Session #41 ca 15-30/9/2214: Vorstag & Zerda's boat sinks, the Temple of Set

Finnris has left the others to go explore the forests of Ammurath and hopefully forge alliances with the Ammur Dhari.

From conversing via Sending from Tarm Stonebreaker, Zerda can get his engagement rings crafted in Kal Zinan - if he helps Tarm recover the Atlantean artifacts from the Lost Tower of Viondor before sinister forces can loot the place. Vorstag suspects the Sinister Forces are the Pale Hand of Hyperborea, ancient foes of the Frost Giants.

Zerda & Vorstag Meet with Tormal & Tyarna Vorzin at Onther Tower, and two days later are invited to dinner with them by Duke Baerad Vorzin at the Vorzin estate. Lady Valeria of Clouds also present. Friendly discussions on working together and the creation of Zerda's Crown Inquisitors. Baerad advises being careful not to offend the Guardians of the Nine.

Meet with the Grand Vizier Dredan Taroth and secure a war galley to sail to Imystrahl on a diplomatic/trade mission, but two days out of Quodeth a terrible storm drives the ship aground near Garadu. Ship is repaired & re-launched before the Margish can summon enough force to attack, but once back at sea lightning strikes the mainmast and the galley breaks up in the storm. Zerda uses his Atlantean Hydrostat (burning out the crystals) to save himself, Vorstag, and a few dozen men from the three hundred on board, reaching land near the Three Towers Citadel now held by Quodeth.

29-30/9/2214: Back in Quodeth after the failed mission to Imystrahl, Zerda & Vorstag meet the Vorzins again, then go visit corpulent Nerim Terinth the Master of Coin and are invited to the Temple of Set, where the old high priest Yezin  Rhond explains how Set maintains the Cosmic Cycle. In a moment of madness(?) Zerda promises the high priest he will help Set defend the Cosmos from cosmic entropy by being sacrificed to the Great Serpent at the Festival of Mid-Night in two day's time. Zerda & Vorstag suspect that the Great Old One Cult of three-headed Yig may have infiltrated the Temple of Set, possibly via the ambitious priest Vadhor Kheb (brother of the deceased Madhor).  Zerda persuades a novice priest of Set to join him in being sacrificed.

Primeval Thule Plan B Campaign from 1/10/2214

Session #40 6-12/9/9/2214 Tamalcan and Garadu (lvl 13-14)

M7 Dumet (September) - 6am/6pm (1/7 is the Autumn Equinox, festival of Set)
M8 Abron (October) - 9am/3pm > TWILIGHT (15/8 is first day of no sunrise, festival of Tiamat) 27/8 Harvest festival of Kishar
M9 Ulon (November) - LONG NIGHT (no sunrise all month, full dark)
M10 Tisra (December) - LONG NIGHT (1/10 is Winter Solstice, festival of Nergal. No sunrise all month)
M11 Samnu (January) -  TWILIGHT (15/11 is last day of no sunrise, 16/11 festival of Azura)

NPCs at Tower
Sang Var, Wizard of the Black Circle
Kegarazhi, Sang Var's Daray guide.

Pyriador NPCs
Warthar Snowcloak, aged Druid of the 12 stones, dislikes Zerda (& vice-versa).

Garadu NPCs
Captain Azur Kang, gate captain at Garadu.
Balaku, Wizard of Garadu, rumoured to be part-Simian, small hunched and hairy. Crooked tower, wand of minor magics.
Valeska, voluptuous senior Priestess of Tiamat at Garadu, age ca 30. Level 3+ spells.

6/9/2214 - A little after midnight, rest then ascend to ruined library. Search library finding shards of stone shape spell. Ascend to snake mouth, kill three tough winged apes. Vorstag and Aeshma Cursed when Zerda touches the Eye of Azura embedded in the forehead of Tamalcan's withered corpse. Take his staff of charming and the Eye of Azura, rest then feather fall back to ground. Meet with Sang Var, Kegarazhi and co. Zerda tries to recruit Kegarazhi while Aeshma discusses the End of the World with Sang Var; he agrees the Black Circle will seek out Aeshma and co if the threat of the Pale Hand, Hyperborean servants of the Great Doom, becomes too great. Reach camp outside jungle, rest until afternoon then ride for Pyriador. Reach Pyriador late at night. Seek aid from the Druid of the 12 Stones, he can't help.

7/9/2214 Ride for Garadu, on the plains encounter a Margish patrol - Aeshma kills all their horses with a single spell. Vorstag & Aeshma camp outside while Zerda enters Marg, talks to a strange wizard, and brings back a voluptuous Priestess of Tiamat, who draws out the curses on Aeshma & Vorstag.

To ca 12/9/2214: Party returns to Quodeth, where there is much celebration. Zerda visits the Marsesk to tell them how he freed the soul of Princess Shabira, and plans to have the Eye of Azura carved into two linked rings for himself and Deyane, but only the gem masters of Kal Zinan have such skill. Vorstag meets Princess Jania Sedarnel and plans to go south again to visit the Temple of the White Apes. Aeshma meets with Kalesh Gan and they discuss cooperation between the Guardians of the Nine and the Black Circle of Thran.