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Dunmari Frontier - Session 77

Strategic Alliances: in which secrets are revealed and plans made

Featuring: Seeker, Delwath, Kenzo, Wellby, Riswynn
In Taelgar: Dec 05, 1748 DR to Dec 06, 1748 DR
On Earth: Sunday May 21, 2023
Uzgukhar

The Dunmar Fellowship discusses strategies and learns of the history and powers of the Cloak of Rainbows, while planning a trap for Kadmos’s forces.

Session Info

Summary

  • The Dunmar Fellowship engages with Loremaster Azogar and General Murook aboard the skyship, discussing the phasing stone, the Feywild, and crystallized magic.
  • Azogar and Murook depart, and the party learns through scrying that Kadmos is separated from the main army.
  • At dinner, Chief Lubash reveals the cloak’s protective power against Thark’s influence and expresses uncertainty about the effect on undead orcs.
  • The party learns the history of the cloak, crafted by an archfey now missing, and hears of a previous Chardonian party’s espionage.
  • A plan is formed to feign a rift with Lubash to set a trap for Kadmos’s anticipated assault.
  • A messenger lynx delivers a letter to Kenzo, and the party frees an orc from a mirror prison and entrusts her to Lubash.

Timeline

  • Dec 05, 1748 DR, afternoon: Give General Murook and Loremaster Azogar tour of skyship. Dinner and conversation with Lubash. Plan for possible attack from Kadmos and company.

Letters

Narrative

We begin as the party returns to the skyship Vindristjarna, to discuss and plan while awaiting the arrival of Loremaster Azogar and General Murook, who are expecting a tour of the ship. After some discussion of the events of earlier in the day, and the magic of the Cloak of Rainbows, conversation stops as the orcish visitors arrive.

Loremaster Azogar is very curious about the magic of the skyship, and quickly catches Seeker’s attention with his questioning. Seeker explains about the phasing stone, holding little back, as the conversation drifts among topics, touching on the origin of the phasing stone, the Feywild and its connection to cloak, and the idea of crystallized magic connecting to many different planes. Azogar speaks of the various rumors and tales he has collected, from the time before the founding of Xurkhaz, when the Orcs wandered widely, hiding where they could from Thark’s raiders. In particular, a tale of a hero of his people, who used the crystalized magic of the Elemental Plane of Water to create fog that hid his tribe for years. During the conversation, Murook asks about the tactical uses of the skyship, as well, and quizzes the party on exactly what happens to the dead, reanimated Orcs.

Murook and Azogar depart, reminding the party they are due at the palace for dinner shortly, and leave the party to plan. During this time, the party discusses options, and Delwath scries on Hektor, seeing Kadmos and his companions hunched over a map or piece of paper, discussing in low voices, seeming separated for the moment from the main army of Grash’s forces.

At dinner, Chief Lubash seems more open, talking more freely. He explains the nature of the cloak’s protection: within the borders of Xurkhaz, Thark’s voice cannot be heard. Orcs bound to Thark will suddenly have that connection severed, and few will be able to fight effectively after that happens. But, he does not know if the undead Orcs raised by Grash remain connected to Thark: if they do, he does not fear them, but if they don’t, then they would not be affected by the cloak’s magic. This protection has taken years to create, and maintain, pacing the borders of the country, which is a large part of the orc’s reluctance to abandon Xurkhaz, even though they have refuges prepared in the broken hills to the east.

The party also learns some more history of the cloak. It was created by the Cloudspinner, the Lady of Sunsets, the archfey ruler of the fey domain of Amberglow, now gone, her domain abandoned. With her missing, the cloak is irreplaceable.

Finally, they learn something of the previous Chardonian party that came to Xurkhaz. There were four of them: two warriors, twin brothers, named Valius and Vargus, a spellcaster named Evelina, and a trickster rogue named Roman. They came in two groups: Valius, Vargus, and Evelina pretending to be scholars seeking to open trade ties and knowledge exchange between Chardon and Xurkhaz, and Roman, disguised by illusion magic as an orc wanderer. They lived in the palace for a month or more, learning about the cloak and the Orcs, but were eventually found out when Roman slipped up and was seen talking to the Chardonians while not under his illusion spell. Roman was killed, and the others fled east, taking some time, more than a month, to reconnect with Kadmos.

Conversation turns to planning and strategy for Kadmos’ inevitable attack on the palace. After considering several plans, it is eventually agreed that the party will pretend to have a falling out with Chief Lubash, who will pretend to expel them from his kingdom. In reality, they will hide, hoping to set a trap for Kadmos and company.

During this time, Delwath’s messenger lynx returns, bearing a letter for Kenzo from the Lakan Monks: Lakan Monk Letter.

Finally, after exploring the palace and beginning to make some plans, the party returns to Lubash’s throne room, and summons the orc trapped in the mirror to speak. She is confused, but is apparently an orc of Xurkhaz, from 60 years ago, who was caught by Agata and interrogated, with the hope that she would reveal some of the secrets of the cloak to Agata. She is freed, released from the mirror into Lubash’s care, as the session ends.