No Respite for Rampart

Adventuring On

2020-07-20

Retelling

Our group sent out a messenger to the priests of Kelemvor And Juniper a messenger to the treemother she adored Both messengers, it seems, were rats at least in their own way Juniper's quite literally But the other chose to betray To the City Guard quickly she ran with news of our wizardly group and pretty soon the guard arrived, Aveline Stannard and her troop The Knight-Captain turned out to be as firm as she was fair She invited us to the Citadel and we kindly traveled there While strolling to the Citadel this humble minstrel did tell of how our party still had magic and Aveline fell under my spell We soon came to a Citadel court where we were soon to meet several ministers of the council who glumly admitted defeat The town, it was defenseless all magic was now gone The city's food was running out We didn't have that long It seemed that soon, poor Rampart a town second to none Would grapple with starvation and be, quite likely, overrun We offered up our services to help as best we could We split our forces into three each team to do some good Some went off to calm the population To ease the villagers pain Treemother rode warhorse Juniper Who went to bring crops rain Those who could sense magic went To investigate the arcane But our great druid found she could barely make some rain Instead she found the cold caves warm, and full of spoiling grain The crowd control went pretty well Our team proved quite good At helping keep the crowds calmed down and assisting where they could The two tasked with checking out the Arcana's stock of toys Found that most were now mundane and split the rest between the boys Soon our party had regrouped to explore outside the gates the council hoping that we'd find a way to unseal Rampart's fate But the moment that we stepped outside and headed for the gates It turns out another problem had been heaped upon our plates Sweet and fragile Rampart was now under attack By large and scaly creatures with wings like that of bats Dragons had beset themselves upon this powerless town And it seemed the wretched beasts were keen to burn the whole thing down