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[ZEITGEIST] The Continuing Adventures of Korrigan & Co.
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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 6024853" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Session 50</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Session 50</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: RoyalBlue">As quickly as the sun set, it rose again. They barely had time to close their eyes, let alone sleep!</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: RoyalBlue">Following the goblin, they set off again, although all save Conquo were exhausted.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: RoyalBlue">It soon became apparent that the goblin had no idea where he was going. He had played along with their assumption in hopes that they kept him alive. Feeling sorry for the creature, they let him go.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: RoyalBlue">They were well and truly lost, and wandered hopelessly for several days, only very rarely catching just a few hours sleep.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: RoyalBlue">The forests of the Dreaming were very strange. They kept experiencing deja vu and suddenly found themselves in new areas - especially after dawn.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: RoyalBlue">There were many strange encounters: a talking lioness and her adult cubs tried to eat them; they only narrowly avoided falling victim to a night elf boar patrol; and they bandied words with a pair of cutting quicklings and their dire crow pets. The quicklings eventually left them alone, having inadvertently given away several important clues.<br /> </span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: RoyalBlue">Their closest shave was with the terrible Nain Rouge, from whom they only barely escaped with their lives.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: RoyalBlue">Eventually, they came across a party of eladrin courtiers on a day's hunt. Though these members of the unseen court treated them with disdain and amusement, they managed to convince them to help and got directions to the Birch Queen's Fair.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: RoyalBlue">When they arrived, they found the entrance to be guarded by an ettin. Too weak to fight this creature, they variously bribed, sneaked and cajoled their way past it.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: RoyalBlue">Once inside, Bernard went straight into hiding in the tent of an old acquaintance.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: RoyalBlue">The rest explored and found a busy, disorienting and unsettling place, full of sprites, gnomes, elves and eladrin, and all manner of other creatures too.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: RoyalBlue">To their dismay, they soon learned that the fair never ended, but that no one could leave until it did!</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: RoyalBlue">Many more days went by.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: RoyalBlue">The group traded memories with Ambertain the Black Warlock, and learned how to travel on fey roads from Rhorlief the giant wolfman.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: RoyalBlue">Ambertain also told them that the miller's wife Ellessandra had been taken captive by the Nain Rouge...</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: RoyalBlue">Matunaaga took part in an archery tournament and came a respectable second.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: RoyalBlue">In the end, Bernard played his trump card and took the party to meet the Birch Queen.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: RoyalBlue">Immediately, he was captured, beaten and bound: Many decades ago, <em>he</em> had been her consort, but he had escaped before his year was up. (Why, he did not say. And it was anybody's guess: the Birch Queen was pretty hot!)</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: RoyalBlue">Korrigan made use of their audience to win access to the briar barrier that surrounded his wife.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: RoyalBlue">Uru brought a warning to the fey of the corrupting influence of industry.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: RoyalBlue">Conquo (and Leon) learned that his 'mother', Lavanya, had visited the Fair too - buying memories from the merchants there. So she was alive after all!</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: RoyalBlue">The Birch Queen told them that a lot of trouble had been caused of late by Jenny Greenteeth, who was in fact her sister, and was also the debt collector for the fey. The River King was unhappy with broken promises made by the King and lords of Risur, and that is why he was closing the fey crossings.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: RoyalBlue">The unit needed to reach the palace of the River King to deal with Jenny Greenteeth and speak to the River King himself. They also needed to track down the Nain Rouge and rescue Ellesandra.<br /> </span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: RoyalBlue">In return for their courtesy, and for delivering Bernard of Glenwade to her, the Birch Queen gave them permission to travel on the fey road leading from her fair, and ordered one of her courtiers - Dantes (leader of the satyrs they had encountered in Riverbend) - to escort them.</span></li> </ul><p></p><p></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: RoyalBlue">Last but not least, the unit received a <em>messenger wind</em>, that was able to travel between planes thanks to Gale's fey magic:</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: RoyalBlue">"Marshall Korrigan. It's Rumdoom. Thought I'd let you know that I'm alive and heading back to Flint."</span></li> </ul><p>I tried something different this session. Wanting to suggest the passage of time, I turned the party's wandering through the Dreaming into an extended skill challenge, involving navigation, endurance and avoidance of danger.</p><p></p><p>The last part of the report came as a huge surprise to the players. If you remember, several sessions ago - on the return journey from the Sunken Ziggurat - Rumdoom sacrificed himself to save the party from a sea monster.