Session 3: Back to Riverpond
Afternoon, 16th Summer Prime, 498 CE
- The party returned to the chapel underneath the Old King’s Keep.
- They talked with the leader of the Lion Troupe, the bard Bayden Tam.
- Bayden said that he remembered what happened to him.
- He said he wanted revenge against the church for their part in his wife’s death.
- There was a knock on the chapel door.
- Heath MacFarlane and Provo the Goblin entered.
- The party decided to destroy the ruins of Old King’s Keep with fire.
- The whole gang returned to Riverpond:
- Ekhart, Sanglant, Revana, Egren, Remy, Tavian, Bayden, Old Zeke, Heath, and Provo.
Evening, 16th Summer Prime, 498 CE
- The party discussed what to do with the journal of Brother Waybrush.
- They agreed to make a copy of it and give it to Remy.
- Remy told the party she would lie and say they went to Old King’s Keep and found nothing but a destroyed ruins.
- Remy left to reconvene with the Inquisitor.
- Bayden told the party he wanted to come with them to talk to the Baron.
- While walking back, the party discussed several topics.
- Ekhart mentioned his prophetic inklings that lead him to Riverpond.
- Ekhart also mentioned the contents of the research notes.
- Brother Waybrush was trying to open a portal to the Faerealm.
- Some of his research appeared to have misinformation that would have made him inevitably fail.
- Revana mentioned her God, Terra, told her to come here and that something was ‘tearing.’
- Sanglant mentioned the tears fabric of the faerealm in the wolf’s den.
- Sang decided to show the party that he could go into the Faerealm by entering it, after hearing whispers around that he assumed were from the Faerealm.
- Sanglant entered the Faerealm.
- There he met a massive Water Elemental, floating above Riverpond.
- The two had a conversation about the nature of counting.
- As Sang was in the Faerealm, his body began to shut down with cold.
- Ekhart and Rev tried to warm him up, and eventually Ekhart woke up Sang with a light slap to the face.
- The party then arrived Baron Vanden’s manor.
- They explained the situation to him.
- Bayden the Bard spoke up, mentioning that he saw someone interacting with Brother Waybrush that looked like Ekhart.
- Ekhart confirmed that it was his brother, Cidmuir.
- Bayden mentioned that Cidmuir was going back to a city named Ambermoor.
- The Baron mentioned his fear of the Church, and about the happenings of the Quiet War.
- For the past 20ish years, the Church had been bankrolling bandits in secret to destabilize the Empire.
- The Empire, in response, hired soldiers to fight.
- The War ended 2 years ago for unknown reasons, but there were a few things that happened as a result;
- The Church stopped funding the banditry.
- Emperor Alexander Falstani grew sick and died.
- Ortelai (and by extension, the Church) began to control its own taxation.
- The Empire is quite poor, from spending so much hiring mercenaries and losing tax money from Ortelai.
- Many of the soldiers hired by the Empire were let go without pay or pension.
- Baron Vanden offered Egren, Bayden, Sang, and Revana writs of knighthood.
- In exchange, he wants them to get to the bottom of whatever the Church is up to.
- Bayden and Egren decided to stay in the direct service of the Baron, while the party decided to travel south to Ambermoor to look for Cidmuir.
- Revana declined the knighthood, saying she had no use for such a thing.
- The party returned to the Onward Inn.
- Egren, Ekhart, Rev, and Sang all began to drink.
- Remy popped by to say goodbye.
- The Inquisitor was satisfied with Remy’s explanation of events.
- The two were leaving back for Ortello that night.
- Remy said she was going to start working against the Church from the inside.
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- It was heavily implied that Sang and Kellen had sex.