DavesGaming

Today we went off on a monster hunt for Lord Firkraag. He offered us 10000 gold to clear his lands of dangerous monsters, he mostly reported ogres. I’ve talked with ogres before, and thought it might be nice if we just send them packing without too much bloodshed.

We were attacked almost as soon as we crossed into the Windspear Hills by ogres. Or so we thought! As the fight ended a horrified observer asked what was happening here, we were shocked to see knights fallen where we’d slain beasts! I even recognized a young Paladin named Ajantis, we’d met several months back, south of Baldur’s Gate. And Keldorn knew all of these men. The witness quickly introduced himself as Garren Windspear, former lord of these lands, and suggested we’d been duped by illusion. We explained our so-called mission and learned this was a game played by the new lord of the land. Firkraag had played such tricks a couple years back to discredit him and seize control. He’d hired us! This was personal?

Garren offered to ride to Athkatla and clear our names with the Order of the Radiant Heart. He suggested we lay low at his home until he could return with news. During the night, Garren’s teenage son was abducted from the house and we fought the intruders. We found a letter, a challenge to face Firkraag personally. We didn’t have to explore the area long to find the ruins of ancient temple, with plenty of signs of activity. So we entered looking for information. We were attacked by several groups of orcs, undead, even golems. This was a large facility, and we heard the name Firkraag several times. But most of those we encountered just attacked us. After a lot of combat, we had a large fight in a prison area. Garren’s son was here, but the locks were beyond Imoen’s abilities. A large ornate gateway nearby seemed invitation and threat. And hopefully answers. Lord Firkraag is a large, red dragon. Who bears literal scars from having met Gorion many years ago. This was his idea of revenge. He had a powerful mage with a key to the prison cells, but he was going to kill the prisoner if we didn’t kill the mage first. A sick game!

We stopped the mage and freed the boy. And I needed another talk with that dragon.

That got the reaction I was hoping for.

We loaded the Radiant Heart fallen on a wagon and started a sad trek back to Athkatla. I’m hoping the Order will have access to Resurrection spells we do not, perhaps some of them can be brought back? Aerie isn’t very optimistic about it.

We stopped for the night in Trademeet, where we are still welcomed as heroes. That was a fun and encouraging night for us.