Marita had decided to settle down. When she'd visited Varisia she'd been captured by stone giants and imprisoned in a place called Jorgenfist. After some odd giantkin goblins rescued her she headed to Korvosa and enjoyed the company at a host club. Eventually though she remembered Taldoran civilization, and headed home.
She invited her rescuers and some of the hosts from the host club to her wedding. The guests converged in Cassomir and then went up a canal toward Dalaston until they had to go overland.
Fellow prisoners from Jorgenfist:
Gavin Deverin
Arika Voon (nee Avertin)
Vorvashali Voon
Rescuers (all Birdcrunchers):
Leader Shakkk
Kezug
Rotfen
Hosts (and Hostess) from Korvosa:
Hethibarb Arkona
Rusai Hosgins
Serai Leroung
Svokui Miskels
As they approached the city they saw a lot of smoke overtop. Shakkk and Rotfen charged the gate and muscled it open. They saw a young woman with a scythe flanked by two dwarfs and standing over a corpse. Rotfen recognized that the woman was undead, and said so. The woman started to speak to the group, but Rotfen and Shakkk charged her.
Once she and one of the dwarfs were dead, the other dwarf surrendered. He told the group much about what had been happening, and led them to the Day's End Inn. After they finished with him he tried to leave, but Rotfen felled him with a well-thrown rock.
The Day's End was not the well-stocked pub that the adventurers had hoped to see, but they made the best of it. Vorvashali offered to make herbal tea for everyone, and Kezug made a great deal of beer out of water. When Rotfen heard that Hethibarb and Serai were engaged he said that he would marry them then and there. He got them both rather drunk, then performed the wedding ceremony.
Meanwhile Svokui was using magic to scout out Dalaston. He managed to see a dwarf skulking about, and dimension-doored out to speak with him. He learned that the dwarf's name was Gath Morjan, and he was seeking his son. Svokui told Gath to meet them at the Day's End early the next morning.
The group had an extended conversation and decided to storm the temple, which Svokui had determined was where "volunteers" to join the count's defenders were taken.
Information on the temple was difficult to obtain. It turned out that this was because magic had been used to make it that way, so Rotfen and Shakkk stormed their way in. They saw some bloody double doors and opened them, only to end up fighting an undead swarm. This was a tough fight, and many of them were hurt. They'd identified a trap on the floor of the next room, and Hethibarb attempted to disarm it. Unfortunately he set it off in the process, and it killed him.
Serai pulled a scroll out of her backpack, and Hethibarb brushed himself off and shook his head.
PCs:
Sir Hethibarb Arkona (aristocrat 3/rogue 8/fighter 1)
Lieutenant Dame Serai Leroung (aristocrat 2/rural ranger 10)
Svokui Miskels (aristocrat 3/diviner 6/loremaster 3)
Kezug (psion 5, spellmaster 1, cerebremancer 5)
Rotfen (cleric 5 [of Gorum])
Shakkk (rogue 7, fighter 1)
It's actually Captain Dame Serai LeroungLieutenant Dame Serai Leroung (aristocrat 2/rural ranger 10)
Oops! Sorry, Captain!
The Birdcrunchers are from my all-goblin Rise of the Runelords campaign. The hosts and hostess are from my all-noble Curse of the Crimson Throne campaign.
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The Birdcrunchers are from my all-goblin Rise of the Runelords campaign. The hosts and hostess are from my all-noble Curse of the Crimson Throne campaign.
How come the undead from your Legacy of Fire campaign weren't invited? ;)
How come the undead from your Legacy of Fire campaign weren't invited? ;)
As a matter of face, they were invited. :)
Rotfen's player is visiting us, and he wanted to game with certain friends again. The players of Shakkk and Serai both had undead characters they could have chosen (Mert and Sakaya, respectively), but they selected otherwise.
Also, I'm flattered that you even remembered that I'd been running an undead game. Thank-you for that! :)
The temple of Abadar was a large building, and, rather than rushing through into the main sanctuary, the group spent some time exploring. Eventually they found an alternate entrance, and rushed in. The fight was difficult, and before the heroes were victorious the strange man managed to slay Serai. It was her wedding night.
Upon his death, strange shadows started streaming upward, and it seemed that hundreds of spirits were pouring into the sky. Nobody could quite figure out what was happening, but they tried to understand as best they could. This was all interrupted before long; the dragon was attacking the city again.
The group did what they could, but it took an amazing critical hit from Shakkk to really deter it. Nastily wounded, the dragon flew north.
Svokui had seen enough. He tracked down Gath Morjan, told him he was in charge (the duke having been slain in the attack), and proceeded to create a teleportation circle so that the entire town could be evacuated to Oppara. Gath took Serai's corpse along and promised to have her raised from the dead.
After a night of rest, the group decided to press north. Svokui managed to scrye on the dragon, and they all teleported in. After the dragon was slain, Rotfen found a strange, glowing crystal and shattered it with his adamantine greatsword (much to Kezug's distress).
Now they were all ready for Marita's wedding and the promised all-you-can-eat buffet.