Session 4 - 27JAN2024

Attendees

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

Copy/Paste Source: ✅ ❌

Recap to Current Situation

•  We caught a bug in a bag of holding and don't know what to do with it

Session Notes

• The group decides to carry the bag with them to the focal point of where the other Vardo are arranged around
• As we approach, Jin's brain feels itchy, like it is filled with static
• We decide to continue proceeding
• Ahead of us, we see a patch of dead grass in a clearing that has a pool of bubbling substance
• Erica decides to investigate by poking it with a stick
• The goop wraps around the stick and pulls the stick away and throws it aside
• We try to catch the insect as we release it, but it escapes into the pool
• Out of the pool comes a humanoid-insect being that is dressed in a nice suit
• It thanks the group for helping it become whole, it refers to itself as "One"
• Jin tries to talk with The One, warlock to patron (mind to mind)
• Jin asks what happened to The One
  • It says that it was dead, but is not dead any longer
  • It enacted a contract clause with employees to revive it
  • The One doesn't know who killed it
• Jin is able to deduce that The One is a being of great power that exists outside the Prime Material Plane (PMP)
  • It is some kind of abberation from another plane that is an individual being that was exiled from its plane that was otherwise full of collective beings
  • When it dies, it needs to build a network of warlocks to sacrifice in order to come back to the PMP
• The One offers insects to the party to have them become employees
• It offers a reward to the party; one of the Vardo that it's former Warlock was using
• Before the party can use it, The One removes a small box from the Vardo, but now the Vardo is free to use for the party
  • The Vardo is bigger on the inside! It is some kind of dimensional anomaly
• We also ask The One about the other group of Mercenaries that we ran into
  • It is familiar with these mercenaries, but not much more detail beyond that
• We have dubbed the Vardo the VARDIS - acronym pending
  • tentatively Vehicle And Relative Dimension In Space
• The group decides to get back on the road back to Wudu
• Day 1
  • No events
• Day 2
  • The group is attacked by bandits
  • Roll Initiative!
  • The bandit leader was knocked out and was named Bruce
• We win the fight and Jin wants to chat with the bandit
  • He tries to deceive the bandit to learn info about the area
  • He does not succeed, so we decide to kill Bruce

• RIP Bruce

• Level up to level 3

• We continue on our way to Wudu
• We see smoke rising in the sky above Wudu
• The city is on fire! We can hear people screaming
• We stow the wagon and hide it with some camouflage
• As we approach the city, we see people running around trying to fight the fire or rescue people from burning buildings
• We pull aside a goblin nearby and ask what is going on
• He said that "they came in the night" - a group of humans, fitting the description of the other mercenaries we met in Radan
• Erica is able to figure out where the local government building would be located, so we make our way there, avoiding craters and fire on the way
• When we arrive, we see a large gentleman that appears like he might be important and is directing people
• He is pretty distraught and asks us to help out with putting out the fires
• Jin is able to extinguish the flames in the entryway of the building using the Hunger of Hadar
• We make our way to the office through the use of an Eldritch Cannon that shoots water
• In the office, we see a figure run out and through the window.
  • It looks like a hobgoblin
  • Nick gets enraged and jumps out the window to chase after him
  • Walter chases after Nick to stop him
  • After a chase, some thrown corpses, and some emotional bro-hugs, Walter manages to stop Nick and promise to chase after his family's killer together
• Inside the office left behind, we found an empty safe
• Talking with the mayor, we find that the safe held some tax and census records as well as a necklace that contained a shard of dragon scale
• Jin is able to determine that a spot in the safe is seemingly colder than the rest of the safe, magically cold...