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Investigate Origin of Skeletons

Submitted by dracon on Tue, 09/21/2021 - 23:37
Kenostag, 2nd prime post-Planting 1055
Log Entry Type
Archivist Entry
Recordkeeper
Nyls Ardeni
Days in Game
1 day
Archive Entry
  • Tai Ho'onani, Lorilla Anahera Amaia Turen Itu {Ana}, Ondar Thundercaller, Nix Frostshaper, Timmy, and Lorcan Puddingrass Pasternack Tuinstra accepted a mission from Kaiea Tihani, Mayor of Cliffshadow, to investigate the origin of the skeletons found in the Wendehals mausoleum.
  • The Freelancers visited the Academy of Magic, inquiring of any unusual student activity related to necromancy.  They discovered Roberto Wendehals had actually engaged with Darag, one of the instructors, to learn necromancy, ostensibly to reduce costs of his carting business.
  • The Freelancers visited the Hall of Records to find out more about the Wendehals and Roberto in particular.  They learned that Roberto had died a year previously, with no heirs, but had been in the company of an elegant lady for some time before his death.
  • The Freelancers revisited the Wendehals mausoleum in the Parkside cemetery to confirm his internment.  They found Roberto's grave clearly marked therein, but it was empty
  • By opening the sarcophagus, the Freelancers triggered a glyph of warding, and revived the 6 skeletons from the prior visit, which they fought and defeated.
  • The Freelancers examined Roberto's empty sarcophagus, which appeared unused by any corpse, and found a secret cache with coins worth 353 eagles, and a mysterious map.
  • The Freelancers informed the Mayor, who accepted the map, but declined the gold.  He paid them their fee of 100 eagles each.
  • Returned to Freelancers Tavern same day.
Loot
  • Coin:  353 eagles
  • Mission pay:  100 eagles each (10% to Freelancers)
Tags
investigation
skeletons
research
Storyline
The Last of the Wendehals
Session Dates

Pirates River Pollution - Highway to Grell

Submitted by dracon on Wed, 09/15/2021 - 23:57
Remitag, 2nd prime post-Planting 1055
Log Entry Type
Archivist Entry
Recordkeeper
Nyls Ardeni
Days in Game
10 days
Archive Entry
  • Cathance Lobdhain, Kaelani, Ondar Thundercaller, and Nix Frostshaper accepted the standing mission from the wizard Gwidion to clean up altered wildlife along Pirates River.
  • The Freelancers took 3 days to travel to Cliffgate, then Lakeview, and arrived without incident.
  • From Lakeview, they started a search northwest of Lake Mossey.  On the second day out of Lakeview, the Freelancers encountered a pair of grells.
  • The Freelancers fought and slew 3 grells, which were apparently comfortable in the river.
  • Nix harvested some of the grell's tentacles, and Kaelani found the grells had a small stash, which he stowed in a sack for later.
    • Acquired: 181 eagles in assorted coins, 1 bloodstone, 3 sardonyx, +1 warhammer, hat of disguise, and a stone of good luck. 
  • The Freelancers returned to Cliffshadow cross country.
  • Arnari Rilynn’sithek paid 90 eagles each and disbursed the potion rewards:  philter of love (Nix), potion of animal friendship (Kaelani), potion of poison (Cathance), and potion of growth (Ondar).  She successfully convinced Ondar not to drink his right away, sparing the ceilings.
  • Returned to Freelancers Tavern Oriotag, 2nd prime post-Planting.
Loot
  • Coin: 181 eagles (assorted)
  • 50-eagle Gems: 1 bloodstone, 3 sardonyx
  • +1 warhammer
  • hat of disguise
  • stone of good luck
  • Mission pay:  100 eagles each (10% to Freelancers) and an uncommon potion each: philter of love (Nix), potion of animal friendship (Kaelani), potion of poison (Cathance), and potion of growth (Ondar).
Tags
mutants
Storyline
Pollution Consequences
Session Dates

