Session 5 (Vanedir)
Day 5 cont
Bolen is sleeping in some furs in a box
Mahala too
Gnome tries to stop us leaving
We negotiate, he'll pay us 100gp each on return, 25 additional per person for signs of life/death
Is letting us use his barge
Shows us a bitcoin logo backwards to lookout for (BFC)
Borellus Fiorenti Chintar
Owns the shipping company that owned the goods on the barge
We head off
And roll like shit on all our perceptions, so see nothing as we proceed
Take a short break around midday
We find a crate of materials for a teleportation circle onboard
Continue down the river
We find a lot of blood
Stop the boat and investigate
Source is some bones, picked clean, with teeth marks
Scraps of cloth, nothing distinct to identify them
More than one species of creature attacked
Bones were on the bank, larger bones snapped, back of the skull punctured
At least a couple of days, wasn't in the river, humanoid, medium
We store the corpse in an empty box
Follow the trail of blood back to its source, where it started
Indentation, humanoid shaped, more blood, dried
The area the person died
Likely the person was dropped from a great height
We continue
We come across a partially submerged barge
B'rock goes to investigate
Half the barge is resting on the riverbed
The other half is pointed straight up
The upper half isn't visibly damaged
Below the surface, it appears the middle of the ship burst from the inside
Katarina notices scorch marks on the inside of the hole how it burst
Gunpowder
Flacari is the name of the ship
Completely empty
No loot, no cargo, no bodies
Robbed?
Picked clean lower half humanoid skeleton - dragonborn features
Stored away
We continue
We witness a winged creature, 4x the size of a humanoid dropping a humanoid
The humanoid falls to their death, the creature descends to feed, then leaves
Heads upriver, towards mountains
We come across another barge, 5 humanoids
Pulling the barge to the bank
Going through the crates
2 humans, elf, dwarf, dragonborn
Leather armour, bandanas on a couple of them
Vanedir approaches, tells one of them to surrender
The others attack
Durnevihr knocks the head off the dragonborn
B'rock summons his fire spirit and ignites the barge, incinerating the human woman
Katarina picks off the dwarf with her bow
B'rock's calcifer finishes off the elf woman
Vanedir knocks out the meek human dude (plant) and ties him up
Looting occurs
Bodies stored ungracefully in our barge, plant with them
The barge we found was called pony jumper
The barge was completely empty of people