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Session 5 - 21APR2024

Attendees

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

Copy/Paste Source: ✅ ❌

Recap to Current Situation

  •  We got a VARDIS from a powerful being, traveled to Wudu, put out some fires, saved some folks

Session Notes

  •  We decide to investigate where the other mercenary party and the hobgoblin ran off to
  • We figure out that the hobgoblin proceeds West while the mercenary trail heads back East
  • We look for the local Council of the Few to inform them what we have learned about the direction of travel for the party of mercenaries
  • The local chapter of the Council of the Few building remains standing, completely unscathed in a sea of ashes
  • It is just a single room with a single caretaker
  • He explains that he employed the protocol and folded the building into a pocket dimension to protect the building
  • The caretaker is named Udo
  • We relay our story of the other mercenary group to Udo
  • He relays that message back to HQ
  • We decide to head west in pursuit of the hobgoblin
  • We manage to find a recently used campsite
    • Investigating, we can tell that there is more than a single set of footprintes
    • Somebody has left behind a crude, mundane iron dagger
    • We are able to figure out that the trail went to the Northwest
    • The footprints are hobgoblin made, maybe ~6 of them
  • We are confronted by a single hobgoblin that threatens us.
    • After some acrobatic intimidation by Nick and Jin, the single hobgoblin surrenders to us
  • After some gentle (extremely violent) persuasion, the hobgoblin is amenable to providing information
    • We ask about Eknon the Vex:
      • There is a hobgoblin camp ~1 hour north where the other hobgoblins are
      • We will find Eknon the Vex there
      • We leave him tied up with a little bit of food
      • We learn his name is Klankec
        • However, we learn his real name is Krokkak the Razor
  • We set back out on our journey and Nick decides to wear Krokkak as a backpack
  • Krokkak helps us avoid a couple traps on our journey north
  • We eventually reach a hillside with some conspicuous bushes at its base
  • Nick disguises himself as Krokkak and enters the hobgoblin warren
    • Erica sneaks along behind
  • Upon entering, Nick is challenged with a question by somebody in a language that he doesn't understand
  • Nick decides to try to commune with the roots of a tree nearby and have the roots smack him in the face
  • He is confused about what is going on and is disoriented, allowing Nick to proceed past him, Erica decides to duck out and return to the rest of the party
  • We have now split the party:
  • Nick's series of events:
    • He decides to head further in and enters a side room to see what was in it
    • Nick finds something that seems unusual upon investigating
    • It is a dark wood buckler (worth 175 gold)
    • Nick takes the buckler with him and heads back into the warren
    • Nick is able to hear 6 different hobgoblin voices as he is sneaking around
    • Nick decides to cast shatter in the middle of the group, then use Hidden Step to escape out of the warren
      • Two hobgoblins die and the rest are injured
  • The rest of the party, waiting for Nick:
    • We hear a loud boom as we see the bushes part at the base of the hill and Nick (invisibly) leaves the Warren
    • We are 30 feet from the entrance

  • Roll Initiative

  • We decide to fight like insane monkeys that have had too much opium
  • Nick sets up a powerful wind blast at the entrance, keeping the hobgoblins pinned into the cave
  • Jin sets down Hunger of Hadar zone at the entrance where the hobgoblins that we see are
  • Walter beheads the one hobgoblin with a thrown handaxe
  • Erica lights a fire near the source of Nick's wind
  • The fire is fed by the wind to blow smoke and CO2 into the cave
  • As hobgoblins enter the cave, we knock them back into Jin's crazy tentacles
  • Flaming barrels roll down the hill as six hobgoblins crest the hill and are coming towards us
  • After some fighting, we are able to finish combat

  • End Initiative

  • Jin and Walter are able to see some hobgoblin women and children hobgoblins leaving from another exit
  • We ask Krokkak the Razor to ID the hobgoblin bodies and figure out that Eknon is not among the dead
  • Nick and Erica charge into the warren while Jin and Walter hang out at the rear entrance to make sure nobody escapes out the back
  • Nick and Erica:
    • Charging into the warren, they find Eknon the Vex wearing the dragon scale necklace
    • Eknon claims his actions were done for a greater purpose
      • Eknon claims that the Firbolg were protecting people that wanted to exterminate the hobgoblins
      • He claims the firbolg were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time
    • Eknon offers to duel Nick 1:1 and Nick accepts
    • While Nick is preparing himself for combat, Erica decides to ask Eknon for more information
      • Eknon claims that there has been a systematic genocide waged against the hobgoblins
      • This extermination was perpretrated by a familiar sounding band of high level mercenaries
      • These mercenaries seem to have originated from the same place as the Firbolg village
      • Nick shows a picture of his wife and kids to Eknon
        • Eknon understands his actions have hurt other and surrenders his sword, offering his life as penance
        • Nick picks up his sword and cuts off Eknon's head

      • RIP Eknon

    • Erica grabs the dragon scale necklace that Eknon had been wearing while she comforts Nick
      • As Erica touches the necklace, she is overcome by feelings of sadness and loneliness
      • Glimpses of the past flood her memory
      • A dimly lit room comes into view, scrolls lining the walls
      • A humanoid figure in a tattered cloak lurches up from a desk and looks at Erica
      • The face under a cloak was heavily bandaged
      • End Memory!

  • The group is now level 4!

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