Students of Life & Death #2

Watering the Murder Tree

06/28/2022

  • The Students continued speaking with Jasmine who informed them a group known as the Saffron Society in Trine had all but taken over the criminal underworld

    • Jasmine also said she once worked a job with the Society and it landed her in prison, of which she only recently was released

  • The group said goodbye to Jasmine who claimed she owed them a favor for saving her skin against the wolves

  • Later that day, a red glow lit the skies, like blood creeping toward the horizon to the northeast. A bitter wind kicked up and a fell voice spoke an indiscernible language amongst roiling black clouds. Then, just as quickly as it began, the world returned to normal.

  • Farther down the road the group made camp with a Goliath man named Bartholomew, who rode a donkey far too small for him, also named Bartholomew

    • Bartholomew informed the group he was on his way to Trine to pursue a career in Jetsam -- when Val informed him her brother was a pro Jetsam player, she agreed to make an introduction when she arrived in Trine

  • The group heard from Jasmine the town of Venture Ridge up the road was having a "witch" problem, and were bent on swinging swords first and asking questions later to any new arrivals -- in light of this, the group decided to give the town a wide berth

  • After passing the town, one of the individuals they noticed flying above Venture Ridge on gliders crashed next to the party

  • The group revived the woman who crashed and scared off a large Raven familiar who seemingly had caused the glider crash in the first place

  • When the Halfling woman awoke, she informed the group her name was Mimi Ferrell, and her, and the rest of Venture Ridge, were adrenaline junkies

    • She also said there had been trouble in the town with an evil presence

    • She also informed the group about a sport played in Venture Ridge called Stick and Stones, where people beat each other with sticks and stones.

  • Mimi left and the group decided to leave Venture Ridge alone and pushed on, arriving in the city of Trine

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