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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)
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<blockquote data-quote="CPaladin" data-source="post: 8458576" data-attributes="member: 7030144"><p>Session 31 (September 19, 2021)</p><p>16 Chund</p><p></p><p>Noah gives the rest of the group armor with Hanalian symbology on it, and encourages them to wear it while representing Princess Anastasia.</p><p></p><p>The rest of the group largely agrees.</p><p></p><p>Noah also suggests using magic of Whimsey to disrupt their enemies.</p><p></p><p>The flight to Cese Mai is about 4100 miles, so it will take roughly 20 days. The Vad is accompanying them, taking his military voller.</p><p></p><p>Noah asks Ravokris whether he would be willing to use the helm again to make it speed up and Ravokris says that he is, but only as a last resort.</p><p></p><p>2 Tar-Chund</p><p>After 18 days of uneventful travel, while they are in the Spice Lands approaching Cese Mai, the lookout gives a strange cry (probably in the battle speech of the Vad’s house). The captain looks off the port side with a spyglass. He orders the voller to increase speed and for the crew to ready the ballistae.</p><p></p><p>They see a strange ship the like of which they have never seen. It has a strange bag of air floating above its deck, and the crew are humanoid ratpeople.</p><p></p><p>The Vad’s priest identifies it as a plague ship.</p><p></p><p>Noah suggests to Ravokris that this might be an emergency, and Ravokris grudgingly agrees. The captain says that at the current rate they are closing, it will take them 20 minutes to reach range of the disease globes.</p><p></p><p>When the skaven are almost within range, they come within view of one of the few vollers still in the air over the Spice Lands. That voller is an ordinary human-styled voller, but it is crewed by rakasta.</p><p></p><p>Noah asks, “Do you think that if we mirrored the rakasta voller’s broadside we could take it down?”</p><p></p><p>The captain replies, “We don’t even know how they fly—they have no black boxes to make them fly.”</p><p></p><p>The Vad’s priest speculates that puncturing the bag above it might help.</p><p></p><p>Two globes of disease burst on the deck, clearing both crews of the rear ballistae and killing two crewmembers.</p><p></p><p>The captain of the rakasta ship is obviously a paladin of Glordiadel, dressed in fancy clothes that are brilliantly white and trimmed in gold. They ram the rat ship. After some combat and some rat people are carried back, a robed rakasta throws a fire ball at the bag above the skaven. An enormous calamitous explosion erupts, and the flaming rat person ship plunges to the ground.</p><p></p><p>The rakasta ship is largely on fire, though still flying well.</p><p></p><p>“We must help that ship!” says Noah, and the vad agrees.</p><p></p><p>The rakasta captain reports that this is the third of those ships that they have downed in recent days, and that they will gratefully accept aid. The vad’s voller climbs up above them, and dumps drinking water on the burning ship, greatly aiding them in their firefighting.</p><p></p><p>They accompany the group’s voller back to Cese Mai.</p><p></p><p>4 Tar-Chund</p><p>As they travel, they note that many of the plantations have been reclaimed by the wilderness in the six months since they were last here. Cese Mai, however, seems to be rebuilding and repairing. The city also has several new mercenary groups augmenting its guard—recruited from some of the Hanalian remnants.</p><p></p><p>They return to the same inn that they stayed at before, where the innkeep is happy to see them.</p><p></p><p>Noah gives the innkeep a small bag of silver in thanks.</p><p></p><p>The innkeep reports that there is discussion of a permanent alliance with the South Kingdoms. Indeed, it is only since that has begun to be discussed the skaven have started attacking them. Some people fear that the skaven are preparing for an actual invasion. Even the bishop has started to become concerned. He suggests the group pay a courtesy call to the bishop, which they agree to.</p><p></p><p>They also note the presence of a person in the uniform of a lieutenant of the Hanalian infantry, eating with a local woman. Noah approaches him, and says that he represents the Queen-Empress-in-exile’s court and suggests that he and his allies rejoin the Hanalian cause to retake their homeland.</p><p></p><p>“I have taken service with the city, and though I remember fondly my homeland, I still do not understand why I was invading here in the first place—there is a fog about the whole thing. There is an encampment with perhaps a full legion; they have a ‘general’ commanding them, though I am sure he was no more than a captain before they were captured. They have since been given their liberty—you might talk to their leader. As for me… we are to be married in six months. I do not intend to return.”</p><p></p><p>Randall the Purified is both the archbishop of Glordiadel and the regent for young Henry, the titular ruler. Randall is new as archbishop; there was a different archbishop six months ago. It’s slightly awkward that he is both archbishop and a member of the royal household, but since he will not remain as regent, it’s accepted.