Category: Graveyard of Empires: The Islands of Curabel

SESSION 187 – JANUARY 24,2018

After Jardin smashes the mirror, Auriel, the green dragon tells us to pile up Serithaz, Kalgun, and tell him where Prix is.

Bavmorda rushes into the mist in an attempt to get around the dragon, and is overcome with burning eyes, nose, and lungs.

Nash tries to talk with Auriel. The dragon tells us that the admiral in charge of the airship, Sarhedan(?), suspected that Jardin was not truly loyal to the Dragon Emperor, and this just proves it. We will deal with him. There is no need for you to risk your life.

During the talking the Roc attacks the dragon, the flap of its wings disperses the mist, but drives it towards us. Lambertus, and Oskar are both overcome.

The dragon breathes a stinking green vapourous cloud at the Roc, who is overcome as its face melts and it caughs up internal organs and dies.

Rallion sees one chance, and drops his magic weapons, items, and pack. He rushes to the chest with the shard, next to the incapacitated Oskar, and drags it away from the party while cutting the rope that binds it shut. Rallion manages to get it open and rush the dragon before it can do anything, and misses. The dragon tries to breath on Rallion and nothing happens. While Rallion rushed the dragon, Kauri saw the daemons bound to the armor get ripped to pieces.

Nash casts bless, and Kauri takes the magic items and armor off Bavmorda so when she recovers, she can aid Rallion.

Oskar recovers first and rushes in with his spear to aid Rallion.

The dragon tries its claws and massive jaws against Rallion, and only manages to scratch him with its claws. Rallion manages to touch its wing with the shard, and it causes great pain and he pulls the wing in close to his body. Oskar gets in a hit.

Nash uses speak with animals to ask the hawk to round up some help from among the local animals. The hawk leaves.

Kauri removes the magic items and magic armor from Lambertus, so he too can join in the fight when recovered.

Rallion is again only hit by the claws of the dragon.

Rallion misses, Bavmorda gets in a backstab with massive damage, and Oskar delivers the killing blow to the surprised dragon.

The dragon then melts and implodes into a pool of acidic residue. Any items or wealth Auriel carried are gone.

Soon after recovering from the battle, Oskar makes tea and we gather around the fire.

We are approached by a wide-eyed half elf, Laris, a sneaky type magic user, who witnessed our battle with the dragon.

We allow him into camp. We used the liar box to verify he isn’t working for our enemies. Laris is from Vargen and left when the tidal wave hit. He is hoping to make it to the coast and catch a ship to better prospects.

We move camp about an hour West, near the edge of the foothills and jungle to be away from the stench of the decaying dragon and dead roc. As well as, away from anything that might investigate the site of the fight.

Laris joins Rallion in the first watch. Rallion tells him of the clock and uses the liar box to prove that what he tells Laris is true. Laris is amazed at these tales of space dwarves from beyond the sky who will arrive when the countdown in your eye reaches zero.

Laris remains with us as we are awaked by cries from Oskar. A giant bee is approaching us. Rallion fires two arrows into it, Bavmorda one, and Kauri finishes it with 3 bolts of pure energy.

Laris attempts to recover the poison sack from the bee, but botches the attempt. He hears the sound of more bee wings in the distance to the NW. The party debates investigating, but decides it is a distraction that will only waste resources, and perhaps get us killed.

Rallion leads the party along a stream. We hear drums for a bit, but they stop. We continue along the stream towards the village. It must be the village we saw between the mountain and the coastal village. We come upon a man at the edge of the village at the stream fishing with a net.

He asks us if we are workshipers of the Matriarchs like those of the village of Montoa. Bavmorda says we just came from the sanctuary, as Rallion clarifies that his friend is a fool, only trying to mimic what Reyne the fisheman/guard just said.

Laris steps in and charms Reyne, making a new friend. Reyne fills us in on the situation.

This is the village of Hizzou, with Chief Aldith, who are hosting two other villages, Montoa, and Shemm. Shemm is the village by the coast with the ship. Montoa calls its inhabitants Daughters of the Matriarchs and are seeking an alliance to fight the Dark King. The people of Shem brought with them the captain of the ship, who is deathly ill, both Shemm and Mantou allege by poison. He tells us not to trust the shaman.

Laris has Reyne return to fishing as he insists we will see ourself to the chief.

Rallion leads the way begging the rest to follow his lead. Rallion sees a way to fulfill his charge from the druids of the Verdant Fellowship, who sent him for answers about the Dark King.

