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Dunmari Frontier - Session 33

The Road West: in which the party encounters magic and peril

Featuring: Kenzo, Wellby, Delwath, Seeker
In Taelgar: Jun 20, 1748 DR to Jun 30, 1748 DR
On Earth: Sunday Oct 24, 2021
From Karawa to Tokra, following the Stoneway

The Dunmar Fellowship’s journey to Tokra is marked by a conversation with a strange fey named Typhina, and magical encounters both wondrous and dangerous.

Session Info

Summary

  • The Dunmar Fellowship travels west from Karawa to Tokra, escorting Garret Tealeaf, and with magical mirrors concealed in their cart.
  • Seeker is telepathically contacted by Typhina, a mysterious fey trapped in a magical ring.
  • The group discovers an enchanted Drankorian aqueduct and aids local herders by creating an oasis.
  • They uncover the danger of the scorpions in Agata’s pouch and destroy them before they can cause harm.
  • Upon reaching Tokra, they split up, with Wellby and Garret heading to The Red Lily Inn, and the others to the Lakan Monastery.

Timeline

  • Jun 20, 1748 DR: Travel west towards Tokra.
  • Jun 21, 1748 DR: Travel uneventfully west towards Tokra. Discuss the possible evils of magic items with Garret Tealeaf.
  • Jun 22, 1748 DR: Travel west towards Tokra. Seeker contacted telepathically by Typhina, a native of the feywild trapped in the ring recovered from Agata. Much later, the party will learn this is actually Agata, playing a role.
  • Jun 23, 1748 DR: Travel uneventfully west towards Tokra.
  • Jun 24, 1748 DR: Travel west towards Tokra. Stop to examine the ruins of ancient Drankorian aqueduct along the Stoneway, with a lingering enchantment to purify water, and increase it, duplicating what is already flowing. Meet a family of Dunmari goat herders camped for a few days near the aqueduct. Stay the afternoon and evening.
  • Jun 25, 1748 DR - Jun 29, 1748 DR: Continue west towards Tokra.
  • Jun 30, 1748 DR, early afternoon: Arrive at the outskirts of Tokra. Cross the bridge, pay the toll. Wellby takes Garrett to the halfling inn in town, The Red Lily Inn. Rest of party continues south to the Lakan Monastery, where they are welcomed by an ancient monk, Rishi, Kenzo’s master and teacher.

Mirror of the Past

Narrative

The session starts as the party leaves Karawa, heading west for Tokra, traveling with Garret Tealeaf, a horse-drawn cart laden with food and water and a false bottom hiding their magical mirrors, plus their horses and gear. The first day passes uneventfully along the open terrain, heading to connect with the ancient Drankorian trade road that runs east and west across northern Dunmar. There is light traffic passing through the desert, everybody eager to return to their normal lives. By the evening of the second day of travel, Mirror of the Past had recharged enough to be used, and the party used it to look at the Floating Disc Coin found near the petrified form of Arcus in the fort east of Gomat, seeing a vision of its history.

As he watches this scene unfold, Garret Tealeaf is suspicious, afraid of the magic you have taken from the lairs of powerful creatures, worried that perhaps the owner of this mirror is watching you, somehow. 

The third day of travel is interrupted when Seeker hears a voice in his mind. It turns out to be a fey creature, Typhina, who is currently trapped in the Ring of the Warded Mind Seeker obtained from Agata. She tells her story to Seeker telepathically.

On the fifth day of travel, the party passes a ruined aqueduct in the distance, and cannot resist the temptation to investigate. A Dunmari family of goat herders is camped here, and looks at the party strangely as they begin to climb over the aqueduct, exploring it. Eventually, they discover that a faint enchantment from Drankorian days still remains on this stonework, amplifying water that passes through the channel. Seeker constructs an earthen berm for easy access, so the Dunmari can use this as a small oasis in the desert, and the party spends the evening here, enjoying the food and company of the Dunmari herders. 

On the ninth day of travel, a few days out from Tokra, the mirror has recharged again. After some discussion, the party decides to carefully, using mage hand, show the four dried scorpions from Agata’s belt pouch to the mirror. As they do, they can see, reflected in the mirror, a giant scorpion, wiggling and struggling against some force that is holding it still, struggling to free itself. As Wellby spots the dried scorpion begin to wiggle in response, he takes careful aim and pierces the scorpion with an arrow that obliterates it. Realizing these are trapped items that grow into giant scorpions when handled or subjected to strong magic, the party destroys the other three quickly and thoroughly. 

On the eleventh day after leaving Karawa, the party arrives at the outskirts of Tokra. After riding across the great bridge over the Hara river, and paying the toll to the Dunmari guards, the party decides their first stop will be the Lakan Monastery. Kenzo has sent word ahead he is returning, and is expected. The session ends as Wellby escorts Garrett across town to The Red Lily Inn, a halfling inn near the western gate run by Wes Strongbones and his teenage boys Tye Strongbones and Cade Strongbones, and the remainder of the party arrives at the monastery and is greeted by Kenzo’s old master, Rishi.