Session 20: Clearing the gnoll problem Report

General Summary

Reginald Jones's Big Day Out
Wandering around the market, Reggie loses everyone. He finds a stall selling horse saddles and he wants the best one with flags and everything. Istavaan Tabard sells it all for 200gp and gets Reggie to sign a contract to try it for the day, then pay. Reggie wanders around and can't find the PCs anywhere. He heads to an inn in Greyridge and they just about give him a room, but it's the nicest room ever.
The next morning, he looks for Istavaan to return the saddle. Istavaan generously offers to buy it off him for 40gp, a "fair price for a 2nd hand item". Reggie now has a debt of only 160gp. Reggie walks around town a little and realises that the PCs have left already. He races to catch up with them and realises that 2 of Istavaan's men are following him. He arrives as the PCs ended the last session.

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Our heroes started this session putting out the fire with Reginald's help. Afterwards they confront the 2 guys following him, and convince them to take 5gp each to say that Reggie is dead. They comply and leave. Some way down the road they camp and long rest.
The next day, they encounter a few things on the road:

• A drastic change in temperature
• Snakes in the sun that James manages to scare away
• A halfling that wants a storytelling content. Hank agrees and tells the better tale of The Emerald Straws. The halfling tells of a gnome and a centaur that fight all enemies in an enemy camp, then run away and get married. Hank wins and they each get 1 pink Berries of Fortune.
• During their next long rest, Orion thinks he hears someone shouting "Over here I've got one" and fire bolts them. There's no one there.
• On Hank's watch a wagon with no driver rolls past.

The next day they decide to use the horn to summon and fight all the gnolls. They spend the whole day setting up the ambush, with a wooden fort, holes with spikes in it, and camouflage nets made from pelts and leaves. They blow the horn and wait. A horn blows back in the distance, then again much closer. James and Joe spot the giant hyenas and James casts Locate Creature, confirming a gnoll on his back. He firebolts and the fight kicks off!
The PCs do a really good job. Orion goes down, the zombies kick off and push loads of things in the holes, Angelo cure wounds people, and Jonathan kills a few of them. A victory for the pets and familiars. After the fight, they get some loot (see below), Joe skins a hyena, and they rest again in their fort.

Rewards Granted

• Potion of healing
• Potion of greater healing
• 50gp total
• 7 x small green crystals (approx 5-15gp each)

Character(s) interacted with

Reggie had an encounter with Istavaan Tabard.

Created Content

• Istavaan Tabard 
• Berries of Fortune 
• Flickering Grasp 

Campaign

Guardians of the Last Age

Protagonists

James Grom Jr.

Joe Smith

Reginald Jones

Hank Strongsoul

Orion De'Mac

Report Date

07 Jun 2020

Primary Location

Greyridge