Session 104 – “Princessipality”

 

Alternative titles

• “The race for the mace”

• “Send the captain to my chambers … for a talk”

The party

• Declan (dwarven fighter)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 0

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Had summoned Ruinas ghost end of last game

  • Talked to her

  • Learned the story of the first guard captain

    • Got a magic weapon from a hag

    • A green mace

    • Supposed to safe the realm in times of need

• Asked around about the green mace

  • Talked with Captain Travis, Larks, the high priest

    • Assistant Breynar of priest tried to listen to our conversation

    • We assumed the weapon might have been buried in a crypt

  • Learned a slightly alternative version of the story

    • Person was a paladin

    • Used an emerald hammer

• Tried to go outside, but no longer were able to

• Later somebody tried to break into the crypt

  • We blamed for this

• Searched through Larks library

  • Found bad stories about Yarin

  • Learned that he was connected to the Amber family somehow

• At night Theandra warned us we would get arrested the next night

  • We snuck into the garden and then into the open crypt

  • One tomb had been disturbed

  • Somebody else entered the crypt after us

  • We waited in ambush

  • Session ended here

Session 103 – “Aggressive incendiary gardening”

Alternative titles

• “So the beaver is commenting about the bush”

• “If you need to trim a hedge, a morning star is the ideal tool”

• “Fireball might be seen as a hostile act”

• “I don’t think a fireball pisses of anybody”

The party

• Declan (dwarven fighter)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Valis (elven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

XP

• 0

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Lots of talking with different people

  • “The tragedy”

    • Name the people us for this situation they are in

    • People fell asleep that night, the next day they were stuck

    • Some guards on duty saw a flash of light before they fell asleep

    • Some guards mentioned some wind they felt when the flash happened

  • The egg of Coot

    • Mentioned by the silver princess

    • Before the tragedy she had sent out people to search for it

    • Came back changed, body parts had been replaced with metal

  • The suitor of the silver princess

    • Wandering knight

    • Rode on a white dragon

    • Brought a giant ruby as a gift for the princess the night before the tragedy happened

    • Hasn’t been seen since

  • Other suitors of the silver princess

    • Mentioned a sorcerer that was interested in her

    • Turns out it was Yarin when he was young

    • Studied a bit under Larks

    • Was searching for some magic to protect him

  • Ruina the harper

    • Harp we found matches the one Ruina was using

    • Ruinas harp had silver strings

• Silver princess showed us the ruby

  • On inspection with the ruby lens, we could see the palace inside the ruby

  • Could confirm it was the actual palace, as we could see e.g. Dernards dancing lights spell

  • Offered for one of us to carry out the ruby, to hopefully break the curse

  • Silver princess allowed this

  • Kaya carried the ruby, but it vanished and returned to the silver princess

• Tried to leave through the front gate

  • Didn’t work, turned transparent and felt as if something was holding us back

  • When leaving the way we came, we also turned partially transparent

• Inspected the overgrown garden

  • Fought some plants that attacked us

    • Wanted to clear the garden with fireball

    • Larks the court wizard didn’t allow it

    • The master gardener didn’t allow it

    • Elvisar, who is in charge of the household, didn’t allow it

    • The silver princess didn’t allow it

  • Inspected the fountain and the two status in the garden

  • Fountain has healing properties if you drink from it

  • Statue of a young girl holding a songbird

    • Apparently the first silver princess

  • Statue of a snake

    • Apparently a snake led the first silver princess to the place where the palace was built

• Returned to the harp with some string to restring it

  • String turned silver

  • Mist formed and a figure appeared, apparently Ruina herself

  • Session ended here