[Winter, then Aprilis 11 to Maius 7 – Winter downtime activities and then back to the ruins.]
[This game uses Adventures in the Green, a RPG based on the original rules for the world’s most popular roleplaying game. These rules are under development with Draft C available here. Game sessions happen an average of once a month. This is Part 1 of the session that happened August 14, 2021.]
Biggz’z Troop, CAC (Chartered Adventuring Company):
Biggz Bigguns of the Big’uns Clan – gender neutral goblin Family Priest (6th level Cleric)
Tiny – male minotaur Swashbuckler (6th level Fighter)
Porkins – male human Conjuror (6th level Magic-User)
Pio Vento of Piccolo – male human Veteran (1st level Fighter)
Mannin Darkshield – male dwarf Robber (4th level Thief)
Kunigunde Gruber – NPC female goblin Footpad/Petitioner (4th level Thief/3rd level Cleric)
Hirelings:
Larn the Linkboy – male human hireling linkboy
Isidoros of Delphis – male Tolk hireling translator [specifically, German to Mü]
Deniska – female human hireling Veteran bodyguard (1st level Fighter) [for Larn]
Ivan – male human hireling bodyguard [for Larn]
Bernagi – male human hireling bodyguard [for Isidoros]
Hardkira – male human hireling bodyguard [for Isidoros]
Winter
Freysday, Januarius 6, 523rd year of the Empire
Winter storms arrived. For the next 13 weeks winter storms regularly blow through the Empire, restricting travel. Rivers freeze over, deep snow makes land travel difficult, and only stored foods are available. Everyone settled in to wait until the spring thaw.
Mannin gave his monthly tithe to the Syndicate he belongs to at a local office in Grossestadt.
[Entire party pays 1% of Experience Point total for monthly support and upkeep per the rules.]
Week of Januarius 9, 523rd year of the Empire
Porkins finished learning Lightning Bolt from his spellbook. He purchased scrolls of Infravision and Explosive Runes from Isen’s shop in Smolberg.
Week of Januarius 16, 523rd year of the Empire
Porkins copied Infravision from a scroll to his spellbook and started learning Infravision from his spell book.
Week of Januarius 30, 523rd year of the Empire
Porkins finished learning Infravision from his spell book.
Mannin gave his monthly tithe to the Syndicate he belongs to at a local office in Grossestadt.
[Entire party pays 1% of Experience Point total for monthly support and upkeep per the rules.]
Week of Februarius 6, 523rd year of the Empire
Porkins copied Explosive Runes from a scroll to his spellbook and started learning Explosive Runes from his spell book.
Week of Februarius 20, 523rd year of the Empire
Porkins finished learning Explosive Runes from his spell book.
Tiny, after drinking heavily with some templars the previous night, awakened to find that Demonthumper is no longer in his possession. He has no memory of where it went and spent a couple days looking for it before learning he gifted it to a templar who has since left the city. [The +5 Holy Avenger sword chose a new owner and manipulated Tiny into giving it to a “more worthy person” once he was blackout drunk.]
Week of Februarius 27, 523rd year of the Empire
Porkins started researching a new spell.
Mannin gave his monthly tithe to the Syndicate he belongs to at a local office in Grossestadt.
[Entire party pays 1% of Experience Point total for monthly support and upkeep per the rules.]
Magusday, Martius 1, 524th year of the Empire
Start of the new year in the Empire.
Week of Martius 6, 524th year of the Empire
Porkins finishes research of Porkins’ Mystical Missive. This spell is 2nd level and allows him to send a short [25 word] message to a person up to miles away [10 miles +1 mile per caster level] and receive a similarly short response.
Freysday, Martius 10, 524th year of the Empire
Porkins visited with Isen at Isen’s shop in Smolberg. Porkins explained the spell he had created and discussed options to sell it through Isen’s contacts with profits split between them. Porkins also sold off one of the cultist spellbooks and two scrolls [Read Languages and Shield] to Isen, getting 700 gc and the supplies to scribe some scrolls for Isen to sell and a copy of the new spell for Isen to evaluate.
Week of Martius 13, 524th year of the Empire
Porkins scribed a scroll of [a first level spell] for Isen.
Week of Martius 20, 524th year of the Empire
Porkins scribed a scroll of [a different first level spell] for Isen.
Week of Martius 27, 524th year of the Empire
Porkins started scribing a scroll of Porkins’ Mystical Missive for Isen.
Week of Aprilis 3, 524th year of the Empire
Porkins finished scribing a scroll of Porkins’ Mystical Missive for Isen.
