Evernight Session 7

Session 7 November 29, 2007
Players
Elf - Hekdar
deguello - Bexar Mexia
TaranShannara - elesar
Oswyn - Oserman
Harry the Fish - Eric Redding
Wook - Bruce

The group has arrived in the shining city of Kings Port and wander the city in search of various items and perhaps another job. While listening to a herald near the Rialto they are noticed by a young mage. Bexar Mexia has been searching for some muscle as he goes out into the world far away from the dusty halls of the Academy. This group of obvious adventurers seems to fit the bill.

Just as he begins to introduce himself, a page approaches the group with an invititaton to meet with his Lord. The group agrees and follows the page to the mansion of The Galstaff family; a family well known for its support of various hero bands including the famous Scarlett Riders, of which the families eldest son, Trabian is a proud member. Inside the fine mansion they meet the Lords personal assistant Simon. He offers them a simple but important task, to bring a letter as quickly as possible to the Riders. He is unsure of their location but knows that one of the groups members, a ranger named Bareena usually spends her time at the finest Inn in town; the King's Shadow.

With the letter carefully stowed in his pouch, Hekdar leads the group to the famous Inn. There he and Redd are allowed entrance to its hallowed halls and they quickly discover that the brave Bareena has been hired to kill rodents! Rats have began to show up in large numbers in the Inn's cellar, and desperate to keep the news a secret the bartender had hired the adventurer to go and discover the source. Strangely enough, she left several hours ago and hasn't returned and the bartender was about to call for the City Watch to come and look for her.

He quickly opens a nearby sewer lid and the party grudgingly enters the world below Kings Port. Lucky for the group, the local Wizards Academy sends its students down into the depths to practice their spell casting (mostly bolt and blast spells to free up congested sewer matter), and the local perfumers guild unloads a weekly dose of rose water into the sewer lines in an effort to keep the smell down. Still its a rather unpleasant place and the group carefully make their way along the edge of the flow.

Soon they come upon Bareena, who has pressed herself up against a hole in the wall in an attempt to stop an inflow of rodents. She is more than happy to see the group and willingly agrees to their plan of letting the rodents out to be slaughtered. She jumps aside and Bexar unloads a powerful series of bolt spells into the mass, instantly incinerating it! Coughing from the burning rat filled air the group learns that the Scarlet Riders have left Kings Port for the wilderness town of Aragron in search of a fabled Sa Karan ruin. She thanks the party and heads off to the Kings Hospital to have her wounds taken care of and to make her report.

The group, now calling themselves; The Fist of Solace, gather their equipment and their pets, then head out along the Kings road towards Aragron. After a rather uneventful trip they arrive at the wooden gates of the town and after some friendly banter with the one-armed former Red Knight gatekeeper they enter the town. Soon they find 'The Axe' the towns finest Inn, there they meet several interesting characters and hear an epic poem sung by a famous Bard. They then find a local dwarf who after some convincing tells them of the location of the Scarlet Riders.

With no time to loose the group exits the Inn, and quickly say goodbye to the gatekeeper and make their way up into the mountains in search of the entrance to the Sa Karan ruins.

As they wind their way along the rough mountain trail they come across the camp of a band of orcs....


- a good session with some interesting roleplaying between the wizard and the priest, who are on opposite opinions about most things. The group also purchased a Kep hound and a mule to bring along extra supplies of food and ammunition, and to lower their encumberance. So far since the group hasn't been attacked, the animals have been safe. That could change....