Copper Sands and Broken Dice
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Summary
Adventure: Copper Sands and Broken Dice
GM: Jono Bean
Session: Winter 814
Night: Starting Wednesday the 11th of June starting at 6:30pm
Location The Quadrant, 12 Waterloo Quadrant, Auckland CBD
Level: Low -- Medium.
Information: Information from players for Jono.
House Rules: Quickness & Slowness, No 'B' Colleges please
The Party:
- Quincey Honeymead of Finger Bottom, Earthmage Assassin, Halfling - played by Brett
- Leif Valguard, Celestial Thief - played by Tim
- Aleeza Tas’ad, Wicca Herbalist, Elf - played by Paul
- Ragna, Priestess of Hel Healer - played by Kelsie
- Billy Rubin, Mindmage, Dwarf - played by Craig
- Algernon, E&E Thief - played by Ian Wood
Employer & others
An Elven Ranger named Silver Wind, who has been watching the stars of the night sky, wishes to employ an Elf, a Hobbit, a Human with blood in the Northlands, a Gythja of Hel and a Dwarf.
He understands that some creature is at risk of returning from the Gatar Depression and wants to talk to the group of adventurers he has seen in the night sky.
Payment:
He has secured payment in the form of favors to the value of 30 Arcane Points each from the court of the Duke of Carzala with the Mages of Freetoun.
Scribe Notes
Session 1
Prologue
Quincey, Leif, Aleeza and Ragna have been working for a guy for the last few months. Turns out he was running a scam and was picked up by Baron Balrain, a cattleman who holds Gugnir's Hope. The Baron hanged him, and we are now on his wanted list. On the upside the adventurers "inherited" a decent amount of the dead boss' takings.
Briefing
We meet with Silver Wind, who work for the Duke.
The Duke's children having been having nightmare involving guild members so needs us to be redeemed. If we do some jobs for the Duke, they will quell the investigations and quash rumours.
He wants to arrange codenames and a "drop", but we don't bother.
Job No. 1 At Gugnir's Hope, west of Seagate there have been unspecified problems with the ruins under the town. The sheriff, who is definitely the Baron's man, seems to be "not investigating". We should check it out, without raising any alarm, and report back.
The town was built on the ruins of a Dwarven settlement. It can be seen well over six miles away, because of the large stone walls. The inside of the walls are about 30 feet high above street level, and the outside of the walls are well over 70 feet high. The town has outgrown the walls with buildings spilling out on the southwestern side of town. It is common knowledge that there are old tunnels running under the town. Most of the outflows from the tunnels have iron bars on them. The local merchants have run Hobbits out of town based on their race.
He gives us four rank 6 Waters of Healing
Job No. 3 Far south on the edge of the Gatar Depression there is movement of sand creatures trying to animate a long dead whale to fly out to sea.
I have a feeling about bloodmagic in that area.
To work
Since there is a price on our heads where we are going we plan out a route avoiding the main roads and towns where we have had trouble - via trails to Daggergrove, Goodblood, to the main road, then to Moncks Corner, tails to Whitecros, Redtree to Gugnir's Hope.
Someone arranges Chicken Mules (Q has one of his own). We get Greaters at the bargain price, sponsored by an amazing creature called Sabrina.
As we have a witch and a dark celestial, and want to avoid eyes, we decide to travel at night. As we step outside the guild there is and old woman there, with a cooking fire and a cage full of bunnies.
She reads the entrails of a bunny for Aleeza for 2sp and gives her the rabbits foot. "Something dark is coming for you".
She recognises Q, was there at his birth or something and they talk about his home and family. She gives him 3 amulets, of woven grass, from her basket. They protect the home (or where you sleep) from bad dreams and harm; from the venom of biting creatures and allows the breathing of air that is only suitable for the dead. She gives one of the former to Leif. They have the side effect of causing itching sometimes.
She tells us about an orc and a human, with a black crow, who were asking after Quincey, at the Hinsted lace on the Venture road.
