DW Session 19: Introductions are In Order
General Summary
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- Party is escorted to Gameria by Shroud agent Gwendolyn Ra, a kenku
- Elan does some flirting, convinces Gwen to go on a date with her
- Ride to Gameria is uneventful beyond that
- In Gameria, there’s a lot of reunions and uncomfortable meetings
- First the the party gets an audience with Queen Astrid
- They tell her everything, but keep details about Amara’s death and Wilbur Whately's assistance fuzzy
- Astrid feels regretful, vows to avoid reckless adventures like this in the future
- But she formally invites party to rejoin Royal Knights Brigade
- Jax decides to join RKB, Adam and Elan both retire from the group
- They’ll meet a couple of new recruits at Maxwell’s tavern The Thousand Faces that night
- Next, Adam breaks the news about Amara to Roland
- Roland starts bawling, has to take a moment to compose himself
- Adam can’t say whether Amara’s body is at rest or not
- It did fall from a pretty high tower, though
- Roland’s devastated by the news.
- Next, Astrid and Elan have a private meeting
- Medraad wants Astrid to arrest Elan for helping Wilbur escape
- She’s not doing that, but she is concerned about Wilbur’s power
- She requests Elan to go to Dunwich with her royal guard Kells to investigate this warlock
- If possible, bring Roland to help with mission
- It may do him good to be on the road again
- Elan agrees, tells Roland about the plan
- He agrees to plan, but can’t promise that things won’t get violent
- He sees Wilbur as just another evil cultist
- He tells Elan to give his great axe Redemption to Jax
- Meanwhile, Jax gets harassed by Paoli Piedmonte
- Paoli bribes Jax to spy on the RKB during the upcoming adventure
- Jax agrees, you can’t say no to 500GP per message
- Also, Paoli has a request if Jax ever comes across Giovanni Rosso
- Stab him in the nuts
- Later, the party heads to Maxwell’s Thousand Faces tavern to meet the new members: Flora and Beleren
- Flora is painfully shy, reading from Erivo’s sacred texts and drinking only water
- Cereus and Jax are intrigued
- Especially when it’s revealed that she’s only one year old!
- She was summoned/created by Temple of Erivo to fight evil
- Beleren’s there, but he doesn’t immediately go over to introduce himself
- He works the room, hanging out at different tables through the night
- Eventually, he urges the party to meet with him at quiet booth
- They go over plans for upcoming adventure, threats they’ll fight, etc.
- Elan stops by for a drink, gives Jax Roland’s great axe
- Later she gets dinner with Gwendolyn
- Gwen doesn’t mind that Elan has beef with her boss Medraad
- They have a lovely and intimate night together.
- The next day the party returns to the palace to go over their first mission
- Adam and Cassandra have headed west for Noggin
- Roland, Elan, and Kells have headed north for Dunwich
- Queen Astrid says that Sunken God is still a threat, but no clear intel yet
- Thousands of refugees are fleeing the region
- Hordes of sahuagin are plaguing Kassadeia and surrounding areas
- She wants more intel on how to deal with monstrous deities like the Sunken God
- Which is why the party's first mission is to go to Faouzia
- If there’s a chance they’ll learn about Sunken God, it’s there
- Astrid is also worried about Myltev
- She invited Tarkov along with Paoli and Ekrem of Avicenna to discuss Sunken God
- They haven’t received word from Tarkov in over two months
- Are they planning something?
- Party debates best form of transportation when sailing around Myltev
- Suddenly, a guard rushes in saying Myltevian pirates are attacking Gameria!
- Down on the city's third level, half of the dockyards are ablaze
- First Fight: Swashbucklers, Kraken Priests, and Valentin
- Party has to do a bit of dashing to get to ships
- Some pirates have already boarded one ship and started killing sailors
- Jax and Beleren board, both of them kill at least one pirate each
- Jax absorbs damage like a pro
- Beleren shoots one guy in the lung!
- Flora summons spirit guardians, heals up Jax
- Jax cripples a pirate sorceress, tosses her overboard
- Last surviving pirate jumps overboard to rescue her
- Cereus attacks from the docks, recognizes Valentine as ringleader
- He casts ice storm and fires off crossbow several times.
- A blighted wave forces Valentin and his pirates to move forward
- Jax rushes onto Valentin’s ship, grapples in a one-on-one fight
- Manages to lift Valentin’s hulking frame and toss him against rails
- Valentin teleports away, but Myltev pirates are forced from the docks
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