The Road to The Dark Keep
AK510-20 Gold Autumn Week 4
[Charon Watching, Shale Watching, Cycles Guiding]
Moonday
The guests depart.
The party kill a Baphen in order to leave food for the Earls men.
Ethan Namer asks the Kobolds to take an extended trip so that they are not in the village when the Earls men arrive.
They set out for the Dark Keep.
Shaleday
The party sets out for The Dark Keep.
They are trailed to their camp by some villagers from Honeyglen. These villagers are intend on attacking and stealing from them however they are spotted by the couple on watch and they slink off into the night. The following morning Bob Charmer finds their tracks and leads the party to their camp. They surround and subdue the bandits, then with diplomacy and intimidation the persuade them to go to Woodhaven and take up coomoner lve once more. They are given a letter of safe passage.
Croiday
A few days later Charmer and Appleby pick up signs of humanoid undead heading towards the dark keep. The party are therefore not surprised when they encounter human zombies on the trail. Var-Jen Tanner channels the power of The Song and confronts the zombies, who flee. They party makes light work of persuing and dispatching the frightened undead through the forest.
Meanwhile, 100 of the Earl's men arrive at Woodhaven. There is a knight commander (Arktuus Poten II, Fighter Aristocrat) and 20 Stormwatch knights (Fighter Aristocrat) with them.
He is a haughty and arrogant middle aged knight with little regard for peasants (Halmonde Mome on a bad day). He and his knights and beautifully presented but are deadly combatants nonetheless.
They also have a retinue of about 50 servants, squires, whores and other hangers on. They intend to occupy the Dark Keep and put an end to the Lizardfolk menace in the area. They also intend to take a large number of supplies from the village. They will pay for most of them but the Commander is very liberal in his reading of the laws and will commandeer anything he sees fit. He wouldn't consider that Woodhaven might not survive the winter without the supplies.
They will not tolerate the Torlandish Kobolds Military Unit to stay in Stormwatch. They would prefer to kill them, but if they are not given an excuse to attack they will accept surrender, take their and weapons and armor and exile them.
At best they will be simply allowed to leave. If John Appleby intervenes.
That night two Baphen Zombies, badly mutated young bulls, whose bones appear to have been partially melted, attack the camp. Var-Jen Tanner again confronts the undead but they are too powerful for him to quell them. One of them attacks ferociously and rams his horn through his side and into a tree, pinning him there. They rest of the party flee up trees.
A comedy of errors ensures where each party member in turn tries to simultaneously attack, leap from a tree and distract the zombies.
Ivellios unleashed a magic missle and then crashed bone crunchingly into the ground almost killing himself. Charmer broke his bow and almost fell out of the tree, ending up hanging by his legs. Ethan fell out of the tree too and landed right next to the Baphen and Appleby couldnt manage to climb out of the tree. Finally and miraculously the Baphen were distracted long enough for everyone to escape alive. Although Ethan and Tanner had received horrifying wounds and the others were almost all wounded.
Draiday
On the fourth day the arrived at the forested foot of the Dark Keep hill. They spotted a black armoured figure climbing onto a horse and riding in their direction. Ethan recognised him as a Black Guard. He boldly hailed him giving honour to the King. The others decided to join him. The Black Guard, being treated mostly with respect, conversed sociably with them. He introduced hiself as Sgt Roderick Vale and informed them that he has been to the Dark Keep and it has been pacified. He intended to meet with the Earls men and to curb any military excesses before continuing south. He warns the PCs to be prepared to face undead and to cede the keep to the Earls men when they arrive.
As they approached the keep they spotted four Blackfist Orcs shuffling slowly from the around the back of the keep. They charged them. Ethans raging blow smashed one zombies head to pieces and the rest were swiftly dispatched, they party working efficiently as a team for the first time.
[Charon Watching, Shale Watching, Cycles Guiding]
Moonday
The guests depart.
The party kill a Baphen in order to leave food for the Earls men.
Ethan Namer asks the Kobolds to take an extended trip so that they are not in the village when the Earls men arrive.
They set out for the Dark Keep.
Shaleday
The party sets out for The Dark Keep.
They are trailed to their camp by some villagers from Honeyglen. These villagers are intend on attacking and stealing from them however they are spotted by the couple on watch and they slink off into the night. The following morning Bob Charmer finds their tracks and leads the party to their camp. They surround and subdue the bandits, then with diplomacy and intimidation the persuade them to go to Woodhaven and take up coomoner lve once more. They are given a letter of safe passage.
Croiday
A few days later Charmer and Appleby pick up signs of humanoid undead heading towards the dark keep. The party are therefore not surprised when they encounter human zombies on the trail. Var-Jen Tanner channels the power of The Song and confronts the zombies, who flee. They party makes light work of persuing and dispatching the frightened undead through the forest.
Meanwhile, 100 of the Earl's men arrive at Woodhaven. There is a knight commander (Arktuus Poten II, Fighter Aristocrat) and 20 Stormwatch knights (Fighter Aristocrat) with them.
He is a haughty and arrogant middle aged knight with little regard for peasants (Halmonde Mome on a bad day). He and his knights and beautifully presented but are deadly combatants nonetheless.
They also have a retinue of about 50 servants, squires, whores and other hangers on. They intend to occupy the Dark Keep and put an end to the Lizardfolk menace in the area. They also intend to take a large number of supplies from the village. They will pay for most of them but the Commander is very liberal in his reading of the laws and will commandeer anything he sees fit. He wouldn't consider that Woodhaven might not survive the winter without the supplies.
They will not tolerate the Torlandish Kobolds Military Unit to stay in Stormwatch. They would prefer to kill them, but if they are not given an excuse to attack they will accept surrender, take their and weapons and armor and exile them.
At best they will be simply allowed to leave. If John Appleby intervenes.
That night two Baphen Zombies, badly mutated young bulls, whose bones appear to have been partially melted, attack the camp. Var-Jen Tanner again confronts the undead but they are too powerful for him to quell them. One of them attacks ferociously and rams his horn through his side and into a tree, pinning him there. They rest of the party flee up trees.
A comedy of errors ensures where each party member in turn tries to simultaneously attack, leap from a tree and distract the zombies.
Ivellios unleashed a magic missle and then crashed bone crunchingly into the ground almost killing himself. Charmer broke his bow and almost fell out of the tree, ending up hanging by his legs. Ethan fell out of the tree too and landed right next to the Baphen and Appleby couldnt manage to climb out of the tree. Finally and miraculously the Baphen were distracted long enough for everyone to escape alive. Although Ethan and Tanner had received horrifying wounds and the others were almost all wounded.
Draiday
On the fourth day the arrived at the forested foot of the Dark Keep hill. They spotted a black armoured figure climbing onto a horse and riding in their direction. Ethan recognised him as a Black Guard. He boldly hailed him giving honour to the King. The others decided to join him. The Black Guard, being treated mostly with respect, conversed sociably with them. He introduced hiself as Sgt Roderick Vale and informed them that he has been to the Dark Keep and it has been pacified. He intended to meet with the Earls men and to curb any military excesses before continuing south. He warns the PCs to be prepared to face undead and to cede the keep to the Earls men when they arrive.
As they approached the keep they spotted four Blackfist Orcs shuffling slowly from the around the back of the keep. They charged them. Ethans raging blow smashed one zombies head to pieces and the rest were swiftly dispatched, they party working efficiently as a team for the first time.
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