Quincey should talk to his Aunt, the one that nobody mentions, she has a secret from the time that he was born. She also says something to him about wolves.
We have some stew which "enhances the ability to see strange things". We have some bread that restores fatigue used in the last hour, after Quincey does us all Lessers and Strength of Stones and she lets us have two loaves which are each four pieces. He backfires and we hears a boom in the distance.
She does a reading for Leif. Ragna has been sent to stand over his fallen body. The Girl (we figure out this is Aleeza) is in need of his help this season against those who seek to end her line. Ragna will bring him back from the dead. He chooses to know the time of his death. When he is among the mules, at a near deserted village, at dusk or dawn and can see a line of crows on the roof of a wooden lodge house. When javelins strike through his chest thigh and neck.
Quincey finishes off his casting with a few more backfires.
We see a wall of rain approaching from the direction of Seagate, then two Erehleine running ahead of the rain. This is worrying to me, I don't know much about the weather in this area, so I run back into the guild, followed by the rest except for Algie, Leif and the old woman who is not allowed in.
Turns out the runners were just messengers and have a message to the guild about something stalking an elvish family, that concerns the guild, and the danger has come close.
Them out in the rain are just wet. Seems that Quincey's backfires did stormcalling
So we set off. With Chicken Mules. We travel all night and it is very cold and tiring. Just before dawn we pass Goodblood and the farm of the Ebon family, who work in woods and the the source of Witch Nails, that slow down mages if nailed into their footprints.
In the lightning flashes I see a 30ft high Wicker man, which gets closer between flashes but doesn't move while we can see it. Then skeletons erupt from the ground. The wicker man is not a valid target for Hand of Death and a mule gets it instead. The control is higher than mine so I can't control them. Aleeza decides that being alone in the barn is a good idea. Unfortunately but not unexpectedly, she is not alone. A greater undead (??) casts something nasty on her but she resists and flees back outside, where we are cutting down skellies. It comes to the exit and cast on her against, something that makes her twist and contort, unable to act and taking damage and dislocating her shoulder. She can hear a loud angry voice speaking in her head in an ancient language.
We deal to the wicker man who says "You can't protect the elf forever" and "from the master" and " knows what she has done".
Then we deal to the creature in the barn. We find an invisible dagger and a lightning gem.
Quincey tries a healing on Aleeza but backfires again and doubles her damage. She also looks like she might need a higher rank healer for the shoulder, so we might need to go back to the guild.
Session 2
We rest in the barn as we are too exhausted to walk back to the guild just yet. The area of the barn is clearly being avoided long term by the local and travellers, which is good for us, and I can detect no more undead in the area. Aleeza is feverish and hallucinating and we determine that she is transforming into undead, so we plan to rest only until noon and then set off, in good time to be back at the guild before midnight.
Some of Aleeza's hallucinations include: Three disapproving horse-headed black crows (figure that these are the chicken mules) on with her on a column of rock. Something is being kept at bay. Red and green scarab like beetles on the walls A coyote that walks through walls and sinks into the floor.
Billy dreams of a chime which signals that a spectral hunter has been sent.
Mid morning the watch hears a group of about 15 humanoid footfalls. They carry on past, but Leif recognises the leader as an orc who was a rival card hustler who tried to frame us. Billy says that he saw them yesterday camped near the guild.
Afternoon we trek back to the guild. On the way we spot three gryphons flying overhead towards the guild with riders. About 8pm,arriving back at the guild, there is a market set up outside with caravans, wagons and tents.
We quick to the healers. The head healer works on Aleeza, drawing a huge amount of mana and eventually draws out a number of large black slug-like undead things. I put them in a jar (they are dead). She then proceed to the rest of her wounds while lesser healers deal with the rest of us.
About 4am we are all well and about to find comfy beds, when the guild bakers come to us for help, as the elemental powering the ovens has gotten loose. We get it back into the oven and they pay us two more loaves of mouldy magic bread, and some more waters of healing, plus some fresh bread.
