General Discussion

I think that we have three locations to go check out, or we can ditch and follow the pendant to wherever it is leading.

Sorry I've been quiet, I'm adjusting to a new schedule at work as well as a night class that is eating up a fair amount of time. Should be in the swing of things this weekend

It happens.

As for the rest, I apologize, I make an information gatherer character and I'm having a hard time coming up with questions to ask or information to seek out. So any ideas on what to ask would be appreciated. I'll dig through the previous thread and see if anything punches through my thick skull.

I think the main problem I'm having here is how disjointed the information we're getting is. This is largely the fault of the medium of game, what would have been given to us in a session or two is spread out over months without any collation, with that in mind, I've gone through our previous adventure and pieced together what we know so far below. At least the things that stood out to myself and Jahred, as well as questions that pop into my head, which will be in italics.

Jahred noticed rashes on the people in the caravan, and that they were scratching quite a bit at their necks. He also noticed they were quite attentive to their belongings. He chalked that last part up to nerves given the weather and the environs, but the first part has been nagging at him. Is anyone in the town showing similar signs of ailment?

According to the Frosthorne Knight, Creak traveled with the caravan for five months and showed no sign of knowing magic, they thought he was just a homeless Kenku with a couple screws loose, talking to his amulet and calling it 'Mistress'. Clearly he was a spy, but might there have been another purpose he was traveling with them? He also overheard Creak muttering about the Rantar and the Goliath being the ones to take blame, and that he should flee, Creak also seemed surprised that his 'Mistress knew?'

Between questioning the goblin and the children we rescued, Leha and Lily, we learned that their village had been attacked by Drow, they were rescued by a Knight in bright green with a Gem emblazoned on their shield. I suspect the theft was separate, but given the handkerchief we found, I'm thinking the knight was Bedarim Tarados, heir to Count Ædrin Tarados. Either way, they were attacked by the goblins and the Knight was killed. The goblins took the children back to the cave and met with a green Dragonborn with a tail. Unfortunately the kids couldn't remember (or didn't hear) whether the Dragonborn was one "Ganzath Korth" or "Tazarzak Korth".

The book the knight had been carrying was a Blood Tome. It's extremely rare, expensive, and is used by nobles to keep track of their bloodlines. It will note when a member of the family is born, how they fit into the family tree, and then note their death. As far as we know, there are no means to fool the book. The green Dragonborn with a tail gave the goblins kegs of alchemical goo in exchange for the book. That's the stuff that turned the one goblin into a hideous monstrosity.

I don't think the green Dragonborn is the Mistress as Ranos and the children apparently referred to it as a "Green Man", not sure where the Green Lady the goblins had been talking about came from. Am I getting crossed wires of information here?
Is the Knight the one that massacred the Tarados family and stole the book, or was the massacre and the theft separate?

The Tarados family was founded by a hedge knight who was granted a small keep. After securing a number of trade deals with the Elves of Creakview, he was elevated to the title of Count. They've had ups and downs since then. As recently as 70 years back there was a scandal where the then Count and Countess had a seventh child, which for humans = sorcerers/sorceress' (which I'm guessing are frowned on by society then?) According to the Frosthorne Knight, some months ago Count Tarados and his family were butchered and their Blood Tome stolen, evidence had pointed to a certain Rantar and a certain Goliath.

This Gem crested knight, were they the perpetrator? I don't think so, they helped the kids out before getting killed, doesn't seem like someone who'd slaughter an entire noble family. So perhaps he meant the tome was stolen separately? Or perhaps the knight stole the Tome but the family was slaughtered separately. Is the knight Bedarim Tarados, or was that just a handkerchief kept as a bookmark or some such?

Countess Modwen is the sole surviving member and has been holed up in the capital of Rustcreek pressuring the Frosthorne Knights to investigate the massacre. Meanwhilte Seneschal Narkax, a Green Dragonborn, oversees the county in her absence. The Seneschal has hired the Green Scale Mercenary Company to help maintain law and order.

Does the Seneschal have a tail? What is the symbol of the Green Scale Company? What Knightly Order sports green and a gem?

Creak mentioned something about the 'prison Stone Bright' during our last fight with him. Was that the dungeon we were in? Was that even a name or was he referencing something else? Either way, before Creak could be properly questioned, we heard a woman's voice taunt him before apparently withdrawing his power from her and sending him into a still living, but unresponsive state.



Okay, so that's a rough gathering of everything we've got up that I could piece together. We had plenty of time to discuss matters after we left that place, I think Jahred would have tried piecing things together with the group, so does anyone want to fill in blanks you were privy to?

I absolutely love this synopsis, DMDoom. Thank you for taking the time to put everything together. Give me until the middle of tomorrow to respond with a coherent thought and hopefully we can start piecing this all together.

I think that DMDoom has summed things up very well and I think you've pointed out some stuff that I missed on the original read through of the threads. The one thing I would add is that we're now following the information given to us about a direction to follow from this amulet that Creak had.

Maybe answering some of the questions you have there would be a good place to start. There is a library we could hit up where we could ask about the Green Scale Company as well as which Knightly Order would sport green and a gem.

I think the party might be a good place for those of us who are socially-acclimated (in other words, not Ranos loooool) to dig up some dirt, too. Perhaps ply some low level functionaries with booze and a good time and see what shakes out?

That is a bit muddled. You and I had discussed Jahred and Faerlin meeting up on account of shared interests. Faerlin being a vigilante, Jahred something of a fledgling detective, he likely assisted you in bringing in a criminal. I figure we moved on to seek out more work/cases/bounties. There was a bit of disagreement in how we should all be traveling together, and Meribson decided to leave the 'why' of it to us, otherwise we might have spent forever discussing how to start game without ever actually doing so.
We also lost a player or two, if I recall correctly, the Goliath among them. I kind of just figure Godskull is our party's true origin story, perhaps we met earlier on the road and then sought shelter together, then got wrapped up in this conspiracy, but otherwise we haven't really known each other all that long. (That's just my suggestion as a way to keep things simple and avoid giving Meribson too many headaches :-P)
Ah, I think I left the amulet out because either a) I had written a lot already :-P b) it was fresh in my mind and viewed as a fall-back, since we know it gives us a direction to go, but not necessarily information. Or of course c) A and B.

A Library seems like a solid start, followed by the celebration, maybe finding off-duty guard or military could help as well.

Gods I hope that post wasn't too cheese. :-P

Not at all, I thought it was great.

I may have on and off access problems the next couple weeks. If it seems long, please play my character.

Hey everyone. I’m sorry to say but with real life come real issues. Due to medical issues with my wife and having a 15 month old and everything shutting down, I’m finding myself with very little time these days. With that being said, I can only maintain 4 games right now, a solo one I’m DMing, a solo one I’m playing, and two others that aren’t very demanding. I’m sorry guys. Hopefully in a few months life gets less hectic.

With two players calling hold and the whole overblown virus panic, I'm putting this game on pause until the end of April. By that point, the worst of the shut downs and whatnot should be over.

I'm around. :D

Sounds good.

Trying to be there now....:) Is this still alive???

You all do good. I'm exiting.