The guards of the chief announce our presence to the chief and we are invited in. We meet the chief, and get the particulars of what each village is about, each dlegation, etc. Rallion insists that all meet at once to hear the message at the same time. The chief is concerned that we not cause offense or make things worse, regarding the poisoning, or tip the balance that might lead to war.

The chief, Aldith, relents and sends for the representatives of the two villages. While we wait for their arrival he fills us in on the scenario.

Ansure the village shaman of Hizzou introduces himself, adn offers us food, as the hungry Laris stares at the food on the sidelines.

Chief Aldith tells us that Shemm is ruled by a council of elders, and has no chieftan. The council selected the members of their delegation, including an Elder, Emeric. Captain Nigel of The Bronze Wizard was head of the delegation until he fell ill. Emeric thinks this whole thing is a ploy to get Shemm under the sway of Mantoa.

Montoa is represented by Druette the lieutenant to the Chief Warrior, Imagentia, who has the unsavory reputation of being very bloodthirsty. Her mother, the prior chief, tried to unite the tribes ten or twenty years ago. Druetta is followed by three who position themselves around Druetta.

Rallion prepares to speak….

SESSION 186 January 17, 2018

We find the roc nest wrecked and the egg smashed. The roc is seen in the distance and will not return.

Nash uses speak with animals to get his hawk friend to talk tot he roc. The roc will not return as it is too dangerous. It has food in a peak to the south where it lives now.

We wait for the roc to come, but it only sends the hawk who tells us it will not come back. We make arrangements to have it meet us in a safe place.

We wait for Bavmorda to finish training, part of it includes climbing while we wait around at the roc nest.

Once trainins is finished, we head down the mountin. The first night we camped where we first saw the golden eagle. We are attacked by some strange bird that looks like a cross between a chicken and a lizard. We Kill it.

The next morning, Rallion follows the tracks to where Bavmorda first saw it, and finds that there are tracks from more of them, but no more are seen.

We go until about mid day and two more of these odd bird lizards attack, and go for Bavmorda. We manage to kill them both before they can even damage any of us.

Rallion follows the tracks which are along a game trail in the general direction of our planned travel to the village with a ship. We find the nest of these creatures surrounded by tiny exquisite statues of little animals, many of them missing parts. We discern that these animals have the ability to petrify those it bites.

We find much gold and jewelry, and a magic broach, and an extra healing potion. We swap out our electrum for gold and load up the bag of holding to capacity with gold.

We hide what we can’t take with us, including the statues. Rallion keeps out an exquitie field mouse statue. We collapse the earthen roof to their hole, and disguise it and Bavmorda traps it.

We move on. That night during his watch, Rallion notices an unusual mist, and wakes Bavmorda and then the others. A voice calls out, and we learn that it is the green dragon we met on the walkway. He tosses us a mirror and we talk to “Lord Thornton” who we know is really Jardin, but “we don’t know that.”

Jardin and some of his allies seek Prix, who if alive, will change the balance of power in the Draon Empire.

AFter much back and forth, we let on that Thorfus is dead. Possibly that other members of the “Keepers of The Council” are dead, and that we are trying to save the world. WE ask if they did the thing with the explosion in the harbor, and Jardin says that wasn’t him.

We learn that Jardin replaced one of Thorfus’ hirelings with a Dervish with an inquisitor mask. When we drove off the dervish, she reported that Prix is alive and the word got to the dragon emperor instead of to Jardin. He was not involved with sendint dragons to go after her.

We didn’t answer most of his questions to Jardin’s satisfaction. We left him with the impression that she is still alive.

jardin gives us a new writ for the keepers of the council.

He also tells us that if he officially knows we are alive, we are to be killed. So he can’t get us on the airship.

They are focused on getting past the orbital defenses.

Rallion tells Jardin that the dark king is connected to the dwarven council of 12 and that they are beneath Glavnone.

Jardin smashes his mirror when he is done talking to us, and we are free to go about our business.

The first night we made camp, a woman in blue visited Nash and identified herself as Lysander. She has tasked him with finding the “Mother of Heaven” AKA Prixithalma. Prix created the gods to keep the evil fals god Xentellar under control. Xen Tellar got loose and is making war on the gods. Lysander said that she is so thankful that we opened up the lines of communication, they have tried since the beginning to talk to their followers. [This is probably the Dragon Emperor corrupting her code.] Nash does not tell us of this vision.

SESSION 185 January 10, 2018

We take another week for Bavmorda to train as an assassin.

Rallion uses scrying mask and Xen Khel is swarming with infected undead. They are cut off from leaving the high area near the former 3 Sister’s Temple, because the bridge is missing. The colossus is gone.