About 6am we are all about to find comfy beds, when a chicken mule comes with a message that the old woman is being roughed up. Turns out that there is a big fight going on outside between a binder with an ogre and a bear bodyguard and a lot of golems, and the witch with some of the caravan guard so we join in (against the binder). We are doing alright and the binder goes into retreat with her ogre, but then a couple of incoming "Falling Stars" come down which take out everyone still standing outside. Leif is killed (despite rabbits feet), and Billy injured but Quincey rescues the old woman.
She appears to have been cursed with one wolf's foot. She gives us one ore rabbits foot and tells us that the binder is working for Quando who wants a treasure map that she has. She seems about to give us the job of finding the treasure "for her", but sees that Quincey's soul is black and changes her mind. Leif ties to pickpocket her but she bites of three of his fingers.
She tells Aleeza that if she returns after her journey to the west, still pure (ie not having killed someone that didn't deserve it) she will give her the map and teach her to make medallion out of fingers.
We get Leif resurrected, and the kitchen staff have a whip-round to replace his greater. We are also given the paws of the binder's bear which function the same as rabbits feet. We get Leif's fingers reqrown (clearly something is wrong with this timeline).
We try to rest until this evening when we will set out again.
Session 3
Two sets of scribe notes describing Blue Grass - Ath's diary & Daizy's notes
Buffs & Mil Sci
Long Term (assumed always on)
| Magic (caster) | Rk | Effects | Dur | Qu | Le | Al | Ra | Bi | Al |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lesser (Quincey) | Rk | -1 of all percentile dice rolls | Duration | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Strength of Stone (Quincey) | 8 | +8 on stat | 8 hrs | EN | EN | EN | EN | EN | EN |
| Witchsight (Lief) | 6 | See invisible, see in the dark | 7 hours | N | N | N | Y | N | Y |
| Spell (Caster) | Rk | Effect | Duration |
Short Term
| Magic (caster) | Rk | Effects | Dur | Qu | Le | Al | Ra | Bi | Al |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spell (Caster) | Rk | Effect | Duration |
Watch Order
Marching Order
DAs
Quincey:
- on Leif - last magic to take effect
Leif:
- on Quincey - last magic to impact
Loot
Outgoing
- 550sp to fix Aleeza's undeadness
- 4500sp Leif resurrection
- 4800sp regrow Leif's fingers
- 600sp for Q's lesser
- 14sp 2 hot meals
Quentin personal
- Poisoned darts
- sleep x 15
- paralysis x 15
- all up 300sp including 10% discount for merchant
- out of combat they work, in combat 4xEN save
Incoming
- Guild
- WoH rk 6: x4, +4+20 (-1)
- WoH rk 2: x4,
- bear paws: (like rabbit feet) x2
- Witch outside the guild gate
- Loaves of bread: 4 doses per, cure all fatigue lost in last hour, x4 (-3 doses)
- Four amulets
- Rabbit's feet: x2
- Undead near Ebon Farm
- an invisible dagger
- a lightning gem
- Witch (Catelin) at Bluegrass
- Amulet of Bluegrass: x8, absorbs backfires, but gets corrupted
- Amulet of luck: x8
- Healing salves: x12, 8pt healing applied to a wound
- Grass voodoo dolls: x3, as per silver set S9, target for enchantments, lesser, medium (-2) and greater
- False ghost
- Gauntlets
- what else?
- Dogs x3
- ??
- Shadowy figures with dogs
- ??
Interim Carrying
| Item | No. | Qu | Le | Al | Ra | Bi | Alg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waters of Healing rk 6 | 28 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 |
| Waters of Healing rk 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Healing salves | 12 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Amulet of Bluegrass | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Amulet of Luck | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Bread | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Rabbit feet | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Bear paws | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Invisible dagger | Y | ||||||
| Lightning Gem | Y | ||||||
| Grass voodoo dolls | Y | Y | Y | ||||
| Guantlets of Undead | Y |
