Meaningful Time Records

Today is .

It has been in-game days since the beginning of the campaign.

It has been in-game downtime cycles since the beginning of the campaign. At the end of a cycle, factions will progress. In between sessions during downtime, PCs can perform any long term activities. Refer to Downtime Cycles.

In-game time progresses during a game session in fiction but also between game sessions in real time. Some exceptions will apply. Refer to Real Time for more information.

Session 1

  • Date: 20-21 of Symswald 1089
  • Season: Early Spring
  • Last weather rolled: Spring 6 (rainy)
  • Locations: Luden, Ludenesse Barony; Aksi Village on Ruislip
  • Where? Pickering North
  • When? 2024 Nov 9
  • Party
    • Cam as Zaite (human alchemist), with retainer Vera
    • Paul as Percival (breggle barber-surgeon), with retainer Helga

Referee’s account

The party accepted a job from Turgies Hel’s Crow, an immortal Aegerling raider who has been terrorizing the seas for decades. The job? To finally put him and his undead reavers to rest by retrieving a meadhorn that he may drink from it and know death at last.

Percival was a victim of Turgies. He has a memento from the immortal raider: a singed doll. Turgies offered the great prize of his own death and also enough cash to replace the home Percival lost in the raid.

Zaite and Percival hired Vera and Helga, both eager to rid the seas of Turgies.

The party voyaged to Aksi village on Turgies’s dragon-ship (and on the way, the reavers kidnapped 14 fishermen on the seas, burning their ship out of spite). Aksi was on fire when they arrived, having already been attacked by Turgies and his reavers.

The party entered the shrine to retrieve the meadhorn. They met Bui, the resident holy man, along with the survivors.

After explaining the situation, Bui assented to the looting of the meadhorn, which was in the next room. Vera retrieved it using a ten foot pole (classic) covered in whale oil from the whale oil lanterns in the shrine. The Nakki, a shrine guardian made of water wreathing a skeleton, awakened. It downed Percival, and Helga piggybacked her employer out of danger. Zaite nearly went down as well, but sprayed the monster in pyrogel, igniting it with a fire that would last 8 hours.

The party fled with the Nakki in pursuit. Percival rested with Bui as Zaite lured the Nakki out of the shrine, holding the meadhorn. The flaming sea creature could not survive or put out the fire, eventually succumbing to its burns. No mortal weapon could harm it, but the fire did the trick. Even the undead reavers could not touch the Nakki. It had summoned some crabs in its death throes, but they were quickly dispatched by the reavers.

Turgies drank from the meadhorn and poofed into dust, along with his reavers, his ship, and all the treasure aboard. Damn. The 14 kidnapped sailors didn’t disappear and made a big splash. They were not too friendly with the party.

Heleg, one of the thanes of the village, confronted the party, but Zaite convinced her that they did not kill the Nakki and that Turgies was the one who set it on fire. The party returned the meadhorn to Bui, who placed it back on the shrine.

Bui and Heleg both alluded to the treasures within but they did not seem willing to part with any of it, nor did they offer anything, since all of it was meant to be shrine treasures. The party and the 14 fishermen are stranded on Ruislip without a ride home since the fishing boats were all destroyed by Turgies. Up the road and across a river is the biggest settlement on Ruislip, Blulach.