Author: Jeff

Still soaking in the bathhouse, the Wild Rovers learned from Tommy Bahama that he had been promoted in the Myths & Weapons, in part for his work with improving and developing the shantytown on the outskirts of Lo’Thar. He had remained in touch with the musical healer Abezel, who previously restored Germier’s arm.

Continue reading “Session 49 — Conspiracy and Consolation”

The night before the First Hammer’s return to Clefthome, Urs was telepathically contacted by the recently ascended deity that he was cheating on Balador with. Tobias was bored with the studies and trials the Seldarine was subjecting them to as part of their training, and they were envious of Urs’s adventures. Tobias offered Urs a new power, to blast enemies with light when he hit them, provided Urs issued a light-based pun with the strike. They also suggested that Urs decorate his shield with carvings of lavender sprigs.

Continue reading “Session 48 — The Judgment of the Council”

Ammun explained that his understanding of King Murgrim’s disloyalty to the kingdom developed slowly over years as Drothmara’s seductive hold on him also grew. Ammun denounced Aengus at his trial because he could not believe that the stolen Highgate Crown, which he had studied extensively, could be used for anything other than transmitting thoughts and inspiration. That someone’s actions could have been controlled seemed unthinkable, so Ammun believed that Aengus, his apprentice, must have chosen a dark path. Only after Aengus’s exile and Murgrim’s tightening restrictions on the use of magic did he finally discover that the king shared his bed with the duergar priestess. Her influence on him was slowly destroying the kingdom through crippling prohibitions on magic, and she had apparently convinced the king to steal the Highgate Crown for her, which ignited the clan war – a convenient distraction from the ongoing duergar guerilla war. Because the king was already weeding out anyone on the Council of Elders who objected to his dangerous decrees and replacing them with those more loyal, Ammun decided to keep his discoveries to himself and try to enact change from within the king’s circle of trust.

Continue reading “Session 47 — The Blue Streak Returns”

Stinger, bereaved by the loss of her close friend Bean, broke her long silence to telepathically speak with Urs, asking that the group bury Bean with dignity. They spent the morning digging a grave and holding a solemn ceremony in his honor. When it ended, as quickly as she had appeared those weeks ago at Lake Valonara, Stinger was gone.

Continue reading “Session 46 — A Deathly Slumber”

With all of the Wild Rovers and their merry band of merries still breathing, though seriously wearied, Aengus proceeded to unlock Zex’s cell — only to have a massive Blight spell erupt from the enchanted lock. As nearby trees just outside the window withered, Aengus, Zax, Magma, and Sven crumpled to the floor. Vara rapidly put her years of medicinal training to good use by stabilizing the merries while Jani saw to reviving Aengus and Zax. Conceding that he had no business opening locks, Aengus left the matter of releasing the elf twins from their prisons to more capable individuals. Freed from their bonds, the ragged elves joined the group in a short rest.

Continue reading “Session 45 — House of Horrors”

The Wild Rovers continued traveling westward until they arrived at a small trail deviating from the main road into the forest. After a (non-unanimous) consensus was reached that the rented horses should be released rather than tied up, the Rovers ventured into the woods with their merries in tow, leaving their rented carts by the side of the road.

Continue reading “Session 44 — Shadar-Kai and Duergar and Orcs, Oh My!”

The Rovers sent their foremost master of subtlety, Urs, under the power of his invisibility ring, to approach the carriage and make a loud noise so that Zax and Zex, if they were nearby, might hear. Before he even got there though, he was spotted by the villainous Urna and at least one similarly invisible body guard. This did not stop Urs, who released his mighty roar and ran back to the Rovers (and attempted to de-pants Aengus).

Continue reading “Session 43 — Divine Ambitions”

After Aengus responded to another of Tyresha’s calls with a very convincing story about a bad inter-planar connection, the Rovers continued on their way to Gammenora. They traveled the road east, avoiding the band of orcs, and passing other travelers. When they were a day away from their destination, Aengus messaged Zex again and learned she had been captured by some unknown enemy — why can’t anyone remain un-kidnapped?!

Continue reading “Session 42 — The Case of the Missing Twins”

The Wild Rovers kicked some zombie butt, and then they kicked some lesser beholder butt. The gods were a bit annoyed with the ease with which these feats were accomplished, but the Rovers had fun nevertheless. Aengus dodged a call from a worried Tyrisha. The Rovers went off road to avoid some orcs, camped for the night, and kicked some xorn butt while half the party slept.

The Wild Rovers went to interrogate the captured duergar, named Bertram, who had tired of the duergars’ joyless existence and wanted to taste the finer things of life. He was not exactly forthcoming, cooperative, or interested in making deals, but he did divulge that a schism had developed in duergar society between two factions: those that supported their King Lomic, and those that supported High Priestess Drothmara, Aengus’s former captor and orchestrator of the Highgate Crown heist. The “upstart” priestess reportedly sported headwear resembling the stolen crown and commanded mind flayers among her minions. Three females with elf-like features comprising a third party were said to have recently arrived on the scene and tended to disappear and reappear suddenly; the Rovers thought this description matched that of Urna’s shadar-kai lieutenants.

Continue reading “Session 40 — Royal Pursuits”