"The mind is a doorway...
...one that you can walk through if you wish."
Summaries from Nathan's interactive storytelling sessions (otherwise known as DnD)
"The mind is a doorway...
...one that you can walk through if you wish."
-While the group was fighting that snake, they failed to notice the snake winding around Jaques sleeping body -Jaman rushed to help him but tripped on a root and fell to the ground -The snake began to crush Jaques, badly wounding him -Fernando took the armor piercing dagger and rushed towards the second snake, only to trip on the same root Jaman had and accidentally stab Jaman in the lower spine, crippling him -With Bat’s martial arts and Clamp’s knife throwing the snake is defeated -The group patches up but Jaman has been permanently crippled for life -It is remembered that Jaman is carrying a mysterious potion with him, which Bat identifies as a potion of transformation into a dog -The potion is given to Jaman who turns into a Northern Shepherd -Everyone has bird egg omelets and snake bacon for breakfast, cooked up by Bat -The group continued on their merry way to Loften -They arrived and are welcomed by the village elder, -Bat begins to do some of his Cult worshiping practices, but is warned off by one of the kinder town priests -Clamps feels something is off and begins to scout around the town -The rest of the crew also notice something is wrong, and begins to push the Elder -it is discovered that the villagers are the ones who stole the shipment of Lovers Leaf -the villagers explain that they only did this to try and pay off s group of deadly Bandits who have been taking advantage of their town for decades -The villagers did not have enough money to pay them this year, and would be slaughtered if they couldn’t pay up -The group decided to help the village fight off the Bandits, as long as the Lovers Leaf would be returned to Brian le Fleur -It would be roughly one week until the bandit envoy arrived to demand coin, and our protagonists knew they had a lot of work to do-Jaques is confronted by his angry father, Brian le Fleurs -Brian is disappointed in his Jaques(not as prestigious as his brother Artur) and sends him on a mission to retrieve a stolen shipment of Lover’s Leaf(a contraceptive plant) -If he fails in this task he will be disowned -Jaques gathers a band of misfits at the Warm Spark Soup Kitchen, which is run by the Cult of Prometheus -Jaques sends letters to Lucy, Clamps, Blay, and Bat -Lucy is a clever snake oil salesman, who has made quite a profit off of other’s foolishness -Lucy’s personal bodyguard is Clamps, a street rat turned assassin, known for his skill in knives -Blay is a former Shae slave, who worked off his time at a Northern slave plantation -Bat is a Cultist of Prometheus(colloquially known as Black Robes or Dark Robes) and is the manager of the soup kitchen -All five meet up with Kilvin, a battered and scarred mercenary who Brian le Fleurs hired to guide them -After a small bit of competition between Clamps and Kilvin, the group is on its way to the stables -Their destination is the small town of Lofton, a few days ride away, Brian has provided horses -On the way out of the city Jaques is beset by a lovely young merchant’s daughter named Lauren, who begs him to seek her brother -Her brother disappeared on a bird spotting trip at a lake near Loften, she promises a hefty reward -Lucy is also confronted on his way out, by a local drug dealer named Narc -Narc offers to do a deal with Lucy on a shipment of Dreamer’s Essence, an extremely illegal hallucinogen -The gorup rides out of the city -After a few hours of riding they arrive at a stone bridge, and iin the middle of it is a many sharpening a scimitar -Clamps recognizes him as a highwayman, and prepares for combat -However, the man is not interested in such things, he actually recognizes Lucy, who he has idolized his entire life -The highwayman(named Jaman) offers Lucy some of his loot, and joins the group -The merry gathering continues riding along the road until it is night time -Clamps buys a dagger of armor piercing from Jaman -They settle down, decide watches, and after a ghost story from Kelvin, they settled down -Clamps was on first watch, and saw nothing -Blay was on second watch, and noticed something moving low to the ground through the leaves -Blay quietly went to wake up Kilvin to ask him what it was when another creature began to curl around the legs of Lucy -Lucy awoke to the feeling of a giant black Constrictor snake curling around his body -The entire group(save Jaques who was still asleep) raced to defend Lucy -Clamps tried to throw the dagger of armor piercing at the snake and accidentally hit Lucy in the thigh -Eventually Blay pinned the snake to the ground with his sword, and Kilvin shot it with a crossbow bolt Comments are closed.
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