Session 024
General Summary
Jamie's Notes 2025-09-13
Day 18, Dysis 5, Year 352
- Akito negotiates with the ghost thing. It argues with itself a bit.
- Radjic tries to nickname it 'potato salad'.
- The amalgam is a fortune eater. What happens when some sort of horrible fate befalls a group like ours. They do something they consider unforgivable and haunt the place after.
- Can be broken apart peacefully when convinced/cajoled into helping with another request.
- Investigating the village.
- Odd features. Looks like two massive creatures fought in the area. Giant creatures. Reality warped the area. A knee gone through a house without breaking boards, handprint in dirt.. struggle between demigod or god.
- At least 300 years ago. ~5-10 years before the Departure.
- Probably a pair that fell in the area, not that they originated in the area.
- Both of the mountains (where Ponpiketes' mountain and base we found.)
- Nat 20 Int roll: One of the battlers through an item from the village toward the site of the goblin village presumably to get it away from the other.
- After talking to the ghosts, learn the entities were a solar and nessari (pit fiend).
- Vasia gets similar info.
- Two godly figures appeared in the night, attacked, they were caught in the crossfire, hid in the basement of the tavern, ran out of food, ate each other.
- Neesja and Radjic find questionable mayo.
- Apparently it has some wild magic shenanigans.
- Cast a Heal at first.
- Then summoned an otter that hates Radjic.
- Ghosts have names now:
- Magnus - Leader, swordsman
- Helga - Second in command, archer
- Torvi - Huge, warmage
- Ingus - Priest of the Old Gods of Ponaia
- Frida - Berserker
- Neesja can be possessed by the bartender ghost, Gareth.
- Kitsune lifespan is short, 28, due to hunted by Masonic empire.
- Goblin, Portia, half a decade ago, dealt with an incursion with some weird ice people.
- Ghosts keep watch, but also we keep watch.
- Neesja, during her watch, notes someone stealthing up on us with a nat 20.
- Some kind of envoy of Liara's, wanting to parley.
Evan's Session Report
Shelter from the Cold - The DM Has Lost Track of the Day. Blame the Cold. (9/13/25)
With the deepening cold at their backs, our heroes rushed to the only safe space in range: the tremendously haunted old tavern and surrounding ruins. This would turn out to be a great idea.
After managing to talk the local ghost into leaving them be for the time being, the party set about making the space somewhat livable. Supplies were scavenged - warm clothes, rations, magical mayonnaise - and a fire was lit, while Vasia promptly pestered the ghost-amalgam.
Cirina and Akito set to exploring the rest of the freezing ruin, determining that it had been caught in one of the many apocalypses that plagued the world of Aurite while the gods were present. Vasia, perhaps the best choice to offer the ghost-amalgam some peace, discovered the ghost’s secret of cannibalism and convinced it that, really, it wasn’t that bad.
As the group came back together, Neesja having put together a delightful, largely potato salad based dinner, the beginnings of a plan started to form. Aided by the ghost chef now residing in Neesja’s right eye and Cirina’s tremendous navigational skills, they realized they’d be able to make it to another potential source of warmth and safety, a hidden village of goblins deep in the forest.
From there, they would be close enough to strike towards Lyara, to put the Winter Witch back into her demiplanar prison.
While on watch that night, however, Neesja spotted something - a small figure, moving quickly towards them in the dark. She woke her friends, preventing them from being surprised or caught off guard as the figure shouted out to parley, in the name of Lyara, the Queen of Ice.
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