1. Journals

67 - The Grey Waste

Session
Ardenian Heritage 2020-05-20

Goals

Update everyone in Arburg, get Leonhard taken care of, and travel to the Tower of Oblivion

Setup - 66 - Aftermath

The party defeated the hags of the Broken Bones Coven and explored their lair. Auron got trapped in a mirror, Lex got a new parrot, Medb talked with a slug, and the party unfroze a goblin named Guzib.

Goals

  • Close the hag chapter
  • Prepare the travel to the sinking temple

Locations

  • Arburg
    • Warm weather (15-20°C), clear skied, smell of growing plants. People are lively. 
    • Arburg Orphanage
      • A letter from Rosalinde Müller, asking for Auron on a date at a location and time that fits him. The letter is a week old.
    • Grim Forest Sisterhood
      • Despite the nice weather of the capital, the forest is dark, wet, with muddy water.
  • Hades
    • Wake up in a large grey plane with a batting wind blowing on them.
    • They can seek refuge  in a sort of cave, only to find larvae with human faces feeding on dirt, and trying to eat zook 
    • a old female rock gnome named Kalessa asks the party what they are doing to her "cattle"
    • These souls aren't ready yet, but she has better to sell if the players wish to buy a soul
    • Travel a few hours against the wind until a small hut

NPCS

  • Guzib (male goblin, eloquent)
    • Thanks the party and parts ways
  • Dion
    • Currently in the nine hells, hasn't given any information back so far. Too early to worry, but they've sent Balthasar Schachtschneider to follow up.
  • Ludwig von Rosenberg
    • His eyes are back to his normal colour once out of the hag lair, and what Zook once felt is no longer there. Myria will suggest going back to the Grim Forest Sisterhood and talking to sister Sister Imelda, as she could see Auron's link (yes, she knows), maybe she can see something with Ludwig. But don't take ludwig with them, take some of his hair.
  • Sister Imelda
    • Greets the players as Quinn's friends (which isn't there).
    • Prepares a ritual, similar to Auron's, to see who if someone is influencing the child. As they gather around the green flame
  • Kalessa
    • Doesn't get many guests from the material plane.
    • In her hut, a collection lemur (devil) and a Mane (demon) act as servants. The party get to sit a big table and get served a plate of tiny living larva with faces for them to feast.
    • Was expecting the killers of the BBC to be more hungry, but maybe the party is a bit more powerful than they look like.
    • Never liked or disliked the bbc. They corrupted souls in the material plane and sold them for lots of money in the soul market. They weren't the best, weren't the worst, just decent. The last time the night hag came to the market, she did seem nervous. She took on a great debt 13 years ago, and rumours said they she wouldn't be able to pay back her promise of the corrupted soul of a lawful and kind, powerful king.
    • But if the party defeated the BBC, they have nothing to worry about (she is crossing her fingers), that the debt is paid and no harm will come to ... Ludwig.
    • Problem: this is a side quest that isn't actionable

Encounters

  • ?

Next

Hype session 69, create a "party town", ask later Yase if she wants to be "kidnapped" for 10 or so sessions. Ep 69, kairon comes , and kidnapps auron. Sexy ep becomes sad ep.