Summary
As the party traveled toward the Vel’Therin Expanse, they defeated a group of Silent Fist bandits trying to bully Cal into paying them. At a nearby tavern, they learned that the creator of the Scary Frankenstein Guy is a Drow named Lord Grindledark, who is reportedly traveling to the Kingdom of Caer Thalar. After Roz successfully stole an invisibility amulet from a local gambler, the group discovered that a patron of the tavern named The Seer had abducted their guide, Theratina, to sell her into slavery at the Arena of Vel’Therin Expanse. Following a three-day pursuit, the party arrived at the arena and chose to fight on Theratina’s behalf to settle her “debts”. They successfully slew a weakened Behir, securing 4 of its teeth and 6 of its scales as trophies, and liberated Theratina before retreating back into the city.
Events
- There are many narrow creeŵs and shallow rivers as we travel along the river out of The Border City
- We dock our boat to prevent it from breaking, and begin walking toward the Vel’Therin Expanse
- A few hours into our walk we hear some commotion ahead
- A single person (Cal) is arguing with a large group of people
- The crowd is a group of bandits claiming Cal owes them money simply because they “own” the road
- They are The Silent Fist
- They want 5G per person to pass (including us)
- We decide to fight them instead
- We kill them all, Avenj claims their bones, and search the bodies to find:
- 25G
- A scroll with orders talking about guarding the posts
- “Do not trust people coming from the south due to the war between Iskar’Thul and Karvok Thuldor” - Thalan’dor
- Looking through the eyes of Hoots, I spot a tavern with people coming in and out of it about an hour away
- We begin to walk toward this tavern
- We see the clouds begin to get grey overhead; it’s about 4pm
- We arrive at An Unnamed Tavern North of The Unnamed City
- It is staffed by Asia
- She claims the Travelling Tavern is in motion and is supposedly going to Brackenmill
- Also she heard that a few days ago, a man who lost something passed by:
- Her explanation made it clear that he was the creator of the Scary Frankenstein Guy (and lost him)
- “He was this weird looking Drow with a long pointed nose”
- “He wore no brands or colors. He wore this weird croft black cloak with a piece ripped off of the arm. And he wore the top half of a mask; only his eyes were covered”
- Sounds like the missing part was The Awakening badge, and it was the other half of the voice changing mask
- Cal rents a room (costs 2S) and we all get drinks and food (eggs; costs 6G)
- There is a man in the corner of the room by a poker table who supposedly beat this Frankenstein creator in poker; we
- When asked about it, he says a game of poker might jog his memory
- We decide to play poker (5G buy-in)
- We ask his name, but he says he’s often referred to as The Card-Jutsu
- After a few games of cards (poker and war), he tells us the man was Lord Grindledark (he doesn’t know his first name)
- He also claims the stitched boy is hunting “one of the greatest monsters ever, finishing something that is yet to be finished”
- And he was going to the Kingdom of Caer Thalar
- During these poker games, Roz casts See Invisibility and notices that The Card-Jutsu is wearing an Invisible Amulet
- He passes out drunk after the final game finishes
- It is staffed by Asia
- Roz tries to get us to distract the two other people in the taven while he steals the Invisible Amulet
- Theodore goes to Asia to pay the bill
- She offers to forget the bill if they clean the place
- He begins casting Prestidigitation everywhere
- She offers to forget the bill if they clean the place
- Avenj goes to chat with and distract the other woman in the corner
- She flirts with him
- He gets uncomfortable and walks away
- Roz is able to take the necklace off the man without being noticed
- It is not longer invisible
- He puts it in his pocket
- Theodore goes to Asia to pay the bill
- Cal goes to flirt with the dreadlock lady
- Her name is The Seer
- She is a member of The Silent Fist
- She defends the fact that they collect tolls as the elvish cities are “a utopia”
- She shows him her necklace and it has vials with tiny people inside, banging on the glass
- She claims they are prisoners (legally captured)
- Cal tries to get her to explain how she got the people in there
- Evidently her necklace is magic? (unsure)
- Asia there is a campground out back that we can stay at for free
- We notice Theratina is missing
- We look for her and outside find The Seer on a horse with Theratina in one of her vials
- Her horse begins to take off
- We unsuccessfully scramble to stop her
- We take the four horses out of the stable
- There’s a wagon so Theodore begins the ride in it
- We chase all throughout the night
- Fortunately we can rotate sleeping in the wagon on our multi-day chase
- She seems to not sleep
- We chase her for 3 days
- Eventually she enters Vel Rau’dan
- Roz casts Locate Object on Theratina’s Rapier
- While heading to the arena we come across 2 massive Dragonborn bearing The Silent Fist’s sigil
- They renamed themselves “the chain” after some event? (unsure)
- We speak with one of these Dragonborn men named Tigel
- I believe he says it is called the Arena of Vel’Therin Expanse
- We get to the arena and The Seer walks out with a hefty bag of gold, smiling at us
- We choose to fight
- We need to pick red, blue, green, or yellow
- We choose yellow
- The announcer man hovers on a piece of metal to the center of the arena and introduces us
- We level up!!!!
- We are fighting a Behir
- It’s old and has been fighting a long time so is already weakened
- On the top of its head and on his life side it is wounded
- The AC will be higher but it will be an automatic crit if we hit
- We kill it and get 4 of its teeth and 6 of its scales
- We quickly leave the arena before they try to get us to fight again
- We end the session back in the city