Chapter 7, Session 4: The Wakefield Project, Part 1
General Summary
It was nice to see you Mimsi, I so enjoy observing my favourite of The Talented.The party took a moment to recover from their battle in the prisons underneath the city of Wakefield and, as they did so, they decided to leave the space behind before more of The Crownsguard arrived to see the devastation caused so far. The party made their way back up to the surface with a focus on stealth, knowing they were fast building a sense of urgency in the town with the recent violence that had been displayed. With that in mind, the party moved with relative stealth (barring Ardeth who proved to not be the most stealthy member of the True Hero's) up to the surface of Wakefield and took shelter in an abandoned cabin where they made a plan for Wakefield moving forward. The party, with Ardeth's information, realised that they needed to make Wakefield seem like it was no longer profitable to invest in and keep running and so they decided that they needed to destroy The Hook and Knife Foundation factory due to their recent growth and success (and their link to Mimsi and The Talented), after that they spoke about flooding the mines of Wakefield to remove it's ores and lucrative materials and even killing Batten-Willsh, the owner of Wakefield and making it a public image of his death... proving to the rest of The Elected Crown of Alturis. that it was no longer worth investing in Wakefield. Though the Hook and Knife would be dealt with first. With that, the party decided to attack their building at night in the hope of avoiding any civilians getting caught in the crossfire and they took that as a chance to take a long rest so that Fen and Anastasia could recover their spells lost in the fight. During this time, Ardeth explained more about the factory to Mimsi, trying to get the goblin to understand the goblins kept in the factory were mentally and physically broken, covered in gems and laced with psionics, disgusting Ardeth who claimed, though she believed anything could be fixed, that these were deeply broken individuals. Mimsi went quiet with the information and seemed to become more resolved to save her 'family'. With that, the party rested whilst Mimsi and Kodo kept watch for 8 hours, interrupted by sending from Bazzle Strum-Strum who was instructed to continue to sit tight and wait. During this time, the party also spoke to Marner, Coric and Darmian, the three Masked Brigade mages they saved, Coric and Darmian left the party to go home with Darmian going to King's Bay to be with his family whilst Coric stated that he was returning to Mount Naggrom and that is the party ever wanted access to that settlement then he would gladly show them the way. Marner decided to stay with the party in the hope of finding more knowledge and power for the time being. Eventually, the party were ready to move on and were joined by Thordak who had recently finished training with Temptation ... after his attempted prank on the party (in which he pretended to be one of The Inquisitors) backfired with a fireball from an especially nervous Fen. With their barbarian in tow, the group stealthily moved to the Hook and Knife foundation, noticing that the town had reached a higher level of urgency and security as it seems The Crownsguard had learned of the death of Silas Povir and the party's work in the temple and prisons. Though the party rolled very effective stealth checks and reached the hook and knife factory under the cover of darkness. After a time of searching the party eventually found a single window they could break through and Anastasia peaked in to see groups of Crownsguard on guard duty and strange metallic objects she did not recognise. The group decided, in a moment of madness, that Thordak was easily the most capable burglar and so he used his sword to attempt to crowbar the window open before his hand slipped and half smashed the window, catching the sword in the blind as well and leaving the window covered in large shards of glass as well as alerting the guards about what was transpiring. Sensing the group had lost all chances of stealth, they entered and quickly dealt with the creatures within. Dispatching the crownsguard with brutal efficiency and destroying the metallic objects that proved to be magical psionic cannons. The party additionally stole two lockboxes that the other guards were working hard to open and gain access to but could not reach before being killed as the lockboxes had a numerical code on them. Not wanting to waste time solving them now, Kodo put the lockboxes in Mimsi's bag of holding and Thordak also stole a scroll and a bunch of papers and money, the scroll, on a quick read seemed like a shipping or export manifesto that named 'test talented', 'psi cannons' and Dread Ore amongst it's items. With the area clear, the party found two trap doors in the area at a quick investigation, taking the one in the office, they went downstairs stealthed and found the Hook and Knife basement where, to Mimsi and the rest of the party's horror. They saw it was set out like a wizards dungeon or a temple with acid running throughout, a heavy mist of magic settled across it and, in the centre with nails slammed into it's claws was a MASSIVE, ancient gem dragon with rips and scars across it's body where gems had been constantly ripped away. Around the dragon were groups of Crownsguard, an Inquisitor and Hook and Knife themselves, running and controlling the work. Additionally, Mimsi was shocked to see other goblins that belonged to The Talented but these ones were mutated, with gems cracked across their physical forms leaving them mutated and without conscience... near robotic. Additionally, the party saw incubation chambers in each quadrant of the room that contained a goblin in one side and a chute in which gems from the dragon were being funneled in in the other side. Lastly, the party saw a large ruby in each corner of each quadrant that seemed to float in space and was heavily hazed in magic. Shaken, the party retreated up the stairs to discuss and make a plan, they decided to not involve Olympia and their other allies, conscious of how long it may take for them to arrive, they discussed what everything in that floor must have meant and came to the conclusion that the ruby's must be the things containing the dragon in the centre as the nails didn't seem strong enough to physically restrain the massive creature. As a result, the party decided to split into four teams who went into seperate sections of the space to attack the ruby's at the same time upon receiving a fireball signal from Fen. The party stealthily enacted this plan, with Mimsi moving with Ardeth and Fen travelling with Thordak so the spellcasters each had support, they moved into position about their rubies and Fen gave the signal by choosing to fireball Knife who was watching over his quadrant, striking him for massive damage after drawing on the power his deal with Reaper offered. With the signal, the party assaulted their respective rubies in this surprise round and quickly demolished them, freeing the dragons feet and wings and proving their theory correct that the rubies were holding this dragon captive in a magical fashion, the dragon was freed and roared in outrage before attacking the crownsguard that assaulted the party... choosing to side with and protect Persicorum. With that, the real fight started as the crowsguard and an inquisitor engaged the party, especially dealing heavy damage to Ardeth who desperately teleported with Mimsi to keep the pair of them safe. Fen attempted to face off and defeat Knife, in order to offer Mimsi closure, but the party were shocked to watch Knife teleport out of the battle, overpowering Fen's counterspell in the meantime, moments later, Hook watched Mimsi and remarked that he always enjoyed observing her before also teleporting away to safety as well, but not before being hunter's marked by Anastasia, offering the party a chance at tracking him. The fight quickly devolved to a four sectioned battle at this point, with the other talented Goblins showing themselves to be powerful adversaries that could deal significant damage but also capable of going into a berserk rage that made them attack the nearest life form as Mimsi observed one of them attack the nearest crownsguard. As the battle raged on, that is where session ended.
Rewards Granted
- Gold and copper pieces- claimed by Thordak after he looted the Hook and Knife offices.
- Two lockboxes unchecked- Claimed by Kodo in the office building and then given to Mimsi to place in the bag of holding.
Report Date
10 Sep 2022
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