Session 1 - Quest Log

Assignment
''A Scout reported back that the lighthouse on the southern coast of the Sound of Eros has been turned back on. By whom? Is there someone there still? If there is, we need to talk to them. I need you to investigate the lighthouse and report back with your findings.''

Characters

 * Coda Bravehold
 * Hiln the Clanless
 * Jack

DM Recap
Coda, Hiln, and Jack became the first adventurers to leave the town of Sahnmore. Before leaving, Hiln gave a gold to a beggar, Jack said farewell (and good riddance) to her rival Professor Conic Taverna, and Coda gave a rousing lasso performance, so good that the beggar then threw the gold he received from Hiln just minutes before. On their way out, Mountain Drew gave each a new tonic of his own making, Mountain Drew's Diet Dr. Pippin, and Oohr, the living god of Sahnmore, bowed down on their way out of the gates and seemingly wished them well.

It was a beautiful couple of days' journey to the Lighthouse. On their way, the group encountered and finished off an injured Owlbear protecting two of its cubs, but Coda failed to lasso the Owlbear cubs for his own purposes. They also saw a well-armed goblin party beating up a smaller goblin in the distance, but the party talked down Coda from rushing over and getting in the middle of things. Looks like it may have been a hazing ritual, but they're not sure.

The party arrived at the Lighthouse, covered in vines but strangely intact and lit after 100 years of weathering the elements. They explored the inside of the lighthouse a bit, and through some a large portrait and map among other things, discovered the story of The Staglights, a group of 13 strikingly look-alike brothers –– each had a mustache, a scar on their right cheek, broad noses, and even broader shoulders –– who each manned 1 of 12 lighthouses around Arukamia. Importantly, they also discovered: By the time they got to the top, however, the light was out. When they went back down and out of the lighthouse, they encountered a ghastly, disgusting skeletal figure who told them never to come back before suddenly disappearing, leaving 4 crustacean-like shadows in its wake. It was a fierce battle, but the party came out the victors, with their lives barely intact –– and with more questions asked then answered.
 * a letterfrom Jackknife Tower, the former keeper of this lighthouse and a less-than-stellar seer, dated 103 years before today's date, to avenge his death that he foresaw happening approximately 3 years later
 * a recipe for some banana bread
 * a magical stone, a couple golden turtle statues, and some other cool trinkets