Time to Start Anew

12 July 2010-

It's been a long time since we ran a "first adventure" that pulled all the characters together, but tonight we started our new fantasy campaign- and almost everyone is playing something they don't usually play: Craig has a lizard man barbarian, Kevin has a half-ogre mage (no, really!), eBill has a human illusionist, eMichael has a dwarf fighter, Jeff has a dwarf gunslinger/engineer (dwarves in our campaign have discovered gunpowder), e/Brian (he's been "phoning it in" a lot lately, so has almost earned himself the "e" prefix) has a human swordsman, and I am planning on running a Drow monk. We're still waiting on final word from Schmitty on his character, but the party will certainly be unusual.

The action started readily enough, with most of our group (sans my Drow and Schmitty's mystery character) hired on to guard a caravan traveling a trade circuit between four remote villages. The first stop-over was a small village called Cavel Fort, known for their dyed blue wool (known locally as "Cavel blue") and their ancient ring-fort in the center of town. There, we got a couple of days to trade with the locals and get to know them a bit before we moved on toward the next town.

About half a day's travel from Cavel Fort, four gryphons dived out of the sky onto our pack horses- killing two of them outright and wounding the other two. While we drove them off or killed them pretty quickly, we're still in a bad position, and the merchants who run the caravan have decided to send us back to town for fresh draft animals. Hopefully, with the local flock (?) of gryphons taken care of, they ought to last longer this time.