WWM - Howie's Saturday Pathfinder

--- tags: DnD --- # WWM - Howie's Saturday Pathfinder Session 1 - 05/09/2020 (BunnyKristin and Goliath Missing) ----------------------------------------------------------- > "The continent of Dagnar was formed eons ago when the gods created the world. It was the seat of their power while the wrestled with the primeval forces of elementals and chaos. The very essence of the divine and the arcane seeped into the earth beneath where we stand even now. It collasced into mineral deposits we now call Magicite. After the gods departed, the races of the world discovered Danar and the Magicite, and attempted to harvest it, but the Alkor the Great, the most powerful arcane caster who ever lived, boiled the sea, sinking thousands of ships, and enshrouding the coast line in a deadly mist, from which noone has ever returned. But the power he used was to great, and his heart failed before he could purge the people who had already made their homes in the land, and trapped them forever, to be forgotten about by the outside world. Today, 3,000 years later, two vast Empires split the continent in twain, forever enemies, yet doomed to never be a victor" - Excerpt from "Histories and Legends of Dagnar Sage Merlin Arthawes, Sage for the Empire of Husturia, 3,018 BTM --- We are all at a train station in **Port Abauthor** waiting to board the same train. Imthatguyhere is playing a short male gnome with dark brown hair and a beard. He seems outfitted like a traveller, but not suspcious and unassuming. Rockachaws is playing a human, average height, 135lbs. Decent muscle with a vest with no shirt on. Dark red eyes and dishevelled brown hair. Smash's character has scale mail armor, in his 20s, 5'11" 170lbs with Greatsword on his back and is a human. He has a wooden shield as well. He is accompanied by a 6'1" man who is scruff with long black hair. He has a sword on his right hip and wears mostly black. Watchtower is playing a 5'11" human in his early 20s, with a light rapier on his hip and a rifle across his back. Fisslebot is playing a 6'3" human male with massive muscles. He has two bastard swords on his back and is dressed in a leather tunic with a skirt. --- We are all boarding a train to the **Arturius Pass**. The continent is shrouded by mist on all the shores. Any ship that left has never returned. We are citizens of the Empire of Artanda and we hope to beat the military to the pass as they will slow down our passing. When we reach the T in the track to head west we see the Artandian military there with their dinosaurs and airships. As we reach the town we see many mercs on the ground. **Apparently there is a high demand for them and they charge double, but armor and weapons are in abundance so it's 25% off.** As we disembark Mikhail says he needs to drop two letters off. We ask for meetup recommendation. We are given the Greasy Cucumber (a whorehouse) and the Puzzling Leaf (an Inn with good rooms). As Barotur twirls a card and says he needs to earn Gold, Caured recognizes the symbol on the card matches the parchment he also has. Barotur and Caured notice Tok'kul whispering about an old man. Everyone except Mikhail heads to try and find a similar symbol to what they have. Mikhail opens a bank account with a 10gp deposit. Most of the city appears to be military and people don't seem to like humans much here. We ask an old man running a fruit cart about the symbol and he points us around to a shitty part of town. Barotur and Dirk spot a sign with the matching symbol on it. There is a strong wooden door there with a copper plate that says **"The Sages Society"** Barotur knocks and says an old man told him he could make money killing people here. An average looking human with green eyes at the bar asks to see our cards and everyone but Dirk shows his. Dirk explains he's following along and is offering to help. The bartender hands Caured a scroll and tells him he can collect his stipend here and a place to get all of his spells material components (Eschew Materials feat, up to 1gp value). We give the Puzzling Leaf as our location we will stay at. We meet back up with Mikhail at the **Puzzling Leaf**. We get Breakfast and Dinner and a room for 5sp. Baths out back are extra, 2cp for a cold water bath, 5cp for a warm bath. He seems to be staring at Tok'kul when mentioning baths. Barotur buys a pitcher of ale and Dirk buys a glass of Absinthe and the mustachioed bartender says to sip it. Dirk starts to swig the glass and the Bartender bitches and says to sip it, and refills it. Then Dirk sips it, then turns around and swigs it. Dirk also buys everyone a bath and asks about this strange old man. A man walks in and looks like the man from The Sages Society's bar but his eyes are different. **He nods to the group, lays down some parchment, and leaves.** It says: **The Ashen Ossuary** (This is 6 miles out of town in the mountains to the south says the bartender as we read this out). Mikhail orders another pitcher of ale and follows it with another. The entire party takes their bath and those who drank sleep it off. **Mikhail says he is supposed to help out Tok'kul as long as it doesn't interrupt his family's interests.** The party awakes and eats breakfast, then leaves the town and heads south into the mountains. We can see war and smoke over the cliffs. Eventually passing through the winding trails, the party reaches a ruined building. This place has fallen to ruin and the alter and pews are rotting away. The road shows recent use and it seems like another group of humanoids was passing through a day ago. Session 2 - 19/09/2020 (BunnyKristin and Goliath Join) --------------------------------------------------------- We head down in further and explore the Ashen Ossuary. As we round the first corner, some goblins and kobolds attack as one yells "Intruder" in Goblin. The party skirmishes a bit and Caured dazes a Kobold. Tok'kul slices the head off a Goblin as Barotur gets stabbed a bit. He responds by wacking a Kobold. Caured dazes a Goblin and Mikhail misses. Tok'kul decides to do some work and kills the dazed Kobold and Goblin. Barotur misses as well and readies himself for attack. With a mumble Caured dazes the last Kobold and then Mikhail stabs the goblin next to him a bit. The last goblin manages to take a poke at Mikhail. Tok'kul kills the Goblin and Barotur finishes off the Kobold. There is nothing of Value on the dead enemies and Caured Cures the Light Wounds of We run into a random Woman in the halls and some old man. Apparently she saw someone being dragged by a Kobold near the train station and was knocked out. The old man was being tailed by some Kobolds and was knocked out as well. Goliath's old man is wearing a heavy brown leather trench coat with a cane and he has some sort of metal lined boots. He has rose tinted glasses. Caured spots some sort of Goblin in Black Plate Armour that disappears with a shimmer and sends a message to Barotur, warning him of invisible enemies. Erandril forbids one Kobold from attacking and Caured dazes the Goblin. Rosie gets a shortbow arrow stuck into a Kobold and Tok'kul slashes and kills one. The party continues to miss but Mikhail kills another Kobold. Caured fails to Daze a Kobold and it stabs him, so Rosie tries to retaliate with an arrow and misses. Mikhail manages to miss again and so does the Kobold who tries to attack him. Barotur gets behind the last Goblin and holds it for Barotur to kill. Caured fails to Daze the Kobold again, so the Scorpion stings it and poisons it. Erandril wacks the Kobold with a cane and it dies. Tok'kul finishes the Goblin off and Erandril starts cutting off the Kobolds' toes and throwing them into a sack. The next room has two large Wrought Iron doors. They are rusted shut but Rosie and Tok'kul get them open. We continue through some tunnels are weird looking chambers. One appears to be where the Kobold and Goblins are sleeping. Eventually another door is found and as we barge in there are 2 ancient suits of armour and a strange looking humanoid in some odd armour. There is also a grey metal table-like object that has no rust on it. Across the top there are four symbols in faded paint and the remains of others that are missing. The Creature in armour doesn't repond. Through another door there is a metal bench with something embossed behind it (it's a keyboard, but we don't understand this). There is no rust in this room. Barotur taps the buttons that have the same symbols on it. --- EXP: 300 (Medium Table) --- Session 3 - 26/09/2020 (HallowsEevee joins, Goliath Leaves) ------------------------------------------------------------ As we leave the dungeon we spot a Female Wizard with a scared looking