Colonial Caerdia: Lark's Landing is a story being told through a 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons campaign I'm running at a local hobby shop called the Devil's Bench. If you aren't familiar with this ongoing story, you can follow this link to Once Upon a Tabletop on YouTube to hear the start of it or read the brief summary I wrote when I switched from video to blog.
You can find the previous episode here.
4th-7th of Waxing Fall, 1AL
The 3rd Watch and Port Noble have fended off an attack by blue-green aquatic humanoids accompanied by flying sharks. T'Zaric and Extang work with the militia to burn the corpses of their enemies, while Quib goes out to help heal who he can. Patrick finds himself approached by a burn-scarred woman, asking for his help, who leads him to a wounded man. He heals the man's leg, but, upon discovering the man still can't stand properly, finds that there is an older wound that he thinks he can repair with magical treatment over several days - which he arranges to do. Logan tracks down his apprentice, Lykos, who is proud to have helped in the fighting, but is also extremely grateful for his master's healing powers.
Fiaeorri, after looting some bodies with the help of the creature she magically charmed, sits down to examine the rapier T'Zaric had found and given to her. Partway through examining it, she finds herself being stabbed in the back because her spell wore off. She quickly dispatches the creature and returns to examining her rapier, which is, indeed, magical.
After completing their various tasks, everyone wearily return to bed to sleep away most of the day. When they are up and about again, they discover that quite a crowd has gathered around the town hall. Upon investigating, they discover that the council is meeting with Hargrom and discussing the situation - and many concerned citizens wish to know what is going on. There are many opinions being tossed around, ranging from fortifying Port Noble to fleeing from potential future attacks.
When Extang talks his way into the council meeting, he gets finds they are talking about the same things - though in a much less frantic manner than most of the populace. He provides them with the saved head of one of the enemy 'generals', claiming they can get information from it. They need to wait until the next day, however, for Patrick to prepare the spell. The next day, however, they remember that they don't know the language the creatures speak. So, they end up waiting another day so Patrick can prepare a spell that can account for that as well.
Finally they reconvene with the council and the creature's head to ask the five questions allowed by the spell, with Patrick posing them and translating the responses. Through them they learn that these creatures serve something called the Sea Queen, which apparently didn't send them on this attack but is a god - though, after meeting Zotzillaha, the 3rd Watch are somewhat skeptical about the claim of divinity. The attack - called a small raid by the creature - was to verify the reports of spies called Koa-Toa, which can apparently be unreliable, and also for sport.
With this new information, the council goes back to their deliberations and the 3rd Watch go off for their own tasks. Quib retrieves his stack of notes from Stor, who he'd left them with some time ago. Logan returns to training Lykos. Fiaeorri pays a visit to Gregor, the head of her order, to offer more funds for their rebuilding project, and is surprised to spot Patrick leaving the building. She hurries between buildings to get ahead of him, casually approaching from the other way, to ask what he's doing in this area and learns that he's visiting patients. Accepting this answer, Fiaeorri continues on to visit Gregor, learning nothing new other than that he's being treated from an old pitchfork wound.
T'Zaric follows up on a lead from the Caedian Explorers' Guild from Gilligan, looking to hire trustworthy bodyguards because someone was spotted trying to sneak into baby Chance's room. However, Gilligan doesn't trust him enough to hire him. T'Zaric decides to keep an eye on the house anyway, on his nightly searches for anyone involved with this mysterious cult he isn't sure exists, or the disappearances he's heard about. Fiaeorri is also out at night, looking for signs of the third piece of her necklace.
Extang decides to follow up on another lead from the Guild - a request for a large slab of sandstone. Turning himself into a giant eagle, he flies out on his own, hoping to make a fast trip to the desert and back. However early on his second day out, he finds himself attacked by a winged, dragon-like reptile. The creature destroys his polymorph reverting him to his own body, then dives in at him as he drifts down on the magic of his feather-falling belt. Through several more uses of the polymorph spell - turning himself into a giant ape and pulling the creature down to the ground - Extang is just barely able to fend off the creature. He tries to kill it before it gets away, screeching - possibly for help - but it gets away. Deciding that going out into the wilderness on his own probably wasn't the best of his ideas, Extang uses the last of his magic to turn into a giant eagle again and rush for home.
And that's where this week's game came to an end. Check back next week to find out what happens in Episode 58.
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