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<blockquote data-quote="Rhenny" data-source="post: 6740409" data-attributes="member: 18333"><p>Session 17 – About 2 hours of play</p><p></p><p>From the journal of Myles Stormgroom (Human 4th level Tempest Cleric raised by Elves)</p><p></p><p>We traveled a few days north toward Daggerford, but the caravan decided to stop near a road side inn for the night. Brevick, Isaac, Mily, Val, Grim and I all entered the inn to see if we could get rooms for the night. To our chagrin, the inn keeper told us that he was all booked up. Then we saw a table of arrogant Baldarians, four of them. They were looking at us, laughing, and speaking disrespectfully. One remarked about Lil John, Isaac’s pseudodragon, and then Isaac spoke with him and probed his mind. Isaac telepathically told us that these men were planning on killing us for gain. They were assassins and thieves just waiting for marks.</p><p></p><p>After Isaac revealed that he could read their minds, they drew their shortswords and prepared to take us out right there in the tap room. I was speaking with the inn keeper at the time, but I was quick enough to act first. I told the inn keeper not to worry. I jumped up on the bar blessed Mily, Brevick and Isaac, and then I ducked behind the bar to stay out of the fray. Val was angry. This scum was the reason why she would not be able to get a good night’s rest in a comfortable bed so she wasted no time moving up to them to spray them with a fan of flames, which caught their table on fire. The inn keeper was in a panic, but I assured him that we’d take care of it.</p><p></p><p>Brevick, Isaac and Mily all entered the fray and did some damage to a few of the men, but not enough to bring any of them down. During the fight, Brevick used his combat maneuvers to get Mily and Val out of harms way a few times, but since Mily’s attack was so damaging, she was attacked by a few of the assassins, and their shortsword skill brought Mily down. I needed to heal Mily so I jumped up onto the bar and called to Silvanus to knit up some of Mily’s wounds, getting her back on her feet. Then I fired an arrow at the most injured foe, and took him down. That’s when the Baldarian leader told the others to take me out. I ducked behind the bar again and fended off one attacker, parrying a blow with my rapier. Later, when a second one attacked, I could not stop his onslaught. I was able to injure the foe with a lightning discharge as his blade hit me the first time, but on his second attack, he cut into me, knocking me to the ground, bleeding out. </p><p></p><p>The others fought well, and luckily nobody else was taken down. Isaac yelled out that they should take one alive, and my comrades succeeded, before I perished. Isaac tied up the unconscious assassin, and Brevick ran to me, pulled out a healing potion and administered it before I left this world for good. When I got up, I could see the smoke and smell the fire in the inn so I called to Silvanus to douse the flames with conjured water. Then, we made a deal with the inn keeper, who agreed to keep the assassin’s horses to pay for damage done to the inn and to pay for our rooms for the night. </p><p></p><p>After that, cleaned up a bit, disposing of the dead bodies, and we took the assassin up to a private room. I brought him back to consciousness, and Isaac interrogated him. Isaac found out that he was hired to kill Zenen Longwhistle a scribe working in Candlekeep. It had something to do with fur trading, not the Dragon Queen. When we got the information, Isaac and Lil John had a little argument. Isaac wanted the psuedodragon to sting the assassin, but Lil John would not. While they were bickering, I slammed the pommel of my rapier down on the assassin’s head, knocking him out so we could sleep safely that night. </p><p></p><p>We brought the assassin, Gant, back to the caravan in the morning, and then Isaac found that his own waterskin had some poison on it. He immediately suspected the captain of the caravan, who he had been jawing with earlier. We discussed some plans, made a deal with Gant, and eventually we let Isaac take Gant for a walk after I healed the assassin a little bit. Isaac wanted Gant to see if he could tell if anyone in the caravan seemed shady enough to use such poison. When we got to the captain, Gant accused him (upon Isaac’s telepathic urging), and then Isaac made rousing public accusations against the captain. I was sure we would be put off the caravan at this point, but Isaac was able to get many of the caravan members to support him although the ones that worked for the Dragon Queen were not swayed in the least. The captain also nearly attacked, but then Isaac was held, paralyzed by some foul magic. It had to be Azbara, the strange robed figure that joined the caravan just a few days ago. </p><p></p><p>Before it could get ugly, I ran up to Isaac, who was in the middle of a bunch of Dragon Cult guards, and I proclaimed that Isaac must be ill from the poison. Azbara spoke, and we came to an agreement about the tension that has built up. We both realized that it would not be good for the caravan if we acted so rashly, reaching a détente. Azbara released Isaac and we all went back to our positions. Today was not the day for bloodshed against the