Session 06: A Bunch of Dead Goblins

General Summary

• The next morning the party sets out up the road, following Splug's direction.

• At about mid-day, they encounter a force of a dozen or so goblins and hobgoblins running down the road towards them. The party hides in plan to ambush them, but the goblins are running full-bore and pass the party without stopping. It appears as though they are in disarray and fleeing something.

• The party continues up the road and finds the goblins have taken over an old fort, but that the fort has been ransacked and most of the goblins killed.

• Splug finds some few surviving goblins and convinces them that they're safe. The story the goblins tell is that there was an imposing creature of metal that showed up, staved in the massive pike wall door with one blow, and then began slaying all of them.

• As the party begins to search for more clues, a platoon of Dragonborn show up, lead by Azzat Titanbane, a black-scaled Dragonborn with a no-nonsense attitude and a chip on his shoulder.

• When Azzat questions the party in search of a mysterious artifact and learns that some goblins had fled down the road, he sends a small group of his Dragonborn barbarians to go chase them down, Odila Vallos follows them and they catch up with the band of goblins they had seen fleeing before. The whole troop lay dead in the road, not far after they passed the party, and the only clues as to their demise are a set of footsteps, as if someone appeared out of the clear blue sky, slew the goblins in a handful of blows, and then disappeared.

• Captain Frederick deceives Azzat and claims to be the owner of the fort, but after noticing a small glint of silver in the torchlight, decides that this must be the object Azzat is looking for and points him to it.

• Azzat swipes up the object and lets the goblins go, but claims that the party must accompany him into the Spine of the World mountains and to Scalespire where they can be cleansed of the corruption of the artifact.

• As the party leaves the fort an imposing figure watches them leave from a concealed ridgeline, it's body glinting in the moonlight under a large cloak.