Sessions

Session One

FUCKING FINALLY

We centre in on Bahroth, a secluded village surrounded by mountains and forest deep in the heart of Nelia. The nearby volcano lies dormant, and their dragon protect roams the land before returning to its cave.

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Alyth is teaching the villages children when she realises her oldest student, Berk, is still not there after a week of missed lessons. Berk is instead down by the river, throwing stones. Alyth goes out to find her tardy student, but he manages to hide, eventually getting trapped in the bakery when Rog catches him stealing an iced bun, at which point Alyth catches up to him and takes him back to school.

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Kyber is working away in his workshop, chatting with his long-time friend Carol while he finishes off some jobs for the locals. During this time Kyber realises his apprentice Cyril hasn't shown up today, he instead has gone to school.

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Back in the class Alyth continues teaching before breaking for lunch, just before lunch the travelling Kobold salesman knocks on the door and sells Alyth a ring (surprisingly actually magical) the school breaks for lunch and Berk eats his up a tree. The Kobold continues and runs into Kyber, selling him an adamantine dagger with the symbol of the dragon’s former criminal underground. Kyber interrogates the Kobold who tells him he stole it off a group of assassins and said when he stole it, they were a day away. 

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When the school and workdays end the adults of the village converge on the pub. Kyber sits up at the bar with Carol, talking to Berk once he enters and Carol gives him some friendly advice. Berk talks to Boarbait who tells him that if he wants to get out of school, he needs to make himself useful, giving him a job at a hunter for his butcher shop. Alyth flirts with Clara, leading to Clara taking her hand and leading her out behind the hot springs. Upon their return to the pub a warning horn sounds as a group they think are the previously mention assassins make their way down the road into the village...

Session Two

ARGHHH FIGHTING (or not)

The party came face to face with a group of five that were heading into the village along the main road. One of this group is recognised by Alyth as a former classmate named Nurmion. The woman at the head of this group throws down the head of an adolescent dragon with copper scales before introducing herself as Lara. Lara claims to just want to speak to Koratha but Alyth and Kyber aren't buying it. While this is happening, Berk is off to the side reading the surface level thoughts of these newcomers, with varying levels of relevance. Interrupting the conversation, Nurmion accuses Alyth of stealing a magical staff from the head of Claradon university, Thestias, but Alyth claimed to have no knowledge of this. 

Alyth takes everyone to her home so Nurmion can search for the staff, but he finds nothing. While he searches Alyth hits on Lara and Berk gets to know the other three visitors outside, a buff fish with no name, a pale skinned goblin named Glarth and a short man who only seems to say the name Steve. Alyth makes fun of Nurmion as he searches, noticing he seems to have copied her hair dye placement, and Kyber takes the opportunity to look around Alyth's home. Kyber takes a bottle of wine while Berk unknowingly takes a similarly shaped bottle filled with lube, Steve later coughs said lube up after assuming it was a wine bottle. 

The visitors are taken to Carol as she has most contact with Koratha but she tells them that there is no Koratha around here, not trusting these newcomers intentions. Lara, Nurmion and Steve leave the village to make camp nearby while Glarth and the unnamed fishman request to become residents as they were just hired by Lara and have no idea who this Koratha is. Carol approves this and gets them some housing, how close an eye she keeps on them remains to be seen.

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The next day Berk goes to check on the new residents, they seem to be settling in well and after some discussion the fishman gets named Bruce. Kyber finds an order for some shoulder armour from an unnamed customer, figuring out from the handwriting that it is his father’s request. To make something worthy of when his father comes to collect in a weeks’ time, Kyber uses the adamantine from the dagger and some platinum to make a brand-new alloy. While this is happening Alyth has gone to find the three who went to set up camp nearby, trying to convince them to come back to the village and join the community, managing to recruit Steve as a lumberjack, Nurmion as an assistant teacher for a week and Lara doing manual labour although Lara refuses to live within the village. Kyber starts the work of filing a patent for his new alloy and asks Clara to paint him a new sign touting his accomplishment. Berk goes hunting with a small cart from Boarbait, successfully getting his hands on a dear, a wild boar, a few giant squirrels and multiple stashes of tree nuts.

Session Three

Butchers and Dragon

Alyth convinces Carol that the remaining three would be useful for the town, but Carol agrees on the basis that anything they do, Alyth is responsible for it. Once they leave Carol holds Alyth back to inform her that Koratha wishes to speak to the party. Berk returns to Boarbait with his successful hunt, teaching him how to properly cut it all up. While he is being taught all this Berk notices a beautiful scimitar, Boarbait reveals it to be named 'Rowena' and let him into the secret behind his skills with blades, Boarbait was once a swordsman known by all goblins but is now hidden away. Berk asks Boarbait to teach him some more fighting and he teaches him how to make sausages. Alyth arrives to tell Berk to meet her so they can go over to Koratha together.

