DW Session 16: New Year's Preparations
General Summary
13/4/896
- The party makes it to the city of Kassadeia
- Cassandra takes party off the beaten path near a giant tree
- Turns out it’s a treant named Mr. Tree!
- He’ll sneak them into the city, only if they each pay him 250GP
- He’s saving up money to buy back his old growing spot in town
- Everybody pays him, Jax gives him 300GP
- Mr. Tree makes some vines move away, reveals a small passage at the bottom of the wall
- Inside the party regroups at the Character Safehouse
- Elan and Cereus are there
- They were in Oridelfa when the Revolution began, but they headed for Kassadeia
- Cereus has lost his sense of taste due to Asuria's illness
- Gell also shows up a few hours later
- His smuggling guild has its own tunnels into town
- There’s plenty of moonshine for everybody!
- The party bonds, catches up on all their past adventures
- The Mariner is in town to oversee the final operation to kill the Empress
- He assigns the party on a mission to the sewers beneath town
- They need to unlock some gates to allow Character reinforcements to enter
- Many agents have been killed or wounded due to some monster down there
- Amara’s body is kept in the safehouse supply room
- Sunken God messages Wilbur, tells him he has new plan
- Advises Wilbur to leave book from Hedgpeth archives next to casket
- He casts illusion, nobody notices the placement
- And if only we knew what happened to the Fork of the Sunken God...
- The party rests up for the night and travels down to the sewer gate
- Party stops at entrance to giant reservoir
- Wilbur lights torch, moves it to center of room with mage hand
- There’s some water on floor, also a fomorian at the edge of the room
- The Fomorian’s hungry, he’s ready to eat the party
- Gell offers some poisoned moonshine, but that doesn’t do much to him
- Dungeon Battle: Two Fomorians and Four Piercers
- Gell gets whaled on real bad, KO’d not once but twice
- Adam gets distracted by a piercer, spends most of his time dealing w/ it
- This leads to him getting KO’d by Momma Fomorian
- An Evil Eye glare also curses and deforms him
- Elan takes a bit of damage, but her destructive wave helps out a lot
- Wilbur summons two Hounds of Tindalos
- Together the two of them eat a piercer and attack Mamma Fomorian
- Jax takes zero damage, but he does kill both of the Fomorians
- Mamma is destroyed by Yo-Na, Jax's power of the bear
- In the fallout of the battle the party finds the gates that need to be opened
- Elan picks the lock on a couple of them w/ her dagger
- She gets jumped by a Piercer, battle takes longer than you’d think
- Jax tears one gate off its hinges, slams it down on Piercer
- Back on the surface the party reports their findings to the Mariner
- Everything’s ready for the big invasion, they’ll strike on New Year’s Day
- The fireworks will mask the first wave of attackers
- Adam and rest of party takes long rest, his curse is lifted
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