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!
    the
    • The 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