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<blockquote data-quote="Tolamaker" data-source="post: 8407270" data-attributes="member: 7031495"><p>The party finishes up the fight, knocking out Badgerface and one of his associates. Mishka chases the final one up, where he is climbing down a rope. She cuts the rope, sending the man falling down (to 1 hp). Eluriah runs up, draws her longbow, and sends an arrow through his throat.</p><p></p><p>Elsewhere, Aripos hunts down his hedgehog Fern, who got scared in the firebombing. He finds Fern hissing at a very large weasel, who has a collar around his neck that says Kiki. After hissing back at the weasel, Aripose calms it down and takes it to its home, where an elderly dwarf gives her 10 gold for returning her "baby." Aripose makes his way to the Depository in time to see a man get shot by Eluriah.</p><p></p><p>The party discovers that Badgerface is actually an elf after his Disguise Self wears off. Orwin recognizes the elf as Larion, a recent student at Gabal's School of Magic. He also knows that Larion joined at the same time as Shealis, another elf, and they spend a lot of time together. Gruz tries to intimidate Larion by holding him over the edge of the tower, but Larion says he's prepared to die for his country. Eluriah argues to let him go as a sign of goodwill, but Torrent and Mishka aren't willing to let someone who killed Gate Pass citizens go scot free.</p><p></p><p>The party eventually agrees to hand him over in exchange for Badgerface and the information. On the way to the school, they run into Jennis, a drow student who catches on to what is going on, and wants to help. They go to the dueling grounds, where Larion calls for Shealis. Shealis comes out, holding a bruised and battered Badgerface by the neck. Badgerface is holding a spell scroll case. They say that the case is trapped with a fireball spell if they don't know the password, but Badgerface convinces them to let Orwin, a tiefling, open it. He falls over laughing when the case opens and nothing happens, and loudly insults he elves for thinking he knows jack naughty word about magic. The information is written in Infernal script, but is in code, so Orwin agrees to copy the information and share it with the Shahalesti.</p><p></p><p><strong>Post Session Thoughts:</strong></p><p>Pretty slow-moving session, but I was down for it. There was a lot more disagreement about what to do about Larion than I had anticipated, but it meant I got to sit back and listen to the arguments for a while, only jumping in to clarify information. One fun thing when they were interrogating Larion is that he honestly believes that the Shahalesti had nothing to do with Peppin's murder. It reminds me of how the various US intelligence agencies weren't sharing information in the early 2000s.</p><p></p><p>Gruz failed his Intimidation check on Larion, and almost threw him over the edge in frustration. They had a lot of low rolls on getting information out of him, so Larion came off as a very smooth operator. That almost made it difficult to play him until Eluriah gave me an opening, both by being an elf and advocating for letting him go. That opened things up for him to be at least a little cooperative.</p><p></p><p><strong>Changes to the Adventure:</strong></p><p>Most of the changes were accidental. I already mentioned condensing the Spy vs. Spy portion, but apparently I also straight up misread some information. I only noticed after the session that technically the intelligence is a book, not a sheaf of papers, so technically they probably wouldn't think copying it down would be a timely activity, but oh well. I also misread where the real Badgerface is. Somehow I completely missed that he's in the Depository, just hidden. I could have sworn that he was being kept by Shealis. It worked out fine, but it was just very strange that I had completely missed those two bits of information.</p><p></p><p>Wise-cracking Diogenes became hard-core partying Jennis. I tried to crack wise, but my brain is usually mush in the middle of a session. So she quickly became Gabal's best known keg-stander who's game for anything.</p><p></p><p>[USER=6776887]@Tormyr[/USER] My players when they see me stumble through the module</p><p>[ATTACH=full]144357[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tolamaker, post: 8407270, member: 7031495"] The party finishes up the fight, knocking out Badgerface and one of his associates. Mishka chases the final one up, where he is climbing down a rope. She cuts the rope, sending the man falling down (to 1 hp). Eluriah runs up, draws her longbow, and sends an arrow through his throat. Elsewhere, Aripos hunts down his hedgehog Fern, who got scared in the firebombing. He finds Fern hissing at a very large weasel, who has a collar around his neck that says Kiki. After hissing back at the weasel, Aripose calms it down and takes it to its home, where an elderly dwarf gives her 10 gold for returning her "baby." Aripose makes his way to the Depository in time to see a man get shot by Eluriah. The party discovers that Badgerface is actually an elf after his Disguise Self wears off. Orwin recognizes the elf as Larion, a recent student at Gabal's School of Magic. He also knows that Larion joined at the same time as Shealis, another elf, and they spend a lot of time together. Gruz tries to intimidate Larion by holding him over the edge of the tower, but Larion says he's prepared to die for his country. Eluriah argues to let him go as a sign of goodwill, but Torrent and Mishka aren't willing to let someone who killed Gate Pass citizens go scot free. The party eventually agrees to hand him over in exchange for Badgerface and the information. On the way to the school, they run into Jennis, a drow student who catches on to what is going on, and wants to help. They go to the dueling grounds, where Larion calls for Shealis. Shealis comes out, holding a bruised and battered Badgerface by the neck. Badgerface is holding a spell scroll case. They say that the case is trapped with a fireball spell if they don't know the password, but Badgerface convinces them to let Orwin, a tiefling, open it. He falls over laughing when the case opens and nothing happens, and loudly insults he elves for thinking he knows jack naughty word about magic. The information is written in Infernal script, but is in code, so Orwin agrees to copy the information and share it with the Shahalesti. [B]Post Session Thoughts:[/B] Pretty slow-moving session, but I was down for it. There was a lot more disagreement about what to do about Larion than I had anticipated, but it meant I got to sit back and listen to the arguments for a while, only jumping in to clarify information. One fun thing when they were interrogating Larion is that he honestly believes that the Shahalesti had nothing to do with Peppin's murder. It reminds me of how the various US intelligence agencies weren't sharing information in the early 2000s. Gruz failed his Intimidation check on Larion, and almost threw him over the edge in frustration. They had a lot of low rolls on getting information out of him, so Larion came off as a very smooth operator. That almost made it difficult to play him until Eluriah gave me an opening, both by being an elf and advocating for letting him go. That opened things up for him to be at least a little cooperative. [B]Changes to the Adventure:[/B] Most of the changes were accidental. I already mentioned condensing the Spy vs. Spy portion, but apparently I also straight up misread some information. I only noticed after the session that technically the intelligence is a book, not a sheaf of papers, so technically they probably wouldn't think copying it down would be a timely activity, but oh well. I also misread where the real Badgerface is. Somehow I completely missed that he's in the Depository, just hidden. I could have sworn that he was being kept by Shealis. It worked out fine, but it was just very strange that I had completely missed those two bits of information. Wise-cracking Diogenes became hard-core partying Jennis. I tried to crack wise, but my brain is usually mush in the middle of a session. So she quickly became Gabal's best known keg-stander who's game for anything. [USER=6776887]@Tormyr[/USER] My players when they see me stumble through the module [ATTACH type="full" width="303px"]144357[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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