The Way Back / The First Blizzard
GM POST
With the decision cemented to descend back to your base camp, leaving the mystery of the giant's ice door to rest for another time, you manage – with Logrim's guidance – to craft a makeshift litter for the corpse of the tiefling Astrix. With the fading light of the aurora offering only silhouettes in the darkness below, Aric's flame near the front and Alma's soft red light in the rear, you make your way down from Kelvin's Cairn.
Back past the frozen cave where you faced the yetis and rescued Perilou, the halfling acolyte clutching her torn jacket around herself as the sole survivor of her ill-fated expedition.
Back down the perilous fifty foot ice cliff, relying on a rope system devised by your guide Fieldwalker Corse to lower the corpse litter down.
Back past where you found Garret frostbitten but alive, defending him from the crag cats.
Back across the avalanche now tumbled snow at rest, the fractured unsalvageable remnants of the dog sled scattered among the eerily silent snow drifts.
Back to where you found the sled dogs Kodiak, Mercy, Nomad, Sesi, and Siku. Surely they will be waiting for you back at the basecamp along with Garett and Keegan...
After an hour (it's about 1:30 am), you spot the sled dogs hunkered down outside three tents, one which flickers with lantern light. A dog's whine pierces the night followed by a questioning bark, then two excited barks. Aric recognizes the rough husky sound of the sled dog Boy. The chill cuts deep and your legs are weary from descending the rough terrain while hauling the duergar treasure chest & the corpse, but you are safe. For now.
A stirring comes from the tent, and the flap opens so you can see Keegan Velryn wrapping warm towels over his husband Garret's hands.
"Is that you, friends? I worried you wouldn't make it back down after Garret and the dogs. I have some broth going if you need to warm up..."
Though he's clearly exhausted and resting fitfully, the mountaineer Garret struggles to mouth words through blistered lips, managing to mumble,
"Storm..."
GM: | You've completed a quest! Three more to go till you gain a level.
Current quest(s):
- Cold-Hearted Killer: (quest-giver: Hlin Trollbane) 200 gp offered by merchants of Ten-Towns represented by Rendaril for bringing serial killer to justice, dead or alive
- Mystery of Ol' Bitey's Verse
To Level Up to 4th: Complete a total of 4 quests in the Ten-Towns. You may replace (up to 2) Ten-Towns quests with significantly progressing or resolving your individual character quests.
Completed quests:
- Mountain Climb: (quest-giver: Keegan in Targos) free rooms at The Luskan Arms & discounted sled dogs for rescuing his husband Garret at Kelvin's Cairn
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