Disposable Heroes

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Summary

This chapter begins where The Risen Shadow left off, for all information leading up to the events of this chapter see the chapter summary there.

Let me know if I leave anything important out.

Session 1: 12/21/2008

  • Descending Water 24
    • Phoenix travels with his followers from the far east to investigate rumors of Deathlords in the Scavenger Lands. As they approach Great Forks they spot smoke in the distance, the crew is urged to stop and Phoenix leaps at the chance to investigate.
    • Phoenix discovers a smoldering and destroyed village with few remaining bodies and few clues, continues to Great Forks.
    • Phoenix arrives in Great Forks to declare he is here to destroy the Dealthlords, is directed to Thorns but no one seems willing to take them there or even knows exactly where to find it.
    • Husk has arrived in the Scavenger Lands after the urging of his warstrider Penance, and stumbled across a village under the terror of a demon. He defeats the demon, and during his stay there finds a young boy.
    • The boy, Godfried, says his village was destroyed by 'The Chaos' and that he ran here. Husk discovers that the boys village is more than a week away. Husk decides to head to Great Forks to further investigate the matter and takes Godfried back with him.
    • Sarefine has been tending to Aktuelle's Temple during his absence when he begins to here rumors of destroyed villages, after some investigation she decides to investigate the towns themselves. She finds each village destroyed and burned with no signs of any survivors, her efforts to track the force causing the damages lead to dead ends. She returns to Great Forks in search for help or more information.
    • As fate would have it as Phoenix left the city he passed by Husk, the outgoing Phoenix asked if Husk knew the way to Thorns. Obviously intrigued they struck up conversation and before long it was settled that they would stay in Great Forks for the time being to seek more information and resources to help the people of the land and fight the Deathlords.
    • Not long after their arrival the found themselves entering Aktuelle's Temple which was currently being looked after by Sarefine, who immediately recognized that she had rather important guests. Before long the three of them had agreed to help investigate the strange attacks on the surrounding villages.
    • Sarefine and Phoenix visited several local taverns in serch of more information but found no survivors of the village attacks, and ended up doing more recruiting for the Unconquered Sun than information gathering. Some information was gained from a local hunter, that the attacks happened at night and that the number of people with in the village didn't seem consistent with the number that entered and exited them.
    • Husk meanwhile visited several temples in search of answers about Godfried and other information. It was confirmed that Godfried was in fact a God-Blood and that a form of instant transportation was not completely impossible. A visit to the immaculate temple did not gain much direct information, but Husk was able to convince the Abbot to investigate the village to the South without revealing his identity as a solar exalt. He also learned that General Blood Linnet, Ministry of Military started an investigation into the attacks.
  • Descending Water 25
    • Husk and Sarefine meet with General Blood under the guise of being mercenaries, she reveals to them that the Great Forks military is increasing patrols in the area in an attempt to prevent further attacks. They are also investigation the matter to the best of their current capacity, Husk suggests that they investigate the western village and that all three parties can share information.
    • Husk, Sarefine, Phoenix set out for the eastern village accompanied by Phoenix's scout and squire, Godfried, and a local man who claims to frequent the area. Arrive in the eastern village near nightfall and begin their investigation.
    • Most of the group begins to investigate the boy's mysterious escape, meanwhile Husk and the scout discover a strange ring around the town. A bit of digging soon reveals a terrifying sight as two Spine Chains are uncovered and attack. The rest of the group rushes back and the Spine Chains are defeated without any great damage to the group.
  • Descending Water 26
    • The group works together to investigate the village a final time, and with the light of day they discover a lone skeleton in one of the collapsed homes. It is determined that the skeleton is of undead origins which offers solutions to many of the groups questions.
    • Smoke is spotted in the distance and Husk, Sarefine, and Phoenix take the remaining mounts to hurry to the source. Not surprisingly they discover another village destroyed and smoldering, the only signs are a set of tracks headed away from the village. The group hurries in pursuit, splitting directions as they come across a well traveled but eventually all joining together in a chase that seems to lose the trail of the group.
    • With no further leads the group is forced to guess at the next target, hoping that new information will help them save the next village. Sarefine and Phonenix head to the South-West villages near Great Forks where the group predicts the next attack will be, while Husk and the others return to Great Forks. Husk is to meet with the Abbot and General Blood to discuss findings and strategy on D.W. 28.
  • 4 Experience Awarded

Session 2: 1/24/2009

  • Descending Water 25
    • Before Fury can join the Great Hunt of the tribe, he receives word from Arellious that his tribe is being threatened from a foreign tribe recent to the area, must return immediately. Remus takes Fury's place among the barbarians and Raygar and Lazarus follow behind at a safe distance.
    • Arkanian leaves the group to go into Walker's Realm and look ahead.
  • Descending Water 26
    • Sarefine and Phoenix go to the south-west village to start preparing it for predicted attack.
    • Husk returns to Aktuelles temple in Great Forks.
  • Descending Water 27
    • Husk visits one of the three temples, seeking a visit with the high priest of the city. They eventually allow him to visit with a lower priest, Husk tells him that he fears for the safety of Great Forks. Says that the high priest must tell the people that they must cooperate in order to resolve the matter. The priest doesn't know what he is talking about, and says Husk cannot just speak to the high priest. They don't want to spread panic among the citizens.
    • Phoenix and Sarefine arrive in the south-west village which is unharmed and appears to be normal. Phoenix alerts the people they could be in danger, but they say they cannot stop working. The people who are in the village and not working the field, some of them are convinced to help set up barricades in the town to prevent attack.
    • When the elder returns he is displeased at what he sees, however since Phoenix and Sarefine say they were sent by Great Forks he does not argue against them greatly. Displeased but does not want to stand against them.
    • The night passes without trouble, though Phoenix, Sarefine and several villagers stand guard.
  • Descending Water 28
    • In the morning Phoenix and Sarefine split up to search for any nearby villages that might have been attacked during the night. Neither finds any signs of the Chaos or any nearby villages attacked last night.
    • Husk meets with General Blood Linnet: Blood Linnet says she had the resources from Great Forks to hire two mercenary companies to protect the surrounding villages, permanent troops protect the city of Great Forks itself. She offers Husk one of these contracts, but he says that they will work for free so that two more companies can be hired. One mercanary company will head west to protect the villages there, the other will travel north across the river to protect villages there. Declares their mercenary group the Undying Phoenix's, tells this to Phoenix and Sarefine.
    • Phoenix and Sarefine try to put together a small force from within the village to back their claim and help them fight; offer 4 Dinar for a week's worth of work to go to other villages and protect them. The town seems resistant to leave their own village, but 5 men accept and are paid half now and half later. They end up realizing they can stay here to protect this village so men are paid to protect their own lands.
    • Husk meets with the Abbot: The Abbot has little new information, but also suspects that their is an undead or anathema presence. Further evidence suggests that an anathema may be in the small village to the south-west, will send a monk to investigate whenever possible. 3 monks have already been sent to investigate far away lands, 2 monks went north across the river and 1 monk east across the river to look for more information.
    • Husk departs from Great Forks, taking Godfried with him to the south-west village. Will arrive late on DW 28, a little before midnight.
  • Experience Awarded: 4

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