Sceap Missing Sheep

Submitted by dracon on Mon, 08/30/2021 - 08:34
Oriotag, last prime post-Fulcrum 1055
Log Entry Type
Archivist Entry
Recordkeeper
Nyls Ardeni
Days in Game
14 days
Archive Entry
  • Ondar Thundercaller, Mia Taumata, Block Lamtand, Nix Frostshaper, and Lorcan Puddingrass Pasternack Tuinstra accepted a mission from Mayor Ethan of Three Rivers to investigate a problem with sheep going mysteriously missing from the herds managed by the hamlet Sceap.
  • The Freelancers travelled to Sceap in 6 days without incident.  
  • Upon arrival in Sceap, the Freelancers gathered information from the villagers.  Block cast speak with animals to talk to the sheep directly; Mia interviewed a shepherd; and Nix chatted with the town drunk.  Lorcan discussed with Malsam, the headman, how Sceap tracks its sheep.
  • The following day, the Freelancers secured a sheep, then searched southwest for the location where the sheep had gone missing.  In the late afternoon, they found the pasture, and discovered trenches tearing up the ground.
  • Thwarted by the trenches, Mia tried stomping the ground, and the Freelancers were subsequently attacked by three ankheg, which they slew.
  • Mia took one of the heads, and Block and Lorcan harvested the ankheg acid, delaying their return to Sceap.  Unwilling to camp where the trenches were, the Freelancers moved an hour northeast and camped there, returning the following day.
  • The Sceap villagers were horrified by the ankheg head.  Malsam paid the Freelancers their fee of 150 eagles each and composed a mission request asking for help cleaning out the nest.
  • Malsam mounted the ankheg head in the center of the village, then told all the shepherds not to take their flocks in the southwest direction.
  • The Freelancers returned to Cliffshadow in 6 days without incident and delivered the mission request.
  • Returned to Freelancers Tavern Kenostag, first prime post-Planting.
Loot
  • 2 vials ant acid (1 each Lorcan & Block)
  • Mission Pay:  150 eagles each (10% to Freelancers)
Tags
large bitey creatures
Storyline
Ankhegs
Session Dates

House Hadid Garden Party

Submitted by dracon on Sat, 09/25/2021 - 13:33
Chaostag, 1st prime post-Planting 1055
Log Entry Type
Archivist Entry
Recordkeeper
Estarai Grayaere
Days in Game
1 day
Archive Entry
  • Damakaios, leader of the Ripa Daneo Freelancers, selected Dryali Tezbeth, Fine Branch, Terrance, Tahu Tuala, and Tuala to accompany himself to the House Hadid Garden Party, post-Planting.  Freelancer security had been requested by the House and naturally Damakaios would not pass up the opportunity to attend.
  • They spent the next day ensuring they would be properly dressed for the occasion, with varying levels of success.  Fine Branch opted for scandalous, using disguise self to appear as a naked black nekomata.
  • They also realized they had been expected to have learned something about the various houses of Ripa Daneo, and belatedly tried to learn a bit about House Hadid.  They did not ask me, but learned enough to make do.
  • That evening, Damakaios rented a carriage for transport to the villa.  Upon arrival, the Freelancers circulated, looking for trouble without being ostentatious.
  • Fine Branch found unexpectedly poisonous plants in the atrium using detect poison and disease, and Dryali informed the others they were assassin vines from the Nadezhda jungle: ambulatory and very dangerous.
  • Tahu announced to the party that the Freelancers had prepared an entertainment, causing the crush to back away; then they engaged the assassin vines.
  • Somehow Terrance provoked one of the central trees into becoming ambulatory and attacking her, then Damakaios!
  • The Freelancers dispatched the assassin vines and the tree, adding enough flourishes to convince much of the crowd it was just a show.  That effort was belied by the tree, which bit Damakaios during the altercation.
  • House Hadid calmed the crowd and played it off as a planned spectacle, of course.  Afterward, the House elders, unpleased, let Damakaios know they were likely to contract with Freelancers to investigate the origin of these circumstances.
  • Returned to Freelancers Tavern well after midnight the same evening.
Loot
  • Mission pay:  300 eagles (10% cut to Freelancers)
Tags
escort
bouncers
awakened
Storyline
Textile Rivalries
Session Dates

Roster change

Submitted by dracon on Fri, 11/12/2021 - 19:28
Okeanostag, last prime post-Fulcrum 1055
Log Entry Type
Archivist Entry
Recordkeeper
Nyls Ardeni
Archive Entry
  • Nix Frostshaper, a human guild artisan from Sheerness, joined Freelancers Guild

