Author: Herald of the Sandwhale

Session:31

   

    After the party hears something ashton climbs a tree and spots with Chuq’s spyglass a kobold 60-70 yards away hiding up on a tree. Ashton shoots an arrow into the kobolds back making it crumple to the ground. Searching through the dead body they find nothing and inform Adelard of the kobold. The group accompanying Starchy’s Boyz starts to fan out to sweep the area. Faldspar went northwest, Thorfus went north, Chuq and Ashton northeast.  The rest of the party stayed to protect the wagon.

The northeast group ended up finding small tracks near the ford. Bringing the whole party over it is almost night time. Deciding it be better to camp for the night the warband creates watches for the night. during the beginning of the first watch Axel pours oil on the pathway to set in fire just incase.

   

The night goes on without a hitch. Devising a plan in the morning; a scout party of Ashton, Chuq, Orion and Faldspar cross the river. Ashton stumbles upon a kobold that unfortunately was able to stick him well enough to drop him quite well. Orion was able to hear the fight go on and the scouting party was able come barely save him.

   

Hiding Ashton with Orion and Faldspar with the dead kobold; Chuq goes down south. The scout party that is watching over Ashton start to hear kobolds yapping. Faldspar and Orion prep their spells preparing for the worst. The moment a kobold popped it’s head out of the bushes to look, Faldspar summoned an illusion of a gigantic pumpkin head scarecrow with a scythe. The scarecrow swiped at the kobold “decapitating” it. There were another four kobolds that saw their friend die to this monster. The scene was too horrific for them and fled in fear with the scarecrow chasing them close behind.

   

Chuq hurriedly gets to the warband to tell of Ashton’s condition and to start crossing. as everyone is crossing  the river they are attacked by 15 kobolds from 150 yards away volleying arrows on them. As the assault is going on, Axel feels his cart gets caught; Chuq dives down and is able to free the the wheel from a contraption. Finklemur’s horse got the clamps but thankfully Chuq saved the horse as well. Everyone is on shore except for poor baldin who was unable to make it through the river. with only eight kobolds still firing down on them it shouldnt be much longer until they’re dealt with . Ashton, Orion, and Faldspar are still waiting for the rest of the warband unaware of the fight going on.

Session 17

    Perete raises an eyebrow and asks the party if we’re going to New Town and says he will be revealing the tomb under the university to Lord Thornton. He asks for any information that will help him and the guards explore the tomb. They inform perete of a certain location in the tomb that him and the guard will need to investigate. In exchange Perete gives the party a tip to talk to Gosprend. The party hails a cart down and travels to New Town. Before they arrive they stop at a store and everyone purchases some nice and fancy backpacks.

    

    Upon arrival Axel tells a guard that they would like to meet with Gosprend. The guard recognizes the party and brings them into a waiting room. Gosprend comes out and brings the party to his office.  They start to discuss as to what happened with the lord mayor and the man that had killed him. Gosprend inquires as to why we are there. The party didn’t reveal it was for Lord Thornton but Gosprend seemed intent with what he was told. After Gosprend helped the party with directions; a pear shaped man named Apidius came into the room and was sent to go get a key for the party. They also get directions to Jocasa’s and where Baron lived.

    

    As the party heads over to Jocasa’s, Faldspar notices a beer stand which they go over to quench themselves from the heat. There was an old man by the stall which he highly recommends the beer. One sip from the beer revealed that it was quite terrible. He inquires as to what we’re doing, which Faldspar tells the man we’re going to meet Jocasa. He’s excited since he knows her and introduces himself as Finklemur Mudhuck and brings us over to her home.

    

    The party is invited into Jocasa’s home and discusses the dissapearance of Em.  Finklemur decides to join the party to find Em and tells the group that he knows magic, he is accepted into the group. The party goes up a level to Em’s home where the group talks to her parent’s getting the details of what happened when she came home.  The group finds out the name of the driver, Warren whom brought Em home. The party leaves over to the Pirate Princess Tavern to investigate Baron’s home. The apartment is rather small but pretty torn apart from what looks like guards coming in. Finklemur discovered a burnt pamphlet in the stove that showed a strike on the 30th of Enreldan. The party except for Axel realized that Baron was a drunk but found no bottles and the clothes didn’t smell like alcohol.

    

    The party leaves Baron’s apartment and knocks on the neighbors door to inquire about Baron. A man opens the door and lets them in and is questioned by the party about Baron. Thorfus realized that he couldn’t fully open up with his wife there and brought him out. He tells the party that he never really saw Baron drink but instead brought boxes in for a man named nute. The party goes into the tavern to talk to nute, however Finklemur casts a charm spell on nute . This reveals that there is a press for the pamphlets in the basement of the tavern.  Nute reveals the names of people organizing it, Euginia, Hardwin, and Fridwick. However Fridrick was drinking in the tavern and looked at Finklemur like “who is this?” which prompted the party to leave.

