The Adventure

The adventurers had been working with Kylana for the past month to try and figure out how the mycaloid water source was poisoned. A gnome arrived with a wedding invitation for Ariana from her college friend, a gnome named Favienne Northcord. The wedding is in a town called Moonbright. It’s far enough away that they decide they will take a scrawler to get to the town.

As they are waiting at the ticket booth to purchase a ride on the scrawler, two dwarves show up looking beaten up. They tell the townsfolk that there are some goblins attacking all wagons headed into the town. The mayor tells the adventurers that if they help eradicate the goblins, their tickets on the scrawler will be covered. The team agrees to deal with the goblins.

They head a few miles out of town and find an overturned wagon half-surrounded by a fetid moat. They try to lift the wagon and are attacked. They begin to counter-attack and Jackal is accidentally hit by a magic attack by Ariana. Eventually the wagon is set on fire and the goblins retreat below ground. After a quick search that nets Jackal some money, they head down the stairs.

Underground Jackal is a bit reckless journeying through the tunnels and ends up triggering a trap. A fight ensues and the party kills one of the goblins. This scares their leader, Dib, who runs away and commands the remaining goblins to deal with the adventurers. After a bit more fighting, Jackal and Ariana fall unconscious. The remaining goblins use this as a chance to retreat to the rendezvous point with their leader. They know they won’t be followed since Appaluna has to stabilize her companions. Jackal searches the room and finds some gold hidden in a cobbled-together throne.

The adventurers return to the town and get their passage paid. Other than the team, the others on the scrawler are:

• Silgre - who they last saw at the Tigerpaw Casino.
• Hakoth Squabblesnap - This elderly orc holds an elaborately carved walking stick and loves to tell stories of their past. Headed to a tavern in Moonbright.
• Halfling siblings - Yara and Ella Lightfoot - constantly bickering. They just want to feel the wind in their hair.
• The operator: dwarf named Kildrak blackanvil

Jackal eventually gets tired of the halflings bickering and intimidates them into quieting. The scrawler is making its way to Moonbright as the adventure ends.

GM Notes

This quick session to get the kids used to their Tales of the Valiant characters again (we haven’t played since October) was a mix of Kobold Press’ Adventures of Dib, a continuation of last session’s Kobold Press Spore Lord, and the scrawlers from Horizons Magazine. I love the way the scrawlers work as a sort of bus mode of transportation and I will definitely be incorporating them throughout my Midgard/Labyrinth campaign. This sessions is leading into Kobold Press’ Mossbeard Mill for session 3. I was originally going to go from the session 01 straight into Zobeck, but I thought that these other adventures would help both get the kids familiar with these characters and also get the characters up to a higher level before getting to Zobeck.

• Tales of the Valiant