The Arrival – Adventure Notes 05

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These notes are for The Arrival characters/game.

The party is currently:

  • The party rests in the Bandit camp and decide to leave the two heavy chests that they can not carry there (to possibly go back for them)
  • The party then heads to the Ivory Vale where they meet up with Twirpo
  • Twirpo inquires with Ellyjobell, if she knows anything about a Thieves Guild and a “Giant Slayer” sword that she’s heard has been traded in one of the local Thieves Guild in the Ivory Coast
  • Elly separates from the party, and finds the entrance to the Thieves Guilds; knowing that there’s two warring within the sewers of the Ivory Coast (the Raven Claws, which she belongs to; and an opposing Thieves Guild called The Lion’s Maw)
  • Elly goes to her guild and purchases some poisons to coat her weapons with
  • Phalen in the meantime goes to the Church of Florasena to inquire about the Cursed Gauntlet
  • The head priest explains that it appears to be ancient magic that’s attached to the gauntlet and summons a wizard by the name of Dezarin (a human wizard, with long white hair)
  • The wizard informs her that she would either need some form of ancient magic to unlock it; but there’s ancient magic such as Dryads that could potentially undo it; as well as some ancient magic that’s being found out in the Broken Lands
  • The party purchases transportation (Call purchases a Donkey; Elly purchases a donkey and a mastiff; Phalen purchases a riding horse; Trogdoor, due to his size is forced to purchase a warhorse; and Twirpo purchases a donkey)
  • The party rides to the Jade Forest, knowing that there is a Dryad there that Phalen was told to rescue
  • They come across a scene where several Faye creatures (Pixies and Brownies) lie dead on the floor; with one to two foot mushrooms around their bodies
  • Trogdorr goes to inspect and brushes up against one of the large mushrooms, revealing that it’s a Shrieker, triggering an ear piercing “scream” which it emits; which then triggers the other Shriekers
  • Twirpo throws an insult at Trogdorr for triggering them, causing him to fumble his weapon as he tries to destroy them from shrieking
  • The party eventually the corpses of several centaurs with what appeared to be humans over the body; Call used stealth to get close to the humans; but discovered it was ghouls feeding on the centaur corpses
  • A fight breaks out and the party successfully defeated the ghouls and moved on
  • The party finds that all the leaves in the forest have fallen to the ground; leaving the forest treetops bare; and that the trees themselves seem diseased or dying
  • Elly spots a deer snagged in a trap and attempts to free it and finds that it’s an ambush by the gnolls who heard the Shriekers
  • The party takes down the gnolls and continues through the forest
  • They finally reach the Ancient Tree, and find that the Dryad has been staked to the tree and a magnificent white horse with a massive head wood is lying at her feet; there are several centaurs standing around, severely wounded
  • The angel who appeared in Phalen’s dream appears (though everyone else only sees an odd shimmering) and the Angel tells her that because she chose greed (going after the bandits for money) over her holy mission; the Dryad has been slain, and not only that; after being slain, which released the demon – which she learns is actually a fallen Angel – the Unicorn of the woods, sensed the Dryad’s disappear and tried to save her; but the fallen Angel captured the unicorn and pierced it’s heart with it’s own horn turning it into a Nightmare and escaped to the west
  • Now with the Dryad slain, Phalen’s way of removing the cursed gauntlet has decreased
  • The party travels west to Spire’s Edge, but finds the small town in poor shape; they speak with several of the people and learn that the town had been attacked by a blue dragon and kobolds (See the other party’s adventures notes)
  • The party then travels down to the Ivory Coast
  • There, Phalen meets with the wizard, Dezarin who informs her that there are relics in the Broken Lands that could be useful for breaking the curse; and that if they find any, to bring them to him
  • While Phalen is there, the others venture into the Thieves Guild and go after the Lion’s Maw, who supposedly has information on the Giant Slayer Blade
  • They capture three members of the Lion’s Maw, after some trouble, and bring them to the Raven’s Claw leader
  • He’s furious that Elly led her friends to their location; and demands a magical item from her (which is the wand that commands goblins) and informs her that they will need their memory wiped
  • They learn that the Giant Slayer has been traded to another guild in the Broken Lands known as The Forgotten Sands
  • Back at the surface, they meet back at the Church to meet with Phalen, when Dezarin approaches them and informs them that a “certain contact” has told him to take care of something; and he wipes the memory of everyone who ventured down into the Thieves Guild