Chronicle of the Champion of Avariel: Session Four - Forget Destiny, Let's Go Party With The Elves

This session opened on the group picking up the pieces loot left by the (practically prenatal) dragon that almost handed them their keisters. Mavieth ended up with a shiny new sword and gave the amulet he had used to Kyrie.

The group then trudged back to the ever-cheerful Edenna to proclaim their victory. She was, needless to say, thrilled to see us alive and still traveling with Leucis. Her shining becon of happiness shone on us and gave us the gold we were due, while asking us if we had decided to help Leucis with his role in saving the world (or some such tripe.) When Leucis continued to evade our questions on what the task was by vaguely alluding to "destroying evil in the area," Raiern and Autumn had the fine idea to defeat some evil in their old digs in the woods. It should be mentioned here that Autumn had a "vision" of her tribe being in grave danger by some unknown evil. This seems to be the wrong answer for Edenna and she gets up and heads out, forever leaving us with out her cheery smile and bitch ass sass. She will be missed... Just not by us.

So a few of the party decide to do a bit of shopping with their new found wealth. Mavieth buys a horse and cart to "carry all the treasure" they will indubitably find. Ace holds the silver key from Kobold Hall and realizing that he is in a prime position goes out to find a dupe to buy the whole place. He easily finds a noble with a full purse and no sharp wit, who seems interested in "Ace's property." Due to a lack of foresight when confronted about the deed to the property Ace quickly counters that he needs to go and get it. He returns a bit later with the deed to the land, ink still wet and his fingers smudged black. The noble seems to fail to notice this and agrees to buy the land. His condition was that he see the land first, at which Ace balked and tried to get money right away. The noble sensed some kind of scam and walked off. (The funny part is that since we were the ones to "clean out" the kobolds we really did have some claim to it and could therefore sell it. But I digress) Ace give up and goes out to find something a bit more... shall we say illicit.

When the group rejoins to head into the wilderness Mavieth is cheerfully leading Ed (the horse) while Ace is looking paroxysic. The group ignores Ace's dilated eyes and sallies forth. Autumn sings (poorly according to Leucis) and is replaced by Lecuis' traveling melody. The group reaches the wood line uneventfully, so (unspoken) Ed and the cart are left behind to make the travel faster. A few hours in and they reach the once home to half of the party only to find it in ruin. Goblin tracks criss cross the whole area, with blood and tools of destruction strewn about the area. Worried for their brethren (and sistren (EDIT - this ain't a word)) they decide to follow said tracks and track down the goblin menace.

After a rather easy path (let's hear it for 4 out of 6 having Nature checks above 10) leads the group to a fair sized goblin village the group pauses to discuss their plan of attack. The encampment has more goblins than the group is willing to face, at least all at once. It is decided that Raiern should sneak into the encampment to get a better assessment of the situation. So after (masterfully) slipping past a few of the goblin guards he comes to a cage that is guarded by the Great Ubequay! Master spy and watchman for the whole village. Or just some schlub who is practically dozing at his post. What Raiern does discover tho is that there is indeed a few of the elves of the tribe being held in a ramshackle cage. After spiriting back the way he had come Raiern returns to the party with his information. They begin to discuss their plans when they are stumbled upon by a returning goblin scouting party. Battle ensues.

Raiern and Mavieth dive headlong into the fray while the bear appears and lays waste to the goblin fools. The battle was short (being that in the entire encounter only 2 misses were rolled on the side of the heroes) and sweet. The only real problem was that Raiern kept softening up the goblins, Mavieth kept finishing them off. That is, up until the last goblin running away. Mavieth's blow was just not quite hard enough, and so Leucis once again darted forward and shouted in such a mocking fashion that the goblin was overcome with self-loathing that he died on the spot. Once again proving that Leucis is a kill stealing butt clown. In picking up the wreckage that was the scouting party a sword was found that was taken by Raiern.

Chronicle of the Champion of Avariel: Session Three -A dragon, a dragon, I swear I saw a dragon!

The party decides to take a full night's sleep in the catacombs, the better to be prepared against whatever horrors await in the depths. When they wake up, each person shares their various dreams: Autumn's spirit bear spoke to her of her clan in danger, Leucis saw a city in Hell and a skeleton-man, and Ace was told he needs to see Aurora — prompting Leucis to tell the party about Aurora, Edenna's eladrin benefactor. The party debates what to do — go see Aurora? Clear out Kobold Hall? Follow up on Autumn's dream? — and decides that since they are already in Kobold Hall, it should be cleared out first and foremost.

The party follows the stairs down into the next room — a raised platform sits on the far side of the room from the door (bearing a kobold priest and guards), while another platform sits in the middle of the room. Around the central platform is a well-worn groove in the floor. As we enter, the room shudders, and a boulder rolls onto the track to hit whatever unsuspecting person should be in its way.

Combat is joined — taking care to avoid the boulder, Autumn summons her bear amidst the far kobolds while Ace launches a scorching gout of flame on them. Raiern climbs atop the central platform and sees kobold slingers inside, diving into melee combat with his falcon, while Kyrie uses her fire powers to toast the cramped kobolds inside; burned and trapped with a battle-crazed elf, the kobolds climb atop the platform and begin lobbing rocks. A small drake enters the room, and Maveith and Leucis successfully engage it. The kobold slingers are successfully killed by Kyrie's magic and Raiern's sword, though not before Raiern is once again glued to the top of the platform.

The kobold wyrmpriest invokes magical words of courage to inspire his allies, but it doesn't do much good as the party descends upon them. Not even the wyrmpriest's cold breath weapon can keep the party away, as Maveith and the bear tear through his guards while Ace, Leucis, and Kyrie provide artillery support. Despite managing to destroy Autumn's spirit bear twice, the wyrmpriest soon finds himself on the wrong end of Maveith's sword. Leucis reminds Ace not to step in front of the still-roaming boulder. The last kobold guard surrenders, but Leucis, in a battle frenzy, kills it anyway. The party receives an Amulet of Health +1, which goes to Maveith.

Following the hallway to the next room, the party is marching two-by-two down a hallway when it comes to a large, cold cave, complete with stalactites and a frozen pool of water. A large, young white dragon appears and blasts the in-formation party with his cold breath. A dragonborn warrior then attacks the party as well, apparently some sort of ally or thrall of the great beast. The party moves out of formation, some seeking cover while others moving into melee range. Maveith and Autumn engage the dragonborn warrior, with Autumn finally using the blessings of the seven winds to physically rip him apart and shift the entire party into formation to fight the dragon.

The dragon, unimpressed, breathes more cold onto the party, sending Leucis and Kyrie into sweet unconsciousness. The two weakly get up and continue to hammer the dragon with spells and swords. By this point, the party has learned to not stay in close formation so as to minimize the effect of the dragon's breath weapon; when it becomes bloodied, the party is spread out that only a few members are caught in the blast, and no one takes a direct hit. The dragon is badly beaten, and Leucis offers it a surrender, but it refuses, prompting Ace to destroy it with Sith lightning.

Delays on Chronicle

Jake stepped in and wrote out a nice entry for the chronicle for last session, but as Benton hasn't sent me one for the previous session I am kind of stuck.

I now have 2 sessions worth of encounter tracking and maps from Ashlee to post as well.

My apologies - they will appear soon.

Also - Episode Fun started up again on Tuesday. We should run, non stop, through Foo and hopefully all the way through Whee. Please check it out at www.wausaucomics.com/webcomics/ef

Thanks!