Session One Hundred and Fifty-Two (Graveyard of Empires Summary)

Session 152,15th Masrilden

Facing consequences

The party Gathered food supplies and gear for the journey.

it was decided that our best course of action was to go retrive the last of the dragon

Blood ,from Jarden, i hope he helps us out.

As we set off we head out of Jaggers compound following the illusionists path. out of

the South Gate and cresting the mountains peak. Thorfus, scans the horizon with the

spy glass ahead of us. and it looks all clear. it has not yet rained today but dud last

night.

so early morning we head south along the Path to the docks.

the day went without incidence. Although we did notice boot tracks heading off the

path into the jungle, we decide not to follow. a nother hour down the trail we came

upon a bloody scene.

We approach with caution. Chuq taking the lead. as we approach we see a spider

gorilla with its throat cut, and a human bloodied and naked. but he is still breathing.

chuq and Ronin get close to check it out. to be safe Ronin hands Chuq the Elven

rope and Chuq loops one end around the humans feet. Ronin take the other end.

Then Chuq wakes the human man. as the man wakes he seems confused.

asking where he is and what happened. After some questions the man reveals

his name is Harb Bomin, a local hunter that is from a village near the lizard people.

he tells us he came up river to hunt some Game. the last thing he remembers was docking his canoe. at a burned out village down river about an hour. then he was woken by us here.

Ronin and Edan don’t trust this. but Chuq continues his conversation. gives Harb his Extra Clothes and a Dagger. the man being a hunter cant pass up poncing the beast of a gorilla. filling his pockets with the meat.

we decide to let him travel with us back down to the dock. and chuq Even hired the Guy.

Getting dark we decide to make camp. Thorfus deploys his Khel. and we sleep through the night. Just before dawn Chuq gets this uneasy feeling something is watching.

The sun rises and that feeling is washed away with singing birds and wind blowing through the trees.

We break Camp and keep heading south to the docks,but before we get there Harb notices more tracks heading east off the trail. a large cat and more Boot prints. we decide to just keep going. just a few more hours and we

are at Jaggers docks.

Harb notices there no boat and wonders how we will get back down river.

We proceed past the buildings and the docks and back into the jungle to where we hid the barge.

Harb checks for spiders and wonders how we will get the barge off the rocks and into the river.

Edan take the helm, and lifts the barge and Harb is surprised but at the same time thinks we are strange anyways.

we head down the river twards vargan, we make pur way to the burned out village Harb last remembers making camp at.

we find his canoe, and head into the village to check for his things. dead rotting

bodies of villagers lay about the village, mostly woman and children.

Ronin checks the hut Harb made camp in and notices claw marks and a huge hole in the back wall.

We head out. loading Harbs Canoe onto the barge and we head down river.

it take most of the day to get to the point where the two river combine. as its getting dark we decide to continue on. everyone with dark vision is on the look out.dodging rocks and logs. The dawn breaks and we see a dam of logs and

branches ahead on the west dide of the river. through the looking glass. Thorfus

notices a number of dead lizard men.

as we get closer we see stirring in the water. Chuq calls out Alligators!

so being board. Ronin and Chuq decide to take a few pot shots at the aligators. Both shooting wide. then out of nowhere the Barge hits something. but then we realize that something hit the Barge. We see a Huge Tail off the back of the boat a BAM.

were hit again.we can feel the barge start to come apart.

then we see it a giant alligator 30 feel long has attacked the Barge.

Chuq looks at Ronin and yells The Net!. Ronin pulling the magic water net out of his pack and dives overboard. chuq soon follows.

and in seconds we are face to face wit this monstrosity.

it goes after Chuq but missed. Ronin seeing his opportunity throws the Net.

the net seems to magically wrap itself around the alligators head.

Chuq swims behind it. as edan Lifts the barge out of the water to the west bank,

Then Ronin swims up and swings his battle Axe. and misses.

the Alligator tries to grapple Ronin but Ronin is too quick. Then Chuq from behind. slams his long sword into the back of the creature. heavily damaging it.

Ronin notices some movement behind him, but decides we need to finish the big one off first, He swings and he misses……

Edan noticing the damage chuq did and Ronin Missing, he casts Magick missle on the huge creature. with a flick of the wrist. edan Kills the creature. exclaiming. takes a wizard to do a fighters job…..

Ronin releases the net and is then attacked from behind by a Smaller alligator. but it misses. as it swims past Ronin throws the ned entangling the beast. Ronin then take the east kill and dispatches the Smaller alligator.

Thorfus Takes out and commands the Monkey to Start repairing the Barge. the Monkey

assesses the situation and is eager to get to work but there is nothing to fix it with.

Edan lands the barge in a swampy area, and the hirelings get to work gathering

wood. Ronin decides that huge alligator has to be worth more than just XP. he dives to the bottom of the river attaches the elvin rope to it. and swims up .

Thorfus throws him a line and pulls him in.the rest of the crew helps pull the huge beast ashore. Harb Goes to work skinning it and cutting up the meat.

We have some aligator steaks for dinnerthe party manages to fix the Barge as best they can.

Amillia decides to stay with the group and go to Midmark, where Canis was last seen.

We making to the mouth of the bay. and edan Lifts the barge up as high as it can go and Punches forward Toward Midmark.

We make it to Midmark at nightfall.

The Party see fires and torches lighting up the harbor. and then notices the roof of the

Arch Cathedral has collapsed.

the Barge is pulled into a dock and the ship master does his thing askes the

questions and then questions Thorfus of where we came from.

some place Ronin never heard of.

Silver is exchanges and papers signed. and we are directed to the island dock in the middle of the bay for repairs.

Ronin gets off the Barge. finds two trees Hangs his hammock. and sleeps until

morning…..