Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Escape from the Faewild, or how Leif got his groove back

1489
Year of the Warrior Princess
Nightal 19 to Nightal 27

The group dismantles the final arcane engine in the Garden of Graves and searches around for other creatures in the other buildings just in case... They come upon a pair of Grey Angels which they are at first hostile but Hannibal talks up their more honorable tendencies and they become allies with you against the power(s) that built this horrible place. The Angels are set on tearing it down and putting the graves back together and the party then chooses to leave and try and find a portal home. They notice that the portal that brought them here is now gone, or was a one-way portal as Jax explains some of the inner workings of these magical devices. You spend many days looking for another portal back to Toril and Faerun. There are places in the Faewild that merge with your world, the trick is to find one of them which is not easy. However, life in the Faewild is not all bad. The lands are lush and food and water are plentiful.
After the 7th day here, loud trumpets can be heard in the distance. The sound is both beautiful and terrible at the same time. The large host can be seen coming at a very fast speed. Within an hour or so it over takes the party and they are told to stop by a very beautiful and enchanting Eladrin that calls herself Tunian, Mistress of the Summer Court. She is a very important and high level priestess of the Summer Queen herself!
Tunian asks them many questions about their time here and their actions in the Garden of Graves. It turns out that she is trying to hunt down anyone responsible for the slaying of Fae creatures there. Hannibal confesses to some of the killing but argues that it was justified as they were attacked and the Fae seemed to be under a curse. Tunian communes with the Summer Queen and decides to commute their sentence from immediate death to banishment for 99 years - on the condition they aid the Summer Court by ridding them of a particularly nasty green dragon named Dawn. It seems Dawn has taken to herself to become a god and had gathered followers. The deal is sealed by Leif having a geas put on him by Tunian during "climax", he willingly accepts this and agrees to be part of the ritual. The group is sent to kill off as many followers and slay the dragon if able. The party is mostly successful but Dawn does escape the killing blow. Not without some pity Tunian opens a portal to Faerun very close to Waterdeep; the party leaves the Faewild with several warnings: 1, they are considered banished from the realms of the Summer Queen, with a penalty of death should they enter before 99 years have passed. 2, there is a very powerful death entity that may be searching for them, killing first and asking questions later to get to the bottom of the undead at the Garden of Graves. It seems the powers that be do not like someone intruding upon their portfolio of death.

Exp: 2860


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