Date: Saturday–Monday, the 28th of June–23 of August, year 112 of the Empty Throne. (2024-08-25)
Weather: Various seasonable weather for this time of year.
Moon: A whole moon and a half.
Session Goal: Rob the Prismatic Tower
Starting Location: Hex 1212 > Ruins of Brandonsford > Graveyard of the Sisters
Ending Location: Hex 1118 > Tavern-by-Sisters > Prismatic Tower > Library and Treasure Vault.
Referee: Jacob.
The Smoke Show Adventuring Company, including:
Callum (Zack), Fairy Cleric 1 Druid 5
Erazin (Chris), Shadar-kai Rogue 6
Katgur the Young (Bex), Leonin Barbarian 6
Ghesh Turnuroth (Sam), Dragonborn Paladin 6
And their retainers:
Droop
Mushroom King (Sean Trell, 4th of His Name, King of the Mushrooms)
Ned the Horse
Zaraq
The party’s active quests.
The ghost of Sir Brandon beseeches you to go to Brandonsford, to the crypt below the city, and secure the artifacts being kept safe there. The artifacts once belonged to the Cold Prince. Sir Brandon senses that someone has been within the old crypt “recently”. He says the town of Brandonsford can be found to the north along the Adriel Way.
The Cold Prince is imprisoned on the Frozen Isle of the Banished Usurper in the Prison Palace of the Cold Prince. As long as any of his thirteen children live, there is a chance one of them will help him return to the mortal realm and cast it into eternal winter.
To defeat him, either:
Kill all thirteen of his children.
Collect the magical cold-iron weapons that were forged by the ancient dwarves of old under the direction of the Eilvalorians.
These weapons are secreted away within the hidden treasure vaults of the Eilvalorian Princes.
With these weapons, the immortal Cold Prince may be slain.
One must travel into the Realm of Faerie to do so.
Including monsters encountered and treasure collected.
Everyone in the party set about doing various tasks and side adventures for a week, as Erazin led the charge of constructing a camp just within the Ruin’s of Brandonsford.
The party heads south, stopping at the previously discovered standing stones—there they find Brackborne Casket, a Woldere, being violently accosted by a Knight of the Rotkeep and several men-at-arms.
Katgur roars and the party intervenes, sending the knight packing (88 xp) and returning with the Woldere to his “cottage,” where Droop and Zaraq are accidentally captured in a stone briefly, before being set free at the end of the meeting—a meeting which earns the party an invite to the next Woldmeet, to occur on the 15th of September during the full moon (Brackborne agrees to meet with you the day before, at the owl who demands sins be confessed).
Back in Tavern-by-Sisters, the party spends almost two months accomplishing various tasks, not least of which was researching ways to rob the Prismatic Tower.
The plan is nearly foiled right from the start as several Clerics of Saint Ludann see Callum casing the tower, but they’re quickly dissuaded.
While Ghesh and Katgur demand a meeting with Yenok, Erazin and Callum sneak in.
Team 1 poisons people in the library with bad drugs while team two heads up to the private library.
Team 1 tries and fails to fake also being poisoned while team 2 puts some students to sleep.
Team 1 reads a book while team 2 continues up through stranger and stranger levels of the tower, narrowly avoiding being found out by Yenok himself.
Team 1 once again refuses a meeting with Yenok while team 2 escapes a room filling with lava and ascends to the treasure vault—and enters.
A running total of the value of all treasure, including coins, to be sold and split amongst the party upon returning to town.
Session 16: 0 gp.
A running total, to be split amongst the party upon returning to town.
Session 17: 88 xp.
Each: 22 xp.