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<blockquote data-quote="fr33py" data-source="post: 5117089" data-attributes="member: 84318"><p><strong>4E - WotBS - The Scouring of Gates Pass - Session #1 -</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="color: white">Here is one of my players session reports that he wrote and emailed out to the group. I'll add my <span style="color: DarkOrange">comments in orange.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: white"></span></p><p><span style="color: white"></span></p><p><span style="color: white"></span></p><p><span style="color: white">Chapter 1 – Rain of Fire </span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="color: white">Our Heroes so far, </span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="color: white">Serasith the Dragonborn Warlord </span></p><p> <span style="color: white">Erion Stormcaster the Gabal trained Battle Wizard </span></p><p> <span style="color: white">Trammorn vessel of Bahamaut the Dragon God</span></p><p> <span style="color: white">Grull the blade savvy half-orc spy</span></p><p> <span style="color: white">Molokai the imposing goliath Warden</span></p><p> <span style="color: white">Cheadle “Don” the enthusiastic Gnome Shaman </span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <span style="color: white">The heroes are all contacted discreetly by the resistance; they meet the contact Torrent at the ‘Poison Apple Pub’ at midnight where they are asked to help the resistance in keeping the city safe from impending war. They learn that a case full of very critical documents is being kept at the Depository under the care of a Gnome, Rivereye Badgerface. The resistance wants the contents of the sealed case to be secured and the normal contacts are being watched and taken into custody, some are ending up dead so the resistance is in need of capable people who will act quickly and get out of the city. </span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="color: white">The plan will be to take the case out safely and reach the Lyceum where they can gather reinforcements to head back before the City Falls. Ragesian troops are just outside the western walls so there is no time to waste. Meanwhile the heroes were tracked to their meeting place by a bounty hunter and his men. They surround the tavern and cover the exits intent on capturing and claiming the bounty for capturing resistance members. As luck would have it, the Ragesians pick that moment to begin their siege on Gate Pass. </span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="color: white">Griffon riders take battle to the air and Trebuchets fire burning pitch over the western wall and smash into the city causing fires, explosions, widespread panic and disorder. People take to the streets and head into the city center or a safe location as fires and terror spread. With the citizens all outside the plans of a quick and discreet capture by the The Black Horse bounty hunters, lead by Kathor Davana, are thwarted as they can’t be seen by the public capturing citizens without negative repercussions so they reluctantly pull back and the heroes are able to escape. <span style="color: DarkOrange"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="color: DarkOrange"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="color: DarkOrange">(Not before forcing the party to surrender and hand over all their valuable coins. I sort of made this encounter a little more difficult, however the party was dispatching most of the thugs with ease. It wasn't until Kathor was engaged by the Warden and was pretty much one shotted to the ground that the party felt it might be best to heed his warning and put down their weapons. I used this as an opportunity to remove all the coins from their sheets so I could later redistribute their value back in physical coins in a treasure parcel)</span></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="color: white">The heroes rush to the Depository where they are supposed to meet the resistance contact Rivereye. Along the way they do what they can to help the many citizens that are in need during the siege. <span style="color: DarkOrange"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="color: DarkOrange"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="color: DarkOrange">(By the time the group reached the Kiki side quest most of them had about enough helping the citizens and felt the urgency from Torrent to get to the Depository. </span><span style="color: DarkOrange">Trammorn and Molokai stopped to assist and were reward handsomely after returning Kiki and finding the discarded box in the sewer)</span>. </span></p><p><span style="color: white"></span></p><p><span style="color: white">They do what they can but time is of the essence. They arrive at the depository and find Rivereye who greets them as if they were the contact. He has met the contact so things do not seem to fit and the heroes suspicions are confirmed when the Rivereye imposter asks them for the case password. As it turns out the heroes were too late. The case was already stolen and the imposter was there in disguise to attempt to trick the heroes into revealing a