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<blockquote data-quote="Corran" data-source="post: 651" data-attributes="member: 85"><p><strong>Session 1 – Wednesday, September 26, 2001.</strong></p><p></p><p><em>2 Hammer</em></p><p></p><p>Today I met some new people. A priest of Waukeen from Selgaunt named Cadrach Ivar Tallendar. He seems to be a nice guy, better than those I met in Selgaunt anyway. He was accompanied by two others, a scarred warrior named Calim Russale and a redheaded giant of a man named Varsk Mandrake. I heard Cadrach asking for men to work as guards on a merchant mission to Scardale Town. My curiosity got the better of me and I approached him. The story is that a merchant friend of Cadrach’s family is sailing for Scardale Town soon and he is short a number of guards. Why these guards are so necessary he couldn’t tell me.</p><p></p><p>I invited him and his friends to have dinner with me and we talked about some other things. I learned that Cadrach is scion of the Tallendar family. I knew of the family of course, they deal in jewellery, antiques and furniture. They are not very big and they do most of their business in Amn, Tethyr and Calimshan. Cadrach is looking to start out on his own, but he needs the capital to start his business. Therefore he has plans to attract some adventurers and sponsor them and to go on adventures with them. I’m not so sure if there is much money in that, but he has already found two men willing to go with him. I suggested that we might work together and start a company as partners. He was not very receptive to the idea, which I guess is not very strange.</p><p></p><p>I changed subjects after that and asked him why he had become a priest of Waukeen. With the goddess having returned for only a year or so, I wouldn’t think people are flocking to her faith. What he told me was this: it is common in his family for one member in each generation to join the clergy of Waukeen. Also, with the return of the goddess there was quite a demand for priests and he was made an offer he couldn’t refuse.</p><p></p><p>I also learned some things about his companions. Calim hails from Shadowdale and he is proficient with a bow, he was, I think, being modest here. I’m curious to see how good he really is. I didn’t ask him about the scars in his face, but they are many, and they appear to be old. Varsk is from The North, as far as I can tell he is an Uthgardt barbarian. He told me he was a member of the Great Worm tribe, I think they live somewhere to the north of Silverymoon. In parting I told Cadrach that I would think about this guard work and get back to him.</p><p></p><p><em>3 Hammer</em></p><p></p><p>I did some checking and I found out some things about the guard job. I went to the merchant who is looking for the guards. This man, who is also the captain of the ship, called Anrod Naskurl told me that he is indeed looking for guards. He says he needs the guards because of the pirates that sometimes sail the Dragon Reach and because of the tense situation in divided Scardale Town. He does not think the chances of getting into a fight are great, but going without guards is asking for trouble. I asked him about the Shaking Plague that has decimated the town. According to him the plague has run it’s course and no one has contracted it the last three months. I’m not so sure about that, but Anrod thinks so anyway. I gathered some additional information about the plague and it seems it has gone away. I am getting pretty bored here, and it does give me a chance to visit Scardale and get paid for it as well. We should be back in about a tenday at most. I’ll go and tell Cadrach I’m in.</p><p></p><p><em>4 Hammer</em></p><p></p><p>Today we sailed for Scardale Town, the ship is a schooner called the Blue Dolphin. Cadrach managed to find two more people to accompany us on the journey. One is an Elf wizard from Silverymoon called Celedor Ganascient. I asked him about this year being the Year of Wild Magic and his thoughts on the matter. He said: 'I know something of wild magic, but my interests are purely of a scientific nature. I travel the world to learn about the manifestations of magic and am interested in studying them all. At the University we emphasised control over our powers, and to this I subscribe.' I didn't quite know what to make of that so I left it there. The other adventure is a dwarf who introduced himself as Forgelord Borric Warhammer. He tells me he is the last of the clan Warhammer, although I can’t say I’ve ever come across that name before.</p><p></p><p>Anrod has set up three guard shifts in a rotating schedule. Cadrach, Calim, Varsk, Celedor, Borric and I got the first watch. This guard duty only means we should be on deck, there are no further rules. I took the opportunity to get to know the rest of the guards and crew. There are twenty guards, besides us six, there is one elf and one halfling, the rest are humans. Only three of the guards have bows, I would think having missile weapons on a ship is mandatory for most everyone. Under the other guards there is one priest of Tyr, the others are warriors, mostly from The Vast and the Dalelands. Three of the guards, one woman and two men are Rashemi. The woman is in charge of their little group and she is called Shevarra, I wonder if the name has the same meaning as that of the elven god Shevarash. I asked her if she and her two companions were perhaps on a dejemma but they aren’t. I spent the rest of the day sitting on the deck talking to some of the guards and crew. Most of my companions got a short bout of seasickness, which passed quickly fortunately.