Ragnorra Session 41

Start: 4 pm, Sunday, Flamerule (July) 25, 1396

Cassius, Ronja, and Vix engage the worgs and orcs in combat. During this process, a pair of silhouettes crested over the glacier to assist them. They would later find out this creature is called a faerie dragon, and his name is Jinx. Jinx has a gryphon named Jazmine, who assisted in battle.

After slaying some of the worgs and orcs, the three got acquainted with Jinx. Without wasting much more time, they pursued the fleeing foes. They slew some, and drove the others out to the south side of the encampment. After a certain point, the orcs and worgs were unable or unwilling to continue the fight. They did not offer a formal surrender, but appear to have stopped fighting.

Meanwhile, afflicted Tanarruk from inside the fortress began to drag cannons outside to fire on the four. Cassius, using his cultivator powers, dismantled the cannons as they were presented. He successfully slew four of them as well. They appear much healthier than previous afflicted foes, but just as vulnerable to removing curses.

During this process, before their assault on the fort, the party began to grow suspicious that these orcs weren't really their foes, and they were coerced or enslaved to do the bidding of the Tanarruk, or perhaps more indirectly, the cult.

While Cassius distracted the Tanarruk on the ground floor, Vix, Jinx, and Ronja decided to enter from the third floor. There, they barrels full of the substance the cult uses to infect water supplies, a still for creating the substance, a trough with a small floating sphere of starmetal, a bed, and some notes. Vix investigated the notes. These were her findings.

"It's written in cult code. There is one letter of unsent reply, written in an unsteady, untrained hand. It's instructions on how to build the fort, and plans to subjugate the gnolls to the south. It mentions "captives", and "children of the goddess". The two recipients are "Trollblood King", the unsteady hand, and "V"."

With this information in mind, she sent Mary to investigate the second floor. There appeared to be a viewing gallery of sorts, with an imprisoned Phaerrim shackled. The interior of the cordoned off room was covered in the brittle blue dust they encountered in the cave.


Demiplane ETA in hours: 162

Montgomery and Omen must feed in 70 hours.

XP: 4980

End: 6 pm, Sunday, Flamerule (July) 25, 1396