SESSION 23: Fuffing Finally in Forven

Loshev finally behind, and Gnolls on the march, we aim for Forven. Upon arrival the party goes to the guard and reports about the gnolls and inquires about the corrupt captain. They discover the captain fled and Julius is in custody but likely to be let go. Mikhail also finds Jaiden who admits she plans to serve justice if Julius is freed, and he tries to talk her out of it. As they move toward leaving Forven, a lady in her mid 30s sends a porter to bring the valient few to a tavern. her name is Lenor. Lenor wants the valient few to re-examine evidence that her husband, captain of the guard in forven, is guilty. she thinks something else must be going on. koa thinks she is a fool and says as much, as the other two agree but are more subtle about it. Aldo disguises as Billy and finds that Lenor is hurrying on a boat to Harad. The Valiant Few use their reputation to get aboard the boat. In Harad they meet with Jack and aldo plans on dinner with Lenor. Mikhail and Koa found out that someone named Freya was communicating with Lenor, whilest Aldo's meal didn't go so well.... The Few moved on to HG where aldo got his armor and the crew discovered that Beltran was now captain of the guard and the guard was now stationed to not protect the people, but the people "worth" protecting. The crew stays at the magical inn and plots what to do from here...

SESSION 23: Fuffing Finally in Forven

Session 22: Miles to Go Pt. 3

Session 22: Miles to Go Pt. 3

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Session 21: Miles to Go

Session 21: Miles to Go

Session 20: Through Snow and Stone

Session 20: Through Snow and Stone

Session 19: Cold Comfort, Licking Flames

Session 19: Cold Comfort, Licking Flames

Session 18: Defying Gravity

Session 18: Defying Gravity

S17: Doors Opened

Aldo drank people. Now he sick. Now he grabbed by big bird. bird fly away. mikhail and koa quickly check the last hallway in the keep and prepare to leave while aldo is dropped into another nest in the mountains. Koa and Mikhail find the place that gave clues to the lock with symbols as well as the place to arm the boulder trap. Koa and Mikhail use the hole to get out and make their way out of the keep. Meanwhile Aldo is dropped off a second time by the bird. Mikhail and Koa investigate where Grishka died and meet Yara, also known as Three. She and her companions came to hunt the gnolls and had previously looked to stop the ten lashes. They bury Grishka and Koa agrees to help bury Two. Heading back to the keep, Mikhail, Yara, and Koa camp out while Aldo is brought back by Al-Sāmiyah. They meet back up the following day and discuss the events of Aldo's travels, coming to the conclusion that Al-Sāmiyah wants them to retrieve her stolen eggs. They venture toward Draazstone and find Roxam and the remaining two members of his party and convince them to return the eggs. Aldo and Koa ride off ahead and find Al-Sāmiyah who flies off towards the eggs with Koa and Aldo on her back.

S17: Doors Opened

We are in some pain. At least Koa is. Gnolls, doors, and traps, with more to come. First up a door that appears painted and fake, but Aldo finds a button that reveals a lock with symbols. A combination lock. 6 symbols and 3 turns required, with failure likely setting off multiple traps. Flask, Tree, Gem. Or Hands, Chain, Crown? No, Flask, Tree Gem. THE DOOR OPENS! Big room. a door seemingly leading outside that the crew migrates to and another up a couple stair cases. outside is a nest, a giant, giant eagle? golden red feathers? further out a dozen gnolls are on the move and a couple small people approach the door. aldo yells and scares them off and the gnolls manage to kill someone in the distance. back inside they move up the stairs and make their way past locked doors (sealed by magic they find out later) and find a room with a big three dimensional map of idir with a spirit of a peren man left behind that koa can see and hear, mikhail can hear, and aldo doesn't believe is there. The crew is told how the peren, created by the Mul, rebelled and took down the Mul empire, and how 7 keeps hold parts of a great curse on idir. all 7 must be taken down in the cycle of a moon or three must be taken down at once. The bird outside is the something matriarch, who had a bond with Vinny who led the rebellion against the Mul and who may have led this crew to the keep. After a long conversation, and aldo possibly drinking 700 year old blood, the crew is left alone again in a large keep made by what is being revealed to be an evil empire.

Session 16: The Long Climb

Camping time, weird wind laughter and a cackle that reminds Koa of a tale of a horrible demonic wolf/cat creature. Mikhail realizes while fighting that they are gnolls, even though gnolls are supposed to live in warm climates. The party is victorious with all but one of the raiding party going down. The Valiant Few take the heads of the gnolls to put on pikes to scare away further attacks and head back to the door. After some shenanigans, electricity and ring finagling by Mikhail the door opens. Koa hurts himself trying to close it, but ultimately they get the animals inside and get it closed. Adventuring they nearly die to a boulder trap but just manage to escape in time and ride a lift up to the top of the dungeon. Up there they come across another trap, a pit, but manage to close it up and approach another door...

