1. Journals

Session 1 -Disaster in Daggerford

September 26, 2022

• A rugged figure, equipped for a long journey, ascends a lonely mountain path to Black Helm Tower in the peaks above Daggerford. The entrance is guarded by a fierce spirit which, failing to frighten the trespasser, inhabits a stone statue. The statue incapacitated the lone traveler, who comes to consciousness as the flames from Daggerford add their light to the setting sun. Realizing this task is beyond him alone, the traveler and his horse make haste to the burning city and sounds of conflict that rise up the foothills and down the river valley.


• Mallery and the party depart early after a short debate. Once the group gets close enough to town, they realize rhe docks are ablaze and pull ashore outside the city gates. They are met by Vic, who rode hard through the night to from the Tower to make it to the city as dawn approaches.


• The guard opens the gate and the party is met by Guard Captain Roallet, from whom they relieve a warm welcome, especially Paws. The greeting is reserved for Vic, whose business in “her city" is known to her. She explains that the cobbler’s shop near the docks caught fire following an explosion from within. Injured, terror-stricken, and hostile beasts fled the burning structure. Containing both them and the blaze strained Roallet's personnel to their utmost limit.


• As Roallet begins to speculate on causes and talk out next steps, a massive creature breaks free from a subterranean chamber beneath the fire-weakened floorboards of the cobbler's shop. Enraged, the gray render claws and bites everything in its path, starting with the taxed Roallet, the tired party, and battered Vicken.



By Kasiana



close of the day's travel. approaching zelkun. town before daggerford. will stay the night. 

malloary steering. nearing jounrey's end. 

searos introduces. kas likes searos now.

light getting used to spells again. 

mallory has ptsd.mallory has ptsd.• The party nears journey's end as they put in to the small docks of Julkoun. Kas introduces herself to Searos. After running into some long-forgotten trading partners, the smell of smoke from a distant fire interrupts a comforting meal. The inn's patrons filter outside to watch the blaze to the east that sets Daggerford alight.

gotta find Valon!

there's gotte be a way to the shadowfell. we just odn't know yet. 

november, cold, frosty. closer to the coast. snow is not far away.

Kas tries to find harvey but he hides. Kas wants to buy him a drink. no drink, only stables.


last of the season for travelling down river. roads are getting more difficult in the cold or soggy weather.


paws and I share a room.

harvey at the atble.

searos puts out his fire hair.

FOOD and ALE

biggest best two carrots.

jug of wine. and food.


Gavin is back. welcoming. hope our business ecursions were fruitful. trying to trade with us. We don't know. 

Kas tell gavin that our trader is out currently but WILL be back and we can regroup and work on trades next.

a rumble of thunder and he opens the doors to the inn. a crowd of people outside chattering. catch a whiff of smoke.

searos sniffs. where there is smoke. 

another rumble of something. 

burning wood. ting of acrid. other things combusting. not super strong. farmer's around.

people are filtering out of the inn.

I follow.

the last rays of the red sun reflect off of columns in the distance. the hills ablaze. daggerford is on fire??

next morning daybreak leave would be 4pm arrival.

nearby a black tower in a small mountrain range just north of daggerford.

black helm tower

a rather hulking figure. mountain of a man. kinda hutched and loping in his gait. little more heavyset. raw power. guiding a horse. backpack full of all manner of things. careful deconsstructed easel and broadsword. worn armor. symbol of the sun, very polished and revered on the armor(?)

toothy grin. takes a huge drag on the smoking thing in his mouth for AGES. gives his horse a little hug. looks like we made it. not quite as inviting.

very dark stone. good condition for such an old vacant building.

hole and complete statue hooded person with an open book. other statue looks like

broken and lies in rubble.

4 stories. plus battlemens.

the horse and him have an interesting relationship

symbol of the sun. ahnd crumbles a firefly, moss, bright light

gleaming blue point of light in the eyes of the skull. piercing scream in it's darkened mouth that light cannot illuniate.

something creepy! animate statue. 41 DAMAGE

Ben killed Vic asap.

as vic is uncounsicous, flickering of flames reflected off the mountain face before blackness takes him.


very an unkown period of time, he awakens from the smell of smoke pouring out of daggerford below.1hp. the statue is back at it's post. reading the book again. head angled to Vic. broken nose. Vic takes the broken piece of book that fucked him up and spends the night riding to daggerford.

the menace that he was in charge of investigating.

rumble of something thundering. guards fighting. metal against screeching bone.

beastial. fucking runs away from the tower and daggerford. up the river. fire localized to docks.

Kas wants to go now. Paws and Searos want to wait.

We decide to go through the night, Mallory is worried about her wife. mallory is being cautious.

most unfortuantely is the docks area.


several hours away when we hears the sounds of fighting and odd noises. gotta dock somewhere.

acrid tang to it. structure fire.

after a few hours.

a rider coming by. guards on the rough wooden battlements. wooden wall. people guarding it. all attention in the middle of the city. fighting has died down.

the blaze has come a big under control.

Vic!

I can't see you, I'm coming through.

I light my staff. Garvey mimics.

massive knarled hand.

we are a weird  group.

paws is being sacrastic. 

vic is worried about being worship of bad gods. paws says of course not. 

kas is clarifying that people deserve second chances and it's okay. redeemable.


let us in. we fight, we heal.

half roc woman. guard captain rollet. familar

paws learned some orcish from this woman.

gates shut behind and barred.

the worst of it is over. what happened?

it's in the docks. this way.

striding off. we follow.

not sure what happened. still smoldering. 1 or 2 structures caught fire. understanment. there was an explosion from within. spread to several. thin it started at the old cobbler shop.

paws is talking about not liking cobbler shops.  teh captain is worried. 

new members

sundarbar sheild

came on the job for the priest.

the cobbler. smodering wreackage.

strange creatures in that building. and dead humans. teh creatures fled scared and angry.

Kas remembers Valon getting in trouble here and us having to come find him. 

but we don't know the details.

massive quakes shake the ground and settles and sending aparks.

all turn to look as from the embers burst through the floor.

this huge gray multiple eyed creatures and bellows and breaks down timber in the alleyway. FEAR and hatred.

Kas gets Hit immediately for more than half her health. suddenly in the shock of realizing what it's like to be in real battle again, she is enveloped in an icey susbstance. spectral frost. over her gear and self. she has no idea how it happened. lasts an hour.

Needs to rp the spectral frost and confusion and then fight. or heal!