Skeletons in the Graveyard

Submitted by dracon on Tue, 08/17/2021 - 00:22
Okeanostag, last prime post-Fulcrum 1055
Log Entry Type
Archivist Entry
Recordkeeper
Nyls Ardeni
Days in Game
1 day
Archive Entry
  • Tai Ho'onani, Lorilla Anahera Amaia Turen Itu {Ana}, Glesni Bōhatei, Khalid Malone, and Torinn Myastan accepted a mission from Kaiea Tihani, Mayor of Cliffshadow, to investigate and stop noises from the graveyard in Parkside which had been disturbing nearby residents.
  • The Freelancers visited the Parkside graveyard in the late morning, and got a tour from the groundskeeper Dinkin, a stout human.
  • After the tour, Ana's familiar Hawkie located a mausoleum with an open door, the Wendehals.  The Freelancers investigated and were attacked by disembodied hands and feet, which they easily dispatched.
  • Ana cast detect magic and the Freelancers descended into the catacombs below, after Glesni sent a message to Arnari Rilynn’sithek that the strange graveyard noises were not teenagers, but some necromancy.
  • The Freelancers encountered 6 animated skeletons, which they dispatched.
  • Ana continued her detect magic as the Freelancers investigate the catacombs, the skeleton bones, and the sarcophagi.  They concluded the skeletons were not from the interred bodies, but had items useful to the living.
    • Acquired:  130 eagles in assorted coins; 8 gemstones worth 50 eagles each (1 carnelian, 2 chalcedony, 1 chrysoprase, 1 onyx, 1 quartz, and 2 star rose quartz); +1 battleaxe, Winged Boots, and Handy Spice Pouch.
  • The Freelancers emerged from the mausoleum and probed Dinkin to see if he'd known about their findings, but only succeeded in scaring him. 
  • They returned to Freelancers Tavern same day and Arnari paid the fee of 90 eagles each.
Loot
  • Coin: 130 eagles in assorted coins
  • Gems: 8 gemstones worth 50 eagles each (1 carnelian, 2 chalcedony, 1 chrysoprase, 1 onyx, 1 quartz, and 2 star rose quartz)
  •  +1 battleaxe
  • Winged Boots
  • Handy Spice Pouch
  • Mission Pay:  100 eagles each (10% to Freelancers)
Tags
skeletons
graveyard
Storyline
The Last of the Wendehals
Duquesne Goodwill
Session Dates

Locate Kobold Stronghold

Submitted by dracon on Sat, 11/13/2021 - 11:25
Oriotag, 3rd prime post-Fulcrum 1055
Log Entry Type
Archivist Entry
Recordkeeper
Nyls Ardeni
Days in Game
10 days
Archive Entry
  • Cathance Lobdhain, Kaelani, Ondar Thundercaller, Osric Torunn, Mia Taumata, and Ka Kekoa accepted the mission from Taleisin of the Orderly Stones Monastery to find the origin of the kobolds who have been apparently training apex predators to attack the monks and their herds.
  • The Freelancers travelled to Orderly Stones monastery in two days without incident and overnighted there.
  • The Freelancers hiked to the remaining unexplored gap in the map of apex predator lairs, to the northwest of the monastery.  They found no sign of predators, in the clearing and natural cave, but Kaelani spotted a crude snake carved into a nearby tree maybe an eighth ago.
  • Cathance interpreted the snake carved into a tree as a trail blaze from the north.  Realizing the tree is unusual, she started searching for others on Jigsaw.  Upon her finding another tree with the blaze, Osric started helping find others, and they continued, with the group heading northward, until they found kobold tracks.
  • The Freelancers camped, then continued northward by backtracking blazed trees, taking care to be stealthy.  Their second night of camping was mostly without any watch, since Ondar fell asleep.
  • The afternoon on the following day the Freelancers spotted a kobold patrol, including fliers, which they followed stealthily at a safe distance.  A couple hours later, the patrol returned to a hidden opening 60' up a cliff face:  the kobold stronghold.
    • They observed that the opening in the cliff face would require kobold-sized creatures to negotiate the handholds.  The opening, which was guarded, was a cave 20' wide by 10' tall, so flying mounts could easily land there and discharge riders.
  • Three days later, the Freelancers arrived back at Orderly Stones monastery with the news.  Ondar drew out the map of where they'd scouted, and Taleisin paid the fee of 200 eagles each.
  • Returned to Freelancers Tavern Rochtag, last prime post-Fulcrum.
Loot
  • Mission pay:  200 eagles each (10% to Freelancers)
Tags
kobolds
scouting
Storyline
Kobold incursions around Orderly Stones
Session Dates

Waylaid by Winter Wolves

Submitted by dracon on Sun, 08/01/2021 - 09:57
Nemostag, 3rd prime post-Fulcrum 1055
Log Entry Type
Archivist Entry
Recordkeeper
Nyls Ardeni
Days in Game
6 days
Archive Entry
  • Cathance Lobdhain, Hikawera, Kaelani, Ondar Thundercaller, and Ka Kekoa accepted the mission from Taleisin of the Orderly Stones Monastery to find the origin of the kobolds who have been apparently training apex predators to attack the monks and their herds.
  • The Freelancers travelled to Orderly Stones monastery in two days without incident and overnighted there.
  • The next morning, after discussing likely locations for their search with Taleisin, they headed towards the leading edge of the skylith.
  • After spending the better part of a day going through pathless forests, the Freelancers encountered a path and snow.  Investigation revealed more apex predators:  winter wolves.
  • Instead of noting the situation and moving to the next likely location, the Freelancers provoked the wolves, then split the party.  The split party was attacked by three winter wolves, which they slew.
  • Reforming the party in the clearing housing the wolves, the Freelancers Investigated a tree stump which Hikawera had shattered.  They found some valuables covered in shattered potions.
    • Acquired:  161 eagles in coin, and 8 gems worth 10 eagles each:  2 azurite, 1 banded agate, 1 blue quartz, 2 hematite, 1 malachite, 1 tiger eye 
  • The Freelancers gave up on their search and returned to Orderly Stones monastery with the wolf pelts and heads.  Taleisin admonished them he still wanted to know the location of the kobolds, but paid a fee of 200 eagles per wolf head.
  • Returned to Freelancers Tavern Okeanostag, 3rd prime post-Fulcrum.
Loot
  • Coin: 161 eagles in assorted coins
  • 10-eagle gems:  2 azurite, 1 banded agate, 1 blue quartz, 2 hematite, 1 malachite, 1 tiger eye
  • Mission pay:  600 eagles total (10% to Freelancers)
Tags
kobolds
shrine
wildlife
Storyline
Kobold incursions around Orderly Stones
Session Dates

