Session 9: Third party sets off. Report

General Summary

The story begins with Edward standing watch at the lookout point above the gates. After being approached by Varivera with an urgent request, he is brought to the Smoldering Embers where he was fed and told to wait. It is at this point that we meet Wrynna, the clumsy elven girl who has been trying her best to find a suitable function for herself in Plungehome. Regrettably, Wrynna, being more artistically inclined and saddled with the expectations of a legacy which she never saw and the constitution of a particularly frail kind, has never really found a good place for herself within the settlement, often being switched around and always given new responsibilities.
Her story picks up when from the kitchens she is placed together with Edward for the following briefing.
After a while Varivera comes forth with Ash Sterling, the founder of Plungehome and the leader of the mining efforts which keep the town afloat. They explained that there were a group of miners which went missing after exploring a path which had been sealed and forbidden. They wanted Edward and Wrynna to go and retrieve them. When questioned as to why them, it is implied that the reason is because they were disposable.
With this in mind, while Edward stayed to prepare, Wrynna went to communicate the decision to her parents. Upon arriving home and speaking with them, where once she may have found a lecture, she instead found support and acceptance. That though she may die, she would do so bringing great honor and dignity to the family. That this may be her calling and to show more than an empty gesture of support, her mother gave her her great grandmother's paint brush which is shown to have magical abilities.
Upon returning, together they departed into the depths.
At first they took a turn down the leftmost mine shaft, which led to a network of tunnels upon which they could get lost in. There was no single path which they could take. And so they tracked back and walked a little bit down the middle tunnel before finding the entrance to the right which they sought. After walking down the path, they came across a rope which led downward.
Climbing down, they continued onwards to find a part of the bedrock which had been dug into a perfect circular pit. The humidity here was evident as well. After briefly exploring its surroundings they decided to continue onwards down the tunnel which now was a perfectly cut rectangular path into the stone bedrock wall. Eventually, they felt their feet getting sticky and there they noticed a few cracks in the wall which seemed to ooze a sticky surface. They decided then to put out the torch which they had and Wrynna would guide them through the darkness with her elven eyes.
Eventually they came across a chasm where the sticky trail fell off its edges. However, there was a stone bridge which crossed it to the other side. While walking across it, given he was in the dark stepping across humid stone, Edward slipped and for a moment almost fell to his death. With his frantic guiding and Wrynna's counter-weight he was saved from an untimely demise.
They then decided to light up a torch. It is best to risk alerting someone to their presence than to die stupidly in darkness.
Yet in the light they saw below the glimmer of smooth polished stone, of ancient buildings of and more. Structures which stretched across the length of the chasm and into darkness. Yet, they still had to go on.

Campaign

The First Flames

Protagonists

Edward Hallowedsun

Neutral Human (Variant) (Criminal)
Commoner 3

8 / 8 HP

STR
10

DEX
12

CON
10

INT
8

WIS
10

CHA
12

Report Date

21 Apr 2023

Primary Location

Plungehome

Related Plots

• The Missing Miners.