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<blockquote data-quote="fr33py" data-source="post: 5130734" data-attributes="member: 84318"><p><strong>Chapter 3 – The Storm</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Word came back that the ritual was a success. Grull was revived and recovering. The group rested and prepared waiting for word from Torrent. She arrived shortly after with news that Shealis was indeed connected with the case and worked with Larion who is believed to be the disguised burglar who had stolen the case from Rivereye at the Depository. Shealis had a Solon familiar so everything fit. Shealis wasn’t well liked by many but Gabal did show her favor. She had an apartment on campus, “the Castle” as it was called and Erion believed he could get in to speak with her. Torrent said she was going to get assistance from a Gnome Sorcerer to help delay her if needed till the case could be located. There was another potential ally at the school, a wizard named Diogenes a rival who made no secret that he despised Shealis.</span></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The group rested for the night while and would prepare to head out in the morning. A storm hit, one of the heaviest of the year, grounding Griffons and Wyverns alike but they would be well rested and when the skies cleared the bombings would be twice as heavy. In the meantime the siege slowed as the Ragesians regrouped and took cover it was quiet as the heroes slept. </span></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 10px">....</span></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Trammorn rode upon his Dragon high above the Ragesian Capitol with a battle cry he dove“For BAHAMAUT!” Lighting and fire crashed into the city a legion of angels at his command!</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange">This was a rather amusing jab at Trammorn our Invoker of Bahamaut in the party. He was the character who made the knowledge check against the solon during our first session. Instead of relaying any information about the Solon's possible explosion at bloodied/death he noticed the Solon was Lawful Good and thought maybe if he displayed LG actions he would get the Solon to stop its attack on the party. Trammorn shouted to the party/solon "I see you are of a lawful good nature I am a servant of Bahamaut", just before the blow that bloodied the Solon and nearly wiped out the group. </span></p><p></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 10px">….</span></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The group was up before Dawn checking on Grull who was able to travel and Trammorn they watched as a trickle of spittle dripped from Trammorn mouth into his beard. He was tended by Frugard a thickly bearded older Dwarven woman who snorts and chokes out a mouthful of phlegm into a rag and lifted the sheet to vigorously scrub Trammorns nether regions. “Bah it’s impossible to keep these things from laying eggs, I should burn them out since your friends not waking up.” Grull winced and Erion shifted uncomfortably. “Ok well we just wanted to see how things looked, I guess he’s not in much condition to travel but we have given Buron a letter explaining our mission and our path. When Trammorn is well ask him to join us”. Frugard went back to tending Trammorn who lay there, a loud eruption sounding beneath his sheets. “Oh looks like you need to be changed again” With that the heroes quickly headed back to the common room.</span></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 10px">“That was disturbing…Serasith was cut off by Buron who burst into the room. “You must move quickly! The escape route thru the singing Chasm will be ready today and soon, they plan on moving the case by this afternoon! Its vital we get to it right away!”</span></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Torrent wasn’t back yet but they couldn’t afford to wait, they left immediately and headed across town to Gabals School. They arrived at “The Castle” before Dawn and saw a man in blue robes at the gate. “I am Erion I trained here at the school and with entry…with my friends also” the man calmly said “for what purpose.” Erion stepped forward to get a better look at the man “We are here to speak to Shealis” The man smiled “and why should I let you in. Erion recognized the man as Diogenes “ She has stolen something that doesn’t belong to her and we are going to get it…er…ask for it back.” Diogenes muttered “that bitch, it doesn’t surprise me at all, come in quickly I will help you.” The heroes explain the situation and Diogenes says he can perform and ritual that will encase her entire apartment in a force bubble, we had about 15 minutes and it would prevent her from escaping. They moved into position and entered her home.</span></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Shealis was packing her belongings and didn’t bat an eye as the home was entered, she had been expecting them. With a calm and condescending tone she said “No need for introductions, you’re here for the case. I am interested why you think you have any claim to it?” Kristov approached flipping his hair back and cracking a sly smile. “The case doesn’t belong to you and there is important information we need for the defense of the city” “There are more important things than this city” she snapped “My nations security for one” Erion was not happy when he heard that remark “The people of Gate pass are being attacked! War is upon the City! You would see it burned to the ground?” The Eladrin woman paused a moment, Serasith asked “Perhaps we can reach an agreement, to share the information in the case?” Kristov told her with a charming smile “plus we are the only people with the key to open it, it would take you weeks to..” Erion interrupted “ Gate pass doesn’t have weeks! We need to get it to the Lysium now!” Shealis asked “And how do I know you will not allow it to get into Regasian hands?” “Molokai stood solemnly “I will die before it falls into Orc hands” Shealis thought about it “ Perhaps you are right, I do not wish Gate Pass to fall and the matter is urgent. You agree to share the contents with the Shahalesti Nation so I will bring you to the case so you may take it. You should move quickly.