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<blockquote data-quote="Rhenny" data-source="post: 6740397" data-attributes="member: 18333"><p>Session 6 – ShadeRaven’s Horde of the Dragon Queen Campaign (2 ½ hour game)</p><p></p><p>Journal Entry by Myles Stormgroom Cleric of Silvanus</p><p></p><p>We came upon the bandit camp and climbed up the cliffs to the north. A raider inside the came saw us so he yelled out to us and told us to come down and join the rest of them. They must have mistaken us for one of them. We decided to walk amongst them. I spoke with the one raider, telling him we were mercenary just in it for the money. He told us about the fanatics in the purple robes and a little more about the camp. I told him my name was Morgan and he went off. </p><p></p><p>Inside the camp, we tried to get close to the nearest group of tents. The raiders there told us to help out. Grim, Brevick and I were asked to gather firewood. Mily and Strix were asked to wash the cookware. As we went off doing our repective jobs, one of the cultists recognized Grim. He said something about Grim’s parents getting lynched. It hurt Grim, but he kept his sadness and rage inside. Another raider realized that Strix was a caster, so he told Strix to come with him so Strix could help at another job deeper into the bandit camp. We saw this so we doubled over to try to pick up wood nearer to Strix. Eventually when we got near some other tents, a group of guards recognized Brevick as the one that fought Cyanwrath. At first we thought we were cooked, but Brevick spoke in a language we could not recognize and one of the bandits actually understood him. From the way that bandit spoke with the others I could tell that Brevick spoke undercommon and he had convinced the bandit that he had fought Cyanwrath to show his bravery so that he could come to study fighting skills under the great half-dragon. The raider told the others that the Dwarf was crazy, but brave. We also learned that Cyanwrath was second to Mondath (a female who we later saw torturing Leosin), and it seemed as if Rezmer was the leader of the entire group. </p><p></p><p>All the while, we kept an eye on Strix who had been taken to the other side of the camp. He was met by some other raider who took Strix’s staff from him and walked him deeper to the eastern part of the camp.</p><p></p><p>While we were yucking it up with about 25 raiders they took us over to where they had some prisoners in chains. We recognized a few. Some from Brovest and others from Greenest. We found that the Horde attacked a number of neighboring towns, so Greenest was really nothing special. It seemed as if they were just amassing wealth to build a larger army, all the while talking about how the dragons and half-dragons were the real power of Tiamat’s army, and that Tiamat would rise again. The raiders asked us to take some of the prisoners out to the trees nearby and have them cut down more for tonight’s fire. We took them over and I spoke with them asking about Leosin. They were happy to learn that we weren’t mercenaries or raiders, and they pointed out where Leosin was being tortured and kept prior to execution. We realized that we didn’t have much time. In fact, we saw that Strix was now their captive and he too was getting tied to a stake next to Leosin.</p><p></p><p>When we took the prisoners back, the other raiders let us be the guards for the night. As it got darker, Mily picked the locks on the chains and we had the prisoners fake that the shackles still held. Then Mily said she could try to sneak over to Strix and Leosin and release them, but we didn’t know how we could sneak the prisoners and Leosin out of camp. As we searched the cliff walls to the south, Grim spotted a small cave. We decided to take the prisoners there while Mily went to free Strix and Leosin, then meet at the cave. On our way to the cave, we ran into one guard. Before he could say much, Brevick charged him and smashed him with his morningstar, but the guard stood. Then Grim charged at him, but he could not connect even when he swiped at the guard twice with his greataxe. I moved around the guard to block his escape, and I jabbed at him with my shortsword. The cut took him down. </p><p></p><p>Mily was successful and we all made it to the cave. Brevick, feeling at ease in the underground cave, looked it over and found that it had no other exit, but it was pretty well hidden. We also dragged the dead guard to the cave so that he wouldn’t be found, and as we were trying to determine if we could scale the cliff, we heard a horn from nearby. The camp was up and moving, “The prisoners are gone,” people shouted. We had little time, so everyone jammed into the cave as I padded down any footprints we would have made and placed some of the rocks and branches nearby over the open areas of the pretty well hidden cave. Inside, we kept quiet and waited. Eventually, we heard people come near, but nobody found the cave opening. We heard some even say that they thought the prisoners had escaped the camp entirely. Since we had already heard that the bandits would be mobile tomorrow, we shared the rest of my rations and waited all night through a good portion of the next day.</p><p></p><p>Grim and Mily slipped out of the cave to see if the raiders had left. When they returned, they told us that most of them had gone so we decided to use the cover of dusk to sneak out of the raider camp. We made it out. After a short journey, we made it back to Greenest and met with Governor Nighthill. He paid us the reward he promised and we told him about Leosin, who had a lot of information about the raiders. </p><p></p><p>Among other things, we learned that the cultists extended their hands up exposing 5 fingers to salute and praise Tiamat, and some of them kept their middle fingers down to represent what they felt was Tiamat’s unjust imprisonment in hell. We joked about the salute and did it as a “high five.”