I am once again behind on linking up my recaps! We're about to run Session 15 this weekend, and here I've only got up to Session 12 posted! It's been a chunk of time since we ran Session 13, but it marked the official beginning of Act 2 for the campaign.
We now know definitively who the enemy is, we have a pretty good idea of what they want, and we have established our heroes firmly as local heroes.
This session gives the party, who have been basically one crazy event after another back to back, a 6-month time-skip, which jumps over the winter months in my world.
During this downtime, the city of Lavan begins in earnest to clean up after the disastrous earthquake suffered in Session 10, which canonically in-game was only two days prior to the events of Session 12. It's been a lot crammed in a very tiny bit of time, and the party deserves a much-needed break.
I had asked the players for an idea what they might want to do with their characters over the course of the time-skip, and they provided me some ideas to work with prior to actually sitting down at the table to play.
Peril was determined to spend as much downtime as he could helping folks in the poorest sections of Lavan, vigilante style. By the end of the six months, locals are calling this vigilante figure The Red Prince.
Muk-Muk went on a solo expedition to visit the graves of his first found-family of adventurers, which he unfortunately is the sole survivor of. He joins Peril on some of his vigilante work in the Depths.
Syl spent her time making magical trinkets for the party, allowing them to Message each-other at will. She also discovers an addiction to the strange pink mushrooms she picked up in the Red Forest, and eventually manages to shake that off.
Yuantine dives into alchemy, specifically things that go boom.
and finally, Quywn, spends some time learning about herbalism, reading books, and also diving a little into alchemy.
We've got a lot of alchemists in the party! Muk-Muk, Quywn, and Yuantine all somewhat overlap but have chosen different areas of expertise to pursue.
We also run into Fantasy Will Riker, who is our Question Man - a cursed individual that asks questions of adventurers that are just a little too specific. He seems to know too much; things he couldn't possibly know. After a bit of trial and error, the party does find a way to communicate with him and does discover that he has been cursed by a hag... but before he can give them any more information, he disappears!
With this new bit of information, Syl decides to spend some of her downtime going back to her temple, to see if they can help her uncover more information about the hag that has been troubling the area: Shtriga Nonna.
Quwyn also spends some time seeing if she can dig up info on Shtriga Nonna, and making her kitties some armour. Thus, Alpha One Feline Force is created!
We end the session there, having covered a lot of ground in a few short hours.
My raw notes as collected during the session follow.
We cover from Mistshroud 21st 425LF to Stormreach, 7, 426LF
Syl addicted to Marcus' Cap
Weaving now and then as they travel, carrying Fistandia
Eggy 16 performance
Eggy tells a tall tale about their adventures
Elaria Silverleaf will send a message to Freyot telling her that Fistandia is here
Seven cakes!
Dragon Form Freyot
gives some magical items and each person 5k
Quynn stays at Vega's place
1000g
Yu stays at the Bandyhand
Peril 10s / week for a place in the drownings.
buys whole house for 10g
Syl low budget inn in the Shades.
10g/week so 240g for the 6 months
MM stays just outside the city, builds himself a simple Yurt but also stays at Perils' place.
MM make hand restraints / Visit graves /
Peril first month
3 baddies killed and fed to John
4 witnesses
Performance: 12
Muk-Muk
builds yurt and copies books
Slight of hand: 26
History: 19
makes his copies very quickly and has a bit of time to spare
joins Peril for a beat-down in an ambush at one point.
Yeet Points: +2
Syl
1500 for enchantments
removes addiction
Quywn
Learning herbs
goes to see Narella Rosselin and gets Owlbear book signed
Novice alchemy/association
Yuantine
Find underground mentor
Local
Single Leader
Coin Payments
Deal with law by force
threaten infiltrators
Fantasy will riker asks many questions
Is cursed, confirmed
cursed by hag
cursed by Shtriga Nonna
Syl goes to temple to research Nonna.
Peril souls: +15
19 witnesses
6 altars to The Red Prince pop up.
Peril creates cards with stylized Red Prince as the name and an imp logo, leaves them with folks he beats the shit out of.
MM goes north, into Cahl'lahg
into the hills
4 adventurers graves
took him in
Goliath grave reads "I followed the path of stone"
leaves pic of new family
leaves goblin stuffy
tells about his new family
reads the epithet and goes into a blind rage for 3 days.
Yuantine
Learns how to make napalmn basically
gets a mentor
burns left arm badly and gets a cool scar
Quwyn
Track down Hag clone depot
Gained information about Nonna from a mix of
lives likely in mountains
not a sea/night/etc hag
Old... maybe the oldest hag, nearly as old as Fistandia or Freyot.
Fistandia speaks with John the Backpack Imp, and they catch up a bit. There is some guarded discussion about problems that he'd been trying to escape previously, and they both seem happy that the other is doing well.
Alpha One Feline Force.
