10/31/2017 0 Comments to the midden heapby Lindir Balaeth mitore (Jacob b.) 5 - 7 hsTLDR: Lindir and members of Shield trek into the bayou to find the Midden Heap and instead stumble upon the Greatscale Clan. (Session date: 10/14 and 10/31 combined) 5th of High Spring After several days of training and honing my combat skills. I sat in the Black River Tavern drinking my problems away. I looked over and saw a large golden dragonborn adorned in plate armor and carrying a formidable great sword. After thinking long and hard I recognized the face of the dragonborn from that tragic day when I lost all of my brothers on the battlefield. I haven’t seen Udoroth since that day and it was nice to see a familiar face. Shortly after a sturdy, young half orc female walked in looking way too cheery for my liking, and she had a funny accent. Followed shortly after her, a skinny looking wizard and another familiar face; I thought Koltalon died at Providence with the rest of his unit but he made it out. He’s always been resilient as much as he is honorable. I’d go into battle with anyone from the Shield. After chatting with the former members of the Shield I decided to take part in the adventure to clear this so called “Midden Heap” to restore balance to the bayou. Our party departed Black River and began heading North towards where the Midden Heap was rumored to be. A short way into our journey we encountered a bullywug scout; I stealthily dispatched him with one shot from my longbow Dol Feredir (Head Hunter). A group of bullywugs noticed I split one of their warriors in half and blew their conch horn for reinforcements from Providence I’m assuming and attacked us. Our party dispatched them with ease and continued forward into the bayou. We fled the scene before bullywug reinforcements could arrive and continued North up the river. That night we made camp and lit a fire to keep ourselves warm... That proved to be a grave mistake. A few hours into the night we were awoken by the sounds of shouting and darts flying by my face into the trees behind me. We were ambushed by a large group of bullywugs and their pet frogs. Fighting admirably Udoroth succumbed to his wounds and collapsed followed by Liam. Koltalon and Merelda fighting to their last breath along side myself. One strike away from falling I cleaved two bullywugs standing in my way with my short swords Anann Ló (Long Night) and Coth Belthor (Foe Destroyer) and disengaged from the fray and drew my bow again. With another well placed shot I sent an arrow straight through a bullywug's chest then ran to Udoroth and dressed her wounds with a bandage from my medicine kit.
The bayou fell silent after the clanging of swords and the shouts of battle ceased. Udoroth and Liam still unconscious from their wounds. Koltalon, Merelda and I decide we need to hide for the night and decided to rope ourselves into the trees along with our unconscious comrades. The night goes by with hardly any rest for any of us; a bear drudges through our campsite and picks out the best smelling bullywug carcass to drag off for a late night snack. A few hours later just before dawn Udoroth and Liam awaken terrified but safe. The party rested for another few hours as to be fully recovered from the near death encounter we just had then set off to continue searching for the Midden Heap. 6th/7th of High Spring The party smelled flames that were man-made like that of a camp fire or torches so we decided to follow the scent and eventually came across a guard post filled with lizard fold with shoddy looking Spears and armor. The humanoid lizard creatures shouted something in a language no one except Udoroth could understand so Udoroth told us to hold while he talked with them. We approached with weapons down showing no intent to harm them. Udoroth spoke with them and they agreed to take us to their chief. As we entered the village of the lizard creatures I noticed there was a road leading East and West. To the West was forest and to the East led a huge outcropping of rolling plains where the sun rises. We were now in the presence of Chief Atuji, leader of the Greatscale clan. They showed us hospitality and provided us with food and shelter. Atuji sat Udoroth next to himself and the elders to further learn about the people of Sanctus and why they are coming to Black River now. Udoroth shared with them our intentions of eliminating the Midden Heap and the chief was curious to learn more of our culture and specifically our weapons and armor referring to them as “blades that shine with the sun” and asked how our chain mail is woven. After learning as much as both parties could the Greatscale clan wanted to test our worth as warriors and asked us to pick one of our strongest warriors to participate in a match of sport against one of their own. We decided Koltalon was the best choice for this bout and watched as the match was about to begin. Koltalon and his foe were evenly matched in skill of grappling and attempted to force each other to the ground in order to win. We noticed the lizard folk betting on the event and I decided to get in on the action so I bet Liam and Merelda a gold piece that the lizard male would win, the others bet on Koltalon. After what must have been an eternity in the ring, Koltalon was able to get the upper hand on his opponent and slammed him to the ground long enough to be victorious… I lost a couple gold pieces. I never was good at gambling but drinking I’m damn good at. At the end of the night we proved to the chief that we as members of The Shield are honorable and worthy to be among the Greatscale clan. 8th of High Spring After a night of comfortable sleep we awoke and spoke with Chief Atuji one last time before we departed. Atuji told us the Midden Heap is three days travel West from their village. We notified Atuji of another party's intentions to trade with the lizard clan in the West of the bayou. Atuji warned us that we should not give Chief Longtail of the Shimmerscale clan any weapons because they are “married to the Midden Heap's sister in the swamp” and Longtail is young and too ambitious. He then agreed if we were to trade more weapons with his clan they would agree to aid us in destroying the Midden Heap. We told Atuji that we would return after we spoke with our comrades back in Black River and would bring back weapons if possible to make this deal. Heading back to Black River we encountered more twig and Vine blights being controlled by what Udoroth saw was a woman with black hair in robes who pointed at him and ran into the trees. She was using some kind of druidic shaman type of creation made out of sticks and threads with strange markings on it. After narrowly escaping the blights we marched quickly on towards the canoes and Black River. We made camp that night not far from town. 9th of High Spring We arrived back this morning and had lots to share with March Warden Dougal and told him everything from our journey and that we planned to make trade of weapons with the lizard folk in the North in exchange for help with eliminating the Midden Heap. Dougal is not against the idea however he wants us to make sure we are siding with the right clan because From what we learned out in the field is that the relationships between the clans are never always peaceful and we need to side with the one with the intention of restoring balance to the bayou; arming a lizard folk clan could possibly tip the scales for good or for worse. I am now taking a few days to find a beast companion to fight along side me in battle and hopefully if we adventure out to clear the Midden Heap for real I’ll be prepared.
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