Session #36: Cyrus Has Joined Your Team

Traver missed the beginning of our makeup session on Saturday, was there for the rest. On to the recap.

Our first session without Sal & Sterling as part of the party started off...inauspiciously. The party spoke to Lady Kesselia Francesca, and were handsomely rewarded for recovering the Silver Mask of Kas. Additionally, she deputized them as delvers in her service, giving them a seal of her house (a purple seal with three black fleur-de-lis symbols on it) to use to open up opportunities previously sealed off to them.

After this, they went looking for work, having no task from Kesselia currently. They were led to the city watch, where they found the commander, Sir-Commander Canis Wolfswift, arguing with a dragonborn named Cyrus: Cyrus wanted permission for diplomats from the reformed Arkhosian empire to attend to the Wintersend Assembly with the dragonborn of the Tarranine Wastes, and Wolfswift refused him permission. Upon noticing the party, Wolfswift asked them to check on an overdue patrol that had been sent toward the farming community of Hampstead, to the northeast of Falconia. They agreed - Cyrus asked to accompany them in the interests of showing that the Arkhosians had interest in helping Titania.

Five characters strong now, the party headed toward Hampstead, and encountered a barricade along the way - a group of guards led by the leader of the overdue patrol, Sergeant Hargrove. The guards claimed a plague had taken Hampstead; however it turned out that these weren't the guards at all. The patrol had been killed, and these "guards" were zombies who had disguised themselves as the guards. This proved a fairly easy fight for the party, and after defeating the guards they continued on toward Hampstead.

Along the way, they found a ravaged campsite, with an unconscious man beneath a fallen tent and a corpse with a large chunk of flesh removed from its back. They were attacked by ghouls and gravehounds suddenly; the fight proved to be simple enough, though, and they defeated these beasts as well. We stopped here, without consulting the unconscious man.

Remember guys, if you need to take care of any item shopping, take care of it ahead of time in the builder and let me know what you got so I can check it and approve it. We may have a new party member joining soon as well.