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    Aphonion Tales: Ravenskrag and the Shadowline, a preteen D&D game (lightly edited notes, COMPLETED on 1/20/23)

    Session 8 (July 11, 2020) 10 Tar-Skard (cont’d) They work to set up a barricade out of the fragments of the door into Aleep’s chamber so they can take a long rest. Finn and Bartix work together on the task. The night passes uneventfully—something clawed at the barricade, but left when they...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    [Session 46 cont'd] * * * Dame Brionna prepares to interrogate Llars. It's an Outsider, spells on it are someone else's making. Brionna calls for an exorcist. He looks appropriately creepy. He's happy to help. While Exorcist is setting up, Brionna tries to ask prisoner his real name. "I...
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    Aphonion Tales: Adventures in the Spice Lands and the War in Hanal, a tween and teen D&D game (edited notes, posts Tuesdays, most recent 3/7/23)

    Session 9 (August 16, 2020) They have arrived at the town of Sourdoughville. There is no proper inn, but there is a bed-and-breakfast sort of place. Noah expresses an interest in a room. They get two for 5 cp each. They also get warned that a big caravan got hit hard, three days north. Pretty...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    Session 46 (May 18, 2009): Skard 6 Kit gets a message, which she then brings to the Council. It’s a very disturbing message from a spy in the Debonai armies that are marching south. Some of the ranking officers have now been replaced with here’ku. We discuss the Order of the Ram issues. We...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    [Session 45 cont'd] That evening, a page rushes in. “Lord Davion has appeared. He is injured, and he has another elf with him, and the Lieutenant of the Guard thinks that one is dying. He has asked for a member of the Court.” We hurry to the teleport point. Lord Davion is with a tall, probably...
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    Aphonion Tales: Ravenskrag and the Shadowline, a preteen D&D game (lightly edited notes, COMPLETED on 1/20/23)

    Session 7 (6/27/20) Tar-Skard 10 (cont.) They start in a good sized rectangular room with some fragments of the ceiling on the floor. There are open passages to the north and east. Finn randomly chooses north, and they head up a short passageway to a large, completely empty room, with not even...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    [Session 45 cont'd] We return to the court. We call the ambassador from the Magocracy of Perdun in exile, and a mage comes forward with a jeweled chest. “The Magocracy of Perdun in exile, and someday to be restored through the aid of our allies, is happy to present this gift to our friends in...
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    Aphonion Tales: Adventures in the Spice Lands and the War in Hanal, a tween and teen D&D game (edited notes, posts Tuesdays, most recent 3/7/23)

    Session 8 (7/5/20) 12 Tar-Skard They continue following the road. They have two more days in the Spice Lands, and then they travel through open territory—a few minor more or less independent baronies and towns, and lots of wild land between. The day passes uneventfully as they follow the...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    Session 45 (March 16, 2009) 2 Skard (continued) We send for a redactor, and get an old woman. A very elderly (several hundred years old) half-elf is the first to respond. We swear her to secrecy. “On my honor and on my father’s honor, who was a Sindarim of the Forest of Singing Leaves, I so...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    In this campaign world, neither rakshasa nor their rakasta followers are inherently evil. Some of them are very evil, some are aggressively good. I'm not sure off-hand whether there are substantial numbers of neutral ones, though.
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    [Session 44 cont'd] Kit tries to see if he’s alright, and he is but frightened. He’s fine but they are heading southwest. The demons came out of the storm sewers—this village is where the storm sewers of Brightspan City come out. They are normally scavengers searching through the dregs of the...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    Session 44 (January 26, 2009) 2 Skard To-do list: Court Check out throne Respond to report from skyship in the south about the traitor army Get report from the further searches re: the Privy Secretary Salt stuff Poison in the smokehouses Report back from Sea Elf at Simbolisi (expected today)...
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    Aphonion Tales: Ravenskrag and the Shadowline, a preteen D&D game (lightly edited notes, COMPLETED on 1/20/23)

    Session 6 (6/13/20) [A new character joined the group--Finn, a human fighter. He was only around for a few sessions.] Tar-Skard 10 (cont.): They open the door leading out of the room they were in. The next room, somewhat larger, was once a dining area, some time ago. The former diners are now...
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    Aphonion Tales: Adventures in the Spice Lands and the War in Hanal, a tween and teen D&D game (edited notes, posts Tuesdays, most recent 3/7/23)

    Session 7 (6/21/20) [The group's composition changed a little bit in this time period. Aatla Rein, the cleric, left the group before this session.] 10 Tar-Skard Noah tells the others that he was once a noble, but that he lost most of his memory—apparently this involved some wizards with raven...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    [Session 43 cont'd] When Kit slips off to the bathroom, she gets met by a random serving girl, who signed to Kit in Thieves’ Cant, come here and then went into the bathroom. “The Hand needs you at the Townhouse of the Inner Isles. Quick, before the Guard gets there and mucks everything up.”...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    Session 43 (January 5, 2009) 1 Skard To-do list: Check out throne Respond to report from skyship in the south about the traitor army Get report from the further searches re: the Privy Secretary Salt stuff Conference with the Sea Elf at Simbolisi Decide what to do with the prisoners from Korflok...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    [Session 42 cont'd] We move on to discussing the two armies in the south. Brionna: Mindless humans aren’t subject to morale, or hopeless situations. Is it a magical effect, or some drug being added to the food? Kit agrees to look into it. We have several Rakshasa allies in that area. We call...
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    Aphonion Tales: Ravenskrag and the Shadowline, a preteen D&D game (lightly edited notes, COMPLETED on 1/20/23)

    Session 5 (5/30/20) Tar-Skard 9: They wake up from their rest in the area around Circle Constance. They decide they want to hunt the necromancer raising undead on this side of the line. They decide that they’ll try to find the necromancer by doing patrols in concentric semi-circles around the...
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    Aphonion Tales: Adventures in the Spice Lands and the War in Hanal, a tween and teen D&D game (edited notes, posts Tuesdays, most recent 3/7/23)

    [Housekeeping note: I realized that I was posting notes at basically the same pace that they're being generated. That seems less fun than catching up to the present state of the campaign, so I'm switching to posting a whole session each week. That should let us catch up in a little over six...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    Session 42 (October 21, 2008) 31 O-Kas To-do list: Check out throne Respond to report from skyship in the south about the traitor army Get report from the further searches re: the Privy Secretary Salt stuff Conference with the Sea Elf at Simbolisi Decide what to do with the prisoners from...
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