Sidrea01 - Burnt Bridge
[April 14th 2004]
The party began the adventure as students in the monastery-college of Atroa. The party members share the same living quarters. The party consists of:
·Berek Bjornson (Shay) – a human warrior who was orphaned and raised by the dwarves of Deep Delve
·Zerkestor of Rondor (Kim) – a human priest of Zethunor (god of weather and seas) from the Apella Cove region of the Empire of Rondor
·Dalric Goblinbane (Dave) – a human ranger from the Shattered Lands in the south, whose goal in life is to destroy goblins
·Haeythir of Yanalat (Chris) – a gray elf from the Isle of the Rose, whose search for ancient mystery and crafts has led him to Atroa
·So’yoko son of the Grallish (Sean) – an elf from the untamed woodlands of Ferimond with strange, unusual powers
So’yoko has been having strange dreams of something black is gathering from beneath the ground.
The party has been at the monastery college for six month, and it is the time for the instructors to learn how well the students have learned their lessons. Mistress Dethira, the instructor of battle incantations, summons the party to a large octagonal chamber. There, the party is given the test.
A shadow conjuration created a dire boar that went straight for the party. A tough opponent, the dire boar seriously gouged Dalric and was in the process of reducing Zerkestor to a bloody pulp when Berek’s mighty blow with his spike chains finally brought it down.
As the battle came to a close and the party looked up, they saw that Master Pendorne, the dean of the school, had arrived and watched their battle with interest besides Mistress Dethira. Pendorne congratulates the party and invites them to join him at his study the next day.
The next day, when the party arrived at the dean’s office, they met Clancy, a colorful macaw, who is the dean’s familiar. When the dean arrived, it was both to congratulate the party on passing the test as well as to warn them. The party is informed that Pendorne is a member of a circle of powerful diviners.
Through powerful divination rituals, the diviners are able to gain glimpses of the future. The school of Atroa was created to gather those individuals whose future actions will have a large impact on Sidrea and to educate these individuals. The divinations have indicated that the party members will greatly impact the future of Sidrea, and that is the reason why they are at the monastery college.
Very troubling, however, is the recent disappearance of several diviners. Furthermore, the divination rituals have begun to fail recently. It was as if a black veil is blanking out Pendorne’s prescient sight. Pendorne suspects that the school itself may be in danger. At this point, So’yoko shared his strange dream, but not much could be made of it. So’yoko made repeated forays into the cellars, but could find nothing.
Two weeks passed, and it turned out that the party has won first place at the combat trial. Each party member receives a prize – a ring that signifies the school and enchanted with powerful magic that could preserve its wearer’s life.
That night, So’yoko had another dream – more vivid than before, he saw the darkness growing out of the ground forming black writhing tentacles. The tentacles seem to reach out in search for him. He woke up screaming.
So’yoko made another attempt to figure out his dream, but to no avail. Haeythir remembered from his studies that that night is the conjunction of the planets Saqir and Porphur. After consulting with Professor Legadus, the instructor of astronomy, the party found that it is also lunar eclipse that night. What the combination of So’yoko’s dreams and these astral signs portent, no one knew.
That night, near mid-night, the party was woken up by Clancy. Clancy then told the party that the school is now under attack. The party must escape the school before it falls to the enemy. The party rushed downstairs just in time to see writhing black tendrils reaching out of the stone floor to form a teleportation gate. From the gate emerged a horde of hostiles, including orcs, golems of some kind, and other unknown creatures. Master Pendorne and Mistress Dethira yelled to the party to get out of the school as they turned to face off emerging enemies.
As Pendorne summoned a hound archon and Dethira summoned a fire elemental, more enemies emerged – some of them rushed toward the party. Pendorne then conjured a force shield that helps to push away the enemies while Dethira cast a web spell. The web spell sealed off the passage where the party is – buying the party time to escape.