Mink around here neck. Artanda is winning the war outside, and 3 of their archers remain and Barotur claps for them. The party doesn't draw on them so they approach and ask what we are doing here. They agree to let us loot the Husturians. --- Husturian loot (loot not specific is carried by the party now): - 4 Suits of Leather Armor - 3 Shortspears - 2 Chain Shirts - 3 Longbows - 45 arrows -- **Taken By:** Barotur - 13gp -- **Taken By:** Barotur - 18sp -- **Taken By:** Barotur - 47cp -- **Taken By:** Barotur --- The Elf Wizard says she was sent by the same old man and introduces herself as Kaliope. Apparently the symbol shown is the same one that Rosie saw on an old man. She was told to make stories and songs about the area here. Kaliope was supposedly a six-year student and knew nobody but met the old man. She's been lost in the mountains for 2 days. The party meets eachother some more and more Artandian soldiers come in and put up Palisade Walls. We enter back into the dungeon (with Tok'kul) for Kaliope to try to use the amulet she was given here. She is lead to the area and Kaliope also can't understand this language. Rosie spots the weird mechanical creature starting to move and alerts the party. Kaliope fires some Magic Missles at this creature and then Rosie moves in and misses with her shortsword really poorly. The creature easily shoves off Barotur when he tries to grapple it. Caured lets Barotur know that there was another of these creatures in the other room who's door he is next to through a Message, and then runs for help. Dirk says to run and then gets attacked. It dents his armour but the Paladin survives it without bodily harm. Kaliope Enlarges Barotur and then backs out the door. Barotur doesn't get lucky with his offense so be presses against the door to stop the second from getting into the room. The mercenary is knocked out when the Creature punches him in the face and appears to be bleeding. Kaliope passes Caured and makes it near the entrance (with her average sized legs) while screaming for help. Tok'kul hears it and comes running as Caured passes him. Caured asks to be carried as it would be faster than him running back. Barotur seems to beef up his defense and keeps bracing the doors while insulting the creature. Dirk lands a blow on the construct and slices a piece of the chest armour off. It looks rather banged up. With a plop Tok'kul drops Caured off near the stairs and readies himself for combat. Caured dazes the Construct and Dirk swings into it, clefting the creature in twain. With some grinding and clockwork noises, Barotur gets pushed even further. Tok'kul tells the Large Barotur to let the door open and then smiles at him as he nods back as he is surprised as steam shoots through the door and 2 more of these Clockwork Servants crash into the room. Kaliope fails to stabilize the downed mercenary and Barotur intimidates ones of the enemies, shaking it. Rosie pulls Ero the Mercenary back to where Caured is but he also fails to stabilize him. Dirk misses but Tok'kul manages to slice into the other's chest. It angrily reponds by slamming him and hurting him and Dirk gets slammed and looks badly wounded. Kaliope drags Dirk over to where Rosie, Caured and the Unconcious Ero are. Barotur intimidates the other construct and Rosie starts playing a song (+1 att +1 dmg +4 defense against charm). Caured finally stabilizes the dying Mercenary and Dirk stays safe on the stairs. Tok'kol takes another two swings and destroys the one near him. With a "Hey You", Caured dazes the final creature and Dirk shoots it. Tok'kul finally finishes the last one off with his two Bastard Swords. We hear a hiss of air and the top of the large metal box in the room pops loose. --- EXP: 310 (610 total) Metal Table Loot - Masterwork Stone Platemail (Medium) -- **Taken By:** Tok'kul (1950gp) - Masterwork Chain Shirt (Medium) -- **Taken By:** Rosie (250gp) - Potion of Erase -- **Taken By:** Kaliope (50gp) - Potion of Remove Sickness -- **Taken By:** Caured (50gp) - 3pp - 122gp - 884sp - 1080cp (3pp, 3gp, 2sp, 2cp added to a party fund. 17gp, 126sp, and 154cp each) --- The party heads back to town and runs into the soldiers now constructing a Watch-Tower on their way out. This appears to be a good outlook point and we can see a lot below us, including fires in the valley from the fighting. There is a crashed airship on one of the hills and it is being strafed by Cannon Balls. The bartender is there when we get back to the Puzzling Leaf and people pair off to lick their wounds and rest up after the hard day of work. Session 4 - 03/10/2020 ------------------------- The party except Rosie and Kaliope head to the Sage's Society. Rosie looks for a pickpocket and notices a kid cut a coinpurse and follows them. She very conspicuously approaches the kid and asks him to help her steal. She offers him breakfast and he says he can eat, but the kid denies being a thief and any insinuations. The rest of the group get some chunks of Oxen for breakfast and a blueberry porridge for breakfast and head out. Upon entering the Sage's Society, there's an excitable young man asking how he can help us. After some arguing we hand over the paper saying "Ashen Ossuary" and say the job is done. He pulls out a chest and a large ledger style scroll. Two bags come out of the chest and he says that is our payment. --- Bag Loot: - 275gp - 13sp 55gp, 2sp for each of the 5 there. --- Kaliope looks for a psychic, and finds a building with one in it. One **Madam Courtney** is there. She asks her to go on a walk with her, but she says she is running a business. She asks if an old man was in town, and the woman thinks she is stupid. She instead describes the man in detail and the Madam says she does, but will not do anything without cash as he's a powerful man. Kaliope shows off her Amulet with the symbol from the man and asks what it is worth. The woman instead offers a favour for the man's name. This pyschic asks Kaliope to stop the men terrorizing the neighbourhood her sister sits in. They rob the area and then demand protection money. Deal with them and come back for the name. Rosie eats breakfast with the young kid. Apparently he started stealing at five and is a street urchin with no family. She convinces the kid to hang with her and train her. She pays for a room for a week and lets the kid stay there. The group of five return to the Puzzling Leaf and Kaliope explains the violent mission. Because of this, they all head back out except Tok'kul to scope out the neighbourhood. Tok'kul heads to a nearby church and the Cleric tells him to leave an offering and the gods will heal him through him. Then he points to the collection plate. He leaves 3gp and gets 6hp restored unto him. The others all peek around the neighbourhood. Ero the Mercenary points out this is a decent neighbourhood where people don't have a lot but there are large multi-generational households. Guards seem to just stroll past. There appears to be around four streets here and maybe 100 roads. Dirk asks the guards about any known attacks and they don't know of anything otherwise there'd be more guards around. Barotur tells them about some street gang we are investigating. Kaliope finds some local kids and let them play with her Mink, Zori. She asks them about anything happening during the night. They say a neighbour was robbed in the night, so the party heads there. They were robbed and paid for protection. The group stole their entire stock of ale. They got robbed in the middle of the night. Two men arrived the next morning and they said they heard about burglaries and would run the thieves off. They asked for pay as they have families to feed. After they paid they didn't get broken into again. They'll collect a couple of copper weekly. The group decides to try and cut in on the racket to force a robbery, and then wait out the attackers and interrogate them. This lady points out that quite a few people were burglarized in the area and then points to a house down the street where the man may be home. We head to this house and Barotur takes Caured and Kaliope to the door. The man says he was burglarized about 2 weeks ago. When the protection was mentioned he looks around scared. He won't talk about it and says he will continue to pay his money. Barotur threatens the man and he tells him off so they leave. A teenager opens the door to the next house and Kaliope takes point asking about the burglary. Apparently everyone knows according to the kid. He admits they are paying for the protection and he says they know it's a racket. They have a cleric and they break your legs, then heal it. Caured convinces the kids saying he can take credit. They come to collect