Crawic

Herein detailed are the adventures of Cadfan and Ansgar. Cadfan is a local felon, loser, petty thief, and general lowlife. Ansgar is the captain of the guard on the estate of Lord Leofing Whitehand. Ansgar once gave Cadfan shelter from a winter storm in a woodshed. They are both from Crawic, a town home to ~2000 people, ruled over by Whitehand.

Day -1

Angharrad kidnapped. Stranger in Crawic.

Day 0

Cadfan fails to track down Angharrad

Day 19

Procured a mule from Lord Whitehand. Set out NW. Saw strange holes dug into the ground. Quiet area, rolling hills. One ration went bad. Returned home safely.

Day 20

Set out SW of Crawic. Decent weather but strange red sky. Rolling hills. Heavens opened. As rain started pooling in the valley, a woman with claws and bat wings emerged from it. We fled. Found a strange door set into the side of a hill. It was small, ~5ft. The person/man behind it was not friendly and did not want visitors. Ansgar heard voices on the breeze speaking to him. Made it home, gave Krank a knife.

Day 21

Went hunting with Kreek and Krank. Noticed birds migrating the wrong way, at speed away from the mountains. Found 4 sheep. Got 3 of them. Butchered them with Inga's help.

Day 22

Headed south from Crawic. More empty hills. Headed home. Saw scorch marks on the grass. Got called to Whitehand that evening. He had finished his investigation into the Moonblade with the help of a Theurge who was travelling from a town to the NW. The sword is magically powerful, but is cursed to eventually drive the user into a rage of pure self-conviction. It was not forged by human hands. Whitehand was unsure what to do with it, so Ansgar suggested he might one day reforge the curse out of it.

Day 23

Headed to the old Cannach Keep. Something was following them. Was it ever there? Insidez returned to the northern edge of the corridor. Opened a locked door to find piles of rotting viscera. Ran into a rotting shambling flesh creature. There were more, but we burnt the room. The whole room burned up nicely. Inspected the wreckage. The skeletons of the flesh things were mostly human, but with odd differences. Runic graffiti. The cracks in the walls on one corridor definitely led down to some sort of subterranean area. Found a scorched tapestry and magic torches. The tapestry depicted Cannach and his wife. The wife was worshipping Morrigan, and Cannach was pointing a sword at her back. Carving of the three faces of Morrigan. Moving skeletons. Picture of a bird-winged reptile. Fountain. Mosaic of the flesh ghoul creatures. Cadfan was wounded in a fight with one of the flesh ghoul things. Retreated to the signal tower. Ansgar scavenged enough food. Rested at the tower that night.

Day 24

Made it home. Saw huge gouge marks in the trees. Rested.

Day 25

Went hunting with Kreek + Krank. Found a bear! Managed to slay it, and drag it back toward Inga's. Harvested 75 fresh rations. Inga will have 10 dried rations for us on Day 35.

At Whitehand's estate, Ansgar found Jori bragging about having killed the bear. Rennan is a bit of a loose-lipped guy when it comes to respecting authority. Got them to pipe down and smarten up, then went to bed.

Cadfan went to The Smoking Princess, near the brothel. He paid for a pint up front for once, which was noticed by Nolven, the landlady. Heard a rumour that merchants travelling the mountain pass were going missing. Ordered more bolts and a grappling hook from the blacksmith.

Day 26

Windy

Set of to the old Cannach keep. Made it safely. Cadfan abseiled into the cave below. It seemed natural. Constant barely audible whispers. Some small blind insects. Not gems or anything of note. Whispers got louder as he tried to leave. Returned to the room where Cadfan nearly died. Looted the ghoul. Musty fountain. Ran away from some sort of ghost. Heard reedy female singing as we fled. Foraged food and stayed at the watchtower.

Day 27

Cold

Headed north into the mountains. Went to the Morrigan chapel. Nobody home. All seemed quiet. Found a bone portcullis in the back. Heard far off sounds of combat. Came to a room with bloody spikes, some corpses, and a hobgoblin. Killed the hobgoblin. Looted a raven amulet. Books weren't of immediate interest, but we took some expensive looking ones. Found a big sleeping creature and killed it. Hidden door in a matching bookcase. Trapped acid door. Killed 2 more hobgoblins. Enchanted lock caused Cadfan to start feeling very weird. Temperature dropped. Cadfan snapped out after 30mins. Heard whispers, but the choral singing we heard in the forest a while back interrupted them. Floor trigger trap. 2 hobgoblins and Enk, the goblin from the mountain camp. Killed the hobgoblins, left the dungeon with Enk in tow.

Saw a very young red dragon overnight. Ansgar saw a funny looking bug, and squished it (it was a scorpion).

Day 28

Windy, mild

Enk confirmed there are at least 4 dragons in the mountain. We had seen one of the babies of the family.

We promise to buy Enk a lantern, oil, bow, and arrows if he could tell us where the Hobgoblins are found. Put out some dragonfire in the forest. Returned Enk to his people.

Got back to Crawic. Went to Herogod. The expensive-looking books are alchemical manuals. A tourney would be starting soon. The raven amulet is silver, albeit tarnished. Paid tribute to Whitehand. He was happy with our work. The tourney was going to have archery, sparring, jousting, and a horticultural show. People were travelling from the 2 other settlements west of the mountains. Cadfan was given permission to compete in the archery meet under Whitehand's banner.