Saturday, September 27, 2014

4759 Erastus 4th Solvania

The pcs set up a surveillance trap to catch Kundal. They follow him as he changes and then battle him in the forest. The werewolf fights back fiercely but is no match for the combined power of the pcs. Declin is inflicted with lycanthropy.

4759 Erastus 3rd Solvania

After some investigation the pcs suspect Kundal the Khellid barbarian is the werewolf.

4759 Erastus 2nd Solvania

Grigori quietly returns to Solvania and begins haranguing against Queen Arsinoe. The pcs investigate the reports of wolf attacks on humans and livestock. Glade tracks the "wolf" and figures out it is a werewolf.

4759 Erastus 1st Solvania

4759 Sarenith 27th to Erastus 1st Solvania

The pcs have four days of downtime wherein Eric studies magic and Declin works on poison and dagger bandoliers. The pcs also hear a bard storyteller named Grigori speaking against Queen Arsinoe. Gregor manages to calm the crowd down. Declin follows Grigori and threatens him with bodily harm.

4759 Sarenith 25th-26th Solvania

The pcs return to the capital.

4759 Sarenith 22nd-24th Solvania

The pcs spend two days to safely raze the Graul farmhouse.

Saturday, September 20, 2014

Royal Appointments

Queen Arsinoe has been appointing people that she knows and trusts to various government posts as follows.

High Priest of Erastil- Jhod Kavken
High Priest of Pharasma- ? (sent by Gregor)
Field Marshal- Kesten Garess
Master of Coin- Oleg Leveton
First Councilor of Solvannia- Svetlana Leveton
First Warden- Glade
Royal Magister- Kendra Lorrimor

Which leaves the following posts mentioned by the queen still empty:
Spymaster:
Grand Diplomat:

4759 Sarenith 21st Solvania

The pcs resume tracking the ogres via possession of Grim. They arrive at the Graul farmstead in the early PM. The pcs then battle and slay a deformed ogre and his pet wolf. Then the pcs set fire to the front of the Graul family farmstead. Mammy Graul created a sphere of darkness from the dark tapestry and called all of her sons to her.

The ogres begin battering down the walls of her bedroom to escape the fire.Gregor teleports into the farmstead and slices up Mammy and then teleports away before he can be slain. Meanwhile Glade entered by the other door and slowly worked his way toward the battle. Declin climbs to the farmhouse roof. After the walls fall, the Eric and Gregor are nearly overwhelmed by the onrushing tide of ogres. Eric and Gregor retreat and manage to out live the onslaught. Declin uses the darkness of Mammy's spell to surprise her. Then Declin threw a dagger that went through Mammy's eye and pierced her brain. Gregor and Eric fought a running battle with the remaining ogres and barely managed to route them.

4759 Sarenith 19th-20th

Glade decides that he needs to smell ogre stink while possessing Grim so the pcs work out that Ulfgar has a partially mummified head in his room. Then the pcs pack up for the battle against the ogre tribe The next day the pcs head out after go after the Graul tribe of ogres. After possessing Grim's body Glade easily finds an ogre trail just before sunset. The pcs rest and set out again in the morning.