2024-03-12 SLAG 002
Week
Setson / Novday / Undday / Sowerday / Tasday / Shalsday / Deison
The Wayward Wanderer
The Wayward Wanderer
Road through goes east/west
Helga is town leader
Marked?
- a mark shows up on their face... 7 days later they vanish
- happened for years... grandfathers would tell yarns
- every couple of months
- Lost 5 to the mark in the last year
"What day is, how long has it been since we remember"
it's Shalsday, last day we remember was Tasday so it seems we've only lost a day.
Bearings
- Splitriver, up north is the nearest town
- 2-3 days via the road
- maybe quicker via the swamps, but more dangerous
- Asking about the tower & magic door, no real answers.
- Wanderers expected in another month
Helga asks Fiona for a map and shows us:
Town Center
The Marked Girl
Lilithene - basket girl
centered on forhead, large, down her nose, almost her whole face
not like ink... more like a birthmark, mixed with dry blood
sigils are celestial
the mark
- casts Identify... no info
- Detect Magic ... there is magic, not a spell...
- Religion check is strong (23)
- strange scent like blood is there
- Celestial sigils:
- "blood for blood, spirit for spirit, death for life"
- Consider Hunters Mark? only for 1hr
- Anything strange lately... no
Maybe Elders have wisdom to share?
Deuce finds three of the oldest folks around
Amabella Solange
Amabella Solange
Lady who was comforting Lillithene
Zelda and Deuce
arms around girl
slumped over, hunched
get some privacy
started again a few years ago
happened
again the next year and then twice that year
lost 5 in the past 3 years
re: Wanderers - she thinks it's overblown. She thinks Helga is the fanning of flames of concern.
windy day follows the disappearance... from the sea
Zelda, asks about celestial issues?
not really, most worship Nova. goddess of loyalty and vengance.
she saw it appear once.
re: Slaglight Tower
a guard tower for a larger wizard's tower?
sign of the times.
war,
Wanderers
- showed up around the same time as the mark.
- not kind to us... they haven't killed anyone
- what if we could just stop the violence
- why Helga is making it a big deal?
- Amabella won't say...
strange marks in the shallows...
bark of tree
eroded on old stone
Jesse is the hunter
- beautiful boy comforting Lillithene
- seeking fortune and fame
What's there to gather?
magic ingredients: rare herbs? catalysts... magic people
old, fat man drunk
Pim
"you all brought this to us..."
"century since the last mark"
"travelers to blame!"
Ferrius
Ferrius
cloaked, thin man with a staff
Aldric
what do you do around here?
- "Entertain the little ones... stories."
stories of the mark?
- every 50 years or so, someone would be marked... and disappear into the shadows
Wars?
- wizard tower was a focus of it
- Slaglight Tower?
- 500 some odd years ago
- wizard
- name? can't recall
- died or got away?
- clash at the base of the tower
- swamp used to be fields?
Meeting a prick
- Pim was chatting up Jesse (to Jesse's dismay) and Zelda stepped does girl stuff at him.
- Pim is confused by Zelda saying she didn't know him.
Aldric, asking permission and asking them not to worry if the manifestation of his healing looked frightening, laid hands on the girl... it didn't heal her mark, but it reinvigorated her a bit, which was nice to see. Aldric's magic did look scary... black & cancerous?
I think the blacksmith guy may be Lillithene's father?
Jesse
- mid to late 20s
- pretty and egotistical
- "a warrior of Nova"
- a ranger by trade
Split the Party
Zelda goes off with Jesse
Aldric, Zelda, and Deuce to the inn
Back to Inn
Aldric, Zelda, and Deuce pass Fiona on the way back. She said that her son (?) Brand would be running the inn and to easy on him as he's not great at it
Brand
13ish
Pim I've never had a friend
passes out
Brand pokes Pim...
poked by Brand - seizes the boy's arm with one hand and manifested a terrible shadow blade with the other. Deuce grabbed the blade arm and Aldric grabbed the other. Pim came too a bit and settled down. They carried Pim up stairs to sleep it off. Aldric wanted to check on Zelda to be sure no harm was coming to her... Jesse did not leave a good taste in our mouths. Pim snapped out of it a bit more and came along.
Jesse's Girl
Zelda is being a honeypot
pretends to drink his wine while he gets sloshed.
A Quick Look Around
She takes an opportunity to investigates his room
- stuff you would expect for a weapons keeper
- Vanity items
- perfumes
- make up set... not a ladies full one, but some chin line stuff
- crumpled paper
- letter to Volo drafts
- trying to get Volo to write about him.
She peeks out and sees Jesse, pouring another glass and notices that her own glass seems to be stirring...
Zelda goes kinky
disrobes him and ties him up... "answer a question and I'll take something off"
(Why do I picture Farquad's face?)
Has he seen strange symbols?
- an old stone (building stone) sticking out of the mud
- roots of an exposed tree
- stone tablet in the water
- he brought it home
What has he noticed after someone has disappeared?
- swamps were quiet... a bit windy. not good hunting
looks for tablet... finds
- a cloth-wrapped item
- rectangular Stone Tablet (Wall) with Celestial symbols
- chest, trophy box of women's underpants
- Zelda takes them, puts one pair on Jesse as he sleeps
Zelda's Mad at Us
Zelda is furious at Aldric and Deuce (and maybe not Pim as much?) for peeping at her and invading her privacy.