Adventure Log Session 6

DATE June 1-June 7,  1226 Raeleni Calendar

CHARACTERS

Thom Tum, 2nd level Gnome Thief
Igor, 2nd level Dwarf Cleric
Iron Stone, 2nd Level Dwarf Fighter


JUNE 1

-- The Crooked Wand, the magic-user Guild Hall/Tavern, is raided by army forces from the new mayor, with the party  in the crowd.

-- After some tense words, violence breaks out between the soldiers and wizards.  Party beats a hasty retreat out a tarp door in the room behind the bar, which via magic portal leads to one of the bedrooms in The Pink Lantern, one of Timbervale's local brothels.

-- Party retreats to the nearest wall, battling a summoned fire-breathing bear along the way

-- They scale the wall and once over it they retreat from Timbervale altogether just as they see some parts of the city catching fire.

-- They decide to head toward North Azmarin for the time being.

JUNE 2

-- As they are camping for the night, Kitten, an wagon-pulling Owlbear, approaches them and after some trepidation she befriends the party.

-- Upon examining the wagon, they discover trading goods, plus  a strong box full of medicines, healing potions, potion recipes and a letter meant for Grimbul Stormhammer's family in the Dwarven mining town of Fractured Hill to the north.

-- In North Azmarin, they consult with a Druid that tells them Kitten is gravid with eggs and will likely lay them sometime in the next week.

JUNE 4

-- The party spends several days waiting in North Azmarin for a possible trading barge heading upriver to Fractured Hill.  When none come, they depart north overland for the village.

JUNE 6

-- Late in the night, the party hears a huge boom off in the distance to the North

JUNE 7

-- A few hours after they start traveling, they discover a merchant sea galleon that apparently crashed out of the sky named The Storm Voyager.

-- Thom and Iron Stone cautiously investigate the ship, hearing activity below decks

-- Igor who stayed with the wagon is approached by a female Orc named Obsidian, who claims she is investigating the wreck too.  They approach the ship together.

-- Inside the wreck, Thom and Iron Stone discover a trio of Orc males, one wearing a  frilly pink dress he found, intent on getting as much loot as possible.  They already have sacks full.  Igor and Obsidian join up, and Obsidian reveals the males are her cousins, and she was their scout on the outside.

-- Investigating loud noises below, a weirdly enchanted giant crocodile seeps through the floor in gaseous form and attacks.

-- The Orcs run away with their loot.

-- The player characters fight the crocodile, and find that's its randomly manifesting magic abilities from the runes etched onto its scales.

-- After defeating the croc and setting it afire to make sure it can't regenerate, they investigate the deck below to find a wizard's laboratory.  From wizard's diary, he wanted to make his pet croc "Chompy" the ruler of the world.  He was draining magic from a bunch of magic items to empower Chompy, but one proved much more potent than anticipated (a wand of wonder, now fully drained and broken) and flung the ship hundreds of miles inland, killing the crew and the wizard.

-- Upon investigation, the party finds two magic items still intact, a ring and a rod, plus numerous treasures tsill aboard the ship. 

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