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After informing Berk about the meeting Alyth met with Nurmion and walked him through the class schedule and classroom layout. After they eat lunch, everyone meets by the pub and heads over to Koratha's cave, being careful that they aren't followed. Koratha makes sure they are all ok before moving on to the pressing matters of the new arrivals and the reason for the enlarged animals in the area. Koratha suggests they go check out the nearby druid grove to the northeast. 

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Nearby the grove they find a female elf meditating on top of a stone structure. She keeps having acorns and small sticks thrown at her by squirrels in nearby trees. They question why she is out there, and she is shocked to see Berk as he matches the description of creature the grove tried to make her fear. The druid reveals herself to be an initiate named Lyra and tells them about another initiate named Klaus who is the one getting the animals to throw stuff at her. The party ask Lyra to investigate the grove as they can't access it themselves. While heading off to do just that Lyra is hit in the head by a very large acorn.

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Klaus reveals himself and after talking in circles they manage to convince him that someone could have tampered with their idol and that they should investigate. While waiting a few hours Kyber works out, Berk attempts to climb a tree and Alyth studies her book. When Lyra and Klaus return, they tell the party that someone has indeed messed with the idol, but it is unclear who, they plan to ask their mentor to give the party temporary access to the grove to assist in the investigation. This should take up to four days, so the party return to the village to report to Koratha and plan their downtime.

Session Four

The Waiting Game Part One

The party started their four days of down time while the druids attempt to get them access to the grove.

Kyber starts of his time by crafting a beautiful runed ring that is infused with dwarven magic, allowing him to summon elemental creatures. One morning when he wakes up he finds Cyril asleep in the forge, when he asks him what has happened Cyril tells him his dad has been drinking again. Kyber sends Cyril off to get some sleep before going to see his dad. Finding him passed out drunk, Kyber wakes up John Paul, lightly threatening him and telling him to be a better father, even if he was left alone to look after Cyril when Cyril's mother left.

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Alyth decides to start off her down time by getting heavily drunk with Lara, Glarth and Steve, using their unfiltered states to learn more about them and assess if they are threats to Koratha. She discovers some hopefully interesting information and a bit of Lara's backstory, including her being alchemically enhanced in a castle up in the mountains. Lara reveals that she grew up on the street in Thes, telling Alyth about some recent run ins with assassins. Alyth reports all this to Koratha and with her help unlocks new knowledge from her magical book.

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Berk found a chicken hutch in the forest while hunting, and after deciding not to steal the eggs he is spoken to by a mysterious tartan clad goliath. Speaking to this man for a while, Berk discovers that he is a demigod like figure and is given gifts by him to help in his task of training an owl. When he returns to the village he steals some books from the school to learn everything he can about elves. The next day Berk does manage to get his hands on an owl, naming her Odbert. While he continues to hunt he encounters a 20ft tall duck.

Session Five

The Waiting Game Part Two

Alyth takes Lara to see Koratha and discovers that Lara isn't actually her name, her true name is Lilith, a street urchin that Koratha took pity on when she was still the head of a criminal underworld and this was actually the event that caused Koratha to change her ways. Lilith reveals that she has been part of a group that is killing or otherwise dealing with anyone trying to take over Koratha's former organisation and bring it back to full strength. Going back to the school Alyth discovers that Karl has found a very interesting stick, the stick actually being a wand that Karl can use as an arcane focus for his strengthening magical abilities.

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Kyber talks to Cyril and they decide that Cyril will spend the week at the forge, both during the day and staying over night. Discovering a note that says the armour "needs more frogs" Kyber realises his dad is already in the village, leaving Cyril to add more frogs and goes out to search for him. He finds his dad in Rog's bakery, grabbing breakfast in his pyjamas. Kyron tells Kyber that the nearby dwarfhold is going to shit, it's no longer any fun and the dwarf lords advisors aren't to be trusted. Kyber is given a gift of a music box from Lentiaquia by his father, with two wax wheels he can play.

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Berk goes hunting again with Odbert, quickly forming a bond and tracking multiple boar, as well as the previously encountered giant duck. Berk tries to feed the duck before returning to the village with two boars. Running into the trader kobold, Berk traded a boar for a pouch of holding. While trading, his other boar is stolen from him and he has to track the kobolds down to the alleyway they are found to live in. He persuades them to give back his stuff, Boarbaits scimitar and to never steal from either of them again.

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While each of the party is off dealing with their own personal tasks they heard an explosion coming from where the kobolds have set up shop, running over they find that it was in fact the kobolds who stole Thestias's staff. Alyth gets the staff off the kobolds and promises to give each of them magical tattoos in exchange. Once this is all sorted Lyra returns to the village and takes the party to the druid grove, giving them acorn broaches as a form of entrance key through the entrance portal, made of a curved tree trunk surrounded by crackling green electrical energy.

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Session Six

Druidic Detectives

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