KKO Session 10: Welcome to Marwen
General Summary
2/1/876, Army Size: 50
- Party recruits 80 new members to its army on the way to Ichigo
- During a call with Judith, Bucephalus convinces her to cover ¾ of troop expenses
- Party arrives in Ichigo, meets with Chagall
- Now that they’ve been pardoned, they agree to help Kawa tribe for a price
- Chagall is easily convinced to pay for ¼ of troop’s maintenance fee
- Chagall gives them lead on way to defeat Silk Page
- There’s a drow currently living in Alduin
- She was influential member of The Verschow's Council, may have helped make Ream
- If anybody knows how to defeat Silk Page, she will
- One night Saoirse shows up in party’s camp
- Since their last meeting she’s joined forces with Chomei and the Kiri tribe
- The Paper Dragons has all but been absorbed by the Kiri tribe
- She’s here with a simple offer: join the Kiri, and they’ll receive 2,000GP a month
- Party likes the sound of all that money, but declines the offer
- Judith’s been good to them, and they already have a job with Chagall
- Saoirse expected this, so she leaves party with a parting gift
- A massive paper version of Lee, the old head of Paper Dragons’ smuggling operations
- Boss Fight: Giant Paper Lee
- First battle with their new army
- Does a good bit of damage, 1d10 for every 100 soldiers
- Nyana and Bucephalus get KO’d, but healing helps a lot
- Balasar swings around a lot, Guppy’s guiding hits like once
- Finally, Nyana’s flame powers tear the monster to shreds
- In the ashes they find a note from Saoirse
- She gives them three choices: kill themselves, leave the Northern Territories, or get killed
- Party arrives in Alduin, the ancient homeworld of the black dragonborn in Melusine
- Balasar has to keep a low profile, he’s wanted for desertion
- Bucephalus convinces guards to let them in
- They head to town square to meet with High Minister, get info on the drow
- They’re forced to wait a long time to meet with High Minister
- Finally they barge into office
- It’s not Bucephalus who convinces Minister to talk, but Guppy!
- Minister says that the drow’s name is Marwen, and she’s staying in a remote monastery
- It’s north of town, all she wants nowadays is isolation and drink
- She uses magic to repair the monastery in return
- Meanwhile Balasar and Tevlin have a little sidequest
- Tevlin gives him a hat w/ feather in it for Balasar’s disguise
- The two go swinging together, find a bar and a couple dragonborn girls together
- The next day they make the long hike up to the Tiamat monastery
- Balasar gets odd looks everywhere they go, but they don’t get stopped
- Inside the monastery they follow a couple monks carrying moonshine
- They take it to a dark cell at the top of an isolated tower
- In the dark, they listen to the drow woman wax cynical and refuse to help
- She has no interest in helping party defeat Silk Page
- She’s already done too much damage to the world
- Eventually, the party gets her help by agreeing to help her find a rare kind of drink
- If they can get her a bottle of Joseph Daniels, she’ll agree to help
- Balasar picks her up, carries her out of the monastery
- A couple of monks question the party, but Bucephalus convinces them to relax
- That night party gets good and wasted with Marwen
- She explains how she’ll craft an enchanted dagger to kill Silk Page
- The ingredients for the weapon rack up to 1,500GP
- Bucephalus tries stealing weapons to pay for supplies
- But Balasar almost gets caught by dragonborn cops and they have to flee city
- Tevlin is in the tavern with a dragonborn girl, but they all escape pretty quickly
- Marwen catches Tevlin’s eye, but party warns him to be careful
- The next morning in army camp the party communicates with Judith via the bone powder ritual
- Party tells her they have way to stop Silk Page, won’t go into specifics
- Turns out the Page has been quiet since its defeat at Sanjuro City
- Larger matters to attend to, Empress Chomei is on the warpath
- She’s marching towards Ichigo, forcing every village she passes to join or die
- Olenjii is on the way towards Ichigo
- So party begins the three-week journey to Olenjii
- Party runs a hard recruiting campaign on the way to Olenjii
- Turns out persuasion and intimidation are an effective combo
- In the end, close to 1,100 troops down the campaign!
- Judith is waiting for party at town gates
- She’s impressed by the army they’ve amassed since their last visit
- But she’s not the biggest fan of Marwen when she lays eyes on her
- Tieflings and drow have a tricky history in Rakka it seems
- But party leaves Marwen with the ale and attends war council
- So the situation’s not great for Olenjii
- Chomei has 10,000 soldiers marching towards their village
- With party’s army included, Olenjii has 6,000 to defend with
- But maybe they can sabotage Chomei’s war effort?
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