Kingdom on the brink - session 8

General Summary

Late on the 25th day of Terseg

The party regroups at the outer walls, the town defenders look at the sight of the undead, There's a tension in the air. The party talks to Bernard Ursel but are interrupted when a messenger appears and relays that the other lines of defense have come under heavy assault. Artimus convinces Bernard to take his men to reinforce the other areas, when he leaves the group discuss how to proceed. Artimus talks to Gus and determine the undead won't attack them, Fawkes returns stating the war chief fled to a nearby baggage train and there's a large orcish force between them and the chief. He casts fly on Hendred, Ashara, and Oneiro while he and Gus take the undead horde to engage the orcish force standing between them and the war chief. The undead smashed into the orcish force like a wave and continued to push forward, while Ashara, Hendred, and Oneiro flew over the battle to the baggage train and scouted the area. They descended onto the small force and proceeded to pelt them from the air, the orcs tried to respond with javelins but they fell short. The orc assassins put up magical darkness to hide in, but Ashara baited out the war chief by putting herself within javelin range, once in the open Oneiro and Hendred unleashed a volley of attacks. The war chief fell and Ashara descended to the body, opening herself up to attacks from the assassins, They landed several deadly strikes. Ashara fly back in the air with the body with Hendred and Oneiro covering her, One assassin fell and the other attempted to flee but Hendred unleashed a powerful guiding bolt that killed the last assassin, they begin to loot the wagon train. Artimus and Thorne eventually breakthrough to the baggage train, Ashara gives Artimus a letter she found on the war chief and takes Hendred and Oneiro to inform the combatants that the war chief is dead, Gus uses his undead to push the baggage train back to Hillfar . Artimus reads the letter and comes to the conclusion that the bodies must be burned. Hendred uses thaumaturgy to get the combatants attention, Ashara yells out that the war chief is dead and shows the head, Oneiro uses his flames to provide dramatic flair, upon seeing this sight the orc horde was thrown into chaos. They present the head to Bernard and Oneiro goes to get the group burning bodies, Once he arrives Artimus lets him know about the note on the war chief, they have 100 days before a bigger army comes from the Wildlands. Once Bernard heard of this he asks the party to meet him at the town hall.

Once at the town hall Bernard thanks the group for their assistance, unfortunately there was more then one problem. Once word got around about the dead rising he wasn't sure how the people would react, secondly he would need help gathering support to help repel this new hoard, lastly the crown has demanded more and more food from Hillfar. Bernard fears that if the people sees this then it'll lead to treason, the party is split on what should be done, some argue for staying and burning the bodies while other argue that Hillfar should be abandoned. Bernard thanks them for their input and the party turns in for the night, before Artimus turns in he finds Gus and asks that the undead be put to rest, except for 5 which Artimus puts in a caged wagon to study further. Oneiro wakes up from the bar where he fell asleep drinking, he begins to make breakfast and offers it to Thorne he takes a bite and realizes Oneiro put chili peppers in porridge. Artimus and Hendred seek out Seebo to see if he's ok and to learn some new spells, Artimus casts slow on all of them and Seebo shows Artimus fireball, Hendred asks if Seebo is familiar with any magic that could turn a human into an animal. Ashara wakes up to find a note under her door, had several water stains on it, the letter said fairwell and thanked her for her kindness and that the writer had to fix what they caused. Ashara guesses that Gus wrote the letter and begins to search the town for him, unsuccessfully, she finds the group to let them know what she found. Bernard goes up to the group and says that he's sending the rest of the fighters to catch up with the refugees and that himself and Horatius are going to Aramore to try and plead their case. He asks the party to go to the other 3 towns to try and rally support, He's going to call for an emergency provincial meeting in 60 days and he wants delegations from all the towns to be there. The party agrees and begin to decide where to go, Oneiro is hesitant about going to Lakeshore and Hendred argues that they should stay away from Stathmor. The party presses Hendred for more info and she shows them the letters Seebo gave her, based on the info contained in the three letters the party believes Gus went to Stathmor and that there's something amiss there, the decision is made to go there first.

It is the 26th day of Terseg

Rewards Granted

1030 GP
150 GP worth of diamonds
2 scimitars
5 darts

Missions/Quests Completed

Siege of Hillfar

Character(s) interacted with

Bernard Ursel
Gus
Seebo Reese

Report Date

23 May 2020

Primary Location

Hillfar

Secondary Location

Eastbrook