2025-09-14 Back to Durnford!
Session Goals
Session Notes
- Feast of the Sisters starts tomorrow
- Tonight is the Gates of Summer event for the elves
- We start the day at Avic the Bartender's inn around 1pm.
- Durnford is south west of Gloomsedge - about 8 hour walk.
- We walk towards The Forge
- Nia forages for her ingredients for the healing poultice and finds them. Will need 4 hours downtime to create.
- As we walk, I receive ''Does the grave flower fade in the vile sunlight." and "resevoir discharge detected. Report status immediately. Use emergency protocols"
- I report back with the key answer and tell them everything is fine.
- We see one of the Towers in the distance, roughly in the direction we're heading.
- We come across a lumber wagon
- I slap the horse with mage hand but roll a 5 and nothing happens
- We walk past the path up to the Towers and I note the location on my map.
- It's about 7pm by the time we arrive at a bridge over a large creek that connects back to the River Durn. The road changes to nicer roads.
- Factory activity, clanging, sawing
- Maybe a dozen buildings of different types. Residential, working, etc.
- We see some piles of Bloodgrass on carts
- Elves, gnomes, etc.
- Stables
- Krix tells the people he wishes to speak with Greybar and he is here on behalf of Gayerdel Ironhand
- The Forge is huge - they make a ton of big weapons.
- The Greybar the Forge Mistress is a gnome and wears a small polished battle axe. Has a golden keltic knot type pattern. Almost appears to have a fiery effect to it.
- She wears white cloak sort of thing
- I try to take her out for a drink but get denied.
- Krix says something in gnomeish. She seems interested. "Perhaps we should discuss this in private" and takes Krix to a small stone chapel. I cast invisibility and follow Krix. Everywhere we go he's doing sneaky stuff. I'm not sure if I can trust him.
- Large gnome statue with weapons in its hands.
- Greybar the Forge Mistress magic locks? the door
- Krix isn't registered for The Hammer and is asking for her help. A powerful gnome hired him to take a gnome group to a temple of Gayerdel. They were attacked. A gnome, Horpip Springpeep gave him The Hammer as a dying wish sort of thing.
- Apparently Gayerdel has been sending bad dreams to all the people who hold a The Hammer to draw them to this place. He seemed disappointed that Krix wasn't a registered user.
- The Hammer is a wooden stick? A tube of silver metal with runes carved into it. Wooden handle. Gayerdel calls it a prototype model.
- Krix swears an oath to Gayerdel Ironhand to do his bidding until the situation is resolved. He is engulfed in a magical light. And then Gayerdel tells him these black tidings are free magic from the Demon Wheel. It is infiltrating the material world. The gods are afraid! Krix needs to find the source of the Free Magic. Find its power. And bring it to Gayerdel Ironhand so he may use it to save this world. An iron band wraps around Krix's wrist and he is Oathbound to Gayerdel.
Off To Durnford
- We head off to Durnford as the sun is setting.
- Durnford has very nice, wide bridges.
- We head to the Elk and Ankheg Inn for the night.
- A woman server tonight. Eel Pie is back!
- Nia Moonwhisper, being a junior druid,
- We long rest. We get 4 temp HP from the yummy dinner.
- Nia goes off to try to find a druidic circle. She joins a circle at Charlie's Place. Charlie is there and the Witchy lady.
- An older female elf, well dressed, with the garb of a high druid of the Boar Clan. Nia sits near her. Sakima Elkhazel is prominent among the high druids. Engages in a lot of diplomatic activity among the clans.
- Nia gave a note to Sakima Elkhazel asking for help on her mission and asking to meet tomorrow morning. She gives Nia a disapproving look and ignores her.
- They all join in a druidic singalong to welcome summer.
- She asks Charlie about Magic Mike
- Been in Durnford since before the dragons came. 20-30+ years.
- Never comes out of his house. Has an apprentice named Hubert. Maybe 15 years old, human. The son of the Teamsters Lumber President.
Next Morning - 1st Austas on the calendar
- We head to the Shipping Guild, Durnford Chapter to visit President Damguard and get our money.
- It's a holiday, but we make our way inside. Panalin and I make President Damguard
- We get our 75gp each from the president.
- We head to the GAC Alchemax and Panalin gets a sick new mechanical weapon.
- We head to the General Store
- It's run by a slim, well-dressed man named Dylan
- We head to the blacksmith's shop for Pan and I to get our items
- I sell him the halberd for 10gp
- There's a wooden box in the wrapping. A raven carved into it.
- Two daggers with obsidian blades sitting in black velvet. Black suede grip. Pomel is a clear orb with a drop of blackness that looks like a raven's eye.
- A note under the dagger from the Raven Queen. It burns up as soon as I read it.
- "Your strength of will makes you worthy to bear these slumbering relics. Wake them and let their thirst for the blood of ancient monsters become your purpose. Stack the dead by the hundreds. Be the flint that sparks an eternal pyre of cleansing fire, burning for your Queen."
- As I walk out of the blacksmith's shop, I see a raven in the street and then it flies away.
- We head to Gnomish Gnotions
- Toys and gadgets galore
- Brass and wood stuff everywhere
- There's a little workshop behind the retail area. There's a fireplace. Clockwork bellows.
- A small, old, female gnome craftsperson. Her name is Clunkas Slobegbul