Magic Shop Owners Session 22

Session Notes

Calendar Date: 43-3-596 - 46-3-596

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Returning to Stonehaven

• The party and the peoples who travelled with them rested onboard the Kraken while they returned the Rocky Slopes
• After arriving at the shore the party convinced the hundred or so people they had saved to come with them to Stonehaven and join the community there
• They offered these people food, a place to stay and water for work. The people of Neverwell were happy to accept this, especially considering water had been so valuable in their homeland
• On the way back to Stonehaven, they were ambushed by a band of goblins. While working out how to dismount a cliff, the goblins rolled boulders down from hills above the party. Around half of the Neverwellians were crushed and Jutara and Geog were severely injured, with Geog taking the brunt of the blow jumping in front of Jutara and holding the boulder back.
• Breadwig cast haste on the party allowing them all to move twice as fast. Geog lead the charge toward the goblin leader, who was riding a wolf on one of the hills, and many of the Neverwellians followed.
• Jutara, Jatumal and Smuv used ranged attacks from below and they made short work of the 10 or so goblins that surrounded the leader.
• The goblins from the other cliff shot arrows down on the party killing a few more Neverwellians, but Breadwig then put the majority of them to sleep with a spell
• Three were left standing. Geog attempted to throw an axe at one from the hill opposite but it missed and chopped a leg off one of the Neverwellians. Maia flew up and took one out with her mace, while everyone else tried to pepper them with arrows, most of which missed.
• The awake goblins tried to wake their companions, but the speed from Breadwig's haste allowed the party to quickly put a stop to that
• They gathered the asleep goblins and tied them up, splitting them in half and interrogating them separately. They told the party they had been displaced by the flooding and were just trying to survive. Soon Jutara grew bored and killed one.
• Then the party allowed the Neverwellians to decide what to do with the rest. In their anger with many of their friends and family being killed by the goblins, they all gathered around the goblins and stabbed them many times with their daggers and tools
• They used ropes to descend the cliff and then Maia flew back up and untied them using her boots
• After that there were no more interruptions before reaching Stonehaven

In Stonehaven

• Once at Stonehaven the party had to resolve a dispute between the goblins and the hobgoblins
• Giles was threatening the hobgoblins with the disintegration wand. Geog knocked the wand out of his and Gunter snatched it. He began to dance saying he was in charge now
• Smuv managed to take the wand from Gunter when he wasn't looking
• They then got the story from the goblins on why they were threatening the hobgoblins. Apparently they did like the weaker goblins being in charge and had been beating Gibbo
• This then resulted in the party gathering all the people's of Stonehaven together in an attempt to make a new governmental system that would hopefully solve the problems here
• They now had the Neverwell dwarves and gnolls, the lizardfolk, the goblins and the hobgoblins. Gary had also collected Sally Hope and Sam the Slow from Stagbrook
• The party decided there would be a new council in Stonehaven and that one person from each of the species would sit on the council to begin with. This would allow all of the peoples interests to be considered
• Sam and Sally got seats by default because they were the only people of their species in Stonehaven. Gunter became the goblin council member, Gareth for the gnolls, Lysander for the lizardfolk, Darren for the dwarves and Harold for the hobgoblins
• The council made an initial plan. They would continue to blockade level three and clear level one of monsters, Sam would train an apprentice to ensure they had good bakes, they would mint the stonecoin currency, train some carpenters, create a mixed species military but still have strong members (not all hobgoblins who seemed like they may try to overthrow things), Gareth would set up a HR department, Sally would be in charge of marketing and trying to draw new people to Stonehaven, and they would continue to have regular weekly meetings
• Gareth also made another request for the party to find his wife
• After dealing with the immediate issues and dropping the Neverwellians (they were all overjoyed to have free water and accomodation for their work) off at Stonehaven the party decided to track down the Tarrasque body.

The Howling Woods

• The Tarrasque had created a huge gash through the Howling Woods. Trees were toppled and there was light in the once ever dark of the woods
• The party followed the devastation. Along the way Jutara was caught off guard by a hermit spider. This is a long with a spider inside but the spider is using the long as a shell like a hermit crab. She was pulled inside the log
• Jatumal rammed into the hole in the log with his spiked Ignid shield causing the spider to recoil and release Jutara. Breadwig then put the spider to sleep and the party made short work of it
• Not too long later the party arrived at the Tarrasque body, but it was swarmmed by gullygugs (frog people)
• The party spoke in chaotic to the gullugugs eventually scaring them off when they claimed they had stopped the giant Tarrasque
• The party then spent some time trying to extract anything of use from the Tarrasque. Eventually they were able to use one of its claws to pierce the skin. From this came blood which Breadwig caught as much of as he could (Sarzan believed that the Tarrasque's blood may be useful for travelling to this other plane where Gareth's wife was)
• They eventually realised that they could dislodge the teeth without too much difficulty and that these could damage the thick skin of the Tarrasque but may have been more useful if they could be fashioned into some form of tool. As a result, they decided to travel to Whiterock in hopes of getting Eadan the blacksmith to fashion something for them
• On their way out of the woods they encountered an Ettin (a two headed giant), but were able to distract it away with some rocks

In Whiterock

• The party discovered that Whiterock had fallen into chaos after the thieves guild had taken over
• They managed to met up with Eadan. He agreed to help them harvest the Tarrasque and to establish trade routes with Stonehaven from Whiterock if the party would help with his communist take over
• The party happily agreed. Some of those from Whiterock who wanted to avoid the fighting went to Stonehaven through the now much safer route through the Howling Woods
• Since the Whiterock guard had not take a side with either the thieves or the communists, Eadan believed that convincing them to take the side of the communists would sway the conflict in their favour
• The party made their way to the Guard Barracks and talked their way inside to party with the guards
• Meanwhile, Breadwig snuck into the Guard captain's quarters and made himself invisible and then waited
• After some time the guard captain went to bed. After he fell asleep. Breadwig cast an illusion of a thief attacking and threatening the guard captain. He then cast sleep on the captain before he could see him
• The party returned to Eadan's where the communists had set up a base of operations and slept.
• The next morning a messenger came from the guards saying the captain had decided to side with them

XP

100 xp = 20 x Goblin
35 xp = Goblin Leader
900 xp = Hermit Spider
900 xp = Ettin
100 xp = guards
2035/6 = 340 xp each

Published Content Used

• OSE (Classic and Advanced)
• Into the Wyrd and Wild (Monsters)
• Stonehell (Stonehaven)