Previous Session
Fought against Vaeri, fought against the dopplegangers posing as king Bathair Macphaiden, found the corpses of Bathair and his wife, saw Callum and Beinon being killed.
Setup
Auron has the nightmare, they wake up in the castle, and a guard comes to them, saying Aki wants to meet with them. Aki is sent by Myria to the party to bring them to Arcastle, because Pelor has become weaker.
Activities
In Redford 17:30
During the night, Auron gets a dream of the ice portal in Rosen underground, when a young woman appears through it, but a shadow figure with Lex’s face forces her back inside.
They wake up and can meet with Sephan again. Arden has proposed a loan of 80’000 gold to Othiria to help rebuild the economy as well as food deliveries, as long as Sephan takes control of the kingdom and Arden is involved in the process for the succession. Sephan thanks the party for all their work, say that now there will be a real funeral for his brother and all the ones who died (his children), and rebuild the country.
He grants all members of the party membership of the Order of Honour and Merit of Othiria. They all receive a paper showing this membership.
Back to Arden
On their way back to Arden, they cross the black range again. Inn with rooms on second level. A violent during the night awakens Auron from a dream again of the girl crying and shadows hurting her. One of the shadows had Lex’s face (this is the cursed crown working to make Auron distrust Lex).
The next day, Lex notices that Auron is acting strange.
The storm during the night caused the river later on to flood, causing them to take another more dangerous road through the mountains. They get ambushed by 3 orcs (2d8 damage, 2 times per round) and a strong orc shaman (have it cast light), who once killed, the others flee. They don’t attack Auron at all.
The orcs were waiting for them, set up by Vaeri. They pass by a small cave entrance that they can enter if they wish, or continue to Arcastle.
Auron finished the shaman, who whispered “Vaeri” as she died. Lex was killed by a rock. Hilde finds a white feather on the shaman. They brings Lex back in the carriage, Auron frees the horses.
Find the cavern entrance with fresh orc blood. Hilde and Auron talk about the feather and Vaeri, and Aki looked for info about the white raven while working in Arcastle, and learnt that it is called Vaeri, among other names.
Troll Cavern
Cavern with some trolls (3x3d6 bld dmg, resistant to some random damage, low AC but can parry).
In it they can find some goblins who were kidnapped and enslaved. They address Auron as “Master” because of the crown. Have some treasure.
Arcastle 21:15
Levin greats the party as they enter the city gate, asking about what happened to the carriage.
Back in Arcastle, Maximus thanks the players for all their work in Othiria. He gives everyone 2.5k gold for their efforts, and asks them each for a wish that he will try and fulfill. He tells Hilde she should visit his brother in Rosen.
Players ask the king about Vaeri / Drow / Raven / Shapechanging / Attack. Hilde warns her father about asking questions in case of doppleganger. The king asks her about her favourite story as a child, it was about aunt gwyny.
Dion comes back from Thasslia, saying that the nephew Feargan of Callum will take over. He is 12 years old, so the situation if still tricky.
Temple of light: They can visit it. Myria tells the players that Pelor is weakened, that she felt very cold a few nights ago (when the temple in Drunah was burnt). She asks them what happened to the temple in Drunah, and asks Lex to go to original temple of Pelor on the Island of Pelor. They’ll have to travel to Porthclaw, take a boat on the island Pelor’s Rest.
Hilde tells in private to Myria that Auron is acting strange and having nightmares. Myria asks to have a look at the crown. Hilde asks Auron to have the crown, but he says he needs it to be strong to protect her. Hilde tries to take it, but auron stops her. Hilde then says to Aki, without sound but just lip reading, that once he sleeps, that they should take it from him.
Auron goes to her father, talks about the war, Thasslia, the portal, the dreams etc, but Dion has never heard about the portal. Dion has never heard about the portal, but asks why the players were there, and which drinks Auron drank. He didn’t put them there, but knew about them. He says he’ll go and see this portal when he has time. Auron shows his insigna from Othiria, and says he is proud from them.
Auron, Aki and Lex go and drink in the Black Goat. Balthasar is there and invites them to the first 2 shorts, and Lex pays for the third. Aki throws the drinks in the plants, until he gets his beer. The others are drink, and Auron challenges Master Lex to get on the table and drop his pants, which he does. Lex challenges Aki to pour the beer of 3 guys on the floor. His stealth fails, but convinces them to pour their beer on the floor. Aki challenges Balthasar to put his beard in the beer and wipe it on Lex. They get kicked out and go to the Greedy Lion.
Hilde contacts Lex with Sending, and learns Lex is drunk. She leaves the castle to find Lex and Auron, and Levin goes with her. They find them.
Rosen
Matheos has proposed to Kaithlyn when learning she was pregnant. They are both very happy together. The portal in the underground isn’t there (not even the invisible door). It’s only there during a full moon. It leads them to an unknown place that is covered in snow, but fairly flat. Some flying monsters notice them an attack them. They need to find shelter, or build one, as it’s during the night, but the sky is filled with amazing colours (aurora).
They don’t visit the gate, but talk to Matheos about the risk and stupidity of going to Porthclaw, but accepts to prepare a ferry for Porthclaw. Hilde contacts Bjorn to ask him about the crown.
Lex and Aki meets him first, but he asks about the temple, and gives a ring of water walking to motivate them to go to it. Auron and Hilde arrive, bjorn looks at auron, and talks in private to hilde that the crown is cursed, that removing it might kill Auron. But that a powerful spell might break the curse.
Hilde goes to the church with master lex and talks about her idea to try a remove curse. Auron propose to go the portal, and take the crown off there. They go down to the forbidden library, but the way to the portal doesn’t exist. Auron talks about the dreams it had. Hilde remembers they came during the night, so they try again then.
Hilde sends a guy to guy her a dagger, and stays next to auron while he sleeps. He dreamt that the girl was running in the snow, with a light white dress, no shoes. They go to the library, and Auron casts Darkness and the door to the portal is there.
Auron and Hilde feel “help me” and talk about it. Hilde goes closer to the portal, letting go of Auron. Auron also walks to the portal. They fight the chimeras, and as the second one dies, a blinding light sends them all except hilde back to rosen, where the portal is deactivated.
Next session
In Pelor’s Rest, have a Helm of Intellect.