Session 2 - A write up!

A session write up, from the perspective of Paige, a Thembrian 'Hunter'.

Thyle’s not exactly what I thought it would be – fewer grand old ivy-covered ruins with chests full of coins, more dirty taverns full of desperate old men, and everything’s a muddy brown rather than shining gold – but I’ve been here two days now and it’s all going pretty well.  Still no plague, and still much better than being back in Thembria.  Yannick was complaining about his trip over.  I can put up with a few days of watching other people retch given what I’m leaving behind.

The landing point can barely be called a town, so we won’t be missing much by leaving after one night.  I ended up being hired to hunt down a missing caravan somewhere between here and a village to the north, along with a morbid priest of Sol, Yannick the Ox (who is just as his name sounds) and Bomani the mercenary commander without any mercenaries to command. 

Our happy group expanded a little when we hired some additional muscle, though that doesn’t seem like the right word.  Bomani fetched us the cream of what was around, but two beat-up old folk (gristle, not muscle) and one child (not even gristle) doesn’t quite fit with what I’d imagined.  Where are the highly trained adventurers with plate mail and shining swords?  This is opportunity island!  Walking where nobody’s been for centuries, making great discoveries, earning riches beyond our wildest dreams – and all we’ve seen so far are people who look like they were dragged in by the tide. 

Still, the four of us seem solid enough despite the ropey additions.  We’ve found our way onto the trail of the caravan and I found tracks (thanks dad!) leading us to the site of what looks like an ambush.  Seems like some humans and some non-humans (beastmen – not a myth after all?) chased off the guards and took the cart back North. 

We’re on their trail so that if nothing else, we can head back and tell the man with the gold exactly what happened, but it’s pretty hard to focus on the job when we’re in the middle of a lost empire chasing beastmen on a forest trail.   It barely seems real, even though we’ve just walked through a clearing where people just like us died or ran away in terror from  people and Things intent on killing them.  Concentrate!!

That said, there’s a big old question still standing about why the beastmen and their mysterious friends let people run off and took their wagon.  That doesn’t seem like the behaviour of frothing monsters to me, and the human footprints alongside them make me wonder all the more.

CONCENTRATE!! One bit of boiled leather stands between me and the worms.  Getting carried away with the excitement and mystery has to wait!

And 100xp goes to Paige. Hurrah! :)