    

    The party stocks up on alcohol and proceeds to go over to the canals. There is a woman staring intently at the party, they gain interest and walk over to her. After introductions she points to where Baron’s body was found and gives the name of the person who found the body, the persons name was Hildebrandt. She finds out that the party was the one that found Baldric’s Gem and said she needed help with something and to trust her.

    

    She leads the party into a warehouse and inside is a man and woman. The man introduces himself and the woman, he beckons the party over to the water. They hear a voice in there head, which turns out to be a devil fish of Lisander.  He offers the head of the assassin in exchange of destroying the book. After some discussion they agree to do it,  informs them to destroy emperial roll volume 24. Finklemur asked by himself if there were any arcane arts to be imparted on him for the task and what his name is. The fish had said it’s possible and that it is Drayz.

Session: 12

    Our group emerges out of the sewers only to see an orange glow and smoke out in the distance of the city. As everyone gets out Perette informs the group that he is giving them a week before he tells Lord Thorton that the tomb they are exploring is on university grounds. After this is explained two guards come up to the group telling them to lay down their weapons. Perette told them he was Thortons right hand man and ended up convincing them.

    It turned out while down in the sewers some crazy person had killed the mayor. This has led in people going around in mobs and acting violent. Perette deputized the guards, one to escort him to Lord Thorton and the other to escort to the Cock N’ Bull.

    As the group followed the guard named Montrel through the town they saw a mob in the distance and decided to hide as to avoid confrontation. As the mob got closer they could see that they were all wearing masquerade masks, one had a girl  tied up. When the guard saw this he came out from hiding to confront the mob and enforce the curfew that was put in place. The guard knew the mob as it turns out they are university students but the leader was a real nasty person.

    The leader laughed at Montrel and didn’t take him seriously as well with saying that they’re bringing her in for questioning. As this is going on Thorfus yells “you’re going the wrong way to Lord Thorton’s” the leader says “there are other higher powers than just him”.  Thorfus has had enough and gets out from the shadows telling them to drop the girl. Him and his party just got out of the sewers fighting machines and aren’t in exactly a good mood. This makes leader realize that it’s probably a good idea to let the woman go. Faldspar comes out from hiding and hypnotizes half of the mob including the leader.  He told them to put down their arms which they complied to. Faldspar questioned the leader asking who the other powers were in town other than Lord Thorton.  The leader told Faldspar who it was, after that Faldspar told them to go back home and leave their weapons. One person from the mob was shocked that the leader whom he called Elaine would leave his sword behind.

    The group untied the girl who was distraught, Montrel asked the group if they could accompany the girl back to her home. Once they made it to the girls home which was a bakery it looked like it had been trashed by the mob from before. Inside was a woman with a broken arm sitting over a man that was unconcious. The party decide to take the family with them as it didn’t seem safe at all to leave them especially if the mob of university students came back.

    The part eventually makes it to the Cock N Bull to see that there were wagons blocking their townhouse and there was a dead body up the street. The party knocks on the door to the Cock N Bull only to hear a gruff voice saying “can’t you leave decent folk alone!” After a bit of convincing they were let inside to see that there were many wounded people lain on the ground.  The party goes to the town house and leaves the family, Tarion, and Faldspar to rest with Sturloc, Kottar, and Kilmar guarding. The rest of the party goes to investigate the body and saw that the person had been shot in the back by an arrow. They go check on Desrick, who seems to be doing just fine. After that the party turns in for the night needing to get some rest.

    The following morning they get themselves ready to go and sell everything they picked up from the tomb. The first destination was the jeweller to sell the gold and jewelery they had for quite a hefty sum. Afterwards they went back to Desrick’s house, there they tell Desrick as to what has happened down there and what they saw. They ended up selling the mechanical beetles to him and asked about the black cubes they had. He said that they may be a book or a library from the dwarves but he wasn’t sure.

    Once they were done with Desrick the party went to repair their weapons and headed off to Talisin’s to sell the books they acquired. The shop is closed up and they go ask in the nearby tavern to which they were told to keep knocking. The door opened up to what looked like a stereotypical evil looking person. Galron ended up detecting evil on him to find out he was infact evil. They are brought in to meet with Talisin and show the books. He could only read one which was to disable automatons, it turned out Faldspar hadn’t read the other one which was actually written for illusionists and it was about taking control of automatons. Talisin took notice that Faldspar was an illusionist and insulted him by saying that books are hard. Faldspar rebuttaled by saying “Yes that’s why you couldn’t read this one right?”. After the pleasantries the party pulled out one of the black cubes. Talisin had a greedy look of curiosity on his eyes and wanted to buy the cube right away. The party refused because they may need it in the tomb. On the way out Ethan expresses worries to the group as to what his mentor is doing and says to not give him those cubes. Talisin and that evil man have been doing something in the tower without him. Galron tells Ethan that if it gets worse to come get them. The  group rushes off to Aldus’s with a wagon to acquire information before the curfew for the day. He gives the same information that Desrick did however, he is able to identify the black cube as a possible library.

