Session Summery

The party, after reuniting outside the palace, decides to leave the city of Ishnmel to avoid being implicated in Obeus Yelris's disappearance. During their escape, Mordecai Reverance reassures Obeus, who is delighted to have made friends for the first time. She offers them a cursed amulet, but Chenris Tallfellow confirms that the curse has been lifted. They set up camp outside the city walls, and during their watches, they uncover troubling news: the Emperor is missing, local lords are gaining power, and The Ethertwist Haunter is monitoring them. They decide to keep moving toward Caalona, only to be ambushed by Elven Cannibals, who mysteriously revive after being killed. Chenris uses magic to command the Elven Cannibals to flee, allowing the group to make a hasty escape.

Full Session Notes

The Party have just met up outside the palace and decided that their best course of action is to leave the city before anyone finds out that Obeus Yelris has gone missing. As they walk through Ishnmel, Mordecai Reverence talks to Obeus about the stars and tells the folktales of how they came to be through great warriors and researchers. One of these stories talks about friends leaving Obeus feeling sad since she has never had friends due to not being allowed out of the palace. Mordecai says that ok because The Party will be her friends and she is overjoyed at the fact that she has made her first friends. She tries to give them money for this but Mordecai and Wurinn Fuuldrusch refuse since that is not what friends are about (instead they say it's about trade deals between nations). However, she insists on giving a gift but laments that the only thing she has on her is a special Amulet her mother gave her. Reading from a book she tells The Party the story of the amulet:

"The story goes that there once a very powerful wizard who lived in a tower in a far off land. He had accomplished a lot in his time but was unsatisfied since we was not able to learn everything about the world before died. Chronovorus, eager for some entertainment approached the man and made a deal with him, if he perform a scarifies to Chronovorus then he would create an artefact that would extent his 10 fold. The man agrees and sacrifices and untold amount of lives until the God was happy and created the amulet. However, Chronovorus cursed the amulet to kill the wearer through freak accidents. One day the creator was walking along a stream and tripped on a stone, fell into the stream and drowned."

Having dealt with Chronovorus before, The Party was incredibly worried for their and Obeus' safety with the amulet near them. Chenris Tallfellow ‡ casts Identify on the amulet and breathes a sigh of relief when it seems that the curse has been lifted and curiously been taken on by someone else.

The Party are now outside the gates of the city and asks Kal The Korrigan † where the best place to set up camp might. (Due to a low roll) He decides it would be best to sleep right outside the castle wall. Most people disagree but go with it once Chenris reminds them that Korrigan would know best in these situations.

Chenris & Aiden Knight's Watch:

Sitting alone Chenris ask Aidan about his possession by chronovorus and starts to take notes as Aidan is talking. Aidan reveals that the possession actually started the night before Session 15 and it felt like something halfway between being in autopilot and being in a coma. That was until chronovorus took full control and started opening time rifts. Apparently attacking his body did help him regain some control but this only angered the god and took back control. it was only after Mordecai cast Dispel Magic that he regained control. Having learned all he wanted, Chenris closed his notebook and returned to reading.

Chenris, Mordecai & Obeus' Watch:

In Elvish Chenris and Obeus overhear the city guards taking a newspaper article about The Emperor having gone missing since his war with the OFC and that local lords have started taking more land/ control than they normally would leading to a lot of panic. Reportedly Dawnhaven is fine and hasn't suffered any loss or control. Mordecai, not understanding any of this, asks Obeus about The Sundering and mentions that Chenris has been trying to translate an old book and get the full story but has been struggling with the last few chapters. Obeus asks to see it and instantly reads the title of the book out in Ancient Dwarfish and then again in Common. Mordecai asks if she can translate it and she does just that.

She asks where they got this book since it is quite heretical to own a piece of material that looks at Ignatius in such a good light and the two, slightly panicked explain that they found it in an Ancient Dwarven Stronghold under Steelwick surrounded by flames of an exploded researcher. She notes that that is how most followers of Ignatius tend to operate (referencing Seifer Willow ‡) leading Mordecai to talk about the man that exploded outside the airship and asking about The Red Cult. Unfortunately, she has no idea what either of them.

Mordecai then asks he she knows Ebis Daro and she does, in fact, he is the one who taught her magic and Dwarfish. He also taught her about Fort Moldan - The last surviving dwarven stronghold in The Amber Realms. She exclaimed that he was a very wise Drawf (Ebis appeared as an Elf to The Party)

Talking about The Sundering further, Chenris and Obeus talk about the Firesoul Greatsword and about it's incredible enchantment to turn anyone it hits into Ash Spawn and how it is probably still out there and whoever has it must be terrifying. Soon their watch comes to an end.

Korrigan, Obeus & Drache's Watch

Korrigan and Drache bond over the fact that they can teach other the skills that they specialise in. Korrigan starts teaching Drache some basic ritual spells and drache shows some basic martial arts. Suddenly they notice that a crow has been watching them intently for a long time. Using their respective ways of talking to animals they ask what it is doing and who it is watching for. The crow will not tell them. Korrigan attempts to use Charm Monster on the crow 3 times and only succeeds on the final attempt. Drache then uses Beast Sense to allow him to know who the crow returns to.

The crow returns to The Ethertwist Haunter.

Both of them start to panic as they're not sure if they should wake everyone up or let them sleep some more. Obeus is confused as she has never heard of the Herald before so the two inform her the best they can. They decide that everyone needs to be well-rested if they're going to deal with The Ethertwist Haunter. They get back to their conversation about teaching each other to distract themselves until everyone else wakes up.

Watch Over

Once everyone has woken up, Drache and Korrigan explain what happened last night and the group decides it is best to get a move on so they can try and outrun The Ethertwist Haunter. The Party decided it was best to take the route that goes through Caalona. Along the way, they encounter a man in the middle of the road with a knife in his leg. They call out whilst Korrigan looks in the foliage on either side of the path and finds multiple Elven Cannibals hiding and waiting to jump them.

Strangely, once all of the Elven Cannibals were dead, they slowly came back to life and started to attack them again. Chenris used Command and told them to Flee so that The Party could get a chance to run away.