Sacrosanct
Legend
I'm only referring to the HotDQ book, and not the entire Rise of Tiamat adventure. I'm always interested to see how various game tables handled it, as two groups hardly ever do things the same way.
We finally have pretty much finished this first book today, killing Rezmir.
Party: Shadow monk 7, dwarf wild sorcerer 7, human f2/warlock 5, and dragonborn barbarian 7
After defeating the inhabitants of the hunting lodge, we had to make haste to Parnast to catch Skyreach castle. Our sorcerer was wounded badly and out of spells, but had to hurry. I had a hat of disguise and used it to appear as a cult mercenary. We held high the banner and gave the passwords to get into Parnast and quickly gain entry to Skyreach castle. Keeping a low profile was our top priority, and we entered the barracks looking for a few beds to crash in, convincing the guards that we were told by Talis to come here and report for guard duty and manual labor duty. The guards told us there was no room in the barracks, but we were probably meant to go to the guest chambers. While the rest of the party rested in the guest chambers, I went to the kitchen, and told the kobolds there I was there to get food for the guards. One of the kobolds showed me where the food was, and I asked him that I needed food to deliver to the giant in charge (seeing that the doors were normal size, I assumed the giants didn't come here on their own.).
The kobold looked at me weird and said that the ogres did that duty. I went to the ogres in the tower and told them I was taking over for food delivery, and asked which one brought the food the giant in charge. The ogre told me Bog did that, and kept insulting us as "puny wee-men". I asked where Bog was, and he told me. I then asked, "Who does Bog give the food too?", and sure enough, the stupid ogres fell for it and said "Blagothkus" (I didn't know the giant's name at that point). So I went up to the ogre barracks and entered, saying I was looking for Bog. After being asked who I was and what I was doing, I explained to Bog that we were sent here to do the low level work and take over the duties to bring Blagothkus his food, and big strong ogres were too important to do work that "wee-men" could do. He chuckled at that term and agreed.
I used the same deception to get past the personal ogre guard of the giant, and found myself in the audience of Blagothkus. Unfortunately, he didn't believe a word I said and asked the real reason. So I said we were mercenaries and the entire hunting lodge was destroyed and most everyone was dead. Being swords for hire, we followed the gold. and the gold led us here. He didn't quite believe me, but didn't seem to care, and sent us away. Definitely got the impression he has no love lost for the cultists, and wants to raise an army of giants.
Running out of ideas, and out of time, we fell back to the ol' default: kill stuff. So we went down to Rezmir's chamber and I knocked on the door. When Rezmir asked who we were and what we wanted, I replied that Blagothkus has asked for her presence. She asked where he was, and I replied, "In his chambers, getting his hair brushed by two ogres." As soon as Rezmir opened the door, the sorcerer blasted her with a lightning bolt. I immediately ran in and used flurry of blows, hitting three times. I used three more ki on stunning strike before she finally failed the last one. THat was surprise round. On the next round the drakes with her had initiative and they moved forward to attack us, putting a big wrench in our plans to take her out in 1 round. She used a legendary reaction to cast darkness where we were at. Desperate, I charged forward and attacked, spending my last two ki in more stunning fist attacks. They failed. I got hit, hard, by her sword and went down (the drakes wounded me earlier and on an opportunity attack). The F/W with his devil's sight was able to kill one drake and move in and eventually finish off Rezmir.
With Rezmir dead, our only reasonable course of action was to go back to Blathokus, tell him what happened, and make a deal with the on-board treasure for him to help use it to fund his army. The problem is that a dragon and wizards guard the treasure. So that's our task, but we have the help of giants with us. The vampire wasn't that big of a challenge when we attack during the day with giant and ogre help. The mages fled. So that's where we're at. In control of the skycastle. Not sure where to go now though. To the well? I think we're gonna head to Waterdeep and report our findings first though.
We finally have pretty much finished this first book today, killing Rezmir.
Party: Shadow monk 7, dwarf wild sorcerer 7, human f2/warlock 5, and dragonborn barbarian 7
After defeating the inhabitants of the hunting lodge, we had to make haste to Parnast to catch Skyreach castle. Our sorcerer was wounded badly and out of spells, but had to hurry. I had a hat of disguise and used it to appear as a cult mercenary. We held high the banner and gave the passwords to get into Parnast and quickly gain entry to Skyreach castle. Keeping a low profile was our top priority, and we entered the barracks looking for a few beds to crash in, convincing the guards that we were told by Talis to come here and report for guard duty and manual labor duty. The guards told us there was no room in the barracks, but we were probably meant to go to the guest chambers. While the rest of the party rested in the guest chambers, I went to the kitchen, and told the kobolds there I was there to get food for the guards. One of the kobolds showed me where the food was, and I asked him that I needed food to deliver to the giant in charge (seeing that the doors were normal size, I assumed the giants didn't come here on their own.).
The kobold looked at me weird and said that the ogres did that duty. I went to the ogres in the tower and told them I was taking over for food delivery, and asked which one brought the food the giant in charge. The ogre told me Bog did that, and kept insulting us as "puny wee-men". I asked where Bog was, and he told me. I then asked, "Who does Bog give the food too?", and sure enough, the stupid ogres fell for it and said "Blagothkus" (I didn't know the giant's name at that point). So I went up to the ogre barracks and entered, saying I was looking for Bog. After being asked who I was and what I was doing, I explained to Bog that we were sent here to do the low level work and take over the duties to bring Blagothkus his food, and big strong ogres were too important to do work that "wee-men" could do. He chuckled at that term and agreed.
I used the same deception to get past the personal ogre guard of the giant, and found myself in the audience of Blagothkus. Unfortunately, he didn't believe a word I said and asked the real reason. So I said we were mercenaries and the entire hunting lodge was destroyed and most everyone was dead. Being swords for hire, we followed the gold. and the gold led us here. He didn't quite believe me, but didn't seem to care, and sent us away. Definitely got the impression he has no love lost for the cultists, and wants to raise an army of giants.
Running out of ideas, and out of time, we fell back to the ol' default: kill stuff. So we went down to Rezmir's chamber and I knocked on the door. When Rezmir asked who we were and what we wanted, I replied that Blagothkus has asked for her presence. She asked where he was, and I replied, "In his chambers, getting his hair brushed by two ogres." As soon as Rezmir opened the door, the sorcerer blasted her with a lightning bolt. I immediately ran in and used flurry of blows, hitting three times. I used three more ki on stunning strike before she finally failed the last one. THat was surprise round. On the next round the drakes with her had initiative and they moved forward to attack us, putting a big wrench in our plans to take her out in 1 round. She used a legendary reaction to cast darkness where we were at. Desperate, I charged forward and attacked, spending my last two ki in more stunning fist attacks. They failed. I got hit, hard, by her sword and went down (the drakes wounded me earlier and on an opportunity attack). The F/W with his devil's sight was able to kill one drake and move in and eventually finish off Rezmir.
With Rezmir dead, our only reasonable course of action was to go back to Blathokus, tell him what happened, and make a deal with the on-board treasure for him to help use it to fund his army. The problem is that a dragon and wizards guard the treasure. So that's our task, but we have the help of giants with us. The vampire wasn't that big of a challenge when we attack during the day with giant and ogre help. The mages fled. So that's where we're at. In control of the skycastle. Not sure where to go now though. To the well? I think we're gonna head to Waterdeep and report our findings first though.
