BRIEFING (Friday April 5th 200B) --------------------------------------- The special forces secondary team were sent to "The Village of Wall" to hunt down a Landshark seen in the barren wastes beyond. It was feared that the landshark would pas sunder the wall terrorizing nearby territories and perhaps undermining the integrity of the southern wall of the kingdom. TRAVEL (Friday April 5th 200B) --------------------------------------- The party encountered a heavily loaded wagon which had broken down on a major trade route. In helping the wagon people get curious since it is VERY heavily loaded. Close inspection reveals it to contain religious artifacts perhaps dug up and smuggled from Terino. Guards are subdued and Merchant kills himself when it becomes evident that party is reading his mind during questioning. Party did learn of a plot by Larkin (Terino 3rd in command) to seed touchstones in other kingdoms. Guard offers to take over, but party takes to Baron. Party then heads to wall. Makes it and spends the night in the village of Wall, ARRIVAL AT VILLAGE OF WALL (Friday April 5th 200B) ------------------------------------------------------- Find out about Raenald being in field. Meet Ichilam (Elvin mage with Golumn Companion) and guard captain, Thanos gives ok for captain to let these armed goons into kingdom. Takes full responsibility, guard captain is very relieved. Party reaches north tower of the Wall. Goblin raid occurred last night. goblin had monks, blues (Psi) and a warrior with a glowing crystal sword that when "thoom" when it hit door. (sonic?) Luckily the door held. Several guards were charmed by the goblin adepts. Party waits for goblin return but the goblins wisely avoid conflict. INTO THE WASTES (Friday April 6th 200B) --------------------------------------- Party divines both weal and woe in the future in plains. Go anyhow but have a hard time finding Raenald. After hours of searching see they missed Raenald's tracks. On backtracking they get attacked by a landshark but Fawes's quick thinking distracts it while the rest of the party disable the beast. Fawes loses his horse but otherwise the group is relatively unharmed. The party soon learns that this was the smaller of a mated pair. (an almost unknown occurrence) Party stays with same strategy but Ribello takes a severe beating when the beast gets past Fawes. Fawes pours healing into Ribello barely keeping him up. Thanos toasts the creature with a virtually constant stream of fire. Tina steals the last "poke". Raenald gets healed. Much to the party's dismay he doesn't shut up. A constant stream of complaints about the world issues forth from his mouth. Several tons of dead meat later he still hasn't shut up. (The party is trying to prepare carcasses for transport) Thanos and Tina make trouble. Trouble appears to be a titan sized construct of wood that has non-negligable spellcasting and VERY significant movement capabilities. Party seems interested in continued life. They flee to the village of Wall Hear of attacks on North Wall. Destruction of north fort and all guards in it. Some large construct and pack of treants apparently tore down the man made fortifications in retribution for party attack. (1000XP deducted from award)