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Game Summary

Previously...

 

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Previously, on Rumors of War...

 

Overview

Episode 2

Date: November 15th, 2008

The camp is that of a small tribe; there are about 50 adults, with more than half that number in children. News about the arrival of the party spreads quickly throughout the camp, and three additional guests of the goblins make the acquaintance of the party; a human explorer named Dorus, an elf refugee named Katri, and a wandering dwarf mystic named Payne. Dorus seeks adventure in the desert, Katri hails from somewhere in the colder climes of the North, and Payne claims to be guided by vision and prophesy.

 

Polynices is quick to welcome the new additions to the party, nearly speaking more to them than anyone during the entire voyage aboard the Themia. Katri brings with her a heavy warhorse, which is a marvel to the small goblins, and she is also accompanied by an owl. Payne has a wolf as his companion, though he does not say how he came upon such an unusual traveling companion.

 

The night passes without incident, and the party sets out just before first light. Some effort is needed to pry Anaxagoras from the beds of a few of the goblin women. The very thought of the bard's activities during the night seems to disgust Polynices, but he maintains his characteristic silence. That morning, the party also has the chance to speak with the man they found unconscious in the desert. His name is Siris, and his reason for being in the desert was an attempt at suicide.

 

Though Siris is initially secretive about his reasons, Anaxagoras had read the man's journal and tactfully pried certain information from him; Siris was prophesied to be the instrument of his father's ascension to power, though also the man's subsequent fall from power as well. Throughout his youth, Siris was abused by his father, until he was finally able to escape his father's grasp as a young man; he has evaded his father ever since. Siris says that he believes the prophesy of his father's ascent to power to be of a magical nature, rather than ascending a throne, per se. Siris has no desire to see his father ascend to any sort of power, and claims that his father is an evil man.

 

Owing his life to the party, Siris pledges to aid them in whatever way they deem useful, and chooses to follow them on their quest. Of himself, he doesn't say much else, only that he dabbles in the magic arts. He dons one of the extra sets of desert garb the party has with them, and follows along quietly.

 

The party makes excellent time during the day; with both Dorus and Polynices foraging for resources, the party group easily has more than enough food and water to supply their increased number. During the afternoon, the party encounters a few scouts from a tribe of enormous men, each one easily 8 feet in height. These men have coppery skin and the blood of giants.

 

When the half-giants hear of the group's purpose in the waste, they try to dissuade them from continuing to the temple. They tell of a few other groups searching for the same temple, and they know the way to be dangerous. Polynices, in particular, seems intrigued by the heritage of the large men, though they don't share much about themselves. They claim to be among those descended from the cyclopes who opposed the new order of gods and that their forefathers were cast down into Tartarus along with the titans. They see their lineage as a curse and exiled themselves to the waste in shame.

 

The party turns down an invitation to see the half-giants' camp and continues traveling for the last few hours of daylight. With the light of the next day, they trek the last few miles to the temple's location with Krest as guide. Krest takes them to where the entrance of the temple is said to lie, the temple itself being deep within a natural cave. The terrain outside the cave, however, is between sloping hills, and completely covered in cacti. A narrow path winds between the spiny plants, but it isn't wide enough for the large warhorse, and is too narrow to be easily maneuvered by the pony and cart.

 

A small group, consisting of Polynices, Eithne, Payne, and a couple others begin to make their way along the path, only to find after thirty feet or so that the cacti explode when they brush against them.

 

Quotes

NICK

She's stuck between a dwarf and a bard place.

STEPHEN

That was a terrible pun. One we shall never utter again.

 

(Later)

NICK

She's stuck between a dwarf and a bard place.

STEPHEN

We said we weren't going to use that pun again.

NICK

I never agreed to that.

 

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Next Session

Date: November 22nd, 2008

Link: mp081122

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