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
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