Alright, here goes.
Recap Part 1:
Lucien first arrived in the region of Harranshire with the typically disparate group of adventurers. They had been contracted by a fellow named Gordrenn to bring a chest to the wizard Tauster in the village of Thurmaster. Some of them knew each other, most of them didn't. They were brought together by a stormy night and the promise of good pay. On the way to deliver the chest, they were attacked by a local group of villagers without warning. After defeating and unfortunately killing some of the villagers, they convinced a survivor to explain. Unfortunately, the poor man could only say that their leader Carlanis had told them the party was bringing death magic to the lands. Carlanis did not survive the battle and thus could not be interrogated. The mystery of how this notion got into the farmer's heads remains unsolved and since only Lucien was there for the incident, there has not been cause to investigate further given other events.
On their way to Thurmaster, the party first passed through the town of Millborne and
The Baron of Mutton Inn (this is where the party is currently, by the way). It was here that they first learned that Jelenneth, a young local woman had apparently disappeared. Anders, one of the owners of the inn, fancied her and had realized that she was missing. Jelenneth, as it turned out, was Tauster's apprentice. This was the first clue they group received about missing mages and it has been Lucien's primary mission ever since confirming the girl is missing to rescue her.
They party continued on to Thurmaster, which is not as nice a town as Milborne and is a bit run down. Tauster, as it turned out, is a largely harmless old wizard. In fact, he paid the party to deliver news of Jelenneth's disappearance to Kuiper, a local farmer and de-facto warden of the area. There is also a standing reward from the wizard for the girl's return (which I'd totally forgotten about). After being paid by the local Squire, Marlen, the group stayed at the local inn,
The Hound and Tails, which was not quite as nice as
The Baron of Mutton Inn.
The following day the party traveled to Kuiper's farm where he agreed to help them look for Jelenneth. After crossing the Churnett river on Kuiper's ferry, they traveled through the Thornwood towards Hog Brook to look for signs of the girl. ON the way we met Oleanne, a local druid with a passion for hunting orcs with her two wolf companions Belshar and Arlin. Oleanne sought the group's help in helping a local boy who had turned into a wear-bear. Kuiper insisted on helping the boy, given that there was still no sign of Jelenneth and the party agreed. Kuiper tracked the wear-bear until the light faded and the group agreed to make camp.
During the night, the part was set upon by orcs, but they managed to defeat them despite being outnumbered. Oleanne decided to try to hunt the orcs since Kuiper and the party agreed to help the wear-bear. It wasn't long before Kuiper managed to track down the wear-bear and, after a fierce wrestling match and a liberal use of nets, the party managed to restrain the wear-bear, heal its wounds, and calm it enough that it understood they didn't mean it harm. The bear followed the party back to Kuiper's farm and on the way it transformed back into the boy Maxim. Kuiper wished to take Maxim back to his family and help explain the situation so he asked the party to take news of the orcs back to a man named Garyld in Milborne and to confirm Jelenneth's disappearance. Garyld, a carpenter, gave a letter to a crow and instructed it to take the letter to 'Shiraz'. The party has not, to this point, learned who Shiraz is.
End Part 1.
Everything up to this point is approximately the first half of 'The Evils of Haranshire'. There's a jump on page 18 from late August to mid November 2016 where we did a barge escort mission 'off screen' in what was (as far as I recall) the only significant period of inactivity on this game where our incredible game master took a brief leave of absence. The first true crop of new players (including Lathan) showed up when we returned.
Lucien is the only current PC who was around for these events. Here's the original cast:
- Lucien, the paranoid ex-spy elvish rogue you know and love.
- Paran, a tiefling warlock who Lucien helped escape from some of the strictures of his pact.
- Toppor Ironfist, a dwarf druid and ex-soldier.
- Aliandra Zee, a human(?) bard looking for a story to sing about.
- Cathasach Drust, an exiled human barbarian (he wrestled the wear-bear).
- Vimak Thuliaga, a goliath fighter looking for a challenge.
- Nadia Winter, a human wizard who probably had personality traits, but she replaced the first guy who dropped before we started and missed the initial round of character building.
- Technically there was also a Dragonborn Sorcerer but she didn't even make it past the first IC scene. The rest here were mostly present through what's described above.
- Anita, a tiefling cleric who tried her best to keep Paran and Lucien on the path of righteousness. She replaced the Sorcerer and got her back story a little more tied into the group.
That's all I've got in me for tonight, but it was actually kind of fun going through and reliving all this. I'll pick up with the next bit tomorrow.
@GM: As an aside, this reminded me that we'd promised to keep Garyld informed about the orcs situation. Lucien would like to make a much overdue report while we're in Milborne.
This message was last edited by the player at 02:25, Wed 16 Mar 2022.
