The Platara ranges marks the frigid divide between the Rastabar Desert and the icy snowscape beyond. The altitude is so high up here that the divide, a massive rocky wall, is half desert stone cliff, albeit cold, and half ice capped mountain. Beyond that is a barren artic landscape which leads into a massive glacier. Pretty cool right? But in order for us to fully investigate this locale we best sit back grab a coffee and roll into this weeks adventure!
The Frigid Divide
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The party looked over the edge of the flying ship as they approached the massive wall of stone and ice. “Well this is about as close as I can go before the ship won’t fly no more. Weirdest thing. The whole land and Rastabarian desert and this wall of ice and rock shuts the magic from the ship off.” Alex called out as he lowered the ship down a few miles off from the frigid divide.
“Are you sure you want to do this? I don’t even know what you saw in that tower that would make you want to come here but surely its long gone after all this time? Just saying, I wouldn’t want to be caught out there in that weather for too long.” Jessica added.
The Tower contained a map with several points marked out amongst the large piece of ancient parchment. One place was somewhere on the glacier here. Andrasa had named it “Ice Spire” and had listed some notes in an illegible script. Another was in the middle of a jungle which Andrasa had dubbed “Well of Souls” with more scribbles. And the third and last point which was furthest away was on a mountain which simply said “The Deep dark”.
If it was points of interest for a powerful and wealthy mage then surely they would be points of interest for the party. The wealth they had seen in Andrasa’s tower was beyond imagination so these three points seemed to be worth the risk and trip.
Climbing off the ship they grabbed their supplies, a magical tent that would keep them warm and safe and food and drink for a few weeks. Turning towards the divide they head towards a man made structure that was attached to the cliff and head towards it. A way up, a pully system that would hoist them and their cargo to the top of the rocks. The local populace of the Platara ranges use it to come and trade with some of the deserts tribal people. But the party will use it to ascend to the top where they hope to find something worth the effort.
So off the party went, in search for the Ice Spire.
With a sickening realisation we are 14 weeks away from December (Dice-ember) and that doesn’t give me much time to wrap up this years adventures before the holiday special. As the party would be around level 11 or 12 by now I find that an adventure series as opposed to one shots is more enjoyable and challenging. But that doesn’t mean we cant treat each series as a one shot – over multiple sessions.
But this week I wanted to layout the next three adventures before us. Each week will build towards one of the three and then a finale for the year. So don’t forget to come back each day as we move forward with this adventure, and as always, don’t forget to roll with advantage,
The Brazen Wolfe
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