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Episode 6: The Howling Mines

Last we left off, our gathering of friends have been traversing northward along the Amber Road, with the distant destination of Zadash, one of the larger cities of the Dwendalian Empire, as your destination. Upon travelling, you passed a caravan, spent an evening amongst trees, where you found a wayward cluster of wandering buffalo-like creatures. You continued northward for a second day, rushed on past sunset to rest in the city of Alfield, a small farming town that’s along the way to Zadash. However, upon noticing that some of the buildings in the eastern side of town began to light up with flame, you began to approach rather rapidly, seeing members of the city, citizens fleeing and screaming and apparently there seemed to be some sort of attack. Upon going into the the town, you realized that a number of these buildings are being set fire by an incursion of gnolls.
You were immediately brought in by the Watchmaster, Bryce, who offered to pay you for each set of gnoll ears that were brought to them, and you jumped into the fray, managed to kill quite a few, many of them still left with their quarry, it seems, which happened to be quite a number of bodies and/or citizens still living, that were dragged off into the ashed and cloud-covered night.
Upon returning, many of you bruised, beaten, and at one point in danger of worse, you were given an evening’s rest at the Feed and Mead Tavern, and were told, if you were interested in pursuing future coin in helping with the current conflict nearing the city, to meet Bryce out by the Broad Barn. You guys all bundled up into a singular room above the floor of the Feed and Mead. You found yourselves exhausted, passed out, and got an evening’s rest.
As you emerge from the tavern you see that the fires have now been reduced to maybe a dozen wide plumes of gray-white smoke on the eastern side of the city. It rises from the ashes and charred wood remains and wood frames where it appears some buildings used to be. It seemed much more dangerous and chaotic last evening, but looking at it now in the day, you can see it’s no more than maybe a dozen buildings or so that were affected. They were just more centralized to cause the most chaos suddenly at that time of night.
You get the sense, as soon as you look around, that the folks of the city are on edge, understandably so. You see the people are trying to pick up their lives and move on in the face of what recently occurred. The very air just kind of holds this tension as you look around you. People walk past you with sacks of grain and tools, their eyes wide, darting around for unseen danger and glancing past the two tieflings, immediately, instinctually step back a bit and make a with berth. You watch children run from doorway to doorway, trying to stay out of the street as long as possible. It seems like it’s trying to carry on, but it’s going to be a process. Some folks are rummaging through the remains of the respective buildings.
You glance over near where the central portion of your conflict last night took place, where the Candleglow Tavern is, and there you see, amongst the smoldering rubble of the inn, a single halfling man sifts through the wreckage, a crownsguard helping him lift heavier beams. You see as he plucks what he can of his former life from the rubble.


Previous Episode “The Open Road”

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    “Wooden shaft…” - Sam Riegel

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    Sudden whistling

    Props

    “The Signal”

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    Highlights

    • 00:19:03 Travis takes initiative:“We go downstairs.”
    • 00:26:48 Matt/Thadeus Candleglow:“Oh, this hasn’t happened as long as I’ve been here, and I’ve been here most of my life here in Alfield.
      (Laura loses it at this point)
      You hear about these things wandering on the outside, and you know crownsguard keeps us safe. Anything comes too close, they just shoot them in the face with a bunch of arrows and shit, but…”
      Laura:“I love him so much.”
    • 00:32:08 Travis:“Did you just out-talk Jester?”
    • 00:33:05 Jester:“Here. It’s a moldy donut. Be well, child, the Traveler is with you.”
      Thadeus:“I’m not a child, but I appreciate the gesture.”
      Jester:“You know my name!”
      Thadeus:“Gesture. Her name’s Gesture.”
      Taliesin:“It is a gesture, like Prince.”
      Matt:“The adventurer formerly known as Jester.”
    • 00:54:13 Jester:(to Watchmaster Bryce)“Have fun dealing with the dick.”(referring to Starosta)
    • 00:56:56 Caleb and Fjord have a macho exchange.
    • 01:05:47 Nott:“Okay. How much for all this shit?”
    • 01:29:25 The Fjord Expedition
    • 01:32:13 Everyone suddenly breaks out in bad whistling attempts.
    • 01:42:26 Fjord compliments the team on efficiently eliminating a patrol on the way to the enemy gnoll base.
    • 02:01:24 Infernal:“You will feed the dogs in hell.”
    • 02:02:09 Marisha notices the “tray trick” that Laura taught Sam last episode. Mind blown.
    • 02:06:33 Sam:“Wooden shafts
    • 02:12:02 Laura catches a flying pencil one-handed
    • 02:14:32 Laura:(drunk imitation)“You don’t know.”
    • 02:18:41 Nott the Best Detective Agency and The Case of the Double Reverse.
    • 02:38:35 Liam nauseates Marisha with an impressive reproduction of the sound of vomiting.
    • 02:47:36 Caleb:“AoE? Surprise round? What are you talking about?”
      Taliesin:“Be helpful!”
    • 03:15:58 Matt:“I’ll allow it.” Celebrity Death Match Referee
    • 03:27:37 Nott:“Hey you! If you spend all day in a well, well that’s a day well spent!” (casts Hideous Laughter)
    • 03:32:42 Beau suffers a harsh blow to her funny bone after missing a ‘People’s Elbow’ on a prone gnoll.
    • 03:35:00 Gnoll channelling the spirit of Jackie Chan cannot be hit while lying on the ground.
    • 03:36:19 Nott gets the “How Do You Want To Do This?
    • 03:47:40 Fjord Explorers or Fjord Escapes?
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    Thadeus Candleglow

    “I love him so much.” - Laura Bailey