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Session 4 - 27JAN2024

Attendees

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

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Recap to Current Situation

  • Group followedWe somecaught veterana mercenariesbug outin a bag of holding and don't know what to the ruins north of the city of Raedan
While staking out the entrance, the group witnesses ~50 animated skeletonsdo with fused weapons for arms rush out of the ruins heading toward Raedanit

Session Notes

  •  The group decideddecides to hopcarry ontothe theirbag horseswith 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 racepulls backthe stick away and throws it aside We try to Raedancatch aheadthe insect as we release it, but it escapes into the pool Out of the skeletonpool horde.
comes a humanoid-insect being that is dressed in a nice suit NickIt 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 helpingthanks the group for thishelping battle,it webecome allwhole, getit +1refers ACto foritself thisas battle"One" Jin decidestries to settalk upwith someThe tripOne, wirewarlock boobyto trapspatron real(mind quickto by the East gatemind) ROLLJin INITIATIVEasks aswhat ~20happened skeletonsto approachThe the gateOne
  • ~10It skeletonssays getthat caughtit bywas 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 snaresPrime setMaterial byPlane Jin(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 AfterWhen it dies, it needs to build a roundnetwork andof a turn undead, downwarlocks to ~6sacrifice skeletonsin leftorder to come back to the PMP The groupOne winsoffers insects to the fight!party to have them become employees WalterIt triesoffers anda failsreward to findthe horsesparty; 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 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 - justuse for the recordparty
        The Vardo is bigger on the inside! It is some kind of dimensional anomaly Fight ended. We figuredalso outask thatThe youOne need to remove some magical bits from the skull after they have been killed or else they respawn We dispatch a guardsmen to each ofabout the other gatesgroup toof spreadMercenaries thethat wordwe aboutran removing the bits from the skull Short rest time!into
        • SeveralIt partyis membersfamiliar decidedwith tothese healmercenaries, upbut not much more detail beyond that
        The sounds of battleWe have died down indubbed the city The group decides to head toVardo the NorthVARDIS gate- toacronym check on how things wentpending
        • Overall,tentatively thereVehicle wasAnd aRelative fierceDimension battle,In 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 preparationsSpace The group decides to headget back on the road back to Wudu following the Vicadium's request Day 1:1
            • Pleasant day of travel, noNo events of note
            Day 2:2
              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 inattacked theby openbandits SheRoll stopsInitiative! theThe wagonbandit afterleader awas coupleknocked hours of travel, she stops the wagonout and pointswas tonamed 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 bagBruce 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
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