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Dunmari Frontier - Session 1

Hyena Rampage: in which the party confronts chaos in Karawa

Featuring: Kenzo, Wellby, Seeker, Delwath
In Taelgar: Mar 22, 1748 DR
On Earth: Friday May 29, 2020
Karawa and Gomat Oasis

The newly formed Dunmar Fellowship rescues Karawa from hyenas and begins investigating a string of attacks, leading them to a concerning discovery at the Gomat Oasis

Session Info

Kenzo, Seeker, Wellby, and Delwath meet, and our campaign begins.

Summary

  • Kenzo, Seeker, Wellby, and Delwath meet, and save the villagers of Karawa from two giant hyenas.
  • The party agrees to investigate a series of mysterious attacks on the village after a discussion with Karawa’s leaders.
  • After tracking the beasts into the desert, the party encounters Alesh, a Dunmari scout.
  • The party reaches Gomat Oasis, only to find giant lizards feasting on sheep carcasses.

Timeline

  • Mar 22, 1748 DR, morning: Kenzo arrives in Karawa. Giant hyena attack. Village elders, including Candrosa and Elder Kisa, ask Delwath and companions to help.
  • Mar 22, 1748 DR, afternoon: The party heads into the desert, where they meet Alesh on the road. Turn east to the Gomat Oasis, where they find three giant lizards ripping into sheep carcasses.

Narrative

Seeker of Highkeep, Wellby Goodbarrel, Kenzo, and Delwath the Elf all meet as they rush in to save the villagers of Karawa from two rampaging giant hyenas. They defeat the hyenas (one killed by Kenzo, with staff and bare hands, and the other attacked with magical flames by Delwath, distracted by an illusory baby antelope and tripped into a hole in the ground by Seeker, then stabbed by Wellby), managing to keep all the villagers alive; one of the villages, a woman with a touch of divine magic named Beli, helps in the battle. Afterward, they talk in the tea room below Delwath’s house, while the server Badya helps tend the wounded. Speaker Candrosa, the leader of the Shakun Mystai, and Elder Kisa, leader of Karawa, arrive and discuss the attacks – these are the latest and most dangerous in a string of mysterious attacks. Kisa asks Delwath to investigate the problem, and he gets everyone else to help.

Investigating the beasts, they seemed to have fought other battles before arriving in the village. Some skillful tracking from Delwath and Wellby allowed the party to pick up the trail of the beasts, leading a bit north of due east, into the desert.

After about half a day of travel, the terrain gradually became rockier, eventually leading you to an area of small box canyons and rocky terrain, where you lost the trail of the beasts. As Delwath and Kenzo talked, and Seeker pondered geology, Wellby realized that, in this twisting terrain, he was starting to be unsure of which direction was which and even where Karawa lay. Climbing via grappling hook to a high point, he looked around, seeing nothing stirring across the canyonlands, which extended for miles to the east towards a large, distant canyon. To the north, a cloud of dust pointed towards something moving along the old trade road.

On the road, the party ran into Alesh, a Dunmari scout returning from the Gomat oasis, where she had spent the night with Akan and his family, who were grazing their herds in the area. They discussed the attacks on the town, and Alesh talked about how in her childhood people were scared, but for the past decade the Nashtkar, the blasted plains, had seemed, if not safe, at least less of a constant threat to Karawa. But perhaps that was changing. She rode on for the grazing lands north of Karawa.

The party pushed on towards the Gomat oasis, traveling hard and long, into the night as they pushed through the desert heat and into the night to get to Gomat as quickly as possible. Exhausted from the long, hard day of travel, they arrive at the oasis, only to see tents, yes, but also three enormous lizards, 10 feet long and scaly, ripping into dead sheep scattered across the ground.