Session 2 - The Golden River - Mafaldine's Notes
6 days since oil appeared
• Forge: eastern European repairman but also a robot.
• Illalai: mtg stone speaker bro.
• Voroc: Hobgoblin artificer bro. repairs stuff around the town.
• Diiroehn: ALSO a forge bro. trying to establish town watch. Human, “tall”, has been skipping gym. ‘Living in a Van down by the river.”
• Dr Elanora Chiselchip: Curio store owner. Offers translations.
Everyone makes preparations, forge feels up his anvil? I bring a bunch of herb/meat recovery bags and my spice kit.
Heading off road, Illalai is leading
FUCKLOADS OF GODDAMN SAVANNAH
That’s not a good survival check illalai…
We see some hills
We are 30min off course but we can see the river.
Ditches are carved into the ground everywhere 60-80ft long. Could be used as a trench but seem like signs of burrowing.
100 or so flamingos chilling by the trees, avoiding the water. Not looking good
Im gonna get me some fucking flamingos
Sparse dust clouds and faint shouting from over the next ridge
Fucking gnolls ahead
Fucking landshark obliterated the gnolls (bullette)
I wonder what it tastes like…
Oh shit we are fighting this thing
Sharky boi is hungry
FORGE DOWN
FORGE IS BACK UP
Hey he’s coming closer to me
Hey he’s next to me
Hey I, a 16HP wizard, took 24 damage from one attack
Diiroehn gave me that juicy 1HP, another bro to add to the ranks.
That dick machine insulted me
Gotta climb trees when we camp
These gnolls clan does not like zenir but works with them
Gathered 120kg of meat. (Illalai and forge being bros and carrying for me.) Very lean meat.
Gathered 1 full Bullette Hide. 500gp worth of crafting materials.
We made camp for the night. Made hammocks
Next day.
We see a craggy mountain on the horizon
We come across a wetland area.
Bog surrounds the wetlands. The bog is filled with golden oil.
Chungus Forge is sinking (Alexa play my heart will go on)
No Cicadas
More fucking gnolls
They’re in a destroyed watch tower
Ok these gnolls are bros from before
Giving us safe passage
Oil might be Zenir’s doing
Diorehn convinced me to let the gnolls have 10kg of meat.
I teach the gnoll’s ‘chef’ how to cook the meat the best way.
Mezzir family stand with us if they can.
We find more goddamn, fucking gnolls (12)
They have surrounded a hill giant woman.
I make their wizard puke
“kill the wizard” fuck that’s me
I survive
Giantess seems an ally of ours (Rusheme people – means rest/peace
Hher name is Goldat
The statue she was guarding is an ancient relic
She is wounded as heck.
Offers trade and friendship
Apparently some of Illalai’s goliath people still on this island. Made homes in the walls of canyons in the western barrens)
Statue is the source of the oil
Statue was found in the foundry of the molten gaze, a place in the western barrens
Needs to be fed the glass that is made from the foundry.
Statue seems to purify and extract energy from dragonshards then turns it into a spelllike effect (SUNBEAM)
Statue is absorbing water/earth
Glass falls down a tube in its arm. Runes in all the tubes. STRONG EVOCATION AND TRANSMUTATION.
Doesn’t seems to be built as a weapon
I have copied down some of the Sunbeam runes. (Voroc helped)
Commissioned 21043 for the foundry of the molten gaze.
2 more hill giants male and female
Male is old and emaciated
Female is injured
Made em a nice meal
Tunnel in the back of cave???
Ancient campsite
A FUCKING CHEST??? SHINEIES!!!!
A small glass sphere about the size of a fist elven writing in VERY old dialect “light or candle”
Near one of the bodies “if you can read this you have done well to make it so far.The port in the caves to the east, in the sandy cove near the tower is your next destination - green will light your way.
Vadallia will guide us off this island to a new home - you just have to join us. Spread the word to all you meet on the way - the Giants will not enslave us any longer. We will kill the Sul'at League and
their experiments, tear down Scora Bael, and break our shackles, and neither Giant or Dragon or Quori will stop us"
Found an evocation arrow with “death to the sulat” inscribed on it (arrow of giant slaying)
Orb has evocation energy. Functions as a green driftglobe
Got 4 trussed up flamingo’s
WATER HAS BEEN CLEANED!!!!! SUICUNE WOULD BE PROUD!!!
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