Ruin Raiders

A party adventuring in the Fiach Wood and surrounding areas, starting early 253 AC (2024 AD).

People

• Tyra Blackstone
• Asher Frye
• Goban tighe Gro'Roc
• Flynn Gro'Arborg

Adventures

1. Escorting group investigating the ruins of Markal, a pre-cataclysm city.
   1. Start in Duleog NE of Baile Duchas. Travel to Markal.
   2. Dealt with wolves threatening the camp.
   3. Clearing undead out of crypt. Discovered door locked by "relics"
   4. Looked for relics in the keep. Found record of invasion/fall.
   5. Negotiated with Rebecca, a were-rat primalist living under temple with her family (more rats). Negotiated with Thaddeus, an awakened giant rat, and acquired crown.
   6. Returned to crypt, fought through remaining undead. Acquired a piece of the map to the Taurishen.
   7. Scouts reported that there was a hostile force of orcs en route, seemingly looking for the camp/map.
2. Returned to Duleog looking for more info on the Taurishen.
   1. Met with zoo-keeper, saved his butt. Found out about rogue orc (Diedre Mar'osh).
   2. Discovered that there were at least 3 more pieces--2 to the NE and one to the NW.
   3. Returned to Duleog, discovered people watching them. Intimidated a baker, who was saved from actual harm by having a kid.
3. Set out NW in search of another map piece.
   1. Struggled crossing a river during a storm.
   2. Met Segi no Iusta
   3. Fought Orthos Mad-eye (an insane ogre mage) and his patron Ose the Flubbering.
   4. Recovered map piece.
4. Hastened back to Duleog after hearing that the camp had been attacked and some of the people taken prisoner by the orcs. Placed map piece in lead case to avoid location.
5. Headed SE to forests edge. Cleaned out manticore pair.
6. Found Scaeva Tower, dealt with EsJay vo'Gal. Interrupted automaton delivery to Mar'osh.
7. Headed to Red Lake, met smugglers from Rauviz City delivering goods to Mar'osh. Hitched ride north. Goban broke a girl's heart, got beaten by her adoptive father.
8. In Mar'osh,
   1. met with some outlaws, detoured east, discovered that Diedre Mar'osh was trying to frame them for killing a village, defeated that attempt.
   2. Headed to the capital, nearly got robbed, met with king. Sent to the Bright-eye Mine to figure out what was going on there.
   3. Discovered that an agent of the Circle of Purging Flame was hired by the Cheesemonger's Society to sabotage the mine (ostensibly to ensure a continued over-priced market for goods)
   4. Convinced the king to punish Diedre Mar'osh by sending her to rehab a fortress in the north for a few years for her crimes.
   5. Were given the responsibility to offer olive-branch to Wyrmhold to prevent war.
9. Back to Lyodnoir
   1. Shopping
   2. Met with relatives of Tyra and Asher (half-siblings)
   3. Met with "interested parties" and prevented open warfare.
10. Towards Lake Coy'in
    1. Back to Scaeva Tower, escorted one of the kids north to her sister. Goban tighe Gro'Roc dodged an amorous relationship
    2. Downstream. Encountered the Architect, a demonic living house that had eaten several bands of locals.
    3. Goban is dream-dating Diedre Mar'osh.
    4. Discovered Rennet, a town set up by the Cheesemonger's Society as their private playground.
    5. Investigated a pre-Cataclysm ruin whose antecedents trace back to the owners of the Taurishen.
    6. Took sail toward Rauviz City
11. Rauviz and Crisial
    1. Interacted with gangs.
    2. Freed Asher Frye's mother as well as his friend, sent them to Hero's Rest
    3. Fled toward Crisial City
    4. Discovered infiltration by agents of the Tlalocanan civilization.
    5. Cleaned out 5 levels of the Crystal Spire.
    6. Discovered Tyra Blackstone's Byssian heritage in Crisial City
12. Back north to deal with Diedre Mar'osh
    1. Were lured into an ambush by Purging Flame forces by Diedre Mar'osh (pretending they had stolen the map from her). The map fragments were false.
    2. Faced off with Diedre Mar'osh and her allies at Fort Solitude in northern Mar'osh. Killed her and recovered the other map fragments.
    3. Her brother was saddened, but realized the need.
    4. Discovered the Red Death plot.
13. Wyrmhold, Taurishen, and Byssia
    1. Warned Wyrmhold of the Red Death, preserving many lives there.
    2. Opened the Taurishen, retrieving artifacts and dangerous items. Set free a lich <placeholder name>
    3. Headed over the Nocthian Caldera to deposit some of the dangerous items in the Apocalypse Archive.
    4. Warned Byssia of the Red Death
    5. Prevented a plot by the Holy Hands to collapse the Tunnel of the Ancestors.
    6. Prevented a plot by the Holy Hands to detonate an elemental bomb in Byss
    7. Made friends with Tyra Blackstone's grandmother, lady <name here>, regional high priestess of the Church of Night Reborn in Delphni.
14. Red Death and Aftermath
    1. Went to Fort Hope to warn about the Red Death. Were only partially successful--stopped the plague itself, but the attack on the city still occurred.
    2. Helped fight off the Holy Hands incursion and get most of the population out.
    3. Headed to Crisial, where they had a family reunion for Tyra Blackstone and Asher Frye's father's family.
15. Firefighting.
    1. Were called by Segi no Iusta to help investigate something. Turned out to be a Purging Flame waystation run by Goban tighe Gro'Roc's fellow villager, now a zealot. Discovered three locations of interest.
    2. Goban had a Road to Damascus event involving the Huntmaster.
    3. Hit the main western base of operations south of Fort Hope. Killed the archdruid ______ and the dragon Regothrax and all the local PF agents.
    4. Headed north to Goban's village (_____). Killed the PF administrator, trying to convince the population to return to the old ways.
    5. Currently engaged in the Test of the White, heading into the northern tundra to commune with an ancient spirit, following the old ways.