Session 1: The adventure begins.

Prologue:  Three soldiers of the Nation of Shem were in the desert wastelands of northern Stygia on their way to meet an informer with information on the state of the Stygian army.  They were set upon by attackers.  Humans with only a few crude weapons surprised them by seeming to come up out of the sand beneath their boots.  the attackers set on them with hands, teeth, and hand-weapons made from jawbones.  While Captain Baruch, Sargeant Arvad, and Trooper Ebon fought fiercely and selflessly, by the time the scene closed only a single horse, clawed and bitten, bolted from the melee alive.

Luckily, that frightening episode happened far to the south of where the story begins for the Characters, Sanyll The Dwarf, Kyras the Rogue, and Grissle the Half-Orc.  Far to the north on the edge of the Kingdom of Brythunia, just south of the Grasskal Mountains, and the High Tatra Glacier sits the city of Urbandur.  It's a good sized city, the seat of power in this region, home to Baron Vytautus, and a place where a rogue can fleece some local miners, a dwarf can enjoy some nature while inspecting a vast mine, and a half-orc can lay a guy out, then have a mug of ale as he warms himself by the fire of the Grog Swallow tavern.

But the night turned vicious.

There was a tremor, then a series of building quakes that were the first signs of trouble.  For those few who were outside as the attack on Urbandur began, the next moments were a bloody panic of monsters, teeth, and desperate battle.  The walls of the city began to crumble, the gates fell into churned earth and the blizzard raged throughout the city.  Through the gaping wall an enormous remhoraz blasted forth, followed by its young brood.  White wolves followed, and a fearsome worg tore into Urbandur.  And though the battle was tense the larval worms, wolves, and worg were dead by the end.  Though the remhoraz, a winter wolf, and a yeti had charged through and began to terrorize the rest of the city.

The victors gathered their senses, took a moment to clean their blades and cudgels, noticing for the first time that the blood painting their weapons was black.  Then a city guard lieutenant arrived to rally able bodies to help rid the city of these beasts.

Sanyll, Kyras, and Grissle each earned 666 xp.  And no loot. dang.