</p><p></p><p>5 Tar-Chund</p><p>About half a day’s ride out from the city, the group approaches an encampment. There are fields being worked outside the encampment. There are also people keeping watch.</p><p></p><p>Noah greets them, tells them that he is Hanalian, of the same blood and history as them, and that with their aid they can retake their homeland, and that his plan could make them all rich.</p><p></p><p>They say that they must speak to the general, but that they can show him to them. (Noah gives them each 5 silver as largesse.) They travel across hoed fields where new plants are growing.</p><p></p><p>“They let us out of the prison eventually, and you gotta eat. Can’t blame them for holding us for a while—we killed a lot of their civilians. I don’t know why.”</p><p></p><p>They find the general, who is also doing work in the fields.</p><p></p><p>He recognizes Noah’s heraldry.</p><p></p><p>Noah tells him that Hanal’s higher-ups have degenerated into an even greater evil and depravity, and that he has entered the service of the Princess Anastasia’s court in exile. He also tells the general that the Queen-Empress has entered alliance with the most vile and evil cult.</p><p></p><p>The general is surprised to hear that the Princess Anastasia lives. “We had been told, when we were marched through the strange light, that she had been murdered by assassins…”</p><p></p><p>“She still lives. We believe that her enemies wanted her thought dead.” They show the general the tokens of the Princess.</p><p></p><p>Noah describes the group’s success as mercenaries escorting spices north. He suggests that they could make a deal with the remaining plantations, and carry the spice north to support the retaking of Hanal.</p><p></p><p>“We were sent here to capture an artifact. You know—there are at least a few other groups. I will happily join you. I was not meant to be a farmer. That is not something my family did in Hanal City. I will follow you, but we are only 1000 men. You will need more than that.”</p><p></p><p>“We also know of a group of orcs that I hope that we can bring in.”</p><p></p><p>“There are several other groups of a few hundred each, with their own officers, that we could not bring in. Some have turned bandits. Others simply remain separate.”</p><p></p><p>Noah talks about bringing them in. He also talks about uniting them with the Inquisition army and support from other allies, and mentions that they have destroyed the most dangerous of the false Queen-Empress’s weapons.</p><p></p><p>The general is very interested.</p><p></p><p>Suddenly, two tiny darts strike Noah and Ravokris. They each need to make poison saves, which Noah makes easily (taking 13 points of damage) and Ravokris fails, collapsing unconscious but only taking 9 points of damage.</p><p></p><p>Iados and Elyn see that one of the farmers nearby who was just hoeing, is slipping the blow gun back into the handle of his hoe.</p><p></p><p>Elyn tries to treat Ravokris, and Sister Agnes casts Lesser Restoration to heal the poison. Noah is stomping around the fields trying to find the assassin but ineffectually.</p><p></p><p>Sister Agnes says, “I will heal Ravokris. You must find the assassin before he strikes again.”</p><p></p><p>Elyn whispers, “It’s that man over there, pretending to be a farmer.”</p><p></p><p>“I suggest you head in his general direction as if you don’t know where he is, and then take him alive.”</p><p></p><p>Elyn follows the plan and grabs him suddenly.</p><p></p><p>He is taken by surprise by the grapple, but calls out “For the Queen-Empress and the Bones!” and spits at her, with teeth flying out of his mouth as he does, probably the verbal component of a spell. Elyn dodges her face out of the way.</p><p></p><p>Noah searches for a second assassin—two darts, two assassins, he reasons.</p><p></p><p>Iados shoots the grappled assassin with him, hitting him for 16 points of damage.</p><p></p><p>Sister Agnes detects poison and disease, and detects disease and poison. She sees another one with disease and poison in his hoe moving stealthily towards the general. She interposes herself and denounces the assassin. Noah rushes him, grabs him, and throws him to the ground.</p><p></p><p>Noah starts threatening him as he holds him down. The assassin repeats the same words and spits at him, but Noah makes his save easily.</p><p></p><p>Noah keeps punching the one he has captured in the face. He seems remarkably durable, though—his face seems to bend around Noah’s fist.</p><p></p><p>Elyn also notes that the one that Iados shot, which Sister Agnes stabilized, is slowly losing his form.</p><p></p><p>“How much does the Queen-Empress know?”</p><p></p><p>“She knows that we failed; she knows that you are here, for we have seen you.”</p><p></p><p>The general’s medic attends to Ravokris and murmurs, “Those are imperial intelligence, sure as I’m alive.”</p><p></p><p>Sister Agnes sees that there is clear, glistening ichor from the wound. “I think they’re doppelgangers.”