The Adventure

Before the group sets out Appeluna’s patron tells her that she’s doing a good job and grants her access to more power (meta: attains lvl 6).

It’s a 3 day journey to Reywald. The first two days and nights were uneventful. On the third night Ariana’s on watch. She falls asleep for a second and when she awakens just a few minutes later the package from Aalthic Bellin, the sorcerer, is stolen. She wakes up the rest of the party and tells them what happened.

Ariana leads the chase and is able to track the thieves to a clearing. There she sees a Dhampir standing near a kobold holding the box. Silently Ariana and Appeluna stealthily hide. Jackal charges into the clearing and scoops up the kobold.

The Dhampir decides to fight. Jackal throws the kobold at him and the thieves decided to run away from these crazy adventurers. Appeluna investigates and finds their membership card to the thieves’ guild of Reywald.

The next day as they walk through the town Appeluna keeps feeling like someone is following her, but doesn’t see anyone when she looks. First head to the Amorers. There a gnome named Felix Hexenburg greets the party. Ariana wants to buy mail, so he has his apprentice named Klaus do the fittings for Ariana. In 3 days Ariana’s Scale mail will be ready.

The group heads to the Oaken Inn next. It’s run by a dwarf named Mario Lightfoot. They eat fried cheese logs, egg noodles with meat sauce, and fried fish.

As they are eating someone comes with a cloak obscuring their face, looking furtively. When she reaches the table, it turns out to be Tonya, one of the servants from Appeluna’s family estates. Appeluna asks her to take her to see her family after dinner. They are taken to Appeluna’s father’s office. Her mother is more reasonable, asking her to save her sister, Orangeterra. Her father is still scandalized by her gaining patronage from demonic forces and stalks out angrily. Appeluna and her mother continue their discussion. Her mother suggests speaking with Bananastella who has become a cleric at the church of Yarila and Porevit. Upon questioning, her mother reveals that Orangeterra was kidnapped from the marketplace.

Appeluna goes to The Twinned Cathedral and is told to come back at dusk.

As Arianna is walking about the city someone attempts to attack her, but she is prepared for the attack and kicks him in the groin.

Jackal hasn’t gone out with the other two. He was sitting in the room they got at the inn when he is shot by a blow dart tipped with a sedative.

Apppeluna goes to Odengers. Appeluna asks the proprietor about Orangeterra’s kidnapping. She describes her sister as having brown hair with an orange streak in her hair. The owner recalls there was a vampire that entered the store on that day.

When the focus returns to Arianna’s fight, she knocks him out and carries him to the inn. She says it’s her friend who had too much to drink to deceives the guards.

Jackal wakes up tied to a chair with his snout tied shut. The kobold and Dhampir from the clearing are standing in front of him. The kobold is trying to unlock the box as Jackal tries to escape. Dhampir opens the box and light emanates from the inside. Suddenly the Dhampir grows old and dies as if the life was sucked out of him. The kobold freaks out, unties Jackal, apologizes, and escapes through a small exit sized just right for a kobold.

Ariana gets to the inn and throws the guy onto bed without restraining him. The guy wakes up and jumps out the window. Ariana runs down the stairs in pursuit and Mario is going upstairs and they get into conversation about the noise he heard upstairs.

Jackal comes upstairs from where he had been tied up and starts talking to first person he sees in the library to tell them he had been kidnapped and taken to the library’s basementcomes.

Appeluna goes back to the church. Bananastella, blond, is waiting for Appeluna. Appeluna tells her about the Servants of Nighogg. Bananastella tells her to go to Zobeck to ask about the cult at the church of Rava.

The team regroups at the inn and talks about their how their days went. They order flat noodles in a layers with meat and cheese, fish, and bread with sauce and cheese on top.

Ariana dreams of her mother wearing a necklace consisting of a key with a symbol of a spider. She shouldn’t be able to have this memory as she was a baby when it happened.

Day 2 in Reywald - Jackal patrols through town looking for kobolds; Ariana stays in the inn guarding the chest. Appaluna goes to childhood home and syncs with mom on what she learned in the evening.

Day 3 - Ariana picks up her armor. On the way out of town they see an airship and take up an offer to work on the airship in exchange for free passage to Zobeck.

GM Notes

My GM evolution continues. I had a few notes for what I wanted to accomplish in this session - some information to impart and some story hooks to start laying down for the table. Other than that I wanted to see what the kids would do with a sandbox session. It was a lot of fun to see them freestyling and then to have to respond in real time to what they were up to. I’d almost finished putting all the puzzle pieces on the table. I think we’re one to two sessions away from things beginning to snowball down towards a resolution and climax.

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