password to open the case. The good news was the case was still locked but the disguised assailant escaped. <span style="color: DarkOrange"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="color: DarkOrange"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="color: DarkOrange">(During this encounter Larion quickly moved to the 2nd floor after escaping the grasp of Grull. Grull felt a little defeated when Larion took to climbing the wall to get away. Grull decided to head back down to the locker they assume might hold something Larion was after. Despite Erions warning that the lockers appeared to be magically locked, Grull attempted to open one and found himself face first taking a dirt nap until being revived. Soon after the Solon then engaged the party covering Larions escape. I had introduced the monster knowledge handouts in the first encounter by having someone roll arcana and handing them out, hoping they would get the gist and continue to use these to their advantage. However, no one chose to do so with the solon. Eventually, I had Trammorn, the Invoker roll and gave him the handout just prior to the Solon going bloodied. However, our Invoker failed to relay any of the information he had just found out and the Solon was bloodied and the party was near death. Larion eventually escaped and the Solon blinked away to follow behind). The party narrowly escapes. </span></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="color: white">The heroes regroup and speak to the real Rivereye they need to find a way out quickly and head to the Lyceum in order to reinforce the city. They have 2 ways they may be able to get out, with a signed document by one of the city council ho has no love for the Ragesian occupation forces or possibly Gabals school. Gabal had fought the Ragesians 40 years ago during their occupation and was a good a place as any to find sympathizers. The heroes agreed to rest at the healing temple which was a resistance safe house and then once they secured one of their 2 ways out to head out to the Lyceum. </span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="color: white">As they head across town to the temple a Ragesian Wyvern rider is shot down and crashes into a dwelling ,screams are heard and as the heroes kick in the door to investigate they see the dismounted enemy rider has taken a small child hostage and is looking for a way to escape. </span></p><p><span style="color: white"></span></p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="color: DarkOrange">(This was the end to session #1 - I left the party with a bit of a cliff hanger, right in the face of the menacing Half Orc Wyvern rider Flaganus Mortus). </span></span></p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="color: DarkOrange"></span></span><span style="color: DarkOrange"></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"></span><span style="color: DarkOrange">Over all this was a great introductory session. I'm just getting the hang of things and the players are starting to learn their characters and about the campaign setting. We still need to work on the RP a little and quiet down the peanut gallery chatter that sometimes distracts from people listenting to whats going on. </span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange">Shannon</span><strong><span style="color: DarkOrange"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: DarkOrange"></span></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fr33py, post: 5117089, member: 84318"] [b]4E - WotBS - The Scouring of Gates Pass - Session #1 -[/b] [COLOR=white]Here is one of my players session reports that he wrote and emailed out to the group. I'll add my [COLOR=DarkOrange]comments in orange.[/COLOR] [/COLOR] [COLOR=white] [/COLOR] [COLOR=white]Chapter 1 – Rain of Fire [/COLOR] [COLOR=white]Our Heroes so far, [/COLOR] [COLOR=white]Serasith the Dragonborn Warlord [/COLOR] [COLOR=white]Erion Stormcaster the Gabal trained Battle Wizard [/COLOR] [COLOR=white]Trammorn vessel of Bahamaut the Dragon God[/COLOR] [COLOR=white]Grull the blade savvy half-orc spy[/COLOR] [COLOR=white]Molokai the imposing goliath Warden[/COLOR] [COLOR=white]Cheadle “Don” the enthusiastic Gnome Shaman [/COLOR] [COLOR=white]The heroes are all contacted discreetly by the resistance; they meet the contact Torrent at the ‘Poison Apple Pub’ at midnight where they are asked to help the resistance in keeping the city safe from impending war. They learn that a case full of very critical documents is being kept at the Depository under the care of a Gnome, Rivereye Badgerface. The resistance wants the contents of the sealed case to be secured and the normal contacts are being watched and taken into custody, some are ending up dead so the resistance is in need of capable people who will act quickly and get out of the city. [/COLOR] [COLOR=white]The plan will be to take the case out safely and reach the Lyceum where they can gather reinforcements to head back before the City Falls. Ragesian troops are just outside the western walls so there is no time to waste. Meanwhile the heroes were tracked to their meeting place by a bounty hunter and his men. They surround the tavern and cover the exits