</p><p></p><p><em>5 Hammer</em></p><p></p><p>Today two ships were spotted on the horizon. Immediately captain Anrod had ballistae placed and the ship made ready for combat, before the two ships could even be identified. The man is taking no chances what so ever. The ships turned out to be Sembian wargalleys. One came along side and requested to search the ship for weapons once they found out we were headed for Scardale Town. Anrod acceded and a small contingent of Sembians disappeared below deck. The Sembians are of course one of the parties presently holding Scardale Town (along with the Zhents and others) and they wouldn’t want them to be equipped with arms. This is at least what I was told by various people. It seems a bit strange to me, I don’t think you can stop this anyway. What would they do if a Cormyrian ship tried to sail into the harbour, attack it? I don’t think Sembia wants a war with Cormyr, even if Cormyr has enough troubles as it is at the moment. As for the Zhents, if I was them, I would ship the weapons to Harrowdale and bring them to Scardale Town via the Reach Road. In any event, the Sembians didn’t find any weapons on our ship; we are carrying grain and boxes with other trade goods. The Sembian search party disembarked and the two ships sailed south.</p><p> </p><p><em>6 Hammer</em></p><p></p><p>We arrived at Scardale Town today. Unloading started almost immediately, there were more than enough people who wanted a job unloading grain. We will keep the watch schedule going while we are in the harbour. That’s a smart idea, because the town looks like a god picked it up and smashed it down again. There is a lot of hunger, poverty and crime here. Anrod got us lodgings in a dilapidated inn called The Warrior’s Rest. When we are not on guard duty we can eat and sleep in the inn, but the amenities are hardly better than the ship. Oh, Varsk and I both lost a gold piece in a game of cards to Bren, another guard. Tymora certainly was with him this night.</p><p></p><p><em>7 Hammer</em></p><p></p><p>When we were relieved from guard duty today, we noticed that four of the replacements looked quite the worse for wear. They said it was because of the fact that they have to sleep during the daytime, but I’m not convinced. What if the Shaking Plague has reared its ugly head again? Some of my companions think something else entirely is the reason. I’ve volunteered, together with Calim, to observe the four and see if we can find out what’s wrong with them. The guards were relieved by the third guard shift at midnight, nothing happened. But, among the new guards there are another four who look like they’ve been in the Nine Hells for a night. There was nothing more we could do, so I went back to the inn. I locked my door and I’m going to sleep.</p><p></p><p><em>8 Hammer</em></p><p></p><p>According to Borric, one of the guards, a half-elf girl named Iase has been walking around the docks last night. There also was a scuffle with some ruffians before sunrise, it sounds as if they were trying to rob the ship. When they found out the ship was guarded they left. It’s good to know we aren’t standing guard for nothing. Anrod has told us he can’t find any good merchandise for the return trip here in Scardale Town. He wants to take a barge up the River Ashaba to Feather Falls to see if he can find any merchandise there. How he is going to get that merchandise back to Scardale Town I do not know. We, the first guard shift, are going with him.</p><p></p><p>In the afternoon Cadrach and I decide to see if would could learn anything about Iase’s little nocturnal journey. He has a spell to read her mind or something, so I asked her some questions to make her think of last night. It didn’t really work; the only thing Cadrach found out was that she is a smart girl. This night we had more luck. Calim managed to follow a group of four, consisting of the halfling Kunle, Iase, Tima and the Rashemi woman Shevarra, to the ruins of a building. According to him they climbed on the roof and proceeded to observe the Thayan compound to the north. This is bad news; a fight with the Red Wizards is not something I want.</p><p></p><p><em>9 Hammer</em></p><p></p><p>We told Anrod about last night’s observations. He went to talk to Shevarra, and he says he has talked things over and the problem has been solved. I can only hope he is right. We left early in the morning on our trip to Feather Falls. We hired a barge and we travelled at amazing speed up the river. At night we moored the barge and made camp.</p><p></p><p><em>10 Hammer</em></p><p></p><p>This morning we continued our journey. Somewhere after highsun, we suddenly heard a snap and a tree right in front of us fell over the river. At the same time a number of halflings appeared on the north bank and they started to shoot at us! Arrows and javelins were flying all over the place, one javelin landed right at my feet! Two crossbow bolts with ropes attached were shot into the side of the barge, and we were being reeled in. Cadrach reacted quickly and he conjured up a fog that reduced vision to about five feet. I dived for cover and found out that the boat was making water. I communicated the fact and Calim severed one of the ropes attached to the barge.