Kingdom on the Brink - Session 51
General Summary
The party finishes short rests and Uriel and Rosemary head to the docks to get more information on the sloop barrel race, they pick out a racing sloop and decide to take the route with medium hazards (as opposed to the extremely hazardous route or safe route). Uriel goes around the village and gets some information and Merrigold works on rebuilding the burned down wall. The party regroups and head towards the docks, Uriel walks the party through how to work a sloop and they push off. The party is met by two other boats, the announcer hypes up the crowd and then drops a flare into the water to start the race. The other two sloops leave behind the party, Uriel shouts commands to Duromar and Rosemary to get the group back on track. The lead sloop breaks off to the safer route while the other rival sloop heads towards the medium hazardous path, the party sloop enters behind them. Uriel starts to navigate the hazards, Rosemary keeps lookout and sees a Ziphius, Rosemary embolden bonds the group. The Ziphius swims towards the sloop and slams against it, leaving several cracks, Uriel casts sacred flame on it, Duromar casts banishment on the Ziphius. The party gets their breather and moves to repair the ship, Uriel maneuvers the sloop and passes the rival sloop (who's having a rough time fighting off their monsters). The banished Ziphius returns and starts to gain on the party, Uriel shoots of a firebolt at the Ziphius and Rosemary follows it up with a guiding bolt (which outlines the Ziphius). The Ziphius attempts to slam against the sloop, Duromar casts chill touch and Uriel swings out the Ziphius while still controlling the ship. The Ziphius attempts to shallow Rosemary and then critically hits her with a claw, Duromar and Rosemary engage in melee with the Ziphius and finally kill it. Uriel puts more distance between the rival sloop and clears the hazards and speeds towards the docks the barrels are on, as they get closer they see the 3rd sloop is several minutes behind them.
Uriel uses his figurine of wondrous power to summon a gryphon, the party moves forward and they see a Marid in the center of the dock. Rosemary moves up and the Marid shoots a water jet, which almost pushes Rosemary off the dock. Uriel mounts the Gryphon and moves towards the farthest corner to get the barrel, he then cast vicious mockery on the Marid (calling his mother a fish). Duromar casts steel wind strike and hits the Marid, Duromar falls into the water and then swims to the edge and climbs out. The Marid lines up Uriel and Rosemary and shoots its water jet, but fails to push either off the edge. Duromar runs up to the Marid and strikes him with several strikes and a booming blade, Uriel's Gryphon grabs one barrel and Rosemary grabs another barrel and start moving towards their ship. The Marid uses control water to try and drown Uriel and Duromar, the tidal wave pushes Uriel into lake but Duromar manages to hang on. Duromar jumps and grapples the Marid and proceeds to strike it several times, Uriel sends his Gryphon to get the last barrel. Rosemary makes it back to the ship with her barrel and waits for the rest of the party, Uriel starts to yell at Duromar that they need to go. Duromar finishes of the Marid and swims towards the ship, Uriel pushes of the sloop as the next closest sloop docks and starts to get their barrels. The party decides to take the safer route. Rosemary notices another Ziphius who rams the front of the boat, Uriel casts a firebolt that misses and hits the water. Rosemary moves up and hits the Ziphius several times with her staff of harming and fists, Duromar follows it up with chill touch, Uriels Gryphon moves to claw the Ziphius. The Ziphius uses its telepathic foresight to gain advantage on Rosemary and nearly swallows her, Rosemary continues strike the Ziphius and Uriel critically hits the Ziphius with a firebolt which kills it. Uriel steers the ship towards the final approach and sees that the faster sloop took some risks by going through the extremely hazardous route, the party is several minutes ahead of it. The rival sloop attempts to overtake them but they are too exhausted to make it and the party crosses the finish, as the winners.
