Category: The Gauntlet: Our Games

Bay of Spirits: The Haunt of Crow Gulch

Featuring:

Bronn – The charming halfling thief, played by josh gary

Grend – The sociopath ranger and his wolf companion Absinthe, played by Tony Hahn

Messyahir “Mess ya hair” – the strange brown elf druid from “down there” and is tiny worm companion Maladgy , played by Gerrit Reininghaus

Lao – the old oriental bard and his magical origami shows, played by Vincent Quigley

Session1:

The party arrived at the village of Crow Gulch aboard the Flower Meadow as the sun was setting behind the ruins of “The Haunt”.

They where approached by a group of Wyvern Guards and the village’s harbormaster Ferrant Tole.

The man seemed to have gotten a cold so Lao offered him “an herbal remedy”. Bronn passed him a vial of Goldenroot poison which he gracefully accepted. The harbormaster is now very found of Bronn and will probably try to help him if asked to. (Goldenroot act as a charm potion.)

Grend and Messyahir where already on their way to find a place where the civilized members of the party could pass the night in the village. Absinthe started to growl and seconds later a Wyvern Guard alarm horn could be heard in the night.

The guards at the docks and the party went in the general direction of the alarm. They arrived at a farmstead where a farmer women was hurt and crying by the entry fence of the property. Further in, Grend fund some tracks and knew them to be from “River Trolls”.

They led to the stables which where barred from the inside with a dead guardsmen slouched on the ground.

Lao remembered an old legend from his home country about the salted tears of a princess killing River Trolls. Grend and Bronn tried to find a way inside using a side door and the second story hay shutters while Messyahir and Lao tried to procure some salt by enrolling the guardsman’s help and searching the farmhouse.

Messyahir chapechanged into a firefly so he felt a strong attraction to open flames. He almost got burned in the kitchen’s fireplace but transformed at the last minute into a half snake half man form (a failed roll). Meanwhile, Lao and the guardsman prepared some water buckets saturated with salt.

The combat inside the stable was a frantic affair with the water trolls being dissolved by thrown salted water buckets and one even being hanged by Bronn’s quick rope tricks. The farmer’s daughter where saved but 3 guardsman and the husband did not make it. They where already dead when the party arrived.

Grend and Messyahir insisted they burn the stable down. The dead where brought to the cemetery by cart and the party finished their night at the local tavern: The Fish & Flagon

There, Lao tried to soothe the child’s and mother’s grief with a magical origami and music performance but only further saddened them and the crowd. They where then approached by a gnome called Galemon. He asked them to come by his fish shack the next morning. He needs adventurers and as an offer to make them.

Adventure and Illustration by Randy M

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