Session 32: The Long Voyage Home Report

General Summary

Note, this report covers both sessions 32 and 33, as both were spent on downtime activities.

The party has chosen to spend a year pursuing other goals while they wait for some work by master craftspersons.

At the beginning of the year the group sold most of the valuable gems they acquired in the mines a short time before, in order to pay for various costs.

The Council of Levron's Citadel decided not to punish the group for the destruction of the void cult, but also sternly warned them that if they ever again encounter a sphere of annihilation they should find an Archmage to deal with it, and not attempt to do so themselves. They are also watching the group very closely, to decide if they are any kind of threat to society, and if their posession of powerful ancient relics is permissible.

Roy and Boris chose to spend a few weeks for Roy to finish training Boris in the use of magical and artistic items to enhance spells. During this time the materials they were using were stolen and required replacement, and during the last 2 weeks Boris had a "live" image of his own beating heart floating above his head.

Roy also spent the time needed to finally copy all of the spells he had acquired in his adventures into his primary spellbook, and even made a complete backup in case something were to damage his main book.

Cigfran chose to work his trade as a bounty hunter. For 6 weeks, he was successful for a time, although he gained a completely unjustified reputation for laziness. The last bounty he picked up led to discovering the employer was using him to steal a child for foul purposes. On finding the child he brought them to Roy for safe keeping, then went to meet the employer at the trade pavilions.

On meeting the employer, Cigfran challenged the employer and received the same lies as before, so Cigfran pulled his crossbow and shot the man in the chest. The man screamed for help, claiming Cigfran a murderer. Cigfran finished the man off, and a group of others gathered around and quickly began to batter Cigfran . Cigfran ran back, and ducked behind cover. The enemies tried to strike, but all missed.

Cigfran fired a bolt at the healer of the group, and missed, then moved and hid again. The enemies gathered around and began to batter Cigfran again, striking several times. The final strike brought Cigfran down, and he awoke in prison at Levron's Citadel, fortunately the noise and activity had attracted too much attention to quietly murder him on the spot.

A trial was held a few days later, and during that trial Cigfran did not dispute the charge, but did claim the accuser was guilty of foul crimes. During the trial a stranger burst in, with clear and unmistakable evidence of the foul deeds of the caravan master Korshfeldt. This led to Cigfran being freed, although he was ordered not to act as a bounty hunter in the region of Levron's Citadel in the future. Korshfeldt was held for trial, and later executed for his crimes. The group headed to the tavern to talk with this stranger who had saved Cigfran , and through a long discussion, which somehow involved Jeeves throwing his drink all over the newcomer, a strange warrior named Goro. The group paid for unlimited beer for the night, and a tavern party broke out. During this, the party also learned of Goro's celestial guide, something he didn't say a lot about.

As the group were drinking to their new friendship, an individual burst into the tavern, calling on Roy to engage in a "Wizard's Duel". Roy , reluctantly, accepted, and the challenger cast the powerful charm "Vardin's Compulsion", and though Roy tried to counter the magic, he failed. The wizard claimed Roy 's spellbook as the standard price for losing such a duel, but Roy used a spark of divine favor to charm the challenger permanently. The challenger, now a friend, returned the spellbook and joined the tavern party. They also learned that their new companion, Goro, is from a distant land called Drakhul'Knarr. Roy informed Goro that his homeland will, in about 400 years, be naught but a cursed wasteland inhabited by foul spirits; and his entire people wiped out in a genocidal war. Goro chose to spend the night in the common slumber room, and awoke with only his money and manacles stolen; fortunately they left his weapons and did not kill him, a real risk when sleeping among strangers.

