Realms S1E1 New Beginnings

A change in the seas allowed our intrepid adventurers to explore a new continent. When Jeidobii, Torq, Denahi, Burakubuu, Venus, and Farlan journey to their new home city, they encounter a troll chasing a prisoner transport. Who do they save and who do they trust?

Player Characters Present
Jeidobii, Torq, Denahi, Burakabuu, Farlan, Venus

Synopsis
The group awakes after a long and well-deserved rest to find Geir, Farlan, and Irtos have departed. Venus pockets the note left by her brother. Burakubuu defecates twice, cleanly and efficiently, and covers his leavings in foliage. Ready for their journey back to Edayk, the group sets off. Chatting along the way, Jeidobii realizes he met Torq and his family before, as a wanderer years earlier. Torq shares the sad tale of finding his clan slain, his wife and daughter dead among them. Wishing to discuss it no further, Torq changes the subject and the party makes camp for the night.

The group is awoken in the night by a terrible and tremendous roar. An ox-drawn cart barrels into the forest, three men upon it with another man in a cage and giving chase, a giant troll. Our heroes take quick and decisive action to aid the men but to no avail. Jeidobii attempts to heal the fallen men but spinal separations and complete removal of the torso prove to be beyond his capability. Burakubuu meanwhile dashes up the cart and leaps off of the tall cage it holds to land upon the troll’s back. He digs his sickle into its flesh and strikes wildly. The others aid in the effort until finally Venus sends an arrow clean through the troll’s eye, downing it. Burakubuu deftly backflips off of the beast as it falters and falls to the ground, narrowly avoiding being crushed under its weight.

The battle ended, the party searches the bodies for any clues as to the nature of the man held captive in the cage. They approach him and learn his name: Romyn. He is a halfling rogue of questionable proclivities. Uncertain whether to trust him, they keep him in the cage as they travel. Along the journey they get to know him better and, though hesitant, the group comes to a decision to give Romyn a chance and free him shortly before reaching Edayk. He asks that they meet him later at The Cracked Rock. “Ask for Stix,” he tells them. “He’s ... charming.”

The party arrives in Edayk where they are greeted by Dorius, who reluctantly accepts a hug from Buu. He gives them payment for the heads they deliver and takes them to the Full Mast Tavern where his sister has provided them rooms. He leaves them for the night with a promise to rejoin them in the morning. With what time remains of the evening, the party browses the local shops for supplies and find a translator to work on the book they took from the corpse of the orcish mage. They also decide to keep the ox and cart they brought back from the woods, naming their new friend Carl, or Carlox. As the night comes to a close, they make their way to The Cracked Rock to see what Romyn has in store for them.