Session 16: The Long Climb

SESSION 15: The Deluge

SESSION 15: The Deluge

Byebye Daisy and Jayden. Hello fawn for breakfast. Arcane Congress corpse? Byebye hobgoblins, hello knowledge of navigating mountains! RAIN, SO. MUCH. RAIN. Aldo a bit under the weather, but cave to the rescue! Mikhail really wants to go in a hole... and does. Looks like this cave (1/2 a day - 2 days out from our destination) was worked but space is tight. Hobgoblins? Mul? Mikhail shakily investigates deeper. A trapped hallway, secret door, and trapped room later a chest with some weapons and armor seemingly belonging to bugbears is discovered with a ring in a nook underneath. The crew grabs that and some coins and makes their way back to the main cave. Into the valley of doom... on the south / southeastern side of the valley is a balcony / entrance to something with the same Mul stone, but 300 feet up in the air... Looking around remnants of structures and even a remaining structure is found in and around grasses in the area near the balcony. The structure didn't give any clues but the balcony door was near another door on the ground that is covered in spikes. The crew cleans out to key holes, one they have the key for, the other needing to be picked... but it's late so camp! and stream end because god's internet died.

S14: Stones of Remembrance

S14: Stones of Remembrance

End of Book 1: Chains of Idir

End of Book 1: Chains of Idir

End of Pre-Season

End of Pre-Season

Book 2: Echoes of an Empire S13: The Valiant Few - Full

Book 2: Echoes of an Empire S13: The Valiant Few - Full

S12: Restoring Order

S12: Restoring Order

REVERSE, REVERSE! The DM forgot a crucial moment, so The Valient Few find themselves meeting with the council of Loshev and are rewarded with an estate, a week stay coupon for a place in HG (color something something)?, and 13 months no taxes for the estate, 1gp/m payment after that. Some land in Westwood also granted that cost 2.8sp/y (a year is 13 months in Aurorum). The boys along with the Amultese and Elliot leave Loshev and begin making their way toward the mountains to the west. After a day of travel, Koa and the group have an uncomfortable conversation about Elliot possibly needing to return to Loshev and Harveen offered to escort him. Koa deduced that Harveen wanted to abandon the group and told him to leave or stay, but be honest about it. Things get very tense, the Amultese go their own way and Koa, Aldo, and Mikhail escort Elliot back while at each other's throats most of the journey back. The group eventually (after hours and hours) eventually apologize and make amends, and work on backtracking and finding the Amultese, and they find them. They are tied up and are prisoners of a group of hobgoblins who end up being pleasant and only tied them up to prevent conflict as Jayden and Harveen were in a big argument since Harveen was hinting at deserting and Koa told Jayden about it earlier in the day. Southeast of the mountains, Harveen seems to recognize the place. The party agrees to help them search while the hobgoblins begin looking for the mountain pass. They eventually find a burial site and campsite which showed Raerin didn't make it and one of the attackers was killed, perhaps tortured. Another scuffle occurs and Harveen is allowed to leave in the night by Aldo. Jayden intends to leave in the morning to head to Forven to search for her hopefully still alive final companion.

Back to Loshev with Cleven, the party is ready to wrap up the end of the mission to stop the slavers. A couple people they saved are heading into the mountains to look for their missing companions, but the crew isn't quite yet equipped to accompany them. Reporting to the councilmen, Koa agrees with the party reluctantly to not mention Ashtara or Beltran in their report. The boys have a very nice dinner with Gemsmith and Mikhail is rewarded with a future favor, Koa with gems, and Aldo with getting a crossbow repaired properly by Guldarian craftsment. The boys have a fun drunken night leading to Mikhail and Koa each taking company to their rooms, while Aldo wakes up next to some stolen signs, namely a jail sign and broken shield... The Amultese are about to leave when Aldo talks the guy into taking the fall for the stolen signs, ending up in jail, and buying time for the crew to join them going to the mountains so they don't leave right away. The new group name: The Valiant Few, or The Guys... Aldo returns to HG with Koa and spends his time drinking after finishing paying for his armor. Koa repairs Gwen's shop and learns of the ruins of HG including a door that won't open. Kiken spends down time spreading the word of The Valiant Few in Loshev. TVF meet up with Elliot, have a good chat and a few too many drinks. For two straight days. A day into their travel to the mountains, they realize they might've forgotten something important. Or some people...

