You're Not In Tycho anymore

Scribe Notes

Summary

GM: Chris Ramsay (Debut)
Season: Winter, 821wk.
Night: TBC (most likely Tuesdays)
Location: TBC (most likely, Smiths)
Level: Low

Party

1. Kaitva - Dwarf Namer - Anne
2. Seraph - Human Namer - Connor
3. Arcadia - Elf Celestial - Kita
4. Ashe - Human Earth Mage - Jacqui (with Norto the War Dog)
5. Galantha Nival (Snowdrop) - Ice Mage. Female hobbit - played by Keith
6. Reiner Frosthaamer - Earth mage. Male dwarf. - played by Paul
7. Luther_Luthier (pronounced LOOTer) - nonmage male Hobbit (Thief, spy, cook) - Michael

Employer: Vibius Sulis Tempius, (House Sulis)
Mission: Aid in the formation of good relations with several factions of a new city in an offplane world
Location: Valminia, (Plane of Valmi)
Pay: Twice Standard Guild Rates, Will be Provided with Greater Enchantments and waters of healing
Days on Adventure:

This Adventure takes place in a tropical, humid climate with current temperatures being between 28-34'c

Scribe Notes

Chapter 1 - Smoke and Bandits

1 Frost
I arrived at the designated Guild Meeting Room to find a table spread with breads, cheeses, sausages, fruits and two bottles of what proved to be excellent wines. Our employer was sitting there, a middle-aged human in Lunar Empire robes. He introduced himself as Vibius Sulis Tempius, of House Sulis, the wealthy Lunar Empire merchant house I’d heard people talking about. Then we introduced ourselves, and he left the room, while the party had discussions. I was designated to be Military Scientist since I was the most skilled in that, and also Scribe. Kaitva was chosen as Party Leader.

Master Vibius returned and described the job he was employing us for. He explained that House Sulis was planning to use Ritual Circles of Rune Mages to create a network of cargo portals linking their vineyards and warehouses. They have a villa about ¾ day ride out of Tycho where they train mages. Their rune mages accidentally created a portal to a tropical island somewhere off plane. This might be a source of jade, vanilla, and other resources. They wanted us to explore through the portal and make contacts with a view to trade.
Ashe (to Snowdrop regarding a Rodrigo sausage): “You should have got someone to DA it before you put it in your mouth.”
Master Vibius offered the party twice guild rates for time on adventure as payment, along with salvage. He added that the House will provide necessary magical services for free, including Rank 10 greater enchantments, and two waters of healings each. We would be able to purchase restoratives and amulets at cost. They were also preparing special language cordials for us, since the people where we were going speak a weird language. He left us to prepare, though there wasn’t much to be done, other than lesser enchantments and such.

We were led by a servant to the portal to Tycho, inside a gazebo in the Guild grounds at sunset that evening, and arrived in the Guild complex in Tycho, in the usual state of exhaustion. We slept that night in apartments in the Guild complex. There was an excess of perfumery. It made Norto sneeze. There were stray dogs barking in the night. Some kind of canine turf war from what I could tell.

2 Frost
In the morning, we were served an early breakfast of cold cuts, cheeses, fresh fruits and fresh bread.
A messenger came to bring Seraph the amulet of diamonds he’d ordered.
As we headed out, we were approached by a tired looking guard. He explained that the next watch had gone missing. The watch captain was named Brendias. They had gone scouting one or two hours out of the city. Rumours about smoke and fires and bandits. It was all a bit secretive. But our carriage would be heading out in the direction the scouts had gone, so there was some possibility we might be able to find out what had happened to them. I insisted we stop the carriage outside of the city so that I could get out to cast defence spells.

Ashe: I don’t think I can cast in the carriage.
Kaitva: She’s not grounded enough.

After travelling for about an hour further, we spotted smoke in the woods. Arcadia cast unseen spells on Looter and I, and we sneaked forward. Which would have been a fine plan, if it wasn’t for the bear the lead orc rode in on. Which must have smelled something because it charged at me.
Luther fired, and Reinar slung a stone from the carriage… Both were great shots. The orc drops one axe, and the sling stone hit him full in the head. He lost control of his bear. Oddly he wasn’t stunned, but frothing at the mouth.
The bear closed on me. I fended them off, they pushed in, and my tulwar took out the orc’s other arm. Yes, he was armless. Norto charged in to help, but ended up in close with another orc. It got messy. Besides the orcs, there were two humans firing from the trees. The turning point was when Reinar hit the bear solidly and stunned it, which allowed me to get out from under. Once on my feet and out of close combat, I was able to cast and got the bear under animal control while the others continued to deal mayhem to the orcs. Then I put animal growth on Norto. It was all over soon after that.

Chapter 2 - Into the Blue

Luther: They’ll think we’re barbarians – well, bearbearians…

First, I had to stop the bear eating orcs. Second, Snowdrop extinguished the fire. Then the party stripped the bandits, and burned the bodies. Meanwhile, I healed the bear. She was a large black bear, obviously trained to the saddle. I cast speak to animals and learned that she had memories of being in the cage – and that she thought the orc who had been riding her was crazy. We agreed on that.

Snowdrop: Oh no, it’s getting unbearable.

The party loot consisted of:
2 x chain 1 x damaged chain 1 x chain parts 1 x partial plate 1 x partial plate damaged
5 x Battleaxe iron +5% SC
2 x Battleaxe iron +1 dam
2 shortbows +5% SC +1 dam
6 handaxes iron +5 sc

The bear didn’t know her name so, I called her Majora. Ursa Majora.

