Session 2: Foiling Symon's Plot, and the messy business of harvesting
General Summary
Session 2: 13/3/25
Symon "The Pieman" defeated
Symon initially lets his hired muscle deal with the group of adventurers, content to hurl insults and baking goods at them instead.
Through a combination of unexpected pacifism and ineptitude, things start to look a little dicey for the party, with Volco hiding in the corner, Burra nearly powered down and Tadashi hiding from Gnash. Pin stuns everyone by not killing a single person, but instead threatens Symon with "permanent death"... we all wait to hear about the other types of death...
With attention on securing the guards as captives, everyone loses focus on Gnash who stays true to form and attacks his master to get at Pin.
Tadashi uses his prosthetic to leash to dog while Volco launches a fork through its cerebral cortex...
Symon thought that was the worst thing that could happen today.... How wrong he was.
Oh, a harvesting we will go!
Volco excitedly mobilises the troops to start stripping the huge dog Gnash down for spare parts.... Having planned it all out for Tadashi, unfortunately either through stage fright or blind panic of time pressure, Tadashi fluffs the carving and only gets some fat... leaving a bloody mess in his wake. Symon is in bits.
Will somebody please pay up!
Mayor Highcliff arrives and listens to the evidence before sending Symon off to jail with his guards. He then politely escorts the party out of town... suggesting they may find gainful employment in Tsukashi, up river in the forest. He declines the offer of giving the party a reward for completing a task he did not ask them to do.
Mrs Miggins, on the other hand, keeps her promise and pays the party 100gp and free pies for life.
The party stay with her for 3 days while Volco sends party members out into the woods for components and tinkers with his tools and makes:
- A prosthetic arm of gleaming for Tadashi
- An infinite spice bag for himself (and Mrs Miggins (who pays him 70gp for one)
- A staff of flowers incorporated into Burra's arm.
- A mundane lance for Pin
During these 3 days, Volco goes to see Crawford Ellis to get some extra harvesting supplies, who seems happy to oblige. He took a keen interest in Burra who had accompanied Volco. After Burra left, Crawford explained that he had received a College of Hanabi missive detailing a description of a construct similar to Burra that the college wanted to keep an eye on. He tells Volco that Burra is unique in design... he should watch out for him, as he will be important someday.
They then gave Mrs Miggins their fairwells and moved on towards Tsukashi. The town's name rang a bell for Burra, and he remembered it as the place he was supposed to go and find the Inventor Finklestein for his maker Tepeggo. Plus the Councillor of Tsukashi has allegedly got some missing townsfolk that he needs help finding. And it is on the way to Kihoso, so...why not?
Game start date: 26/7/300AG
In game time: 4 days
Level at end of session: Level 3
Rewards Granted
100gp
Free pies at Mrs Miggins
Prosthetic arm of Gleaming (Tadashi)
Staff of flowers (Burra)
Hewards Handy Spice bag (Volco)
Lance (Pin)
50gp worth of harvesting supplies
Missions/Quests Completed
Goblins and the Pie Shop
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