Session 5 - 21APR2014

Attendees

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

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Recap to Current Situation

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Session Notes

• The groupWe decidesdecide to carry the bag with them to the focal point ofinvestigate where the other Vardomercenary areparty arrangedand aroundthe hobgoblin ran off to
• AsWe 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 approach,have Jin'slearned brainabout feelsthe itchy,direction likeof ittravel 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 filledjust a single room with statica 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 continuehead proceedingwest in pursuit of the hobgoblin AheadWe manage to find a recently used campsite

Investigating, we can tell that there is more than a single set of us,footprintes weSomebody seehas left behind a patchcrude, ofmundane deadiron grassdagger inWe aare clearingable to figure out that hasthe atrail pool of bubbling substance Erica decideswent to investigatethe by poking it with a stickNorthwest The goopfootprints wrapsare aroundhobgoblin themade, stickmaybe 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~6 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 itthem JinWe 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 deducehear that6 Thedifferent Onehobgoblin voices as he is asneaking beingaround Nick decides to cast shatter in the middle of greatthe powergroup, thatthen existsuse outsideHidden Step to escape out of the Prime Material Plane (PMP)warren

• ItTwo ishobgoblins somedie 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 toand the PMPrest are injured The One offers insects to the party to have them become employees It offers a reward to the party; onerest of the Vardoparty, thatwaiting it'sfor formerNick: Warlock

wasWe usinghear a loud boom as we see the bushes part at the base of the hill and Nick (invisibly) leaves the Warren BeforeWe theare party30 can use it, The One removes a small boxfeet 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 Bruceentrance

RIPRoll BruceInitiative

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...