Shadow Walkers

Revision as of 03:02, 31 July 2017

One year before the Titan Breakers started their adventures in the Neutral Zone, other heroes encountered planewalkers.

1-1: The Lost Beastmen

Friday, Summerset 12, 1126 SF (Jul 2, 2017)
Party: Perfidy (Aslene), Danja (Danana)

At the confluence of the Red Rock and Green Rock Rivers, the Shangon city of Diyun rested atop and within many towering islands. The cosmopolitan city bustled with fishing, lumber, food processing, and trade. The city was also home to the renowned Diyun College, a center of research and scholarship in the natural sciences (e.g., biology, herbalism, alchemy).

Perfidy was a female forest gnome rogue from the deep north. She was sent by her village to Diyun to study law enforcement. She had apprenticed for years with Dalla Teman, a Senior Inspector in the City Watch. As Perfidy neared the end of her training, Dalla decided that Perfidy was ready to work a case on her own.

Perfidy was ordered to investigate a series of burglaries in the market ward. First, per Dalla's instructions, Perfidy recruited a nature expert from the college: the female dragonborn Danja. Together, they questioned Garem the grocer and his son Jarem, as well as Pemil the chicken farmer, her son Athan. They determined that beastly humanoids were raiding the shops at night.

Episode 2: Those Left Behind

Friday, Summerset 12, 1126 SF (Jul 4, 2017)
Party: Perfidy (Aslene), Danja (Danana)

Perfidy acquired some slow poison from a fisherman, and the heroes staked out Garem's shop. Three beastmen emerged from the sewer and started to enter the shop. The heroes killed one and drugged another. Perfidy summoned the City Watch, and ordered three watchmen to help purse the beastmen (Ister, Kerry, and Karn). Underground, the heroes were ambushed by a giant bat, before following the beastmen to their lair.

More beastmen attacked. A fierce, close-quarters battle ensued, in which both Kerry and Karn were almost killed. The beastman alpha was particularly dangerous. But the heroes triumphed.

They found many of the stolen goods from the shops, as well as two partly-eaten human men. On their bodies, Perfdy found notes that revealed that the beastman had been brought to Diyun to assist a band of planewalkers.

Note 1:

Here's the chant on this operation. Lijan says this portal is good for at least ten trips or a week. The key is to hum. The portal leads to a juicy trade burg on some dumb prime world called Tessera. We're going to get in, get the goods as usual, and get out. Berna is bringing the muscle: a pack of beastmen she controls with her new belt. Easy job, easy jink.

Note 2:

Frak Berna! If that leatherhead was going to up and flee, she could at least have left the belt. We're staying peery, but I don't know how long these furry bashers are going to stay obedient. I think they smell our fear. Lijan got the dark of this portal wrong. It started going wonky after just six trips. The Tannon Boys got nervous and turned stag. They just dropped their loads and bounced back through to the Cage. Now we gotta hope Lijan can be arsed to find a way to rescue us. If they get here too late, maybe this note will at least set the record straight. Frak Berna to the Nine Hells! -Cale