Earthdawn Campaign Story
(02/11/01) Once upon a time in a lovely little elven village, there lived an archer named Katryn and her nethermancer brother, Amadeus. One day, a t’skrang cavalryman named T’ruig rushed in from a nearby village and shouted that Theran slavers were attacking her village. Amadeus, Katryn, and several other Adepts rushed to help them, but they got held up fighting a vicious beast in the middle of the road and were too late to prevent the village from being destroyed and many townspeople from being taken aboard the ship. Meanwhile, Valeris and Kadutse had been captured by the slavers beforehand and were being held aboard the slavers’ airship. With the help of a troll named Torg, they broke free of their cells and escaped from the ship. Once on the ground, they met up with the Adepts from the village and agreed to help them track down the slavers and make them answer for their crimes.
(02/24/01) After getting to know one another, we all decided to stay at Amadeus and Katryn’s house. As soon as we settled in, Amadeus began flirting nonstop with Valeris, who was more than a little confused by the whole situation. After waking up in the middle of the night to find Amadeus in bed with him, Valeris was just plain annoyed. He accepted Amadeus’ offer of wine, figuring he could easily drink the elf under the table and make him look like a fool. However, neither was able to hold their liquor very well, and Valeris just barely avoided Amadeus’ advances before waking up Katryn, who firmly reprimanded her brother for the whole business (but of course didn’t change his ways). We spent five days repairing a wagon to carry our belongings, gathering food for the journey, and preparing for the coming journey. Feeling as ready as we would ever be, we began our trek to Vivane.
(02/28/01) Amadeus, Brandon, Kadutse, Katryn, Thomas, T’nari, T’ruig, Torg, and Valeris spent the next day traveling. We saw nothing out of the ordinary except a place where the grass had been trampled down as if by a large animal, and a flock of birds flying away in the distance. As the sun began to set, Brandon rode off alone to look for a place to camp. He was very late in coming back and we began to worry. Thomas and Katryn went off to look for him while the rest of us made camp. After finding a tree that something big had rubbed up against and blood on the grass beneath it, they saw a huge animal (a dire) with Brandon’s horse clenched in its jaws. It ran away, and they couldn’t keep up. They retraced its path but found nothing, so they returned to camp and reported their findings. Torn between looking for Brandon and keeping up with the slavers, we decided to spend the next morning looking for him, but continue without him if we didn’t find him.
(03/05/01) Early in the morning, Kadutse, Katryn, Thomas, T’nari, T’ruig, and Valeris set out to look for Brandon. We split up to cover more ground. Kadutse and Valeris managed to locate the tree Katryn and Thomas had seen the night before, and called T’nari and T’ruig over to them. However, Katryn and Thomas went in the opposite direction and got very lost. Thomas heard us calling for him and tried to stand up on his horse’s back to get a better view of our surroundings, but he caught his foot in the stirrup, slipped, and broke his leg. Katryn managed to get him to the rest of the group, but it became clear we couldn’t care for him here. So Katryn and T’ruig turned around to take him slowly back to camp on T’ruig’s gondwana. Kadutse, T’nari, and Valeris followed the bloody trail through the grasslands to a strange clearing with a lot of blood on the ground and a dire hiding in the center. We scared the dire away but saw it had a knife stuck in its leg. In its lair, we found a small scrap of cloth with symbols cut into it. We suspected it was a message but were unable to decipher it. We also noticed that the clearing was strangely geometrical in shape. Puzzled, we caught up with the others, who were also unable to figure out the clues. So we rode ahead to the camp, where it seemed strange things had been happening. Amadeus and Torg had been meditating when a tiger burst out of the grass and attacked Amadeus. He was able to dispatch it with a few well-placed spells. At the last moment Torg came rushing in and bashed the dead tiger into pieces. Amadeus ridiculed him, which began a rivalry which would come to an ugly head later that night. However, Torg managed to tell us that the strange clearing looked like an airship landing pattern, and that the cuts in the cloth (which was from Brandon’s favorite shirt) looked a lot like the word “slave.” We decided Brandon had been taken by slavers, and to continue riding toward Vivane. T’ruig also began attempting to seduce T’nari.
(03/12/01) We continued our journey the next day, then bedded down for the night. During Torg and Kadutse’s watch, some strange flying animals entered the camp. Torg was completely disgusted by the flying, batlike beasts, which he called “krilworms.” Kadutse struck one of them with her sword, and suddenly a swarm of the things descended upon us. Everyone woke up and hid in the wagon. In the chaos that ensued, Torg broke one of the wagon wheels, the horses panicked and took off down the trail, and Amadeus managed to capture one of the worms and keep it as a pet. Eventually things calmed down, but we had to spend part of the next day repairing the wagon.
(04/02/01) Our journey wore on, and eventually we reached a better-traveled part of the path where another road intersected. Ahead of us we saw an ork pulling a cart. T’ruig tried to talk to him but he ignored here. Because we were moving faster than he was, we eventually caught up with him, and T’ruig asked him to move aside so we could pass. He refused, and said some very rude things to her. She called for Valeris, whose appearance angered him even more. Suddenly, four archers (three orks and a human) leapt out of the back of the cart and demanded that we turn back. We refused. It looked like there was going to be a fight, until Kadutse suggested that we rest and allow them to get a head start. We agreed, and the lead ork smashed one of our wagon wheels to make sure we obeyed. The archers then left (along with several more who had been hiding in the tall grass along the side of the road), and we spent half the day repairing the wagon wheel and set out again. Meanwhile, Pookie (Amadeus’ krilworm) had been hidden in a blanket for three days and was starting to get a little bit gross. Amadeus asked T’ruig (the only other one who knew about the krilworm) to help him change the blanket, and she agreed. But as she picked Pookie up, he latched onto her finger and wouldn’t let go. She tried to pull him off and succeeded—pulling her finger with him. She screamed, and everyone else came running. Thomas panicked and asked what had happened. Amadeus claimed he had bitten her finger off, and Thomas attacked him. Torg noticed the krilworm, scooped it up, and ran off with it. Kadutse chased after him, while Katryn looked after T’ruig’s wound and Thomas and Valeris tried to subdue Amadeus (with Valeris becoming incapacitated in the process). Finally, Kadutse talked Torg out of killing Pookie, Amadeus sewed up T’ruig’s finger, and we hit the road again...
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