Dalnor/Campaign1/session-13
Pyrrhic Victories
Session Date: January 17, 2009
They’ll come at you sideways. It’s how they think. It’s how they move. Sidle up and smile.
Hit you where you’re weak. - Sheppard Book
Harvest 25, 53
The party climbs out of the burning lab. As they ascend into the bar they find that the bar is on fire. While the party is not in immediate peril from the building being on fire, they realize that they do not have a lot of time before the burning building comes down on them. While taking this in they see that the town in swarming with undead.
The party decides to relocate to a building that is not on fire. In the chaos of the party fighting clear, Crash goes down after splitting a ghoul in half in one stroke. Once the party has secured a new building the archers and mages climb to the second floor and shoot down anything that moves in the town.
During the fight, Lucius spots a cart being towed away from the town.
Once the party finishes destroying the undead in the town and stablizing Crash, the remainder go after the cart. As they close on the cart Lucius opens fire with his bow. At that point the cart stops and the skeletons on the top open fire, while the large zombie that had been towing the cart turns and lumbers toward the party.
As the large zombie hulk lumbers toward the party a concentration of fire brings it down at Alex's feet. While his concentration is distracted by the remaining skeletons on the cart, the hulk stands back up and attempts to smash its fists into him. The hulk misses, leaving a depression in the ground the size of a cooking pot.
The party promptly cuts the hulk down while Safiria plays cat and mouse with the remaining skeleton.
In the cart, a pair of elves from the trade delegation. They cast disparaging looking at Lucius and accuse him of leading them into the zombie infested town as a trap. They are only molified when he swears and oath to the fact that he was no where near town when they saw thought they saw him.
The party is left very confused by the fact that someone is impersonating party members and attempting to get them in trouble.
Harvest 26, 53
The party travels to the ranger outpost with little trouble. Party successfully resists the temptation to outright mock the rangers and their inadequacy to maintain order in the remote wilds...
Harvest 27, 53
The party arrives in town, drops off the elves at the town trade house and debriefs with Ruben Wheelturner. The party is amply rewarded. The party spends the night out on the town and eventually retires to the house. When they get in, they find a wooden box sitting in the dining room. Upon inspection it appears to be of Eladrin origin. After Alex carefully checks the box for traps, he opens it. In it he finds the hat of Safiria's father. Safiria immediately reads this that her father has been kidnapped by Nimia. She swears vengence.
After calming down, Safiria writes a letter to the assassins guild to tell them there will be a delay in the collection of the smoke because of other pressing issues that have arisen.
Harvest 28, 53
In preparation for their trip to the feywild, the party travels to the Honeycomb. Safiria has decided that she needs a particular magic weapon that she believes that she can obtain in the Cave of Uthas. Once they arrive in the Honeycomb they discover that someone has been quite busy: Many of the leading guild house leaders, trade house leaders and Stan have been poisoned. Upon investigation, the party is led to believe that Soolian has been poisoning people with the green dragon poison that they sold him several days ago.
Safiria purchases her weapon and does some investigation on Soolian and what can be used as a vessel for collecting smoke. Eventually the party remembers that the assassin's guild had stated a vessel would be provided.
Harvest 29, 53
Travel to Mormoon.
End in Mormoon.
Previously: Large Victories
Continued in: Plans and other foolishness
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