A few weeks earlier, Roisin Marshfield had set out with Quirico to meet with her Goblin subjects. While there she was attacked, in the Goblin equivalent of a challenge over leadership of the horde. During this fight Quirico was overwhelmed, and the Hobgoblin who sought to be leader of the horde quickly beat Roisin Marshfield unconscious with its fists. Roisin Marshfield awoke with the Hobgoblin standing nearby, she was told that she was no longer leader, and must never return. Roisin Marshfield dragged Quirico back to their camp, and the next morning, when he awoke, Quirico looked past Roisin Marshfield and was stunned to see what Roisin Marshfield quickly discovered was merely burned out remains of a cottage. Quirico removed his chain, and left it and most of his money and equipment with Roisin Marshfield, then walked down to the cottage, turned to look back at Roisin Marshfield, waved goodbye, and stepped onto the foundation. As Roisin Marshfield watched, Quirico was suddenly within a cottage, which suddenly was engulfed in flames, and in minutes the entire cottage burned to the ground, so hotly that the stones melted. Soon there was nothing left, and all that remained was the same burned-out cottage remnant.

Boris spent more time learning about the Iron Throne, and uncovered a total of 3 minor items and 5 major items about the item.

Roy researched the Iron Tone, and learned all that he needed to construct and use the item. He also learned of the existance of a powerful spell called "Disjunction", and that it is one of the things required.

Roy also gained a reputation throughout the Krithnior (Krith-nor) republic as a charlatain and a fraud, and also experienced magical mishaps that destroyed one of his void crystals.

Roy then investigated to learn more about his magical ring, and spent 8 weeks in research. He experienced quite a few strange magical mishaps, including permanently losing the abilty to cast "Clutch of Crispos", but did finally learn what is required to complete the development of this relic, and what abilities the ring gains at each stage.

Roisin Marshfield engaged in the life of an aristrocratic socialite, holding parties and entertaining. She made a number of useful contacts among the high society of Triliobarn (trill-AW-burn) and Marshfield, many of whom owed her significant favors. She also encountered a foul and deceptive entity ruling over Triliobarn, but dispatched the creature with Goro's assistance, and arranged, through contacts, for a delightful Gnome to replace them, leading to much joy and prosperity in that grand city. Unfortunately during the combat Roisin Marshfield suffered severe scarring of the face from acid.

Boris spent much of his time serving in the city guard, using divine magic in service to the community, and serving at the local temple in Borelius' Boast. While at the temple, with Cigfran serving as temple guard, Boris was approached by a deceptive monstrosity that tried to infiltrate the temple, but Cigfran saw through it, and Boris was able to paralyze the creature with his Rod of Justice. The pair then quickly dispatched the creature with no significant difficulty.

During this time, Cigfran also assisted the town guard for some weeks, helping to save a number of lives, defend the city, and instantly murder a few hardened criminals in the process. Near the end of this time, the guards setup an ambush for an assassin known, through divination, to have assassinated a popular minor noble in the region. Cigfran took careful aim, fired, and a bit of divine favor caused a gust of wind to slightly adjust the path of the bolt. The bolt took the assassin in the bridge of the nose, and blew out the back of the skull, causing the entire brain to fall to the ground as the body fell forward, dead. Cigfran 's crossbow erupted in black fire, and when the fire subsided a moment later, the crossbow was no longer beat-up and old. It had a stock of a single perfect block of ebony, a bar of black starmetal, a rope woven from the strands of a titan's black hair, and the whole blends into shadows such that it is almost unnoticable in dim light or darkness.

The group regrouped in Triliobarn and Boris offered to trade a favor the temples in the region owed him to ask that Roisin Marshfield's scars be healed through divine magic. There was no cleric in Triliobarn able to do so, but it was said that there might be such an individual in Marshfield or Kreilæbeig (krell-eveg).

Before leaving the city, the group all did some shopping.

Roisin Marshfield bought a massive pile of 134 story books in a traveling chest; a broad selection of the kinds of books a wealthy family might keep in the library for their children.

A few of the group combed through the various stores in the high ward of Triliobarn, and purchased a majority of the items available with magical properties of the alchemical, herbal, calligraphic, or origiami variants.

Roy also determined that the items Roisin Marshfield "recovered" from the now former ruler of Triliobarn. The items turned out to be a Deck of Illusions, a Headband of Spell Storing, and Bracers of Archery.

Unburdened of nearly all their, once immense, wealth, and now free to once again pursue the life of wandering adventurers (i.e. homeless and destitute), the party gathered at the Narnethan gate on the North side of Triliobarn to head off to Marshfield or Kreilæbeig in search of divine healing for Roisin Marshfield's horribly scarred face.