Session 11: The Fleeing Nose

General Summary

It was a nice day when three adventurers came to the giant city of Nova Aera to seek their luck. These were the strapping human champion Drak-Ola, the twitchy ysoki alchemist Crik brandishing a crossbow, and the bubbly halfling ranger Tova Piff and her badger companion Puff. Barely after entering the city, they caught a swashbukling catfolk named Zid rummaging through their bags. In exchange for not turning him over to the local authorities, Zid showed them all around. He brought them to his favorite inn, known as the Sleepy Bastards. There they drank and got to know one another.

After a while, a gnome rushed into the inn. He screamed for help, for he had lost his nose. When no one seemed to be willing to help him he turned to the newcomers and promised them a bag of gold if they helped him. Suddenly convinced they began the search. The gnome Bartolomeus Smellometrus would return to his tower and work on a spell to reattatch his nose. The only clue they recieved was that the nose would likely seek out stronger and stronger scents. The party quickly picked up the nose's trail and followed it wake down the streets of Nova Aera, towards the docks. After avoiding a run-in with some dogs and finding a destroyed perfume-shop that lacked insurance, they tracked the nose down into the sewers.

In the sewers they followed a sneezing sound that they theorised came from the nose. After a while they ran into a sludge-monster that made its home by self-built dam the murky sewage. Behind the dam they saw an exit in the rood that had been blown open. Hoping to catch up with the nose they rushed up the dam and engaged with the monster. This effort almost ended in Puff the Badger's death. But in the end, thanks to Crik's acid arrows and Drak-Ola's divine might, they sent the monster running for its life. Swiftly they followed the nose's path up the ladder and out of the sewers.

The trail led them to yet another perfum-shop. With some quick attacks, they pinned the nose to the wall. Stopping it from reaching the grandest of all smells. The Titan's Draught. Although Drak-Ola had to divinely heal the nose somewhat it was mostly intact as they returned it to Bartolomeus, who promptly invited them to a feast that very night. However, during that feast they could swear that they saw the nose twitch a bit, as if it still had a little mind of its own.

Rewards Granted

• 73 gold
• A vial of Titans Draught