RB 3-3: Fortune's Edge

Mission Report

Friday, Dec 15, 2017 ((Apr 7, 2019))
Team: Jane Irwin (Cael), Edward Chase (Aunne), Cyrus Riggs (Sielic), Zoraida Gurrande (Quorgi), Haelra Vayn (Basil)
Other Raptors on other assignments or on leave

Briefing

• By Max
• Caterina Berrett experimenting on mechadead and shadowfringe
  • Both from Tessera
  • Shadowfringe come from ruptured bloodstones
  • Haven't been hulks here on Earth
• Journals Zora found are actually from a gnome Astrid Staccato Bluegrease
• Astrid Bluegrease
  • Tinker and necromancer
  • Twin brother is Zatrone, a cleric of the Devourer, Pennytaker, imprisoned by the Shangon Empire after the failed Jeraltan coup
  • Originally fought for the Republic during the Bloodstone War, but turned mercenary after the war
  • Maintained a remote lab at Lightenhal, experimented on mechadead
  • A known contact of Magara Thistledown, aka The Fleshweaver
  • c. 2006-2008: Helped create The Mad King's Cauldron, a graven hulk
  • Aug & Sep, 2016: Helped support the Jeraltan royalist attempted coup; the Burning Masks were likely a League puppet organization
  • Sometime in 2017: Magara became part of the League's conspiracy on Tessera
  • Jan 27, 2017: Titan Breakers killed Astrid, at Lightenhal
  • Nov, 2017: Shadow Walkers killed Magara, in Ramshead
  • Journals refer to a second R&D site on Tessera
• Palisade doesn't fully restrict travel within the Closeness
• We're sending you to Tessera to the second R&D site
  • Search for a ruptured bloodstone source
  • Investigate the facility
• Bron will travel through a jumpgate in Crystal Tower
• DM: > Jane ensures the team is geared up for high altitude mountains
• Draco: > Gives their assembler form to Proud

Talarin Crystal Tower

• Captain Vi'essa Keestrix
• Some discussion about trip
• Return gate will remain open for several hours
• Otherwise, travel southwest to Sunholm and make contact with the Shangon ambassador
• Simmons (human male cargo handler) explains not much alive in the heights of Frostwall Mountains
• Through the jumpgate
• Zora lingers on the threshold

Mission

• Continent of Oban
• Frostwall Mountains
• High altitude, thin air, cold, wind
• Fortune's Edge
• Arrival on teleportation circle (40 ft in diameter)
• Camp of goblins and hobgoblins
• Team travels from circle to camp via Bron
• Draco: > Translates Tesseran Common for the team
• Little Krum explains situation
  • Disassembling the hulk
  • Krum's Skullkrushers, lead by Little Krum
  • Tried to enter head but there are undead guardians
• Fortune's Edge Interior
  • Rotated 90 degrees
• Mechadead wild dogs (x7) lurking inside the skull cavity
• Raptors cast Faerie Fire, but most dogs resist it
• Dogs attack
• Jane summons bear totem and wolves
• A complex melee ensues
• Zora casts Haste on Proud
• DM: > Jane's rifle shot (1) causes something to start leaking
• Zora casts Maximilian's Earthen Grasp
• Mechadead wild dogs prove to be lethal and hard to kill
• Last dog killed, all dogs explode
• Raptor regroup, some investigate skull cavity
• DM: > Zora learns about the silver wire "nervous system"
• DM: > Cyrus learns about an acid node