The Leaden Tower

The Leaden Tower is a seemingly ominous tower that looms in the distance, visible to all settlements in the outskirts of Travencall's controlled zone. It is estimated to be approximately 100 miles away from the city, and over a thousand feet tall.

Expeditions
In 1059 PC, the 1st expedition was sent toward the Leaden Tower to investigate mysterious magical readings that appeared to originate from it. Nobody from this expedition returned.

Player Notes:
= Session 2 Player Notes: = Byron Tinkerton, administrative dude at Adventurer’s Guild, a male gnome, gave us red flag’s to mark the path to the Leaden Tower. He is very cautious and paranoid for us.

I have expended 3 hit dice.

Mage Armor is on now, I have an AC of 13

Dark Ones: if you don’t kill them quick, they freak out. They are more prevalent closer to the full moon.

Castle Etica, it’s a fort nearby, Leaden Tower is West/Southwest from here:

Adventerur’s with thick moustache, big accent, and big old brim hat, named Quarlos Esponito, investigating uses of magic with life and death. Volunteered himself for expedition. I know this guy. Religious, worships the Raven Queen.

Fort Commander is Garfield Sanders, southern accent.

Quenpick got overrun with Dark ones years ago, that’s a settlement.

It’s a glade, it’s filled with plant things. We found a bubbling pond. Koiki Glade

We found a group of statue people, there is some faint magic essence preserving the bodies, with an ancient inscription on them. I made a note of the inscription on some paper. Talking to scholars, they think the inscriptions are names.

There is an “ant hill” nearby, Bisla the plant female person, seems powerful, and only tells lies.

The “ant hill” ended up being a massive bee hive, after a lot of work, we destroyed it.

The glade is safe now, the plant people wont hurt anyone traveling through.

From the rabbit: “Beware the man in the big hat.”

Session 2 Notes:

Gulch before the leaden tower, with a rusted iron bridge over the gulch, single green flag at the front of the bridge. Two scarecrows at front of bridge with big hats on.

Weird optical device in center of bridge. Look at Leaden Tower, it seems on fire. West there is an evil gaze. South there is a soothing spirit. East is a lot of suffering. North there is a pulsing steady darkness, like a heartbeat. Straight up is a dark sky. Orryn began sweating a lot, we don’t think this is a good device.

The Leaden Tower has the outline of a door, there are three other towers, one to the southeast, southwest, and north of the tower. On each of the smaller towers, a spell must be cast into the glyph on the top to open up the tower door.

Barricaded the door open. There is a Dark One to the North.