Session 2: Battle at Old King’s Keep
Night, 15th Summer Prime, 498 CE
- The party decided to rest before heading out to Old King’s Keep.
- Remy expressed regret for not heeding her father’s advice to not trust the church.
- The party inquired about Remy’s magic, she explained that she can perform Miracles.
- She cast Zone of Truth on the party to show off her magic.
- Sang entered the Faerealm to examine what happened when Remy cast magic, suspecting her magic was similar to Ekhart, but found her magic seemed to have no relationship with the Faerealm.
- While in the Faerealm, however, Sang saw red and blue energies to the north and south and knew that they belonged to very powerful beings.
- The party went to bed.
Morning, 16th Summer Prime, 498 CE
- The party awoke, and set out for Old King’s Keep.
- Rev turned into forest cat to stealth around the castle for recon.
- She discovered the dilapidated ruins of the castle.
- In the front, she saw a young man and a goblin, both with quartz crystals jammed into their foreheads.
- At the rear, she found a ruined covered wagon and a way to sneak into the castle without the boy or the goblins seeing them.
- The party decided to sneak around back.
- Ekhart investigated the ruined wagon and found it looked like it was recently abandoned cart that seemed to belong to a travelling troupe of some kind.
- Sneaking into one of the towers, the party discovered a few things.
- In a chest beside a cot, Ekhart discovered some research notes that were nearly incomprehensible.
- Underneath the bed, Sang discovered a ring of keys while Ekhart found a small pouch containing magical crystalline quartz's with the “Suggestion” spell imbued in them.
- Rev and Remy snuck onto the top of the tower and looked down at the two goblins guarding the wall and saw that they also had crystals embedded in their foreheads.
- While Rev was on the wall, she suddenly heard a commotion of a man being dragged from the forest into the castle by two strong looking men, one with a large, colourful beard and the other with large muscles and a bandana on his head.
- The party peaked out the door of the tower, and Sang noticed that the man they were carrying away was the Sellsword that stormed away the night before.
- Egren told the party that the man’s name was Tavian Larg.
- After the three men went into the basement of the castle, the party followed them.
- While on the ground, Remy recognized the boy standing at the front of the castle as Heath MacFarlane, a local of Riverpond.
- Sang used they keys he found to open the door.
- Rev turned into a tiger and bounded inside, while the rest of the party followed.
- Inside the basement, there were 6 people;
- Tavian Larg laying on a stone slab, the two men Rev saw before, a smaller woman with a frying pan, a huge muscular woman, and a man whose skin looked like magma that turned out to be Brother Waybrush.
- As a fight broke out, Brother Waybrush escaped in a secret tunnel under a statue of the Goddess Talena.
- The large, muscular woman was slain by Rev.
- The man in the bandana was knocked unconscious.
- The smaller woman, while wielding a frying pan, was also slain by Rev.
- The man with the colourful beard, who turned out to be a bard with magical abilities, was subdued and had his forehead crystal removed.
- After a bit of back and forth, the man with the colourful beard told the party he could remember most of what happened but didn’t understand most of the memories.
- He also began to mourn for his wife, who he called Wenda.
- The party then began to make their way down the secret tunnel under the statue.
- They exited into a large, secret cavern.
- They then fought and killed Brother Waybrush.
- While examining his body, Ekhart found a red quartz crystal.