Session 01
General Summary
A few months after the events of Drakthar's Way the rains finally came. Although it had been
raining on and off since the party had arrived in Cauldron, these rains were different. They were
torrential. They lashed down so extremely hard that within minutes the city was awash with all
sorts of flotsam being washed down the caldera's sides into the crater lake in the centre of the city.
And these rains, once they had continued for a day or two, meant one thing to the people of
Cauldron: the Flood Festival had began.
Within days merchants began flocking to the city. Roadside stalls were errected everywhere with
people selling exotic foods and goods. The local shop keepers started their Flood Festival Sales
with everything being about 15% to 20% off. Bunting went up all over town. The revelry started
across the city and within a few days posters went up as the organisation of Flood Festival began
in earnest. An agenda was placed on display all over the city telling where and when each event
would take place. There were the usual events like the procession, the street performers party, the
infamous Drink Down the Flood drinking competition and the crater lake monster hunt. But this
year the Temple of Kord was organising a series of athletic competitions in addition, including
hammer throwing, archery, weight lifting, caber tossing, a tug of war and some foot races. This
would be a Flood Festival to remember.
Magma Force decided that entering into these athletic competitions would do their fame in the city
the world of good so they joined in most of them. They didn't do so well however. Also, Morgan,
the party representative in Drink Down the Flood, embarrassed himself and the party by puking on
the first drink of the first round. Perhaps nerves had got to him?
Then suddenly out of the blue the party received invitations to the famous Demonskar Ball from
the noble Aslaxin family, owners of the Coy Nixie. Realising that their son, Zachary II, was a
member of their rival adventuring party the Stormblades, the party began to suspect that they were
being set up for a fall. They looked into the ball some more and realised it was a massive social
occasion and a place where the uninitiated or uneducated could be made to look very foolish in
front of all the of the important people of the city. They toyed with the idea of refusing to go but
realised this in itself could be seen as a sign of weakness so decided to instead get into the
preparations for the ball with all their effort. They arranged for the hire of costumes, spending
hundreds of gold on the best ones in the city. They hired the best coach they could find to take
them all to the ball in splendour and luxury. They enlisted in dance and etiquette lessons at the
academy, specifically learning the complex dance steps and strange etiquette of the ball. Even the
surely Gotrek was convinced he needed to join in and was signed up for dancing and etiquette
lessons and hired an expensive costume. Morgan also realised that his invite was special. He had
been invited to go as the leader of the demons who attacked Cauldron and its founder Surabar
Spellmason. This demon, called Nabthatoron, was the right hand demon of a demon prince no less
and lead the hordes who rampaged out of the Demonskar 700 years ago. It turned out that Morgan
had to hire another very expensive costume specifically for the main dance which played out the
battle between the demon horde and the founding fathers and in which the person playing Surabar
Spellmason would defeat Nabthatoron. The dance steps were very complex and Morgan realised
his chances for making a fool of himself were very high. So he was determined to work as hard as
he could on learning the steps and booked in for two weeks of solid dance lessons.
Report Date
11 Apr 2024
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