Dragon Cult, but that day would most likely come soon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rhenny, post: 6740409, member: 18333"] Session 17 – About 2 hours of play From the journal of Myles Stormgroom (Human 4th level Tempest Cleric raised by Elves) We traveled a few days north toward Daggerford, but the caravan decided to stop near a road side inn for the night. Brevick, Isaac, Mily, Val, Grim and I all entered the inn to see if we could get rooms for the night. To our chagrin, the inn keeper told us that he was all booked up. Then we saw a table of arrogant Baldarians, four of them. They were looking at us, laughing, and speaking disrespectfully. One remarked about Lil John, Isaac’s pseudodragon, and then Isaac spoke with him and probed his mind. Isaac telepathically told us that these men were planning on killing us for gain. They were assassins and thieves just waiting for marks. After Isaac revealed that he could read their minds, they drew their shortswords and prepared to take us out right there in the tap room. I was speaking with the inn keeper at the time, but I was quick enough to act first. I told the inn keeper not to worry. I jumped up on the bar blessed Mily, Brevick and Isaac, and then I ducked behind the bar to stay out of the fray. Val was angry. This scum was the reason why she would not be able to get a good night’s rest in a comfortable bed so she wasted no time moving up to them to spray them with a fan of flames, which caught their table on fire. The inn keeper was in a panic, but I assured him that we’d take care of it. Brevick, Isaac and Mily all entered the fray and did some damage to a few of the men, but not enough to bring any of them down. During the fight, Brevick used his combat maneuvers to get Mily and Val out of harms way a few times, but since Mily’s attack was so damaging, she was attacked by a few of the assassins, and their shortsword skill brought Mily down. I needed to heal Mily so I jumped up onto the bar and called to Silvanus to knit up some of Mily’s wounds, getting her back on her feet. Then I fired an arrow at the most injured foe, and took him down. That’s when the Baldarian leader told the others to take me out. I ducked behind the bar again and fended off one attacker, parrying a blow with my rapier. Later, when a second one attacked, I could not stop his onslaught. I was able to injure the foe with a lightning discharge as his blade hit me the first time, but on his second attack, he cut into me, knocking me to the ground, bleeding out. The others fought well, and luckily nobody else was taken down. Isaac yelled out that they should take one alive, and my comrades succeeded, before I perished. Isaac tied up the unconscious assassin, and Brevick ran to me, pulled out a healing potion and administered it before I left this world for good. When I got up, I could see the smoke and smell the fire in the inn so I called to Silvanus to douse the flames with conjured water. Then, we made a deal with the inn keeper, who agreed to keep the assassin’s horses to pay for damage done to the inn and to pay for our rooms for the night. After that, cleaned up a bit, disposing of the dead bodies, and we took the assassin up to a private room. I brought him back to consciousness, and Isaac interrogated him. Isaac found out that he was hired to kill Zenen Longwhistle a scribe working in Candlekeep. It had something to do with fur trading, not the Dragon Queen. When we got the information, Isaac and Lil John had a little argument. Isaac wanted the psuedodragon to sting the assassin, but Lil John would not. While they were bickering, I slammed the pommel of my rapier down on the assassin’s head, knocking him out so we could sleep safely that night. We brought the assassin, Gant, back to the caravan in the morning, and then Isaac found that his own waterskin had some poison on it. He immediately suspected the captain of the caravan, who he had been jawing with earlier. We discussed some plans, made a deal with Gant, and eventually we let Isaac take Gant for a walk after I healed the assassin a little bit. Isaac wanted Gant to see if he could tell if anyone in the caravan seemed shady enough to use such poison. When we got to the captain, Gant accused him (upon Isaac’s telepathic urging), and then Isaac made rousing public accusations against the captain. I was sure we would be put off the caravan at this point, but Isaac was able to get many of the caravan members to support him although the ones that worked for the Dragon Queen were not swayed in the least. The captain also nearly attacked, but then Isaac was held, paralyzed by some foul magic. It had to be Azbara, the strange robed figure that joined the caravan just a few days ago. Before it could get ugly, I ran up to Isaac, who was in the middle of a bunch of Dragon Cult guards, and I proclaimed that Isaac must be ill from the poison. Azbara spoke, and we came to an agreement about the tension that has built up. We both realized that it would not be good for the caravan if we acted so rashly, reaching a détente. Azbara released Isaac and we all went back to our positions. Today was not the day for bloodshed against the Dragon Cult, but that day would most likely come soon. [/QUOTE]
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