Session 13 Summary

The PCs loot Umagro and find evidence of communications with the Red Mantis.

At the suggestion of Baron Utilinus (The Grand Custodian) the PCs seek a strange hermit to act as a guide on their journey, all the more important since their departure will be delayed by a week after the spectacular failure regarding the warehouse fire.  Or maybe the spectacular result of a 20 roll on the fire rules.

A small boat is provided, complete with crippled, eye-patched and be-parroted captain, and the group head off to the hermit's cave.  They survive the violent surf at the base of the cliffs, avoid annoying the priest (hermit) by not killing his giant crabs, call his attention and are sent on a couple of missions to prove their worth.

The challenge of water is undertaken first, the quest to find the black pearl.  Or a black pearl, probably with less undead than the Black Pearl.  A village is found near the pearl beds where extensive partying is enjoyed, and in the morning the natives try to rip off the party on pearling equipment.  The party manage to find a black pearl, run off a kelpie from the area, find a valuable ring and not return to the village with the kelpie's head as promised.

They then head off for the trial of wind, where they must gather a complete feather from a stormbird.  They manage to get the feather, but antagonize the bird in the process, but manage to leave without killing it.

On their return to the hermit, the party is stopped by a bunch of natives who are very suspicious of them and insist on ensuring that the stormbird was still alive, and issue a wrestling challenge for the right to keep the stolen feather.  Ron wins the challenge easily, and the party is rewarded by the natives with jewelry after it is confirmed that the bird is still alive.

The group returns to the hermit with their feather and pearl, and he is impressed enough that he invites them into his cave and hands around a peace pipe.  Everybody chooses to smoke and enter a trance, where they see visions of the future, including a rather nasty dream serpent, resembling Yarzoth.  The serpent is defeated in a scene reminiscent of the god Ydersius's end.  The PCs come out of their trance and the hermit announces that he will accompany them, as it is Gozreh's will.


 

xp		Dorian	Szraiel	Helga	Ron	Titus
Start		14189	14839	14289	14889	14739
RP - Story		0	0	0	200	0
Wave "trap"		120	120	120	120	120
Kelpie		240	240	240	240	240
RP - Getting the black pearl		240	240	240	240	240
RP - getting the feather		320	320	320	320	320
Wrestling Match		80	80	80	80	80
Dream Serpent		240	240	240	240	240
End		15429	16079	15529	16329	15979

Everyone is 5th level.