories. Stone elves that are buried. Oh yes, the world might end in three months or so.
"Madeiras Elvedas" may be the best fae court to talk to initially. Bunt is the "bispothetiste" of the court. We get wings from the Lord of the Bats who seems like he would like some company. I thank him and get triple duration!! We take the slow portal and then fly the rest of the way. Teeanna yells at us to not to land in the open space north of the village and east of the river due to many Fairy rings there. We find a clearing to land in and Sam notices a dragon shaped indent in the ground which also has a ritual on it of "release"!
We spot a pixie trying to steal the gift to Bunt, and once it recognises Teeanna gets really worried. Bunt arrives, welcomes us, and takes us to the court where we're introduced to Timp and Mary who tell us about Roche (their neighbour until five to six years ago) who years ago turned 10,000 elves into stone in preparation for some future battle. A guild party woke him about 5-6 years ago and he released the stone elves and left.
Timp reveals he is under compulsion and cannot tell us some information we likely need so we should visit the wisewomen who may be able to tell us more. We end the day with food, drink and song which Timp assures us will not put us into magical sleep as we are not in a fae realm.
9th Fruit 813
I get up early-ish to purify and enjoy breakfast and a little later Teeanna & Sam also awake. Bunt takes us to the wisewomen, a very old dryad by the name of Trimble and her weeping willow. She has seen the future although also has compulsion so cannot tell all. What she can tell us is as follows;
- a creature trapped in the Isles who others have been trying to free
- there is a small number of Fae in the Isles, some are also trying to prevent the release
- Roche cannot be foretold
- We must ask the dragon elves (fae) about their business
- The stone elves are in a location guarding a great evil and they are where the guild party left them
- Lord Arrindale is active in the Isles, however she does not know if he is seeking to free the creature
- Elder fae spirits know about the creature and placed the compulsion (geas) on Trimble and others as a "racial secret"
- River of blood that needs to be stopped - is near a coast - will happen on a day of power - the most likely is end of "Vintage" as is a time of decay
- Kit knows where or has communicated with the elder spirits
- Haann, Tari, Everan, Kit are some of the people who may know more…..
She speaks in the voice of prophecy:
There's not so many now, still standing on their feet
The knives are out and singing so sweet
Engaged with sharper minds that cut you when you meet
Ain't the place to mess around
When someone wants to take you down
Trimble "glows" Sam's bulb and says it will grow purple flowers.
Trimble gives Teeanna a dryad tree seed to be the host for a dryad wisewoman should she need one.
After we leave Trimble a pixie "Strumble" appears on Sam's shoulder, offering to guide us to where the stone elves were buried, which we graciously accept.
A shortish stroll through the nearby beech forest brings us to a bluff where we find a magical opening. The pixie tells us the stone elves were in this tunnel as it is on a magical line that happens to pass under the village. As we proceed into the tunnel we see it is perfectly square! There are regular humanoid chunks missing from the wall so it seems this is where the elves were.
There is a gap between each approximate group of one thousand.
I ask the pixie if he can help us fly and he sprinkles pixie dust so we can fly!! I am sooooo excited and speed off!! Moments later I exit the tunnel so have to turn around - oh no wrong way! Once turned around I speed back and moments later everything goes black.
Teeanna and Sam bring me around. They walked for half an hour to get here, I must have flown really fast!! The room I awaken in is a big square with golden doors to one side. The walls are covered in carvings in some sort of old elvish that Teeanna says appear to be a story about a hero. There isn't anything else in this room, or the next, apart from more doors through to a final room with a bed and six cots. A guild note (from Kin) advises us the story carved in the walls about the hero is rubbish and there is nothing of value In the rooms.
The pixie tells us of seeing the hero and the stone elves awakening along with some elder elves and some guild members.
Teeanna spends the next 2 days reading the wildly inconsistent stories on the walls.
I practice pixie dust flying until the dust wears off and then am incredibly bored. Thankfully Sam and I are able to discuss plant and gardening theory to pass the remaining time.
12 Fruit 813
Finally Teeanna finishes reading the carvings and they are in fact all rubbish so all three of us also sign the note agreeing there is nothing of value here, Strumble sprinkles pixie dust on us and then speed down the tunnel. Well I speed in seconds and the others take half an hour, they are so slow!
I cast Wings on us all thanks to Sam's amulet and we set off for ??? And twenty minutes later I arrive. And then have to wait 2-3 hours for the others. This pixie dust is fast!! Best way to fly ever!!! I want to fly with pixie dust all the time!!
Then we take the slow portal home.
We request the library staff to start researching overnight while we retire for the evening.
13 Fruit 813
A lot of great library research is done by Sam and summarised for Teeanna and I.
"I don't know where we're going, I'm just the navigator" - Icarone 12th Fruit 813
We need to plant Teeanna's dryad tree seed so we head to Asheth. Upon arrival I enjoy some banapple cider and banapple beer that has been brewing from my rapidly spreading banapple trees. Â They are spreading well, both here and in Alusia!
Teeanna decides to plant the dryad tree seed near her apple tree near the 2nd heart tree.
Appendix
A - Individuals we Met or Heard about
Trimble - Spoke to her about the secrets of Insel der Freiheit
B - Locations we Went
C - Loot we acquired or expenses we incurred
- Rock of Integration - Sam - Gift
- Dryad Tree Seed - Teeanna - Gift
Calendar
| Autumn 813 WK: Fruit | ||||||||||||||
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| Moonday | Duesday | W'ansday | Th'rsday | Frysday | Reapsday | Sunday | ||||||||
| 1 | Guild Meeting | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||||||
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7 | 8 | Hired and travel to the D'Abran area to meet local fae | 9 | Discover information about our future from a fae wisewoman | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | |||||
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14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | |||||||
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21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | |||||||
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28 | 29 | 30 | |||||||||||
