Starring: Sukemoru Uzuto, Kaedrick de Vanion, Arka Omnis, Selene, Alla Longcaller
Key:
Uzuto Sukemoru
Kaedrick
Arka Omnis
Alright, lads. Sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up, I’mma tell you a fuckin’ story and none of you are gonna godsdamn believe it. Heavenly host could descend from the fuckin’ sky and tell you the tale word-for-word and you’d be like ‘nah, pull the other one’.
Anywhat. Heres I sit, in the blinkin’ pug, and in walks this prat hollerin’ about her lost brother or some shit. Wants to go out to some wizardy-bullshit tower out in the wilderness. Now I looks at her, and sure, maybe she’s got some magic, but I’ll be a witche’s fucking piglet if she’d survive half a day out there on her own. But here she is, hollerin’ and screamin’, ruining everyone’s hard-earned rest. Weary as I was, and annoyed to the ninth layer of hell by her prattlin’, I decide to do a good and noble thing by agreeing to go with her, just to get her to shut the fuck up and let the rest of the bar drink in peace. For some fuckin’ reason a few other chaps and chappets come along too, but that ain’t important.
So, first day. Lovely day, mind you. Sun is shining, birds is fuckin’ chirping. The rest of these muppets don’t even bring a damned tent, let alone gear for if the weather turns. But I’ve been places, I have. Weather’s a fickle fuckin mistress, and frostbite is a bitch. Now, even I, brilliant adventurer and explorer that I am, couldn’t see the storm coming. Didn’t stop me from preparing anyway, did it? No it didn’t. In comes the wind, in comes the hail, like Gozreh has some personal fuckin’ vendetta with one of the merry band of assholes I’m with.
Now, don’t you worry your pretty head about me. I made it through the savage, howlin’ gale with nary a scratch. Rest of the group got pretty fucked up though. I swear though, that storm was some kind of punishment or somethin’, because as soon as it’d done its damage, it was gone. Clear blue skies, I shit you not.
Anyway, next up’s fuckin’ Griffin. Did I mention the Griffin yet? Big twat, wings, lion-bits, yeah? Claws as sharp as teeth, beak sharper’n that. So we’re walkin to the tower and it swoops out over us, ruins my fuckin’ day, I’ll say that much. Rest of the party’s scatterin’, looking for cover, fucker’s swooping. I throw my shield to the ground, and stand. I’m ready for it, see? It swoops me, I fuckin’ pull it to the ground with my bare godsdamned hands. Now it’s on the floor, buckin’ and kickin’ like a pissed-off mule, and only now does the rest of the party jump in kickin’ it while it’s down.
Anyway, one of their attacks knocks the damned bird loose and it flies off to its tower. The same tower we were heading to, joy of fuckin’ joys. So what else can we do? That buzzard fucked with us, time to go fuck with it where it lives. Off we go, to the tower. Door’s already pried open, so I’m worried that all the loot’s been pilfered already. Still, we climb up a rope into the roost at the top of the tower, where, yep, I’m betting you can see where this is going, the griffin’s boy-toy is waitin’ for us. Fucker leaps down and starts fucking us up, but we’re in a tight space now. No more swooping, no more gettin’ out of range of my hatchet. I butcher the damn thing right in front of its mate, then I go after the injured one.
Long fuckin’ story short, we got a bag of loot from some eagle-headed asshole speaking a language we couldn’t understand, and there was no sign of the guy we went out looking for. But hey! I have two griffon heads on their way to the taxidermist and a tidy little sum of cash to show for it.
We left the city, walked too far and got caught in a storm, went back to the shrine and got attacked by a griffon, went to the shrine and defeated it and its mate. We were unable to find the brother of Alla Longcaller. His location is as yet unknown.
Expedition Report
Day 1:
Morning: Expedition departed. Weather nominal. Expedition member “Uzuto Sukemoru” placed in charge of navigation.
Evening: Due to navigational ineptitude, “Uzuto Sukemoru” leads the expedition past the shrine and to the northern border of the southern woods. Incoming stormfront spotted by the expedition. Decision made to take shelter overnight within the woods; a temporary shelter for this purpose is created by “Arka Omnis”.
Night: Inclement weather intensifies and a hailstorm destroys the temporary shelter, exposing the expedition to the elements. Sapient automaton “NAT-01” is rendered inoperable from a combination of external force and freeze-thaw weathering. “Arka Omnis” performs a repair of the shelter and outfits the expedition with thermal clothing.
Day 2:
Morning: Weather nominal. Expedition member “Alla Longcaller” performs medical treatment on those expedition members injured by the previous night’s weather. Sapient automaton “NAT-01” is refabricated by “Arka Omnis”. Expedition reorients itself and departs for the translocational elemental confluence.
Afternoon: Expedition is ambushed by a ‘griffon’ (see attached folio #1) from a great altitude. Following a short skirmish, the griffon retreats towards the translocational elemental confluence; though heavily injured, the expedition suffers no losses from this encounter. “Alla Longcaller” performs medical treatment on the injured expedition members. Simultaneously, expedition member “Selene” moves ahead of the group, following a trail of blood and feathers to the spire of the translocational elemental confluence’s ‘shrine’.
Evening: Expedition moves inside the ‘shrine’ and locates the hatch used by the previous expedition (see Guild Expedition Report #1), ascending to the spire. Two (2) griffons residing in the spire react with hostility to the intrusion, including the previously injured specimen. The decision is made to stand and fight, and after a prolonged engagement both griffons are slain by the expedition with assistance from an ‘air mephit’ (see attached folio #2). Complex communication with said air mephit attempted, but deemed impossible. Nonetheless the air mephit offered the expedition a bag, which was accepted; a detailed list of its contents may be found in the attached acquisitions form.