in four days. Barotur plans out some tactics. Mikhail on a roof to shoot down the cleric. Mikhail is worried saying they are going to get ambushed. The street is deserted now. Caured says not to enter or they'll kill the kid. They back down the street to the Puzzling Leaf, ready to be attacked. Back at the tavern Tok'kul is hogging down on three large chunks of meat. Zori the mink seems to be interested in the meat, but Tok'kul doesn't give it any. Caured uses the tavern hearth to cook a two sets of leather armour and 5gp into a Potion of Cure Light Wounds in his cauldron. The party pays up and sleeps again at the Inn. Three of the party awakes to hear thudding and some struggle downstairs (Mikhail, Kaliope, and Rosie). Rosie wakes Caured as she was bunking in his room and they head to check it out. Kaliope looks out her door to see Mikhail barging out with his musket and Rosie and Caured leave the room. The sound of scuffling has stopped and light appears as if the main fireplace was lit. Rosie casts Dancing Lights and the door at the bottom is bairly cracked. There are three men unconcious on the floor, and the bartender is finishing tieing the last one up. The party waits out for three days to execute their plans and Caured brews a longbow into three more Potions of Cure Light Wounds and passes ones each to Rosie, Barotur, Tok'kul, and Dirk. The party gets into position and waits. A small cart comes down the road with a man pulling it and another in front of him. They are both finely dressed and the cart has a chest on it. They take currency from each house and put it in the chest. An hour later they get to the door, and yell to open up for the collection. This is when Kaliope casts sleep and both drop into a sudden slumber. We load them into the cart and pull them down the road. The chest is full of Copper Pieces, about 40lbs of them. It is dumped on the ground for the people. Tok'kul notices the street is empty again. The party forgot rope... Dirk and Ero just start walking off, looking ashamed. Barotur takes off his belt and ties one up with it. Footsteps are heard as enemies approach with quarterstaffs and cloaks. Caured alerts Tok'kul who is further away with a message but hears no response as he's busy looking at a fat raccoon. Barotur moves closer to the attackers. Kaliope casts Shield on herself and moves back a bit. With a bang, Mikhail takes a shot hitting one of the attackers and scares off the raccoon that Tok'kul has been staring at. Rosie starts singing a song and the party gains confidence and morale. Mikhail gets hit by a rock from a sling and two swing on Barotur, missing. Caured dazes the sling user and Tok'kul draws his swords as four men approach him. Barotur uses his fists, barely hitting the man who was shot but knocking him clean out instantly. With a band a magic missle fires from Kaliope's fingers and slams into the dazed attacker. While continuing her song, Rosie plinks an arrow into a man's armour, doing no injury to the man. The four near Tok'kul throw rocks with their slings, but only one hits him. They appear to be avoiding his reach. With a "Hey, you!", Caured dazes the other standing man near Barotur. Tok'kul manages to hit one with his wild swings and draws blood. With another thud, Barotur lands a solid hit on the dazed man. Kaliope enlarges Tok'kul, who seems quite happy about it. With another clink, Rosie misses another shot as she sings. These criminals try to attack Tok'kul and Barotur, but only crack into Tok'kul once. Caured dazes another of the ones around Tok'kul, but he continues to get beaten. Two more enemies run up the alley and beat down Rosie. Tok'kul kills one man and drinks his Potion of Cure Light Wounds. With a volley on insults, Barotur yells at the two men who battered Rosie, then he punches at the man near him and misses. Ice shoots from Kaliope's finger but it misses the man near her completely. Mikhail must be sun-blind or unable to control the explosions he contains in his rifle as he misses completely. Suddenly Dirk and Ero return with three groups of City Guards, and the gang of rogues start to flee. As one runs, Tok'kul cuts him in half. Caured Cures Rosie so she doesn't die and she wakes back up. --- Robber Gang Loot: - 16 Daggers - 8 Quater-Staffs - 8 Slings - 8 Masterwork Studded Armour - **One Taken By:** Barotur EXP: 650 (If you are at 1260, do 1300 says Howizter) --- Session 5 - 10/10/2020 (Watchtower Missing, BunnyKristin late) ----------------------------------------------------------------- The guards try to get to the bottom of the events with the giant man and our sniper on the room. After the commotion ends the party is brought to the local watch outpost and questioned. There's a man with a brown bandana and long black there in a holding cell. He has a medium build and is a little lanky. He has a coin in his hand he is toying with and he grunts at the party as they enter. Kaliope gets pretty nervous and goes looking for keys aroud the room. She spots them on belts only and tries to keep an eye on what key they use where. Tok'kul is called into a room for interrogation first. He starts eating in the office and gets given a cup of water. Caured is next and tells them most of the truth, but gives the wrong name for the Inn and calls it "The Puzzling Pickle". Then Kaliope is called in and plays the innocent tourist college student, even getting some licorice. Barotur gives his story saying he was passing through to get to a brothel, but he's not very convincing on where it's located. As we look into the office, a secret door appears to pop open from a wall and **a man in flowing white robes appear**. Barotur makes out hearing "oh they are all lying". He gets up and asks a guard for a washbasin for his hands. They bring him a bucket of water and a rag, so he cleans up and "accidentally spills it". Eventually guards and a large group of people come in. They are all tossed in cells and they look rough and like some sort of hard labourers. The watch commander comes back out and lets the party off with a warning and to not come back. Tok'kul and Caured see the fat raccoon again coming out of the sewers. The rest of the party notices that we have gained someone new as we left. It's the rogue from the jail cell. He's now escaped as we left and he introduces himself saying he just got out of jail. Caured, Kaliope, and Tok'kul can tell he is lying and he gets called out. The guards don't seem to notice him. This man's name is **Antrul** and he is from Port Abauthor where most of the party is from. Antrul says the gang is **The Bloon Talons**. They are brutal and he knows they hide somewhere. The party makes it back to the Puzzling Leaf and Antrul tosses the barkeep a copper and asks for contact with Ragar. Rosie asks Antrul to help her steal and he says he is not a thief. This new man appears to know the bartender. Barotur challenges Antrul to a absinthe race, but the barkeep doesn't like that. Suddenly Antrul points to a table and says he's going to talk to his friend. He chats to him and gets the information for 80gp + a drink. Antrul hands an empty coin purse over and it's clear to everyone it's empty. Ragar puts it in his pocket and then sketches a warehouse and a sewer pipe nearby. The wounded go to the temple to be healed. Afterwords Rosie starts playing outside and asking the boy to pickpocket around as she distracts them. She gains 16sp from the performance and the boy takes 16sp as well. The party heads to the warehouse area of The Blood Talons the next day in the morning after breakfast. They find the gate to the sewer's lock broken but the gate closed and so they head in. This area looks really rough and there is ankle deep sewer water. Inside further there appears to be a carpet. Rosie picks up some hard object from the water and tosses it ahead, and continues as Barotur offers Caured a ride through the water. There is a bed in here. Barotur spots something strange in the rug, and Tok'kul peeks and sees a massive spike trap. Barotur pulls the rug off so everyone sees it. A heavy stone door is at the opposite side of the room, but instead they check through another hallway off to the West. A locked chest is found and Antrul unlocks it with ease. --- Chest Loot: - Box of gems (worth 175gp for the box to the right seller) - **Taken By: Kaliope** - Pink Quartz - Unworked Pyrite (worth 5 gp; Craft (jewelry) DC 10 to repair) - Unworked Chrysoberyl (worth 55 gp; Craft (jewelry) DC 15 to repair) - Lapus Lazuli - Turquoise - 2 Potions - A Large Coinpurse - 149gp - 420sp - 800cp - (21gp, 70sp, and 133cp each with 3gp and 2cp for) --- We hear footsteps coming down the tunnel ahead but Rosie and Tok'kul seem oblivious. Rosie