Saralas: Session 12
14 Elesias 1492 just after midnight
- We roll into Bryn Shander
- We head over to the inn and tavern, the Northlook
- Proprieter is named Scramsax
- There are rooms available at whatever the normal rate is
- I get an ale and listen to rumors. I overhear a conversation, did I see the weird comet that crashed south of 10 towns. People are hearing voices.
- I retire to bed. We have an uneventful night.
- In the morning we agree to find the gnome, Copper. The House is for worshipers of Amaumatur, god of the sun. Known to take male and female form.
- I ask if Copper is around. Copper Knobberknocker rents the attic of the shrine
- Copper comes down the stairs and immediately begins arguing about how rude it is to bellow at her. They argue for a few minutes.
- Copper doesn't know the cabin, but a friend of hers has been conducting research at an old cabin in the wilderness. Macradaeus. She hasn't hear from him in some time. He's trying to build a machine to end the winter, apparently. She would be grateful if we could look in on him. And she gives us the general location, northeast of lonelywood.
- Copper wants to say that she thinks building a machine to end the winter is nonsense. She knew that him mucking around with magical machinery would come to no good. If we do find him, she wants us to give him a piece of her mind.
- Copper is a follower of olasander, god of spring, birth and renewal. Auril's grasp over the land is strong, and her followers grow stronger by the day. The gods are in a war and Auril is winning bit by bit. But the faith of people like Copper in their gods are keeping her at bay for now.
- Copper says Auril is the one painting the aurora.
- We decide to head east towards Easthaven
- Not more than 10 minutes outside of town we see fenceposts and tied up on those fenceposts are townspeople who were sacrificed. Stripped naked and left in the cold.
- Korag says we have to stop this. I agree I don't think it works.
- As we drive on in the morning we notice an owl is following us. It's Hoot the owl with his distinctive glowing chest. Karthos says it's Wednesday's owl and he's certain of us. I wave anyways. He says she's trouble but doesn't know much about her. I decide I will continue to be cordial to the owl until I have reason to do otherwise.
- Along the way we are ambushed by two adolescent remorhaz look like centipedes, fly, have many legs.
- I am hit hard. Very hard.
- Ensnaring strike active for the next minute
- I flank and hit it but it isn't ensnared
- We manage to flank the first one and kill it. We're hurt but not terribly.
- The second one catches fire
- We survive, mostly intact. Min did a crazy thing and used her mage hand to get it with a potion of paralysis.