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Day 18 3/7/2023 Episodes 22 and 23
Episode 22
Carruron
Things fade back in and we step into darkness. Chodrak is the only one able to see. Rayvvin pulls out a torch and Caleigh pulls out a hooded lantern. Chodrak sees that we are in a stone room, made of the same material as that of the esoteric fortress. We are standing on another teleportation circle, though it isn’t active. We are also surrounded by dusty boxes. The whole room is covered in dust and there is dust floating around in the air. Though a bit out of view, a piece of the wall definitely has a door, though it’s not a built in door. We light our torch/lantern and the rest can see. It’s only about 30 ft wide. It’s quite cramped with the horses. Caleigh puts her ear up to the wall. She doesn’t hear anything on the other side. Abcde asks Artimious to check the door for traps, and he and Caleigh do so. They find two traps on the door. Artimious goes to disarm them, and is able to. Rayvvin checks for magical traps and finds none. Caleigh opens the door quietly. In front of us is a large stone room, going out about 30 ft in each direction from the wall we are at. The first thing she notices is that it’s 2 stories tall and the floor is wood, and the second thing is a flashing light. It’s a mage light that is above the door. The third thing is ten armed guards that are rushing through the door, spears out as they rush at us. Caleigh’s head is poking out, and she isn’t sure they see her, so she closes the door, as quietly as possible. She does so. We try to make a plan, and decide to lie.
Abcde opens the door, and they notice three spear points about a foot in front of their face. They say it doesn’t look like Omadano. The spears don’t move. Caleigh hears in draconian, that they don’t speak or recognize the common language. Caleigh steps forward, and asks, speaking in draconian, where we are and tries to convince them we were aiming for Omadano. They say it doesn’t make sense, but say that we are in the Relescian empire. Caleigh translates for us. She says we are honored to be here though we weren’t intending to be. They had surrounded the room, but have moved to us. Caleigh tells them that Abcde was attempting to draw their own teleportation circle, and got it wrong and we ended up here. They want to know if we are all students, and she says no, that we were on a journey with Abcde and it was a long story. They will bring us to someone who will determine how much we are lying. They direct us to follow, and form a circle for us to go to. All the guards are in leather armor, but underneath is thick clothing, and wear heavy cloaks.
As we’re walking, Caleigh asks if we should put on our cold weather clothing and they suggest it, but don’t give us time to stop to put them on so we have to do it while walking. The guards in the ring around us have their spears pointed at us. We arrive at the door, and they open it. The wind is gusting and snow swirls around us. We step out into a blizzard. We find ourselves on a snow covered road, and this looks like a guard outpost. Chodrak can sense the one that we’re looking for and believe him to be in one of the buildings nearby, it’s less than 100 ft, though he isn’t sure which of the four buildings it might be. Caleigh asks who we’re seeing, and they reply with we’ll know when we get inside. She asks about the language and if they speak common or don’t at all. They reply it depends, but few will reply is common.
We walk just outside the guardhouse and see a sprawling city down the hill from us, as we are about 100 ft up. The city has probably 2 to 300 houses with a small market. There is a nice large inn and it is obviously so, and it’s the biggest building in town. As we continue walking, we don’t see anyone else on the road, though there are people out in the city. We walk for a few minutes, and arrive at the outskirts of the town. There are a good number of people out walking around. We are led down the main thoroughfare. Other than noticing the guards, the citizens tend to avoid getting close to them, though they seem to be polite to us, giving us nods when they see us. There doesn’t seem to be any fear like there was in Taba. Abcde is talking to Chodrak, sort of shit talking the guards. As we walk, Caleigh is trying to prepare herself for a lie detector test. Abcde notices after the third comment, that the marching partner of the guy closest to Abdce starts glancing their way as they make the comments, and Abcde stops talking. We pass the inn, and continue walking, continuing past the edge of town. Caleigh asks how far we’re going. We walk for another two minutes before arriving at a small mound in the snow. The guard waves a hand and the air shimmers. What was a small mound, is now a very small hut. It’s about 10 ft tall and 25 ft sq. There’s an inviting light coming for the single window. The guard tells us to enter, but we should leave the horses outside and they will watch them.
Caleigh goes in first with Chodrak close behind. Then Rayvvin, then Abcde, then Artimious. Abcde checks to see how the guards are watching us, and they aren’t as closely as before. Right before entering the building, Abcde turns into a fox. We step inside the little hut and the door closes behind us. It’s pleasantly warm, though still cool enough that we aren’t sweating. There’s smoked animals and plants hanging from the ceiling, and there's a table with seven chairs. An elderly lady, very tall at 8 and a half feet tall, maybe a goliath, is in the room. She has long white hair that flows to her waist and she’s completely covered in tattoos. She looks at us as we enter, then goes back to her pot. Caleigh greets her in draconian, telling her she has a nice home. She replies. Caleigh asks for her name and she says they are such a bother. The woman offers Caleigh some food and she says she’ll take it, and Abcde walks up to her. Just before she does, Abcde nips Caleigh. Caleigh bends down and makes sure the wound isn’t bleeding before turning back to the woman. As the woman offers the soup again, Caleigh declines. She tells us to take a seat. Caleigh asks the woman if she would speak common with the rest of the group, she does. Caleigh sits, letting her wings out. Abcde as fox goes to a chair and has a seat, and turns back into the Abcde we are used to. Rayvvin sits as well and the rest of us sit down. The woman takes the last seat.
