Session 11 8/27/2021

 The Recruits

The party was hired by the fighter's guild to located Harold Dannan who had gone missing along with his daughter, and his farm/keep had become a bandit camp. The party believed Harold to be dead.

The party investigated the keep and saw that there was indeed a bandit camp here made up of his own guards and many unemployed fighters from the fighter's guild. A half black dragon was trying to recruit them to join his army. 

The party came in and disbursed the bandits, and located Harold Dannan in his basement. He had located a centaur in the woods and forced her to take him home, but upon coming home found a bandit camp in his house. The centaur and him were taken prisoner, and they discovered that the centaur was channeling a succubus, who they forced to grant profane bonuses to them.

The party negotiated with Harold to forget the past and left him in charge of his estate- and the centaur.

The Survivors

Vesper was approached by Sparhawk who demanded to know why she was spreading rumors about him. The conversation was cut short with Constable Nobbs let him know that they found a serial killer who was killing a bunch of kids. 

They went to the watch house where a crowd was gathered. The watch wasn't letting anyone unauthorized in, but the rumors is they found an orc in the sewer doing magical rituals on dead bodies. Pending began a political process to become a lawyer on behalf of the orc, and the party began to investigate.

They learned that the Orc (Scarring Soul) was in the sewer and escaped the guards only to be attacked on the streets by the Minotaur. The guards found him before the Minotaur could finish the job and arrested him. In the sewer he was working with an unhallowed altar with various runes. The guards there also mentioned that they had not accounted for all the missing bodies. A mage's guild expert was brought in to interrogate the orc and investigate his possessions. 

Foul Ron mentioned that the girl Julie was taken by a reaper ghost several nights ago, and that it burned her body away. That night, Shaking Spear attempted to break Scarring Soul out of prison, but was unable, and the party helped her escape the guards. She said that Scarring Soul came here a few weeks ago to investigate a disturbance. As they were talking, a Reaper came for Scarring Soul. When Pending tried to intervene, it summoned another reaper to fight him. While Pending and team fought off his reaper, the original killed Shaking Spear, burning her entire body away, then it vanished. 

... To be continued. 

Session 10 8/20/21

 Djinni Unlamped

The party was approached by Albert Coin who had a special magical ring stolen from him. He was broke- he had no other money to offer them, but insisted the ring was important, and that "the priestess" said they could help him.

By pressing the issue they learned that the ring had an efreeti named Djinn bound to it, and it was stolen by a wizard who would be using its service to grant wishes. They also learned that Albert was in love with the efreeti and did not want the ring for making wishes.

The party used a familiar's feather to scry on the wizard and identify that he was far away in Osirius. They teleported there and battled the wizard, who had used 2 of his daily wishes already. They captured the ring and had Djinn take them back to Coin. He wanted to free Djinn but cold not- the ring required an Efreeti and only by killing him could he escape servitude- but Coin wished to take his place as the bound efreeti. After his wish was granted he proposed  to Djinn using the ring, and they went off to the realm of fire together.

Before they left, Albert and Djinn granted their last daily wishes to the party (5 total) in thanks for helping them find true love. 

Session 9 7/30/21

 The Shelter-

Penny Escher from the artificer's guild reached out to Pending, upset that he has stolen their plans for the mousetrap and costing them a several million GP contract. They demanded that his team go explore an ancient ruin with their researcher to discover lost secrets of the ancient world as payment.

The party agreed and met up with Wan Delver, a goblin gunslinger and grandson of Ivan Dogeater, thus a quarter elven. They came to an underground bunker where they found some damaged power supplies. Wan was able to repair it which restored energy to the facility, where an AI named Atropos was there to seal them in the compound. 

They explored the ruin and found it to be a high-tech living facility for ancient humans to live while the world was covered in radiation. Inside they discovered XI, a massage-robot, and Prometheus, an advanced prototype. They defeated the security and were able to disable Atropos and recover the data from the memory banks for the artificer's guild. 

