Avalyn Adventure #97 “The Secret”

Marius-Paladin
Kimi-Rogue
Alan-Fighter
Violet-Bard
Grevin-Dwarf Mage
Kaden-Fighter


The characters continue down the path towards the town, They are met by a contingent of soldiers and escorted back to the Kenna. On the way the sholdiers tell about the “Black Demons” that have attacked the town in the last couple of days , the characters realize that some of the thauge had gotten into the mine ahead of them.

When they get the Kenna Alexander he is in the middle of a meeting. When he is done he waves them over. He tells them that he is glad they are okay. The party enquires where the representative of the Wharpick Mages Guild is cause they have a thauge head for him. Alexander points to the far wall where they see two thauge bodies hung up one is missing it’s head. He tells them that they have a thauge head and they will probally have a problem selling it to the mages guild, however since they risked their life he will buy it since the guild will not .

He tells them that a few days ago a dozen or so the creatures stormed though the villages. They have killed several people and as a result he has put a curfew on the town.
The characters tell Kenna about what happened to paladin Marius, the Kenna prepares a message to go the Sylvias Rest. When asked why he isn’t asking the mages guild or the manthootians for help, he tells them that their help comes with “strings” and he would would rather not incure more debt to them.

The characters make their way back to Kimi’s house, mindfull of the parties of roving solders. After settling in there is a knock at the door, it’s Van Rhe and her bodyguards, they seem to be a bit on edge. Rhe enters and greets the characters before getting into her message. She thanks Kimi for letting her read her friend Kevin’s books of lore. She says that she has a good idea where she needs to go if she wished to attempt to resurrect her son.

Kaden asks her why she doesn just go to the church for a scrolls or the priestess in the manthootian village. Rhe tells them what she puzzled out from Kevin and Madrigar’s (her son’s) writing. When Madrigar was born he was taken from her and when he was returned he has a series of glowing jewels on his forehead. The jewels gave his special powers. It was later she found out that it maked him as a Lesser Lord of The Stary Sky, a shadowy group of an ancient order. In his writings he mentiond that the jewel made him nearly immortal. When he discovered that the Jkennis (Queen) of Deserata was also a member he was worried because she was decidedly evil. As he found out that how evil she was he grew worried that there would be an immortal on the throne who was aligned with the dark gods.

Madrigar hatched a plot after he discovered an ancient Truemage weapon embodied in the form of a young woman named Esnith. After subjecting her to a battery of tests he inlisted the help of a young earth mage. Together they bound Esnith and were able to assert some control over her. In the meantime Madrigar cultivated a friendship with the Jkennis Distaria. He promised that he would deliver the weapon. Madrigar tricked the Jkennis into lowering her defenses and he unleased part of Esniths power. The attack destroyed the Jkennises jewel but also killed him. She explaines that is the reson she cannot simply resurrect him. She has found refences to a Lords of the Starry Sky city in the north.

Kimi tells Rhi that she is happy that Kevin’s library has been able to help her but there was a price. Rhi tells her that she is aware of the price and has done some research on the matter of Kimi’s family. She tells her that it would be better if Kimi didn’t know. Kimi insists she be told.

Rhi takes Kimi aside and tells her the story. She tells Kimi of the time when the Manthootian Combie allied itself with Jkennis Distaria, the leaders of the triumberate were Anton Modoris, Grildo of the 13 Sons and Volo of Ravenspear. Modoris was destroyed by a group adventurers at the town of Gol. Later Grildo was also killed. Because of these defeats the Manthootian Combine withdrew from the alliance.

Distaria was driven into a fit of anger. She summoned Volo and his twin sister Kimi to her. When they arrived Distaria had the sister put to death. Distaria then remouled Volo’s flesh into that of a female (the worst thing for a Manthootian male) and drove him insane. Eventually she took Volo’s memory and made him believe that he was “Kimi.”

Kimi is shaken by this information, she asks Rhe who she knows this and Rhe simply states that she was there for some of it when she had been captured by Distaria. Kimi goes to her room to think about the gravity of the revelation.

Later Kimi comes out and tells the other characters what she has found out, she says that it doesn’t make a difference to her since this is all she knows and remembers. When asked if she is going to try to get her correct personality back she merely states that she is “simply” Kimi and will remain so.

The party decides to talk to Rhe again later about joining taking her up on her offer for joining her on the adventure. When she returns they quiz her about how much loot there will be, she tells them she’s not sure. The party decides to journey with her. Rhe tells the characters it will be several weeks before they can leave. She must procure a ship and it needs to be sailed to the coast. When it’s there they will take boats to the sea to meet it.
The characters decide to finish up their business and prepare for the trip.

Kaden goes to see his commander about getting some leave, Alt Leader Bitter seems in a good mood and writes that Kaden will be on leave for a while, but will need to pull guard duty until he leaves. Kadenhe heads back to Kimi’s house to gets some rest.

Grevin goes to see Kennis Kelly and they spend some time trying to learn how to synchronize their magic. He notices that she now seems to have quite a following, most of whom refer to her as “godess.”

The next day Arashi goes around to inspect the trees on Kimi’s property, while conversing with one of the trees a voice from behind him corrects his pronounciation on one of the tree language words. He turns to see the Sadakadishian woman that he had the altercation with the other night and has been having the dreams about. He turns to see her and before they can stop themselves they are in each others arms.

Kaden is sleeping in the back room and after pulling all night guard duty, he hears a noise outside, cauciously opening the shutters he sees Arashii and the woman rolling around in the dirt ripping off each others clothes and biting each other while making love. Kaden goes around to the main room and tells Kimi and Violet what he saw. Kimi and Kaden go outside so get a better look at whats goin on, when they come around the corner the woman turns into a bird and flies away. Arashi had no idea what come over him, he goes into the house to clean up.

Grevin comes back from the Kennises house, Kimi notices that there is a silver streak in his beard