The party then faced off against the four figures that had rushed toward the party before the web spell had sealed the passage. Haeythir cast another web spell, and it immobilized the figures. Between Berek’s spike chain and Dalric’s arrows, the enemies were defeated. Not, however, before the enemies had tossed some strange darts that turned into poisonous worms mid-air that managed to hurt Berek.
When the fight was over, the party paused briefly and found that the four figures were a strange mix between snake and men. Dalric thinks these creatures are some form of were-snake, but is not completely certain.
The party then rushed below the school where Clancy revealed a teleportation circle that will enable the party to escape. Before bidding the party farewell, Clancy gave them a letter from Master Pendorne that instructs them to make their way to the Delshan Oracle in Jarrien. The party should seek the aid of Master Embar Derokar in the city of Ginalla. Zerkestor recognize Ginalla as a major city on the coast of Rondor in the Apella Cove region where he is from. Then the party stepped into the teleportation circle to emerge in an unknown cavern somewhere.
As the party searched the cave, they come across an unconscious half-elven woman in rags. From the manacles on her wrists and the ownership tattoo and brand, the party guessed that she was possibly an escaped slave. She looks to have been badly abused at some point, as there are lash marks all over her back.
Haeythir believes that she is not hostile and so the party aided her. The party healed the unconscious women and she begged them for food. As she ate, she told the party that her name is Amathyya Calanor and that she had been illegally enslaved and sold to Baron Tolanan, the lord of these parts. She had just escaped from Tolanan a few days ago, and taking advantage of the blizzard, hid in the mountains. Unfortunately, she was trapped in the caves, as the entrance she crawled in from had collapsed from the blizzard and the other exit seems to be the home of some hibernating bears.
Through a clever use of the spider-climbing potion taken from the serpent men, the party managed to bypass the hibernating bear and emerged outside the cave.
Emerging outside, Zerkestor suddenly heard voices carried upon the winds. The strange voices seem to have drifted from afar and mention that the school of Atroa is destroyed. It also sounds like whoever destroyed the school is now after the escaped students.
The snowfall has stopped but the wind is bone chilling. Fighting against the cold, the party moved toward the dubious shelter of the village of Kemend mentioned by Amathyya. About an hour outside the village, the party stumbled over several frozen bodies. It looks like there was an ambush of some sort. A group from the village looks to have been ambushed with two survivors fled back to the village. The ambushers seem to have gone into the mountains.
Then, at four o’clock in the morning, shivering from the cold, the party finally reached the village of Kemend and rested at the Inn of Winged Pig.
Next morning, the party discovered that there are braids of garlic hanging all over the inn. When asked, the innkeeper said that a vampire is plaguing the village. Amos the Red, the innkeeper, seeing the arms and armor of the party, asked the party to help the village by getting rid of the vampire. About the same time, the party encounters Tadira Haran and Hoenir Tallflagon, the two survivors of the ambush outside the village who are also resting in the inn.
Tadira is here to recover a family heirloom known as the Amulet of Maeruka, said to be in ruins somewhere in the mountains. Tadira had hired Hoenir and his band to escort her and aid her in finding this heirloom. Unfortunately, the ambush by the bandit had destroyed Tadira’s plans. Tadira now asks the party to help her recover the family heirloom. Tadira will pay the party as well as engage Hoenir’s service as a guide to lead the party through an underground passage that will take the party outside of this valley towards Averdale.
After considering her proposal, the party agreed to retrieve the family heirloom for Tadira for a sum of 150 gold pieces and the service of Hoenir as a guide to take them out of the valley. A contract was signed between the party and Tadira.