The crowd cheers for the party and congratulate them and they receive 200,000 electrum for winning, the party celebrates back at the inn (Uriel lets his Gryphon feast on the dead Ziphius and then goes to pray at the shrine). Del Varis returns and tells the party he heard some rumors of shipments from Stormhold being diverted from Bronze Cliff to Crystal Bay and sightings of something that looks like a dragon in the Berkmark mountain range. The group heads towards their rooms and they each see "There is blood on your hands" written on the walls, the party is undisturbed by this. They clean up their rooms and get a long rest, the party gets some more magic items and begin to head out of the village. On the way out the party sees several guards around an area, Uriel goes up and tries to get some answers, finding out a member of house Leagallow was the victim. Merigold sneaks in and sees it was the body of Bellstar Tallshadaow, stabbed several times, she sneaks back out and rejoins the group. The party continues and decides to travel through the logging region to the south of the Berkmark mountains to reach Bronze Cliff.
As the party travels a fan approaches them, telling them how excited he is to meet them and if he can get autograph, Merigold starts to sign his thigh. The fan is eagerly chatting and excitedly talking about their achievements in the tourney and asks if they can meet his friends, the party is hesitant about this and Del Varis goes to grab his neck but the fan dodges out of the way. The fan (which happens to be a scorpion assassin) whistles and a Warlord, Alchemical Archer, and a Smaragdine Golem appear from hiding (having failed to ambush the party), battle ensues. Del Varis attempts to stun the Scorpion Assassin but it's resisted, but he does manage to restrain the Assassin, Merigold and Duromar move up to attack the assassin, leaving him prone on the ground. The Warlord and Golem dash to close the distance and the Alchemical Archer moves up and lands an entangling arrow, restraining Del Varis, and expertly aims another arrow which pierces his chest. Uriel charges towards the Warlord and Rosemary follows closely behind him, the Assassin attempts to use cast a spell but Uriel counterspells it. The Assassin is quickly felled by Del Varis, Uriel and Rosemary cast shield of faith on themselves, Merigold and Duromar move to assist against the Warlord. The Warlord begins to attack Uriel's horse, felling it with three swings, Duromar uses his trampling charge against the Warlord, the Warlord manages to remain standing and swings against Duromar. The Alchemical Archer takes aim at Uriel with a concussive arrow, critically striking him. Rosemary moves up to and performs several hit and run attacks on the Warlord, Merigold enters the melee against the Warlord and lands a sneak attack. The Warlord responds with more swings with his great sword, but they get slower and easier to dodge, the Warlord falls shortly thereafter. The Alchemical Archer knocks another concussive arrow and fires a volley into Merigold, landing two devastating strikes, but she remains saddled on Gregori. The party breaks off with Rosemary and Uriel moving towards the Golem and Duromar and Merigold moving towards the Archer, Del Varis breaks free and saunters towards the Archer (with a determined fire in his eyes). Rosemary lands several critical strikes on the Golem and Uriel follows it up a sacred flame, the Golem moves around Uriel and absorbs Rosemary's shield of faith and lands a slam attack on her. Duromar casts finger of death on the Alchemical Archer, greatly weakening him, The Archer gets one last shot off on Merigold, Merigold moves in and strikes the Archer down. Rosemary and Uriel continue to strike the Golem, the Golem releases the stored spell energy, hitting both with lightning damage, then it absorbs Uriel's shield of faith. Duromar rides up and shoots 5 scorching rays at the Golem, Rosemary and Uriel continue to strike the Golem, which finally falls apart after being smited.
The party begins to search the bodies, Merigold finds some gold and electrum on the Assassin and Archer, she also finds a wanted poster of the party and some alchemical vials. Uriel casts revivify on the Warlord and tells him to swear his allegiance to Uriel, The Warlord attempts to resist the intimidation but Uriel uses his fear aura to impress on him the gravity of his situation. Uriel explains that the party has cleansed the Lakecliff Ruins and belongs to them by right of conquest, but his needs competent people if they are to rebuild. The Warlord seems bewildered by this and asks if it's true what the Arbitors have said, that the party means to make a grab for the throne. Uriel doesn't outright deny this, just says how he's here on a mission that doesn't currently mean ascending to the throne of Bralor. With a little more forceful convincing the Warlord says he'll swear allegiance, Uriel heals the horse the Warlord killed and tells him to apologize to his new steed. The Warlord clumsily mounts the unsaddled horse and trots towards Lakecliff, Uriel summons a new steed.