finds another chest before the party catches up and she manages her way through the lock clumsily. The group walks in as she tries to life the heavy item from the chest. --- Chest Loot: - Masterwork Banded Mail --- Kaliope sees the thone and immediately goes up and sits on it. Rosie and Caured see that damn raccoon again. The rest of the party hear steps again. The strong decide to block the doors and wait near a spiral staircase heading down. There's a very large chest down these stairs and Barotur attempts to open it and finds a mimic instead. Tok'kul is far behind so he runs full spread to catch up to the commotion as Barotur lays into the mimic with his fists. Caured fails to Daze the vile thing and it snaps on Barotur again, grabbing him with it's tentacle. Antrul lobs an arrow into the Mimic, and it seems to stick well to the adhesive aberration. Rosie misses with her bow, losing the shooting competition it appears. Kaliope magically bashes the Mimic with her quarterstaff as it flies from her hands and returns. Barotur is unable to grapple the abberation back it seems, but Tok'kul makes it into the room finally. Barotur starts getting crushed by more tentacles as they escape the apparent chest. With another thwip, Antrul manages a sneaky shot on the distracted cursed box and it starts to leak some sort of green ichor. As some force escaping her hands, Kaliope's Magic Missiles hit the chest as Tok'kul moves in and slashes at the mimic. Caured moves in to touch Barotur and heal him, but gets stuck to the mimic as well a he heals his party member. More attacks are missed as Barotur continues to get crushed. Kaliope manges to toss her quarterstaff again and cracks the thing again on it's shell. Barotur is still stuck and struggling to hit it, and seeing this, Tok'kul fails to hit anything in solidarity (or so it appears). Being stuck, Caured pulls out his Gnome Pincher and strikes the mimic in anger, scratching it a little. Again, more misses, but Kaliope's staff pulls through for another strike. With a muster of his strength, Barotur manages to atually hit the creature for once, and he slams into it twice, destroying it. --- Mimic Loot: - Large Glowing Dagger (Fine Craftsmanship, +1 Dagger of Defending for a Large Creature, Longsword for a Medium Creature) - **Taken By:** Barotur - Glowing Longsword (Fine Craftsmanship, +1 Longsword) - **Taken By:** Kaliope - Amulet of Natural Armour (+1) - **Taken By:** Rosie - Ring of Feather Falling - **Taken By:** Caured --- **EXP: 300** --- Tok'kul backtracks a bit and runs into 6 of these Blood Talon Rogues near the entrance and some dashing lookin gentleman. The man says for his mean to teach their visitor the error of his ways. The party know Tok'kul left but doesn't hear the commotion 275ft of passageway away. Caured hides in a pot while Antrul checks under a bed. Kaliope and her Mink hop into a pot as well. Tok'kul tries to intimidate the rogues and the party hears it. Caured gets back out of the pot and starts running to the cry. As the party gets closer, Tok'kul manages to kill one. Barotur finally makes it to the front and immediately gets attacked. The rest of the party continues to fail as they try to make their way and help out, but eventually they all join the fight. With a flurry of eventually landing attacks, the party cuts down these rogues as their boss appears to run away. --- **EXP: 900** --- Session 6 - 17/10/2020 (Watchtower Missing) -------------------------------------------- --- Hideout Loot: - 6 Leather Armour - 6 Daggers - 6 Potions of Featherfall - **Taken By:** 1 x Antrul, Rosie, Barotur, Kaliope, Tok'Kul - 120 Arrows - 6 Masterwork Thieves Tools - **Taken By:** 1 x Rosie, Kaliope, Barotur, Antrul - 6 Masterwork Composite Shortbow - **Taken By:** 1 x Antrul - 20gp (3gp each with 2gp to the party fund) --- The party (except Kaliope) visits the temple and then returns to the Puzzling Leaf. Kaliope heads to Madam Courtney and finds her there. The woman doesn't seem to be happy as the man behind it all is still around. She convinces the old bag that the deal was met and the woman hands her a note. The name on the paper says **"Merlin Arthois"**. Kaliope knows this to be the founder of the Sages Society and apparently he was responsible for recording and writing down the entire history of the world. He died 300 years ago. Madam Courtney advises her not to leave loose ends or they'll come back to haunt you. After some shopping, Kaliope returns to the party at the Puzzling Leaf as well. Kaliope relays the information she learned. Barotur starts blathering about getting paid, despite Caured trying to shut it down. After that the party fights. Caured lies and says his letter said not to trust the one with the amulet. Tok'Kul feels a hand in his pocket and sees Rosie there, so he punches at her and misses. He then leaves and Antrul walks. Antrul drops a letter, and Caured and him Whisper and he passes off a letter secretly from his contact. **The letter says the leader and five guys will kill the kid.** Caured lies about the note but Antrul lets it slip and they run off to save the kid. Rosie steals 3sp from Barotur and then gives it back to him. He checks all of his pockets and finds he is till whole. People are outside in the neighbourhood still this time. The party talks to the kid and Caured and Rosie head inside. Antrul is spotted on the roof and the Leader tells him the scram. He starts knocking on the door and then spots Tok'Kul as Barotur is shouting. There are six members and this old man. These members have nicer gear with longswords and warhammers. The fight starts as Antrul fires an arrow from behind them and into the old man. Barotur cuts in with some punches and hurts one of the ruffians. They move in and start on Barotur and Tok'Kul. Tok'Kul looks horrible after the attack. With a laugh at the violence, the old man who leads the gang pulls out a pistol and shoots Antrul back. Caured slips in and heals Tok'Kul right before he falls, then the angry Half-Orc chops down two of them with his dual swords. Kaliope enlarges Tok'Kul as Antrul looses an arrow into the old man. Antrul gets shot again, as Rosie's Owl swipes at the old man again. The scrap continues, with Barotur dealing more damage and the Owl finally sinking his talons in. The old man summersaults over Barotur and tries to run, but Caured dazes him. After the rest of the party misses, Barotur lands a single punch on the old guy and the Owl, Lilly, takes some of the old man's scalp with him. Barotur drops to the ground Caured's Ear-Piercing Scream kills the old man, despite him not seeming to be dazed. **The Blood Talon Boss finally falls**. Rosie runs over and manages to revive Barotur, who then punches at a surrendering Blood Talon member as Lilly rips the throat out of one of their comrades. We strip the two who survive and take their gear. --- EXP: 900 Loot: - 6 Suits of Chain Mail - 6 Heavy Steel Shields - 3 Masterwork Longswords - 3 Masterwork Warhammers - 120gp (20gp each) Boss Loot: - 1 +1 Chain Shirt - **Taken By:** 1 x Antrul - 1 +1 Rapier - **Taken By:** 1 x Antrul - 1 +1 Pistol - **Taken By:** Mikhail - 5 Cure Moderate Wounds (Caster Level 2) - **Taken By:** 1 x Antrul, Rosie, Kaliope, Tok'Kul, Barotur - 1pp 200gp in a coin purse (33gp each, 1pp and 2gp to the party loot) --- Caured and Barotur drag the two back to the jail with the pile of corpses. As Tok'kul flexes behind Caured, they seem to be scared. There are no more of the gang. They mention a treasury at the secret hideout. The Mimic was named Frank and paid to live there. We seem to feel they are making the treasury shit up, so Barotur punches one in the face, instantly sending him to meet Mr. Sandman. The party drags the remaining man into a temple despite him saying he doesn't feel well in there. The cleric refuse to heal this evil man and so Kaliope grabs Holy Water and Rosie force feeds it to the man, doing nothing. Kaliope breaks off to visit Madam Courtney, and Antrul moves out to avoid heading to the jail. The guard lieutenant is fed a story by the two naked men and he asks us all to come inside. The rest of the party enters of their own volition, but Rosie insults the lieutenant and insinuates he is dumb, so she gets cracked with a club a few times as she is dragged in as Caured fails to Daze her. She is cuffed to a chair in the office. Session 7 - 24/10/2020 ----------------------- The guard commander asks for us the wait for him in a holding cell that acts like a lobby. Rosie, Tok'kul and Barotur notice a guy inside the armory leaving and three people in Blood Talon uniforms paying off the guards. Barotur tells the rest of the party. Kaliope reaches Madam Courtney's