Session 15 - The Desert Town of Zoseer

General Summary

• Caravan stops for the night in a valley between dunes
• Olut tries the lockbox again, to no avail
• Prince brings Nora more of Haeni's wine, she is grateful
• Lerissa overhears the conversation and notices Nora's exhaustion and evasiveness
• Liber asks Lerissa if her nightmares have continued, and offers help in sourcing them
• Lerissa agrees to the help and shows him her amulet
• Lerissa brings up a possible Fey connection
• Lerissa mentions Nora's issues with sleep
• Liber interrogates Nora, she's super not into it
• Olut Tiny Huts, party clambers in
• On watch, Olut sees nothing, Liber sees no disturbances in Nora/Lerissa's sleep
• Prince sees floating orbs in the distance
• Lerissa sees Nora rise early
• Says that she's feeling better, especially now that they're just a day from Zoseer
• She asks if Lerissa too has been having trouble sleeping, and Lerissa explains the amulet
• In the morning, Olut finally opens the box, gets 350GP (distributes) and a Lens of Seeing (Liber plans to investigate that night)
• That day's travel is over miles of salt flats, Olut wonders about the salt/sea connection. Liber describes log entries about salt flats and the shrinking sea
• Prince pockets a chunk of salt
• As dusk falls, see the lights of the Zoseer settlement and arrive just after dark
• Party arranges a watch schedule around the cart
• Prince, Haeni, & Liber grab dinner from the tavern while Lerissa and Olut set up camp, making
• The trio eat dinner at the Boiling Springs Inn, then bring goat and bread back to camp
• Discuss sleeping arrangements and watch schedule
• Lerissa watches at the wagons, Olut tiny huts at the dinner campsite. Nothing of note on any watch
• In the morning, the laborers head to the mines
• Caravan crew returns, ready to unload the carts
• Olut is feeling ill and stays in the hut
• Party starts unloading barrels. Towards the end of the job, Olut arrives and unloads the last bit
• Lerissa asks the bartender about a letter to deliver to Banjun, he says the look for a mangy bird
• Bartender pays the party the other half of their fee (90GP ea)
• Targella releases the party from their duties until the next morning when the caravan will leave again
• Prince and Liber discuss magic, carouse, mock fight
• Sleep without incident, and in the morning, head out
• As they head to the gates, three miners run past, shouting for "Zauroth"
• Party discusses stopping
• Targella agrees to wait a bit, but can't delay more than an hour or so without getting stuck in the salt flats overnight
• Party heads to mine, see a quarry full of workers milling about, eyeing a pit in the sand
• A miner explains that there was a small cave-in, and they've sent for the mine boss
• Prince jumps in the hole, Lerissa tries to get Olut down safely

Report Date

30 Aug 2021