</p><p></p><p>Noah tries to get them to switch sides. They agree. He suggests that they could be useful for the Princess Anastasia’s intelligence apparatus and asks Sister Agnes if she can put them in a zone of truth. She agrees to do so the following day.</p><p></p><p>Sister Agnes removes poison and disease from both Ravokris and Noah, and points out that they may be obligated to turn them over to the Archbishop.</p><p>[End session 31]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CPaladin, post: 8458576, member: 7030144"] Session 31 (September 19, 2021) 16 Chund Noah gives the rest of the group armor with Hanalian symbology on it, and encourages them to wear it while representing Princess Anastasia. The rest of the group largely agrees. Noah also suggests using magic of Whimsey to disrupt their enemies. The flight to Cese Mai is about 4100 miles, so it will take roughly 20 days. The Vad is accompanying them, taking his military voller. Noah asks Ravokris whether he would be willing to use the helm again to make it speed up and Ravokris says that he is, but only as a last resort. 2 Tar-Chund After 18 days of uneventful travel, while they are in the Spice Lands approaching Cese Mai, the lookout gives a strange cry (probably in the battle speech of the Vad’s house). The captain looks off the port side with a spyglass. He orders the voller to increase speed and for the crew to ready the ballistae. They see a strange ship the like of which they have never seen. It has a strange bag of air floating above its deck, and the crew are humanoid ratpeople. The Vad’s priest identifies it as a plague ship. Noah suggests to Ravokris that this might be an emergency, and Ravokris grudgingly agrees. The captain says that at the current rate they are closing, it will take them 20 minutes to reach range of the disease globes. When the skaven are almost within range, they come within view of one of the few vollers still in the air over the Spice Lands. That voller is an ordinary human-styled voller, but it is crewed by rakasta. Noah asks, “Do you think that if we mirrored the rakasta voller’s broadside we could take it down?” The captain replies, “We don’t even know how they fly—they have no black boxes to make them fly.” The Vad’s priest speculates that puncturing the bag above it might help. Two globes of disease burst on the deck, clearing both crews of the rear ballistae and killing two crewmembers. The captain of the rakasta ship is obviously a paladin of Glordiadel, dressed in fancy clothes that are brilliantly white and trimmed in gold. They ram the rat ship. After some combat and some rat people are carried back, a robed rakasta throws a fire ball at the bag above the skaven. An enormous calamitous explosion erupts, and the flaming rat person ship plunges to the ground. The rakasta ship is largely on fire, though still flying well. “We must help that ship!” says Noah, and the vad agrees. The rakasta captain reports that this is the third of those ships that they have downed in recent days, and that they will gratefully accept aid. The vad’s voller climbs up above them, and dumps drinking water on the burning ship, greatly aiding them in their firefighting. They accompany the group’s voller back to Cese Mai. 4 Tar-Chund As they travel, they note that many of the plantations have been reclaimed by the wilderness in the six months since they were last here. Cese Mai, however, seems to be rebuilding and repairing. The city also has several new mercenary groups augmenting its guard—recruited from some of the Hanalian remnants. They return to the same inn that they stayed at before, where the innkeep is happy to see them. Noah gives the innkeep a small bag of silver in thanks. The innkeep reports that there is discussion of a permanent alliance with the South Kingdoms. Indeed, it is only since that has begun to be discussed the skaven have started attacking them. Some people fear that the skaven are preparing for an actual invasion. Even the bishop has started to become concerned. He suggests the group pay a courtesy call to the bishop, which they agree to. They also note the presence of a person in the uniform of a lieutenant of the Hanalian infantry, eating with a local woman. Noah approaches him, and says that he represents the Queen-Empress-in-exile’s court and suggests that he and his allies rejoin the Hanalian cause to retake their homeland. “I have taken service with the city, and though I remember fondly my homeland, I still do not understand why I was invading here in the first place—there is a fog about the whole thing. There is an encampment with perhaps a full legion; they have a ‘general’ commanding them, though I am sure he was no more than a captain before they were captured. They have since been given their liberty—you might talk to their leader. As for me… we are to be married in six months. I do not intend to return.” Randall the Purified is both the archbishop of Glordiadel and the regent for young Henry, the titular ruler. Randall is new as archbishop; there was a different archbishop six months ago. It’s slightly awkward that he is both archbishop and a member of the royal household, but since he will not remain as regent, it’s accepted. 