Announcement- Quick Summaries

Hello all Chronicle readers...

As of recently, I have decided that for the sake of readers who do not have time to read 20 pages of exposition every week, I will be writing "Quick Summary" entries. They will cover the same basic events and dialogue details as my novel-esque writing, but will obviously be much shorter and less time consuming. We writers are still refining how we want to do things, so please bear with us if things get a little repetitive.

Quick Summary No 1:

-Andreas, Azariah, Nobo'ru and Abel leave the Zamunsol enclave headed east. A storm comes from the north, so they divert south off the beaten path to avoid it.

-While off the path, they hear screams and rescue some children

-Combat encounter: Azariah, Andreas and Nobo'ru fight 3 Ruk Shol to try and save the 3rd child while Abel hides the other two. Abel returns to invigorate the beleagured party and the Ruk Shol are then defeated in short order. It is learned that the Ruk Shol will even stop mid-battle to try and feast on incapacitated party members.

-The party returns to where Abel hid the children and finds them gone. The party spends many hours trying to track them down, to exhaustion. The children's remains are found, and the party encamps farther off. Andreas wishes to avenge the children's deaths, and Azariah is willing to go with him, but Nobo'ru's counsel diverts them back to their main quest.

-The party wishes to investigate the source of light they saw while traveling before they found the children. The child proves difficult to deal with, and so they bring him.

-The source of light is discovered to be an Urash tree covered in tarps, and also wreathed in a kind of dangerous, vampiric vine which Azariah identifies as a Dewfrond. A man in the tree, Bacouth, sends the adventurers on a mission to get more tarps to cover up the places he has failed to conceal where the light shines out. He says that he is there to protect the tree, that he is a Priest of the Stars.

-The adventurers go to the young boy's villiage and acquire the goods they need, using star dust Bacouth gave them as currency. The boy is discovered to have no surviving relatives or guardians. The boy is dropped off with a villiager, "Miss Cindy" who promises to take care of the boy. Andreas promises to come back one day to teach him swordplay if he promises to behave and no longer run off.

-The party returns to Bacouth without incident. It is noted that the storm they had run through several times has in fact not moved, but is situated in a ring around the hill upon which the Urash tree sits. The ground around it has become a swampy mire.

-Other helpers of Bacouth are revealed. One of them only speaks in whispers and appears mad. The party suspects, due to Azariah's insistence that the Dewfrond vine is evil, that it must be destroyed. Bacouth, however, insists that it is a good thing that creates a symbiosis with the Urash tree. It is noted that after the Dewfrond was wounded in the first encounter, that the Urash tree's light weakened.

-The one priest who whispers insists on the vine's evil nature as well, but does not dare challenge Bacouth and the other followers. He is willing to help the party if a conflict should arise, but because of the numerical advantage Bacouth has, he is unwilling to start anything.

-Bacouth suggests that the ruk shol are to blame for the odd storm, and wants the party to hunt them.

-Andreas manages to acquire a sample of the vine by "accidentally" falling into it, drawing it to attack, and then hacking off a piece. Bacouth nearly attacks Andreas for this. The situation is rather tense when the session ends.