The Serene Holds of Urzoa
Chapter 1: Unrest in Baromenes Part 1: A Gathering of Wanderers
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PART 1:
A GATHERING OF WANDERERS
Before you can cast off the shackles of fate you and your party must first answer a call. The same call that has brought you to this place, to Baromenes. The same call that has dragged you out of stagnant days, across foreign lands and the tides. You all have caught the eye of someone or something. Warning you of futures that have haunted every rest you have had since they started. It is a strange thing, dreams. Stranger still that as the closer you got to Baromenes, the less that nightmare appeared until it was gone entirely. For the first time in a long time, you have been able to rest easy.
But now as you wander the streets, whether brought here by boat or carriage, land or sea, through gate or port you find yourself being drawn to somewhere deeper in Baromenes. Like a rope tied around your waist, tugging you to some unknown destination. Through cobble laid streets and alleys, up and down stairs of this tiered city, past shops and homes alike. Passing glances mark you as out of place, but you ignore them all the same. A breeze can be felt through the streets, as you make your way.
The City-state of Baromenes is a sprawling metropolis of art, music, politics, and military might. Many of the citizens can be found wearing long drapes of white cloth that are pinned at the shoulder and tied around the waist. Guards patrol the city and wear blue tunics accented with white strips of cloth and full sets of bronze armor, usually depicting giant tentacles across the breastplate. You do not stop to admire though as the tingling, pulling feeling leads you to an open mall with a massive fountain. The area is surprisingly empty save for you and four others. Four others who, much like you, also look, out of place.
And here you stand, gathered before the giant carved stone fountain depicting Pnigmenos sinking a ship. Water spews from behind him and runs off the stone-carved waves and into a basin below. The pulling feeling subsides leaving you with your fellow wanders and the sounds of birds chirping, and the running water of the fountain.
Baromenes
2:37 pm
Wineday (Wednesday), 17th of Midsummer, 495 AC
SCENE INSTRUCTIONS
Welcome everyone! This post will serve as an introduction so please feel free to introduce and describe your characters at this time; whether or not you know each other or have traveled together is up to all of you at this time.