2024-07-11 SLAG 007

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Turgle Fancyfoot plays his flute and heals us
The smell's familiar to Deuce... it reminds him of Virgin Weald
(+18 healing)

What to do with the Tablet of Shielding?

We figure that, in general, the Karthan army is probably 1/100 battle mages
so this regiment probably has 5ish and they probably don't have much teleportation magic

We decide to take the Tablet of Shielding to Mirek

We run into Asher Grey and Zelda peels off with him...

The Keeper

Pim and Deuce take the Tablet to Mirek and let him know that, we may expect some recognition. He says "come to me in the morning for your reward"

We update the Holderyns

they are still planning on leaving with us

Asher Grey & Zelda

Zelda chats up Asher Grey
she slides off with him to "rustle his cattle"

Asher's Shack

A cute li'l calf is making sad calf noises. Ol Bessie is healing up. Zelda helps the calf with her aura.

Zelda snoops Asher's bedroom area and finds a bookcase, books are old texts on nature and animals... except one very old book:

Tales from the Age of Blood (Book)

Tales from the Age of Blood (Book)
she finds a legible page:

a Legible Page

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References

  • Amulous
  • Grand Tower
    • Apex of Wrath
  • Shallows
  • The Nameless City
  • Lady of the Tower
    • (likely Magnia Everstorm)
    • Great Mage
    • Savior of Kar'tanos
    • Vanquisher of the United Horde
    • Scourge of the Nameless City
    • Lady Eternal
    • Radiance
  • Battle
    • 7 days

Transcript

Cool, ye blighted land, scoured and ruined.
Drink, let Amulous swallow thy carnage.

Arise, Grand Tower, from acrid smoke
O Great Shining Beacon of Light!
Cast thy burning shadow
'cross the scarred and steaming Shallows

Stand, Lady Of The Tower,
Upon they monument, thyne Apex of Wrath
Defy the Dark, its sweets and its terrors
For Seven Days did they break,
As churning surf against the Walls.

O Great Mage, Savior of Kar'tanos!
Vanquisher of the United Horde!
Scourge of the Nameless City!
Lady Eternal.

May thy radiance burn evermore,
In the embrace of thy Greater
Let thy name meet no unworthy lip,
For thou alone stand above we grateful
In Whose name thou fell in brilliant light.

Dinner and stars and... sexy times

Asher Grey makes Zelda some delicious food, they gaze at the stars, then they bang it out

As soon as he's asleep, Zelda bolts

The Inn

New Day (Novday)

Setson Novday Undday Sowerday Tasday Shalsday Deison
✅
Start
Lillithene's marked
🔼
Today		 ❌
Lillithene's deadline

Reward from Keeper Mirek

Keeper Mirek activates the Tablet of Shielding
a Magic Dome surrounds the city

We have a coach! Doors and everything!
It was delivered by Darius Drake who said to Zelda: "I wish I'd never met you"
and that she trampled his heart. She, unsurprisingly, was unapologetic.

Daine Holderyn and his family are sheepish, and wish to see Nix again
Nix goes and greets each of them
and they are INTO it.

Heading outta town

Deuce is driving the coach out of the city while Zelda reads from her collection of books

Zelda reading her stolen books

The Mortal Immortal (Book)

The Mortal Immortal (Book)

A Passage

"In the war upon the blighted land, the champions of heaven brought their divine fury to bear on their wretched foe in the Battle Of The Slaglight Tower. Immortal beings, full of light, found their divinity tarnished and diffused, their immunity brought low in the company of the infernal masses. Still they fought on, in the name of the heavenly gods. Many Divine fell in the slaughter, and the Gods wept for their sacrifice, flooding the land with their bitter tears."

References

  • War
    • Battle of the Slaglight Tower
  • Champions of Heaven
    • Divine Fury
  • Slaughter
    • Celestials' divinity tarnished and diffused by infernals
    • Gods wept, flooding the land
  • Infernal Masses

Tales From the Blood Age

General Notes

  • Ancient battle bled into the mortal realm when the Heavens and Hells battled
  • Great wars, cities rising and falling
  • Several allusions to a population that doesn't seem to be mentioned (always cut off or page is torn by that name)
  • from Marin
    • The Nameless City was not always nameless
    • the name is gone, stricken

References

  • A population whose name has been stricken from the history

We learn

Pim can read giant and primordial
and calls himself "The A sorcerer of the a storm"

Horses

Deuce wants to talk to the horses drawing the coach... they are... not wise.

Campsite

nat 20! we find a bonza camp site!

Zelda blesses Deuce with Eyes of Night (300ft darkvision)

Watches

  1. Pim - nothing
  2. Deuce - nothing
  3. Zelda - nothing

New Day (Undday)

Setson Novday Undday Sowerday Tasday Shalsday Deison
✅
Start
Lillithene's marked
🔼
Today		 ❌
Lillithene's deadline

Pim awakens with a wooden chit under his chest (4") with a single word in Giant. Pim hides it so the group is unaware.

Pim to the Holderyns "see any clouds with a castle?"
Migi Holderyn saw something... maybe?

Into the Shallows

bandit killed, coinpurse

The Wanderers' Camp

We tell them the Army is coming
they allow us entrance and tear down some branches and we lead the wagons through a secret path

"Marin will know what to do"

300 people in the camp, not that much smaller than Splitriver
each has their job

Aleric little game

Alaric Frostborn Frostborn
a Dragonborn

Saying of Copmora, it's "terrible little town and terrible little people"

Deuce notices Aleric hiding... a tiefling child with books next to him
we figure out that Aleric is teaching the kids magic

Lyric

We are approached by
Lyric Greendue
a wood elf auburn hair, bright white freckles on deep black skin

Why in the swamps?
"easier to keep their camp hidden here"

recent additions are refugees of Trevaleer

Asking Aleric about Stone Tablet (Wall)

Aleric
Stone Tablet (Wall)
Power stone of conjuration, says "wall" used to summon a wall
Pim pushes some mana into it and it glows

50 spell slot levels could get it running again.

Someone is Missing!

Marin was out with a small group and some haven't returned.

Alaric Frostborn flies off and we follow