Frontier Session 2 Report

General Summary

Session 2: 06-07-2024

The party returns to Brightwater after rescuing the boy from the lizard camp. Jazra takes him to the guardhouse and promises you will get paid for your work soon. Sweecu and Arrash take off to find a shaman to cure their swamp fever outside of town while Nessra and Jock go to the inn to eat, drink and rest.

While they are having dinner and Jock is drinking his whisky a strange figure comes in dressed in heavy mail armor with clockwork mechanisms built into it. He inspects the curious whisky bottles that seem to be moving on their own. Nessra joins in and she explains that the bottle moving is a tiny creature Jock seated on a chair drinking whisky. He introduces himself as Glee and shows that he is actually a gnome wearing a clockwork armor making him look taller.

After resting up they said out to the lighthouse to meet with the local scientist Maude Herridge. When they arrive at the lighthouse a tall woman in her late 20s with unkempt long curly red hair opens the door and excitedly explains to Glee the workings of the lighthouse. She expresses an interest in the curious creature Jock and takes notes after inspecting him. After the introductions she offers the party a job to explore ruins and find out more about the events from before the Scarring or ancient technology. She gives the party the option to explore the wasteland, the jungle or head off the Naenas the elven colony. She offers 300 gp for the job and Nessra persuades her to give 100 gp upfront.

The party accepts a job to explore the jungle for the ruins and receive a rough hand drawn map with a location circled above the northern watch tower. They go to the local merchant to purchase some horses. Jock and Nessra intimidate him to give them a discount and buy 2 horses.

After traveling for 3 days they arrive at the watchtower and leave the horses behind. They travel on foot into the jungle and get ambushed by some lizard creatures. Quickly dispatching them Glee and Nessra manage to follow their tracks back to the ruins. They try to sneak into the ruins but Nessra makes a noise by mistake and is discovered. Battle ensues after Glee charges in to engage the creatures.

They battle lizards, a shaman and a large lizard with thick scales and a raptor like head filled with long sharp teeth. After a quick battle they finish off the creatures and investigate the ruins. Recovering some rough gold and silver jewelry they find a strange unknown language carved into the stone of the ruins and a mysterious fire that seems to have no source. After filling the basin with dirt they manage to stop the fire and Jock pried a strange silver disk with writing on it from the stone. Glee recognises the runes and happens to know some of them relate to the plane of fire. There are also runes set in the stone beneath the disk.

The party heads back to the watchtower to rest up and retrieve their horses.