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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PHDungeon" data-source="post: 5050691" data-attributes="member: 86320">Game Session #7 part #1, GM notes:In this past session the PCs finally confronted Flagg in what was their most deadly combat to date.Starke advised them to pay a visit to Sturgleson castle so that they might get the aid of the town guard, for it seemed likely that there would be at least 30 possessed in the lair. Even with their elemental powered, clockwork armor they would be overwhelmed and slaughtered by the horde. They would need help, and Starke was not willing to contribute his own forces to the fight. Darren tried to guilt Starke into loaning his men, but his pleas fell on deaf ears and only served to wear on Starke’s patience. They were soon sent on their way. Bella tried to warn Darren that he was pushing his limits with her boss. In fact, she was surprised that Starke put up with as much <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> from him as he did. Normally, Starke didn’t stand for even a hint of insolence. She pondered why his tolerance for the young man was so high, but came up with no answer.They made their way through the city towards the castle. The place was degenerating into chaos. Flagg’s possessed had murdered scores of citizens the night before, and bodies were still being hauled out of gutters and alleyways. Hundreds of panicked folk crowded the streets, grieving and seeking answers. They thronged around the churches, and priests of the both Rao and the Skanzi Gods did what they could to ease their anguish. On their way to Sturgleson castle, they visited the Skaldsholm library. There, Darren managed to garner another audience with Jarl Sturgleson’s daughter Brianna, the high archivist. He convinced her with surprising ease to accompany them to the castle to lend weight to the direness of his tale.The young noble’s good fortune took a turn from the worse as he passed through the temple district. He was accosted by three knights of the Gold Lion- a knightly order dedicated to Roa’s prophet Amra. They recognized his Sun Templar cloak, even though he’d removed the sacred badge, and they demanded that he explain how he got it and that he turn it over to them so that they might return it to the church. He managed to convince them that he would give it back as soon as he finished his battle with Flagg and the possessed, which he told them all about. This strategy proved rewarding because he managed to convince them to gather their brethren and help the heroes defeat the fiends, turning what could have been a dangerous conflict into a boon for the party.Soon they had met with Jarl Sturgleson and his son Leofric who was the captain of the city guard. With Briannah’s help they explained what was responsible for the mass murders and rallied the guard to help them destroy their enemy. After the meeting, Jarl Sturgleson had a private meeting with Bjorn. He had realized that Starke was helping the heroes, and he wished to recruit Bjorn to spy on Starke for him. The jarl feared Starke, for Starke had a fortress that was at least as well defended as Sturgleson castle, and he had many forces including constructs. Few people could provide much real information about the man, and Sturgleson considered him a great threat to his position in the city. Bjorn agreed to help the Jarl, and promised he’d gather what information he could.Thanks to the work of Starke’s clockwork birds the night before, they had been able to learn where Flagg was hiding during the day. His lair was in a catacomb beneath on old temple of Rao in the Styes. The temple no longer functioned as such. It had been converted into an indoor black market and the catacombs were presumably abandoned other than local street urchins, which Flagg surely would have slaughtered.The entrance to the catacombs was from a lower boardwalk below the level of the main buildings on the island it sat on in the Styes. The heroes had a score of Golden Lion Knights and about one hundred members of the city guard to help them. They were quite a procession as they marched through the streets of the Styes. The heroes were wearing the clockwork plate armor provided to them by Starke, and people lined the streets to watch them pass. As they neared the catacombs something concerning happened. Suddenly, each hero’s armor had a slight malfunction. It was as if the elemental bound to the armor to act as its power source had tried to escape its arcane bonds, causing a backlash of elemental energy that wounded each of the characters. The elementals were not secure, but the heroes needed the armor, so they prayed that things would not get worse and they pressed on. They had several of the guards position themselves outside the temple and the catacomb entrance in case any of the possessed tried to escape. Then they entered the catacombs followed by the knights of the Golden Lion and many more members of the guard. The plan was that they would seek out Flagg while the knights and the guard dealt with the possessed. It would be a tough fight, and many guards and knights would surely die, but at leas the numbers were now more in their favor.</blockquote>

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