Session #84: The Lost Colony of the Nomoriah

 A year has passed since the cleansing of the Sixth House in the Great Spire of the Attine Klackons. At that time, one of the boons claimed by Durham of the Ringing Anvil was a tapestry-and-khipu "map" that seemed to suggest the location of a wondrous magical item, the Glorious Cloak of Eyes.

Well, a year was long enough for Durham to hold onto that map, and he recently decided to gather his friends together for an expedition into the caves of the Tel al Safina to attempt to follow the route described by the khipu-account--the Katabasis of Qatax the Blind. Having gathered the company together at his Ringing Anvil, he described the proposed adventure.

Bartholomew Pettibone, hearing the Klackon-focused object of the expedition, suggested hiring a Klackon interpreter, and was able to win the interest of Li-Rey, a dore philosopher of the Xholda Klackons who dwell in the city of Cothon itself. Meanwhile, sensing that the party was in need of a little extra muscle, Durham went to the Arwah al Safina and hired the solid Bulrathi bodyguard Kogus.

So mustered, the company went out by the Gate of Mourners and around the great slopes of the Tel ...

• Durham (fighting-man 8)
  accompanied by Pako (renyu) and Kogus (Bulrathi 1)
• Bartholomew Pettibone (magic-user 8)
  accompanied by Gan ad-Din (fighting-man 6) and Li-Rey (Klackon philosopher)
• Heijo (magic-user 6)
• Avin (magic-user 5)

Wait, was that Avin who accompanied the party venturing forth? The girl certainly seemed a fetching image of the once-tall and proud spellcasting warrior--and yet, for all their resemblance, she was only a girl, not the tall woman who once adventured regularly with the Survivors. Strange things are afoot, within and without the cities.

Well, the company returned, Kogus looking much worse for wear and muttering to himself strange things about fire and burning everything down. But for all that--the company returned well-laden with lucre and wondrous things! Durham was wearing a wondrous cloak--of many eyes!--and there was a beautifully crafted halberd, and gems and ancient Klackon cash galore. It'll be a fine day of counting back at the Ringing Anvil, much helped by pails of beer and mold-beer delivered from Cothon-Under-Star ...

The Lucre

• 24 spits of iron and 40 smaller spits of bronze, worked with a little art to resemble knotted khipu-strands; Gan ad-Din can use a downtime to sell them to the Klackon antiquarian Chiriqtai for 4400 dinars (gp)
• 
  15,000 electrum nufdinars (ep) of Tsurrian mint, holes punched through their middles and strung into cash-strings of 1000 each; electrum pieces are valued at half a dinar (2ep=1gp)
• 6820 dinars from 24 gems (2@10, 4@50, 6@100, 12@500) -- the scribes imagine that Gan could probably up this with his contacts among the Piedrajoya Guild
• 4 short swords and 2 swords
• a silken cloak, worked with images of eyes of every species
• a well-crafted pollaxe, also worked with the motif of eyes, Klackon eyes in particular
• a slender wand of dark metal, about the length of a forearm, worked with signs like khipu knots
• a metal flask containing a magical potion

The Learning

• 18720 xp from treasure
• 1065 xp from 4 feshenga (250 +hp ea.)
• 6101 xp from 16 fungal Klackons (350 +hp ea.)
• 1339 xp from 5 different fungal Klackons (250 +hp ea.)
• 400 xp to each player-character for being the first to the Lost Colony of the Nomoriah

The Cut

• 1105 dinars (gp) and 2727 nufdinars (ep) to each player-character
  750 dinars to Li-Rey
  550 dinars and 1364 nufdinars to Pako, Gan, and Kogus
• 7206 xp to each player-character
  3603 xp to Gan and Kogus
• 4 short swords and 2 swords
• the Glorious Cloak of Eyes (magic)
• the beautifully crafted pollaxe (magic)
• the wand (magic)
• the potion (magic)