</p><p></p><p>We quickly moved the boat to the south bank and got off. Being outside the fog cloud we see a number of halflings move along the tree to the south bank. Calim grabbed his bow and promptly shot two of them. While I am very impressed with his marksmanship, I cannot understand how he could just shoot them in cold blood. I too had my weapons drawn, but I was going to try and see if we could not come to some kind of understanding. Celedor used a spell to knock out another few halflings and after that the will for battle had left our opponents. At that moment I had a lot of second thoughts about this whole business. I hadn’t counted on getting into a real fight and I don’t like the experience one bit. I certainly hope there won’t be any more fights; this can’t be good for the heart.</p><p></p><p>From the other bank came the request for negotiations, which we accepted. Another halfling started to climb over the tree to our bank. When he arrived he told us his story. This halfling, Murr, and his associates, had been working for a Sembian merchant named Darvak, gathering herbs. When the Sembian came to collect the herbs, he took the wagon containing the herbs, without paying the halflings. When this happened Murr declared war on all humans and decided to go into banditry. We were the first ones he was going to rob. Seeing that none of us got hurt and feeling sorry for the halflings we killed, I suggested that they might find employ with us. He asked what they had to do and he almost at once mentioned smuggling. That was not quite what I had in mind. Together with Cadrach and Calim, we appraised the value of the stolen herbs at around a thousand gold pieces. And the Sembian had agreed to pay twenty five gold pieces! I can’t begin to imagine why he would even begrudge the halflings this paltry sum, seeing what kind of profit he was going to make! We learned from Murr that the halflings might be able to harvest another wagonload of herbs from the forest. We agreed that we would meet again in Scardale Town once we got back.</p><p></p><p>Murr had one other disturbing thing to tell. He said that they had seen drow, four day marches to the North West! According to him they were on the surface, under the heavy foliage of Cormanthor. I can hardly believe it, drow, so close by, and even on the surface. I do not know what it means but it can’t be good. I’ll inform the authorities in Feather Falls, Chandler’s Cross and Scardale Town as soon as I can.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Corran, post: 651, member: 85"] [b]Session 1 – Wednesday, September 26, 2001.[/b] [i]2 Hammer[/i] Today I met some new people. A priest of Waukeen from Selgaunt named Cadrach Ivar Tallendar. He seems to be a nice guy, better than those I met in Selgaunt anyway. He was accompanied by two others, a scarred warrior named Calim Russale and a redheaded giant of a man named Varsk Mandrake. I heard Cadrach asking for men to work as guards on a merchant mission to Scardale Town. My curiosity got the better of me and I approached him. The story is that a merchant friend of Cadrach’s family is sailing for Scardale Town soon and he is short a number of guards. Why these guards are so necessary he couldn’t tell me. I invited him and his friends to have dinner with me and we talked about some other things. I learned that Cadrach is scion of the Tallendar family. I knew of the family of course, they deal in jewellery, antiques and furniture. They are not very big and they do most of their business in Amn, Tethyr and Calimshan. Cadrach is looking to start out on his own, but he needs the capital to start his business. Therefore he has plans to attract some adventurers and sponsor them and to go on adventures with them. I’m not so sure if there is much money in that, but he has already found two men willing to go with him. I suggested that we might work together and start a company as partners. He was not very receptive to the idea, which I guess is not very strange. I changed subjects after that and asked him why he had become a priest of Waukeen. With the goddess having returned for only a year or so, I wouldn’t think people are flocking to her faith. What he told me was this: it is common in his family for one member in each generation to join the clergy of Waukeen. Also, with the return of the goddess there was quite a demand for priests and he was made an offer he couldn’t refuse. I also learned some things about his companions. Calim hails from Shadowdale and he is proficient with a bow, he was, I think, being modest here. I’m curious to see how good he really is. I didn’t ask him about the scars in his face, but they are many, and they appear to be old. Varsk is from The North, as far as I can tell he is an Uthgardt barbarian. He told me he was a member of the Great Worm tribe, I think they live somewhere to the north of Silverymoon. In parting I told Cadrach that I would think