shop. The woman says she only took care of one of them. Then the lady leans in and says that Kaliope is in grave danger. She needs to go somewhere safe and wait there. She suggests a man with a rag, so Kaliope runs off to the Inn, tossing 1gp as she goes. As she leaves, Kaliope spots three guards, one in fancy armour. Kaliope spots them looking at the shop and then they spot her and their eyes go wide. They seem to be hunting for her, and not with good intentions. Antrul is back at the bar during this and the common room has only 3 regulars in it by the door. Mikhail is there, but the two haven't met. As he sits down and has a few drinks, Kaliope comes bursting in and starts jumping up and down shouting "guys"! Antrul isn't convinced of what's going on, and suddenly the three guards walk in. The fancy looking one points at Mikhail and Kaliope and says they are wanted for crimes against the city. The bartender sets down the rag, but he doesn't move. One of the drunk men stands up and says Mikhail is a great guy for buying rounds for him and drinking with him for the last 3 days. The Guard commander pulls a sword, it starts glowing blue, then he stabs it through the man's chest and pulls it into his heart. As the man falls, frost is seen spreading from his wound as the sword is removed. With a mutter, the Bartender walks out into the middle of the room and says that the officer just killed his patron and he has a business to run. The guard tells him to go into the back so he can arrest enemies of the state. The tender cracks his knuckles, then mutters something. 2 guards suddenly shriek and drop dead, and the third's neck is instantly sliced. The Bartender tells the three party members to go get their friends, get their shit, and get out. Antrul pretends he doesn't know them, but the bartender calls his shit. Mikhail gets caught up and Antrul hands Mikhail the pistol from before. Eventually they grab what they need, come up with a plan, and leave. Back in the jail, the party readies with Barotur waiting to grab keys and Caured waiting to help. Sudden a mink peeks in the window, so Kaliope is apparently here somewhere. A guard runs by and calls out to another guard that the commander is dead and the fugitives have run. Mikhail makes a bomb and hands it out to Antrul to climb up and drop it lit near the two guards. Tok'kul kicks the door and is told to stop. The doors in the cell are locked from the outside. The main one is tough but the side one is easily kicked open by Tok'kul. The windows here are barred and are mortared in. We see Mikhail put something near the window, wave, then run. As the explosion goes off the guards rush in from behind, and Tok'Kul kills one. Mikhail misses another shot as Barotur flubs two punches. The fight continues, with the party fighting in from both sides. Caured heals up Tok'kul, but outside Mikhail goes down. Barotur kills another guard and Lilly the owl gets some claws sunk in. Caured tries to grab with his pincher to steal a weapon, but fails. Antrul lands a solid shot from his bow into a guard, killing him as well. Mikhail's spurting body eventually seems to stop bleeding, but he appears to be breathing. With another two thuds, Barotur lays into a guard, tenderizing him a fair bit. One of the guards that Rosie goes after runs into the Armory and hides, slamming the door and holding it. The boss refuses to go down as everyone and their owl misses him. With a yell of "Hey You", Caured manages to be useful finally and dazes the guard boss. As a "fwip" sound is heard, Antrul's arrow is deflected by Barotur who thought it was going to hit him. With another punch the Boss Bitch Guard is nearly killed, so Tok'kul finishes him off with a deft chop. As one of the guards runs out, Kaliope tries to fire a Ray of Frost, but this doesn't do much. He almost gets away but Kaliope trips him with Mage Hand, and Lilly the owl drags him back. The man in the armory apparently has the gold in there. Barotur threatens him to open it or the party will, so he seems to start opening it. Suddenly a musket shot is heard as a ball glances off of Barotur from the armory. Kaliope unlocks the door, and Caured opens it from between Barotur's legs. Tok'kul and Antrul take off from the jail quickly as Barotur beats the man senseless. --- Guard Loot (taken as loot by the party): - +1 Guisarme - 1 Suit of Plate Armour - 6 Heavy Flails - 6 Muskets - 3gp --- The guards pile up outside, and tell everyone inside to lay down their arms and they won't be harmed. Barotur and Kaliope feels these guys were telling the truth. Caured heals the man in the armory then cowers in the corner, scared. Two fancily armoured men walk in with armour that appears to be adamantine and mithril. One has a sword, and one has a bow. They ask if any are still alive, and get pointed to the armory. The man with a bow, thuds an arrow into the guards head, ignores Caured, and then walks back out. Apparently these men were investigating corrupt commanders and they found out a precinct was infilitrated by a gang and took a group hostage. Mikhail poorly explains the situation, and the guards want to reward us. Barotur asks for someone safe to stay, and the man with a sword asks us to give him time to think on it. The story being spread is that a gang attacked the guardhouse and the guards lost their lives defending it. Those asking are told to move along. **We are given a deed to this guard precinct. 10% discount to most of the merchants in the city. But we have to do odd jobs for the city for no pay, but keep the loot.** They don't know what work we would be given, but they will ask. They will let us ask for payment for people. If we can justify why we wouldn't take a job, they will be ok with that. --- EXP: 655 --- Rosie tells the kid about the new place and the party decides to keep the building. The two unknown potions are identified as Potions of Pass Without Trace (1st level) and one is taken by Kaliope. The weapons and armour to sell are sold, for a total of 15,652gp and 5sp (5sp to the party fund, and 2236gp to each member). --- EXP: 500 --- **Next session is 5 days in the future (1 week in this world).** Session 8 - 07/11/2020 ------------------------ During the downtime the gang does some fights (Tok'kul and Barotur take eachother on in a bout as well), Rosie steals from random people, and Kaliope tries to sell snacks but it doesn't go very well. Caured buys a Giant Gecko to ride and outfits it with a saddle, spending the rest of the time brew potions. A bar and the stables have been built at the Guild Hall. On the Sixth day a man in a suit arrives and Rosie shuts the door on him. Caured runs over and tries to take the info. He's representing some businesses about some fraud at fights (the party betting on eachother). Caured doesn't give him anything more than "it might have been an escaped prisoner" and he leaves, but he says he tracked the culprit there. Barotur and Rosie awake at night hearing claws scraping on stone. Barotur looks through his door's bars and spots what looks like a man sneaking around, but he has some sort of muzzle and a long tail. The brawler pulls out a dog-whistle and blows on it, and the creature appears to turn and sniff the air. Antrul hears scratching, sniffing, and a voice saying "I know you are here somewhere". Barotur sets a torch alight and yells "who the hell are you?". A dagger barely misses him as he continues blowing on his whistle. The fight breaks out and everyone comes running in. Antrul fires an arrow into the back of the creature near it's spine, and it just draws a little bit of blood and falls out. With Barotur's torch light, Mikhail is able to take a solid shot. This rat-man runs in and tries to bite Barotur, but he is too fast and avoids it. With a chant and a plant, Rosie summons a Mite (Gremlin) next to Barotur. Kaliope runs out and fires a Scorcing Ray at the beast, immediately killing it by removing it's head. --- Ratman Loot - Masterwork Studded Leather - Shortsword - 2x Dagger - 100gp - Rolled Parchment with a Rough Sketch of Antrul's Face --- After a sleep we find a pile of clothing and chewed on bones. There are tiny rat prints in blood leaving the area. Kaliope makes some "Berry Water" (berries smashed in water) while most of the rest of the party leaves for breakfast. Rosie makes some good sandwiches though and those that were left enjoy. Four nights ago on the other side of the valley, an Arthraxian Airship crashed into the mountains after being shot down. There's a Magicite core from the engine left over that the Sage's Society wants (with discretion required). The issue is that there is a massive war in the valley currently. He also offers hunting