CrimsonStar:Annals of the Company

Game: Children of the Crimson Star

The Session log is a collection of notable points and important things that happened in each session. Important in-character happenings should be chronicled on each character's page.

Session 1: (7/15/11)

• Negotiations for meeting room occur, mercenaries set up to help transport goods. Nordmyra eavesdrops.
• Stheno reprimands daughters for shattering an alliance that had been in the works for decades.
• Group sets out to meet a cart at an oasis and escort it in. Cart's contents are a sarcophagus, a pentagram with an elongated point carved into the stone.
• Fight at the oasis, attacked by the "Sons of Set". Attacking Dref bear the symbol of a pentagram with a serpent encircling an elongated point.
• Fight at a waystation outside of the city, attacked by hired assassins bearing a note that read "Beware the Sons of Set."

Session 2: (7/22/11)

• Cart escorted into city without issue, thanks to Alecto's psychic paper.
• Fight in the bad part of town to protect cart and contents. Hargrave and Ka'tho die in battle. Stheno takes custody of cart.
• Little Ouro, Half-giant Monk bodyguard of Per, joins the party, feels he owes it to us in thanks for getting Hargrave killed.
• Megaera recruits the Dwarf Battlemind Harbeck to replace her fallen Thri-kreen fighter.
• Negotiations for the rigging of the fight between Harbeck and the Orestes stables occur.

Session 3: (8/12/11)

• Harbek defeats entirety of Orestes stables without landing a single blow.
• Sfika throws party, everyone is there. Megaera recieves a tattoo as a gift from her mother. Fight arranged between Tisiphone and Harbeck.
• Harbek and Daraek share Daraek's dream, with voices telling him that "The Queen is threatened by the snake." and "Save the Queen."
• Party roused separately ( Daraek - Ouro - Nordmyra | Alecto - Megaera - Harbek ) to go speak to Ka'thrain, a Thri'kreen Doomsayer who has been painting Red Stars all over the rough part of town. He agrees to stay where he is to avoid being bound and carried off to the dungeons. Ka'thrain says to the party "The snake is moving and has awakened the curse of Ryleh. You must stop the snake." When questioned about Ryleh, all he will say is "Ryleh was one of the first prophets."
• Fight with zombies in ruins beneath the city. Some of the undead are bearing a red pentagram (star) with an eye atop the point. Fight with undead boss ends in success and shiny loot.

Session 4: (8/19/11)

• Exiting the ruins, the party encountered men in dark robes, staring at us and asking for "the codex." They performed a ritual so that when they died, a door would open to let in monsters. Stabbed themselves.
• Ouro's old crew were thieves and had stolen some kind of gem. He flashed back to the heist, after bodies of thieves are found and people are sitting at a wake for them. The casket was closed. Nobody was sure how his friends died. The heist was to steal a gem called the "Desert Star." Back at the wake, relatives and friends of thieves are angry at Ouro. The Desert Star eventually went to Stheno.
• Nordmyra's nephew Joey has an apprenticeship with weaponmaker Donner. Joey is now playing around with magic at home. Daraek and Nordmyra go to Donner's workplace needing to speak with him about these events. Joey has been training with swords, but he, Donner, and Donner's other female apprentice Talaysa, are using Nordmyra's style of magic. Harbek saw this entire scene in a dream sequence.
• Daraek and Harbek shared another dream. The scene is crimson red. Three figures speak. "At the crimson star, the songs of Set will break loose." "The rise of Erinyes approaches." "There will be an opening of the doors."
• Megaera has a tea party with Harbek in attendance.
• Lady Sfika, Stheno, Marte, and Lady Tasha - a "party girl" with a Dref manservant who has no tongue
• Megaera is talking to someone nobody else can see. Stheno is quite happy about this.
• Alecto has a meeting with the templars. She does not tell the templar leader that she killed the cultists that opened the monster doors.