5 Tar-Chund About half a day’s ride out from the city, the group approaches an encampment. There are fields being worked outside the encampment. There are also people keeping watch. Noah greets them, tells them that he is Hanalian, of the same blood and history as them, and that with their aid they can retake their homeland, and that his plan could make them all rich. They say that they must speak to the general, but that they can show him to them. (Noah gives them each 5 silver as largesse.) They travel across hoed fields where new plants are growing. “They let us out of the prison eventually, and you gotta eat. Can’t blame them for holding us for a while—we killed a lot of their civilians. I don’t know why.” They find the general, who is also doing work in the fields. He recognizes Noah’s heraldry. Noah tells him that Hanal’s higher-ups have degenerated into an even greater evil and depravity, and that he has entered the service of the Princess Anastasia’s court in exile. He also tells the general that the Queen-Empress has entered alliance with the most vile and evil cult. The general is surprised to hear that the Princess Anastasia lives. “We had been told, when we were marched through the strange light, that she had been murdered by assassins…” “She still lives. We believe that her enemies wanted her thought dead.” They show the general the tokens of the Princess. Noah describes the group’s success as mercenaries escorting spices north. He suggests that they could make a deal with the remaining plantations, and carry the spice north to support the retaking of Hanal. “We were sent here to capture an artifact. You know—there are at least a few other groups. I will happily join you. I was not meant to be a farmer. That is not something my family did in Hanal City. I will follow you, but we are only 1000 men. You will need more than that.” “We also know of a group of orcs that I hope that we can bring in.” “There are several other groups of a few hundred each, with their own officers, that we could not bring in. Some have turned bandits. Others simply remain separate.” Noah talks about bringing them in. He also talks about uniting them with the Inquisition army and support from other allies, and mentions that they have destroyed the most dangerous of the false Queen-Empress’s weapons. The general is very interested. Suddenly, two tiny darts strike Noah and Ravokris. They each need to make poison saves, which Noah makes easily (taking 13 points of damage) and Ravokris fails, collapsing unconscious but only taking 9 points of damage. Iados and Elyn see that one of the farmers nearby who was just hoeing, is slipping the blow gun back into the handle of his hoe. Elyn tries to treat Ravokris, and Sister Agnes casts Lesser Restoration to heal the poison. Noah is stomping around the fields trying to find the assassin but ineffectually. Sister Agnes says, “I will heal Ravokris. You must find the assassin before he strikes again.” Elyn whispers, “It’s that man over there, pretending to be a farmer.” “I suggest you head in his general direction as if you don’t know where he is, and then take him alive.” Elyn follows the plan and grabs him suddenly. He is taken by surprise by the grapple, but calls out “For the Queen-Empress and the Bones!” and spits at her, with teeth flying out of his mouth as he does, probably the verbal component of a spell. Elyn dodges her face out of the way. Noah searches for a second assassin—two darts, two assassins, he reasons. Iados shoots the grappled assassin with him, hitting him for 16 points of damage. Sister Agnes detects poison and disease, and detects disease and poison. She sees another one with disease and poison in his hoe moving stealthily towards the general. She interposes herself and denounces the assassin. Noah rushes him, grabs him, and throws him to the ground. Noah starts threatening him as he holds him down. The assassin repeats the same words and spits at him, but Noah makes his save easily. Noah keeps punching the one he has captured in the face. He seems remarkably durable, though—his face seems to bend around Noah’s fist. Elyn also notes that the one that Iados shot, which Sister Agnes stabilized, is slowly losing his form. “How much does the Queen-Empress know?” “She knows that we failed; she knows that you are here, for we have seen you.” The general’s medic attends to Ravokris and murmurs, “Those are imperial intelligence, sure as I’m alive.” Sister Agnes sees that there is clear, glistening ichor from the wound. “I think they’re doppelgangers.” Noah tries to get them to switch sides. They agree. He suggests that they could be useful for the Princess Anastasia’s intelligence apparatus and asks Sister Agnes if she can put them in a zone of truth. She agrees to do so the following day. Sister Agnes removes poison and disease from both Ravokris and Noah, and points out that they may be obligated to turn them over to the Archbishop. [End session 31] [/QUOTE]
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