Isklexi
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A Season Slain
Afternoon
The march to the old orphanage was uneventful. The orphanage itself was built in the crown of an ancient tree a hundred feet off the ground. A plain wooden staircase spiraled up the trunk of the tree. Doran and Asrabey began clambering up the side of the tree while the rest of the constables made use of the stairs. Partway up the trunk, Doran and Asrabey came under fire from a pair of tiny gremlins called Pugwampis. Asrabey and Doran were able to scramble up the tree and dispatch the nuisances before the other constabels reached the top.
The orphanage itself had certainly seen better days. An eerie quiet pervaded the building. Twigs and leaves sprouted from every warped wooden surface as though each wooden plank was trying to set down roots and grow anew. The constables decided to clear the orphanage in a rapid assault to prevent the occupants from organizing. They swept into the central building and went from room to room in a running battle with the small horde of gremlins within. While tenacious, the gremlins proved no match for the combined powers of the RHC constables and Vekeshi dreadnaught.
With no sign of the children, the party moved to search to satellite buildings along the tree’s boughs. They easily found the orphans after prying the doors open on the dormitories. They assured the frightened children that they were here to rescue them and to stay put until the coast was clear. The children also warned that the leader of the angry fey had claimed the Headmaster’s office on the tree’s southern branches. Once they determined all the children were safe, the party moved to cautiously investigate the Headmaster’s office.
The constables could see into the apparently empty office through the shattered door that hung limply on its hinges. Asrabey urged caution because powerful fey lords could step between Lanjyr and the Dreaming at will. When the party approached the office door, a floating mask appeared before them and began to speak. “Greetings. I am Ekossigan of Spring.” Kirk reflexively hurled a dagger that passed through the floating mask unhindered to clatter against the wall behind it. Asrabey warned the constables that Ekossigan would be impervious to harm until he had completely transitioned into the physical world. Ekossigan then mocked Asrabey claiming to know of his missing wife and revealing how he would sacrifice the orphans to open a rift into the Bleak Gate to stamp out the evil there. Then the tree began to shake and the children cried out in fear as Ekossigan’s army of enthralled fey began to pour forth from the forest. Asrabey asked the constables to take Ekossigan alive for questioning then dashed down the stairs to stop the horde of fey from climbing up the tree. Finally, Ekossigan stepped fully into the physical world with a blinding flash of light that turned the driving rain into a blizzard. With a final quip the battle was joined, “Greetings. I am Ekossigan of Winter!”
Ekossigan summoned fey snow leopards to aid him and lashed out at the constables with freezing magic and grasping vines. Maddox quickly drew Ekossigan’s ire with the special fragmentation grenades he had custom built with cold iron shrapnel. Rai also kept the wintry Archfey hard pressed with his blistering fire magic. Sensing the impending collapse of the old tree, Irony ran to the dormitories to herd the orphans into the central building away from the boughs dangerously overburdened by freezing rain. The battle quickly spilled out onto the thick foliage of the tree. Doran narrowly managed to grab a branch when Ekossigan nearly flung him from the tree with a blast of magical ice. In the end, the constables overpowered the rouge fey lord with Kirk striking the final blow. The constables then dragged the unconscious villain into the orphanage’s dining hall for questioning.
Asrabey unceremoniously awoke the fallen fey lord by slamming his head against one of the tables until he stirred, breaking off one of Ekossigan’s wooden antlers. The Eladrin dreadnaught managed to get Ekossigan to tell him of a vision where he saw Asrabey’s wife held prisoner somewhere inside the Bleak Gate facility. Asrabey then executed Ekossigan using a silver dagger for his crimes against the Unseen Court.
Asrabey thanked the constables for their aid and said he would ask King Aodhan’s permission to join them on their mission into the Bleak Gate. The party then escorted the traumatized children back into town past the foot of the tree where Asrabey had been forced to kill many fey; their broken forms left littering the ground. Asrabey remained behind in the forest to try and set right the harm done by Ekossigan to the forest’s inhabitants.