Session 5: (8/26/11)

• Meet with Tartaros nobles (Lady Felice and Lord Maro) at Tashia of Mericles' party. Tashia splits up the discussion before it becomes a fight.
• Nordmyra's Niece Hemnessa is on crack, to be sold into slavery at the party. Nordmyra buys her for 200g.
• Fight breaks out at the party while everyone is eating or otherwise occupied, Sister Sarah bursting down the door causes the fights to start.
• Members of the Openers of the Way attack the party, and when the last one falls, they've managed to summon a big brain monster (Megaera and Alecto know it to be an Id Fiend). The monster tears the party apart, but Daraek inspires fortitude and the party vanquishes the monster with no casualties.
• The party bursts in on Tashia and her cronies having sacrificed many people and were in the process of sacrificing Lady Felice of House Tartaros. The party has no choice but to kill them. When things start to take a turn for the worse, a Winged Devil woman steps out of the place where Megaera is standing, and wreaks havoc among the remaining enemies. In the shuffle, Megaera kills Lady Felice with the sacrificial dagger, but lays the blame at the feet of Tashia.

Session 6: (9/9/11)

• Two Merchant houses pledge small favors to the party for saving their nobles at the Mericles party.
• Harbek and Daraek have a bug dream. Thri-kreen need saving. They and Nordmyra go to the Red Tower District ("In the shadow of the Red Tower" according to the dream) They find the Thri-kreen in the actual shadow, and wear them as "backpacks" out of the area, only to be accosted by Megaera, wearing practically nothing, covered in blood, carrying a bag of books. The Red Tower is flashing light out of all of the windows, visible even in the daylight.
• Alecto and Ouro go visit the Praetor about the fight at the party. Learn a lot about the openers of the Way, meet the old Praetor who is not dead, but is host to three different essences. Learn that books have been stolen out of Kalak's library.
• Megaera learns that the summoning she attempted while passed out in The Red Tower would have made her host in actuality to the demon/devil trapped in her tattoo.
• Faceless Assassin attempts to murder the sisters. The party, with much injury, incapacitates the assassin and turns her over to Stheno.
• A red star comes out in the sky, triggering a dream sequence, and crimson star tattoos show up on the bodies of the party, in various places.

Session 7: (9/23/11)

• Nordmyra brings the Thri-kreen to Donner's underground school where Joey is. She agrees with Donner to come once a week to help teach them.
• Donner agrees to shelter the Thri-kreen and teach them to be non-defilers, as well as to do magic without attracting attention of the Templars.
• Harbek finds out that his father is getting married to Bjursteka, a tavern keeper with children named Storneka and Rytek. Harbek receives a key to something in Tyr unknown to the party.
• Meeting with Erinyes occurs. Stheno is annoyed and curious about why Megaera still looks the way she does and didn't give up her soul to her "imaginary friend." Alecto is questioned because she was in the library, and no one can get into the Red Tower. Rogues are running around and Ryleh has taken over.
• It is revealed that House Erinyes has two figureheads: Isthmene and "Her," who is always seen in shadow and whose voice sounds like cold fire.
• Alecto and Megaera are told by the head of house that tehey need to find the "star children" mentioned by Kalak.
• The party attempts to get into the Red Tower, using Ouro's magical eyepiece to look around and see entrances.
• Harbek's key is used to open the tower, and combat begins with a swarm of spiders and an imp, followed by ice monsters.

Session 8: (10/7/11)

• The party enters a very cold room, with demon followers and a huge demon in the back. The demon leader can eat his cultists to gain power.
• The demons are slain. Harbek finds himself the gatekeeper of this part of the Red Tower, and there is a well in the room. He can reshape the room to his liking, and create riddles and passwords for people to enter. The password he chose is, "Harbek is pretty much the best person ever."
• Stheno tells Alecto and Megaera that the house of Värnamo has a marriageable woman, and that the sisters need to prepare their brother, Tisiphone, for going to her coming-out party. The houses of Erinyes and Värnamo could ally and become very strong.
• Alecto goes to a templar meeting. There is a new Mul templar named Jenna Thricecursed. Also, the daughter of the deceased Sister Sara, Sister Sophia.