I lost all of my notes from our last session so I hope this is pretty accurate.

Session 8

In this session the party grew larger and entered into a dwarvish tomb. The party got themselves ready for a celebration in the church of Baldric for finding the Crown of Baldric. They were being watched during the celebration by a crowd in awe because of what they had found in the sewers. In the crowd looked to be an short elvish rogue and and a portly looking robed man.

They had piqued the party’s interest especially when the rogue blundered on pickpocketing a coin purse from a man. The elf started to sprint off with Galron furiously chasing behind shouting “THIEF!”. The portly man cast some mystical lights in the air to distract the crowd from what had just happened. The rest of the party had noticed the man do this and told him to stop his friend. As he yelled to the elf to stop, he kept running while Galron was trying to keep sight of him.

The man ended up introducing himself as Faldspar to the rest and had arranged to meet at the Cock & Bull tavern. Faldspar ended up finding his companion and took a wagon ride to the tavern. There the elven man introduced himself as Tarion to the bartender and introduced Faldspar to her, whom she blushed at.

Back at the celebration, Galron met up with the party again and entered the church. While Thorfus, Galron and Axel were busy talking to noble men and gorging themselves on seafood Ir’alle was in a corner shying away from people as he wasn’t in the mood to speak. Galron saw that after a while and asked Ir’alle if he wanted to go back and get a drink at the Cock & Bull tavern. The left the celebration and took a wagon ride back. Axel and Thorfus had ended up leaving an hour later

As Ir’alle and Galron made it back to the tavern, Galron had yelled “First 8 rounds on me!” and spent 2 gold on drinks for the people in the bar. As he was passing drinks out to people he saw the thief who he had been chasing. Tarion ended up convincing Galron that he had not tried stealing anything. However he wasn’t fully convinced and kept his on him for the night. Thorfus and Axel made it back to the tavern and ended up sharing a drink with Faldspar and deciding that tomorrow they would discuss how they would be tested. While Tarion went outside and started to sing melodiously to people as they walked by and made a pretty penny. Galron mesmerized by the singing tried to sing as well but it made people walk on the other side of the road.

While everyone went to bed Tarion had snuck out of the private room shared with Faldspar and not so sneakily went into the common sleeping room. He leaned very closely to the nearest man’s face to see if he was asleep, which he was not. After making it seem that he was just making sure his “snoring” wasn’t keeping anyone up before he retired for the night.

In the morning everyone had breakfast except for Tarion whom snuck out the window as Faldspar left the room. After breakfast everyone went to the townhouse to discuss the plan and what to do for the day. Once it was decided to go back down to the sewers the party set off to go grab some assistants.

At the sewer hole Thorfus had spotted a suspicious man looking the other way and ended up approaching him. After talking to him he ended up joining on the expedition. Once the party was down in the sewers they followed the marks that were left behind. The party encountered goblins that Thorfus talked to, there was a new goblin chief that requested their presence.

The party followed a goblin covered in red tattoos whom brought them to a door which the goblin ended up doing a specialized knock to be let in with the rest of the party. Thorfus had a long conversation with the new Goblin Chieftain. He had explained that if the man they brought with the party tried to leave to not let him past and also that they are always welcome in the goblin territory. The Chieftain ended up as well talking about how the dwarves from the past had created goblins out of man so that they could dig for the dwarves. As the dwarves disliked to dig and instead enjoyed crafting.

After the conversation the party was shown the route to the dwarven tomb with a goblin guide. There were more markings on the wall except non of them had an X on them. After the goblin and brought them to the tomb they looked down on a 12 feet drop to see dwarven sarcophagus’s. There was a faint but steady hum coming from the tomb . The party nailed down a piece of rope and had Tarion go down half way, using his infravision saw that, that the walls were strangely warmer than anything else in the room. After going back down we sent him down again with a light and he had seen that there was a banner with what looked like a council of dwarves. The sarcophagus’s had intricate clockwork looking designs that made them look like they could move. The floor was also oddly clean except for the corners where there were some rusty cogs and springs. The party sent down the suspicious man first.

What will happen to the party as the enter into this unexplored region, will they get out with riches or will this be their tomb with the rest of the old dwarves?

Kim can get the next one if she wants haha.