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
  we
  • Somebody seehas left behind a patchcrude, ofmundane deadiron grassdagger
  in
  • We 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
    was
    • We 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...