Session 11

General Summary

The party has begun their 10 day road trip towards the city ruins in the North West in search of the Skull of Hakai for Captain Xendros. On the road to Stormhelm the party came across a Giant Hyena with a collar. Jasper and Ocean managed to communicate with it and learn its name is Haiku. Once entering Stormhelm they easily found the owner and were offered future shelter at their residence as a thanks. The party stayed at the Drunken Rose tavern over night. Hallos flirted with the Orc barkeep and created a new private painting. Ace could not hold their liquor and became paranoid, quickly retreating to their room, but not before picking up on signs that a shady group seems to operate in this tavern. And Ocean chatted to a blue dragonborn about their strict culture and philosophy and promptly forgot it all in the morning. On the road to Starmoor the party encountered a Green Hag disguised as a beautiful high elf. After uncovering her disguise combat broke out, and the party acquired the staff of Power she had dropped in the swamp. While resting on the road a group of friendly water Elementals playfully danced through their camp and stayed for a while. During that same night Hallos and Ace spotted a wicker basket floating downstream with a baby. Medusa inside. After quite a long moral debate the group elected to keep it until they could find suitable caretakers, Ace does not care for this at all. Arriving in Starmoor the group came across The Slaughtered Wolf, a brothel and tavern that hosts Gator fighting outside to bet on. This place was far to rowdy and skeevy for the party so they moved onto The Leaping Eagle, an eerily quiet and empty tavern. After detecting a hint of sulphur Jasper investigates in slider form only to discover their host is in fact an ooze that can mimic humanoids. Avoiding an all out Combat Ace casts hold monster and the party gets the hell out of Starmoor. While sleeping on the outskirts of the swamp the party hears eerie wind chimes in the swamp that night. The later half of the night Jasper and Hallos hear some bickering, and hear their names said amongst the bickering. Upon investigating a group of 4 swamp Dryads are discovered gossiping about the party and who they find most attractive. Jasper chats to them for the rest of her watch and they are quite taken with her. Before reaching Hullborne the party spies a damaged cart off the road, the Elf driver seems very skittish and hesitant in accepting their help. The party picks up on this and thanks to Ocean using the message spell they figure out its a bandit ambush. The bandits are quickly dispatched, and Jasper manages to fix the cart up with Mending. The greatful hostage offers them a bottle of his cider as thanks. Arriving in Hullborne the party sees a plume of smoke rising into the sky, upon entering the city they find its source to be a funeral pyre. Avoiding that the party heads to the nearest tavern The Leaping Spider. The Leaping Spider is an adventuring and mercenary bar due to Hullborne being on the frontier. The barkeep is a buff golden Tiefling who's clearly seen some action. Ocean performed for the crowd and they loved it. The group overheard a Sun and Moon Elf explaining their religion and the Elvhen lifestyle to the adventurers in the bar, emphasising that they really should make the most of their short lives since they could Perish of old age Any second. The session ends with the party resting on the 28th of Sun Rest in the tavern with faint knowledge that tomorrow morning is the holy day of The Huntress.