Traver did not show, nor did Sal for his first session.
The delvers of House Millenbras attacked the party, capturing most of them - Amnon went invisible and managed to escape. Once in the estate of House Millenbras, the party learned that the delvers had sought to fake their deaths - it hadn't been meant to turn into such a mess, but Amnon's invisibility trick led to the delvers choosing not to take any more chances. Meanwhile, Amnon returned to House Francesca, seeking to find a way to rescue the party - they didn't have many ways to help him, unfortunately.
They learned from Lady Heathlana that Lady Kesselia had been amassing powerful artifacts only, rather than powerful ones as well as valuable or beautiful ones - and that she was hoarding them rather than exchanging them as most of the other noble houses do. Heathlana admitted she was unsure what Kesselia was up to, but she suspected something. She stated that she needed their help with something major, but that first she would need to gain their trust - by having them deal with the Coterie, the organization which sent the Fangs of Zehir after them, allowing them to accomplish something they already wanted to accomplish anyhow. They are using the sewers to travel, so that their faked deaths are not revealed - they fought a group of chuuls in the sewers, which they quickly defeated, and we stopped there.
Hopefully more people show up next week - Sal's character may have to sit out for a bit while the party gets to the proper introduction point, however.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Friday, May 25, 2012
Session #55: The End of House Trannyth
Technical problems abound in this session - as such, we only had time for a single encounter.
The party discovered that Dorian had killed his parents and returned his family to noble status, using disguised monsters to impersonate his family members. He had hired the Fangs of Zehir to kill the party because an organization known as the Coterie, a group with ties to the Clawed Gauntlet, wanted them dead so that their interference with the plans of the two organizations would cease. The fight then began.
It was a brutal encounter, and in the end, Cyrus lay dead. Due to the technical problems we really only had this encounter to get done, and after that we had to stop due to time constraints. The party is down to 4 characters as it stands - Cyrus' resurrection is in great jeopardy due to the warning he received from the Raven Queen about the return of his soul from the Shadowfell as many times as it has causing too much of a disturbance - and they have Dorian as their prisoner, ostensibly to interrogate.
Big things are about to go down...the characters have all but destroyed a Falconian noble house, and such an action is sure to carry consequences. We'll have to see what happens to them next time...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Session #54: Their True Nature
Some issues with the port number we've been using for all this time caused us to have to start quite late. Traver had to leave an hour before the end.
In this session, the party descended into the basement, sneaking past the guard patrols, and confronted Une Trannyth, who was summoning a blood demon. In the first part of the fight, the party faced Une, her dretch lackeys, and the summoned blood demon. They went down quite easily - the encounter took off in difficulty when Une revealed her true form, that of a night hag.
Une herself didn't prove to be very difficult, and the blood demon, once defeated, gave the party use of a healing surge - the vrocks that Une summoned, however, were quite a challenge, tearing into the party with their sharp talons and nearly killing Cyrus several times. In the end, the party defeated them, however.
After, they discovered that the Trannyths, aside from Dorian, had been killed - impostors, it seemed, stood in their places. They also discovered that House Millenbras would be coming to meet the Trannyths tonight to give them the Hand of Vecna. The party learned of the last hiding place where the Trannyths could be found, and headed down...it is here that we stopped for the night, saving the confrontation with the Trannyths for next time.
In this session, the party descended into the basement, sneaking past the guard patrols, and confronted Une Trannyth, who was summoning a blood demon. In the first part of the fight, the party faced Une, her dretch lackeys, and the summoned blood demon. They went down quite easily - the encounter took off in difficulty when Une revealed her true form, that of a night hag.
Une herself didn't prove to be very difficult, and the blood demon, once defeated, gave the party use of a healing surge - the vrocks that Une summoned, however, were quite a challenge, tearing into the party with their sharp talons and nearly killing Cyrus several times. In the end, the party defeated them, however.
After, they discovered that the Trannyths, aside from Dorian, had been killed - impostors, it seemed, stood in their places. They also discovered that House Millenbras would be coming to meet the Trannyths tonight to give them the Hand of Vecna. The party learned of the last hiding place where the Trannyths could be found, and headed down...it is here that we stopped for the night, saving the confrontation with the Trannyths for next time.
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Session #53: Krista's Seduction
Phil never made it, so Amnon was played by Jordan in this session.
Looking to escape the patrols, the party headed into the manor, which, curiously, the trolls didn't seem to check. They went to hide the bodies first, concealing them in the brush by the wall. They found in the manor house a library, where they found several books on summoning - pages on summoning a blood demon and a vrock were found missing from one of the books. They also found two stairwells - one leading upstairs, where a woman could be heard singing, and downstairs, where they found a door.
After investigating the library, the party heard barking off toward the gate they'd entered through - the patrols had found the unconscious guards they'd hidden. They decided to head upstairs first, and there they found Dame Krista Trannyth, the daughter of House Trannyth's Lord Tramorn, singing a song about a princess who had been captured and was being kept prisoner in a tower. They took her hostage, and after assuring her that they meant no harm, they asked her about the Trannyths' plan to assassinate them. She told them she knew nothing of it, and urged them to stop her mother, who had gone mad and was summoning a powerful demon in the basement. She provided them with a key to to the basement, and asked one of them to stay with her - Vorgym volunteered, and he remained with her while the rest of the party headed back downstairs.
Once the party had left, Krista moved to seduce Vorgym, seeking to "repay" him for being her daring rescuer. Despite his trepidation, he gave in - and when Krista kissed him, she placed some sort of bewitchment upon him. She ordered her guards to attack the party down below while keeping Vorgym with her. Once the party defeated the guards below, nearly drawing the attention of another patrol, they headed up and confronted Krista and Vorgym. Vorgym was convinced by Amnon to let the party deal with Krista, though he was (and is still) unable to raise a hand against her in violence. The rest of the party attacked Krista, and she attacked back, showing that she was more than just a mere frightened girl. She escaped when the party bloodied her, to the sound of beating wings - afterward, the party heard the sound of a door opening and closing underneath them.