Snowdrop to Arcadia: Are you trained to ride bearback?
In the bandit camp was found a bag of around 500sp plus assorted written notes. Somewhere there was an armourer owed money for two sets of partial plate. There was an address attached.
Majora got to carry the armours, tied to her saddle. The Sulis guard bodies went on top of the carriage, the party inside the carriage. I rode Norto.
We arrived at a palatial Villa at around dinnertime. We were told that it was called Villa Sulis Schola Scriptorium.
Majora was fascinated by a bear statue beside the gate. The Villa staff greeted us. They had been warned that we would be late and had bodies and a bear with us. Soon, there was a second bear statue. Ursa Majora would be safe there and could be collected later. The deceased guards were taken off to be preserved.
The servants told Vibius that it was about 3am on the other side of the portal.
So, we went in and dinner was served. There were flat breads, cheeses, and a fine venison casserole, accompanied by good wines. Then potions were brought in on a trolley. For each of us there was a language cordial conferring Rank 5 Vilm and two waters of healing. We would be getting Rank 10 greater enchantments.
Over dinned we asked many questions about where we were going. Apparently, that plane has a shorter day. There was a mixed population of humans and merfolk, with a form of monarchy. They speak Vilm and they use the merfolk alphabet. The town was on the coast – there were lots of rivers – and a dense jungle – it could be on an island. The merfolk were thought to have some kind of priesthood, but it may be cultural and have no deity. Their government was a religious matriarchy. Possible trade goods included serpentine, jade, and hardwoods. The humans were growing rice and soya. There was known to be a grove of softwoods. The merchants were largely in charge.
They gave us rooms, to get some sleep before going through the portal. Going through the portal we will be tired not exhausted, on about half fatigue.
We decided to keep some items from the loot we’d acquired from the bandits and sell the rest:
+1 dam battleaxe aka tin-opener for Kaitva
+5 sc +1 dam shortbow for me

Kaitva: I am not asking you to undress for me, elf.
Arcadia: I don’t like you.

They led us down some stairs and into a cellar, with a high ceiling and solid granite walls. It was chilly down there. The portal looks like a vertical ring carved with runes and set into a plinth. Inside the ring was a light blue becoming purple as went goes up. It had GTN portal, and went to Vilminia. There were no alternate destinations.
We needed to wait for the portal to warm up – soaking up some of our fatigue as it did so. It seems to be part of portal network on the other side. It would only send people from our plane back here however. Then, we stepped onto the portal platform and the portal transported us, to another platform on a cliff by the sea. In the other direction was a city divided by rivers. We stepped down from the platform. It was early in the morning, but there were people about. They stared at us, especially at the dwarves with their axes. The guard didn’t seem to know what to do with us. We deduced that iron may be rare and valuable here. The stared at Norto as well. Maybe they didn’t have dogs there.
Master Vibius led us to an inn. We talked to the innkeeper and learned that our weapons were those of ‘dead ones’. Dead ones were living people - we were strange because we hadn’t had our funerals yet. They were the members of the vanguard who protected the city at the jungle border. They were counted as ‘already dead’, and had had their funerals.
On impulse, I took out my wayfinder. Oddly, its north was about 35 degrees east off ranger north.
We get rooms organised. We’d be meeting some merchants at 11am. We ate breakfast and purified. Vilbius showed us locked boxes of goods he had prepared for bribery purposes.

Kaitva: You have to give me the lock code because I’m the party leader.

Irvin the merchant comes in and talked to Vilbius. He was accompanied by a guard, who wore scale armour made of ironwood. This was a heavy material, making his armour heavier than I’d like to wear. He was carrying a spear and boomerang, and stared at my bow. We stood around, doing our best to look like merchant guards. Irvin explained that the royalty were afraid of something to the northeast (ranger northeast). The merfolk were not getting certain materials that the woodcutters need. There were not enough people in the vanguard. They’ve pulled back from a fortified area, and the woodcutters were not going in to cut hardwoods. It was all a bit of a mess, and he wanted us to go in there and fix it. I was beginning to see why we were needed here.
Then a human representative of the merfolk shows up and wanted to arrange a meeting.

Mil-Sci

Daily pattern

‘’How much time does the party spend sleeping, eating, travelling, doing rituals, etc each day’’

Travel Magics

‘’What travel magic options does the party have, how far per cast/or per day if duration is longer than usual travel time.’’ ‘’Can the party eat/sleep/etc on the mode of transport.’’

Watch Order

Day Watch. ‘’Used when stationary, or on a larger transport such as a ship’’
First - ??
Second - ??
Third - ??

Night watch
First - ??
Second - ??
Third - ??
Night Watch order:
Looter
Kaitva
Arcadia
Ashe Norto
Seraph
Reinar
Snowdrop

Marching Order

Skirmish Formations (Front)
Double File	Single File

Buffs

General Buff Notes

Buffs listed in the table don't need to be detailed, other buffs not on the table must be mentioned at the time they are cast.
Y means always on, N/- means never on, 'Sit.' means when the party has time for buffs before a fight.
Weapon Spells which weapon/s it is going on normally should be noted also

Long duration buffs

Magic	Rk	Effects	Dur	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Name (??)	##	????	# Day	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Name (??)	##	????	# Hours	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Name (??)	##	????	? Hours	?	?	?	?	?	?	?

Short duration buffs

Magic	Rk	Effects	Dur	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Name ???	??	????	? Mins	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Name ???	??	????	? Mins	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Name ???	??	????	? Mins	?	?	?	?	?	?	?

Calendar

‘’Insert correct month here’’