Afternoon
The march to the old orphanage was uneventful. The orphanage itself was built in the crown of an ancient tree a hundred feet off the ground. A plain wooden staircase spiraled up the trunk of the tree. Doran and Asrabey began clambering up the side of the tree while the rest of the constables made use of the stairs. Partway up the trunk, Doran and Asrabey came under fire from a pair of tiny gremlins called Pugwampis. Asrabey and Doran were able to scramble up the tree and dispatch the nuisances before the other constabels reached the top.
The orphanage itself had certainly seen better days. An eerie quiet pervaded the building. Twigs and leaves sprouted from every warped wooden surface as though each wooden plank was trying to set down roots and grow anew. The constables decided to clear the orphanage in a rapid assault to prevent the occupants from organizing. They swept into the central building and went from room to room in a running battle with the small horde of gremlins within. While tenacious, the gremlins proved no match for the combined powers of the RHC constables and Vekeshi dreadnaught.
With no sign of the children, the party moved to search to satellite buildings along the tree’s boughs. They easily found the orphans after prying the doors open on the dormitories. They assured the frightened children that they were here to rescue them and to stay put until the coast was clear. The children also warned that the leader of the angry fey had claimed the Headmaster’s office on the tree’s southern branches. Once they determined all the children were safe, the party moved to cautiously investigate the Headmaster’s office.
The constables could see into the apparently empty office through the shattered door that hung limply on its hinges. Asrabey urged caution because powerful fey lords could step between Lanjyr and the Dreaming at will. When the party approached the office door, a floating mask appeared before them and began to speak. “Greetings. I am Ekossigan of Spring.” Kirk reflexively hurled a dagger that passed through the floating mask unhindered to clatter against the wall behind it. Asrabey warned the constables that Ekossigan would be impervious to harm until he had completely transitioned into the physical world. Ekossigan then mocked Asrabey claiming to know of his missing wife and revealing how he would sacrifice the orphans to open a rift into the Bleak Gate to stamp out the evil there. Then the tree began to shake and the children cried out in fear as Ekossigan’s army of enthralled fey began to pour forth from the forest. Asrabey asked the constables to take Ekossigan alive for questioning then dashed down the stairs to stop the horde of fey from climbing up the tree. Finally, Ekossigan stepped fully into the physical world with a blinding flash of light that turned the driving rain into a blizzard. With a final quip the battle was joined, “Greetings. I am Ekossigan of Winter!”
Ekossigan summoned fey snow leopards to aid him and lashed out at the constables with freezing magic and grasping vines. Maddox quickly drew Ekossigan’s ire with the special fragmentation grenades he had custom built with cold iron shrapnel. Rai also kept the wintry Archfey hard pressed with his blistering fire magic. Sensing the impending collapse of the old tree, Irony ran to the dormitories to herd the orphans into the central building away from the boughs dangerously overburdened by freezing rain. The battle quickly spilled out onto the thick foliage of the tree. Doran narrowly managed to grab a branch when Ekossigan nearly flung him from the tree with a blast of magical ice. In the end, the constables overpowered the rouge fey lord with Kirk striking the final blow. The constables then dragged the unconscious villain into the orphanage’s dining hall for questioning.
Asrabey unceremoniously awoke the fallen fey lord by slamming his head against one of the tables until he stirred, breaking off one of Ekossigan’s wooden antlers. The Eladrin dreadnaught managed to get Ekossigan to tell him of a vision where he saw Asrabey’s wife held prisoner somewhere inside the Bleak Gate facility. Asrabey then executed Ekossigan using a silver dagger for his crimes against the Unseen Court.
Asrabey thanked the constables for their aid and said he would ask King Aodhan’s permission to join them on their mission into the Bleak Gate. The party then escorted the traumatized children back into town past the foot of the tree where Asrabey had been forced to kill many fey; their broken forms left littering the ground. Asrabey remained behind in the forest to try and set right the harm done by Ekossigan to the forest’s inhabitants.
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