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Wednesday, April 17, 2019

The Forbidden Wilderlands: Session 1B–Don’t Say Simrath & Release the Dwarf!

This is the first session of Group B, my Thursday crew, soon to be dubbed The Farstriders in my new Forbidden Wilderlands campaign. This session took place on March 28, 2019 at 3 Dragons, our local game store.

Characters:
Castle Leechfield
The Farstriders
  •              Torric Trollbleeder (Kazadaran Dwarf Battlerager 3)
  •              Scythe (Warforged Warlock 3)
  •              Curthain (Tharbrian Moon Druid 3)
  •              Teegan Appleblossom (Hobbit Bard 3)
  •              Kenzo Kai (Karakhan Monk 3)
  •              Whiskers (Wolfkin Ranger 3)


Longrass 1, 4433 BCCC
Like the Emerald Six, the Farstriders were met with Broderick Quink at the Rusty Dragon to aid in the quest to fill in the blanks of his map of the Riverlands.

The group heard rumours of skeletons roaming near the Tombwood and that goblins had been attacking people on the Coast Road. Since the Emerald Six had been looking into the Tombwood the group decided to look into the goblin situation.

The group learned that Lonjiku Kaijitsu, owner of the Kalastar Glassworks was sending a shipment of glass to Leechfield and decided to accompany the driver Corian to see if they could use him as bait to lure out the goblins. That afternoon they are attacked by goblins on the road and they “RELEASE THE DWARF!” on them. After the battle they managed to figure out the general direction the goblins came from, a limestone escarpment five miles West. The group decided that they would do the honorable thing and escort Corian to Leechfield and return to the goblin lair at a later time.

Longrass 2, 4433 BCCC
The Group entered into the Barony of Leechfield and saw the forbidding Castle Leechfield in the distance. They learned that Baron Simrath ruled over the area from this manor and that he was a tyrant of a ruler in the area. That night around the campfire Whiskers told a story of how one night of a full moon one of the elders of his Wolfkin tribe lost control of his ability to turn into a wolfman and began slaughtering his kin. Sadly, they had to put him down. This sort of thing occurs occasionally in Wolfkin tribes.

Longrass 3, 4433 BCCC

On the way to Leechfield the caravan was stalked by small twisted pine saplings that Curthain dubbed “Blood Twigs” They managed to scare them away with fire. In Leechfield the town was somber and felt oppressive. The group learned that the town was under the curse of Simrath who haunted the towns people and that to say Simrath’s name was to draw his unwanted attention on you. The group is convinced that Simrath is a vampire, though there is little evidence to back this up. With delivery made the group heads back to Kalastar in preparation to return to the lair of the goblin ambushers….

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