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The Seventy-Eighth Session

January 21, 2023, Campaign: As the ground quakes, evil wakes

The Party departs the Forest with borrowed gear, and arrives in Setton. We kill a Rakshasa that was impersonating Ryltar's girlfriend, but lose the girlfriend. After restocking,we travel to Ren, who tells us that Kerjes is on the move, headed to Jerry's hometown.

Table of Contents

  1. Last session
  2. This session
  3. Next session

Last session

We were betrayed by a Kerjes-influenced Captain of West Haven's Guard, and captured by the Yuan-Ti of the village. Ryltar broke the prisoners out, but we lost a lot of irreplaceable gear. We traveled to the Forest People village, gained some gear from their deceased members' cairns, and debated what to do next.

This session

With a level up, we teleported to Ryltar's girlfriend's place in Setton. After we cleaned up, they went on a lovely date together, which was only marred by the fact that the "girlfriend" was the reincarnation of the Rakshasa we'd killed on the boat. We dispatched the Rakshasa and rescued the captive girlfriend, but after thanking him, she dismisses him, wanting to see him no more. "Get out."

We stock up: longbows, arrows, healing and greater healing potions.

Ryltar visits the temple of Denier in Setton, to clear his mind of everything related to his girlfriend and the lost Ice Heart of Winter, and the former relationship between the Ice Lord and the Mother of the Forest. There, he is instructed to write it all down,, so that Denier may read it. He writes all he did wrong, and then is instructed to write all he did right. The priest asks him which sheet of paper he holds dearer. Ryltar feels weighed down by the bad, and wants to do better. The priest burns the bad paper, and hands him the good paper. "There is still a lot of room on this page."

The Party depart the temple, and do more shopping.

We determine to go to Ren. Advanced decision theory is used to check whether he's okay with us coming over. We get him some freshwater clams, tea, and pastries.

We teleport to Ren's. Ryltar's Teleport takes the appearance of an ice crystal that grows around us, shatters, and disperses on the breeze in snowflakes.

Ren is there to meet us. The first words out of his mouth: "Kerjes has moved.."

Where to? "Lanthet."

Jerry's home, on the far side of the continent, halfway between Kerjes' Great Banyo Tree and the North Haven, at the foot of the southern mountains.

Next session

Rescue Umara and the rest of Jerry's family from Lanthet, before Kerjes arrives.