diff --git a/journals/seventh/_posts/2025-02-17-gadafthree-02.md b/journals/seventh/_posts/2025-02-17-gadafthree-02.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a5990ce --- /dev/null +++ b/journals/seventh/_posts/2025-02-17-gadafthree-02.md @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@ +--- +title: Gadafthree's Company, Episode 2 +--- + +## Current Objectives +- Disrupt Calcifer's Orc Forces + 1. Obtain identifying objects from two chiefs of rival orcish tribes. + - Sub-Chief Ury + - Sub-Chief Dury + 2. Murder the leader of several orc tribes, Kunite the Strange + 3. Plant the objects. + - Ensure no witnesses + - Use Kaldur's Murder-Shroud to incinerate the leader's body, so it cannot + be regenerated. + +## Events +- We traveled to a tower and found some mean dudes. COMBAT!! After a grueling + combat, we succeed! We rest for the evening. + +- The next day, we discuss our next steps. + - Kaldur can move the group(s) from the Shadow Plane to the Material Plane + with perfect precision, but it will be a one-way trip. + - Kaldur has an inside man in one of the sub-chief's camp, who will be + planting beacons (magical lights which can only be seen from the Shadow + Plane) to provide targets + - Kaldur has a way to view the Material Plane from the Shadow Plane, in + order to gather intel. + +- Our plan: + - 2 teams, all invisible, some disguised as orcs if desired, steal the + items, and converge on the chief's tent for murder + +- We travel to the camp location, in a valley between some hills. We see two + glowing balls (the beacons). + - At the first beacon is Ury, sleeping alone. There are two orcs standing + guard outside, clearly corrupted by an abyssal bloodline of a sort. There + are many other orcs sleeping nearby. + - At the second beacon is our assassination target, Kunite the Strange, + sleeping in a ring of trees outside. The treant is there, too. + - The last sub-chief camp is unknown. + +- We adjust our plan: + - Steal 1 item, plant it at the murder scene. Act fast, stay unseen. + +- We enact our plan! + - Gadafthree and Duke transport into Ury's tent from the Shadow Plane. + - Boss Dukes sees some solid targets: a pair of decorative bracers, and + a javelin. As he nabs the bracers, a small orcish voice calls out for + him to put them down. Gadafthree clumsily finds his _dimension door_ + target through the tent wall. + - As Boss Dukes moves back towards Gadafthree, a quasit dressed in robes + with a small crown throws a tiny knife at him. Boss gets to + Gadafthree, and the two _dimension door_ away. + - Wondermitch, OJ, Twistfuck, and Kaldur transport into the tree ring around + Kunite. + - OJ performs a coup de grace on Kunite, slicing off his scalp in a + single strike. + - Kaldur and Twistfuck assault the treant, and Wondermitch hits it with + a _magic missile_ + - Gadafthree and Dukes pop up + - OJ joins in the fray againt the trees, and Kaldur finishes it off + - Kaldur moves to Kunite + - Twistfuck _shadow walks_ back to Castle Black. + - Duke plants the evidence. + - Kaldur incinerates Kunite's body using the shroud. + - Wondermitch _shadow walks_ himself, Duke, OJ, and Gadafthree back to + Castle Black. + +- The party, plus Kaldur, reunite at Castle Black. + +## Player Characters +- Gadafthree, a mythic tengu summoner, bearer of the mantle of the caller of the + deep (Bill) +- Wondermitch, a mythic human sorcerer, bearer of the mantle of the star-born + (Thans) +- Sir Oliver Withatwist, a mythic fetchling warpriest, bearer of the mantle of + the velvet blade (Dan) +- Duke "Boss" Dukes, a water fae rake (Mike) +- O'Shea Jackson, a Winter Court fae swashbuckler-thug (James) + +## Locations +- Baron Black's Castle + +## NPCs and Notable Characters +- Baron Kaldur Black, a mythic fae arcane trickster, bearer of a mantle of + heroes + +## Other Notes + +## Upcoming Events