Wan was very interested in Nantar, another adventuring goblin- insisting that there are too few of them, and that they need to stick together against the descrimination they find amongst "civilized" society. 

Session 8 7/23/21

The Syrum

The party was hired by the alchemist guild. An experimental mutagen was stolen. It increased the physical body of a person by granting them racial hit dice, but degraded their mental stats. The thieves Ruby and Flynn were hired by the Gnecromancer Xylophone Shadowbender. He was hiring laid off fighter's guild members to experiment on- enhancing them, then killing them and turning them into powerful zombies. 

The party tracked him down and defeated him, freeing many of the captured people and recovering the syrum. Once it was completed they were able to get a sampling of it.

The Damsel

Julietta summoned the party, having had dreams of true love kept apart. Katherine Dannan's father was keeping her locked in a tower so she could marry a Chelaxian Noble, which would be very lucrative for his tobacco and alchemy reagent farming. However, Julietta saw that Jaspar would be Katherine's true love.

The party broke into the keep and rescued Katherine to find that she was a seven year old half elf girl, and not interested at all in romance. They took her to Ivy's Forest to meet Jaspar but were pursued by her father and his guards, who set fire to the forest. The party met Jaspar, who was a unicorn, and had him get Arcus Woodsplitter, who was able to control the weather and put out the fire, and awaken Ivy's Tree so that it could move away from the fire. 

Jaspar revealed that Katherine was a chosen of Valaren and they would form an eternal bond as protectors of the forest- and that not all love was romantic or sexual. Jaspar blessed the party with the powers of the forest protectors.

Session 7 7/2/2021

 The Missing Dog

Urist Lighbender, Royal Magician to Rogar Hornbreaker has come to the party via the Mage's Guild contact. Rogar's favorite hunting dog, a dog with the advanced template, bred and enhanced by the alchemists guild, was stolen. Divinations indicate that it was stolen by the orc tribe outside the village. He worries if he tells Rogar, then the dwarves will march on the tribe and completely wipe them out. Seeking to avoid the bloodshed, he wants to see if the party can recover the dog.

The party went to Arkus, who wasn't aware of the dog, but some young ones were still out on their Mor-Zog Gog and haven't returned. Arkus led the party to Lynn's Lake, where the naiad Lynn would let them use the pool for scrying. They discovered that the boy Runs with Rivers was inside Ivy's Forest- an area dangerous to men, which is patrolled by the Qatgirl a dangerous lichenthrope.

The party tracked Runs with Rivers through the woods, to find he had taken Trapper as his animal companion during druid training, and that he was tracking Shaking Spear, a young orcish girl who he had dreams was captured by the Qatgirl. They party faced and defeated the Qatgirl and saved Shaking Spear.

The party negotiated with the Orcs to give away a direwolf pup to be trained as a hunting beast by Rogar and was able to negotiate trade with Rogar for Trapper, and thus avoided war and let the boy keep his dog.

Making a Man

Adam and Steve from the Fighter's Guild asked the party for help. A recruit, Eric, had been wounded during a patrol a month ago, and since then he's been very wary about engaging in combat, often letting his partners go forward and fight on his behalf. This has caused people to stop trusting him, and is jeopardizing his position in the guild. They wanted the party to capture a monster and sic it on Eric, forcing him to fight it and get his courage back. 

After the party tried to come up with several plans which did not involve the mission, such as pretending to be bandits, Vesper attempted to hypnotize him in public, which failed and caused him to start reporting her for spell-assault. Pending came to speak with him, and during conversation realized that there was something more to his fear. They discovered that when he was wounded he contracted lycanthropy and he was afraid to enter combat for fear the wolf would come out. They reported his disease to the fighters guild for them to take care of.  

Session 6 (6/26/21)

 The Trolls' Egg

The party was summoned to the Druid Grove by Arkus Woodsplitter who told them that rare albino lake trolls were being attacked by black scaled kobolds. He didn't know what drove them towards their cave, but that the albino trolls were an endangered species that must be protected. He also warned that they were fiercely stupid, and would likely also be aggressive towards the party. The kobolds wore a strange holy symbol which the party did not investigate. 

