Adventure 08 - The Road to a Cure

2016-11-17

5th Month (the Beast), days 20 through 29

The PCs arrived in Aeodok after their adventure through Summit Cavern intent on acquiring the House of Bloom as a potential home base. After haggling a deal with the local land owners, they decided to take care of the hauntings still present in the house until a later date; they had more pressing needs. Namely, Aghlamore the Orange was in partial possession of the samurai's mind.

The PCs headed east towards the town of Kavis, about 9 days travel away. Along the way, the Pcs did find two large stag beetles which proved to be hostile. After getting trampled a couple of times, the PCs were able to defeat the vermin and come out alive.

They continued on, only to find a small party of Dark Horse mercenaries seemingly looting some bodies at a campsite. The leader of the group, Thrennis, greeted the party and explained that they were contracted by the local constabulary to investigate the disappearance of a squad from the Shade Army. The mercenaries found the bodies and were investigating the scene when the PCs arrived. After some discussion, the mercenaries were left to their task, and the PCs moved on.

The PCs ran across some twigjacks several days later. After they were surprised, the twigjacks caused quite a bit of damage to the party with their splinterspray attack. However, the PCs prevailed and lived to talk about the encounter another day.

Near the end of the journey, the PCs happened across a family heading west to Aedok. The Hilden family were farmers whose farm (about 1 day south of Kavis) suddenly withered away, as if some magic had wiped all of their crops clean and sterilized the ground. Bad fortune followed the, as their wagon wheel broke and a horse ran away.

The PCs were able to mend the wheel and they volunteered to search for the horse. They could hear the sounds of a horse in the distance, and moved to investigate. There they happend across a human female, who lashed out at them. Aided by some magic, she caused significant damage to the PCs' health as well as their strength. Fortunately, the PCs were able to take her down, and when she was killed, her true form 0 that of a green hag - was revealed.

Reputation Modifiers

• +1 Reputation with the League of Merchants for assisting the Hilden family on their way to Aedok.

Contacts

• Thrennis Rancaller - Dark Horse Lieutenant
• Ceno Hilden - Farmer from Kavis, but also has ties to the League of Merchants

Information Gathered

• The Shade Army have been targeted in the area by an unknown group.