Evening, 15th Summer Prime, 498 CE

  • A young wizard named Ekhart Mayze traveled to the sleepy town of Riverpond.
  • Sanglant, a traveling monk, had also arrived in Riverpond a few days earlier, having heard that the Baron was wanting to hire some mercenaries for a job.
    • Two sellswords were waiting for a mission from the Baron as well;
      • an old stoic foreigner named Egren Otter, and
      • another impatient sellsword that stormed out of the town in frustration before anyone could get his name.
  • Revana, a druid traveling at the behest of her deity Terra, stumbled upon Riverpond.
    • She saw the Onward Inn and immediately knew whatever Terra wanted of her was in that Inn.
    • She also saw two people; a large Inquisitor and a young cleric named Sister Remy Dane.
    • Revana overheard the Inquisitor telling the cleric to find something and deliver it to him, and then left.
    • Rev and the cleric had a short conversation before entering the Onward Inn.
  • As Sang was serenading Kellen Brand, the pretty innkeeper, Ekhart entered the tavern.
    • He proceeded to hire Sang, Rev, and Egren on a mission to hunt down whatever was stealing the sheep.
    • Remy informed Ekhart that Baron Vanden had conceded to allow Remy to accompany them on the mission.
  • The five of them set out, heading to the Boathouse for quick passage across the pond.
    • They met Greg Newerth, a drunken ferryman, who ferried them across the pond.
    • As they sailed, the party noticed hundreds of tiny floating lights in the water.
    • Ferryman Newerth informed them that these little water lights had been in the town as long as anyone could remember.
    • He said that people in the town believe the lights keep them safe.
  • The party arrived at Jack Baylen’s farm.
    • Rev and Egren went to investigate the destroyed sheep’s pen.
    • Ekhart, Sang, and Remy talked to the destitute farmer.
    • They learned that whatever had been attacking his farm, was way bigger than a wolf, and it even hunted during the day.
    • No one had gotten a good look at it though.
  • Rev began to follow the beast’s tracks north, while Egren took great interest in Rev’s ability to track.
    • The group eventually reached a small, stony cliff where Rev proceeded to cast a Detect Magic spell, much to the amazement of the rest of the party.
    • Ekhart tried to assure Remy (a Cleric with the Church) that all elves could cast magic, but Remy didn’t seem particularly disturbed.
  • Rev detected a small, fist-sized object that was imbued with Transmutation magic.
    • She also noticed a great amount of magical energy coming off of Ekhart and the religious symbol hanging around Remy’s neck.
  • Egren tied a rope around a tree, Sang tossed a torch down the cliff to illuminate their way, and the party made their way down.
    • At the bottom, they saw a cave.
    • Knowing they were about to fight some kind of monster, Revana turned into a bear.
    • This, again, shocked the party.
  • As they began to travel into the cave, a massively grotesque dog tried to jump on Sang who deftly dodged out of the way.
    • They began to fight the beast.
    • Ekhart tried to cast a spell secretly, but was noticed by Egren.
    • Sometime during the fight, Remy slipped away.
  • After the beast was slain, Rev started tearing into the dog, ripping out a stone of blue quartz from the beast’s gullet.
    • As soon as the stone was removed from the dog, however, it dissolved into blood and bones.
    • Just then, Remy came out of the cave.
    • Sang noticed her bag was open and a book was shoved in haphazardly.
  • After some probing, Remy reluctantly showed the party the book the Inquisitor had instructed her to find.
    • It was the journal of a deranged priest named Brother Waybrush, who apparently had fed the dog they had just killed the magic stone Rev had found.
    • Remy appeared to be very ashamed of taking the journal and lying about it.
  • As the party was looking around the cave, Sang suddenly had an out of body experience.
    • He realized he was in the Faerealm.
    • The runes that lined the walls of the cave were glowing, and several mysterious cuts were lacerating the air.
    • As he peered into them, he saw that the cuts seemed to lead to the material plane.
    • He also saw Ekhart’s true tiefling form.
    • He eventually made his way back to the material plane, and realized that something about Ekhart and this blue quartz helped him travel into the Faerealm.
  • Rev asked her god, Terra, for guidance and received a single cryptic word ‘TORN.’
  • Ekhart paid Sang and Egren for their services and asked if they were up to travel to Old King’s Keep, a castle to the north, where the deranged Brother Waybrush was still at large, according to his journal.
    • They both agreed, while Remy said she wanted to get to the bottom of what happened to Brother Waybrush.

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