intent on capturing and claiming the bounty for capturing resistance members. As luck would have it, the Ragesians pick that moment to begin their siege on Gate Pass. [/COLOR] [COLOR=white]Griffon riders take battle to the air and Trebuchets fire burning pitch over the western wall and smash into the city causing fires, explosions, widespread panic and disorder. People take to the streets and head into the city center or a safe location as fires and terror spread. With the citizens all outside the plans of a quick and discreet capture by the The Black Horse bounty hunters, lead by Kathor Davana, are thwarted as they can’t be seen by the public capturing citizens without negative repercussions so they reluctantly pull back and the heroes are able to escape. [COLOR=DarkOrange] (Not before forcing the party to surrender and hand over all their valuable coins. I sort of made this encounter a little more difficult, however the party was dispatching most of the thugs with ease. It wasn't until Kathor was engaged by the Warden and was pretty much one shotted to the ground that the party felt it might be best to heed his warning and put down their weapons. I used this as an opportunity to remove all the coins from their sheets so I could later redistribute their value back in physical coins in a treasure parcel)[/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=white]The heroes rush to the Depository where they are supposed to meet the resistance contact Rivereye. Along the way they do what they can to help the many citizens that are in need during the siege. [COLOR=DarkOrange] (By the time the group reached the Kiki side quest most of them had about enough helping the citizens and felt the urgency from Torrent to get to the Depository. [/COLOR][COLOR=DarkOrange]Trammorn and Molokai stopped to assist and were reward handsomely after returning Kiki and finding the discarded box in the sewer)[/COLOR]. They do what they can but time is of the essence. They arrive at the depository and find Rivereye who greets them as if they were the contact. He has met the contact so things do not seem to fit and the heroes suspicions are confirmed when the Rivereye imposter asks them for the case password. As it turns out the heroes were too late. The case was already stolen and the imposter was there in disguise to attempt to trick the heroes into revealing a password to open the case. The good news was the case was still locked but the disguised assailant escaped. [COLOR=DarkOrange] (During this encounter Larion quickly moved to the 2nd floor after escaping the grasp of Grull. Grull felt a little defeated when Larion took to climbing the wall to get away. Grull decided to head back down to the locker they assume might hold something Larion was after. Despite Erions warning that the lockers appeared to be magically locked, Grull attempted to open one and found himself face first taking a dirt nap until being revived. Soon after the Solon then engaged the party covering Larions escape. I had introduced the monster knowledge handouts in the first encounter by having someone roll arcana and handing them out, hoping they would get the gist and continue to use these to their advantage. However, no one chose to do so with the solon. Eventually, I had Trammorn, the Invoker roll and gave him the handout just prior to the Solon going bloodied. However, our Invoker failed to relay any of the information he had just found out and the Solon was bloodied and the party was near death. Larion eventually escaped and the Solon blinked away to follow behind). The party narrowly escapes. [/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=white]The heroes regroup and speak to the real Rivereye they need to find a way out quickly and head to the Lyceum in order to reinforce the city. They have 2 ways they may be able to get out, with a signed document by one of the city council ho has no love for the Ragesian occupation forces or possibly Gabals school. Gabal had fought the Ragesians 40 years ago during their occupation and was a good a place as any to find sympathizers. The heroes agreed to rest at the healing temple which was a resistance safe house and then once they secured one of their 2 ways out to head out to the Lyceum. [/COLOR] [COLOR=white]As they head across town to the temple a Ragesian Wyvern rider is shot down and crashes into a dwelling ,screams are heard and as the heroes kick in the door to investigate they see the dismounted enemy rider has taken a small child hostage and is looking for a way to escape. [COLOR=DarkOrange](This was the end to session #1 - I left the party with a bit of a cliff hanger, right in the face of the menacing Half Orc Wyvern rider Flaganus Mortus). [/COLOR][/COLOR][COLOR=DarkOrange] [/COLOR][COLOR=DarkOrange]Over all this was a great introductory session. I'm just getting the hang of things and the players are starting to learn their characters and about the campaign setting. We still need to work on the RP a little and quiet down the peanut gallery chatter that sometimes distracts from people listenting to whats going on. Shannon[/COLOR][B][COLOR=DarkOrange] [/COLOR][/B] [/QUOTE]
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