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Message: <blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 8203914" data-attributes="member: 11">Session #20 started with the party in something of a stand-off with some assassins, and the party's gnomish bard/wizard nearly getting his throat slit. But they managed to defeat the group and assassin leader called off his attack when he saw he had been lied to about who he was supposed to kill (refuses to kill other tieflings without provocation) and actually gave them a lead to find out the specifics of who hired him (through an intermediary, so he could not just tell them).There was one interesting scene, where the party met a principled cleric/monk who helped them with healing and even arranged for the thugs that survived to be stabilized and carried off to wait for the authorities. She was heading in the same direction as the party so they agreed to travel together, however the next morning when all the "common people" (seasonal laborers, pilgrims, etc) lined up to get a ferry over some floodlands, they all parted to let all the bad-ass and scary adventures move to the front and get on first, but Ottie (the monk) demurred and insisted on not taking advantage, so they got on without her and then she missed that ferry and had to the wait for the next. The party was psyched to have a dedicated healer traveling with them, but annoyed they immediately lost her because of her principles.Eventually they got a message that she made it to town about half a day after they did, but they still haven't re-found her.Meanwhile, the PCs were investigating two mysteries they are not sure are related. One was a mysterious voice coming out of the swamp, singing gorgeously and that a young NPC friend has asked them to investigate b/c she is convinced it is her destined love out there. The other is the mysterious disappearances of people in town some of which re-appear with flimsy excuses about where they have been. Among the disappearances they investigated was the sage that hired them for their first adventure and the town prefect (basically the mayor). While sneaking around the latter's house for clues, the local constable showed up with his two deputies to question them - but the party had heard that these men showed up after the prefect went missing and had been bullying people into accepting them as the town authority, so decided to fight. It was a tough fight (the party druid did not participate holding back while searching the house in rat form) and before dying the constable yelled out for the town to beware these new invaders and brigands. When the party headed back to the inn they were staying at outside of town they noticed a couple of nearby shops had closed as they passed.At the end of the session, the party druid was in dog form hiding in the brush near where the mysterious swamp singer had been coming to pick up the food, flowers, and notes that the lovestruck girl had been leaving for him. As a fishing boat came around the bend in a stream, appearing from behind a clump of mangroves, the druid heard the singer. . . he kinda sounds like this. . .[MEDIA=youtube]eK5ZheRpsZk:37[/MEDIA]. . . but the surprising part? He was a troll! A shrimpy, gaunt, troll - small for his kind, but still big enough. . . He noticed something in the brush and his troll eyes met the druid-dog's. . . . and we ended right there.  (The rest of the party was enjoying downtime at the inn).</blockquote>

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