Session 15 – Planet Karus

The party:

Treasure: Ring of Aristodemos.

XP: 0.

Casualties: None. But Kurush and Tochalaya fled when confronted with Kannon.

Report:

The plan is to go and find the ring of Aristodemos which they know is located somewhere in the kingdom of Buraith.

Day 1

They set out. Head through the Iron Slopes, then arrive in fields with a shining white city (a theocratic city state called Saqban). They avoid the city and continue into the fields of Buraith, north of the city of Zailin.
They make camp for the night.

Day 2

They search the fields for the spheroid and crystal statue which they know should be there somewhere.
They spot a party of swinelings, but remain unseen themselves. They hide until the swinelings are gone.
Continuing their search, they find their goal.
They also see a small shop, a caretaker, and a bunch of farmers worshipping.
They decide to lay low and come back the next day to see if they are still there.

Day 3

Upon their return they see the locals are still there.
They march into the clearing. Gorakal remains hidden. Pholgon notices the shopkeeper and caretaker are purple. The farmers are green.
The farmers are lead by a small strong woman who they later learn is named Gunna.
Ploikal uses telepathy to speak to Gunna and another farmer, a wrinkly man named Voll.
Ploikal persuades Gunna and Voll that the party are chosen by the visitors. He tells them they should smash the statue to free the ring and give it to them.
The two oblige but the remainder of the farmers leave in protest to get help. “You are going to get us all killed,” they say.
Gunna and Voll begin to bash at the statue with rocks, with little success.
The caretaker, a tall purple woman named Morra, tries to intervene.
Gorakal shoots Morra, killing her instantly.
The shopkeeper, Zann, shouts her name and comes rushing towards her.
They send a number of light footmen forward. Tochalaya succumbs to his chaotic tendencies and eagerly cuts Zann down.
Scowling, Pholgon bashes the statue’s hand with the back of his axe, breaking it off with ring and all.
Ploikal pockets it, uses his telepathy to instruct Gunna and Voll to eat eight eggs a day for three days, and they make their getaway.
They travel back to Batbeng without issue.

Day 4

They bring the ring encased in its crystal hand to Aralal. He identifies it, and is shocked. What have they done?
He promises not to tell anyone, if they agree to come back into his service and continue their search for the machines. They grudgingly acquiesce.

Day 5

The cloudy weather of the past four days clears.
Everyone except Gorakal travel to Khodang to sell off some valuables.
Gorakal stays behind to dig up dirt on Aralal.
In Khodang, the party cuts a good deal with a sinewy trader by name of Dallran.
Meanwhile, Gorakal learns that Aralal may be in debt to count Egan, the local representative of the prince, who has come here accompanied by a tax collector named Mumiki.
Back in Khodang, the party visit animal markets, where they see eight-legged frogs, monkey-parrots, and pitbull-lizards.
Pholgon buys two hunting lizard-dogs on a leash. They have six legs each.
Finally, they seek out magic items, which are not sold anywhere, and scrolls, for which they do find one heavily secured shop, but do not find anything of interest.
They stay the night in an inn.

Day 6

They travel back to Batbeng.
On the road north of Khodang they are surprised by a huge t-rex like monster that fumes and radiates from its mouth.
Kurush and Tochalaya lose their nerve and run off into the fields.
The monster appears uninterested in them. They manage to get away.
When they get back around noon, they exchange news, and then Ploikal begins an attempt to learn the read minds spell.

Day 7