Chapter 01 (Story Arc)

Event & Story Guides (Please Read)

Etiquette

Local Lore

Timey Wimey

Combat

Magic

Wounds

OOC Plot Line

Something has stirred up the local Giant Camps, yet the conflict seems to be an internal political issue regarding the theft of some artifact of importance to the camps. Will the conflict spill into Hofborg? Probably!

Each of the camps offers something potentially valuable to the town. How will we handle the situation? Do we try to solve the conflict or wait it out, open negotiations and serve as mediators, try to hunt down the artifact for ourselves, or make a new ally with one of the camps against the others?

The OOC plot line is provide to players so that they have a general overview of what the plot line involves and what likely solutions are available. We provide this because the in character rumors are not always clear enough to fill in the 'what the heck is going on' challenges. We will try to avoid spoilers in this section, but it is better that everyone is on page so the role-play moves along.

Rumors

12/01/22

Various scouts, travelers and locals begin reporting to the Hofborg town guard that the giants in the Haafingar region are on the move. No one has a clear picture of where they are actually headed, but enough reports have been made that it is clearly not isolated incidents. Apparently Kal has more information and perhaps even some first hand reports. The Captain has sent word to the Thane and the town is welcomed to discuss the matter tomorrow night in the Saebjorn Long Hall.

12/02/22

As further reports come in, a picture is beginning to form that the movement of the giant clans is directed toward some location at or near Kilkreath Temple. Scouts and warrior's are asked to gather at the Saebjorn Long Hall to night to discuss.

12/03/22

The scouting party did not return last night. This in and of itself is not so surprising as Haafingar is not a small area. However, with the rumors of the giants, some member's may set out at dawn to track the party and catch up to them.

12/04/22

The scouting party woke to deep snow fall the previous morning and were required to abandon the investigation of the hilltop north of Kilkreath Temple and return to Hofborg. This evening's moot will further delay the scouting plans, and Baene has called for another group to set out tomorrow afternoon.

12/5/22

A company of Hofborg scouts and warriors set out from Hofborg towards Kilkreath Temple. On the road north of the temple they met up with a couple by the name of Tyerlings. The wife was distraught as the giants took her beloved goat as tribute during their moot. The group, interested in what a giant moot was look and hopeful to save the poor goat, continued north to the flat top to discover what was indeed a gathering of giants.

At first the giants were unarmed and appeared peaceful, however a war band of approximately six arrived with a dead or near dead Dunmer in a cage. The party was unable to understand more then that their was a disagreement between the leader of the war band and the giant elder with a magnificent beard.

The arguement progressed and the war band smashed the Dunmer to paste and many of the other giants were as well enraged. At this point, the company from Hofborg opted to return to town, after sending Malraz and Murtagh to relocate the couple at the stables to the Motherhouse.

12/7/22

A canopy and tables have been set up outside of the Borg's carpentry shop as the town begins to construct heavy weapons in anticipation of a giant attack on the town. Orders for lumber and iron are being placed, and an trip to the local mines is being planned

12/9/22

Little has been seen of Vorstag of late. It is known that he had been spending quite a bit of time on his homestead just outside of town, making repairs to prepare for the coming of his wife. She finally arrived by boat about a week past, according to gossip among the dock workers, who did not expect she would be so frail or advanced in years. With care, he loaded her with her trunks onto his wagon and spirited her away to his wilderness lodge, not to be seen since.

His visits into the town and to the moot over the past month or so have been low key and brief, quiet and almost somber his mood. This afternoon is no different. His steed pulls a wagon of timber to the site in town where siege weapons are to be constructed and unloads it all. It is known that he comes from a family of loggers and rumor has it that he intends to build the town a proper sawmill after the spring thaws come. In the meantime, the timber he leaves has only been debarked and squared off into rough bulk. They are however ready to be further processed by the carpenters of town into whatever form they need for their project. Two great snowy pines had been felled, nearly two-hundred years in age each, and three more trips into town it took to deliver the harvested lumber by days end.

12/9/22

The party that set out for Dragonbridge will return the next day and the news will be generally available to any asking questions. When the company arrived at Dragonbridge they discovered the bridge barricaded to merchants and travelers and that guards had a giant pinned down. Apparently a company of giants had raided Dragonbridge for livestock. Our company moved into attack the giant but instead of a warrior they found a giant harmed and on the ground. A fierce discussion was had, and the finally call was made - to try and communicate with the beast. It was a gamble, as Ragnjorn and Ysara volunteered to approach the giant and establish a dialog.

The gamble paid off and the giant shared a necklace of his clan and speaking in broken Sea Giant said to come to the northern coastal camp and that there would be no bears there. It was generally agreed that the 'no bears' comment referred to the giants with bear skulls on their shoulders who seem to be the most warlike. What ever is going on, we know a little bit more.

But which clan is the one with bear skulls on their shoulders, who was the Dunmer they killed and what are their plans?

These are the rumors culled from the #rumor-mill channel in discord, along with any additional suggestions the DMs or staff want to share.

Next Steps

12/5/22

Unable to complete the scouting of the area around Kilkreath Temple, the original party returns to Hofborg for the moot, and a new party is planned for Mondas afternoon (12/6 at 2 pm eat).

A discussion of the "Giant Issue" will happen on Tirdas evening at the Long Hall night.

12/5/22

The following suggestions have been made by the players: Reinforce the guards around town (player only event), Send word to Dragon Bridge (DM support), Create and test using chains on a giant (Player event), Craft siege equipment (DM support/DM Event), consulting our seers.

Impromptu heavy/seige weapon planning session at the wed afternoon event at 2pm, to be followed by a resource gathering event on sat or sun at 2 pm est.

This section will provide a general outline of the DM events planned for the story arc, as well as what players can do on their own with out DM support, as well as with DM support. The first event of the story arc will be to present the situation to the players and have them agree on next steps, these next steps will drive the events we plan.

Wrap Up

Don't Forget

• The Tyerlings are at the mother house and their stables may be in disrepair or badly damaged.

Summary of the story arc when it wraps up and what issues are currently unresolved. Some of these issues will be plot bunnies for future story arcs.