Session 2: The Town

Once a great Dwarven town it was only a few months old. It was a very small town but advanced,
with running water, warm and cool. The water comes from hot spring up on the hill, the warm
water pipe is insulated, and continuously running, the cool water has a large reservoir that allows it
to cool.

As they enter the town, it's abandoned, many of the stone structures have been destroyed or are in
ruins or possibly never finished, there is an eerie quiet. There is the faint sound of water running.
It's a fountain in the Center Square.

There is a cave in the foot hills, it goes in a long way and on the other end is a valley of green grass
The cave is a teleport, a natural phenomena, caused by the unnatural amount of magic effecting the
world. There are strings of magic running around / through the planet that if you find one you can
travel great distances. Finding them is difficult

When the winged cat guardian kills it’s pray, it brings it back near the circle, so that the master can
see what has trespassed here. Each night the Ghosts skeletons of the dwarfs roam around, to put
them to rest, The part will have to find the tunnel, travel to the other valley, find the piles of the
dwarf bones, remove the rings and smash them. The dwarfs will be put to rest.

Props:
- Old Build map of town, with defensive notes added on it in a hurry
- Journal week by week. Note about the Black stone that were found as they approached them
- Writhing on wall. Cat with wings
- Black ring
- Ruined buildings
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Week one
We arrived at Glorytown. It’s amazing how in a
year’s time all the plumbing has been laid.
Grothron the Wise has been a great help to us.
I heard of the stories, and back in our town we
had running water in to a few houses, but this
is amazing warm and cool running water. They
apparently have found a hot spring on top of
the mountain, and ran a large insulated line
from it. Then they built a large cooling pool up
there and ran another line from the cool water.
I haven’t seen it but I will have to go up and
take a look. The pipes are carved from granite
in two halves, and lined with Cyprus.
Not a single structure built, yet all the water
piping is run and streets are in place. We have
a lot of work to do. My family has gotten most
of our tools unpacked. We are Master Carvers.
We have been brought here to the more
delicate for the buildings but no buildings are
even built. Looks like we’ll have some spare
time on our hands.
Week two
We had orders to start on a water fountain in
the center of town, but it looks like I was
wrong, in 4 days a flat went from dirt, to
foundation, to first floor. It is true that all of
the best of the best craftsmen were brought
here to do this work.

Week three
Grothron the Wise wasn’t here when we
arrived, apparently he was away for some
time. I have noticed all the other workers, the
don’t sleep much, They are truly dedicated to
making the perfect dwarvern city.

Week four:
Grothron the Wise was here, he stopped in,
went over the plans, and checked on supplies.
He met with us, said he would have presents
for my family the next time he returned.
Week five:
I found out something a little strange, the other
workers don’t eat due to necessity, they eat
because, well…, they used to eat at this time,
strange they are never hungry, just stop to
have a snack because they were used to
stopping.

Week six:
I have noticed that all the other workers are
wearing rings a strange ring, it looks like it’s
made out of black glass. They said Grothron
gave them the rings in order to Assist them in
building. From what I can gather, The longer
they wear the rings, the less they have to
sleep, the less they have to eat, and the
stronger they get. They say when they are
wearing it, their minds feel clearer then they
have ever been.
Week Seven:
Grothron returned, and gave a box of 27 rings,
for the 27 members of my family. I didn’t want
to seam ungrateful so I put it on. I never
expected what the others said was this good. I
can think clearer, I can remember everything in
the littlest detail, I haven’t looked at the plans
for this house for 5 days, and I can remember it
as if I had just looked at them, as if I was the
one who drafted them. It’s amazingly
refreshing.

Week Eight:
This is great, I never get thirsty, I’m always
refreshed, I do sleep 4 hours a night, but feel
fully refreshed all day long. We are
progressing our work so quickly. We will surly
receive a bonus for this work.

Week nine:
I removed the ring the other day, boy was I
tired after only a couple hours of work, I forgot
what it was like to feel exhausted. At the end
of the day, I was starving, and tired, I thought I
would sleep till noon. I put the ring on that
night and after 4 hours I woke up, and was
totally refreshed.

Week ten:
Today my brother and I lifted a 2000 pound
block of Marble by our selves, we didn’t need
to winch it into place, I tell you these rings are
great. Grothron returned, he only stayed the
night, said he had to plant some seeds before
they went bad.