about this guard work and get back to him. [i]3 Hammer[/i] I did some checking and I found out some things about the guard job. I went to the merchant who is looking for the guards. This man, who is also the captain of the ship, called Anrod Naskurl told me that he is indeed looking for guards. He says he needs the guards because of the pirates that sometimes sail the Dragon Reach and because of the tense situation in divided Scardale Town. He does not think the chances of getting into a fight are great, but going without guards is asking for trouble. I asked him about the Shaking Plague that has decimated the town. According to him the plague has run it’s course and no one has contracted it the last three months. I’m not so sure about that, but Anrod thinks so anyway. I gathered some additional information about the plague and it seems it has gone away. I am getting pretty bored here, and it does give me a chance to visit Scardale and get paid for it as well. We should be back in about a tenday at most. I’ll go and tell Cadrach I’m in. [i]4 Hammer[/i] Today we sailed for Scardale Town, the ship is a schooner called the Blue Dolphin. Cadrach managed to find two more people to accompany us on the journey. One is an Elf wizard from Silverymoon called Celedor Ganascient. I asked him about this year being the Year of Wild Magic and his thoughts on the matter. He said: 'I know something of wild magic, but my interests are purely of a scientific nature. I travel the world to learn about the manifestations of magic and am interested in studying them all. At the University we emphasised control over our powers, and to this I subscribe.' I didn't quite know what to make of that so I left it there. The other adventure is a dwarf who introduced himself as Forgelord Borric Warhammer. He tells me he is the last of the clan Warhammer, although I can’t say I’ve ever come across that name before. Anrod has set up three guard shifts in a rotating schedule. Cadrach, Calim, Varsk, Celedor, Borric and I got the first watch. This guard duty only means we should be on deck, there are no further rules. I took the opportunity to get to know the rest of the guards and crew. There are twenty guards, besides us six, there is one elf and one halfling, the rest are humans. Only three of the guards have bows, I would think having missile weapons on a ship is mandatory for most everyone. Under the other guards there is one priest of Tyr, the others are warriors, mostly from The Vast and the Dalelands. Three of the guards, one woman and two men are Rashemi. The woman is in charge of their little group and she is called Shevarra, I wonder if the name has the same meaning as that of the elven god Shevarash. I asked her if she and her two companions were perhaps on a dejemma but they aren’t. I spent the rest of the day sitting on the deck talking to some of the guards and crew. Most of my companions got a short bout of seasickness, which passed quickly fortunately. [i]5 Hammer[/i] Today two ships were spotted on the horizon. Immediately captain Anrod had ballistae placed and the ship made ready for combat, before the two ships could even be identified. The man is taking no chances what so ever. The ships turned out to be Sembian wargalleys. One came along side and requested to search the ship for weapons once they found out we were headed for Scardale Town. Anrod acceded and a small contingent of Sembians disappeared below deck. The Sembians are of course one of the parties presently holding Scardale Town (along with the Zhents and others) and they wouldn’t want them to be equipped with arms. This is at least what I was told by various people. It seems a bit strange to me, I don’t think you can stop this anyway. What would they do if a Cormyrian ship tried to sail into the harbour, attack it? I don’t think Sembia wants a war with Cormyr, even if Cormyr has enough troubles as it is at the moment. As for the Zhents, if I was them, I would ship the weapons to Harrowdale and bring them to Scardale Town via the Reach Road. In any event, the Sembians didn’t find any weapons on our ship; we are carrying grain and boxes with other trade goods. The Sembian search party disembarked and the two ships sailed south. [i]6 Hammer[/i] We arrived at Scardale Town today. Unloading started almost immediately, there were more than enough people who wanted a job unloading grain. We will keep the watch schedule going while we are in the harbour. That’s a smart idea, because the town looks like a god picked it up and smashed it down again. There is a lot of hunger, poverty and crime here. Anrod got us lodgings in a dilapidated inn called The Warrior’s Rest. When we are not on guard duty we can eat and sleep in the inn, but the amenities are hardly better than the ship. Oh, Varsk and I both lost a gold piece in a game of cards to Bren, another guard. Tymora certainly was with him this night. [i]7 Hammer[/i] When we were relieved from guard duty today, we noticed that four of the replacements looked quite the worse for wear. They said it was because of the fact that they have to sleep during the daytime, but I’m not convinced. What if the Shaking Plague has reared its ugly head again? Some of my companions think something else entirely is the reason. I’ve