Dark
Sun May 2020 (online session)
Third
session of an on-going campaign. Seph
joined.
Dave
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Game
Master
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Edwin
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Garrok
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Wandering
Mul Druid (Lv.1)
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Tom
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Frayne
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Human
Templar (Lv.1)
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Follower:
Rajal.
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Spencer
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Geo
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Half-Giant
Ranger (Lv.1)
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Ian
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Fribb
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Halfling
Psionicist slave (Lv.2)
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Aengel
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Gre’kkt
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Thri-Kreen
Druid Trader (Lv.2)
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Follower: Kreekit, her nephew.
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Seph
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Unayra
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Halfling
Assasin (Lv.1)
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Follower:
Unnamed Elf slave.
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The Story So Far...
The reward better be worth it... |
Our
party has been hired by Sidar Kurlak, head of one of the merchant houses of Urik,
to recover his daughter Aspis, who had apparently been kidnapped by a group of
escaping slaves. These elves were
tracked across the Alluvian Tablelands, where we eventually found that they had
been captured by the dwarves of Kled.
After some horse-trading, the daughter and elves were handed over to our
group.
It
then turned out that this was not as simple a rescue operation as it had
appeared. Aspis demanded that she and
the elves be released and that we go to an elven stronghold where she would be
able to garner support for an uprising that would free all the slaves in Urik.
We
decided to have no truck with this, paralysed her and bundled her onto the back
of our beast of burden.
The Return to Urik
The return leg is the south and east (Ian's map) |
We
started encamped outside Kled. Fearing
that elves may attempt to rescue Aspis, we had decided to rest before what
might be a forced march back to Urik. We
also decided that it would be safer (and hopefully quicker) not to return the
way we had come, but to head eastward until we hit the road running north to
Urik.
While
still at the camp, the party was rejoined by Frayne, the Urik Templar, who had
remained behind healing-up following the encounter with giant hornets, and by
Uanyra a Halfling, who he had met on the way, along with her slave.
Two
hours after breaking camp, we finally found the Urik road and were from then
able to make better time, only pausing to exchange news with a trading caravan
heading south. Before the day was over,
we were in sight of Urik.
A Disappointing
Reception
Entering
the cultivated areas around Urik was a relief.
We took time to pause and refresh ourselves following our long journey
through the sandy wastes. However, as
soon as the city came into sight we encountered a mass of fleeing citizens and saw
that it was under attack from a huge dragon.
Both
Fribb and Frayne were subject to some form of psionic backwash, each having
visions relating to the dragon – Fribb seeing it being surrounded by the spirits
of the dead, and Frayne seeing himself plunging a metal spear through its
hide. Our destination was on the far
side of the city from the dragon’s attack, so we decided to avoid it and press
on in order to relieve ourselves of our burden and collect our reward.
Our employer |
It
soon proved that Kurlak was indeed in need of extra bodyguards. As we pressed through the throng in the
marketplace, we were surrounded by a group of eight elves. The caravan guards were of no assistance
whatsoever during the skirmish, during which Aspis used her arcane powers
against us. With Fribb and Geo put to Sleep, things were touch-and-go, and
Kurlak was seriously injured (as which point Aspis seemed to realise that
assisting the elves had been a step too far).
Gre’kkt and Garrok rallied around the fallen merchant (and his wallet), and
Unayra was able to make some telling hits from her hiding-place. Frayne resumed consciousness and was able to
use his authority as a Templer of the Sorcerer-King to get assistance from
on-lookers. However, his loyal and
useful retainer Rajal was killed, as was Gre'kkt's nephew and apprentice, Kreekit.
The
elves defeated and the dragon having moved on, the caravan returned to Kurlak’s
mansion (Aspis in a much subdued frame of mind). Kurlak was too seriously injured to address
the party’s questions, but promised answers (and hopefully payment) soon...
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