Session 11

Date: 3/18/2018

Attending: Jake, Dave, Wes, Joey, Aaron, Justin

Absent: None

Start Time: 8:00 p.m.

The session began with initiative, having ended session 10 with a confrontation with a troll and his accompanying 6 goblins. The party defeated the monsters, but found the troll to be a difficult threat. After the fight they decided to camp to heal and re-memorize. Moving away from the road into the woods about 600 feet they set up camp, even though it was only 1 in the afternoon.

The troll they killed was wearing a crude necklace with a symbol marked on a flat wooden disk. Around the camp fire Osbert examines it and is certain that it is a simple depiction of the Throne of the God King, a symbol he saw in a religious survey book during training. It is a high-backed chair with a crown above it, and has cult relevance for those who revere the God King of the Giants.

Khalo warns them that the weather is going to turn, and sure enough it starts sleeting, then snowing. Osbert, Orenthal, and Soromir are able to construct a crude but servicale lean-to. Norris cast a spell on each member that keeps the cold from being too uncomfortable.

They camp through the rest of the day and the entire night, resolving to press forward in the morning. While on watch in the night, Orenthal catches a redcap observing from the trees. It disappears once it is spotted. Orenthal wakes Osbert, and they discuss if any action is needed. They decide to continue watches as normal, passing the info along as each member is woken for watch.

In the morning the party discusses the redcap visit. Orenthal is convinced that this means the Tainted Ones are behind the poisoning of the river. Norris is fatalistically depressed, convinced that this means that they are doomed to die for witnessing the conversation in the caverns on Demos. Ostar and Soromir are instead curious, feeling that id the redcap (or for that matter Blackbriar) wished them harm ample opportunity was present.

They return to the road and continue heading west. Sometime after lunch they see the bridge up ahead, presumably the bridge that leads to Evershade. They also note an old path that branches off of the road to the south but choose to keep going to the bridge.  As they close the distance a group of 6 goblins, 3 ogres, and a single figure dressed in all black appears to be loitering in front of the bridge.  Sensing the coming fight, the party quietly cast prep spells as they approached. They opened with a question, but the figure in black simply said “Kill them” and the fight was on. It was a long brutal battle, but our heroes prevailed – but not before Osbert was bull rushed into the river by an ogre. Khalo summoned a porpoise and they were able to retrieve the party paladin from the tainted river.

End of Session

500 XP; 75 to Wes, Joey, and Justin for blogging