Frostwane Special: Gnome Alone

Louie Dahlia

    Written by Sean

Hey, Punk. It's me again. Just like before, things have been weird as shit for me. Before things got weird, I had to talk to Theo (the scrawny booky kid) cuz he's making me nervous. I dunno if he's trying to prove himself to his family of shit heads that he is as capable as his brothers or what but, the kid is taking some really stupid risks and it makes me wanna fuckin' punch him cuz he's like the smartest guy I've ever met and here he is asking for trouble. I talked to him, I tried to not be so "me" as you love to put it and I hope to the damned gods he listened cuz he's a good kid with a lotta potential to like really change the world. While we were on the boat we all started to see this strange snow then all of the sudden we ended up traveling back in time? Please, don't ask I can barely wrap my head around this shit as it is. We got asked by this guy Randall Van Ricketts and his satyr friend Lundy to help clear out his childhood home of ghosts. No, I'm not kidding, fuckin' ghosts.

We got to the mansion and it was a shit show, fuckin' ghosts almost killed us, I got possessed (that was awful) and when we finally got the upper hand, we found out it was so much worse than we thought. That fucker Ricketts is a sick fuck, he was leading people to that house to be slaughtered for some kinda fucked up ritual or something, I dunno, this magic shit is way over my head. We talked to the ghosts and found out they were former victims of this shit, they were supposed to help with this ritual by killing the adventurers who show up at the mansion so fuckface can do his ritual. Theo, Rix, and I all decide that this fucker's gotta go so we tried to go back to Van Rickett's house to smoke the fool, we ended up back on the ship. I'm getting tired of this shit, I need a break. I'm gonna tap Zara in.

Theodore

    Written by Justin

Picking up after the fight with the sea creature

Long Rest, Portent are 10 and 5

I bring Pecan back as an owl this time

Louie notices it is starting to snow. The snow here looks weird, almost like stars. The snowflakes are shimmering and shining

It doesn't accumulate or melt, it seems to fall through the deck of the ship. We are suddenly falling through the deck of the ship, we find ourselves in a snow-covered landscape that is bright and sunny (it was dark when we left)

We find there to be a house toward the NW

Louie confronts me and asks me to be less reckless and more open

As we approach the house Pecan sees a human man and a satyr woman sitting at a table cutting some plants or something

We knock on the door, they wish us a Merry Frostwane but that was ~50 days ago in our timeline

Randall van Ricketts (human) and his assistant Lundy (satyr)

The van Ricketts family home is plagued by a ghastly spirit

The year is 514

We go over everyone's Frostwane traditions

They are going to serve us dinner before we go to clear the house

3-4 years ago there were (he thinks) two ghosts that took over his family's mansion and tore the place apart, scared them all away. They only take physical form on Frostwane

I ask Lundy for her goose recipe and she obliges

Louie thinks we need to be more concise and chill when we're talking to people and Theo agrees

We reach the fucked up house, sun is setting at a more normal time

We kill one ghost, we leave to take a short rest

Fuck these ghosts

I'm gonna burn this house down

Ghost does not want the house burned down, gives me a weird rune key

3 things on the desk I think are valuable, all going in my backpack

Rare Elemental Component

Rare Ooze Component

Essence (Potent)

Rix is finding a recipe, some potion ingredients, and some health potions

She also finds a reference to humanoid parts

We discover that the Dr has been luring adventurers in here every Frostwane to harvest their organs

Louie, Rix and I want to kill the Dr in his sleep

We open a chest on the 2nd floor and find some fine clothing and some gold

Under the fine clothes is a black cloak, there's a multi-tool looking symbol on it

In the desk in the office Rix finds a box, solves a puzzle to open it (Sudoku)

THere's a strange syringe and a letter

We throw the blood in the basement into the fire and it frees the children

We get transported back to the boat (van RIcketts is a lucky MOFO)

We arrive in Haupstadt

We see that the port is a well-oiled machine and we decide to park the boat off the grid and walk to town

Raveth turns the boat purple and we rename it The Void Queen, slightly adjusts the dimensions, tiny little displacer beast at the front

Black Wiltspar sapling in the center of the Valor Square, we get our fast travel point

Valor Square is set up to honor the great heroes of Crystalia

We get everyone (except Oz) attuned to the sapling in Haupstadt and also set the Orb to Haupstadt

Ford only knows of the name of van Ricketts through his military time, the people of the area do not necessarily know about van Ricketts because he was a recluse

We meet Zara and her raccoon

We set off to look for the AGI

We see the Stalward, a massive fortress in the center of town that the rest of the city is built around

The ring around the Stalward is generally commerce buildings, the AGI is among them

The tavern at this AGI is more well set-up than others we've seen

At the desk is Joanie, looks similar to others we've seen

They cannot contact the AGI in Verdantia

Conflict between Crystalia and Evervale is over contested lands and how the countries were founded.