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--- resources:adventure:cold_sweat [2014/08/30 22:50]
joew [Adventure Summary]
+++ resources:adventure:cold_sweat [2015/05/14 21:08] (current)
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 Outside the troll cave they encounter a small camp containing a small ensemble.  Human fused with beasts and artifacts mill around a crimson skinned woman who is speaking with a local girl.  The woman is Maibe, a Truthseeker, and the merged people are Truthspeakers- those who give voice to things whose secrets would otherwise go unheard.  The young girl is Sasha, the missing child from Dunsroamin, and Maibe believes that it is her destiny to become a truthspeaker with Old Tom, the troll.\\
-The party are keen to recover the girl, but McWizard is firmly against giving the 'obvious evil, mad wizard' any powerful secrets in exchange for the child.  In the end they decide to worry about it after they have collected the sweat.
+The party are keen to recover the girl, but McWizard is firmly against giving the 'obvious evil, mad wizard' any powerful secrets in exchange for the child.  In the end they decide to worry about it after they have collected the sweat.  Maibe lends Jon her implement so that he not venture into the dark unarmed.
+Rafe makes a surgical cut on the stone goat kid and then they allow it to run off, drawing a great tide of trollspawn after it.  Now on the clock before the horde returns, the adventurers run into the tunnel seeking their quarry.  Halfway down the tunnel they encounter a group of bobbing lights, one of which speaks to them explaining that there is a miner trapped below but that he keeps running away when the lights approach.  This is in fact the Anomaly Ghost Light, who does not understand that the troll is not in need of help.  Not wanting to get distracted the party tries to push past, but the lights follow, demanding that someone promise to help the miner.  An illtimed utterance of 'Fine' from Henry is taken as assent and Ghost Light places a geas upon him.
+The group finally reaches the Troll cave and each percieves the creature according to their cultural understanding of the dragons; Rafe and Jon see a great lizard, Mar a towering troll and Henry, a Junnes local, sees a chthonic horror.  Surprised and enraged the troll attacks, spawn sloughing from its hide as it falls upon the adventurers.  Mar's golem absorbs a couple of the beasts strongest blows, but bereft of armanents it is swiftly pulled apart by the tide of trollspawn.  The battle rages on for the best part of five minutes, Henry enduring the beast's ire whilst Jon immolates the offspring with waves of fire.  Mar and Rafe attack from behind, distracting the beast and breaking up the numbers of spawn so that no one is pulled down in front of the troll where they would certainly be eaten.  Eventually the exertion is to much for the creature and it falls unconscious.
+Each of them swipe under the folds of the beast's neck, hopeful to collect a drop of sweat.  Jon utilises his powers of Consumption to taste the beast's effluences and gain insights- this direct connection to a dragon that hates and rages against others beings possesing a will is too much for his mind and he goes into a fit.  Henry attempts to choke him out and the wizard bites a sizable chunk from the warrior's arm before being knocked out.  Mar picks McWizard up and carries him away on her back.  Feeling the effect of the geas Henry attempts to tug the monstrosity up the tunnel but alone his strength is clearly insufficient and he abandons it to flee alongside his companions.
+Ghost Light is incensed by the perceived betrayal of the promise and the party chooses to charge past rather than explain themselves.  A gout of flame engulfs Henry and he falls smoking to the tunnel floor before he can raise his blade.  Already burdened with the comatose mage Mar can only run onwards towards the surface and Rafe gives the fallen warrior a last look before abandoning him and making an escape.
+The remainder of the party get out of the tunnel with a couple of minutes to spare and then the trollspawn come rushing back.  Jon wakes up and is a appraised of the loss of Haldrad, after some consideration deciding that there is no way to recover him since his body will doubtless have been consumed to the trollspawn.  Looking over to Maibe's camp the party decide that they aren't going to negotiate with a child abductor.  Jon examines the cliffside above the camp and with his fracturing rite spots a weak point that will bring the face crashing down.  He hands Rafe his massive supply of grenados and the skirmisher scales the sheer slope to pack the munitions into the flaw.  In a coordinated attack Jon invokes a Fault of Temperance upon Maibe and whilst the Truthspeakers turn to attack him Mar snatches up the child and begins to run.  With the girl headed towards safety, and Rafe swiftly climbing up above the faultline, the mage hurls a blast of flame at the crack and brings the mountain down upon them.  As colossal boulders rain down into the camp McWizard dissolves into a resilient ooze.
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 ===== Debrief =====
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 ==Rafe==
 You have managed to recruit a couple of the younger trollhunters to your employment.  When you call in your forces against an enemy group including a huge, monstrous foe then you gain two ranged RENDs in addition to their normal calls.
-{{tag>"cold sweat" adventure ghost_fire henry_haldrad rafe_white mars_andreya jon_mcwizard troll truthseekers}}
+{{tag>"cold sweat" adventure ghost_fire henry_haldrad rafe_white mars_andreya jon_mcwizard trolls truthseekers}}

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