Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

It'sScottish D&D Campaign

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Session 0 - 8. 7. 2024

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Session 0⁠

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Session 1 - 22. 7. 2024

A story begins in the middle of things. Up north, way up north past Waterdeep, further again past Luskan, Over the Spine of the World lies a tundra. A vast open frozen wasteland where only the heartiest of men and women live. For these people times are always tough as it is by all accounts a frozen wasteland. That all summers and there are winters however snow and permafrost remain, life for these folk is hard but they thrive.

This all changed when the Frost Maiden Auril cast the land into a perpetual darkness. An endless winter like that which had never been seen where the sun does not rise much more than an early dawn and stays that way until night where it falls once more. Extreme weather blizzards and superstitions start to take hold amongst the Ten-Towns. We start our tail in medias res:

Tails of this winter had made its way towards Waterdeep. As such the emerald enclave sent forth a seasoned member to investigate. They also enlisted the help of two locals, an experienced man and a fledgling member. They met and made their way towards the town of Good Mead.

Along the way they met Halfling woman who just like them wanted to get to the bottom of things. This group of four soon encountered a devout cleric who deals only in faith. To round of this motley crew This soon encountered Goliath Barbarian and who else he seems... quaint, He too seems very much interested in resolving matters.

Well this band of would be heroes vanquish the Frost Maiden? What other sinister plot shall be uncover along their travels to stop the frost maiden? Only time will tell, But one thing is for certain: for the denizens of Ten-Towns, Time is not on their side...

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Session 1⁠

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Session 2 - 29. 7. 2024

The party met near Good Mead. There they We're made aware of the murders occurring throughout the land. The dwarven women they spoke with gave them a lot of information to work off of, but stated it was all speculation and while she had investigated it herself, she would need the party to look at it in more depth in order to confirm her suspicions.

They initially followed a thread in the town that they were in and found that many people in the woods had been killed recently. Further investigation made them aware that it was probably some form of giant, members of the party concluded it was potentially a frost giant given the nature of their environment. During this time George decided to spend some time with the local blacksmith whilst the rest of the party ventured into the woods.

When the party came back they were given some snow shoes and sent on their way. They arrived in Easthaven For the witnessed a ceremonial human sacrifice. A man was being burnt at the stake for his crimes against the town and this also just so happened to correlate with when the town were burning members in order to appease the god. During this, Skaddi Met an old friend who took them to a bar and discussed some informatiom new Lane New Lane

The party seated who they were looking for and the women stated what she was asking of the party, during this time the party also watched a seance where a ghost was brought forth to answer questions that people had. A member of the party asked about the Person they were tailing and got some answers. The party submitted their way to another tavern where they encountered the person they were looking for as they were leaving.

In the middle of the town a bottle erupted which ultimately ended up with the party being victorious. Obi However decided to spend time in the bar drinking rather than helping his travelling companions.

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Session 2⁠

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Session 3 - 5. 8. 2024

Session 4 - 12. 8. 2024

After having stumbled into the cave and killed the Hag, the adventurous side of the party came out as they all decided to take a look around this cave, firstly for any additional information and secondly for a small place to rest. During this rest both Obi and George were read the riot act by the other members of the party for committing the ultimate sin and sampling the forbidden fruit of man.

They were told that they would have to turn themselves in or party members would turn them into the authorities instead. The party then went around the cave and found some cave carvings as well as a small camp and a diary before leaving for the town. T'was during this time that George made his daring escape and fled the group, maybe he foresaw himself being next on the pyre.

The party got back to town and gave all their information to the informant who had told them about the missing fisherman. As well as that the party told her about the cauldron that they had, she told this to the town speaker who invited the party to his home in order to make them a deal for the cauldron. Certain party members did not feel comfortable parting with the cauldron however, the speaker made it clear that the cauldron could only feed his town or any smaller settlement as trying to feed the entirety of 10 towns using this cauldron would be a fruitless effort.

Denial turned to anger which soon became bargaining, soon after a depression coveted many members of the party before they all came to a solemn acceptance that either Easthaven would have the pot or no one would have the pot. The party was given plenty of money to compensate this and to relinquish ownership of the cauldron, as well as that a new party member joined the group and the party headed off once more to brave the white wailing wilderness that is Icewind Dale...

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Session 4⁠

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Session 5 - 19. 8. 2024

The party departed Easthaven on their way to the town of Good Mead to pick up their reward for finding and slaying the killer. Beforehand however they stopped to buy dog sleds in order to make their journey a bit quicker. This took quite some time with much discussion before each member of the party finally decided to buy a dog and sleds.

So the party headed south with much speed towards the town from which they had initially set off from. They handed in this information and then were met with the startling realisation that the town's militia was still being killed by some creature in the forest. Again after much deliberation the party headed into the forest looking for what had happened.

The sun came across a cave, the small flickering light the party headed on in. Skaddi had told Obi to stay outside as he pushed forth into the cave where he saw a lit fire and some goat. send every other party member had crept in bar Obi. Naturally - after feeling slighted - Obi headed into the cave, Nobody said anything about this and the party started to investigate the sounds that they were hearing.

Send a large ogre made its way from the small area they were investigating, This however was not the main issue. There was a creature elsewhere in the cave that called it home and communication was neither strong point. So battle ensued as this creature had snuck up behind the party and called upon its polar bear. soon after this the party saw another one of these strange creatures and they realised that it had come for the one there in a merry fashion.

A chase ensued in which the party lost, this caused a poor member of the town of good meat to become collateral damage to the creature. Though, Lawrence had stolen a barrel of Mead and brought it back to town this prompted him to be asked to run the local election. He "needed time" to think about this as the party headed off to Caer-Dineval to investigate a lead they picked up in Easthaven.

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Session 5⁠

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