Session 58: Catching up with Old & New Report

General Summary

Colonel introduces Eschbach and describes the area and the leader of Eschbach. Mainly describing the location/area and stuff to the new players. Just to get familiar with the settings.
Last time everyone went to their beds. Everyone wakes up at different times in the morning. Fully rested for the day ahead. Grimmaz wakes up early to check on the Burgeaters.

The Burgeater reports to Grimmaz that no-one bothered the guests. There were a few new travelers in the inn who came late at night.
Grimmaz is worried about cats hanging around before he can start to eat. Luckily there are no cats around. But the travelers brought a dog who comes over slowly to get a taste from the porridge he ordered.

Salapane got up early and went out scouting for some herbs. She's found a few herbs like mint and some burdock (root). She hears some locals talking about Passion's Kiss. According to rumors it's SE about a mile or 2 in a sort of swampy forest area.

Reolus heads to the fort with some proviants (food) to give to the guards that count d'aath left. Reolus stays with the group in the fort to await the change of guards.

Grimmaz notices a heavy armored person sitting at the bar. The person has a small shield with a white and black cross on it.

Salapane recognizes the symbol of the Order of St Benedictus

Count de Ath is up and about, and tells Grimmaz that in a few days some guard-units will be there.
Grimmaz thanks Gabreille de Rais for staying in his village. Afterwards Grimmaz heads out of the Inn to go to the fort to relieve the troops.

A cart and 10 men are prepared to move towards the fort. Grimmaz reaches the fort and wonders how the cat got there before him.

Grimmaz goes through the fort to see what is left in the fort still. There is nothing worth mentioning left.

After checking the fort Grimmaz helps with the unloading while Salapane meditated in the courtyard and Reolus is hanging around high sunbathing and relaxing.

The guards have perpared a few rooms for higher ranked officials to be prepared to actually use the fort.

Grimmaz takes a look around the fort and Salapane gains some herbs. When the party gets back to Eschbrook he mentions whats needed at the fort and to get a road fixed.

Salapane goes looking for the Passion's Kiss. The groups heads to a groove to the SE and come across Emma Duckworth, a local Druid to Eschbrook.

Father Tossil is called who comes with a new person. A person with a longbow and a big quiver on his back wearing a shield with a cross on it. The man gets introduced as a pretty dangerous fighter.

Grimmaz introduces the party to the person who is with Father Tossil, and requests father Tossil to start cleaning the groove. Father Tossil asks Amon about his mission. Amon is tasked with guarding and helping Father Tossil.

The druids start the ritual to cleanse the groove while the party looks at the proceedings.

After a very anti-climatic ritual cleansing, Reolus asks if we did everything for just this?

Grimmaz is happy and explains that a skeletal monstrosity came out of the groove the last time.

The group continues on to a clearing further on. The clearing is pretty wet with deep pools and in the middle there is a blue light visible.

Grimmaz pokes in the deep pools to scare away some fishes that are in the pools. At the center there is some waist deep water.
Amon catches a 1,5 feet pike with his rapier.

Near the center the group sees a red plant in the middle (Passion's Kiss). Salapane collects the Passion's Kiss.

The group heads back and gets touched by a tentacle while wading through the water. Reolus attacks the thing when it comes close.
Some sort of Octopus comes floating to the top of the water.

The creature has 5 tentacles, black eyes, strange eyelids. The creature has a strange thing embedded in it which Grimmaz takes out. Reolus suggests that they take it to the druids or Father Tossil to get it checked out.

Amon seems to notice that the creature somewhat seems attached to something else.

The bone is part of an evil thing that spawns from the cleaning of the groove. Grimmaz mentions that Reolus has prevented a devil spawn, which means that Reolus would be targeted now by evil deities.


The group are thanked by father Tossil. The group decided to burn the tentacle monster, and allow Reolus to eat the pike at least (Reolus wanted to BBQ the tentacle monster, but everyone said it would be a bad idea).

Father Tossil explains what the Passion's Kiss is.

Amon gets assigned a lodging next to the Church, and Salapane goes to her new house next to Maeven.



After a long rest the group starts searching for a horse thief.

The group consist of Amon and Reolus, who find traces of the thief. They follow the trace. Getting closer they can hear the moaning of a horse.
Amon comes up with a plan of attack and the group seems to understand.

There's smoke in the air, indentation ahead bit of greenery ahead. Able to see a big cordoned off building that's fallen down. One of the horses tied up to a post in the ground and a troll at a fire seeming to cook something.

To one sides looks like a body of a wild horse instead of one that's taken care of for the past.

Amon approaches the troll and asks what he's cooking. While the troll is distracted, Reolus gets a sneak attack in.
After the party kills the troll, the party brings back the horse to town and to return it to its owner. The council of Eschbrook will take care of that.

Campaign

9th Century Earth Dungeons & Dragons 5e Campaign

Protagonists

Grimmaz Fyrwin

Neutral Human ()
Fighter 14

144 / 144 HP

STR
18

DEX
18

CON
18

INT
14

WIS
14

CHA
14

Report Date

26 Aug 2023