I. Locales
a. Monastary College of Atroa
b. Bear cave in the mountains of Pindaer
c. Village of Kemend
i. Inn of the Winged Pig
II. NPCs
a. Mistress Dethira
b. Master Pendorne
c. Amathyya Calanor
d. Amos the Red
e. Tadira Haran
f. Hoenir Tallflagon
III. Some Notes
a. Each member of the party seems to be manifesting unusual powers
b. Strange heavenly signs seems to portent something
The party began the adventure as students in the monastery-college of Atroa. The party members share the same living quarters. The party consists of:
·Berek Bjornson (Shay) – a human warrior who was orphaned and raised by the dwarves of Deep Delve
·Zerkestor of Rondor (Kim) – a human priest of Zethunor (god of weather and seas) from the Apella Cove region of the Empire of Rondor
·Dalric Goblinbane (Dave) – a human ranger from the Shattered Lands in the south, whose goal in life is to destroy goblins
·Haeythir of Yanalat (Chris) – a gray elf from the Isle of the Rose, whose search for ancient mystery and crafts has led him to Atroa
·So’yoko son of the Grallish (Sean) – an elf from the untamed woodlands of Ferimond with strange, unusual powers
So’yoko has been having strange dreams of something black is gathering from beneath the ground.
The party has been at the monastery college for six month, and it is the time for the instructors to learn how well the students have learned their lessons. Mistress Dethira, the instructor of battle incantations, summons the party to a large octagonal chamber. There, the party is given the test.
A shadow conjuration created a dire boar that went straight for the party. A tough opponent, the dire boar seriously gouged Dalric and was in the process of reducing Zerkestor to a bloody pulp when Berek’s mighty blow with his spike chains finally brought it down.
As the battle came to a close and the party looked up, they saw that Master Pendorne, the dean of the school, had arrived and watched their battle with interest besides Mistress Dethira. Pendorne congratulates the party and invites them to join him at his study the next day.
The next day, when the party arrived at the dean’s office, they met Clancy, a colorful macaw, who is the dean’s familiar. When the dean arrived, it was both to congratulate the party on passing the test as well as to warn them. The party is informed that Pendorne is a member of a circle of powerful diviners.
Through powerful divination rituals, the diviners are able to gain glimpses of the future. The school of Atroa was created to gather those individuals whose future actions will have a large impact on Sidrea and to educate these individuals. The divinations have indicated that the party members will greatly impact the future of Sidrea, and that is the reason why they are at the monastery college.
Very troubling, however, is the recent disappearance of several diviners. Furthermore, the divination rituals have begun to fail recently. It was as if a black veil is blanking out Pendorne’s prescient sight. Pendorne suspects that the school itself may be in danger. At this point, So’yoko shared his strange dream, but not much could be made of it. So’yoko made repeated forays into the cellars, but could find nothing.
Two weeks passed, and it turned out that the party has won first place at the combat trial. Each party member receives a prize – a ring that signifies the school and enchanted with powerful magic that could preserve its wearer’s life.
That night, So’yoko had another dream – more vivid than before, he saw the darkness growing out of the ground forming black writhing tentacles. The tentacles seem to reach out in search for him. He woke up screaming.
So’yoko made another attempt to figure out his dream, but to no avail. Haeythir remembered from his studies that that night is the conjunction of the planets Saqir and Porphur. After consulting with Professor Legadus, the instructor of astronomy, the party found that it is also lunar eclipse that night. What the combination of So’yoko’s dreams and these astral signs portent, no one knew.
That night, near mid-night, the party was woken up by Clancy. Clancy then told the party that the school is now under attack. The party must escape the school before it falls to the enemy. The party rushed downstairs just in time to see writhing black tendrils reaching out of the stone floor to form a teleportation gate. From the gate emerged a horde of hostiles, including orcs, golems of some kind, and other unknown creatures. Master Pendorne and Mistress Dethira yelled to the party to get out of the school as they turned to face off emerging enemies.
As Pendorne summoned a hound archon and Dethira summoned a fire elemental, more enemies emerged – some of them rushed toward the party. Pendorne then conjured a force shield that helps to push away the enemies while Dethira cast a web spell. The web spell sealed off the passage where the party is – buying the party time to escape.
