Mother’s Bastion to Nesmé

Start: Mother’s Bastion

End: Nesmé

Duration: 6 Days

Journal

Day 1

Travel down to Mornbryn’s Shield with some carts from Mother’s Bastion going on a supplies run. Mia is in charge of the carts and guards. Arrive at the town just after dark and park up in the caravan field. Sleep with a rope tied between Gramdoul and Teleri Amber’s feet in case she decides to go for a wander.

Day 2

Ask Mia about where to find horses and Flaming Troll is suggested.

Head into town without Teleri Amber who is sleeping like a log. Arrive in the tavern and ask barkeep who points me at the group of mercenaries at the main table.

Speak to mercenaries, find out their leader is Oboth. They’ve come to Mornbryn’s Shield to look for Mornbryn’s Tomb, the final resting place of Mornbryn and supposedly his riches too. Oboth offers Gramdoul a horse for 100GP. They haggle but get nowhere.

Gramdoul sits at the bar for a drink and asks about horses but is given a cryptic answer with a suggestion they chat behind the inn. Out back he tells Gramdoul Oboth is obsessed with Mornbryn’s Tomb and seesm to be absorbing control of Mornbryn’s Shield.

Asks if Gramdoul is a member of the Order Of The Gauntlet, wants them to swing by and kick Oboth out. Gramdoul leaves the agreed cash (10GP?) under a denoted bucket and collects Teleri Amber from Mia.

The horses are at the prearranged meeting place East of the town.

Day 6

Eight figures are gathered on the road ahead. We pretend to be looking for Mornbryn’s Tomb. The leader of the figures, Landrana is having none of it and a fight breaks out.

Teleri Amber shows herself to be a very accomplished Rogue. We kill everyone but Landrana, interrogate her:

  • What are you doing at Nesme?: Told to keep people out, don’t know what they’re doing up there.

  • Who told you?: Fylo, told them to stop people coming North

  • Who is Fylo?: Just a thug, a leader of sorts. Leading the group up here.

  • Who is the group up here?: just mercenaries

  • Does your company have a name?: The Black Mercenaries

  • How long has your company been here?: The company? I don’t know but I’ve been here a couple of weeks.

  • Have you been into the city at all?: I’ve only been out here.

  • Has anyone else tried to get into the city?: You’re the first thing stupid enough to come this far North.

  • Have you stopped anyone trying to leave?: No

  • Has anyone come up here who’s supposed to be here and isn’t a member of your company?: No.

Send Landrana (with 4HP!) on her way.

While looting the corpses we find:

  • 87GP

  • An Electrum Signet Ring, with a winged black snake symbol on it which looks like the one Kellah had.