</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange">This Skill Check encounter went well. I did not inform the party it was a skill check. I just simply role played Shealis to the best of my ability and kept quiet track of success and failures upon the parties attempts to persuade Shealis to work with them and hand over the case. The group enjoyed the encounter and most of them stepped up and improved their role playing abilities. A couple of characters were afraid to "say" anything for fear of having to roll one of their skill checks that they were not very skilled in. Hopefully that will change as the adventure moves forward. </span></p><p></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The heroes were lead to the Shahalesti Safe house and the case was turned over to them. Thanking Shealis the heroes left and decided they should visit with Erdan Menash right away to secure a way out of the city immediately. They arrived at the flamboyant mans estate and waited a few minutes till he returned. Upon his arrival Erdan was very excited to meet the heroes and took a special liking to the large goliath Molokai and asked him to hold the shaft of a two handed bunny axe. Molakai handled the shaft with his strong hands and it felt good to the touch well balanced and well made Erdan definitely had a way with his craft. After a brief tour the heroes told Erdan their tale and he agreed to help them. He sent the heroes to one of the Guard barracks where they could disguise as a regularly scheduled patrol and exit the city without raising suspicion. They agreed and headed across town with Erdans seal of approval. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange">Another nice role playing encounter. The skill checks were handled the same way as the previous encounter. I did everything quietly. I had fun role playing this unique character with his interesting wares. The party had several laughs and seemed to enjoy it. </span></p><p></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 10px">They noticed they were being followed by a band of bounty hunters dressed as city guard. The hunters seemed intent on bringing down the mages and did so with ease the rest of the group fought hard and when things seemed to be on the brink a man leapt from the rooftops and severed the head of one of the bounty hunters before his feet hit the ground. The rest of the attackers fled and the acrobatic swordsman introduced himself as Rantle an infamous scoundrel and folk legend He claimed to know of the heroes and knew they planned on heading to the Lyceum. Rantle asked them to bring a message to his sister Katrina and gave them a scroll case. They agreed and the man leapt off into the shadows to steal jewels, bed a noblewoman or perhaps buckle swashes as he was bound to do.</span></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Not long after the Heroes arrived at the barracks, secured uniforms and a way to leave the city, thanks to Erdan, they restocked supplies and rested up discussing their trip south. They would be passing through the Fire Forest. Upon investigating the scroll given to them by Rantle they made a surprising discovery. A secret message found in the scroll case by using the ‘Gary’ method of code breaking they managed to learn that Katrina had sent word to her brother that she believed Regasia would win the war and take Gate Pass, warning him to leave and to also visit the Lyceum to disrupt the ability to send aid to the resistance. The heroes decided they would pay her a visit but it wouldn’t be ending pleasantly if her intention was to sabotage their quest. Kristov asked if he could have a bottle of wine and some alone time with Katrina before things got out of hand. “Only if you don’t mind Serasith watching” said Erion “your not getting out of our sight with that crazy bitch traitor” Serasith looked puzzled it wasn’t the first time Erion had asked him to be in the same room while humans mated. Serasith wondered why mammals tended to have such odd behaviors.</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange">For this encounter I changed the method which Katrina left a secret message for Rantle. In the module it explains they typically leave messages for one another using invisible ink which is discovered by holding up the letter to a flame. I was not prepared to have a flame near by for the party to discover the message, so instead I used a simple cipher. I purchased a medium sized mailing tube to represent the scroll case, I then wrapped a white ribbon around the case from end to end. I then wrote the message horizontally along the case. Removed the ribbon and now the only way to decipher the code would be to wrap the ribbon around the scroll case and line the letters up. If someone did not have both the ribbon and the scroll case it would be difficult to crack. One player eventually tried deciphering it by wrapping it around the case but did so that the words were backwards, at one point they saw the name "Gary" in the backwards letters which lead to naming the cipher as the "Gary" method, eventually seeing Lyceum backwards prompted them to reverse the wrapping and discover Katrina's intent. </span></p><p></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The group decided to set a watch since they were so recently attacked. The rested uneasily, eager to get out of the town, hopeful to return soon to liberate it.</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p>The party is starting to get excited about the deep back story and to try and tie loose ends together. I think the Adventure path bodes well for the future. The players are all eager to play each week which is all positive in my mind. Another great session!