KKO Session 3: Melt Your Problems Away

General Summary

8/4/875

• Made it to mining town of Dolian
• The town is full of forges and blacksmiths, and so far it’s neutral in war
• Kiri and Kawa clans both visiting to try to get leader to join
• Judith meets up with party and pays them for last mission
• She tells them about Watanabe, their next target
• He’s an arms dealer, one of Paper Dragon’s leaders
• Eliminate him in whatever way they see fit
• In Dolian the party looks around for lead on Watanabe
• They find a sketchy arms dealer who may give them a lead
• But Bucephalus gets distracted by all the cool crossbows he’s selling
• There’s an Avicennan one, but it’s crazy expensive
• Arms dealer will give him a magic crossbow if they do an odd job
• Rough up the town elder and get him to join the Kiri-Kawa war
• For some reason, the party agrees!
• They follow the town elder around for a while, he’s a dwarf named Kjartan Burrowfound
• He likes to stick to a routine, and at night he goes to his favorite bistro
• Balasar and Guppy make a distraction, beat up elder’s guards
• Meanwhile Bucephalus uses Rexfur Amulet to go invisible
• He puts knife to elder’s back, threatens him to join Kiri side
• Party regroups once they’ve accomplished mission, meet back up with arms dealer
• Dealer is impressed, says his boss is impressed with their work
• He takes them to club to introduce them to Watanabe
• He’s an elf with a Clark Gable mustache
• Watanabe talks about all the money they’re going to make from arms deal
• And it’s all thanks to the party’s help!
• He’ll give them more Avicennan weapons if they agree to one more mission
• They’re handed an origami flamingo with Tevlin’s name on it
• Party pretends to agree then heads over to Tevlin’s place
• They find Tevlin with a guy and girl at his hotel room, they fill him in on day’s events
• Tevlin’s upset that they helped Paper Dragons make lucrative arms deal
• But at least they have good lead on Watanabe’s whereabouts/goals
• They’ll pretend they caught Tevlin and get Watanabe to come to hotel
• To prepare for the plan they go shopping for tar and pitch
• Old veteran weapons master gives them barrel of it for 500GP
• They put the items on Tevlin’s tab
• It’s game night, and party is waiting inside Tevlin’s room for Watanabe
• Balasar’s in the hallway, invites Watanabe and 3 guards into room
• Watanabe opens door, and barrel’s worth of green pitch falls on him
• He melts apart and dies instantly, a nearby guard loses an arm
• Balasar takes a lot of licks, but kills a couple of guards
• He splits one in half with his axe, melts second guy with acid breath
• Tevlin tosses throwing knife at armless guard and kills him
• Bucephalus tries to jump into hallway, falls through acid puddle
• Guppy helps out by healing Balasar!
• They party with Tevlin that night, learn more about his backstory
• The next morning they wake up and find a Paper Dragon trying to kill Tevlin!
• Tevlin survives, but assassin escapes and flips them off while he runs away
• Tevlin uses bone powder in a ritual to summon image of Judith, tell her about mission
• She’s not super pleased with all the choices, but at least Watanabe’s dead
• Their next mission will take them west to the coast
• It’ll take them through dragonborn territory, if that’s ok w/ Balasar
• Party gets paid 150GP for mission, levels up, then gets the hell out of Dolian

Report Date

23 Apr 2019

Primary Location

Dolian