A lot more options for the mask are available than they were since Sittung altered the orbitals.

Vargen is flooded and severely damaged. Streets are flooded and swarming with infected undead. Boats in the flooded streets are overturned and their occupants dragged under. The colossus from Xen Khel is now sprawled out over the castle and market area of Vargen. Ships are washed up into the town. The Verdant Fellowship grove is destroyed along with the other temples,

Midmark – The lower city is flooded, the floating shipyard is razed and majorly damaged. Newtown is flooded. There are people who have been hung that have signs of a different illness. The upper city is in good shape and the town guard and grey cloaks are keeping people out. There is a huge airship over the city from the Dragon Empire. One day some important Midmark officials (Jardin) and a city delegation is having some sort of discussion with an Imperial commander.

Most of the ships we see are from Feldmark, and there are a lot of them.

Verdant Fellowship had some flooding but is mostly spared.

Xenilum Khel’s main gate is caved in and under guard. A big change from when Rallion went there looking for Thorfus and company.

Kauri questions the DVL on the probability sword and it looks insubstantial and fades in and out until it notices Kauri can see him, and focuses and becomes the most brilliant DVL there. Kauri asks if the charges from one battery could be brought into our reality. Yes, but it would destroy that reality. It would require a deal – a promise to do a favor by the one making the deal. That price is too steep.

The questioning moves to the clock who tells us that Xeno Tel created the DVLs and has a marvelous device where the DVLs are brought into the batteries. When a charge is used from a battery another DVL consumes it. A DVL is in an ancient Dwarven made item. Daemons were corrupted by Prixithalma to not longer serve the Dwarves and are only in magic items created since the fall of the ancient Dwarven Empire.

Xeno Tel delivered the original dwarves who were the initial force that landed on Medeia to prepare for the arrival of the colonists. It took Xeno Tel a few hundred years to arrive. the clock was created 4,999 years and a few months ago, at the time of the First Dragon War. So it takes 5,000 years for the colony ships to arrive. Medeia is not the first nor the last stop on “The Great Road” which is the constellation on the floor in the throne room in Xen Khel. The colonists come and strip the resources and then move on to the next place.

The DVL in the sword is a great one and is not concerned about the shard. It can’t kill it, only drive it away from this reality.

If we block the portal the colonists will go to the next place, or take the long way here.

There are hundreds more like Xeno Tel. Supposedly more colonists.

The water outside the cave has no DVLs. Dark Elf boots, cloaks, and armor also have no DVLs or daemons. The shard destroying DVLs and daemons violates the law of conservation of energy.

Rallion keeps watching over the sites with the scrying mask.

Nash rides the roc and discovers that more training is needed. Serithaz does better programming so that the roc responds to bridle to turn and taps to descend and ascend.

First day Nash sees that the ship is a Midmark merchant ship, The Bronze Wizard. The watch sees Nash on the Roc

Rallion prepares to rides with Nash & Lambertus in a net.

Dark Green robbed human is squinting on the carving on the door. Wizardly robes. He has aerial transportation. His name is Auriol. Came from Midmark. Tallest peak. things not good in Midmark. Looks back at opening and decides not to go there. Explosion in bay and giant tidal wave. Looking for friends of his, a woman, very beautiful with red hair. (Very good speaking habits.) He was staying at the castle with Lord Jardin giving hospitality to visitors. On a relief mission to helpout. From Feldmark. His friend is a powerful sorceress. Last scene near hear to the north. In company of adventurers. A dwarf, Thorfus Ironhand, and this group is problematic, and monk with order of Celestial Dragon some clerics of Baldric Evenkeel. Hoping to gring them back to Midmark. They are needed, Lord Jardin specifically asked for him. Visiting Lord Thornton still there, rep of city, chief liason with various relief groups. Thornton smoothed over agreements for relief. (Lord Jardin said he’s from River Mark. a small city state south of Curmiden. A persuasive fellow. These people were the Protectors of the Council.)

Serithaz can’t read this guy.

Auriol can read it. Calendar, light comes through the door, nothing important.

He wants to stroll around. Mentions that if we have aerial transporation. Will be great reward is we bring news to Midmark. Very essential to the rebuilding process. Go straight to the Council of Elders.

All the Midmark Navy ships were destroyed near Vargen enforcing the embargo.

Red Haired lady, Prix, these heroes saved her. Rallion asked about the story of Lady Em, Auriol told us based on a real story.

Definitely a green dragon. Flies to NE towards Jager’s tower.

We debate if Jardin and Auriol are a faction supporting Prix.