The party then faced off against the four figures that had rushed toward the party before the web spell had sealed the passage. Haeythir cast another web spell, and it immobilized the figures. Between Berek’s spike chain and Dalric’s arrows, the enemies were defeated. Not, however, before the enemies had tossed some strange darts that turned into poisonous worms mid-air that managed to hurt Berek.
When the fight was over, the party paused briefly and found that the four figures were a strange mix between snake and men. Dalric thinks these creatures are some form of were-snake, but is not completely certain.
The party then rushed below the school where Clancy revealed a teleportation circle that will enable the party to escape. Before bidding the party farewell, Clancy gave them a letter from Master Pendorne that instructs them to make their way to the Delshan Oracle in Jarrien. The party should seek the aid of Master Embar Derokar in the city of Ginalla. Zerkestor recognize Ginalla as a major city on the coast of Rondor in the Apella Cove region where he is from. Then the party stepped into the teleportation circle to emerge in an unknown cavern somewhere.
As the party searched the cave, they come across an unconscious half-elven woman in rags. From the manacles on her wrists and the ownership tattoo and brand, the party guessed that she was possibly an escaped slave. She looks to have been badly abused at some point, as there are lash marks all over her back.
Haeythir believes that she is not hostile and so the party aided her. The party healed the unconscious women and she begged them for food. As she ate, she told the party that her name is Amathyya Calanor and that she had been illegally enslaved and sold to Baron Tolanan, the lord of these parts. She had just escaped from Tolanan a few days ago, and taking advantage of the blizzard, hid in the mountains. Unfortunately, she was trapped in the caves, as the entrance she crawled in from had collapsed from the blizzard and the other exit seems to be the home of some hibernating bears.
Through a clever use of the spider-climbing potion taken from the serpent men, the party managed to bypass the hibernating bear and emerged outside the cave.
Emerging outside, Zerkestor suddenly heard voices carried upon the winds. The strange voices seem to have drifted from afar and mention that the school of Atroa is destroyed. It also sounds like whoever destroyed the school is now after the escaped students.
The snowfall has stopped but the wind is bone chilling. Fighting against the cold, the party moved toward the dubious shelter of the village of Kemend mentioned by Amathyya. About an hour outside the village, the party stumbled over several frozen bodies. It looks like there was an ambush of some sort. A group from the village looks to have been ambushed with two survivors fled back to the village. The ambushers seem to have gone into the mountains.
Then, at four o’clock in the morning, shivering from the cold, the party finally reached the village of Kemend and rested at the Inn of Winged Pig.
Next morning, the party discovered that there are braids of garlic hanging all over the inn. When asked, the innkeeper said that a vampire is plaguing the village. Amos the Red, the innkeeper, seeing the arms and armor of the party, asked the party to help the village by getting rid of the vampire. About the same time, the party encounters Tadira Haran and Hoenir Tallflagon, the two survivors of the ambush outside the village who are also resting in the inn.
Tadira is here to recover a family heirloom known as the Amulet of Maeruka, said to be in ruins somewhere in the mountains. Tadira had hired Hoenir and his band to escort her and aid her in finding this heirloom. Unfortunately, the ambush by the bandit had destroyed Tadira’s plans. Tadira now asks the party to help her recover the family heirloom. Tadira will pay the party as well as engage Hoenir’s service as a guide to lead the party through an underground passage that will take the party outside of this valley towards Averdale.
After considering her proposal, the party agreed to retrieve the family heirloom for Tadira for a sum of 150 gold pieces and the service of Hoenir as a guide to take them out of the valley. A contract was signed between the party and Tadira.
I. Locales
a. Monastary College of Atroa
b. Bear cave in the mountains of Pindaer
c. Village of Kemend
i. Inn of the Winged Pig
II. NPCs
a. Mistress Dethira
b. Master Pendorne
c. Amathyya Calanor
d. Amos the Red
e. Tadira Haran
f. Hoenir Tallflagon
III. Some Notes
a. Each member of the party seems to be manifesting unusual powers
b. Strange heavenly signs seems to portent something
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