Campaign Journals 12-01-07
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:40 pm
Dettricks Journal:
The day dawns again and I can feel the headache starting already...
The council is still bugging Urdin and I about the proposed changes, but we both know they will not be approved by the Treant. As well, without a major influx of cash and men, we cannot even consider protecting a settlement so far from our own.
With the dawn comes the endless administrative decisions... thank the gods for Jeeves as I cannot imagine doing this without him. My companions are all immense help as well. They handle many of the projects in our new busy community.
Finally I've get a break mid-morning, but before I can more than think about sitting down, an alarm sounds. Looking out of my window, I see a armored man standing on the hill.
"Great", I moan. "Just what I need".
Running though my study, I almost overrun one of the young guards running the opposite way. At the same time I notice an elf with glasses (Glasses?) sitting in my comfy reading chair.
"Sir, theirs been a murder!" the guard yells and the elf jumped up in surprise pulling something out of his ears and drawing a rapier.
Rolling my eyes, I ready a spell in case he attacks and gesture to the guard to hold on. "Who in the nine hells are you?" I ask, "And what are you doing in MY study."
Hearing he was a only a messenger, I asked him to come with us, to keep an eye on him, and had the guard take us to the crime scene.
Once there, the elf was quite a help, being able to cast some divining spells. Never had a use for them myself... too much studying for something I considered fairly useless magic, but it did come in handy here. From his findings, we found that two young elves had been kidnapped by something fiendish.
Calling for my companions, we convened a war council to discuss the many happenings. Evidently there were three things we needed to decide quickly.
Setting Jeeves in charge of getting our town ready for refuges, we decided to track the kidnappers and try to reach Turlang after rescuing them.
Our journey was uneventful at first. The trail was very easy to follow for Ty, but she was puzzled by the appearence of more tracks occasionally.
By the time we made camp, we had been dogged by something who's howls made our skin crawl. No one seemed to affected by it, however, and we made camp for the evening.
Halfway through the second watch, the howling became more pronounced and woke us all up. Yev moved off slightly to see if he could find anything when he was attacked by something resembling a large winged dog skeleton.
We quickly dispatched them with minimal injuries, but some ran away. Thank the gods their howling had at least stopped.
The next day, about midday, we caught up to the kidnappers, who oddly didn't seem to mind that we'd caught up to them.
Our first indication was Ty almost getting knock on her but by an invisible creature. Then as Ty used her See Invisibility potion, She saw another dog like creature about nine feet long. Quickly attacking we ran the dog off. It was at that point the two kidnappers showed up. Ty fired an arrow at them to make sure they were real, and was surprised that the one she shot instantly turned ethereal, making it impossible to hit. Luckily she could at least see them.
Urdin, it turned out, could also see them with his "Dream Sight"... which I must admit sounded a bit like he'd been taking too many mushrooms, if you catch my meaning, but it was definitely an advantage.
However, having done much study myself, I knew the one sure way of hitting them. Pulling the weave into a pure ball of force in my hand, I threw it at closest creature. It hit, dropping the creature to the ground.
After that the battle was over quickly. The big dog thing reappeared, but everyone quickly dispatched him and the other creature was also dispatched fairly quickly.
After the battle, we found the two elves that had been kidnapped. They told us of more of the creatures like the two we had just dispatched, which we now know were called Fey'ri.
It was decided that Jalore would escort them back to town and then meet back up with the main group, as we followed the tracks of the other group.
Jalore caught up with us long before we caught up with the other Fey'ri.
It started with Ty and Yev up ahead again. We heard a howl and kicked our mounts into a gallop. Rounding the trail bend, I saw Yev battling another Fey'ri over the body of another dog like creature. I couldn't see Ty and for a moment paniced.
Then, as another dog like creature appeared ahead, I saw Ty pop out of the brush, putting two arrows quickly in the breast of the creature, dropping it.
Again, I called on the weave, lobbing orb after orb of pure force at the fey'ri. Everyone was doing their part, trying to hit them and shifting their focus when one of the dog like creatures just about fried Ty with a blast of fire... they must be Hellhounds.
I saw Ty staggered twice by powerful spells from another enemy I could not see, but I could not help having my hands full with the Fey'ri.
I switched to magic missiles to make sure I hit them, and watched the last of the Fey'ri go down under the combined assault of Spiritual weapons and magic missiles.
Ty and Yev looked pretty beatup, but again, we had prevailed without significant loss. Our lady Tymora must be watching over us this day.
