Dusken Glade Timeline

1491 DR (Year of the Scarlet Witch)

Tarsakh

Session One: March 8th, 2019

• 14th: The PCs are summoned by Denabria to the Dusken Glade. She tells them that she needs them to go to the Cliffwatch Inn to pick up a package from a Harper agent named Fendus Bern.
  • The agents arrive at the inn, and wait around for a bit, mingling with the locals, but he never shows.
  • They return to the Dusken Glade, and Denabria sends them to investigate his last known location: Undercliff Village.
  • They get down to the village, and find it has no inn. At its sole tavern, the Cracked Cask, they find that not only was Fendus there last night, but he also told the tavernkeep, Reya Athren that he was a Harper.
  • She is apparently in need of some help: her sister, Fiirna, is an apprentice to the wizard Martuin in the tower just north of the Amendsfarm. She hasn't heard from her in days, and when she went to check, she found the doors sealed and no one answered her hails.
  • Reya also tells them that Fendus was offered a place to sleep in the cratehouse of the Milmyvyn orchard, just down the road.
  • The group decides to head down the road to the orchard while Clarc flies out to the tower to see what is going on with the wizard and his apprentice.

Session Two: March 13th, 2019

• 14th (con't): Clarc flew to Martuin's Tower, and looked around some. He sees a raven, which startles and flies off. Landing on the crennelated roof of the gatehouse, he tries to descend a set of stairs, but triggers a glyph of warding that explodes in thunderous sound, knocking him back and badly injuring him.
  • The others arrive at the orchard and meet the family. The father, Vogundun Milmyvyn, tells them that he met Fendus and invited him to stay in the family's cratehouse. Fendus accepted, and they settled him in for the night after a dinner. When they got up the next morning, he was gone, the bed made, and a gold coin on the pillow.
  • Their thirteen-year-old, Vaelee seems to have something more to say but doesn't want to do so around her father. As Vogundun takes most of them to see the cratehouse, Sylyra stays behind to chat with her, offering her one of her woodcarvings to get her talking. She tells Sylyra:
    • She went to outhouse after bed, and was on her way back to the house when she heard him playing his harp. So she hid nearby to listen to him.
    • Some men came sneaking out of the orchard, and she hid in the kitchen. She watched them attack him, and they left with him, dragging him through the orchard.
  • While the group is investigating the cratehouse looking for any clues, Orion spots a tiny beholder, which attacks him. Heinrich rounds the corner, surprising the wee beholder, and puts a quarrel through its central eye; it disappears.
  • Vogundun shouts a warning as six men begin to attack them with crossbows from hiding in the orchard.
  • The fight continues until some man in robes bursts through the door of the house (having gotten in while invisible and the Harpers were distracted with battle), holding Vogundun's wife Benyth hostage, threatening to kill her if they did not throw down their arms.
    • Heinrich sneaks through the house, while an invisible Sylyra sneaks closer to the porch where he stands.
    • Heinrich attacks him from stealth, bulls-rushing him and knocking him off the porch, freeing Benyth, and Sylyra steps between the villain and the downed goodwife.
  • The group attacks the wizard and he nearly kills Heinrich with a phantasmal killer spell, and then magic missiles. He is difficult to hit due to a displacement illusion, but Sylyra strips it from him with a magic missile of her own. Orion – in the form of a bear – attacks and downs him shortly thereafter.
  • The last of the crossbowmen surrenders, and the Harpers elect to take them prisoner to ask questions.
  • Meanwhile Sylyra begins to drag bodies off to burn them in the field outside the orchard(!)

Session Three: March 20th, 2019

• 14th (con't): xxx