Through the Looking Glass... Session Two

Date: Saturday, September 1, 2001
Players Attending: Dave, Chris, Pam, Ike
Characters Introduced:

NPCs Introduced: Notable Enemies: Character Deaths: None
Character Incapacitations (Negative Hit Points): Yonix and Runic

Given the recent adventures, the group has become a little closer, a little more like companions rather than acqaintances. Runic has proven to be quite tracker, finding his way through the hills and to the cave where their mettle was first tested. He's quite fond of his axes, even going so far as to name them! :) Xiaoyu has become a little disenchanted with this particular intensity of adventuring, preferring smaller and less dangerous encounters that will pique her curiousity, not kill her friends. Yonix proves to be a hearty companion, favoring a curved blade and a good laugh over most anything else (besides a good wench, that is ;)). Together, they spend time at the tavern in North Ettin, marvelling at their success and revelling in their valorous tales retold.

Local legend has it...

  1. The party heads off to a small town named Fairhill at the prompting of town guard Pizzaro for adventuring, given the recent troubles there.
  2. Ambush! Three orcs manage to surprise the party, and before they are aware of what’s going on Runic takes an arrow in the chest!
  3. Yonix, not at all deterred by his half-kin charges the hill, causing the orcs to run. After a brief and bloody confrontation, the party emerges victorious and sets up camp for the night.
  4. In the morning on their way to Fairhill, they run into the Sheriff’s Patrol. Yonix nearly makes a scene asking for the local whores, but corrects himself when the Sheriff tells him off.
  5. Just before noon, the party enters Fairhill. They talk briefly with Baran, captain of the town’s guard, who tells them basics of the town and urges them to pay their homage at the Temple of Freya ASAP!
  6. Yonix heads for the Drunken Cockatrice and meets a gnome named Jaroo. They play some darts and drink.
  7. Runic and Xiaoyu visit the Temple of Freya and speak to Shandril briefly.
  8. The party reunites in the marketplace and does and little “movin’ and shakin’”. Various weapons and pieces of armor are sold to Darian.
  9. The party then enters the Drunken Cockatrice and everyone meets Jaroo, as well as the miserable farmer Fendrin. Fendrin tells his sad tale of how a manticore made off with his wife and child, and in a desperate attempt to save them, shot an arrow at the beast. Instead of bringing it down, though, it went straight through the heart of his wife... Jaroo slips the barkeep, Glarian, 3 gp for Fendrin’s ale.
  10. PC’s retire for the evening, set on finding this manticore come first light, when an alarm rings out across the city! Upon leaving the Drunken Cockatrice, they see that someone or something has set the Temple of Freya ablaze!
  11. The party all tries to help put out the fire, but it is too far gone for anything to be done. They are all introduced to Arlen, the town magistrate by Shandril and they both implore the party to set out immediately to recover the Crucible which was stolen.
  12. Baran orders Lauriel, his second in command, Hathol and Jerinor to accompany the party and they set out to find the orcs.
  13. Luckily for the party, they happen to notice the secret path that the orcs have taken back to the keep, so they are able to follow more closely.
  14. After a short while, they get close enough to the orcs that they decide to set up an ambush and take out the leader, who’s name appears to be Kren.
  15. Battle erupts as the party struggles to recover the Crucible! Runic is felled in one mighty stroke by Kren, and Yonix is also knocked out shortly after. Lauriel manages to take out two of the marauding orcs, and eventually all the creatures have been killed.
  16. Lauriel attempts to bandage the wounds of Runic and Yonix, then carefully secures the Crucible in her pack.
  17. Lauriel suggests a travois to drag Runic and Yonix, and the party heads back to Fairhill.
  18. Upon their return, there is much rejoicing! Shandril and Kath (priest of Kord) affect some healing on the party, and then the party retires to the Drunken Cockatrice for some much needed rest.

Thoughts from the party...

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