Ty and I will have to make sure we give up some offerings to her namesake.
The day dawns again and I can feel the headache starting already...
The council is still bugging Urdin and I about the proposed changes, but we both know they will not be approved by the Treant. As well, without a major influx of cash and men, we cannot even consider protecting a settlement so far from our own.
With the dawn comes the endless administrative decisions... thank the gods for Jeeves as I cannot imagine doing this without him. My companions are all immense help as well. They handle many of the projects in our new busy community.
Finally I've get a break mid-morning, but before I can more than think about sitting down, an alarm sounds. Looking out of my window, I see a armored man standing on the hill.
"Great", I moan. "Just what I need".
Running though my study, I almost overrun one of the young guards running the opposite way. At the same time I notice an elf with glasses (Glasses?) sitting in my comfy reading chair.
"Sir, theirs been a murder!" the guard yells and the elf jumped up in surprise pulling something out of his ears and drawing a rapier.
Rolling my eyes, I ready a spell in case he attacks and gesture to the guard to hold on. "Who in the nine hells are you?" I ask, "And what are you doing in MY study."
Hearing he was a only a messenger, I asked him to come with us, to keep an eye on him, and had the guard take us to the crime scene.
Once there, the elf was quite a help, being able to cast some divining spells. Never had a use for them myself... too much studying for something I considered fairly useless magic, but it did come in handy here. From his findings, we found that two young elves had been kidnapped by something fiendish.
Calling for my companions, we convened a war council to discuss the many happenings. Evidently there were three things we needed to decide quickly.
Setting Jeeves in charge of getting our town ready for refuges, we decided to track the kidnappers and try to reach Turlang after rescuing them.
Our journey was uneventful at first. The trail was very easy to follow for Ty, but she was puzzled by the appearence of more tracks occasionally.
By the time we made camp, we had been dogged by something who's howls made our skin crawl. No one seemed to affected by it, however, and we made camp for the evening.
Halfway through the second watch, the howling became more pronounced and woke us all up. Yev moved off slightly to see if he could find anything when he was attacked by something resembling a large winged dog skeleton.
We quickly dispatched them with minimal injuries, but some ran away. Thank the gods their howling had at least stopped.
The next day, about midday, we caught up to the kidnappers, who oddly didn't seem to mind that we'd caught up to them.
Our first indication was Ty almost getting knock on her but by an invisible creature. Then as Ty used her See Invisibility potion, She saw another dog like creature about nine feet long. Quickly attacking we ran the dog off. It was at that point the two kidnappers showed up. Ty fired an arrow at them to make sure they were real, and was surprised that the one she shot instantly turned ethereal, making it impossible to hit. Luckily she could at least see them.
Urdin, it turned out, could also see them with his "Dream Sight"... which I must admit sounded a bit like he'd been taking too many mushrooms, if you catch my meaning, but it was definitely an advantage.
However, having done much study myself, I knew the one sure way of hitting them. Pulling the weave into a pure ball of force in my hand, I threw it at closest creature. It hit, dropping the creature to the ground.
After that the battle was over quickly. The big dog thing reappeared, but everyone quickly dispatched him and the other creature was also dispatched fairly quickly.
After the battle, we found the two elves that had been kidnapped. They told us of more of the creatures like the two we had just dispatched, which we now know were called Fey'ri.
It was decided that Jalore would escort them back to town and then meet back up with the main group, as we followed the tracks of the other group.
Jalore caught up with us long before we caught up with the other Fey'ri.
It started with Ty and Yev up ahead again. We heard a howl and kicked our mounts into a gallop. Rounding the trail bend, I saw Yev battling another Fey'ri over the body of another dog like creature. I couldn't see Ty and for a moment paniced.
Then, as another dog like creature appeared ahead, I saw Ty pop out of the brush, putting two arrows quickly in the breast of the creature, dropping it.
Again, I called on the weave, lobbing orb after orb of pure force at the fey'ri. Everyone was doing their part, trying to hit them and shifting their focus when one of the dog like creatures just about fried Ty with a blast of fire... they must be Hellhounds.
I saw Ty staggered twice by powerful spells from another enemy I could not see, but I could not help having my hands full with the Fey'ri.
I switched to magic missiles to make sure I hit them, and watched the last of the Fey'ri go down under the combined assault of Spiritual weapons and magic missiles.
Ty and Yev looked pretty beatup, but again, we had prevailed without significant loss. Our lady Tymora must be watching over us this day.
Ty and I will have to make sure we give up some offerings to her namesake.