We stopped here; the party is now level 12, and everyone should be leveled up by this Wednesday. I will cover loot from this encounter before next week's session.
Looking to escape the patrols, the party headed into the manor, which, curiously, the trolls didn't seem to check. They went to hide the bodies first, concealing them in the brush by the wall. They found in the manor house a library, where they found several books on summoning - pages on summoning a blood demon and a vrock were found missing from one of the books. They also found two stairwells - one leading upstairs, where a woman could be heard singing, and downstairs, where they found a door.
After investigating the library, the party heard barking off toward the gate they'd entered through - the patrols had found the unconscious guards they'd hidden. They decided to head upstairs first, and there they found Dame Krista Trannyth, the daughter of House Trannyth's Lord Tramorn, singing a song about a princess who had been captured and was being kept prisoner in a tower. They took her hostage, and after assuring her that they meant no harm, they asked her about the Trannyths' plan to assassinate them. She told them she knew nothing of it, and urged them to stop her mother, who had gone mad and was summoning a powerful demon in the basement. She provided them with a key to to the basement, and asked one of them to stay with her - Vorgym volunteered, and he remained with her while the rest of the party headed back downstairs.
Once the party had left, Krista moved to seduce Vorgym, seeking to "repay" him for being her daring rescuer. Despite his trepidation, he gave in - and when Krista kissed him, she placed some sort of bewitchment upon him. She ordered her guards to attack the party down below while keeping Vorgym with her. Once the party defeated the guards below, nearly drawing the attention of another patrol, they headed up and confronted Krista and Vorgym. Vorgym was convinced by Amnon to let the party deal with Krista, though he was (and is still) unable to raise a hand against her in violence. The rest of the party attacked Krista, and she attacked back, showing that she was more than just a mere frightened girl. She escaped when the party bloodied her, to the sound of beating wings - afterward, the party heard the sound of a door opening and closing underneath them.
We stopped here; the party is now level 12, and everyone should be leveled up by this Wednesday. I will cover loot from this encounter before next week's session.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Session #52: Visiting the Trannyths
Traver left about an hour before the end of this session; didn't seem like we got much done but them's the breaks.
The party began the night by figuring out what they wanted to do - which was more difficult than it sounded. Admittedly all they really had to go on was that the Fangs of Zehir had been contracted to kill them, and that House Trannyth, a Falconian noble house, were the ones putting the contract on them. They headed to talk to the Trannyths, but were accosted by more assassins, led by another member of the Gravelstoke family. They defeated these assassins rather handily.
After the assassins had been dealt with, the party realized that they didn't really have a plan of action. They did some research about the family, learning of their recent past - they had been disgraced for conspiring with Albacoran pirates, and they had recently been reinstated as a noble house by Archduke Graeme; rumor had it that this reinstatement had been secured through the family's use of the dark arts. They also spoke with Iankul Glimmergaunt, House Kesselia's retainer, and learned something about each member of the family: Baron Tramorn Trannyth, head of the house, is rumored to be a great swordsman and very much of a recluse; the Baroness Une, as they had already heard, is rumored to be a witch, even among the nobles; Dame Krista is a flirtacious woman who has many suitors but has refused all of them; and Sir Dorian is the most public, relatively speaking, member of the house, handling most of its business and being the one who primarily leaves the house. The family is a reclusive lot, and only leave their estate for very important matters - even Sir Dorian only leaves every few weeks.
They eventually decided that they needed to go directly to the Trannyths, and to that end they attempted to break into the estate by enchanting one of the guards - they discovered that the guards were themselves enchanted, and when Amnon's enchantment failed, the guards attacked. The party took some licks, but managed to knock all of the guards unconscious. Once inside, they noticed that a number of guard patrols were moving along the grounds. We stopped here.
The party began the night by figuring out what they wanted to do - which was more difficult than it sounded. Admittedly all they really had to go on was that the Fangs of Zehir had been contracted to kill them, and that House Trannyth, a Falconian noble house, were the ones putting the contract on them. They headed to talk to the Trannyths, but were accosted by more assassins, led by another member of the Gravelstoke family. They defeated these assassins rather handily.
After the assassins had been dealt with, the party realized that they didn't really have a plan of action. They did some research about the family, learning of their recent past - they had been disgraced for conspiring with Albacoran pirates, and they had recently been reinstated as a noble house by Archduke Graeme; rumor had it that this reinstatement had been secured through the family's use of the dark arts. They also spoke with Iankul Glimmergaunt, House Kesselia's retainer, and learned something about each member of the family: Baron Tramorn Trannyth, head of the house, is rumored to be a great swordsman and very much of a recluse; the Baroness Une, as they had already heard, is rumored to be a witch, even among the nobles; Dame Krista is a flirtacious woman who has many suitors but has refused all of them; and Sir Dorian is the most public, relatively speaking, member of the house, handling most of its business and being the one who primarily leaves the house. The family is a reclusive lot, and only leave their estate for very important matters - even Sir Dorian only leaves every few weeks.
They eventually decided that they needed to go directly to the Trannyths, and to that end they attempted to break into the estate by enchanting one of the guards - they discovered that the guards were themselves enchanted, and when Amnon's enchantment failed, the guards attacked. The party took some licks, but managed to knock all of the guards unconscious. Once inside, they noticed that a number of guard patrols were moving along the grounds. We stopped here.
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