Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Game Session 17 - Traveling to Skirgard

The party is now wealthy and have large homes in Trunua. Each of them have become celebrities, with followers and servants. Life is good! But a little boring also...

Trunua now has a number of representatives residing in the town from various parts of Golarion. In which each neighboring country is feeling the sting of the Giants and their massing for assaults on their homelands. Strange people who the party wouldn't expect are now residing in Trunua. A good clan of Ettins are represented, etc.

Then the party is brought in once again to have a meeting with the city council. They notice some people are missing, and new ones are there. They ask the party to help them in a mission to go to Skirgaard. A small outpost that at one time was deserted, but now it seems Giants are there being trained to be party of the large Giant army! All they know is that Frost Giants are training Hill and Cave Giants, who normally hate each other. So they suspect if the party were able to subtly sabotage them, then they will all disperse and the army threat could be removed before it gets too strong.

The party is flown to a peak outside Skirgaard, and told that within a 2 weeks the Gryphons that flew them there will return to pick them up.

As the party is looking over Skirgaard from top of the side of a mountain, a small bird starts talking to them! Crazy I know. The party then learns the small bird is a red dragon that wants their help. He tells them that he is Naximarra and would like their help in getting the Orb of Red Dragonkind. Which has absorbed the life force of his father. He needs their help because if she tries to get close to the orb, it will drain her life energy as well.

The red dragon tells the party that this frost giant village serves as a training camp, led by a frost giant graveknight who issues orders from within her icy crypt. Suggesting that guerrilla tactics can be used to weaken the army of giants and disband the camp.

The red dragon seeks to infiltrate the village for her own purposes.

The party then travels down to the lower farmlands that are being used to produce food for the Giants. They burn the crops and then kill 3 patrols of scouts.

They then ruin a statue of a Giant God as well.

They have about 17 more days of Endure Elements potions to use.