Pio Vento of Piccolo arrived in Grossestadt. He tracked down Biggz Bigguns, who wrote the letter to his family announcing the death of the youngest son, Torino Vento [Tor Wind’s actual name, before he Germanized it], due to misadventure. Pio was there to claim Torino’s property [and valuables] and to learn the details of his younger brother’s death.
Once he heard the tale, Pio was satisfied - it sounded exactly like something his brother would die from. Pio fit in well with the other members of the group, at one point challenging Tiny to arm wrestling. When Biggz asked if he was interested, Pio signed on with the Troop.
The next day Biggz and Pio went to the appropriate government offices to register Pio’s inheritance [and pay the appropriate taxes] and update the charter information on Biggz’z Troop. A celebration was held that night, honoring Tor’s passing and Pio joining the Troop.
[Entire party pays 1% of Experience Point total for monthly support and upkeep per the rules.]
Week of Aprilis 10, 524th year of the Empire
Using an introduction provided by Isen, Porkins started a correspondence with Matthias, Count Eberstein-Smolberg. Count Mattias is interested in having a court wizard of his own, but cannot afford much [which was typical of the majority of gentry in the Holy Roman Empire], so discussions were polite and social, allowing Porkins to pursue this further. Porkins reset his expectations of research funding to a regular but modest stipend and political access.
Hernesday, Aprilis 11, 524th year of the Empire
The Wasser was clear enough of ice for river traffic to resume. Biggz arranged for transport for the troop back to Smolberg to pick up Porkins before returning to Stralbruck. Larn and his bodyguards, Deniska and Ivan, are put back on the payroll.
Week of Aprilis 17, 524th year of the Empire
Porkins learns Charm Person from the remaining cultist spellbook, copying the spell to his own spellbook in the process.
Cromsday, Aprilis 20, 524th year of the Empire
Biggz and the Troop arrived in Smolberg. Porkins joined them and they returned to the river, travelling to Stralbruck.
Week of Aprilis 24, 524th year of the Empire
While traveling by boat, Porkins learned Detect Invisible from a scroll, copying the spell to his own spellbook in the process.
Cromsday, Maius 4, 524th year of the Empire
Biggz and the Troop arrived in Wittingen, the tiny village on the Wasser that is the nearest dock to Stralbruck. Biggz arranged for sleeping space for the Troop.
[Entire party pays 1% of Experience Point total for monthly support and upkeep per the rules.]
Freysday, Maius 5, 524th year of the Empire
Biggz and the Troop started walking to Stralbruk, stopping at the end of the day at the travel inn.
Yggsday, Maius 6, 524th year of the Empire
Biggz and the Troop continued walking to Stralbruk, stopping at the end of the day at the travel inn.
Sunday, Maius 7, 524th year of the Empire
Noon
Biggz and the Troop arrived at Stralbruk. Biggz quickly checked in with Lord Helmar, who was clearly pleased to see the adventurers had returned. He informed Biggz that no further disappearances had happened since the adventurers left before the winter storms. Biggz explained the troop would finish clearing the ruins next and report back once that was done. Lord Helmar told Biggz the promised payment would await their return.
Porkins bought some torches while Biggz talked to Lord Helmar. Shortly after, the adventurers headed out of the village to the ruins.
Shortly after 1:00
The Troop arrived at the ruins. They spent the first hour verifying the buildings were still empty [they were].
2:00
Satisfied the site was clear, the Troop investigated the debris-filled stairs down they had discovered in the gnole barracks building. They started digging and clearing debris with what tools they had at hand.
4:00
After two hours of hard work and little to show for it, they learned they needed proper tools and professional diggers. They gathered up their stuff and walked back to Stralbruck to look for both.
End of Part 1
Behind the Green
[Biggz sent a letter to Tor’s family early in Januarius via Griffin Mail as it was the only mail moving during the winter storms. It arrived in the tiny village of Piccolo two weeks later, the Italian peninsula having better weather than the parts of the Holy Roman Empire north of the Alps. Once Tor’s family realized the letter was about Torino, they mourned his death. Pio, now the youngest of the three brothers was nominated to go north and claim whatever Torino had bequeathed to the family. Pio booked passage on ships sailing around Europe to the North Sea and then took whatever means of travel he could find to get to Grossestadt 9 weeks after setting out.]
[I’ve also changed the spelling of Ianuarius to Januarius to make things easier for me. Otherwise I’m still using the Roman calendar for the campaign, hence the new year starting Martius 1.]
Biggz’z Troop, CAC
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[UPDATE: Added day names where a single date is listed (as opposed to a week).]
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