March 10, Year of the Lion, 1103 P.L.

After rescuing Miranda, the Guild rode their horses into a narrow canyon in an attempt to avoid the Red Snakes. Alesander leads the larger group to the west, while Placid and Rolf ride east with Miranda in tow. Once they ditch the Red Snake scouts, they agree to meet in Sweetwater.

After a rough night of trying to avoid the scouts, Rolf’s horse stumbled and broke it’s leg and the horse’s squeals drew the attention nearby Red Snake scouts. Placid and Rolf are ambushed further down the trail three Red Snake scouts. In the fighting, Rolf and Placid are badly wounded, and have to slow their travel to avoid aggravating their wounds.

Two slow days later, Placid, Rolf, and Placid arrive in Sweetwater before Alesander. After assuring Sheriff Thomas of their their trouble wouldn’t follow them, he agreed to let them stay in town overnight. The next morning, with hide nor hair of Alesander, the Guild set out from Sweetwater thinking they had evaded their pursuers now that they were inside Episcopate lands.

They made camp that night and set standard watches. At midnight, a man dressed in a bear headdress approached to the edge of the firelight and identified himself as Benedict. While his dress was that of a tribal warrior, his gear denoted Republican origin. Then he pushed a beated Alesander into the camp. Benedict gave the Guild an ultimatum, hand over Miranda or his men in the trees would kill them and take her.

With little other choice, Placid gave her over and they rode off into the night.

In the last session Alesander returned to St. Bishop’s after having been cleared of charges that he was an Apostate to the League. He met with Father Julio Ortega about a job with a Republican Colonel. Unfortunately, Alesander is still distrusted by the guilds, and must recruit new apprentices if he’s to complete the mission.

Father Julio took him first to the slave markets on Lookout Island where they liberated a slave named as Rolf of the Silver Wolf tribe. In exchange for freeing him Rolf agreed to guide Alesander and his burgeoning guild through the Tribal Lands to the north of St. Bishop’s. Next, Alesander tapped an old friend, Placid, for his assistance. While Placid is not much for the wilderness, his need for money and his skills with a cleaver made him better than nothing.

After finding his crew, they were taken to Colonel Lucius’s villa in St. Bishops. There they witnessed him torturing one of his men for information. The soldier told them that his daughter, Miranda, had been taken near Lorado Point by the Red Snake tribe while traveling to Bei Chueng. When pressed about why his daughter was traveling north, he avoided the question, stating that she was to be married to an ambassador’s son in Bei Chueng.

Alesander and his crew set out from St. Bishop’s and on the edge of Episcopate land, they found themselves surrounded by beastmen. Placid attempted to confront a Silverback. Rather than meeting an untimely end, Rolf was able to use his knowledge of beastman culture and language to defuse the situation and save Placid’s life.

After escaping the beastmen, the guild found itself at a small village where Thomas, the local sheriff, demanded they surrender their weapons if they wanted to stay in town. They accepted this condition and found a place in the village square to set up camp. As they explored this small village, they heard stories from the locals that wraiths have been seen in the woods, and local livestock have been found mutilated and partially eaten.

As the night went on, the guild wisely elected to keep watch with the local guard, and the village was attacked by strange, albino monsters that were slightly larger than a child. A number of the townspeople were killed in the attack, but the guild managed to fend off the attack with the help of Sheriff Thomas and the town guard.

The next morning they set out for Lorado Point, where they found the remnants of the caravan in which Miranda was traveling. They were able to easily track the Red Snakes to their camp. Under stealth of night they rescued Miranda, but alerted the camp at the same time.