Session 25

PCs (lvl 6): Flynn, Tuarninn, Udo

MR 673 - Erntenir

Realising his family may be in danger, Ulrich leaves the scene to go and check on them, just as Flynn arrives. Tuarninn and Flynn bring Sunny to the barracks, to stuck him in a cell. The other watchmen are unwilling to get involved, and leave the two to their own devices; Udo first deliver Lolly to her home, and then spends the rest of the night plotting with Guido Falck at the Rookery; Ulrich arrives home just in time to secure his family, as a strike team from the Lowhaven torches their house. 

The day after, the PCs face the full corruption of the Watch, and the influence of the Lowhaven clan. Prosperity Lowhaven, the clan's lawyer, arrives at the barracks with a distressed Lolly. The halfling testifies to the innocence of Sunny, and accuses the PCs of unnecessary violence against her fiancee. 

Flynn decides to spring Sunny out of jail, as he does not want him to get free, and bring him to the sewers. Tuarninn buys the docker some time, and ends his performance by resigning from the Watch, leaving Captain Pfeffer to deal with Prosperity.

In the meanwhile, Udo tries to get an audience with General Von Dabernick, but he's met with much resistance from the soldiers at Blackrock Castle. He manages to speak with an envoy from the General, who reminds Udo that his liege must not be connected with the PCs' actions. All he wants is Mercy Lowhaven, and then the PCs will get their reward.

When Flynn is attacked on the streets by thugs interested in collecting the reward put on the party's heads by the Lowhavens, the PCs understand it is time to lay low, and let things calm down for a bit. They decide to leave town for a few days, but they leave a farewell gift for the halflings. They kill Sunny, and they hang him from the city walls with a rat in his mouth, and a message for the Lowhavens: "you are not welcome here".

While Ulrich settles his family out of town, the others travel north-east, following the flight of the ravens that have been visiting Tuarninn of late. After a few days of travel through the forest, they reach an ancient elven cairn, in the middle of a clearing seemingly defiled by the Shadowfell. The PCs make their way inside the cairn, where Tuarninn is confronted by a ghost from his past. In the main room of the tomb, the party faces a monster from the Shadow made of pure sorrow. The creature hits hard, and Tuarninn is knocked unconscious, and forced once again to face his guilt. Teamwork saves the day, as the PCs defeat the monster, and bring Tuarninn out of the cairn alive.

Back in the forest, the two ravens land on Tuarninn's forearms, and they transform into magical black-feathered bracers, a gift from the mysterious Crow Witch.