This week, I introduced a foe to the party who was obviously evil and a political opponent in a good position to keep the party from just killing him. Wounded Animal, the featherfolk. In Hodas Featherfolk names are sounds, when introducing themselves or talking about other featherfolk they use those sounds. translating those sounds into words is done for the benefit of people outside of featherfolk culture who cannot mimic sounds. Featherfolk often choose their favorite sound as their name, which paints a hell of a picture for this fella named Wounded Animal who runs an arena where men face off against beasts. Everyone immediately hated him and you'll see in later episodes how deep that hate runs.
The beast in this case was actually an allosaurus the setting's first introduction to the fact that there are dinosaurs running around in the setting. I love dinosaurs. I think I never grew out of that phase of being a little boy. When this setting was being cooked up in wasteland I was constantly thinking about how to integrate dinosaurs into the setting. This armored human and his unknown heraldry introduced mystery and danger that the party just ignored and went on to proudly proclaim that they had killed a dragon, sometimes changing the story to "we have slain a satan" as a joke. The setting took them at their word though, they are called dragon slayers, this allosaurus is the first "dragon" that has been seen in more than 1000 years and it is already creating a mess of rumors through the setting.
Session 3:
The session began with an invite to meet with the featherfolk businessman, Wounded Animal, at his home. The party debated this, discussing his obvious cruel nature with a name like Wounded Animal. Ultimately they met with a goblin in the city named Obedient who tasked them with locating a single large gemstone, any kind, worth at least 100gp.
Deranged met with some dwarf smiths in an attempt to sell an artifact and finds that the dwarven concept of ownership is different from everyone else. This lead to a disagreement between the dwarven smiths and Deranged who got frustrated and challenged them to an arena battle. Ultimately Aerin agreed to represent Deranged and defeated the dwarven champions.
Feeling charged from their winnings the party met with Wounded Animal. The beastmaster charged them with capturing a beast in the nearby village of Sweetwater and bringing it to him for payment.
Arrival in Sweetwater was met with joy, someone was here to defeat the great feathered monster that had been eating its people daily. The party rushed to the lair of the creature and set an ambush. At great risk they ambushed the beast and decided they would not be bringing the creature back to Wounded Animal, he would be too dangerous with such a creature. With the death of the beast the party found the corpse of an armored human in the cave it was making it’s home, not decayed enough to be from the old empire but wearing heraldry none of them recognized. Bringing the beast back to the village the party is heralded as heroes and treated as such. The villagers agreed to make what leather they could from the creature but made no promises and sent the party on their way home with as much of their sweet whisky as they could spare.
On the return trip the party encountered the furies Electra & Max, and the goblins Open, Honest, & Clear. They explained that they were trying to look for a way into the forest of Evernight and invited the party to make camp with them and share stories. In the morning they parted ways, having made friends.
When the party finally returned to Tibault they quickly settled their contract with Wounded Animal, glad to be done working with the twisted little bird. They were also approached by Phedrus who they offered to share their reward from sweet water with, making nice with the minotaur who runs the largest arena in the city.
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