Shizu&D: The Lions of Atria

Aside 3: "I was in the war too..."

Aug 7, 1216

Ornim and Garland share a bit of their past, talking about the T'Zekk war and paving the way to friendship with mutual respect and understanding.

Session 1: The Train Incident

Aug 7, 1216

Alun Zek and his Son, Helden, die in a violent terrorist attack made by Dimacherus' faction and led by his son. The group survived the fight, one convincingly, killed most of the survivors (including Helden) and made it safely to the edge of the rail.

Session 2: The Rat King

Aug 8, 1216

Spider Wound coerces the group to capture him centaurs. The also coerce a captured elf terrorist to lead them into The Forest to find a centaur camp. That prisoner is killed. They also find a hidden kingdom of rats, kill the intelligent rats and the rat king, fight a normal sized cat, and discover that Werewolves have infected The Forest. Magnus also makes a deal with the devil or something.

Session 3: Heading Back to Camp.

Aug 9, 1216

The group leaves The Forest, Magnus keeping his secrets, and make it back to camp without incident where they find out impromptu games are being held. Mathilde, Garland, and Magnus compete. At the same time some anonymous figure put out a hit on Zarhoh-Ze. Garland decides to take him out to save his own life from a poorly define threat, runs away on horse back, and is then caught. He stabs Ornim, gets stabbed by Mathilde, and gets taken back to camp.

Aside 1: The Natural Bathhouse

Aug 9, 1216

Garland is reborn as Sergio Morricone, going deep undercover for his own safety. He also joins Ornim and Mathilde for a bit of hot water skinny dipping after a hard day of wrestling in the dirt and getting stabbed. Gantz decides to keep watch. Conversation ensues, friendships are made, humor. Garland also crushes on Mathilde.

Aside 2: Mathilde and Garland

Aug 9, 1216

Garland has a drink, well a few, with Mathilde as he pursues her romantically. Nothing happens as Mathilde falls asleep thanks to the drink and the two sleep in the middle of nowhere on the ground.

Session 4: The Corrupted (???) Hero

Period: Aug 10, 1216 to Aug 13, 1216

The party travels to Dimacherus' incredible and amazing Fortress, surviving corrupted wilderness and undead sirens to find a mass of corpses to put down. They then entered the enclosed tower fortress to find psychopomps, a paper golem, Rumble Spellskin, Mariston Silver, and Dimacherus in a Giygas-style room. They beat Dimacherus and Remilia beat the paper golem. They went back with treasure. Magnus also amassed a small number of elf citizens for his rat kingdom.

Downtime and Travel 1

Period: Aug 14, 1216 to Aug 21, 1216

The party spends around 5 days of down time in the camp before spending three days traveling to Atria without the assistance of a train.

Aside 4: The Dragon's Brew

Aug 15, 1216

Gantz decides to thank his new companions with a drink he used to make for "The Gang." Called Dragon's brew, the almost lethal concoction makes Ornim, Mathilde, and Garland wasted very quickly. Then Mathilde and Garland go out to the forest for some painting, and promises, and more crushing.

Aside 6: Magnus Plays with Reality

Aug 15, 1216

Magnus Olympus gathers five (?) incredibly powerful mages together for an incredible plan of his involving demiplanes, masochism, the elves that are his citizens, mindflayers, and the gathering of essence all under the arbitration of a powerful psychopomp. Everything goes off without a hitch and powerful wizards get nubile elf bodies with all their powerful minds and magic.

Aside 5: The Xern Among Orcs

Aug 16, 1216

A wayward camp of Orcs near the Atrian Train Outpost was cleared out by Garland, Mathilde, Ornim, Gantz and a new Militant: Raygar Toten. Together the orcs are killed without incident. Leading the orcs was a disguised Xern, who is captured and sold to Magnus as a slave.

Session 5: Champions of the Militant

Aug 21, 1216

The party returns to Atria to great cheer and meet with the king and the council when an Assassin tries to kill a council member and flesh eating (hellswarm?) hives explode in the crowd. The king is escorted away. Then the party goes to an Arena to fight centaurs and the Oakenshield attack. The centaurs and oaken shield get taken out and the king is escorted away. The party come out on top again. Magnus also fights and beats a lot of sharks.

Aside 7: Mansion Morricone

Aug 21, 1216

Garland invites Mathilde to his home, he invited Ornim to but that guy was busy. They have a meal, a nice drink, and talk. Then fall asleep on a bearskin rug. The next day Mathilde goes to buy puffy shirts.

Session 6: The Swifthands Ultimatum

Aug 22, 1216

The party is tasked with investigating Swifthands, after Mathilde's knowledge points them in that direction, and find themselves trapped. While there Garland gets a chance at a job, tracking down a flying contraption, and they fight their shadows. Werewolves and different adventurers (including Savant) are found. Everything comes to a head as they meet Alarie Swifthands herself and walk away from the mansion with a new lead, Johan Amadeus.

Aside 8: The Spider's Preacher

Aug 22, 1216

After a night in his big new house Garland sets out to make good on another contract, dealing with some thief or something. He comes to the conclusion a lethal injection of lead is the best option and stealthily takes out the preacher from a distance.

Mini 1: Zax, Percival, and Namor

Aug 22, 1216

Ornim has a mini session where he discovers his brother who asks him to kill his slum lord pal Namor. Ornim makes a case to convince Namor to leave without any bloodshed. In the mean time a young knight, Percival, from a fishing village challenges Ornim to a duel. Percival nearly wins since Ornim doesn't have any proficiency with martial melee weapons but is driven away by depravity. Ornim gets groceries to his tenants.

Aside 9: The Satyr and Guard in the Hall of Records

Aug 23, 1216

To be concluded.

Session 7: Dead Nobles and Wererats in the Streets

Aug 23, 1216

The Militants get involved in a small struggle to save Goliath Politician Thalig, who was personally guarded by Najka. During the attack some nobles and Sewer Joe die. Najka then joins the party in investigating Johann Amadeus. Gantz invites a hobo to his home then kills that wererat in front of the party in broad daylight. Mathilde leads an investigation into Stormweary Shipping (a smuggling ring). Raygar takes Amadeus' secret device that hides the Oakenshield.