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Sat 22nd Jan 2022 03:08

Session 4 - Lorger's Thicket

by Kaito "Oreson" Brinejaw

We arrived into Kard, a small village, potentially a farming village? The only place that looked like a tavern/inn was The Dancing Bear. Inside, the most prominent feature was a large plastered billboard on the wall which had 200 or so names listed on it with 50 or so of them crossed out that's titled Lorger's Ledger. Hazel Thernlaw, a middle aged woman who owns and runs The Dancing Bear told us that Lorger is the name of a bear in the outskirts of town. Hazel mentioned some passing adventurers have said Lorger could be a Dire Bear, but those are thought to have been extinct for years. Hazel also explained that the ledger is a list of names of people who have attempted to fell the bear by putting 5 gold into a prize pot, the names crossed out were the ones who died. The pot was initially set up as a joke but it's now been 3 years since and no one has managed to defeat Lorger.
 
We decide to ponder our decision on if we'll partake in Lorger's Ledger. We head to our respective rooms and go to sleep for the night. I wake up in a long strange white/gray corridor with a sharp left at the end. I see the others with me, but they don't acknowledge me at all. I decide to push to the sharp left of the corridor. Immediately after the left there is a 60 foot long corridor with a stone door at the end but the corridor is filled in a thick poisonous gas. I stick my hand out and focus on my elemental gift and manage to absorb the poison in the middle which creates a path for me to walk through. I get to the stone door, which has smoke detailing on it, seemingly referencing my elemental gift and a phrase "A double edged sword can be the deadliest weapon". I invoke the power into the door and I end up in a circular room that is chequered in white and green. In front of me I witness matter coalesce, condense and swirl as a green and blue serpent that drips mist and liquid from it's body appears in front of me and attacks. The battle was luckily fairly simple for me as it didn't manage to get a hit on me. As I defeat the beast, a door behind where I appeared from opens up into another much larger circular room with a familiar sight in the middle of swirling lights and stars, as well as my new friends coming out of the different doors in the room, 9 in total, 4 remained shut with no one coming from them. We touch the swirling lights which changes to match each of our elemental gifts.
As we touch it, we all share a vision of large purple eyes filled with stays and we all hear a voice say "Purpose, chosen, trust" followed by waking up in The Dancing Bear.
 
In the morning we decide we'll partake in the ledger and we deposited 5 gold each into the pot and made our way to Lorger's Thicket. We arrive at a large cave and see a large bear resting outside. Without thinking we set up my bear trap and lured it over to us. As we were about to defeat, we heard a loud, guttural roar from the cave, followed by a much larger bear, confirming our stupidity in not confirming Lorger. We had a long and gruesome battle with Lorger where Malaphor was knocked unconscious, we managed to finally defeat the monstrous beast.
 
We entered the cave on the off chance there would be any left over treasure from previous adventurers. The cave itself branched off to the left and right, in the left side of the cave I found 15 gold, 1 potion of greater healing and a incredible well made shortbow.
 
We salvaged 2 of Lorger's paws, his head and some pelt. As we arrived back in Kard, the people were impressed, amazed and incredible happy we managed to kill Lorger. We gave Hazel a large portion of the pelt to use as a rug, and Lorger's head to hang up. We had another nights rest and the next morning we purchased a large carriage and draft horse for 50 gold, a deal we were given for being victorious the day before and made our way to Pentareach.
 
After a long and uneventful 8 hour journey where we talked about a potential group name (Gruff's Fellowship and Titans Bane) we find ourselves on the outskirts of Pentareach's walls and join the queue to enter Pentareach. In the queue to Pentareach, I notice Alistan Preen standing talking to some people within the city walls.

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  1. Session 1 - New Beginnings
  2. Session 2 - Drunk and Disorderly
  3. Session 3 - Crossroads and Giants
  4. Session 4 - Lorger's Thicket
  5. Session 5 - Pentareach Beginnings
  6. Session 6 - Pentareach Rumble
  7. Session 7 - Friend of the King
  8. Session 8 - Forgotten Ruins and Mystery
  9. Session 9 - Blacktop's Secret
  10. Session 10 - Depths of the Blacktop
  11. Session 11 - Morgan's Mystery
  12. Session 12 - Visions and a Cleansing
  13. Session 13 - The Long Road
  14. Enemies
  15. Session 14 - Laelos Arrival
  16. Session 15 - A Royal Mistake
  17. Session 16 - Revenge and Truth
  18. Session 17 - Trouble and Research
  19. Session 18 - Lonely Toad and Proposition
  20. Research
  21. Session 19 - Vellsten and Disappearances
  22. Session 20 - Wear-wolves, bears and rats?
  23. Session 21 - Heroes of Vellsten
  24. Session 22 - Raven Queen's Champion
    12th of Morne Yowa
  25. Session 23 - Revelations and a Chaotic Victory
    14th of Morne Yowa
  26. Session 24 - The Manor and Word
    15th of Morne Yowa
  27. Session 25 - Isaiac's Maw
    15th of Morne Yowa
  28. Places of Interest
  29. Allies
  30. Session 26 - Manor Gains and Desert Travels
    22nd of Morne Yowa
  31. Session 27 - Hashal and Partha
    23rd of Morne Yowa
  32. Session 28 - Hashal's Rift Ki
    23rd of Morne Yowa
  33. Session 29 - Sol'Partha
    24th of Morne Yowa
  34. Session 30 - Partha's Mystery
    24th of Morne Yowa
  35. Session 31 - Odror Partha's Fall
    24th of Morne Yowa
  36. Session 32 - Odror's Sentinel VS The Paragon
    1st of Yoweth
  37. Session 33 - Asgorath Revelations & Beast Rescues
    1st of Yoweth
  38. Session 34 - An Exotic Rescue
    1st of Yoweth
  39. Session 35 - Demonic Beast and Desert Travels
    2nd of Yoweth
  40. Session 36 - Malaphor's True Self
    2nd of Yoweth
  41. Session 37 - Triumphant Winnings
    3rd of Yoweth
  42. Session 38 - Sailing the seas and Chankata
    6th of Yoweth
  43. Session 39 - Asgorath's Chosen United
    7th of Yoweth
  44. Session 40 - The Doyen's Teachings
    1st of Uthwix
  45. Session 41 - The Ninefold Rise
    1st of Uthmix
  46. Session 42 - The Ninefold Scatter
    3rd Uthwix
  47. Session 43 - Troll's Denthoum
    3rd of Uthwix
  48. Session 44 - Denthoum's Spectator
    3rd of Uthwix
  49. Session 45 - Talona's Plant
    4th of Uthwix
  50. Session 46 - Diege Entities & New Headings
    5th of Uthwix
  51. Session 47 - Poacher's & Mystery Dice
    5th of Uthwix

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