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34 - The Darkest Night

2022-08-22 / 17th-18th Hammer 1490

Raisin, Soren, Depeche, Jory, Vellynne Harpell

Session Summary

While Depeche and Jory carry on chipping away at the ice, the rest of the gang explore the ship further. They find a map to Grimskalle, and a door coated in ice. Progress is made on the chipping, breaking through and finding minor treasures, and yet more treasure encased in yet more ice. Through the ice coated door, a chest is found with some more treasure.

In a rest from chipping, Depeche joins the exploration. In the ship's galley is a tied up starving goat. Depeche immediately frees the creature, naming it Rickets, and heads out to introduce his new buddy to the gang. At the same time the rest of the gang open a door, and upon opening spears are launched out. Despite trying to shield the poor goat with his body, Rickets is struck and immediately killed. Depeche flies into a blind rage and immediately bursts forth with tentacles, killing immediately the small group of #Kobold inside. He then drops to the floor in mourning and does not recover for a while.

Callously ignoring the goblin's pain, the group get to gleaning what information they can, animating one of the dead #Kobold to ask it questions. The gang learn they served the White Wyrm in life, and with the danger of her returning, they depart.

On their way along the coast some #Walrus are butchered for meat, and a nice funerary sheathe for Rickets is made from #Walrus skin. Trucking further on, the gang happen on a strange stone hovel, with nothing inside, and a couple of piers. On one of the piers is a bell, after fighting off some giant #Vulture, the gang ring the bell.

Summoned by the ringing, a large #Whale surfaces through a hole in the ice, and introduces himself the gang as Angajuck, a #Whale awakened by a druid called Anga. The gang tell Angajuck of their goal, and though he does not want to go to Grimskalle, he agrees to ferry them to Revel's End, a port further up the coast. He warns that Revel's End smells of death and he does not trust the people there, but without any other options, they press on.

Log

  • Depeche and Jory carry on chipping, while the rest explore the rest of the ship.
  • The others find a map to Grimskalle. Search for Ythryn
  • The chipping continues, including on a door upstairs.
  • The treasure hunters break through, finding:
    • nine tattered pieces of indigo fabric lined with gold thread (25 gp each)
    • three pieces of quartz (50 gp each)
    • a single aquamarine cracked down the center (250 gp)
    • scrimshaw figurine of an archer etched with magical script
  • a chest is found containing:
    • 150 gp
    • 520 sp
    • a small gold bracelet (25 gp)
    • a large gold bracelet (250 gp)
    • and a rust bag of tricks
  • Depeche finds a goat, names it Rickets
  • Rickets is killed by a hidden #Kobold gang
  • Depeche is inconsolable, and kills all of the kobolds in a blind rage then collapses over the corpse of Rickets
  • Vellynne Harpell raises one of the kobolds and finds out they served the White Wyrm.
  • 15:30
  • The gang kill some #Walrus for meat, depeche makes a walrus skin funeral shroud for rickets.
  • Rest for the night.
  • Come across a stone hovel and some piers, one with a bell.
  • Ringing the bell summons three giant #Vulture which attack
  • Ringing the bell two more times summons Angajuck the sperm whale, who has a boat on his back.
  • Angajuck was awakened by Anga.
  • Angajuck doesn't want to return to Grimskalle because the beast there hurt him, a giant bird.
  • He tells of Revel's End a town on the Shifting Sea.
  • He will take us to Revel's End.
  • The boats from Revel's End smell weird to him, so he avoids, they tried to hunt him.