Session 3 - 19NOV2023

Attendees

• Tim ✅
• Walter ✅
• Erica ✅
• Jin ✅
  
• Nick ✅
  
• Alex ❌
  

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Recap to Current Situation

• Group followed some veteran mercenaries out to the ruins north of the city of Raedan
• While staking out the entrance, the group witnesses ~50 animated skeletons with fused weapons for arms rush out of the ruins heading toward Raedan

Session Notes

•  The group decided to hop onto their horses and race back to Raedan ahead of the skeleton horde.
  
• Nick fails at animal handling, so we don't make great time, only beating the horde by ~20 minutes
• At the town, there is a contingent of guards assembled that are hastily building makeshift fortifications
• The group approaches the Vicadium's chamber and tell him about the situation
• The group agrees to help with the defense, but with the caveat that we aren't planning on dying, so if things go south, we will bounce
• The group has been assigned to defend the East entrance to town
• Because of the guards helping the group for this battle, we all get +1 AC for this battle
• Jin decides to set up some trip wire booby traps real quick by the East gate
• ROLL INITIATIVE as ~20 skeletons approach the gate
  • ~10 skeletons get caught by the snares set by Jin
  • After a round and a turn undead, down to ~6 skeletons left
• The group wins the fight!
• Walter tries and fails to find horses to make a getaway
• Erica is looting the field and accidentally reanimates 8 skeletons
• ROLL INITIATIVE
  • Nick cheated by using channel divinity more than once a day - just for the record
• Fight ended. We figured out that you need to remove some magical bits from the skull after they have been killed or else they respawn
• We dispatch a guardsmen to each of the other gates to spread the word about removing the bits from the skull
• Short rest time!
  • Several party members decided to heal up
• The sounds of battle have died down in the city
• The group decides to head to the North gate to check on how things went
  • Overall, there was a fierce battle, but the skeletons have been slain
• The group approaches the Vicadium, he appears weary and tired
• He gives each member of the group 40 gold!
• The Vicadium asks the group to stick around in Raedan to help with reconstruction
• Long rest!

• Rory the innkeeper passed away in the battle

• Rizz is still alive after the battle and her inventory seems to have grown somewhat
  
• We gear up with some stuff from Rizz
• Walter wants to commemorate the loss of his friend Rory
  • Walter pours himself a tankard of Rory's ale and pours it out in remembrance for Rory
• Afterwards, the group checks in with the Vicadium to see if there are any jobs that need done
  
  • He asks us to head West to Wudu to spread the word about what happened and ask them for support/to make preparations
• The group decides to head to Wudu following the Vicadium's request
• Day 1:
  • Pleasant day of travel, no events of note
• Day 2:
  • We encounter a group of travelers in a Vardo wagon being pulled by a black horse
  • A halfling woman in the wagon flags down the group and asks for our attention
  • Erica talks with her
  • She wants to hire mercenaries to look for her boss that has been missing for a week
  • She is a collector named Anbryn Stillcloak
  • She starts traveling with the group
  • She steers her wagon off the road saying that this feels like the right way to go
  • She and Jin start communicating telepathically in Abyssal and she asks him who he works for
  • After an insight check, he determines she is a fellow warlock and she is in search of her patron that is missing
  • She comes clean with the group about the situation
  • Her patron just refers to himself as One and is interested in collecting magical items
  • The group agrees to help after the explanation is in the open
  • She stops the wagon after a couple hours of travel, she stops the wagon and points to other Vardo wagons gathered in the distance
  • At the spot, her stomach starts gurgling worse and worse, she seems like she is about to vomit
  • Instead of vomit, her eyes roll back in her head and an insect falls out of her mouth, she then collapses
  • Nick manages to leap onto and cover the insect to trap it
  • Jin can sense that the bug feels a need to be whole again
  • Erica infuses a bag into a bag of holding and the group manages to capture the insect inside the bag