15 Thunsheer 835
Today, you exit the Quoraska jungle and found yourself just outside the entrance of the Wuyun Gorge, which winds its way through the Ashkeeper Peaks and Cyrios Mountain range. Halfway through the Gorge is the Wuyun Gate, which marks the boundary line between the Empire and Menagerie Coast. You joined up with the Great Road and the various traveler’s heading North to trade or visit. Along the way, you kept to yourself, save for a strange, aggressive Bard who made his way toward you specifically, singing about a lost amulet and the adventurers who claimed it. Introducing himself as The Silver Fox, he was more interested in talking about the song than himself and soon lost interest in you.
About a mile from the Gate, you reached an Imperial Blockade where a Imperial crier was telling people to turn back, as a giant has built a fortress and wall to block the road. They’re waiting on Righteous Brand reinforcements, but as this is still technically Menagerie Coast territory, they’re less likely to come quickly. The crier offers to vouch for you if you are able to vanquish it and the guards at the Gate will likely pay around 200 gp for the creature’s destruction. Never ones to deny a bounty, you faced Grennek, a stone giant in a shoddily constructed tower, waiting for champions to face him. Opting to fire at him from a distance while Scrum and Katerina worked to bring the tower down. Together, you toppled the giant and looted his stash of stolen objects as the stalled travelers behind you made their way to you, the road now clear.
Danus, the Empire’s crier walked with you the last two miles to the Wuyun Gate, where he led you past the checkpoints to meet with Captain Renard Ironside. The Captain thanked you for your service and easily paid you the 200 gold, revealing a massive safe filled with gold and gems with a lazy arrogance. He also mentioned that they’re always in need of mercenaries, even now; a red dragon is terrorizing the northern side of the gorge, with no crownsguard willing to risk a dragon attack to stop it. Declining, you left the wall, with Danus leading you to the other side. There, a guard who closely resembled The Silver Fox from yesterday, laughed at Danus for finding “another” water genasi adventurer, revealing that Ayo Jabe and her party passed through here a couple days before, also headed to Trostenwald.
As you hit the road again, Amira asked for clarification on Benedict, resulting in Della revealing some of her past, including the one time she accidentally opened a rift and heard Alyxian’s voice. The rift then filled her nightmares with darkness and screams of the rift and Alyxian’s begging voice. Benedict has been continuing to study this weird Rift creation and hopefully has some ideas. And, hopefully, he’s made contact with the Cobalt Soul’s Arbiters who can provide insight into the Amulet you found in the grotto.
Just before reaching the farm where you planned to stay for the night, a family friend of Scrum’s named Roland McDonald, Scrum was snatched off the road and into a corn field. A group of creepy, green skinned baby men with corn elements demanding someone trade their lives for corn or wheat. The party followed their trail and found Scrum tied to a rock for a sacrifice before the rest of the group engaged and made short work of the little weirdo’s.
Player Notes
We head towards the wuyun gate and there’s a hill giant guarding the way on top of the tower. We topple the Tower and defeat the giant. Had a bag of holding full of rocks.
Introduced to Captain Renard Ironside, get 200 gp for beating the giant.