Wererats in the sewers, and mapping the underdark. The party readies to map the underdark. --- EXP: 85 --- Session 9 - 14/11/2020 ------------------------ Kaliope hires 5 whores, one male and four women. The party heads to the **Puzzling Leaf** and their is a different bartender. She greets them and asks what they want to order. She apparently just bought the place a few days ago. Barotur asks around about where to enter the sewers, and gets directed to a city office where he asks. Apparently guards and employees have gone missing. Apparently now nobody is allowed there now. With a 25gp bribe from Barotur that nearly gives him a heart attack, he draws up a rough map of the afflicted area. The party heads to the manhole to find some Wererats. Caured uses his smaller Giant Gecko to fit in and takes the walls to avoid the deep sewage. They take the ledge where possible. After some wandering, Rosie finds a door hidden behind some stone. There are stairs leading inthe ceiling and a tunnel. We head up and find a long tunnel, leading to a ladder that goes down. There is just a room here. Nobody spots the door except Caured and Rosie, who then open it. Finding another door from Main B, Barotur spots a wererat in it's hybrid form chewing on a bone. It shrieks and suddenly we hear more from behind. Caured retreats as Barotur fists the rat loudly with his silvered knuckles. Rosie summons a Mite as Mikhail misfires his musket. Because of this, he swaps to his magical pistol and shoots a rat deftly during. Rosie hits one with an arrow, but it doesn't do much. Barotur gets a bunch of punches in and finishes them off. --- Wererat Loot: - 2 x Masterwork Studded Leather Armour - 2 x Shortsword - 2 x Light Crossbows - 20 gp (4gp each except Antrul as he fell asleep at the entrance) --- There is a pot that appears tasty, but appears to be a human femor to Kaliope. Caured tries to eat some and it tastes like pork. There are jail cells here with wererats chained to beds. They seem to be passed out from exhaustion. Rosie tries to pick the lock, but fails. Kaliope spends 20 minutes opening the door, then Barotur starts putting them down. Barotur tosses the knuckles to Mikhail to finish off one himself. With many of the rats being found down a passage, the party backs up and Barotur readies his fists. --- EXP: 600 --- Session 10 - 21/11/2020 ------------------------ Tok'kul comes down saying he got bored as we back up from the rats and Antrul is with him with his man after getting lost. Footsteps can be heard, so the party readies for battle, but the sound stops. Mikhail sets the curtain ablaze to try and scare the rats. It purs and smoulders out with nothing happening. Barotur yells out that his party abandoned him. Rosie and Caured know that these creatures have great smell and hearing and would never fall for that. They know how many creatures are here. The creatures say they cannot be freed. Kaliope becomes invisible and tries to peek around despite warnings of scent and sound. The rats run off and some large creature yells "Get your asses back here" (translated from Giant by Barotur). Tok'kul starts to charge in and the party backs him up. In the next room is a pentagram on the ground with a smaller one in the middle. There are 3 wererats, a Minotaur with an axe, and a naked woman who seems to be getting sacrificed. Barotur insults the Bull-Man as the fight starts. Caured fails to cause Misfortune in one of the rats as Tok'kul and Barotur get attacked with shortswords. Tok'kul's attacks seem to do almost nothing, so Kalope enlarges Tok'kul. With a clank, Barotur's Silver Knuckles glance off. The Merc (Lurs Alrich) dodges a hit, but misses his slash. Antrul gets a bolt into one, but it quickly falls out. With a sneer, the Minotaur starts to walk away with the woman. Rosie yells at him to get back. Rosie gets a bash in and Mikhail shoots the Minotaur in the calf, causing it to drop the prisoner. Antrul fires a shot from his bow and Lurs fires a bolt, hurting some more. Kaliope puts some rats to sleep magically. Mikhail is impaled through his guts with a Minotaur's horn in a burst of blood. The man stabs back at the beast as the rest of the party rallies to fight it out. The Minotaur is ended quickly and misfortune falls on one of the rats from Caured. Rosie finishes one of the sleeping rats off. With a yell of "Hey You", Caured fails a daze. Barotur finds some water, but it appears to be moving... A beast bursts from the water, some Shambling Mound. Rosie gives the mound some frostbite unpon hearing Barotur thudding his fists into mud. Barotur is downed by the shambling mound as he gets tossed clear from t he room. Mikhail lands a legendary shot and blasts an arm off of the mound. Kaliope drops a pants potion into Barotur's mouth and bring him back up. With a plunk, Antrul misses his shot, and his mercenary moves in and misses as well. The mound misses as well though, so it's not much of a fight. Lilly the Owl gets a clam into the mush and it's not looking too good. Antrul and Lurs drop the mound and Caured gets to healing Barotur and --- EXP: 1007 + 150 (Now 6397) --- Antrul finds a chest in the water. In the doors there are 18 naked female prisoners of varying races. Barotur and Rosie start holding silvered weapons to the women and they freak out. The silver seems to have no effect. The party argues to kill all the women, but Tok'kul, Caured, and Mikhail don't want to. --- Loot - Coins, Art Scrolls, Small Magical items. - 3000cp - 4000sp - 1800gp - Solid Goldd Idol of a Bull - Quartz Statue of a Mermaid - Diamond Ring - Scroll of Tansposition - Wand of Cure Light Wounds ( 10 Charages- CL 10) - Wand of Cure Moderate Wounds (10 Charges - LCL 5) - Crystal of Lifekeeping, Least - **Taken By:** Barotur - Chrono Charm of the Grandmaster - **Taken By:** Tok'kul - Wand of Knock (10 Charages - CL 1) - Cloak of Predatory Vigor - Necklace of Fireballs (Type 2) - **Taken By:** Rosie - Large Greataxe - **Taken By:** Tok'kul - Large +1 Hide Armour - 3 Shortswords - 2 Longswords - 5 Crossbows - 3 Masterwork Studded Leather Armour - 2 Masterwork Chainmail - Marble Elephant Figurine of Wondrous Power - **Taken By:** Kaliope - 1gp, 3sp, 4cp to the party funds. - 257gp, 571sp, 428cp each. --- The party escapes the sewers with the loot. Outside there are 14 members of the Arturius Army there. 7 spears, 3 crossbows, 3 rifles. An officer approaches and asks us to come with him. Barotur immediately starts to get defensive, and Rosie and Kaliope keep badgering them. Caured and Antrul immediately join the forces when asked. This force leads the party back to the City Centre, at the base of the tower. This is a waiting area for the city council. Session 11 - 27/11/2020 ------------------------ The party sits in the waiting room, free of familiars and weapons after being searched. There are 14 people around a table in the room the group is brought into. These people are in fancy dress, and there are many guards surrounding them. A few rifleman are in the crowd, weapons roughly aimed at Kaliope, Caured, and Rosie (the spellcasters). "Members of Guardpost 1391" are accused of killing the shambling mass that was guarding the sewers of intruders. Apparently there is an issue we can help with. The city deployed forces around the city, but there have been some attacks from neighbouring cities. They cannot defend caravans that head near the trains in the cities. To the East there are friendly orcs, but it seems the caravans have come under attack in that area recently. The most recent attack was 10 miles east of Arturius Pass. A plan is put together for the weaker of the party to stay outside and the rest to hide with a caravan, hoping for an ambush. 