# [[021_20211005 Forever, My Heart]] ## Session Summary > [!abstract] [[021_20211005 Forever, My Heart]] > As we continue towards Vermeillon, we come across a pair of ogres that are easy prey for the party. When we get to Vermeillon, it is a deserted ghost town. > > There is a tree at the end of the main road in town, where we find Lukas's wife Lorna's necklace. We also go into one of the buildings, a shop called Wand and Hammer, where we find some items with a serpent motif, as well as a ring. > > We head towards the graveyard in the northwest, where we see a gravestone with Lorna Grosvenor's name on it. The tiefling and I gather up some flowers and put them on her grave. I say a few words to see Lorna off. > > I use Locate Object and get a faint ping to the north. When we go in that direction, we find a mine, a large lake, and something further away that looks like teeth. > > Not wanting to go into the collapsed mine at night, we make camp by the lake and watch as the tiefling weirdly starts tapping her feet into the water and wading into it. ^summary ## Recap of last session ![[020_20210928 On the way to Vermeillon#^summary]] --- ## Log It's a gray, drizzly morning. It's probably about 7 am. Wally gave me a ration pack to eat. I cast Aid on me, Milla, Xenia. Should last for 8 hours. Reya - Scura Milla Wally - Xenia We see some scratches on trees as we go. It's starting to get slippery and we're pulling on roots to get ourselves up, causing a minor landslide. I have SUCH a hard time getting up! But we eventually get up there. Initiative 19 Xenia 19 [[ttrpgs/Temporary White Circle/Ogre]]: Kluzar - -15 - -8 - -19 17 Milla 17 Wally 15 Reya 12 Scura 8 Ogre: Murig - -7 - -15 - -7 - -8 - -7 - -3 - -9 - -18 ![[ogres-map.png]] | Character | HP | Conditions | | --------- | --- | ------------- | | Xenia | 31 | Blessed | | Milla | 29 | | | Wally | 36 | Blessed | | Reya | 35 | Blessed | | Scura | 25 | Concentrating | AC = 12 Loot: - leather pouches: 3 g, 9s, 18c - lock - 12 bent nails - flask of ale that is leaking out - fragments of a shattered sword - bloody piece of parchment that is blank 6 hours away, we see some buildings dotting the horizon The tiefling and I take watch. ```leaflet id: vermeillon-battlemap image: vermeillon-battlemap.png height: 450px minZoom: 6 maxZoom: 10 defaultZoom: 7 zoomDelta: 1 unit: feet scale: 1 marker: <type>,<latitude>,<longitude>,<link> ``` We got the necklace Lukas told her about: _For Lorna, forever_. [[Wand and Hammer]]: sign hanging crookedly, wand crossed with a hammer. - Anvil and forge in the corner - Two workbenches - ![[map-wand-and-hammer.png]] Xenia finds a steel shield in a false compartment with platinum filigree and a serpent motif, two matching shortswords, a stack of iron bars, ring. We don't recognize the serpent motif at all. Wally doesn't sense any undead or evil. Towards the back I see a gravestone: `LORNA GROSVENOR Beloved of Lukas. Forever, My Heart.` I cast Locate Object. It's afternoon. I am sensing it north of us. There is a fork and a path that winds up towards the left. We see a mine towards the left, and a lake about 200m away. A large lake. We see that it stretches across over the top of where the mine must be. At the end, we see something that looks like teeth. The tiefling is weirdly tapping her feet by the edge of the lake. ![[map-vermeillon-lake.png]] Milla, Xenia, and I still have Aid (+5 HP and max HP). Wally still has Vigilant Blessing. I want to help Xenia investigate what is left of the camp that we are using. How recently has it been used? Is it [[Nihana Chist]]? ## DM's Notes ```ad-info title: DM's Notes - We started with Milla's dream of a moon shaped object over a lake at night. The moonbeam shining like a path across lake. As Milla walked into the water, she found she could walk upon it where the moonbeam was, like a jetty just covered with water. The moon in the sky hovered close in front and appeared like an almost full crescent with crown-like spikes around it, brightly shining. As she reached out to touch it, a huge, worm-like form with a hairless human head pushed through the middle of the crescent, twisting around and devouring the moon. Milla slipped into the water and awoke to rain dripping through the roof of the hut onto her face. - You decided to pack your things together and set off to Vermeillon, most of a day's march away. Seeing a few markings on the trees, you took some shortcuts between the long curves of the track, but clambering up one embankment, the roots and weeds came lose, and you all with the exception of Wally slid down through the wet leaves and money, taking some bruising as you slammed against trees and rocks stopping your fall. - Eventually, after several unsuccessful attempts with ropes and mules, you all managed to make your way back up without taking the long way around. It took. Some. Time. - As you gathered yourselves at the top, you discovered the noise of your activities had attracted the attention of two feral ogres who proceeded to attack you, but which ended in Reya and Wally taking out the ogres at the and narrowly avoid being crushed by their falling bulk. - On the ogres you found: 9 sp, 18cp, 3 gp, A lock, 12 bent nails, a flask of ale, fragments of a shattered sword, a bloodied scrap of parchment that is blank. - You continued on and entered Vermeillon, a rather empty, spooky place and started exploring. A few of you saw shadows and whispers. In front of Starosta Lei Duvezin's house, Wally and Milla explored the big, old tree. Milla case light to see in the stump, Wally fishes out the necklace that belonged to Lorna, Luka's wife. - Exploring further, you looked inside a couple of buildings, one was the old smithy, The Wand and Hammer. Xenia's investigation revealed a false panel in the corner of the floor. The false floor hid a steel shield with platinum filigree in the shape of winding serpents, two matching shortswords with platinum filigree on the hilt and pommel in a similar serpent motif,and a stack of ten iron bars, each weighing 10 pounds and a thin platinum ring in the dust under a workbench, where it apparently fell and was forgotten. - Then you decided to visit the graveyard and put some flowers on Lorna's grave, hearing or feeling a sigh on the wind. - Scura cast Locate Object on the orrery – or at least what she imagined it might look like based on the prototype, which indicated a weak signal north. As you moved north, you found the merchant's cart and horse. Reya investigated, but found just mundane things. - Found the pathway off north you found the entrance to the abandoned mine and a path to the lake. You decided to made camp at the lakeside, while Milla explored the water with her foot. Shadows by the trees appeared bends around to follow her. - And there we wrapped up the session! ```