Background Notes

  • Traveling down river with a merchant ship
  • Box let’s us send messages once per day
  • Heading to Crucible
    • Seeking training/aide/help

Session Notes

  • Background
    • Boat Crewed by Knox
    • Hired as Guards
    • Got a big fish
    • Reports of bandits
  • Awaken to a halted boat
    • Knox is yelling at someone off the side
    • Boat is blocked by some being
      • Tree with a sphynx on top
        • Riddle for the group
          • Riddle 1
            • What always runs but never walks
            • Often murmers never talks
            • Has a bed but never sleeps
            • Has a mouth but never eats
          • Riddle 2
            • What does man love more than life
            • Fear more than death or mortal strife
            • Poor ___ and rich require
            • Miser’s spend and spendthrifts save
          • Riddle 3
            • Invented it doesn’t want it
            • bought doesn’t need it
            • needs it doesn’t know it
              • Answer:
  • Background about the route
    • Bandits
    • Weird stuff in the forest
      • Hard to predict
    • Well traveled route
  • During Watch
    • Lorian and Thranely notice some orange glowing firefly things
  • Midafternoon of the fourth day of travel
    • Abrupt halt that shakes the ship
    • Knox is swearing
    • Large strange on the side of the river
      • Half armored
      • Your money or life let’s go
    • We win the bandit encounter
      • Lorian snipes 3 of these fools
      • Forber Eldritch blasts the leader
    • Earn Knox’s trust
  • At a trading post after bandit fight
    • Rumors in the town
      • An inn suddenly shifted sides of the river
    • Word of some hags up river
  • Downriver to stay at an Inn
    • The Inn is called the ship
    • Giant full sized galleon crossing the entire river
      • Hollowed under for boats to pass through
    • Drunken encounters on ship
  • After a couple of days arrive at the lake
    • We pull over to one side to wait
    • After waiting, short elf arrives (Volaris)
      • Has large wooden discs
      • Knox buys a 3-day pass
        • Keeps away the cracken
  • Pull up to Ingrahm
    • On the shore
    • Lots of ports
    • Trading town
    • We have 24 hours to ourselves
    • A sheep comes up to us with a scroll
      • Spell scroll of speak with animals
    • Forber casts spell and it works on all of us
      • Sheep
        • Finthia Shinebright
          • Turned into the sheep
            • By wand of polymorph
    • Two cloaked figures and some wolves
      • Asks for the pet back