DW Session 29: Don't Mess With Radovan

General Summary

5/4/897

• Plenty of downtime while the party waits for Fallworth’s daughter, Helena, to show up
• The entire party goes armor shopping after those Black Puddings really ruined their outfits
• A local blacksmith promises to have it all ready before they leave Oblast, especially after Flora’s threat
• Jax asks for half-plate armor, but since that would take a while longer to make he gets the name of someone in town who has a set he can use.
• Flora visits the local shrine of Erivo and donates 520 GP to the priest
• He’s a thri-kreen by the name of Chokhta #5
• Beleren buys a sack of flour and a pack of cookies in the shape of a skull for the party from a nearby bakery
• Cereus writes a love letter to Flora, a mix of poetry and Erivian religion to try to win her heart
• It’s not great, but he’s a little less out of the friendzone now!
• The entire party goes shopping at Fat Mike’s to check out what all he has in stock
• They pick up three healing potions from him for a reasonable deal
• Fat Mike also has a Potion of Rejuvenation, an amber bottle with a small beating heart inside of it
• Beleren wants it to rid himself of some of the ghost’s aging effects, and Cereus outright buys it for him!
• Belren nearly gags drinking it (especially when he gets to the beating heart), but he downs it all and looks 10 years younger
• Jax and Flora go to the address where the half-plate armor is supposed to be
• They have an audience with an elderly tiefling woman named Qadirah, a political exile who asks why Jax wants her late husband’s armor
• Jax explains about the Sunken God and the Characters, and while Qadirah doesn’t like the idea of helping elves she’s pleased to hear that he’s a former member of the Characters
• He buys the half-plate for a solid 1,200 GP

6/2/897

• Jax suggests that the party visits the local gambling hall together
• Beleren agrees to go after meeting with Frobert, his local Shroud contact
• The party has a fun time gambling with Oblast’s bigwigs and upper classes
• Flora makes some solid winnings, Jax ends up losing a good bit
• Beleren does some lobbying on Nikolaj’s behalf, trying to win over the wealthy still unsure of Nikolaj’s rural support
• Jax gets invited to an exclusive fighting pits session, he cleans up nicely after an intense second round
• Then Cereus goes and fucks it all up
• He noticed an older nobleman eyeing Flora, so Cereus decided to go up to him and cause some beef
• Constantin, the merchant pirate, easily picks up Cereus and tosses him out into the streets
• Cereus sneaks back inside, so Constantin gets his bodyguard Radovan the Killer to toss out Cereus
• Cereus decides to punch Radovan after getting kicked out, a terrible mistake since Radovan has the stats of a CR 12 Warlord
• Boss Fight: Radovan the Killer
• Radovan KO’s Cereus in three rounds
• Even with Conjure Animals Cereus is no match for Radovan’s power
• Flora rushes out to help him, but it’s all she can do to heal him and drag him back inside the gambling hall
• Radovan’s relentless though, and continues to KO Cereus two more times before Flora flees the scene
• Beleren doesn’t fight since he believes Cereus got himself into this mess, but he does leave some ball bearings at the entrance in case Radovan leaves
• Jax, as previous mentioned, is in an exclusive fighting pits match away from all the chaos downstairs
• Cereus, abandoned by his party members, is stabbed to death
• Radovan and Constantin leave through the back entrance while Flora rushes back inside to cast revivify on Cereus
• Everybody thinks Cereus is a dumbass for the rest of the session
• The next day Queen Astrid and her guard Vandakar barge in on the party to grill them on what happened yesterday
• Astrid is livid, threatening to expel Cereus from the party if he does anything so stupid again
• There’s nothing she can do about Constantin and Radovan’s vendetta, so Cereus will have to face up to that one day
• In the meantime, Astrid introduces the party to Helena Lockmere
• She’s Fallworths’ granddaughter, and she’ll be escorting the party on the next leg of their journey and keeping tabs on them for the RKB
• Astrid leaves them to get to know each other while she meets with Nikolaj
• Helena seems earnest and a little naive, but the party's fine with having her join the team
• Jax, seeing her for an attractive woman, has ulterior motives
• The party agrees to set sail that day

Report Date

14 Mar 2020

Primary Location

Nikograd