Pirates River Pollution - Hooks & Froggoths

Submitted by dracon on Fri, 10/22/2021 - 00:34
Fysitag, 2nd prime post-Fulcrum 1055
Log Entry Type
Archivist Entry
Recordkeeper
Nyls Ardeni
Days in Game
8 days
Archive Entry
  • Ondar Thundercaller, Glesni Bōhatei, Ka Kekoa, Hanno, and Murai accepted the ongoing mission from the wizard Gwidion to clean up altered wildlife along Pirates River.
  • The Freelancers travelled along the treeline, not the roads, arriving at the Pirates Dream river without incident on the third day.
  • The following day, the Freelancers travelled upriver along the western bank in search of anything unusual.  They were well past the fork along Pirates River when they encountered three froggoths.  They were too close to the froggoths to avoid their confusion attacks.
  • While the Freelancers were thus occupied, a strange giant eagle with hooks for wings attacked them as well.
  • Glesni shot Hanno by accident and the giant eagle/hook creature almost killed Ka, but the Freelancers prevailed.
  • After battle, Ka kept one of the froggoth corpses for later study, and the Freelancers burned the rest to prevent other creatures from eating them.
  • They camped well away from the river that night, and headed back to Cliffshadow the next morning.  The Freelancers again checked the river for froggoths, but it seemed clear.
  • Arnari Rilynn’sithek identified the froggoth for the group, then paid 90 eagles each and disbursed the potion rewards:  oil of slipperiness (Glesni), potion of fire breath (Ondar), potion of water breathing (Ka), potion of cold resistance (Murai), and potion of fire breath (Hanno).  She successfully convinced Ondar not to drink his right away.
  • Returned to Freelancers Tavern Vrontag, 3rd prime post-Fulcrum.
Loot
  • Mission pay: 100 eagles each (10% to Freelancers), oil of slipperiness (Glesni), potion of fire breath (Ondar), potion of water breathing (Ka), potion of cold resistance (Murai), potion of fire breath (Hanno)
Tags
mutants
Storyline
Pollution Consequences
Session Dates

Pest Control at Hasapis Vineyard

Submitted by dracon on Sat, 09/04/2021 - 01:43
Kenostag, 2nd prime post-Fulcrum 1055
Log Entry Type
Archivist Entry
Recordkeeper
Estarai Grayaere
Days in Game
3 days
Archive Entry
  • Damakaios, leader of the Ripa Daneo Freelancers, sent Dryali Tezbeth, Fine Branch, Terrance, Tahu Tuala, and Tuala to the Hasapis Vineyards, which had workers go missing in the vineyards.  Freelancer help had been requested by Niccore Hasapis, Head of House.
  • Since most of them lacked flying mounts, the Freelancers took the better part of  the day to travel to Hasapis Vineyards, and amazingly got there without incident.
  • Zurito Hasapis met with the Freelancers and provided details about the missing workers.  He put them up for the night, after agreeing to accompany them to the vineyards where the workers had gone missing.
  • The following day, the Freelancers escorted Zurito to his eastern vineyards.  There they were attacked by four giant centipedes, which they easily slew.  Tahu wisely levitated Zurito to keep him out of harm's way.
  • Attracted by the commotion, two large wyrms also attacked the unprepared Freelancers, killing Tuala and swallowing Dryali.  Fine Branch used revivify on Tuala, and the Freelancers, with Zurito's help, slew the wyrms.
  • Afterwards, Fine Branch located where the vineyard workers were killed.  Dryali checked the wyrms for unusual origin, finding none apart from appearing on the skylith surface.
  • The Freelancers spent the day checking for any more wyrm sign, but found none.
  • They enjoyed another night of Hasapis hospitality, during which Zurito paid them the fee of 250 eagles each, and returned to Ripa Daneo the next day.
  • Returned to Freelancers Tavern Chaostag, 3rd prime post-Fulcrum.
Loot
  • Mission pay:  250 eagles each (10% cut to Freelancers)
Tags
death
large bitey creatures
Storyline
Winery on Unstable Ground
Session Dates