Thistle's Company, 15/11/2025, Session 1*
Obviously, this is not the first session for Thistle's group. However, it is the first session since the timeskip. This was a short session because we also changed the date so we had some late people.
- Thistle, Ranger 3
- Lucius, Fighter 4
- Audrey, Magic-User 3
- Edith, Thief 4
- Rachel, Paladin 3
- Serenity, Cleric 4
The party emerges from the temporal vortex in the refugee camp at the Kelling iron mine. Determining that the refugees are running out of food, they spend a long time deliberating. Finally, along with their retinue, the party head to Tor with a miner named Ulf to meet with his sister and purchase as much food as their wagons can carry. They buy two new draft horses and a new wagon, spending a few dozen gold buying about two tons of grain and loading it up. Thistle spots a man watching them in the market; she looks around for him, but the man had vanished. The party determines that there's something fishy going on and elects to split their forces, with Thistle, Audrey, and Edith going to sleep in Ulf's sister's house, while the remainder of the party and their 8 crossbowmen will keep an eye on the grain stock.
That night, Ulf's sister's house (a little apartment above a carpentry shop) is invaded by three rat-men and a swarm of giant rats. There's complete surprise on the party's part; the rat-men stab Audrey nearly to death and wound both Edith and Thistle. Edith drags Audrey away, the two NPCs are knocked unconscious and torn apart by giant rats, and Thistle fights all three rat-men to a standstill until Edith manages to blast them with the strange power of her Ring of Shooting Stars; the rat-men, badly wounded, retreat howling into the darkness.
The next day, weather precludes the party from setting out with the overloaded wagons. The day after that, despite snow, the party heads out and reaches a small hamlet North of Tor, which notes their just quest and makes a number of petty donations to their cause. On the 27th, the man who had been watching them in the market strolls into town behind them. Thistle notes him and rides out to confront him; he sneers, whipping up a crossbow concealed under his cloak! Firing a shot from surprise, it shatters off Thistle's mighty shield and he scampers away into the darkness. That's where we left the session (there was a lot of deliberating.) Same time next week, folks!