Pre Session 1

In just finding each other, the party agrees to do some tasks for a local by the name of Adomas Filida who was just a local guard. Before they left they overheard people talking about how high the taxes is becoming and people seemed nervous if they couldn’t make payments. Captain Filida wanted someone to deal with a mass of twig blights that were attacking travelers coming and going from the town. The group dealt with the problem and the crazy druid who was making them in order to practice making bigger and scarier creatures.

After coming back the party  gets back and paid, they witness thugs from the local lord harassing the barkeep of the Sleepy Owl, Evelin Peddle, because it seems she couldn't make her payment and was asking for more time. The thugs gave her 3 days and then they'd return and threatened to take everything including her lovely daughter Dren. The party offered to help and started to investigate. They followed the thugs to the lords keep and found a secret passage in. After a series of events it was discovered that the real lord of the town had been locked in the dungeon with his family and their guards had united together to rise up and put one of their own in power. The party fought  the guards, rescued the lord and his family and saved the town.

With the town guard mostly gone, the lord and the party helped pick a new captain of the guard to help get things back in order. Adomas Filida was appointed and immediately started to get to work. Locals celebrated with the party at the Sleepy Own in celebration.

It was before the quadrennial celebration of shieldmeet in Highrun and the lord of Highrun was going to host a massive masquerade in celebration. The town was buzzing with anticipation seeing as everyone was invited to participate in this ornate affair. The party, having just completed tasks for the town, took part in festivities. During preparations though, a note was found pinned to the gate of the keep with a dagger. It threatened that if the lord needed to leave town and the celebration was to be canceled and if this was not done by 10pm the day of Shieldmeet, one person would die every 6 hours. Ending with the Lord himself.

Wanting to help, the party talked to Lord Alistar Duard who refused to cancel the event or give in to the threats. There was 25 hours until 10pm on Shieldmeet. After a few hours of investigation, someone screamed and there was a body found in the fountain near the town center. It seemed to have lesions all over his body that were oozing. A threat on parchment stabbed into his chest. It was a local farmhand. The next body was found swinging from a tree, with another threat and the same lesions on his skin. The third body was going to be the lords young son but the party managed to save him from being kidnapped but the hooded person got away. Almost no one was out of the streets now for fear of being killed. Each note was signed with a pair of black wings. Lord Duard did not seem to know who might being doing this to him, but the party thought he wasn't telling them the whole truth. They talked to him alone and found out that this might be his fault. 4 years prior, a woman tried to talk to him about her sick son who needed medicine/special treatment at the Shieldmeet celebration and he was otherwise engaged and pretty much ignored her. Later it was found out that her son died and she disappeared. Lord Duard thought she left town. The party made a plan and durring the masquarade they tried to capture her. During the party, Lord Duard disappeared. It was later discovered he had received a note from the woman and he felt responsible for the deaths in his town and went to meet her. One of the party members noticed his absence and they tracked him down and spied during the talk he had with the woman. They ended up fighting her, killing her, and saving alistar. The woman had been using corrupt magic. Again, the town celebrated and the party was thanked by the lord who owed them his life.