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fr33py, post: 5130734, member: 84318"] [b]Chapter 3 – The Storm[/b] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2]Word came back that the ritual was a success. Grull was revived and recovering. The group rested and prepared waiting for word from Torrent. She arrived shortly after with news that Shealis was indeed connected with the case and worked with Larion who is believed to be the disguised burglar who had stolen the case from Rivereye at the Depository. Shealis had a Solon familiar so everything fit. Shealis wasn’t well liked by many but Gabal did show her favor. She had an apartment on campus, “the Castle” as it was called and Erion believed he could get in to speak with her. Torrent said she was going to get assistance from a Gnome Sorcerer to help delay her if needed till the case could be located. There was another potential ally at the school, a wizard named Diogenes a rival who made no secret that he despised Shealis.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2]The group rested for the night while and would prepare to head out in the morning. A storm hit, one of the heaviest of the year, grounding Griffons and Wyverns alike but they would be well rested and when the skies cleared the bombings would be twice as heavy. In the meantime the siege slowed as the Ragesians regrouped and took cover it was quiet as the heroes slept. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2]....[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2]Trammorn rode upon his Dragon high above the Ragesian Capitol with a battle cry he dove“For BAHAMAUT!” Lighting and fire crashed into the city a legion of angels at his command![/SIZE][/FONT] [COLOR=DarkOrange]This was a rather amusing jab at Trammorn our Invoker of Bahamaut in the party. He was the character who made the knowledge check against the solon during our first session. Instead of relaying any information about the Solon's possible explosion at bloodied/death he noticed the Solon was Lawful Good and thought maybe if he displayed LG actions he would get the Solon to stop its attack on the party. Trammorn shouted to the party/solon "I see you are of a lawful good nature I am a servant of Bahamaut", just before the blow that bloodied the Solon and nearly wiped out the group. [/COLOR] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2]….[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2]The group was up before Dawn checking on Grull who was able to travel and Trammorn they watched as a trickle of spittle dripped from Trammorn mouth into his beard. He was tended by Frugard a thickly bearded older Dwarven woman who snorts and chokes out a mouthful of phlegm into a rag and lifted the sheet to vigorously scrub Trammorns nether regions. “Bah it’s impossible to keep these things from laying eggs, I should burn them out since your friends not waking up.” Grull winced and Erion shifted uncomfortably. “Ok well we just wanted to see how things looked, I guess he’s not in much condition to travel but we have given Buron a letter explaining our mission and our path. When Trammorn is well ask him to join us”. Frugard went back to tending Trammorn who lay there, a loud eruption sounding beneath his sheets. “Oh looks like you need to be changed again” With that the heroes quickly headed back to the common room.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2]“That was disturbing…Serasith was cut off by Buron who burst into the room. “You must move quickly! The escape route thru the singing Chasm will be ready today and soon, they plan on moving the case by this afternoon! Its vital we get to it right away!”[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2]Torrent wasn’t back yet but they couldn’t afford to wait, they left immediately and headed across town to Gabals School. They arrived at “The Castle” before Dawn and saw a man in blue robes at the gate. “I am Erion I trained here at the school and with entry…with my friends also” the man calmly said “for what purpose.” Erion stepped forward to get a better look at the man “We are here to speak to Shealis” The man smiled “and why should I let you in. Erion recognized the man as Diogenes “ She has stolen something that doesn’t belong to her and we are going to get it…er…ask for it back.” Diogenes muttered “that bitch, it doesn’t surprise me at all, come in quickly I will help you.” The heroes explain the situation and Diogenes says he can perform and ritual that will encase her entire apartment in a force bubble, we had about 15 minutes and it would prevent her from escaping. They moved into position and entered her home.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2]Shealis was packing her belongings and didn’t bat an eye as the home was entered, she had been expecting them. With a calm and condescending tone she said “No need for introductions, you’re here for the case. I am interested why you think you have any claim to it?” Kristov approached flipping his hair back and cracking a sly smile. “The case doesn’t belong to you and there is important information we need for the defense of the city” “There are more important things than this city” she snapped “My nations security for one” Erion was not happy when he heard that remark “The people of Gate pass are being attacked! War is upon the City! You would see it burned to the ground?” The Eladrin woman paused a moment, Serasith asked “Perhaps we can reach an agreement, to share the information in the case?” Kristov told her with a charming smile “plus we are the only people with the key to open it, it would take you weeks to..” Erion interrupted “ Gate pass doesn’t have weeks! We need to get it to the Lysium now!” Shealis asked “And how do I know you will not allow it to get into Regasian hands?” “Molokai stood solemnly “I will die before it falls into Orc hands” Shealis thought about it “ Perhaps you are right, I do not wish Gate Pass to fall and the matter is urgent. You agree to share the contents with the Shahalesti Nation so I will bring you to the case so you may take it. You should move quickly.