volunteered, together with Calim, to observe the four and see if we can find out what’s wrong with them. The guards were relieved by the third guard shift at midnight, nothing happened. But, among the new guards there are another four who look like they’ve been in the Nine Hells for a night. There was nothing more we could do, so I went back to the inn. I locked my door and I’m going to sleep. [i]8 Hammer[/i] According to Borric, one of the guards, a half-elf girl named Iase has been walking around the docks last night. There also was a scuffle with some ruffians before sunrise, it sounds as if they were trying to rob the ship. When they found out the ship was guarded they left. It’s good to know we aren’t standing guard for nothing. Anrod has told us he can’t find any good merchandise for the return trip here in Scardale Town. He wants to take a barge up the River Ashaba to Feather Falls to see if he can find any merchandise there. How he is going to get that merchandise back to Scardale Town I do not know. We, the first guard shift, are going with him. In the afternoon Cadrach and I decide to see if would could learn anything about Iase’s little nocturnal journey. He has a spell to read her mind or something, so I asked her some questions to make her think of last night. It didn’t really work; the only thing Cadrach found out was that she is a smart girl. This night we had more luck. Calim managed to follow a group of four, consisting of the halfling Kunle, Iase, Tima and the Rashemi woman Shevarra, to the ruins of a building. According to him they climbed on the roof and proceeded to observe the Thayan compound to the north. This is bad news; a fight with the Red Wizards is not something I want. [i]9 Hammer[/i] We told Anrod about last night’s observations. He went to talk to Shevarra, and he says he has talked things over and the problem has been solved. I can only hope he is right. We left early in the morning on our trip to Feather Falls. We hired a barge and we travelled at amazing speed up the river. At night we moored the barge and made camp. [i]10 Hammer[/i] This morning we continued our journey. Somewhere after highsun, we suddenly heard a snap and a tree right in front of us fell over the river. At the same time a number of halflings appeared on the north bank and they started to shoot at us! Arrows and javelins were flying all over the place, one javelin landed right at my feet! Two crossbow bolts with ropes attached were shot into the side of the barge, and we were being reeled in. Cadrach reacted quickly and he conjured up a fog that reduced vision to about five feet. I dived for cover and found out that the boat was making water. I communicated the fact and Calim severed one of the ropes attached to the barge. We quickly moved the boat to the south bank and got off. Being outside the fog cloud we see a number of halflings move along the tree to the south bank. Calim grabbed his bow and promptly shot two of them. While I am very impressed with his marksmanship, I cannot understand how he could just shoot them in cold blood. I too had my weapons drawn, but I was going to try and see if we could not come to some kind of understanding. Celedor used a spell to knock out another few halflings and after that the will for battle had left our opponents. At that moment I had a lot of second thoughts about this whole business. I hadn’t counted on getting into a real fight and I don’t like the experience one bit. I certainly hope there won’t be any more fights; this can’t be good for the heart. From the other bank came the request for negotiations, which we accepted. Another halfling started to climb over the tree to our bank. When he arrived he told us his story. This halfling, Murr, and his associates, had been working for a Sembian merchant named Darvak, gathering herbs. When the Sembian came to collect the herbs, he took the wagon containing the herbs, without paying the halflings. When this happened Murr declared war on all humans and decided to go into banditry. We were the first ones he was going to rob. Seeing that none of us got hurt and feeling sorry for the halflings we killed, I suggested that they might find employ with us. He asked what they had to do and he almost at once mentioned smuggling. That was not quite what I had in mind. Together with Cadrach and Calim, we appraised the value of the stolen herbs at around a thousand gold pieces. And the Sembian had agreed to pay twenty five gold pieces! I can’t begin to imagine why he would even begrudge the halflings this paltry sum, seeing what kind of profit he was going to make! We learned from Murr that the halflings might be able to harvest another wagonload of herbs from the forest. We agreed that we would meet again in Scardale Town once we got back. Murr had one other disturbing thing to tell. He said that they had seen drow, four day marches to the North West! According to him they were on the surface, under the heavy foliage of Cormanthor. I can hardly believe it, drow, so close by, and even on the surface. I do not know what it means but it can’t be good. I’ll inform the authorities in Feather Falls, Chandler’s Cross and Scardale Town as soon as I can. [/QUOTE]
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