welcome to spooky season.

[heorte]

WHAT: Groups of merchants have petitioned Riftwatch for assistance with strange happenings in the Planasene Forest, disrupting their travel routes. Some claim to have been set upon uncharacterisically aggressive wolves, bears and birds, while other claims that groups of murderous elves are attacking their wagons and still others insisting they've been set upon by demonic spirits punishing them for using the forest. They've petitioned Riftwatch to look into and resolve the situation.

Based off what merchants can describe and some tracking, and prevailing through some the aforementioned creatures and demons (no savage elves to be found) Riftwatch can find a rune-carved altar with several artifacts that have been influencing the local wildlife. Further inspection will show that this is a well-maintained and frequently visited equivalent of a workshop for some magic user, for probably not awesome purposes. Destroying the altar and the ruins will stop the effect, and it'll be the group's choice whether to destroy the artifacts on it or bring them back as a nice present for Thranduil.

WHEN: Loosely Kingsway, before Satinalia so no one has to worry about missing out on parties.

WHOMST: Small group of 5ish people, more can come if there's a lot of interest. Priority to Forces members but plenty of room for anyone who wants a stroll in the woods or nerds to eyeball the altar.

HOW: Sign-ups will stay open for a week, then i'll put up a log with more detailed descriptive information and y'all can go wild.

TL;DR: Creepy magic shit! Demons! Bears! Option for some camping if y'all are really about that life.

Comments

[poleaxed]

CHARACTER: Jone of Denerim
DIVISION: Forces
SKILLS: Reaver Who Kills Things Professionally
FEAR OF BEARS Y/N: strong N

Note that since Jone's a side character, if more people want to sign up with main characters, they can have Jone's place o/

[heorte]

Congratulations, you have been selected to traipse into a spooky forest! A log has been created for your adventuring pleasure. Two starters with some information and descriptions are in there for you, but obviously feel free to go all out with whatever hijinks move you. This whole venture is pretty straightforward, so make it as spook-tastic or wacky as you like.

One last query: regarding the artifacts, I’m going to roll a perception check to see who finds what after the boss battle. With one being “I see nothing” and 10 being “I see literally everything” where does your character fall?

[poleaxed]

Jone has a solid 8 if it's something that looks like money or looks like it could be easily converted into money.

Otherwise 4.

[heorte]

Winner, winner, chicken dinner. Jone can find a gold chalice in the grass. Possibly a once very fine piece of craftsmanship, it's seen better days. There are spaces where jewels might have once been inlaid but been have long since been pried off, and the cup itself has been dented, perhaps from being trampled on by a bear, but she'll be able to discern from the crusted, dark stains along the rim and interior of the chalice that it's probably been filled with blood. It's unnaturally warm to the touch.

Your task: decide decide whether the party will be keeping the items to pass along to Research, destroying them at the scene after the scuffle, or pursuing some unforeseen third route. Please let me know which you decide, or put a report in the comms, whatever is easiest, just to keep track of where the objects end up.

Forgive the tardiness of this info, my focus has fully been awful.

[heorte]

Just a friendly reminder: please come to a decision as to the fate of these artifacts, and elect one party member to put a report in the comms as to whether they were destroyed or handed over to the Research division by 12/12.

[poleaxed]

JONE IS DEFINITELY GIVING THE BLOOD CHALICE TO RIFTWATCH sorry for late reply.