The party went and fought off the kobolds, leaving the cave to the trolls. Returning to the grove they had a divinatory smoking, and saw that the trolls were guarding a bronze dragon egg that would soon hatch into a wyrmling. Arkus told them that dragons are the source of magic and that too few are born. They did a great thing for the magical environment by saving the egg from the kobolds who would have likely destroyed it.

A Captivating Masterpiece

Faunra, a high level bard from the college of art, wishes to create a captivating masterpiece by studying the songs of a harpy, a bog nixie, and a siren. All of them have the ability to sing a captivating song, which is more powerful than the fascination bardic performance. She hopes by studying them she can create a more powerful song herself.

She asked the party to obtain an unharmed harpy, siren, and bog nixie. The party consulted the druids on how they might succeed- the druids suggested nets. 

They found that a nest of harpies has been bothersome on the Nation of Holly, and that Thrain Horsemaster knows an area of sea where sirens tend to attack his sailors, and they learned from the druids about a bog nixie in a swamp. They went there and found a large pond, large enough to hold a huge creature. They went in and were attacked by a huge frog, who began to swallow pending. Vesper had deafened herself and made herself immune to the nixie's captivating song. They defeated the frog, but the nixie hid herself and they were unable to locate her. The party retreated back to town to come up with a new plan. 

Session 5 (6/4/21)

 Intro to the Fighter's Guild

The party was hired by Adam Oleander and his partner Steve to stop an inventor from the Artificer's Guild- Leonardo de Squiggle, from publishing his invention- a mouse trap device that would make early fighter's guild missions obsolete. 

The party attempted to discuss the invention with Leonardo, but he was very absent-minded and obsessed with inventing. They discovered that the Artificer's guild keeps him happy, fed, and taken care of, and in exchange they take his best inventions for themselves. Pending decided to take the invention, create his own blueprints for the device, and quickly go patent it himself to prevent the work from being readily available (without profiting the Fighter's Guild). 

Intro to the Mage's Guild

The party was hired by Sylvia, an elven diviner from the mage's guild, to help her associates complete a magic ritual. The ritual was one that the Church of Asmodeus would likely oppose, so they would run security. Baru Coin and Umbrealla Arachniz were running the ritual, which summoned Chilaxian contract devils in order to find loopholes and ways to break existing mage guild contracts.

The church tried to trick the party by sending an associate dressed as a Mage Guild member, but Pending had already asked about this specific scenario, and was not tricked. They were able to hold off the advance. The church wheeled up an invisible cannon, and managed to disrupt the ritual by breaking off part of the roof, but not demolishing it, so the ritual was able to be completed the next day. 

The Lyre off Liars

The party was hired by Lanliss Stringcoaxer who is building a collection of magical items created by the wild mage, Otis Illcrafter, known for creating magical items that did not serve their intended purpose- such as a potion of tongues that created an additional tongue, or the Rapier of Fencing which helped build fences. 

He was looking for the "Lyre of Liars" which was intended to assist with deceptions. The party went to a tomb where it was said to reside. There they found a recently abandoned camp. Inside, the tomb was mostly ransacked, and there was a tunnel leading to a natural cave. Inside the cave was a naked neried, who had her shawl stolen from her. They tracked down the thief, who was an undine gunslinger. He claims to have taken it because she tried to drown him, but as an undine he was able to survive. The party defeated him and returned the shawl. In return, the party gave the male members the ability to breathe water, and Vesper was crafter her own shawl, which did leave her vulnerable if the shawl was destroyed, but gave her the Unearthly Grace feature- adding charisma as a deflection bonus to AC. The party found the tomb of the paladin Chaucer, guarded by a golem, which they defeated. Upon finding the Lyre, they found it was an intelligent speaking item, not a Lyre OF Liars, but a Lyre OFF Liars, dedicated to destroying deceivers, and having powers to see through illusions and identify mistruths. They brought it back to Lanliss, who added it to the museum.