</p><p></p><p>After Mily rescued Strix, we learned more since Strix was able to speak with more of the cultists and raiders and even Leosin himself while they were both tied to the stakes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rhenny, post: 6740397, member: 18333"] Session 6 – ShadeRaven’s Horde of the Dragon Queen Campaign (2 ½ hour game) Journal Entry by Myles Stormgroom Cleric of Silvanus We came upon the bandit camp and climbed up the cliffs to the north. A raider inside the came saw us so he yelled out to us and told us to come down and join the rest of them. They must have mistaken us for one of them. We decided to walk amongst them. I spoke with the one raider, telling him we were mercenary just in it for the money. He told us about the fanatics in the purple robes and a little more about the camp. I told him my name was Morgan and he went off. Inside the camp, we tried to get close to the nearest group of tents. The raiders there told us to help out. Grim, Brevick and I were asked to gather firewood. Mily and Strix were asked to wash the cookware. As we went off doing our repective jobs, one of the cultists recognized Grim. He said something about Grim’s parents getting lynched. It hurt Grim, but he kept his sadness and rage inside. Another raider realized that Strix was a caster, so he told Strix to come with him so Strix could help at another job deeper into the bandit camp. We saw this so we doubled over to try to pick up wood nearer to Strix. Eventually when we got near some other tents, a group of guards recognized Brevick as the one that fought Cyanwrath. At first we thought we were cooked, but Brevick spoke in a language we could not recognize and one of the bandits actually understood him. From the way that bandit spoke with the others I could tell that Brevick spoke undercommon and he had convinced the bandit that he had fought Cyanwrath to show his bravery so that he could come to study fighting skills under the great half-dragon. The raider told the others that the Dwarf was crazy, but brave. We also learned that Cyanwrath was second to Mondath (a female who we later saw torturing Leosin), and it seemed as if Rezmer was the leader of the entire group. All the while, we kept an eye on Strix who had been taken to the other side of the camp. He was met by some other raider who took Strix’s staff from him and walked him deeper to the eastern part of the camp. While we were yucking it up with about 25 raiders they took us over to where they had some prisoners in chains. We recognized a few. Some from Brovest and others from Greenest. We found that the Horde attacked a number of neighboring towns, so Greenest was really nothing special. It seemed as if they were just amassing wealth to build a larger army, all the while talking about how the dragons and half-dragons were the real power of Tiamat’s army, and that Tiamat would rise again. The raiders asked us to take some of the prisoners out to the trees nearby and have them cut down more for tonight’s fire. We took them over and I spoke with them asking about Leosin. They were happy to learn that we weren’t mercenaries or raiders, and they pointed out where Leosin was being tortured and kept prior to execution. We realized that we didn’t have much time. In fact, we saw that Strix was now their captive and he too was getting tied to a stake next to Leosin. When we took the prisoners back, the other raiders let us be the guards for the night. As it got darker, Mily picked the locks on the chains and we had the prisoners fake that the shackles still held. Then Mily said she could try to sneak over to Strix and Leosin and release them, but we didn’t know how we could sneak the prisoners and Leosin out of camp. As we searched the cliff walls to the south, Grim spotted a small cave. We decided to take the prisoners there while Mily went to free Strix and Leosin, then meet at the cave. On our way to the cave, we ran into one guard. Before he could say much, Brevick charged him and smashed him with his morningstar, but the guard stood. Then Grim charged at him, but he could not connect even when he swiped at the guard twice with his greataxe. I moved around the guard to block his escape, and I jabbed at him with my shortsword. The cut took him down. Mily was successful and we all made it to the cave. Brevick, feeling at ease in the underground cave, looked it over and found that it had no other exit, but it was pretty well hidden. We also dragged the dead guard to the cave so that he wouldn’t be found, and as we were trying to determine if we could scale the cliff, we heard a horn from nearby. The camp was up and moving, “The prisoners are gone,” people shouted. We had little time, so everyone jammed into the cave as I padded down any footprints we would have made and placed some of the rocks and branches nearby over the open areas of the pretty well hidden cave. Inside, we kept quiet and waited. Eventually, we heard people come near, but nobody found the cave opening. We heard some even say that they thought the prisoners had escaped the camp entirely. Since we had already heard that the bandits would be mobile tomorrow, we shared the rest of my rations and waited all night through a good portion of the next day. Grim and Mily slipped out of the cave to see if the raiders had left. When they returned, they told us that most of them had gone so we decided to use the cover of dusk to sneak out of the raider camp. We made it out. After a short journey, we made it back to Greenest and met with Governor Nighthill. He paid us the reward he promised and we told him about Leosin, who had a lot of information about the raiders. Among other things, we learned that the cultists extended their hands up exposing 5 fingers to salute and praise Tiamat, and some of them kept their middle fingers down to represent what they felt was Tiamat’s unjust imprisonment in hell. We joked about the salute and did it as a “high five.” After Mily rescued Strix, we learned more since Strix was able to speak with more of the cultists and raiders and even Leosin himself while they were both tied to the stakes. [/QUOTE]
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