2 days later, and some shopping later, they find a caravan and sign on as guards. Three wagons smoking and smashed through the middle as if chopped by the hand of some vengeful giant god. 6 dead humans, and 2 dead dwarves line the ground, with 6 dead orcs. All are naked, and 2 orcs are under a dead grizzly. The bear was stabbed by tribal orcish spears and man-made spears. Rosie spots three distinct trails of tracks, one of wagons on the road, another of several heavy bi-pedal humanoids that merge with the tracks. There's a massive trail of smashed tree limbs as creatures of varying sizes ran and attacked the wagons. The undergrowth blocks the tracks eventually, 300ft or so away. The caravaneers are blaming this on the orcs, and they don't bury the orcs, they just toss them off the road. Rosie sends her owl up, but it doesn't see much. With this attack passed and the risky areas cleared, each gets 1gp for the guarding done and the party parts way with the Caravan. As the Orc tracks are followed, six centaurs in Arturian tabbards point bows at the party. They are suspcious of us, and start speaking in Sylvan to get the captain. Mikhail surprisingly shoots his musket at one nearly unprovoked, so Tok'kul follows it up with a stab, a hairs width from taking this horse out of the races for good. Caured rocks one horsey to sleep, as Kaliope scares the manure out of another. Barotur tries to perfect his Donkey Punch on a horse, and manages to tenderize some of that chevaline meat for his future schep. Antrul lobs an arrow into a horse-man, making the worlds most unbalanced kebob. Caured is not the Horse Whisperer he thought he was as the second one refuses to take it's nap like that four year old cousin who your aunt thinks is an angel. The second skewer enters the Kabob as Rosie fails with both body and bird. With a arcane toss of her sword, Kaliope steals her sixth kill from both the Reaper and Tok'kul (of which the greater we may never know). A playful tap on the ass from Barotur leads to the Centaur near him running to tattle on him to HR. With a perfect impersonation of an alarm clock, Mikhail makes a loud noise next to the Centaur as he just grazes it. It awakens to Caured yelling, which is apparently as useless as it sounds. To see if it truly is awake, Antrul thwacks an arrow into the ground near it as Rosie misses hitting a large horse with a stick somehow... Kaliope, never one to miss out on a trend, throws her sword magically in the ground as Tok'kul moves in to stare lovingly into the Centaurs eyes as it bleeds all over the grass. With some forethought to the gather of reinforcements or the aforementioned captain, Rosie sends up her bird to watch and alert if they are near to arrival. As the party continues to miss every hit, the bleeding Centaur slowly walks away while looking back confused. --- Loot: - 3 x Breastplates - 3 x Longbows - 30 x Days of Rations - 3 x Sets of Chain Barding (for a horse) - Sgt Rank Tabbard - 2 x Pvt. 1st Class Rank Tabbard - 60 x Arrows --- Travel resumes to follow the orc tracks. Eventually a palisade wall is found, and there seems to be wooden structures and cooking fires inside. Four orcs with spears are in front of the open gate. The compound has 10 orcs on the far sides, leading 2 owl-bears on chains that are armoured, one with a small catapult on it's back. There are orc children playing with a Dire Wolf as well. Caured waves to the guards and Tok'Kul asks for a parlay. They are confused, and say just to walk over... The Orcish continues as the guards are asked where the Chieftan is. There is a central lodge in the settlement that houses them. The party is directed there with their wagon. Orcs and a few goblins are in the town, with Owlbears chained as well. Mikhail does a bunch of the talking in brining the poor tidings. **Elrog the Slaughterer** (an Ettin with a pack of tamed Grizzlies) is the name given of the culprits of the bears and large creatures that killed the orcs. They are mercenaries with some Orcs in the gang that are without work and raiding caravans. The Arturian troops are not willing to listen, so these Orcs are trying to raid these mercenary camps. Rosie's owl reported that the 3 escaped Centaurs went to the military camp in the area. There is a feast to be held for us, and Caured quips about Tok'Kul just waving his sword around, so the overly proud Half-Orc kicks him away. Elrog has 14 hob-golbin unit of Professional Legionares. There is Ogre Artilery, Orc Barbarian Beserkers, and Orc Calvalry in Elrog's mercenary band. Caured pitches setting up an ambush with wagons and the party as bait. The chiefton wants the feast and night to end, then a discussion can be had further. **The Tribe is Named Shattered-Horn.** Wooden and bone mugs clash as the feast is started. Kaliope meanders to a small fire with some boiling water and young orcs. They pour what appears to be lamp oil in the water, set it alight and then chug it. Caured follows suspiciously, and she gets handed a cup. Kaliope downs the cup and looks in pain, but then starts to dance. Barotur tries as well, and then Caured stealthily taps them both and heals them. Mikhail and Rosie follow in and Caured heals them too, looking very annoyed at having to tend to their wounds later. Tok'Kul takes a double large shot. Caured heals him, then takes a drop of his blood, then curses Tok'Kul with some necromantic power to hex him again. The gate that was closed at night is now opened and figures are approaching. Rosie spots the corpses of the Guards at the gate. Humans wearing the Arturius uniforms are approaching. Suddenly a warcry is heard and the Orcs charge. Caured uses his curse on Tok'Kul to heal him again. The team gets started and Kaliope drops Glitterdust, revealing a strange but somewhat familiar looking shape that was invisible before. Damage is dealt and Kaliope makes a rolling sphere of fire and rolls it across 2 spearmen, charring both a bit. The Orcs maange to down a few on their own as the party keeps chipping away at the mass of enemies. Session 12 - 29/11/2020 ------------------------ Rosie makes a man wet with a Hudraulic Push as Caured cradles a spearman to sleep. Seeing the owl and clearly being inspired by the heros of birds, Barotur Falcon Punches a blind spearman as he makes his approach. Chop goes a greataxe as Tok'Kul decides that he'd rather remove the "Man" part of the Spearman from the equation. With thwip, Antrul lobs an arrow right past a completely unknowning blind man, possibly just to confuse him in his poor condition. Magic shoots forth from the College Runaway's fingertips and missles of force strike some targets. They seem to confuse them more than hurt them though. In an act of savagery, the Owl named Lilly pulls the trachea clean out of one of the attackers. He spurts hard and dies like an 80 year old man on his first last of Viagara. The Clockwork man's gears are ground to dust beneath Tok'Kul greataxe. He does manage to stop himself from snorting the leftover dust in his passion of battle. Kaliope keeps the ball-a-rollin' and chars another with here sphere, but her pitching arm needs some work as her sword toss goes wide and fouls. Tok'kul chops again and fells another like a giant hitting a sappling. A shimmering man shape (some invisble creature) is behind the tribal elders and Rosie spots it. Worried the blind archer may be more dangerous than the 20/20 vision master that keeps missing, Caured puts him to sleep. Barotur yells that enemy reinforcements are coming from the rear, and warns to bar our behinds from their raging onslaught as they force their way in as the party is busy screaming. As the next part of the battle starts, an Elder is heard yelling in Orcish, then a roar is heard as somes beast hears the cry. The spears from the rears walk in in 3x3 formations as the Orcs end the few comrades that left. Thwip goes Rosie's bow as it lands a hit (clearly living that "everybody gets one" dream of donating arrows). Then Lilly charges, as much as any bird can, and it takes a piece of one of the men as a souvenir in it's talons. Armour creaks as Kaliope casts "Expand Dong, and the rest" on Tok'kul and he stands tall. Caured calls for nap-time and lays out a blanket for another Spearman, and then big daddy Tok'Kul backs it up with a quick chop chop, ending that man and another like a slapchop to a salsa. Mikhail and Antrul are surrounded and confused like the couple who walked in on the swinger party uninvited. With haste Mikhail uses a move we like to call "running away like a little bitch to not die", leaving Antrul waving to the crowd like a lost child at a NAMBLA convention. Eventually Antrul uses his swift movement to "back the fuck up" as well. Magic, showing it's power, throws a ray of fire from Kaliope's hands and into the souls of a spearman as they make their escape from the charred husk that used to be a body. Suddenly four Owlbears charge in from the rear as Tok'kul takes the pointy end of the stick multiple times, doing nothing more than showing that rock beats paper. Other spearman try to poke the Owlbears, which really seems ill-advised since they are right next to the trained giant creatures and probably don't want them angry. With a solid thump, Rosie lands a wack from her Shillelaghed Staff and then her bird follows it up with two solid misses, just to make her proud. Barotur goes for a rear fisting and lands solidly, with a squelch as it nearly finishes the man immediately. Tok'kul, not wanting to be outdone, takes his Bastard Sword and hits a man so hard that it looks like the Koolaid Man just ran through his chest, leaving nothing more than red mist and broken dreams. A shot in the rear of a man