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C1E10 - Fort Harrow

In-world date: 7 Emberfall 1047 AK
Seed: C01-E010-1

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Summary

On 8 Emberfall the party reached Fort Harrow, at the far end of the Lantern Road. At the gate, Corporal Dunn greeted Brannoc as 'Bran Vow' and young Ferrick repeated the sergeant's gossip that he is really an Ironvow, an exile out of Aldhammer; Tamsin changed the subject. Captain Edda Rook heard Brannoc's short report and hired all four at ten crowns a week each to ride the road and find who is buying the cores; Tamsin's haggling got nowhere. That evening Sergeant Holt's patrol brought in a goblin killed trying to open Lantern 52, wearing a black-glass pendant that dims the light around it and is cold like the dead cores.

What happened

  • Oriel, recovered, told Brannoc she was well; he had asked ten times since Wending Mill.
  • At Fort Harrow's gate, Ferrick said Brannoc's real name is Ironvow and that he is an exile out of Aldhammer; Brannoc said nothing and Tamsin changed the subject.
  • Brannoc reported to Captain Rook; Oriel read in Rook's face exhaustion, fear for her soldiers, and that she has been protecting Brannoc.
  • Rook hired the party at ten crowns a week each to ride the road and find who is buying the cores; Tamsin's attempt to haggle failed.
  • Brannoc's overdue dispatches for Lamplighters' Hall went to Ilsevel.
  • Sergeant Holt's patrol brought in a goblin killed while trying to open Lantern 52.
  • The goblin wore a black-glass pendant; Ilsevel found that it dims nearby light and is cold like the dead cores.

Chapters

  • 0:00 The Gate
  • 2:16 Report. Short Version.
  • 4:26 Black Glass

Rolls on screen

  • Oriel - Insight (DC 13): rolled 12 + 5 = 17 - success (r0000)
  • Tamsin - Persuasion (DC 18): rolled 3 + 3 = 6 - failure (r0001)
  • Ilsevel - Arcana (DC 13): rolled 9 + 5 = 14 - success (r0002)
Full roll log | Roll | Who | For | Dice | Total | Against | Result | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | `r0000` | Oriel | Read a veteran officer who has spent twenty years not letting her face | 1d20 [12] + 5 | **17** | 13 | success | | `r0001` | Tamsin | Haggle a frontier captain up from ten crowns a week, when her fort is | 1d20 [3] + 3 | **6** | 18 | fail | | `r0002` | Ilsevel | Make sense of an unknown piece of black glass by lamplight: weight, co | 1d20 [9] + 5 | **14** | 13 | success |

Quotes

Report. Short version.
- Captain Edda Rook

Ten crowns a week, each of you. Ride the road. Find out who's buying those cores. Short version: I need you.
- Captain Edda Rook

Ten is a lovely number. I've always said so.
- Tamsin

It is drinking the light. And it is cold. Cold the way the dead cores were cold.
- Ilsevel

I have never read of anything like it. Not in any book. Not once.
- Ilsevel

People and places

Captain Edda Rook, Corporal Dunn, Ferrick, Sergeant Holt, Fort Harrow