[/SIZE][/FONT] [COLOR=DarkOrange]This Skill Check encounter went well. I did not inform the party it was a skill check. I just simply role played Shealis to the best of my ability and kept quiet track of success and failures upon the parties attempts to persuade Shealis to work with them and hand over the case. The group enjoyed the encounter and most of them stepped up and improved their role playing abilities. A couple of characters were afraid to "say" anything for fear of having to roll one of their skill checks that they were not very skilled in. Hopefully that will change as the adventure moves forward. [/COLOR] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2]The heroes were lead to the Shahalesti Safe house and the case was turned over to them. Thanking Shealis the heroes left and decided they should visit with Erdan Menash right away to secure a way out of the city immediately. They arrived at the flamboyant mans estate and waited a few minutes till he returned. Upon his arrival Erdan was very excited to meet the heroes and took a special liking to the large goliath Molokai and asked him to hold the shaft of a two handed bunny axe. Molakai handled the shaft with his strong hands and it felt good to the touch well balanced and well made Erdan definitely had a way with his craft. After a brief tour the heroes told Erdan their tale and he agreed to help them. He sent the heroes to one of the Guard barracks where they could disguise as a regularly scheduled patrol and exit the city without raising suspicion. They agreed and headed across town with Erdans seal of approval. [/SIZE][/FONT] [COLOR=DarkOrange]Another nice role playing encounter. The skill checks were handled the same way as the previous encounter. I did everything quietly. I had fun role playing this unique character with his interesting wares. The party had several laughs and seemed to enjoy it. [/COLOR] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2]They noticed they were being followed by a band of bounty hunters dressed as city guard. The hunters seemed intent on bringing down the mages and did so with ease the rest of the group fought hard and when things seemed to be on the brink a man leapt from the rooftops and severed the head of one of the bounty hunters before his feet hit the ground. The rest of the attackers fled and the acrobatic swordsman introduced himself as Rantle an infamous scoundrel and folk legend He claimed to know of the heroes and knew they planned on heading to the Lyceum. Rantle asked them to bring a message to his sister Katrina and gave them a scroll case. They agreed and the man leapt off into the shadows to steal jewels, bed a noblewoman or perhaps buckle swashes as he was bound to do.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2]Not long after the Heroes arrived at the barracks, secured uniforms and a way to leave the city, thanks to Erdan, they restocked supplies and rested up discussing their trip south. They would be passing through the Fire Forest. Upon investigating the scroll given to them by Rantle they made a surprising discovery. A secret message found in the scroll case by using the ‘Gary’ method of code breaking they managed to learn that Katrina had sent word to her brother that she believed Regasia would win the war and take Gate Pass, warning him to leave and to also visit the Lyceum to disrupt the ability to send aid to the resistance. The heroes decided they would pay her a visit but it wouldn’t be ending pleasantly if her intention was to sabotage their quest. Kristov asked if he could have a bottle of wine and some alone time with Katrina before things got out of hand. “Only if you don’t mind Serasith watching” said Erion “your not getting out of our sight with that crazy bitch traitor” Serasith looked puzzled it wasn’t the first time Erion had asked him to be in the same room while humans mated. Serasith wondered why mammals tended to have such odd behaviors.[/SIZE][/FONT] [COLOR=DarkOrange]For this encounter I changed the method which Katrina left a secret message for Rantle. In the module it explains they typically leave messages for one another using invisible ink which is discovered by holding up the letter to a flame. I was not prepared to have a flame near by for the party to discover the message, so instead I used a simple cipher. I purchased a medium sized mailing tube to represent the scroll case, I then wrapped a white ribbon around the case from end to end. I then wrote the message horizontally along the case. Removed the ribbon and now the only way to decipher the code would be to wrap the ribbon around the scroll case and line the letters up. If someone did not have both the ribbon and the scroll case it would be difficult to crack. One player eventually tried deciphering it by wrapping it around the case but did so that the words were backwards, at one point they saw the name "Gary" in the backwards letters which lead to naming the cipher as the "Gary" method, eventually seeing Lyceum backwards prompted them to reverse the wrapping and discover Katrina's intent. [/COLOR] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2]The group decided to set a watch since they were so recently attacked. The rested uneasily, eager to get out of the town, hopeful to return soon to liberate it.[/SIZE][/FONT] The party is starting to get excited about the deep back story and to try and tie loose ends together. I think the Adventure path bodes well for the future. The players are all eager to play each week which is all positive in my mind. Another great session! [/QUOTE]
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