--- title: "2024-01-24" type: Session created: 2025-12-22 00:34:17 modified: 2025-12-26 19:17:25 --- # 2024-01-24 * Heading to [[[[5aa11353-d0ab-4616-9527-a77543e0b0ff|Kastor]]]] * Known to have a [[[[5aa11353-d0ab-4616-9527-a77543e0b0ff|Kastor]]#^0cce5e|Bell Tower]] that is an ancient artifact, possibly even predating Symbaroum * 3 days & 2 nights travel from [[[[a35f7e62-fc1c-4b9a-ad8d-eae0a6ccfcce|Thistlehold]]]] * Night 1 * Relaxing and enjoying our means - hired a low-level adventuring party to act as guards * Don’t have to be on watch. They’re less experienced so they’re more for show than anything else * Travelled road, not densely but they’re there * Others group around our cook fire and casual talk ensues * Somebody tells a story about “The Dragon and the Bell” as an old * Cautionary tale, The Dragon the Bell, and the Chieftain * Bell was once forged by Symbaran dwarves * Dragon, witch, chieftain * Chieftain founded a mine * Dragon * Witch recalled a bell that could repel monsters * Dragon was slain, chieftain died, which put bell in the tower. Axe mounted in the longhouse * {Question: Is the chieftain named [[0c0dc6c2-8ab5-4d81-b961-6324a1493d51|Ksandukha]] Ksandukha?} * Rumors * Somebody hiring lots of workers * Blue-cloaked people in town (mercenary group - [[[[d8a9b812-57c1-4d67-bb0f-8f21c540e62b|The Blue Company]]]], notorious sellswords) * Mostly keeping to themselves * Crime - it’s okay, but keep an eye on purse, use common sense * Sometime in the past 1-3 years, there’s a rumor of a witch burning at a village near [[[[5aa11353-d0ab-4616-9527-a77543e0b0ff|Kastor]]]] * In the far past, people worshipped more gods than just [[b600565f-0387-4584-8a5f-a820d2d57e93|Prios]]. Some activity of this has centered in [[[[5aa11353-d0ab-4616-9527-a77543e0b0ff|Kastor]]]] * There is a small village ([[[[8febf028-2ce1-498b-8637-6c64c4cf99c7|Olmstead]]]]) about 1 day’s time from where they are, can find some lodging * Next morning * Day goes uneventfully. Late summer, toasty smell of grasses & earth as the sun heats the land * Come upon [[[[8febf028-2ce1-498b-8637-6c64c4cf99c7|Olmstead]]]] at twilight * Don’t see any evidence of cookfires or lights * [[[[36ea84ad-46a6-4c03-96dd-487de79bdfcd|Fera]]]] tried to follow, * [[[[8febf028-2ce1-498b-8637-6c64c4cf99c7|Olmstead]]]] * [[Illgoblins]] - pretty nasty!