Eberron One

There are 1d4+1 extra blankets in the room..

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Finora also removes her armor and prepares to settle in as well. A chill runs through her bones.

Anyone mind if I start a fire?

Finora sets up the hearth with kindling and starts to click and clack away with her flint and steel.

SpaceMonkeyX wrote:

Finora sets up the hearth with kindling and starts to click and clack away with her flint and steel.

Before long you have enough kindling going to light the coals in the brazier, and after a bit of work you have the coals stoked to last the night. Out of curiosity, who takes the bed? Does anyone want to do anything else before extinguishing the torch and candles and bedding down for the night?

Tagor does his evening prayers to the Sovereign Host over in a corner, stacks his belongings and, taking one of the spare blankets, curls up on the (wooden) floor for the night.

DM wrote:

Out of curiosity, who takes the bed? Does anyone want to do anything else before extinguishing the torch and candles and bedding down for the night?

Caby doesn't take the bed - she's used to sleeping on the ground. Ducats or Jaral can take it and the rest of us will just take an extra blanket.

Finora moves closer to the fire, preferring the warmth and sense of security it brings. Something about it stirs a distance memory in her mind, but it is too far away for her to hold for very long. Soon, she drifts off to sleep.

ehiker133 wrote:

(We can probably assume Jaral and Ducats are just going to sleep, as well... Maybe we'll leave a candle or two burning for light?)

Ducats can get a nights sleep upside down if it comes to that. He'll just lie on the floor, probably using the dog as a "pillow."

You are awakened early by a knock on the door. It takes a moment to realise it isn't the door to the stairwell through which you entered last night, but rather the door on the other wall. It's the same sergeant from last night. You find that this door leads directly onto the large, high-ceilinged mess hall. The walls here are resplendent with banners and tapestries, and the large tables are filled with breakfasting soldiers (numbering somewhere between 15 and 20 men.)

The sergeant gives you a pitcher of fresh water, a basin and a cake of soap. He also shows you how to get to the 'garderobe.'

During the course of the morning, you discover this sergeant's name is Matthias. There are two other sergeants at the garrison as well, one in charge of each section of human soldiers, Sgt. Becker and Sgt. Lenz. Matthias seems to be higher ranking than either, and a sort of assistant to Captain Thul. Breakfast is served by 2 warforged, neither of whom seem to ever speak. You also see two men by whose rank insignia Ducats identifies as lieutenants. You gather from the talk that one is in charge of, and perhaps caretaker for, the warforged units at the garrison. The other's position is unclear, but it seems he may be 2nd in command of the garrison judging from the deference shown to him by the soldiers. There are 3 women, all of them soldiers, and all the soldiers are human.

After breakfast, Matthias introduces you to Lt. Albrecht Jung, the man in charge of the two warforged sections, and explains that you will be accompanying him on his rounds in the countryside this morning. He also shows Tagor up to the garrison's chapel.

After you're all ready, you are escorted via the spiral stair off the room in which you slept back down through to the big mustering hall. Two soldiers are there, fully kitted out and on horseback, and Albrecht is there as well, though he is on foot. "Right then.. you can ride in the wagon with me, there should be room." He then leads you back outdoors.

The day is thinly overcast but bright. A thick blanket of snow covers everything, turning the entire landscape to a brilliant, blinding white. You are immediately thankful for your winter cloaks. Outside you see a large, open wagon hitched to 4 huge draft horses. Sitting in the back of the wagon are 5 warforged, with another forged sitting at the reins. The lieutenant mounts the seat at the front, sitting next to the forged holding the reins, and invites you to climb aboard as the two mounted soldiers start to take up position as outriders.

DM wrote:

1. One works on a marchwall (a hedge with a stone wall at its center, intended to slow down invading forces) west of Vulyar.
2. Two work on a ruined building in the southeast section of town.
3. One works on a road heading southwest out of Vulyar, about a mile out. The road is labeled 'Fort Bones.'
4. Two work on a barn south of town.
5. One works on a ruined building in the northeast section of town.
6. One works on a small road southeast of Vulyar.
7. Two work on a barn east of town.

The horses blow clouds of steam into the morning air as you head back in toward Vulyar, which seems far closer in the daylight than it did last night. Arriving in town, you turn right, down a narrow snow covered street, and soon arrive at a small cemetery. Lying hemmed in by the buildings all around it, It is surrounded by very old stone walls topped with wrought iron. You can see the black branches of bare trees within.

Albrecht guides the wagon along a narrow lane, passing the large wrought iron cemetery gates. In the odd echoing muffle caused by the snow, you hear the dull sounds of masonry. Soon you arrive at a single warforged working on repairing a large breach in the cemetery wall.

Cole wrote:

"What happened that breached that wall?"

Albrecht looks toward where the 'forged is mortaring a new stone into place. He looks a bit uncomfortable. "They said it was an attempt by the elves to prevent us from getting reinforcements."

Cole wrote:

DM wrote:

Cole wrote:

"What happened that breached that wall?"

Albrecht looks toward where the 'forged is mortaring a new stone into place. He looks a bit uncomfortable. "They said it was an attempt by the elves to prevent us from getting reinforcements."

"Did the elves actually take any bodies?"

One of the outriders speaks up at this, saying "I don't tink zo, I don't remember hearink dat any of de grafes were dishturbed.. it vas actually a caffalry unit dat shtopped de elfs.. dey vent back to Vedyakar aftervard. De leftenant vasn't here yet den."

Lt. Jung quickly checks over the warforged working on the cemetery wall. Declaring him sound, the Lt. gets back up on the wagon and asks "are we ready? We'll go to the other site in town before heading back out into de county."

Tagor nods and you're on your way. At the direction of Lt. Jung, the warforged driving the wagon threads his way south along the streets of Vulyar, crossing the main east/west road (Wynarn Street) at one point, and heading into the southeast section of the town.

You arrive in a still-devastated area, with 2 warforged working on several buildings. The Lt. explains that this area was pounded by trebuchet from the hills south of town.

You gather from the Lt. that he makes this tour of the work sites every morning.