Session 74: When Last We Met 3/17/24

General Summary

When Last We Met, the party had locked themselves in with Artjem's Treasure horde. After getting a handle on the actual feasibility of leaving with this entire hoard, they decide to rest so that Vandread could rebuild his steel defender as well as construct a new bag of Holding. The night passes and the party rests. Mistral offers a mundane bag of his and Vandread gets to work. The following morning, they have a second bag of holding as well as the magical items identified properly.
With their newfound riches packed away (in bags of holding and in Mistral's genie vessel), and the sudden need to offload this huge amount of wealth back at their home base, the party decides to head down one of the escape tunnels with the authorities closing in from above. They find themselves standing at the shore of the Harbinger's Strait and face with a 60+ day journey at sea to return home. Celeste talks to the party though and convinces them the right thing to do is to stay in Volgot and finish this mission. The party reluctantly agrees and instead, sales 5 days north to the Troigulnik mountains to clear out the other Slave mine owned by the Volim Clan.
After two more difficult days of trying to cross the mountains, they find the entrance to the mine in a 30 ft shaft below their feet. Mistral scouts ahead first in his gaseous form. Finding once again, many workers and the entrance to a finished chamber deep within. Assuming this is where the overseer is, he returns to the party and relays all he saw.
From there, the party descends in to the mine and make their way along the path freeing slaves and clearing house. The first worker they free, an Orc warns them that the volim clan hired extra muscle to protect this mine, including two strange automatons that were made of rock themselves. The party continue through the tunnels and find that chamber Mistral described and a closed door. Gazing through the door itself, Mistral sees the path beyond and the way they must take.
Activating a Mage Hand, Mistral opens the door to that chamber. At that moment, the party is hit by a rock as one of these protectors reveal themselves and barrel toward the party. And that's where we'll pick up next time.

Rewards Granted

Misc:

• Colorful Rocks - Found by Vandread in the mine and placed in his inventory.

Loot:

• 40,800sp
• 2,000gp
• 1,760pp
• Ring of Jumping
• Ring of Psychic Retaliation
• Rod of Rulership
• Wand of Magic Detection
• Cloak of Elvenkind
• Candle of Invocation
• Efreeti Bottle
• Oil of Sharpness
• A Strange looking necklace - Vandread was hit by odd cyclopean visions and dealt psychic damage when trying to identify.

Items:

• Silver chalice set with moonstones
• 2x Gold dragon comb set with red garnets as eyes
• 2x Silver and gold brooch
• Small golden idol
• Ceremonial electrum dagger with a black pearl in the pommel
• Bottle stopper cork embossed with gold leaf and set with amethysts
• 4 large Pots of Honey
• A small, blood covered holy symbol

Character(s) interacted with

Orc Worker - Freed by the party. Warned them of dangers ahead

Notes

16th of Gwydion 

• Party counted up their spoils
• took a long rest

17 of Gwydion

• Party placed the last of their gold into the bag(s) of Holding and Genie vessel
• Items were Identified
• Party flees the Slozhny Mansion via underground tunnels
• Sails North to Free the Troigulnik Mine

22nd of Gwydion

• Party makes landfall near the Troigulnik Mountains
• Travels inland

24th of Gwydion

• Party crosses the mountains 
• Finds the Mine entrance
• Proceeds inside to free the slaves
• attacked by Rock construct

It is mid afternoon when we pick up next time.

Report Date

18 Mar 2024

Primary Location

Vagra