attacking an Owlbear from Antrul brings some more confusion to the fight. There is a scream heard across the world as Kaliope steals another kill with her arcane sword-tossing skills. It seems she can only hit when the strike would take away a potential notch from Tok'kul. With the fight going so poorly, the guards try out Mikhail's and Antrul's secret technique of running away. Most of the remaining invaders are killed and one is tackled and held by the Orcs. The Owlbears stare menancingly, but are stopped from turning the party into paste by the Orcs. A feast continues on top of the fallen, as female orcs strip the bodies for loot, taking the armour and weapons to a tent to be repurposed for the tribe's use. The Owlbears have collars that suddenly eminate a spell that causes them to fall asleep. Kaliope and Caured head to sleep instead of the party. --- EXP: 1628 (8025 total) --- Mikhail joins Kaliope in the tent and Rosie heads in as well. The elders interrogate the prisoner, doing strange things like chewing on his head and licking his ear-holes or whatever gets the DM off. It seems all the soliders all had the guard uniform on. There are no army uniforms and it seems strange that so many guards would have been out there. Their uniforms don't match the army Centaurs that were encountered before. Kaliope awakes and finds a hunk of meat the lob in her gob as he inspects her portable bathtub for damage. Rosie and Kaliope go to talk to the Elders to see what happened. Caured stays away as he doesn't think speaking without Tok'Kul is a good idea. Kaliope asks about any info from the captured guard. They tell us of the mission we were given, and that these men followed to ambush the Orcs by following us. The party was supposed to be killed in the fighting and then honored as heroes. It seems a few guards escaped so more attacks may happen. These Orcs seem to want to take on Elrog first. They believe the city knows of him and they more want to expand into the Orc territory for more power and influence. Suddenly Rosie asks them how long they last in bed, so Kaliope pulls her away. The Elder winks at Rosie as she is dragged away. Kaliope relays the bad news of failed martyrdom to the party and then again when the others finally awake from their drunken stupor. **The fake caravan of "Gold" is the new plan and the party readies for that.** 7 days will pass to complete the caravan. Session 13 - 12/12/2020 ------------------------- A week later the party heads out with a Caravan crafted by the Druid Rosie. Caured spots a raccoon back behind the group, and it scampers off. Above the trees to the right is a Giant with 2 heads, and it grins. **It appears Elrog is here.** With a thud, he smashes one of the wagons off the road. He turns to go deeper into the woods and several creatures run out towards the party. Four Orcs, and Ogre, and a Bear run out from the woods. Tok'kul quickly finishes off the first Orc and Caured gives another a bad day at the card tables with a Hex. With pure anger at seening his hard work turned to kindling, Rosie shoots an arrow into an Orc as her Bird Lilly claws up another. Chops with Greataxes cut into Tok'kul, two striking true and hitting flesh. With a hefty heave, the big Boi lobs his rod into Tok'kul penetrating him hard. The Ogre yells "Surround the big ones. Keep the loot." in Giant, which a few of the party understands. As a loud bang is heard, Mikhail lands a shot as he is covered in black smoke. Kaliope uses "Big Boi Spell" on Tok'kul making him fucking huge like Andre the Giant on straight roids 24/7. With his large ass now being easier to reach, Caured touches Tok'kul and heals him up a bit as Rosie fires her bow at the Ogre. Lilly the bird claws at a big ol' bear and Antrul follows up with an arrow to the beast's shoulder. Barotur flanks the last Orc and finishes him off. The Ogre calls out "for Elrog" in Giant, and then attacks Tok'kul, nearly downing him with the giant crack. Not one to miss her opportunity to steal the glory, Kaliope tosses her sword into the Ogre, doing little to harm it and failing her goal. Two more sword-chops land and kill the Ogre by Tok'kul's hand. Caured follows by putting the last beast on the field, the bear, to sleep. As the bear sleeps, Lilly the owl rips out it's throat, ending it. Caured tosses 2 potions of Cure Light Wounds to Tok'kul as the party checks for loot. --- Loot: - 4 x Scale Mail - 4 x Greataxe - 8 x Javelin - 1 x Large Hide Armour - 1 x Large Greatclub - 3 x Large Javelin --- Kaliope tries to make a trap to hold the raccoon, but Rosie knows it won't work and says it. The wagons are setup for an attack, so the party waits 2 hours. After 2 hours, nothing happens, so they set out into the woods. Rosie is easily able to point out the Giant tracks as they lead to a woodcutter's path. It's followed for a while until some rocky terrain is reached. Near some old graves there is a Troll and a group of orcs. They tell us to turn around and leave, but the party refuses, starting a fight instead. Caured tries to sing the Troll sweetly to sleep, but it doesn't phase him. Antrul feigns an attack on the big guy, reading for a sneak attack down the line. The enemies charge up and two Orcs with bows riding Worgs run in to join from the bottom. Mikhail prematurely ejaculates his Musket and spends the next while jamming his rod in there to clear out his pipes. With his Crane style ready, Barotur moves up and readies for attacks. Rosie calls a wave forth pushing an Orc back a bit. Feeling opposite, Rosie calls down a flaming sphere. The big fucker falls on bad luck as Caured Hexes him, and Antrul follows up with a hit and sneak attack. Barotur is attacked, and saved by the Troll's misfortune as he misses. As he swaps weapons, Mikhail lands a shot on the Troll with his Pistol. To follow the violence, Barotur starts punching at the Orc near him, hitting once in his flurry. Kaliope steals the kill on the Troll with her Ball of Fire (Flaming Sphere), ending it for good as it's heart roasts. She also tosses a blade into an Orc on her way out. Caured puts an Orc to sleep as the rest of the party cleans up some of the attackers. Some of the enemies run away, leaving a rider trapped beneath his Worg that Caured put to sleep. The party ties up the two Orcs left and kills the Worg. --- Loot: - 4 x Scale Mail - 4 x Greataxe - 1 x Masterworkd Hide Armour - 1 x Masterwork Battlaxe - 1 x Shortbow - 19 x Arrows - 1 x Exotic Military Saddle - 1 x Backpack (Smelly Leather Satchel) - 1 x Scroll of Break - 1 x Masterwork Heavy Steel Shield - 31pp - 321gp - 70sp (4pp, 45gp, 10sp each, and 3pp/6gp to the party funds) --- EXP : 1,142 (9,167 Total) --- Tok'kul starts intimidating and speaking in Orc and apparently the camp lies further up the way. The great minds of the party figure Elrog is probably alone or near it. Wagons make good cover as the party camps for the night, with Caured tending to the wounds. In the next day, the party walks until the ground gets marshy. Eventually Elrog and an Ogre are spotted. Kaliope calls him out to try and intimidate Elrog, so he tosses a Javelin at him. A ray flies and scortches up the shoulder of the Ettin, but it doesn't do much. Caured tries an Ear-Piercing Scream at Elrog, but he resists most of the sonic effects. Barotur calls out an intimidates the Ettin, getting Elrog to focus on Barotur. Rosie heals up Tok'kul preventing him from dropping during his Orcish furvor. Her Owl Lilly gets a claw in as well on the Ogre, but Mikhail steals the kill with his Musket. With just Elrog left, Antrul lobs an arrow into him while he's distracted. Kaliope drops her Glitterdust, blinding the Ettin and revealing no invisible enemies. With his sweet nothings ignored, Caured fails to put the giant to sleep. Damage is dealt by Tok'kul, Barotur, Rosie, Lilly the Owl, and even Mikhail even hits a shot, killing the beast with a shot through the heads. --- EXP: 578 (9,745 Total) --- Loot: - 20pp - 300gp - 8000cp - 1 x Brass Mug (250gp) - 1 x Black Pearl (No idea) - 1 x Lesser Crystal of Adamant Weaponry (Hardness of weaponry by 5) - 1 x Handy Haversack (https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/wondrous-items/a-b/bag-handy-haversack/) - 1 x Ring of Sustenance (https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/rings/ring-of-sustenance/) - **Taken By:** Kaliope - 1 x Bead of Force (https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/wondrous-items/a-b/bead-of-force/) - 1 x Oil of Greater Magic Weapon (https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/m/magic-weapon/) (2pp, 42gp, 1142cp each, 6pp/6gp/6cp to the party funds). --- EXP: 500 (10,245 Total) -- For completing the Elrog quest. ---