</p><p></p><p>Well... that was all a set-up arranged by Rumdoom's player and me, as he was going to be taking an indefinite amount of time off for the birth of his third child.</p><p></p><p>So once the party get out of the Dreaming, Rumdoom will be back in the fold.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 6024853, member: 79141"] [b]Session 50[/b] [B]Session 50 [/B] [LIST] [*][COLOR=RoyalBlue]As quickly as the sun set, it rose again. They barely had time to close their eyes, let alone sleep![/COLOR] [*][COLOR=RoyalBlue]Following the goblin, they set off again, although all save Conquo were exhausted.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=RoyalBlue]It soon became apparent that the goblin had no idea where he was going. He had played along with their assumption in hopes that they kept him alive. Feeling sorry for the creature, they let him go.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=RoyalBlue]They were well and truly lost, and wandered hopelessly for several days, only very rarely catching just a few hours sleep.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=RoyalBlue]The forests of the Dreaming were very strange. They kept experiencing deja vu and suddenly found themselves in new areas - especially after dawn.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=RoyalBlue]There were many strange encounters: a talking lioness and her adult cubs tried to eat them; they only narrowly avoided falling victim to a night elf boar patrol; and they bandied words with a pair of cutting quicklings and their dire crow pets. The quicklings eventually left them alone, having inadvertently given away several important clues. [/COLOR] [*][COLOR=RoyalBlue]Their closest shave was with the terrible Nain Rouge, from whom they only barely escaped with their lives.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=RoyalBlue]Eventually, they came across a party of eladrin courtiers on a day's hunt. Though these members of the unseen court treated them with disdain and amusement, they managed to convince them to help and got directions to the Birch Queen's Fair.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=RoyalBlue]When they arrived, they found the entrance to be guarded by an ettin. Too weak to fight this creature, they variously bribed, sneaked and cajoled their way past it.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=RoyalBlue]Once inside, Bernard went straight into hiding in the tent of an old acquaintance.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=RoyalBlue]The rest explored and found a busy, disorienting and unsettling place, full of sprites, gnomes, elves and eladrin, and all manner of other creatures too.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=RoyalBlue]To their dismay, they soon learned that the fair never ended, but that no one could leave until it did![/COLOR] [*][COLOR=RoyalBlue]Many more days went by.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=RoyalBlue]The group traded memories with Ambertain the Black Warlock, and learned how to travel on fey roads from Rhorlief the giant wolfman.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=RoyalBlue]Ambertain also told them that the miller's wife Ellessandra had been taken captive by the Nain Rouge...[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=RoyalBlue]Matunaaga took part in an archery tournament and came a respectable second.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=RoyalBlue]In the end, Bernard played his trump card and took the party to meet the Birch Queen.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=RoyalBlue]Immediately, he was captured, beaten and bound: Many decades ago, [I]he[/I] had been her consort, but he had escaped before his year was up. (Why, he did not say. And it was anybody's guess: the Birch Queen was pretty hot!)[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=RoyalBlue]Korrigan made use of their audience to win access to the briar barrier that surrounded his wife.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=RoyalBlue]Uru brought a warning to the fey of the corrupting influence of industry.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=RoyalBlue]Conquo (and Leon) learned that his 'mother', Lavanya, had visited the Fair too - buying memories from the merchants there. So she was alive after all![/COLOR] [*][COLOR=RoyalBlue]The Birch Queen told them that a lot of trouble had been caused of late by Jenny Greenteeth, who was in fact her sister, and was also the debt collector for the fey. The River King was unhappy with broken promises made by the King and lords of Risur, and that is why he was closing the fey crossings.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=RoyalBlue]The unit needed to reach the palace of the River King to deal with Jenny Greenteeth and speak to the River King himself. They also needed to track down the Nain Rouge and rescue Ellesandra. [/COLOR] [*][COLOR=RoyalBlue]In return for their courtesy, and for delivering Bernard of Glenwade to her, the Birch Queen gave them permission to travel on the fey road leading from her fair, and ordered one of her courtiers - Dantes (leader of the satyrs they had encountered in Riverbend) - to escort them.[/COLOR] [/LIST] [LIST] [*][COLOR=RoyalBlue]Last but not least, the unit received a [I]messenger wind[/I], that was able to travel between planes thanks to Gale's fey magic:[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=RoyalBlue]"Marshall Korrigan. It's Rumdoom. Thought I'd let you know that I'm alive and heading back to Flint."[/COLOR] [/LIST] I tried something different this session. Wanting to suggest the passage of time, I turned the party's wandering through the Dreaming into an extended skill challenge, involving navigation, endurance and avoidance of danger. The last part of the report came as a huge surprise to the players. If you remember, several sessions ago - on the return journey from the Sunken Ziggurat - Rumdoom sacrificed himself to save the party from a sea monster. Well... that was all a set-up arranged by Rumdoom's player and me, as he was going to be taking an indefinite amount of time off for the birth of his third child. So once the party get out of the Dreaming, Rumdoom will be back in the fold. [/QUOTE]
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