Session 20 (Vanedir)

Pick up where we left off, in the wererat burrow

We have a quick look around, then leave through the emergency exit behind the bookshelf

Tunnel is carved from rock, eventually leads to a breach into the sewers. The wall that would have hidden it has been left open by the werewolf/frenchy

Durnivir leaves a marking on the wall for the guards

We find a burned corpse, with some clothing left on it with pockets outturned, as if something were removed

Katerina keeps track of the werewolf that escaped thanks to Hunter's Mark

He's travelled through the sewers, stopped in one place for a little while, leaving torn clothes and a larger pool of blood - an attempt at staunching the wound and trying to bandage himself

We continue on, following the trail for another 11 minutes, we come to a ladder, which we attempt to climb it quietly

Whopping 4, 6, 9, and 10 on stealth from the party.

There's a dumpster left on the manhole cover as we exit, which Vanedir manages to shove off the top of the manhole cover from inside the sewer

In the alley we emerge from, one end is a busy street, with masts of ships being visible so we're near the harbour, somewhere around the eastern side. The other end of the alley leads to intercrossing backalleys.

Many homeless nearby

Katerina asks one for directions, and pays them for such

This draws the attention of all the other homeless hungry people

Durnivir thinks to bring him with us so a homeless bloodbath doesn't start in the backalleys

But others start wanting money from us too

There's a ship called the flying sparrow nearby says one of the homeless

Durnivir: "I know the captain! He's got jobs for all of you! He's called captain briggs!"

More start following us

Durnivir throws some coins into the masses, and starts a brawl amongst the majority of them

As we go further, Katerina offers the beggar some water, he starts chugging it and choking on it

We exit out into a large street, with lots of closed stores, largely bought out by "PTO"

PTO was mentioned on the dodgy contracts found in the bandit cave in session 5

We pick back up on the trail on the street, there are small blood droplets and traces of sewage-y footsteps; the trail leads us further to the east side of the city.

As we follow the trail, Katerina loses hunter's mark, but Calcifer's still up.

This suggests that he's dead or the spell has been dispelled.

We send Hoffi off to the guard post with an imprint of the special badges to get Charles & the Nealonus guards

We continue following the trail, we find a tavern down an alley called the Monster Mash.

The trail goes down the side, slightly around the back of the tavern, at which we find a body with someone crouching by it.

The body has had its head flattened, but it's charred and covered in warped plate armour

The figure knelt over it is hooded, with black leather gloves, nice plate armour

Durnivir decides to walk past the mysterious stranger that appears to have crushed the skull of the werewolf

Gets attacked and smacked for all but one of his HP by a Maul - the homeless man is dead

The weapon appears to have the glow of a magical smite

A tall man, over 6 ft, scaled, black plate, scarred.

We roll initiative.

Vanedir drags Durnivir back, apologizes for approaching, hoping to diffuse the situation

Tarloc? Swings his maul at Durnivir, missing once, then smashing the dwarf into the tavern, unconscious

We see anger on his face, and feel a pulse - B'Rock and Katerina save, but Vanedir fails and is frightened.

Durnivir dreams of when he was a boy in a courtroom in Kethomis

Seeing all the jewels his parents' company had mined

Vanedir takes two mighty blows before going down.

Katerina takes a critical, sending her flying down the alley.

As she passes out, she hears shouting, asking "what's going on", "get them out of there", etc

We later wake up, heavily bandaged, strewn up in a bright white room

In hospital beds.

WE FINALLY LEVEL UP AT LAST

Vanedir is the first to awake, looks around

B'Rock has had the front of his shell slightly cracked.

Katerina has an arm in a cast, more bandaging on her right side

Durnivir has half of his face bandaged, his right side too.

Vanedir has a cracked sternum.

Hoffi is with us, sees us awaken, goes to grab the doctor.

B'Rock immediately summons Calcifer, nearly incinerating all of us and the doctor.

We were found brutalized in the alley, the patrons of the tavern stabilized us.

Vanedir has lost:

The mundane ring and resealed letters from the burrow

The translated diary

The nealonus badges

The statuette from the bandit den

It will take another 24 hours to heal fully, though we'll be scarred.

The hospital is in the northeast of the city.

We've been unconscious for 4 days, Hoffi has been doing his own thing.

(day 12 afternoon KO'd, days, 13,14,15 gone, rest for day 16)