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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 ~4 ft in diameter
  • Jin investigates the knoll and notices the ground is softer at one point, when pressure is applied there, the dirt gives way and there are stairs revealed going underground
  • Erica creates a fire magically at the base of the stairs, illuminating an antechamber at the base of the stairs in front of stone doors
  • Jin decides to push Cloc down the stairs, but Cloc catches himself and he proceeds down and makes it to the bottom safely
  • Nick decides to charge down the stairs after Cloc, the rest of the group follows
  • The stone door in the room is a giant monolith that appears seamless
  • Vases are at either side of the door, containing flowers that appear gray/colorless, but not dried/dead
  • Nick checks out the flowers, but as he approaches, his breath is enough to cause the flowers to crumble into ash, with a sulfurous smell
  • Jin checks the remains of the flowers for traces of magic, decides that no magic left by the flowers
  • Erica investigates the flowers for signs of magical tools, determines that the flowers were dried out completely at a molecular level
  • Walter bangs the door to see what happen, rolls a nat 20
    • Cracks start to form and the door gives way
  • We have solved the door puzzle!
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