DRAMATIS PERSONAE:
Skeef Hawkridge (Half Elf Druid 7 / Thief 6)
Goro (Half Orc Cleric 6 / Fighter 6)
Solcha (Elf Fighter 5 / Magic User 6)
Chanee (Human Paladin 5)
[Baqua Irontoes (Halfling Fighter 4 / Thief 5)]
Date/Time
Flocktime 1 (morning) to Flocktime 6 (midnight)
As the end of training time approached for Chanee, Baqua and Solcha, preparations for departure from Redspan ramp into full gear. In addition to laying in supplies and arraigning passage, the party also makes plans so they can get out of town without being noticed by any of their 'suiters'. In particular Polistea, whom they fear the most. However, it turns out to be the cultists of Nerull who make the first move. On a day of heavy rain and mist, the party is ambushed while heading back to their inn. There is but a short flurry of spell casting and attempted assassination (plus an aerial pursuit by a giant eagle-d Skeef), with the party victorious over their black and rust clad foes. They recognize their attackers as the four who'd approached them at the inn with an offer to buy the Opal. Pulling the bodies into an alley, they loot them and then redouble efforts to get out of town.
The party make it's escape a few days later. Wrapping the Opal in a thick sheet a lead and spells in an attempt to dampen its 'signal', they fly off the inn roof under cover of a mystical fog raised by the druid. They head out over the Artonsamay River to meet their chosen transportation (the barge "The Hammer", skipped by the dwarf Swirir Orfang), having also booked passage on several other vessels to confuse their pursuers.
The party is a bit surprised to find they carry, safely ensconced in the skippers cabin, another passenger. The dwarf informs them he is carrying a young women, suffering from a debilitating and untreatable ailment that leaves her in a deep coma, to her family in Tortage on the Nyr Dyv. He waves off all offers of help from the cleric and paladin, saying only she has been seen by the mightiest clerics in Redspan to no available. Their suspicions raised, the party uses a careful application of spells to learn the as yet unseen woman is not charmed, neither she or the dwarf are evil, but that the story he's told them is not quite true. The woman is in fact to be sold to a certain vicious Lord Fhaylin Jark in Tortage, to be his 'plaything'. This of course sets into motion plans to rescue the helpless woman somewhere between here and the Nyr Dyv.
Near sunset on the second day, they observe a troubling sight on bluff above the right bank of the river. A band of the fanatical apostates of Photlus of the Theocracy of Dimre stand prepared to execute a group of men. This offends Solcha, and she takes advantage of the low cloud and low light to surreptitiously drop a lighting bolt in the midst of the heretics, killing many and scattering the rest.
The next day, the barge paseses into the Phostwood. The daylight passes without event. But near midnight, Baqua on watch raises a hue and cry ...
GAINS
4sp, 159gp, 4pp
2x jeweled sword belts [900gp each]
Onyx Unholy Symbol of Nerull [800gp]
Gauntlets of Swimming and Climbing
Philter of Persuasiveness
Clerical Scroll - 2/Spiritual Hammer
KILLS/VICTORIES
Gyarnax Jorth & Forwaith (Clerics of Nerull)
Juth & Syv (Assassins)
8 Warriors of the Faith
LOSSES
none
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