Session 68: When Last We Met 2/4/24
General Summary
When last we met, the party had been offered the assistance of the three mercenaries who were trying to kill them mere hours before. The party accepts their help and leaves them off in the Weary Falcon Inn to go ask Lady Svetlana for more information on The Volim Clan and their operations.
The party find a pretty much locked down Dormition Palace. A platoon of guards tell the party to jog off but they are insistent that Lady Mastokov will want to speak with her "Saviors" as Tensi put it. The guard reluctantly fetches Svetlana and they convince her to give up all the information she has on Artjem Volim and his clan. She brings Isolde and Arcturus into the palace and relays all she knows to them. Two holy persons entering a recently attacked palace looks way better than several armed figures.
Back at the Inn, Isolde relays that the volim clan is headquartered at the city of Vagra. And it is a wretched hive of scum and villainy. Artjem himself is a detestable creature but has to be a cold blooded killer to make it to the top of an organized crime organization that rules half a country. Crime and corruption are rampant in both cities Ruled by the Volim. The party resolves that they'll have to be more.... agressive in their actions towards the Volim Clan's slave ring.
They offer their services to a merchant going on a supply run as a means of getting out of the city and across the country. They travel by boat over Lake Mokryti And deliver their companion to the city of Esniet. An anomaly of a city that is affiliated with neither the Mastokov Dynasty nor the Volim Clan. They spend some downtime asking the formerly enslaved around the city about life working in the mines. A few are forthcoming with information, stating that the mines are relatively not very heavily guarded. As The magical collars affixed to the slaves make them docile and obedient with little incidents of revolt.
The party realize they are close to one of the mines not far from Esniet and decide to head there and deal as much damage to this soft target as possible. They arrive after less than day's travel and come upon the adjacent work town where the slave bosses lay their heads. Tensi wildshapes into a hawk to survey the area and find a total of 7 bosses with a few guards here and there make up the total protective force in this mine.
The party decide to ambush them all as they take their evening respite at the tavern built just for them. They barge in and the brawl immediately begins. They are soon proven no match for the combined might of the party as they tear through each slaver one by one, leaving only one alive for questioning. And that's where we'll pick up next time!
Rewards Granted
250sp - Payment for the passage across Lake Mokryti. (Placed in your inventory)
Character(s) interacted with
Svetlana Mastokov - Widow of Grigoriy. Lady of Darkolz. Pledged to change up the way in which they mine their silver.
Kobold - Former Slave in Esniet told the party all the information they knew about life in the mines
Dima, Olim, and Oorlog - accompanying the party and proving useful allies.
Notes
26th of Nuada
- Party asked Lady Svetlana for Information
- Secured passage out of the city
- Took a journey across the lake
- Party arrived at Esniet
- Explored the city and questioned former slaves
- Learned of the location of one of the mines
- Went to go destroy the operation
- Party arrived at the miner town
- Killed off the slave bosses
- Left one alive
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