The Howling Earth 10-12-2023 ### Recap ### Summary * Starting in a Pillagers encampment, we follow the pale skin baba as his supervisor Alec demands him to clean up the 'mine equipment'. * We see Goryn walking through Doberwood, thinking about Flynn, Gloria, the party, the ring. * Caught by surprise Goryn meets the half-orc monk Tonk. * Tonk was sent out to find Ginnyguy, a pale skin child that was captured by the pillagers. * Tonk and Goryn find the pillager camp and decide how to approach. * Sneaking from the side and climbing up the walls the two start an ambush in the camp * Back with Baba who is in the caves of the pillager mines, he is deciding how to deceive his supervisor as the 'mine equipment' is a set of pale skin child slaves. * Suddenly Baba hears sounds of combat outside and uses the distraction to help the children escape. * Goryn and Tonk clear out the camp * Goryn uses a sick trapmaster net & stinking cloud combo * Tonk wears out Alec's rage and defeats him * Baba gets caught off guard by the torturer and defeats him, joining in the combat. * Baba helps Tonk and Goryn defeat the pillagers and escape into the mining tunnels. * The slave children have a story about a mysterious figure helping the children escape, the party tries to find the mysterious figure. * Going deeper into the caves, the party finds ominous tracks * Party needs to protect the children from rock lions * Continuing onwards the party meets with the mysterious hermit called Freylan. * Freylan is a pale skin with the Crystal Voice and aids the party to their hide out * The hide out is filled with refugees fleeing deeprock illness and trying to find the amethyst shores. * Tonk finds Ginnyguy * Baba sees the destruction that the pillagers have caused * Goryn asks Freylan about the cure for deeprock illness and the amethyst shores. * Freylan sends Baba and Goryn to the Elemental Earth Plane to talk to Gork & Mork * Tonk stays behind to return Ginnyguy to his parents. ### NPCs * **Alec.** Pillager supervisor of the mining operation in Doberwood. Direct boss of Baba. He hated Baba due to his ancestry as pale skin, but needed his artificer powers. * **Gaith.** Arcane Captain Gaith. Gave Baba a place to practice his magic without being cast out or hunted, as long as he worked and produced exclusively for the pillagers. * **Freylan.** Pale skin with the crystal voice. Hermit that travels around guiding sick pale skins to the amethyst shores. * **Ginnyguy.** Pale skin child. Son of a cheese maker in Triham. ### Loot [[Goryn Alone (II)|Next Session ->]]