Wandered Roads 50

Wandered Roads of Varisia
Session 50
June 16, 2018

Campaign Timeline

Upriver to Wartle

Moonday 27th Neth

After spending a week working on various individual things in Magnimar and having equipment upgraded, the group meets again with Sheila at the Pathfinder Lodge to get the remaining details on their next quest. They are to travel to Kaer Maga via the Yondabakari River, hitching a ride with Halfling Captain Othlo Janke aboard his magical riverboat, Lucky Jenny. In return for arranging passage on the Halfling crewed paddlewheel, she asks the group to stop off and deliver supplies to a Pathfinder researcher currently working near the village of Wartle. She also introduces the group to Thim Westerdale, a young Half-Elf that is a prospective Pathfinder and looking to get some experience in the world. Thim is greeted and welcomed into the group. The remaining gear is loaded and the Lucky Jenny departs the Magnimarian docks, heading upstream under the power of its magical paddlewheel.

Wealday 29th Neth

The first two days of the voyage are relatively uneventful. Everyone gets acquainted with the small, all Halfling crew as well as with Thim. The night of the 2nd night, while the Lucky Jenny is tied up for the evening, they are attacked by a tribe of Boggards. Through might and magic, the swamp dwellers are driven off, back into the swamp.

Sunday 3rd Kuthona

Four days later, the Lucky Jenny arrives at the docks of Wartle, a small collection of huts and lean-tos that can barely be called a village. The group goes into the village, all raised up above the swampy ground on stilts and connected by rickety bridges and sinking boardwalks, to stretch their legs and hear the news. Calina looks around for some folk she is supposed to deliver medicine to as a favor for some friendly Varisians back in Magnimar. The group checks out the Lean-To, the only “tavern” in Wartle. The bartender serves up dirty mugs of Bog Grog and tells some news of trouble in the swamps forcing many of the Boggards out of their normal tribal lands. They ask about the Pathfinder, a Gnome named Ignizi, who is working locally and find out where her cottage is located, a few miles out of town, just inside the edge of the fey-infested Sanos Forest.

Happy to get the news and ready to resume their journey to Kaer Maga, the group heads north out of town with the supplies lashed to Shadow Mist and Calafalas. After an hour or so of hiking up into the forested hills of the Sanos, they come across the cottage and find it under attack by what appears to be zombie Owlbears and some sort of skeletal lizards the size of horses. After a fierce battle the Heroes vanquish the undead attackers and meet the Pathfinder and her research assistants that had been holed up in the house.

Session Pics

ambushed by Boggards on the Lucky Jenny

a giant alligator (or maybe it was a crocodile, I can never tell) climbs aboard

gaining the high ground on top of the cabin

the Boggards are driven off

the Pathfinder's cottage (which looks suspiciously like the cabin of the Lucky Jenny) is ambushed by undead creatures

Kallin and Samad rush forth to battle the abominations of undeath

Kallin uses his Pharasmin Gifts to mark one of the beasts to be smitten by his holy might

more battle with the undead at the forest cottage

do ya feel lucky? well, do ya, punk?

Session Notes

Our first session with our new player, Malcolm, and his character, Thim, the Half-Elf rogue. Everything went well and everyone had fun! We had fun with the battle on the Lucky Jenny. I had crafted a model out of cardboard and glued deck boards onto it. Fun! Then I put some of my dice into the eye and nose socket of our resident skull. More fun!

Characters Present:

Kallin Hawkril, Half-Orc shaman and budding Priest of Pharasma - played by Dan E
Calina - Varisian Human archer and scout - played by Carol C
Daellin Silvanthalas, Elven Farstrider Ranger - played by +Ben L
Samad Aldhul, Human ex-mercenary - played by JeCorey H
Alistar Gavin Lourdis, Human Mageknight - played by Don K
Thim Westerdale, Half-Elf rogue - played by Malcolm G

and +Jason GURPS as the DM