Journal 5: Overconfidence is key

General Summary

After having entertained the crowds at Merinde Aindathiel, Azeir ends the night by crashing into a bale of hay. Starting the session right on the cusp of the festival, Aseir performs some tricks and entertains the crowd, ending the night with Aseir crashing in somebody’s hay, Nate inside Cecil’s kart of iron ingots. Nero crashes in the tavern and Rael at home. Rael is plagued by nightmares all night on horrors of a burning village. In the morning the party dilly dallies their way to decide to go chase after Goblins. Having no bearing on where to go, they ask Mardak, who tells them about The Scoundrel And Cask crossroads tavern on the way, which is relatively close. On their way there, the party encounters Legion Commander Broderick with a troupe of around 20 soldiers heading to New Hope, Broderick inquires who the party is and they manage to circumvent any unnecessary commotion, the party gets advice on being cautious around Goblin hordes for their size, ingenuity and trapping abilities.

  Arriving at The Scoundrel And Cask, the party is heartily greeted by Avandra (named after the goddess who has a temple there). After a short conversation, inquiring about Avandra’s personal life and her kid, Nero catches whiff of a gruff looking mountain Dwarf who compliments him for hunting Goblins, but does warn him about their capabilities, they gamble and Nero loses some gold. The rest overhears some kids talking about the soldiers passing through but they can’t gather too much further. After a while the party gets interrupted from their socializing by 3891 walking through the door, begging for help for her kidnapped son. She got handed a letter by Rightclaw the Proud (Hobgoblin), telling her to bring 1000g to the Ruins of Sh’ai Kala. After questioning her further, the Aseir and Rael discover the number tattooed on her neck and let her rest with Avandra. The following morning, the party proceeds to the ruins.   After a while the party gets ambushed by a Goblin scouting party, swiftly disposing of these monsters, the party proceeds to the Elven Ruins and rush in overconfident. Surprisingly, the party manages to kill a chunk of the enemies. These enemies, however, were but the easiest of them all and the party rushes into an ambush laid by the now fully alert Rightclaw, completely outnumbered by their foes, the party refuses to accept Rightclaws invitation for reasonable discourse and Nero proceeds to attack the Hobgoblin. Swiftly disposing of the party, the Hobgoblin and co. knock all but Aseir down and, in a position of power, proceed to negotiate their lifes.   After the party failed to come up with a reasonable plan, Rightclaw made them a ‘fair’ offer. Go into the Crypt of Elaleth, which is said to be cursed, bring him their prized weapon, and they will continue to work for him to pay off their debt.

Rewards Granted

1200 exp