Chapter 10, Session 12: A quiet evacuation
General Summary
Okay Mimsi, we need 801 gold... the extra 1 is for ice cream.This was a strange session in that it was very isolated with roleplay, slightly shorter in length and not a whole lot of impactful events happened. As a result, I'm just going to put the recap notes below in bullet point format:
- Olympia and Fen barter with their banker for upgrade money.
- The party gathered in the centre of the Utrunks clan base and gathered the tribe there with Ez, Mimsi and Fen standing in the centre and the rest of the party helping to cart and gather people.
- During this, Olympia ran into a family of Utrunks with an elderly patriarch who was being weirdly reticent and unrushed in packing and leaving, she attempted to reason with him but couldn't see his motivation in leaving yet and ended up frustrated with his slow nature.
- The people of the Utrunks clan gathered and Thordak attempted to give a speech to the people of his clan in which he, admittedly in a slightly heavy handed and meandering manner, told them they were being sent to Wakefield for safety and support but that they, as always, had choice in where they wanted to go and what they wanted to do.
- As the clan were due to leave Fen was instructed to go to Wakefield in advance and warn Ardeth that they were sending the clan (this also allowed him to deliver the necklace Drahz Grymhook had given him).
- However, before Fen left, Urga the Shaman (with Grushka) led a prayer to Pelor, the god of the Utrunks and their former empowerer. At the end of this silent prayer, the clan base was illuminated with a golden aura of pure light radiance that left the street paved in gold and the tree Ez had created (using his staff of the woodlands). However, at the end of the prayer, she collapsed to the ground dead and gave her final blessing of Pelor to the party, allowing them to boost their lowest stat by 2. Grushka and Thordak carried her body away to be cremated.
- With Urga's death, Fen left with 8 of the Utrunks and reached Wakefield, greeted by Bazzle Strum-Strum who had been hard at work building the library of the town and trying to contorl the towns growth, especially as Daedric Marx had set up a base for his Petals faction there to support the growth and protection of Wakefield. Fen told Bazzle about sending the Utrunks, something Bazzle was concerned about due to the swelling of the town of Wakefield but when Fen apoke with Ardeth she was more than happy to accept the influx of people.
- Fen gave Ardeth the tooth necklace from Drahz and she was clearly touched by the gesture, as well as telling Fen to let Drahz knwo she was impressed at how soft he had become.
- Bazzle then gave Fen Grendel back and explained that Grendel would love to return to help Persicorum ... though Fen couldn't help but overhear Bazzle and Ardeth celebrating finally getting rid of the goblin.
- With that, the party were good to go on evacuating the clan and Ez revealed he would be able to use his tree teleportation spell three times per day and, with three days before Xan Prayerkeep arrives, that should give them just 9 trips, which should be enough for the clan.
- At this point, the party entered a period of downtime with kodo and Ez notably isolating from the party to pursue their own objectives and train in their own ways. Though the party all took plenty of time and joy to mock, hate and generally dunk on Grendel for the crime of existing.
- Meanwhile, Olympia attempted to complete research on her own backstory and used the library of Vola to do so, notably discovering a large amount of information on Sindarae Pollet and Leora Pollet as it seems that Vola had sent a spy to watch the pair only for that spy to be implied to have been killed by Xan Prayerkeep.
- After that point, Olympia and Fen decided to visit Gromm the Smith to purchase armour as Fen had not worn armour for the campaign so far and Olympia was still wearing the leather armour she had at the beginning of their adventure in Oar's Rest.
- Fen had Harcourt take him to Drahz's domain and watched for a moment as Drahz seemed to be playing a memory in his space and watching it intently (out of session Ryan revealed this memory was Drahz's first kill), Drahz was given the news of the necklace by Fen and also given the message that he had become soft to which he laughed and, in a moment of total surprise, called Fen by his name and didn't harm him once.
- Gromm was torturously 'training' Thordak as usual and spent some time insulting Fen and Olympia before selling them a set of studded leather armour for Fen and a set of 'Brawlers Armour' for Olympia, demanding a high price for the high quality protection.
- Mimsi chilled with Thordak as he went to train and also promotedo Grushka to the role of Shaman, a role she seemed reluctant to take on but did so anyway recognising the importance of the role to the Utrunks.
- With the three days downtime done, the party discussed what to do next and they agreed they should aim to be well out of town by the time Xan Prayerkeep arrives and they decided on their ideal alibi...
- The party sent away the last of the Utrunk clan, left the clan space entirely empty and abandoned and used Fen's teleport to take them back to their skyship and (after a mishap in the spell sent them 20 miles away from their target and Gromm the Smith was forced to join after being knocked out by Thordak for trying to walk to Wakefield for some insane reason) they deciced to fly to King's Bay with the view of helping Kodo complete a long overdue quest for Galas'Var The Moonblade and also to give them a viable alibi that they decided to take a holiday in King's Bay after their recent work... hopefully clearing them of suspicion in the Utrunk clans disappearance.
- The party also agreed they would use this as a chance to take some split downtime, with Ez explaining that he intended on returning to Blackstone to ensure allies were safe and to also have a much-needed discussion with Lord Alastair and Kodo explained he needed to remain in King's Bay to finish his work with Galas Var.
- With that session ended as the party were greeted by the sight of the statues of The True Heroes as they successfully arrived in King's Bay.
Report Date
26 May 2024
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