The Edwardsville Chronicles - session 1

The town of Edwardsville is a relatively sleepy town of worshippers, farmers and merchants. Within the town a group of special individuals have been looking for a way to make a name for themselves.

Aggie, an elderly priest further learns the layout of the town with her handler, a young boy named Opi, befriends a young charming bard, Earl and a reclusive baker named Flanders in the streets of the town. She also befriends a local curiosity of a Lizard man gourmet named Larry. The group, all with their own motivations, are part of a heroic encounter when Edwardsville is attacked by a strange pack of wolves led by a massive Dire wolf in the streets. Thanks to the help of a Halfling man named Lyle the group is victorious, but not before almost losing Larry and Opi to the wounds they’ve received in battle. Flanders and Earl successfully defend Flanders’ bakery and Larry makes off with the corpses of the wolves, taking them back to his shack.

The group then is part of a short expedition to the Farmlands to check on the farmers where they find everyone is safe. On the way home they find a confused, non-lucid naked man wandering towards the town. They take him to the Temple to be cared for.

The next day the group meet at the Broken Arrow, a tavern on the edge of town where adventurers stop by looking for work. The owner, Judas, is in his cups and offers everything he has if the group find out what happened in the old Copper Mines of Edwardsville. He asks them to discover the fate of his friend, who is presumed dead. Should this be the case, he wants them to bring back his jewelry, so he can have some closure.

The group arrives at the mine to find the descent down through the dilapidated staircase to be treacherous. Through ingenuity and patience from Lyle and his pitons and rope they manage to descend, even though several members of the group are scratched up some from falling debris and a short tumble down the final steps. They then find themselves at the doorway of the mine, which is boarded up with warnings written on it in three languages.