Wicker

Wicker

Monday, August 24, 2015

Session 45

Date: 8/16/2015
Attending: Jake, Aaron, Dave, Justin, Joey (Chris has moved)
Absent: None
Start Time: 7:45 pm
End Time: 10:20 pm
XP awarded: 5,000
Game time elapsed:  19 days
Enemies Defeated:  none

Notes:
The Knights meet Ellinore, the Head Librarian, who helps them find Bajol’s 2nd book. Ellinore is a tall female elf with an otherworldly look about her. It is hinted that she is both very old and very powerful and is the main defense of the library. Frumious spends two weeks in the library researching a Sending Spell. Fyn researches mechanical constructs during this time, as well as aiding Frumious and touching base with Grigor.

Feydor and Bajol head north to the Azure Guard Chapter House. Along the way they meet Hefe, an Azure Guardsman, who tells them to ask for Markath. The Headquarters of the Azure Guard is a massive stone fortress on the side of Blue Mount, overlooking the necropolis and the library. Markath is the General Marshall and Rovis the head Chaplin. After interrogating Feydor and Bajol under a zone of truth they open up and treat the knight cordially. They reveal that there are about 600 Azure Guardsmen spread throughout 8 chapter houses. Guardsmen are divided between squires, paladins, and clerics. The main chapterhouse has 100, 40 clerics, 50 paladins, and 10 squires.

Markath knew Thomas quite well. Thomas was sent to establish a chapterhouse in Shadowmount. Markath has not heard from him since. The Knights use Frumious’ circle dance spell to deduce that Thomas is in the Halls of the Silent Lady 9and thus dead). Feydor expresses an interest in being an official azure Guardsman, and vows to see the Shadowmount chapterhouse established. Bajol spends the next two weeks reading the second book of the Brulorian Sentinels.  Feydor spends the two weeks training with the Azure Guards (although he trains them more than the other way around). Markath himself squares off with Feydor a few times to spar. After two weeks, in a formal ceremony, Feydor is inducted into the Azure Guard with the rank of Knight Marshall (second only to the General Marshall Markath) a rank specifically for traveling Guardsmen of note. Feydor takes an oath to champion the weak, defend the defenseless, and always work for the greater good.

After these two weeks, the party gathers at the Azure Guard headquarters and spends two days discussing courses of action. They note the following concerns:
*Carrion King – in Illmar; plan to slay
*Puppet King – unknown; plan to slay
*Shadow Lord – posing as Mario in Goldmeadow; plan to slay
*Fingali – somewhere north, presumably in the Choval Empire; plan to slay
*Daedalus – perhaps back in his keep; plan to slay
*Hanging Tree – need to explore?
*Chovalian Empire – causing trouble, currently fighting a two front war
*God King of the Giants – somewhere to the North; deal with in some regard
*Thomas – to be avenged, see Daedalus
*Illmarian Army – supposedly marching to Dragon Wastes to confront Giants, suspected to be moving on Halvenspring
*Halvenspring – final destination? Retrieve Allanora’s divinity

They decide to book passage into the Chovalian Empire with the intent of finding Fingali (and killing him) and perhaps disrupting the Empire if possible. From there they plan to head west into Avonhollow, kill Daedalus and investigate the Hanging Tree. After that they either go to Halvenspring (if everyone is converging at that point) or (if not) head north to Illmar to kill the Carrion King.

Frumious tests his sending spell and is able to make contact with Osgood.

Having made a plan, they journey back to Misthold, and book passage on the Northern Gull. The Wave Racer was headed to Urshalla of the 1,000 Sails, and so was the Gilded Tortoise. The Sea Chopper refused to try to pass through the blockade, but offered to take them to the Seven Vales. The Northern Gull however was heading to Choval anyway and that is what they chose. End Session

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