Violence averted by adventurers

Violence averted Tuesday night as a team of adventurers facilitate sleuthing the info from a Rook about the Ice Giants. Synopsis by TownCrier Correspondent Lylia.

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Category: Towns
Topic: Wehnimer’s Landing

Date: 06/22/2016 02:08 AM CDT

From: UBERWENCH

Subj: War Averted (for Now)

Just wanted to catch everyone up on storyline stuff if they’ve missed any of it:

Three nights ago, the ice giants near Icemule Trace warned that there would be war on the town if someone didn’t get to the bottom of who was taking members of their tribes away. The “white shadows” were taking their people, they said, and they demanded an end to it.

They gave the adventurers three days, and last night was the deadline.

People first talked to Kobrog, the Knave, a towering cyclops who leads the Icewall Bandits. He wasn’t at all happy to hear about it, claiming the region was theirs, not the Rooks’. They weren’t working with the Rooks at all in this, at least according to Kobrog (and if you took a look at this massive guy, you’d at least want to believe him very, very much). In fact, they seemed pretty annoyed at the prospect of unrest among the ice giants.

That’s where matters stood this evening when a group of people from the Landing and Icemule Trace made their way to Olbin Pass to catch a Rook. These Rooks, unlike their Landing counterparts, dressed in white cloaks and moved silently through the snow. We managed to catch one Rook alive, though not without killing about a dozen others, and questioned him. The young and terrified Rook had some interesting things to say about what they were up to in the frozen north:

– The Rooks were capturing ice giants with poisoned darts and shipping them to Jantalar.
– He was promised a good deal of silver for a few weeks’ work catching giants.
– The giants were, he believed, meant as slaves for combat in the fighting pits of Jantalar. He referred to them as going to “the pits,” and when we asked him to clarify, he said “to fight…I think?” He was young and frightened, and it’s not yet certain if that part was accurate.

Despite the pleas from the young Rook to let him go home to the Landing to escape with his sister, the adventurers brought him to meet with and explain to the ice giant chieftain what was happening. Surprisingly (and not without some evident disappointment from the other ice giants), the chieftain was satisfied enough with the answer to forgo a war. Kobrog and the Icewall Bandits were also present at the meeting, and they heard the Rook’s story as well. Kobrog crushed his head like a grape, so that was the end of him.

It was not, however, the end of hostilities. It could be the beginning of new wars, in fact, as Kobrog dispatched some of his marksmen to the Landing to take out the Rooks. Looks like both Icemule and the Landing may be the battlegrounds for some very nasty turf wars soon!

— Lauren, Lylia’s player