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Dunmari Frontier - Session 69

Rituals and Revelations: in which curses are broken and storms grow wild

Featuring: Seeker, Delwath, Kenzo, Wellby, Riswynn
In Taelgar: Nov 15, 1748 DR to Nov 23, 1748 DR
On Earth: Monday Jan 16, 2023
Lastlight Falls to Stormcaller Tower

The Dunmar Fellowship breaks curses afflicting Kenzo and Havdar, learns of allies’ fates, and faces an intensified storm at Stormcaller Tower.

Session Info

Summary

Timeline

  • Nov 15, 1748 DR, evening: Wellby, Seeker, Kenzo, Delwath and Riswynn talk and catch up.
  • Nov 16, 1748 DR: Kenzo is uncursed by Riswynn, sacrificing his Horn of Silent Alarm in the process; Riswynn speaks with Johar via sending. Party travels west towards Stormcaller Tower.
  • Nov 17, 1748 DR: Travel west; speak with Johar via Sending; scry on Hektor.
  • Nov 18, 1748 DR: Travel west; learn Johar is meeting with Samraat Nayan Karnas; detour around some ogres.
  • Nov 19, 1748 DR: Arrive south of Raven’s Hold. Scout, discover it is quiet; camp early.
  • Nov 20, 1748 DR: Riswynn’s prayers are answered and Havdar’s cursed sword is destroyed by the Baharazel, freeing him of its influence. Send a message with sending to apologize. Travel west.
  • Nov 21, 1748 DR: Travel west.
  • Nov 22, 1748 DR: Travel west.
  • Nov 23, 1748 DR, mid-afternoon: Arrive at Stormcaller Tower, spend time planning and scouting with spells.

The Mirror of the Past

Divine Inspiration

  • Nov 20, 1748 DR: Riswynn’s prayers are granted by the Bahrazel, freeing Havdar from his cursed sword. (recharge:: “divine inspiration”)

Commune

Question Answer Date
Will Kadmos help Grash? YES 20 Nov 1748
Will Kadmos steal from Grash? NO 20 Nov 1748
Is Kadmos heading for us? NO 20 Nov 1748
Is Grash working for Fausto? NO 21 Nov 1748
Is Fausto working for Grash? NO 21 Nov 1748
Are Grash and Fausto working for Apollyon YES 21 Nov 1748
Can a person be restored after being Cleasned? UNCLEAR 22 Nov 1748
Are we being hunted by enslaved monsters of Fausto’s? YES 22 Nov 1748
Are they within a week of us? NO 22 Nov 1748
Was Apollyon behind Sura’s kidnapping? NO 23 Nov 1748
## Narrative
We begin as the party settles in for the night outside Lastlight Falls, after a long evening of talking and reconnecting. In the morning, Riswynn prepares the magic she needs to attempt to free Kenzo from the cursed chain bound to his soul from his encounter with Motua. The ritual succeeds, with the aid of the prayers of Delwath to the tanshi and Seeker’s runic inspiration magic, and Kenzo is freed, at the cost of the Horn of Silent Alarm carried for many months.

Over the course of the next week, the party falls into a routine as they hurry across the plains of Dunmar, now sprung to life with the monsoon rains.

Dunmar November 1748

Riswynn prays each morning to the Baharazel, asking them to free Havdar of the curse that binds him to the Medusa Blade, taken from Agata’s Lair and gifted to Havdar by the party. As the party travels, they send messages to Johar via sending, and Delwath keeps an eye on the movements of Kadmos and company via scrying.

From brief conversations, they learn that Johar is alive, and well enough treated, although he has not been allowed to see Samraat Nayan Karnas, apparently because of the Samraat’s (perhaps justifiably?) paranoid belief that Agata is somehow behind Sura’s reemergence. Not trusting Johar to be who he says he is, Karnas has summoned a wizard from Chardon and a mystai of Sonkar who are both gifted with the power of true sight, who will vouch for Johar before he can speak with Karnas. From brief visions via scrying, they learn that Kadmos continues east, towards Kharsan, through the Garamjala Desert.

Half way through the journey, the party arrives south of Raven’s Hold, and stops early to scout. Flying above the fort and castle, Wellby sees no signs of habitation. A mass grave outside the dwarven outpost is the only new change since the party was last here, many months ago. Recalling the news from Tharn Todor, the party infers this must been the remains of Inakara and her kin, the worshippers of mind flayers slain by Magran Boulderbeard and a company of Dwarves some months ago.

The next day, the Bahrazel answer Riswynn’s prayers. In her morning prayers, she is briefly transported, seeing a vision of Havdar in camp, waking and immediately reaching for his sword, when his hands are grasped by those of an old dwarf, and a voice in Dwarven echos, saying, “No. You are free,” as the sword turns to a snake and begins to slither away, before shattering to dust. Scrying over the course of the day reveals Havdar unsettled and deep in thought, and then blaming Chardon for the curse, advocating for immediate war. This prompts the party to reach out via Sending, apologizing for the party’s mistake in gifting him the sword, saying they had no knowledge of its curse, to which Havdar can only reply: “Shit. Really?” The Bahrazel also, during the course of the journey, answer some of the parties questions.

A week after leaving the camp at Lastlight Falls, the party arrives outside the Stormcaller Tower, where Hralgar’s storm has grown in strength and size, now stretching several miles across the plains. The rain has turned the ground to mud and water pools everywhere.

Hralgar Storm Nov 1748

Between Seeker’s clairvoyance and Kenzo’s ability to commune with nature and the land, it is clear that Hralgar is lost more deeply in his mind than before, and the storm is more intense. The eye that previously left the tower open to the sky is gone, and lightning and thunder echos from the clouds.

We end as the party contemplates their next move, and whether a journey into the Dreamworld is necessary to calm Hralgar and allow them to approach.