Session 1 - 27AUG2023
Attendees
- Tim ✅
- Walter ✅
- Erica ✅
- Jin ✅
- Nick ✅
- Alex ❌
Copy/Paste Source: ✅ ❌
Recap to Current Situation
- Group is all together and is located at a town called Raedan in the nation of Acium
- Ther group are at an inn called The Sword and Board run by a retired mercenary
- The group is trying to search for powerful magical artifacts
- Beginning status:
- Long rested with full health
Session Notes
- Erica and Walter are part of a mercenary guild
- Picked up Nick along the road on the way to Raedan
- Jin is along for the ride, but is not very talkative
- Group decides to go to the Council of the Few to learn more about a potential lead on some old ruins
- Council keeper tells group about ruins a couple days walk north of town that was recently discovered
- Promised reward of 10 gold per person with chance for more if valuable artifacts are found
- Group sets out to the ruins
- First day passes uneventfully as they travel through grasslands
- Evening falls and Walter takes first watch and will switch off with Jin
- Walter hears varmint noises during the night, thought he saw a shooting start, switches off with Jin
- Jin sees what looks like a boar moving through the grass
- Jin casts minor illusion to make flames appear near where he saw the boar-like thing
- This causes a yelp to sound out and some cursing in an unkown language (table talk: Goblin language)
- This causes the thing to move away from Jin
- Jin wakes up Nick and and lets him know about what he saw
- Nick runs in the direction of the noise
- Nick catches up to a suspiciously well dressed goblin, causing the creature to fall down and beg forgiveness
- Nick brings the goblin back to the group as they are woken up
- The group confronts the goblin to find out more info
- He claims that he is being paid by Rizz to conduct market research on mercenaries by following them
- Jin threatens the goblin and the goblin fesses up that he is lying, but starts panicking thinking that his mind has been read
- He is actually working for Rizz, but was actually following the group to scavenge the ruins behind the group
- The group allows Cloc to join the group on this trip
- Cloc grants the scout of the group advantage on checking for and disarming traps that we encounter
- Rest of the night happens uneventfully
- Group continues the next day towards the ruins
- On the second day, group comes across a geographical landmark....a small knoll