Caleigh asks why we were brought here, and she replies that she is to decide what to do with us. She is somewhat of an important figure here. The woman says that the soldiers are scared of the portal and are scared of those that have come through before, though it’s been 250 years. She was in this world, but wasn’t here, in this area at that time. Abcde wants to know if she met that person 250 years ago and what was their fate. One lives and he is around. He is the only one alive of a dozen. One was violent, the one that lived. They still hold onto him because he refuses to die. His crime was great so they won’t let him leave. Caleigh asks if we’re to join him in prison. She says it depends on this conversation. We talk about the magical items we have and why we have so many. She has spoken to the orc, and they didn’t run from the basilisk. He ran from the other thing there, one jealous of what had existed, one that we know but is not who we’d think. Most saw her differently but her wrath had been incurred by these people. It took a while to find who she wished, and he is now just a shell of an orc. He did that to protect his people. She will allow us to go and speak with the orc and we may have free roam of the town, and free stay at the inn. She wishes for the orc to leave, though he might not want to do so, and the people here might not let him. If he should desire to leave, she is the only one who can stop him. He chooses to remain as penance, and self loathing and self pity, and out of great fear that that which came shall come again, and he knows that this woman could stop her. A deity is no match for a primalis. Caleigh knows what that is, but hasn’t met one. The deities speak of them in revered tones. There are four primalis and they are older than the deities. There is one of shadow, arcana, faith, and elements. They exist outside of time. Rayvvin and Artimious don’t know what they are.
She dishes up soup for everyone, and as we taste it we feel this great warmth, all except Chodrak who doesn’t need to eat, though she placed a bowl in front of him. The warmth spreads through our bodies, as we feel rested as if we had slept a full night in a nice bed like back in Brixert’s mansion. We heal and regain everything. We chat some. Abcde asks about the library, and she says it’s out there, and would be improbable for anyone to destroy it. She doesn’t know where it is as it’s out of her sight, but the orc would know. Rayvvin asks about their brother. She replies they will see him before they think, they will find him very soon. She is the primalis of the elements and her brother, the primalis of arcana, would be able to identify the enchantments on the items we got from the forge. Her brother was in Taba last she knew. Her brother has gone by many names, so she doesn’t know his current name. We all start to leave, Caleigh staying behind to say, do I succeed? The lady says only time could tell, but she is on the most likely path. If she doesn’t waver, and she still desires, she will succeed. She tells Caleigh to watch out for the one that holds the hammer. Only one is associated with a hammer, the goddess Vulkus. The trio that she felt when she entered the area of the Esoteric Fortress, and with that knowledge, Caleigh questions that feeling of Vulkus that she felt. She picks up on hints she missed then that it’s possible that this land was not permeated with Vulkus’ energy not because of the people, but from the deity herself arriving there or from a very powerful clash with the deity there. She realizes the energy she felt, felt tainted and angry. Caleigh leaves and we all are out in the cold.
Episode 23
Carruron
We step out and the guards have their spears up in a holding position. They say they stayed so they could escort us if we needed it. They say we may use our horses now. We all climb on our horses though Chodrak climbs up with Caleigh as he doesn’t have one. We travel back to the inn and the guards leave. Chodrak tells us that he sensed the orc. In the inn, we are met by a portly man who is an orc. He brings us to three separate rooms. It’s late afternoon. We go into one room. Chodrak wants to speak with Sheltran alone first. We exchange information. We decide to rest for the evening and take care of things tomorrow. We go into room five for the evening. We check for spyware, and find nothing. Artimious sleeps under a bed, and Rayvvin sleeps on the bed to the right. Caleigh sits on the bed to the left and keeps an eye out. Abcde sleeps on the floor. Chodrak sleeps above Artimious. We rest through the night and wake up in the morning. The blizzard has subsided and the sun is out, though it’s still brutally cold. There’s about two to two and a half feet of snow on the ground.
We eat a bit then head back to the guard post. We are stopped at the gate by one of the guards and he asks what he can do for us. Caleigh says we’re here to take an orc off their hands, and he tells us to go to the third building on the left. We head to the building indicated, and find that it’s made of steel. We are let in through the door and walk down and down, twelve flights of stairs, until we get to the bottom. We see a row of cells with steel bars and steel plates. There look to be eight cells. We are told the fourth cell from the end and that they’ll be watching, and the guard heads back up the stairs. We head to the cell. As we look in, we see a tall but not overly so, orc. He is gaunt and looks like he hasn’t eaten in ages. The clothes that were once resplendent, have aged dramatically and hang loosely around his body. His hair is long and unkempt. Chodrak is quite certain he knows this orc and is saddened at seeing him like this. Abcde walks up and addresses him. He thinks he’s the only one alive, and we tell him he’s wrong. Sheltran says they should have stayed stone. He thinks the world is shit and nothing can be done. We talk with him, trying to convince him to leave.
Caleigh wants to know what happened two hundred and fifty years ago. He says they were living away from prying eyes in the Esoteric Fortress. They were at peace. But she found them, Vulkus. She started off sending the basilisk, so he had everyone brought inside, though not everyone was fast enough. The four were caught outside. He could do nothing as he had bigger things to worry about. He had someone bring in everyone and seal the gate, and no one should have been able to get through. Yesha created the barrier. And they started to evacuate everyone. Most were sent to Omadano. He doesn’t know what became of them, there were almost 200. A few of them stayed behind, to make sure no one came after. He killed the council and the king because they were going too far. When they fought, they fought the champions, and Atae helped.
When Caleigh hears that Sheltran fought the champions, she becomes upset and walks a little bit away, walking toward the stairs. As she walks past the next cell, she hears the clanking of chains and someone tries to talk to her, asking her a question. He first asks, saying he heard a voice and if he heard a unicorn. He asks if he hears Rayvvin. Caleigh is confused and asks if he is their brother. He says yes, and starts calling to Rayvvin, but his voice is very quiet. Caleigh sees another that he looks similar to Rayvvin. Caleigh goes to grab Rayvvin, and takes them to the bars, where Rayvvin sees Dairren.
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