Session Twenty-Five

"The Rakshasa Horror Picture Show"

Intro : After arriving in Kalsgard, trailing the head of a dead linnorm behind them, the Party was introduced to the Linnorm King of the Thanelands – Sveinn Blood-Eagle – and informed about meaning of slaying a linnorm in this region. After the plans for a Jarlsmoot – a meeting of Linnorm Kings – were made, the Party spent time recuperating and resupplying in the city while investigating more about the process of becoming a Linnorm King. It seems that Sprig will have to recount the tale of the battle with the linnorm, and give a display of prowess for the current Linnorm Kings, hoping throughout that no one throws an axe in challenge.

Meanwhile, the Party also discovered that their enemies – Simon Averath and his followers – have already gotten hold of the Songs of Shazathared by intervening in a fight between members of the Pathfinder Society and vampires from the Midnight Assembly, before heading east into the neighboring country of Irrisen. After questioning a lone vampire held captive in Kalsgard, the Party learned that not only is the Midnight Assembly a third party in Simon’s pursuit to free Urgathoa, but that the vampires may have insider knowledge; some of directs the Party to the nation of Galt.

''Will Sprig’s petition to be a Linnorm King succeed? Will the Party travel east into Irrisen in pursuit of Simon and company? Will they head west to investigate Dappler’s Circus, or south following a lead about the Aspis Consortium in Ironrock? Will they remain in the Lands of the Linnorm Kings until the Contest of Kurgess in eleven-days’ time? Will they follow their latest lead to Galt? Let’s find out…''