Evil Campaign: Session 1

This campaign started with my character Rona reporting to her current boss. She reported her successful interrogation of a half hag who was involved in a house takeover. She also received another job, she was to gather information as to what a new arrival was up to. They wanted to know his name and the name of his companions. Where he hid his loot, and who sent him. She accepted the job and her price was 100,000 gold.

On the way to meet up with Shiori's character(Amelia) I came upon her being attacked by a rapist and a group of merc's. I managed to save her with the help of a Shadow Brother named Maliki. We managed to collect a bounty on the rapist of 2,000 gold each.

Rona and Amelia continued on to the Bloody Wench to spy on them. We met Gherkin and some other dwarves and played cards with them. My chance to covertly seek information was foiled by Amelia being a tad heavy handed. So after that we continued on to the tournament where we met Jericho and Espa. We discovered Jericho was our target and since our chance to covertly gather the information was ruined I decided to build a working relationship with Jericho and gave him the opportunity to pass the information he wanted along. He accepted and asked in return for us to set up a meeting with the leader of the 3rd house (the one I was contracted by).

Information Gathered:

• Names: Jericho, Espa, Gherkin
• Why are they here:  They are trying to gather money to fix their ship and establish trade routes.
• Who sent them: No one.
• Where is their stash: Its in the building that was searched only the searchers did not look between the levels of the building.
• Why are they meeting the other houses: To make agreements for trading routes.

We were also met by a gentlemen bearing a note for myself and Amelia offering a job gathering information for the hell-cleavers on the surface. The pay offered was 200,000 gold.

I went back to report the information and set up the meeting after arranging for Maliki to be on the roof of Dom's (the meeting place that was chosen). After meeting with my employer and setting up the meeting (a representative would be going for him) I headed back and let Jericho know of the time.

With Jericho and Espa I headed back to Dom's place but we found that the representative of Mask that was also working for the 3rd house had killed the leader and took his place. He and Jericho met and came to an agreement. Meanwhile Maliki knowing he was in deep shit with his house head killed, decided to kill some of the guards and flee. After taking up my offer to travel with us on another job to the surface.

Maliki was unlucky however and was caught though he managed to escape again. He was seriously wounded and burned. My character healed him as much as she could and began making a burn salve that would reduce his scarring. To hide him Espa made a ring of sex change, when he put it on he discovered a new tattoo of mask on his chest and that instead of just a temporary sex change he was stuck as a woman. The mark on his chest told us this was Mask's doing another of his tests.

Amelia and I headed back to Dom's to sleep and the next morning we went to the ship again to pick up Mel for shopping.

Next Saturday's Campaign

*Quick Update*

So we've scheduled another game next weekend. Hopefully we will be able to play, unlike the last three or four weekends where the game has been canceled to do emergency's and work. However we are not playing the main campaign, we have decided to play a limited length evil campaign. I think its going to be really fun. I'm making a half orc/elf priest(inquisitor) and Shiori Chan is talking about playing a swashbuckler. I'm pretty excited about this and can't wait until Saturday.

Zelious

This one isn't quite done yet but it has promise. Originally she meant it to be Slade but he doesn't have blue skin. So this is Zel, Zerania's husband.

Terance

Shiori Chan did it again. This one is spectacular, its Terrance her characters love interest in the campaign and the father of her son Ambrose.

Zerania EarthenFist

 Shiori Chan came through and finished these two pictures of Zerania. I'm quite happy with how they came out. Thanks Shiori Chan.

History and Myths of the Mist Walkers

The Beginning:

A dragon the size of the world came…it slept for a century. The first people were wanders…people of the land.

Two gods fought. The first in red with long blades that could cut the world in half. The second of the frozen realm of hell. The people hid from these mighty god’s in the mountain. The fight lasted for 7 days and nights. On the 8^th day quiet reigned.

The people emerged from their hiding and traveled to the top of the mountain. They found the ice god was frozen in ice. They heard:

"Embrace me, make me your god and I shall bring you a bountiful harvest; Embrace me make me your god and I shall bring you a long life; Embrace me make me your god and I shall bring you weapons to defend yourself and your land; Embrace me make me your god and I shall give you strength that no mortal has known in centuries."

Myth of the Ice Thief:

A child not of the blood entered the glacier. He hoped to steal from the frozen god. He made it to the god and battled many creatures slaying most of them. He made it back out of the cave but collapsed soon after.

He was found by a young mist warrior(Marin) who was visiting the Ice god as her coming of age ceremony. The Ice god was angry, the ice cracked and the mountain shook. The harvest was poor for four summers.

The girl would not speak of what happened to anyone.

October 1, 2011

Before we left to return to Tiff’s keep, Merin and her sister Eerin attended to a cleansing ritual. While they were doing this we went to search for the horses. A Mist Walker named Zeth escorted us and waited with us. We talked with him about various things including the virtues of using the mixed ale that causes explosive frost gas as a flammable gas weapon. Zeth also spoke of being a Ranger and speaking to animals.

We also found out that Mist Walkers don’t believe in keeping horses. They believe wild animals should be wild and not enslaved.

When we reached the base of the mountain we all worked on our various crafts, creating items for Merin and Eerin to help them on this journey. This includes two necklaces with various spells on them, two needle shooter enchanted to do 1d6 frost damage per needle and two clips of twelve needles.

We also spent some time showing Zeth some of our memory crystals featuring our previous adventures. Zeth in return told us the history and myths of his people.

(see next post for the history and myth of the Mist Walkers)

When Merin and Eerin joined us we left and collected Zel’s garrison. In route Ambrose and Anya had a magical growth spurt due to their connection to Tiff. This forced us to make camp though we had to move because Bayonetta talked Zerania into using her flame aura to heat the pond water for bathing. This caused steam to rise and gave away our position.

Regardless of the move we were still attacked by a band of goblins, ogres, and a hill giant. Zerania and Anya could feel magic in the air, and Zerania slipped into the shadows to investigate. She found an illusion of a goblin playing a drum in reality it was a mage. She assassinated him ending the illusion. Once all the goblins were dead we dealt with the bodies in the way of the Hell Cleavers. (burning the bodies and sending a candle floating down a stream.)

We found a shrunken phoenix heart on the mage and threw it into the fire, resurrecting the phoenix kin (after Zel had tricked Zerania into licking the heart). Again we set up camp although this time it began to rain. We moved camp yet again this time to a cabin nearby.

When everyone was rested we continued to the town. Upon arriving the humans were upset and they threw rocks at us because we brought Mist Walkers with us. Ambrose got pegged by a rock and Merick showed up with more guards to escort us to the keep.

While we were meeting with Tiff an assassin tried to kill her. None of the bolts hit her but her body guard(one of her cousins) died, he took three bolts to the chest and exploded. Zerania took a sample of the poison with her knife. They used the same poison that Argos has in his blood. We gave chase and finally caught up to him. Rather than killing him we instead captured him and Ambrose questioned him. Ambrose used a modified Dragoon Eye to do this.

We found out he was not Argos, instead we found he was an assassin and had killed the real Argos. He had eaten Argos’s brain, also when Ambrose broke into his mind he fried him and Argos died.