The group wraps up things in HG, opens bank accounts, and meets with Jack. Koa pledges to sand down Gwen's shop and help her fix it back up. They report the remaining members of the lashes and head to Loshev to finally put an end to the Lashes Arc, outside of speaking to Gemsmith, of course.

S11 - Freedom’s Price

The party sends Eidrick and Malek to Harad to get Captain Jack so that the buyers can be ambushed the next day. The party pays the freed people, Joey, Malek, Eidrick, and themselves, and heads to Haudh-Gwen. Once there the guards apprehend the bad guys and Koa, Mikhail, and the freed people go to the chantry where they are kept overnight. Koa wakes up to Gwen in his room. He had a horrible dream about being in the cave with spiders, then seeing evil eyes that ended up being his own. Leaving the chantry the group gets aldo and heads out to find casper. koa finds him nearly dead in the ruins and rushes him to the herbalist shop, breaking in to gwen's horror and the two try to save him. ultimately he ends up at the hospital and gives intel on ashtara, where the group heads next. the group grapples her and ultimately is forced to make a deal with her where they get info in exchange for her leaving Idir forever. Info includes: Julius and Guul in Forven are part of the ten lashes. captain of guard in forven is Guul. Veren hosts the final member, Gleb Meadow. Inn keeper in westwood may know some of what's going on as buyers from peredel stay there. Beltran Greyrus bankrolls the ten lashes. his parents, council members, likely not involved but his father could be. he is at an estate in westwood.

S11 - Freedom’s Price

S10 - Breaker of Chains Pt.2

The battle continues, Aldo takes out an enemy, another runs away after being hit and falls unconscious. Eidrick takes a hit, and Malek takes a nasty one as well but hurts an enemy badly along the way. Koa drops his sword, pulling out a spear and shield, charging toward the ranged attackers while taking a hit himself. The fight goes on and Eidrick takes the last assailant down in the main room while falling unconscious himself. The group splits with Eidrick's two men going left and the party going right after the leader. Koa takes more hits but ultimately they get one of the slavers to flip and take down the Captain Torr, but not before he kills 3 innocents and stabs Cullen Gemsmith. Koa uses blood block to save him, and in the meantime Aldo discovers one more of Eidrick's men decided to betray them, looting and running. Aldo takes the other man and Nightstorm and beats the man, tying him up and the party regroups. They praise Eidrick's good man and admonish Malek for leaving them which may have aided in three innocents dying. As the session ends, the group frees the prisoners, finds that a lordling man escaped through some secret means, and checks the loot left behind in the wake. Questioning the captured slavers and guards, they confirm Captain Torr, actually named Walter, is dead and was the one executing prisoners during the fight. That said, the guy who got away was the real leader. Torr worked for him. Ashtara is responsible for finding buyers. Continuing their search, they finally find the path the lordling took to escape, finding sigils marking Luthar's home, Uub, and planes of slime, water, ice, steam, and salt. A fountain on the back has the symbol for plane of water on repeat mixed in with other symbols. The liquid in the water has a syrupy thickness to it. Another door leads to the main entrance where the party first entered.

S10 - Breaker of Chains Pt.2

S9 - Breaker of Chains Pt.1

S9 - Breaker of Chains Pt.1

Koa and Malek ride ahead, manage to find the cave mouth. Koa notices the types of shrubs at the cave entrance were planted to obscure the view of the entrance, giving credence that this is the entrance. Koa notices tracks belonging to an owlbear, though Koa thinks they are fake. The group has to tie up two of the hired mercenaries when they seem ready to turn on the group, and Aldo, Mikhail, and Koa scout out a second entrance to the cave. The party goes to the second entrance while the remaining four NPC's head to the cave. Edrick gives Koa his club to use for taking enemies alive. Koa tries to assure Mikhail and Aldo that what they are doing is worth the risk, and they move in. The crew takes their time and lures various guards into quick knockouts, ultimately luring 3 guards into Mikhail's sleep. By the end of the session, at least 5 guards and a poor puppy are taken out of the fight. Entering the cavern, Koa yells for Eidrick as a couple archers miss their shots at him and Aldo. The culimation of the fight is where we will be next.

