SOTDL CAMPAIGN DIARY: SESSION 1 - THE HUNTSMAN’S ISLE, Part 1, 4/16/19

SOTDL CAMPAIGN DIARY: SESSION 1 - THE HUNTSMAN’S ISLE, Part 1, 4/16/19

The Cast: 

• Brother Aron: human priest of the New God
• Perry: halfling hunter
• Nikolai: human veteran
• Calista: Ferren rogue

Having traveled for weeks to escape imperial lands, and having witnessed a horrific, titanic monster emerge from a sinkhole, the refugees find their supplies low and food and water scarce.  But hope rises when they hear the sounds of running water.  As the group head in that direction they are intercepted by two Orcs who mean to slay them all.  They attack fiercely but find the group well protected and the orcs are killed.

The group proceeds to the water sounds  and find a large river with an island in the center of it.  Hoping to find food and shelter they cross a ford and head to the ruins of a keep.  Behind it they spot a circle of stones and burial mounds. 

The group’s protectors enter the keep ruins to see how safe it would be to leave the defenseless members of the group in as they explore the island.  Within they find a ghost haunting the ruins.  Nikolai confronts the spirit who says that he is Baron Stoceca and was the last son of the Stoceca noble family, but died heirless.  His love for his families land keep him here, but his island has been invaded by a monstrous presence.  He bids the group to find the source of the corrruption and free his island of this presence.  In exchange he will show them where his family treasures are hidden.

Nikolai agrees and the ghost agrees to watch over their people.

The group head bring the people in but as they leave the keep they are confronted by the baron’s hunting dogs, horribly mutated into overly muscular mastiffs the attack.  The group manage to kill the beasts and head towards the burial grounds.  There they find the Stoceca family mounds and a strange pool of liquid that beckons them with its sweet odor.  Both Calista and Perry are poisoned as they drink the liquid, and the pool begins bubbling and produces a floating, tentacles monster which attacks them.  They manage to kill the creature and move away from the pool, which they now believe to be a mythical eitr pool, which creates monsters.  Indeed, they find monstrous tracks in the are and must now seek these creatures out and slay them to honor the bargain made with the ghostly baron.  But the must also find a way to rid the island of the eitr pool.

End of session.