Kingdom on the Brink - session 4
General Summary
20th day of Terseg
The party long rested in Hillfar, during the rest Hendred had a dream about her previous adventuring party. In the morning the party awakes to find the town active with refugee activity, the militia was training in the field and civilians were loading up carts for evacuation. Some of the party went to the militia training field, some went to talk to Bernard Ursel or look at the refugee convoy, some just drank or wandered around taking in the magnitude of what's happening. The party reconvenes at the militia training field and decide that they'll do what they can to help and continue on to the last raiding camp. The party sees smoke off in the distance and head in that direction, finding a group of orcs attacking a cabin. The party notices a explosive fireball that at first looks like it's one of the orcs firebombs prematurely exploding, but they realize it was actually a magical fireball. An orc cleric casts bane and the orcs in the immediate area attempt to rush the party, they're quickly cut down. Two orc assassins enter the cabin and kill the civilians, the party works its way around the cabin, Ashara jumps through the window and enters a doorway finding the two assassins. One of the assassins casts darkness and precede to attack Ashara, Thorne kicks in the door and grapples the orc cleric, Artimus and Runsha enter the cabin from the opposite end of Thorne, Oneiro, and Gareth. Hendred entered through the same way as Ashara, Cradeth watches the cabin from the outside, Talia enters the building and kills the orc cleric while in bear form. Hendred attempts to cast light but is unsuccessful and then attempts to attack the assassins in the magical darkness, the assassins manage to down her and Ashara, Gareth and Thorne enter the darkness to try and help. Hendreds body managed to get pushed out of the darkness and Artimus stabilizes her, Runsha drags her body away from the fight. after several tense rounds the party finally manages to kill the assassins, and the party short rests. Gus comes in and lies next to one of the bodies and looks like he's shedding tears, he pulls the bodies out and Ashara helps him bury the bodies and Hendred says a prayer, Artimus finds out about the assassins ability to cast darkness and Oneiro attempts to figure out were the fireball came from (without success). Several members search the immediate area to ensure there isn't more enemies waiting to ambush them, after the short rest the party sets out to the final camp.
The party finds the last camp and form a plan of attack, they stealth up to the camp. While they were spotted by some Worg riders, the camp was taken by surprise and took several turns before they could join the fight. Talia casts spiked growth on the group of worgs, managing to pin one in place, and the party dispatches most of the Worg riders before the camp joins the fray. The orcs hit hard and the situation is looking bad, but then another fireball hits the area and evens the odds and the party dispatches the last of the camp. The party loots the camp and burns it to the ground, and head back to Hillfar. The majority of the party goes to the blacksmith and begins work on repairing the platemail, Artimus and Hendred talk to Bernard, Talia goes to make more potions, and Cradeth goes to the inn to drink. Bernard gives the party their reward and asks if that anyone who's interested in helping to defend the town to meet him at the townhall in the morning to go over the scout reports.
The party long rests and it's the 21st day of Terseg
Rewards Granted
500 GP sellable items
3 sets of repairable plate armor
40 GP per player for quest completion
The party is level 4
Missions/Quests Completed
Defeat the 4 raiding groups around Hillfar
Character(s) interacted with
Bernard Ursel
Seebo Reese
Horatius Dragomir
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