Session 7 Report

General Summary

The party wakes up after a wild night of drinking in Hartgar, and are summoned by Count Gollin to come speak to them. They go see him and find Duke Gorwin with him. Upon their arrival, Count Gollin takes his leave for Duke Gorwin to speak to the party. He asks them about their progress on finding a location for a new settlement in the region, to which they claim that hobgoblins are raiding everything and threatening any chance of expansion. Duke Gorwin thinks on the news and tasks the party to break off trying to find a location for settlement and instead focus on the goblinoid threat. He drafts a letter and asks the party to deliver it to the undine and attempt to negotiate trade relations and a military alliance to take on the goblinoids. They party accepts the task and head out west to the tower to see the undine.   They take a full day's travel to get to the tower, then camp out a small ways away from it. Kith decides to go off fishing in the nearby river, and is surprised by a group of undine that jump out of the water at him. The party sees this from a ways away and rushes over to help him out, with Katerina using magic to talk to the undine. They discover that the undine consider it sacrilegious to cook fish and want to punish Kith for doing so. They party convince them them to calm down and they have Kith dump the cooked fish in the river on the undines' request. Katerina tells them that they're there to speak to their leaders and ask to see them, so one of the undine goes into the river and comes back several minutes later with another undine who introduces himself to them as Ciquk. When asked if he was the undines' leader, he says he's one of them. The party asks to talk to all of them about establishing trade, peace, and help for rescuing their children. Ciquk tells them that he'll gather the others and meet them at the tower, then the undine go back into the water.   After about an hour of waiting at the tower, a lot of undine with spears come out of the water followed by 5 undine without spears. They introduce themselves as the various leaders of the undine. After a while of talking with the party on the merits of setting up trade relations and a military alliance, the undine leaders say they must discuss it further amongst themselves and to meet them back at the tower in one week's time. The undine leave and the party decides to camp out here for the night then head out in the morning. Come around midnight, undine come out of the water and start working on the fortifications around the tower. Some of the undine bring a large bag of fresh fish to the party as thanks. The party wakes up in the morning and heads back with the fresh fish.   Upon arriving back in Hartgar, Centurion and Katerina go speak to Gorwin while Kazrik and Goodman go sell the fish to the local tavern. Centurion and Katerina tell Duke Gorwin and Count Gollin about the undine deliberating and wanting to meet in a week's time. Count Gollin argues a show of force is necessary to make the undine submit to their demands. Centurion and Katerina argues against it and they manage to establish a compromise to have soldiers act as escort but not be present at the negotiation. After successfully making the compromise, the two of them go back to the tavern and find Goodman and Kazrik drinking. Goodman questions the bartender on where he can find a good fight, to which the bartender leans in and tells him about the fighting pit out back. Goodman immediately goes to the back yard of the tavern to find a dirt ring with Sergeant Sinn finishing off his opponent, and Goodman challenges him to a fight. He gladly accepts and bets are taken, with everyone betting on Sergeant Sinn except for the party that bet on Goodman. They brawl it out while Katerina plays some music. Sergeant Sinn quickly seems to be the superior fighter, and beats Goodman pretty hard, so Goodman gets unorthodox and tackles Sergeant Sinn to the ground and pins him, bending his arm until the pain is unbearable and Sergeant Sinn taps out. The party rejoices and everyone cries in shock. Sergeant Sinn shakes Goodman's hand and remarks that he's looking forward to a rematch some day.