Session 8: The Half-Cocked Plan

Casper returns and claims to be turning a new leaf, gives intel on other groups involved in nefarious activities. Koa goes to herbalist, Gwenivere, who is very attractive (A 15), learns she has a disease that eats away her ability to use magic. Mentions High Lady Arcium who is a high ruling noble in Amulta. As he leaves to masked people hurry in wearing white gowns/robes: Chantry workers there to get pre-expected supplies. Mikhail goes into a bar heavily enchanted with magic and meets the owner Bhaltair while looking for the white-haired man. Malek finally is found and eventually is persuaded into helping stop the slavers. Casper leads the group to Edrick, a mercenary, who also agrees to help, for a price. The party gets a cart, 4 total horses, and 9 members and heads off to where the people are being kept with the goal of saving them and stopping the slave trade.

Session 8: The Half-Cocked Plan

SESSION 7: Spelunking in the City

Crew gets into a scuff outside of the ruins. tattooed man Gargolith killed by Koa, Casper and Willy talk while last member runs off. Find out there is a red headed woman with a tattoo in town along with other crews working with gargolith and co. Going after Messy, who ran away, koa and co manage to capture him after koa is nearly killed by an explosion Messy called in. taking him back to the cell in the ruins the other two prisoners are in, the crew gathers more intel, including about Edrick.

So we got to HG, got a place to stay, went to a couple bars, found a bad person, and are about to ambush him in some ruins. Think I got that right...

SESSION 7: Spelunking in the City

SESSION 6: Pursuit of Freedom

SESSION 6: Pursuit of Freedom

SESSION 5: Pursuit of Freedom

SESSION 5: Pursuit of Freedom

SESSION 3: Dan's Darkest Secrets Pt. 2

SESSION 3: Dan's Darkest Secrets Pt. 2

SESSION 3: Dan's Darkest Secrets

SESSION 3: Dan's Darkest Secrets

Session 2: Lost in the Woods

Session 2: Lost in the Woods

We're off to kill some bandits, some wonderful bandits of Oz. Reviewing the notes in the case the captain gave Koa, the crew finds out that the case is probably waterproof for one, but also that Malik (koa's first kill is in there along with four other names: Jasir, Samir, Zahra, Layla. None of these 4 are native to Loshev. Samir looks like he could be the archer, but not 100% sure. Samir and Zahra are hunters/trappers, Jasir is a tradesman, Layla profession unknown. Aldo remembers Layla, who was sitting on Dan's (guardsman) lap when he was in jail. Moving into the woods close to Loshev, the journey does not start well with Aldo putting on an awful disguise and Koa not navigating very well... Mikhail and aldo put on a good show and the next day wet weather seems to be on the horizon. Koa leads the group southeast after a rough first day of travel, hoping to find the bandits even today. Ground is wet, moldy, etc and the group hurries to escape the wetness. Koa and Aldo seem to be worse for wear after passing through the wet part. Aldo kills a deer so the guys have meat. Eventually they come across the trail of the bandits and move slowly down the trail trying to find them. The group comes upon the bandits' old camp, where they find a trap and evidence the bandits were here last night. The group moves out after them at a quick pace and finds them while Koa and Aldo deal with fatigue. A battle ensues, with Aldo killing Zahra and wounding Jasir, with Koa killing Samir and avenging Phil. Aldo yells out for Layla to surrender, and she steps out unarmed agreeing to do so. Jasir is also revealed to be the man who robbed Mikhail during his ep 0

Session 1: Awakening in Loshev

Phil still dead. Boooo. Council chambers stone, but look like they have a metallic shimmer to them. Koa waits hours for his chance to speak to the council. hears a drunk grandstand the council and try to convince them of corruption in the guard (aldo). Koa tries to refuse payment from phil's family, goes to council meeting where he hears about the bandits and possible corruption in the guard, a council members son has been kidnapped, etc. Ultimately meets mikhail and aldo and agrees to paid job to track down bandit remnants of the group who had attacked him. Koa is skeptical of both mikhail and aldo, but especially aldo's ability and willingness to go on the mission. Philipa gives Koa silvery potion of magic weapon and another healing weapon. also gives box with compass inside.

Here we go for real

Session 1: Awakening in Loshev

SESSION 0 - Awakened to Trouble

Brindle the bartender in Ridh. Perendel military horse outside of the tavern, tavern old and worn. Depressing old Peren military man heading to haudh gwenn hints that serving in the peren military wasn't worth it. name Leone. merchant at the tavern, Phil wants an escort to Loshev, due west from Ridh trip goes mostly smooth at first, large fire to the north, possible military passing south later on. notice phil's wagon is made of darkwood. daughter showed Koa some butchering techniques with "magical" knives. Phil killed by bandits, 1 of 2 killed, had rusty short sword. hands clean under the nails. 3 arrows recovered, 2 intact and one broken.

Just another day in Idir

SESSION 0 - Awakened to Trouble