Session 5: The Hierophant of Frost

Vasil gave Kata a really nice mink fur or something?

Ob 1 Resources: 1 Help from Alva +2 Persona

Vasil has been distracted by other duties, devoting only a little time to Blacksmith duties.

Resources B2 + 1 help from Oyvind. + 1 Persona

Taft's practice:

4h Bow (Difficult, goes up to B4!)
2h Soothing Platitudes (1st test in Learning it)
1h Cooking (1/3 months complete for Routine check)
3h Carpentry (1/12 months complete for Routine check)
4h Persuasion (Difficult - Alva is a tough one to negotiate with...)
2h Singing (1st test in Learning it - long nights around the fire, singing Kallbacken songs.)

Forest-Wise to find forest spirit for Vasil.

Steel Test vs Eldritch Grey THING

Seeing a strange otherworldly entity. Presence of the supernatural, Steel test. Steel B8 vs Ob9

Burning a Fate...

Steel Test (B7) vs Ob 4-1+5=Ob 8

Ob4 Will to 'not die' to thing Moeve summoned...

Moeve summoned a misty thing, "talked" to the humans, and then ran off. Weirdness!

Gather 'round, friends, it's warmer around the fire.
With winter in the wane, the rabble rousers of Kalbacken wandered to the shrine of Frostbite. The great ice spider, reduced by the warming sun, traded words with the party. While their shaky alliance will continue, there is no love lost between the parties.
Shadow and Taft interrogated the spirit, checking it had upheld its side of the bargain.
Vasil meanwhile told the great arachnid of its personal shortcomings, criticising its interpersonal skills.

Leaving Frostbite to thaw in the sun, the group - taking with them Ragna - headed North to find the Moeve. Vasil tried communicating with the tree spirits along the way, melting snow onto their roots.

With the tracking prowess of Shadow and Taft, the group soon found their way to a woodland clearing. A gathering of Moeve. Ragna was dismayed at the sight, terror replacing her usual stoicism.

Shadow, greeting the tiny behoov'ed beings made some unknown faux pas, announcing the group's arrival. The Moeve reacted with shock and aggression, tearing a small hole in reality, in order to summon an avatar of their collective willpower.

The apparition; otherworldly and glowing, advanced with menace. Ragna and Shadow fled in its wake, with Vasil standing in stunned silence.

In the face of such a presence, only Taft stood tall. Taft the unblinking stepped toward the source of power, and communicated his intent.

The Moeve called back their champion, and communicated with the travellers. Visions of death and destruction. Rumbling earth, falling houses, the death of Kalbacken. Sadness accompanied this projection, sympathy. Images of the Tower, hate, fear.

The Moeve leave, and our party rests. They must decipher this alien interaction.

Calling on the frost spirit at the river: Warmth-Taking. Ob 6 Will B6 +1 Help Vasil +2 Persona +1 Help Shadow +2D Working Carefully

Taft completed the first chapter of training with his Frost Spirit teacher, gaining new skills.
Vasil and Shadow continue their riding practice.

Upon emerging from the cave, Shadow offers Taft a way back to the land of flesh. Part of him lingers in the world of spirit.

Shadow greets an "acquaintance" (like we're believing that) who warns that its dominant intends to hunt Vasil in return for its lost eye. With the shadow of the Tower looming on the horizon, this heralds a dangerous new enemy at a time when Kallbacken needs more friends.

Taft emerged from the Ice Cavern, now marked by the spirit Fossagrim. Shadow and Vasil were tired and saddle-sore, but very happy to see him.

As they reunited, Shadow smelled its beloved nearby. It ran and greeted it, and learned that the Dominant of the Ghost Pack, Spring's First Fang, is out for revenge against Vasil, who allegedly blinded it in one eye seven years prior. After telling its beloved a little about the tower and recommending that it eat as many Tower followers as possible, Shadow returned to its friends and told them what it learned.

Ob1 Forest-Wise find vantage point.

Edit: Fate

Gathering firewood for a ring of fire, Vasil uses Taft's axe to split and prepare dry timber and kindling.

Ob2, B5 Power + 1D working carefully.

Spending Fate.