Week 11:
We have 8 houses mostly built, and Three are
competed. We had the Dwarven new year, and
so we didn’t work today. I couldn’t sit still, so I
went exploring, and found the strangest thing.
This mountain that we are at the base of
continues on for miles, but I found this cave,
that and 500 feet in it opens up to a large
green field. This is strange, there should be
mountain there, dirt and rocks, not a big open
field.
Week 12:
I have been going and exploring the large field
though the cave, all this week, I have found the
strangest thing. There are stones set in a
circle, the stone look like they are made of the
same black glass as our rings.

Week 13: Something followed me back from

that green clearing I saw it following me in the
woods, It was watching me. I couldn’t get a
good look at it I think it’s just shy. If I see it
tonight I will approach it, and see what it
wants, I speek 13 languages now, learned
them in the past couple weeks, It has to speak
one of them.
Drawing on the wall d
You recognize this drawing. You remember the creature from another realm that you passed
thought a long time ago, perhaps in another life. These Winged cats stand about 5 feet tall. They
are a protector, a guardian. They hunt their pray at night. They wait, trying to never be seen, and if
they are seen they go away for days, only to reappear when you least expected. They lie and wait,
and only attack single people. They are very patient waiting weeks even months before attacking.
These are very fierce one on one, but when presented with multiple opponents they will run away
with speeds beyond belief. From your experience they only attack at night. Also from your
experience even if you see one, there never is just one, there is always more. When one of these is
around, you should always travel in pairs.
Ruins in the forest t

You get a strange feeling when entering this area, a feeling of unrest. There is much that went
wrong here, and much that has not yet been laid to rest. Perhaps some investigation will bring to
light what happened here, and perhaps something can be done.

Ruins in the forest j

You get a strange feeling when entering this area, a feeling of unrest. There is much that went
wrong here, and much that has not yet been laid to rest. Perhaps some investigation will bring to
light what happened here, and perhaps something can be done.

Ruins in the forest d

When you look about this area, you get a sense that something unnatural still leaks here. You are
also getting close to some sort of disturbance in nature, you can’t pin point it, but somewhere,
maybe a mile away, there is something tied to this place, perhaps more investigation here will
prove fruitful.

Drawing on the wall s

Historical: You came across an ancient text dealing with these once. You misunderstood or
translated it wrong. You summoned one of these as a guard for you. It ran off, you figured;
disappeared. And then the next, and every morning you would find a pile of corpses at your bed
side, it didn’t distinguish between friend of foe, In a weeks time it had killed 200 people. You
finally figured out that any one who came near you, would be killed the next night by this thing.
And it took down some that you wouldn’t square up against unless you had the drop. You finally
figured out. This was the summertime, It continued until the late autumn, and a fire was necessary
to keep the chill off. For 2 months you had a standing order that no one come near you, Food and
other necessities were left outside your door in an anti-chamber. You started a fire, and there was a
loud crack, the figure of the creature transparent in the flames, and died. You don’t know what you
had done but, you do know this thing can not be killed by any normal means.
At Cave b
You can see small particles of magic floating / radiating out of the cave, they are very sparse, and if
you try to focus on one, it disappears, you can only see it in your peripheral vision.

Cave b
As you go deeper into the cave you get a strange sensation in your head, a warming sensation.
(any spells you have cast today are returned to you)

At Cave d
There is something unnatural about the air in the cave. This cave is definitely leads to the source of
something unnatural.

Cave exit s
There are strings of magic running around / through the planet . These strings were formed as a
result a byproduct of all the ancient magic that effect this planet. Finding them you thought was
impossible, but now you know that it is nearly impossible, from what you have learned they allow
you to travel great distanced with out moving.
You have heard of these things but have never seen one.
Ruins in the forest (nighttime)
You see ghostly figures of skeletons.

Black Rings t
Looking at the black rings you get a feeling of uneasiness… You don’t know where this feeling is
coming from… is this fear? You question your self where is the feeling coming from, but you don’t
know. There is something wrong with these rings, and the utmost caution must be taken.

Black Rings s
These are not to be toyed with, if you approach these with out their makers knowledge, someone or
all of you will certainly die.

Black Rings b
You have seen this before, something in the back of your head tells you, under no circumstances
should you approach these black rings with out knowing how to defeat their defenses.
Approaching these rings without addition knowledge is certain death. This is magic that is not
to be toyed with!

Black Rings j
Looking at the black rings you get a feeling of uneasiness… You don’t know where this feeling is
coming from… There is something wrong with these rings, and the utmost caution must be taken.