Uriel uses his figurine of wondrous power to summon a gryphon, the party moves forward and they see a Marid in the center of the dock. Rosemary moves up and the Marid shoots a water jet, which almost pushes Rosemary off the dock. Uriel mounts the Gryphon and moves towards the farthest corner to get the barrel, he then cast vicious mockery on the Marid (calling his mother a fish). Duromar casts steel wind strike and hits the Marid, Duromar falls into the water and then swims to the edge and climbs out. The Marid lines up Uriel and Rosemary and shoots its water jet, but fails to push either off the edge. Duromar runs up to the Marid and strikes him with several strikes and a booming blade, Uriel's Gryphon grabs one barrel and Rosemary grabs another barrel and start moving towards their ship. The Marid uses control water to try and drown Uriel and Duromar, the tidal wave pushes Uriel into lake but Duromar manages to hang on. Duromar jumps and grapples the Marid and proceeds to strike it several times, Uriel sends his Gryphon to get the last barrel. Rosemary makes it back to the ship with her barrel and waits for the rest of the party, Uriel starts to yell at Duromar that they need to go. Duromar finishes of the Marid and swims towards the ship, Uriel pushes of the sloop as the next closest sloop docks and starts to get their barrels. The party decides to take the safer route. Rosemary notices another Ziphius who rams the front of the boat, Uriel casts a firebolt that misses and hits the water. Rosemary moves up and hits the Ziphius several times with her staff of harming and fists, Duromar follows it up with chill touch, Uriels Gryphon moves to claw the Ziphius. The Ziphius uses its telepathic foresight to gain advantage on Rosemary and nearly swallows her, Rosemary continues strike the Ziphius and Uriel critically hits the Ziphius with a firebolt which kills it. Uriel steers the ship towards the final approach and sees that the faster sloop took some risks by going through the extremely hazardous route, the party is several minutes ahead of it. The rival sloop attempts to overtake them but they are too exhausted to make it and the party crosses the finish, as the winners.
The crowd cheers for the party and congratulate them and they receive 200,000 electrum for winning, the party celebrates back at the inn (Uriel lets his Gryphon feast on the dead Ziphius and then goes to pray at the shrine). Del Varis returns and tells the party he heard some rumors of shipments from Stormhold being diverted from Bronze Cliff to Crystal Bay and sightings of something that looks like a dragon in the Berkmark mountain range. The group heads towards their rooms and they each see "There is blood on your hands" written on the walls, the party is undisturbed by this. They clean up their rooms and get a long rest, the party gets some more magic items and begin to head out of the village. On the way out the party sees several guards around an area, Uriel goes up and tries to get some answers, finding out a member of house Leagallow was the victim. Merigold sneaks in and sees it was the body of Bellstar Tallshadaow, stabbed several times, she sneaks back out and rejoins the group. The party continues and decides to travel through the logging region to the south of the Berkmark mountains to reach Bronze Cliff.
As the party travels a fan approaches them, telling them how excited he is to meet them and if he can get autograph, Merigold starts to sign his thigh. The fan is eagerly chatting and excitedly talking about their achievements in the tourney and asks if they can meet his friends, the party is hesitant about this and Del Varis goes to grab his neck but the fan dodges out of the way. The fan (which happens to be a scorpion assassin) whistles and a Warlord, Alchemical Archer, and a Smaragdine Golem appear from hiding (having failed to ambush the party), battle ensues. Del Varis attempts to stun the Scorpion Assassin but it's resisted, but he does manage to restrain the Assassin, Merigold and Duromar move up to attack the assassin, leaving him prone on the ground. The Warlord and Golem dash to close the distance and the Alchemical Archer moves up and lands an entangling arrow, restraining Del Varis, and expertly aims another arrow which pierces his chest. Uriel charges towards the Warlord and Rosemary follows closely behind him, the Assassin attempts to use cast a spell but Uriel counterspells it. The Assassin is quickly felled by Del Varis, Uriel and Rosemary cast shield of faith on themselves, Merigold and Duromar move to assist against the Warlord. The Warlord begins to attack Uriel's horse, felling it with three swings, Duromar uses his trampling charge against the Warlord, the Warlord manages to remain standing and swings against Duromar. The Alchemical Archer takes aim at Uriel with a concussive arrow, critically striking him. Rosemary moves up to and performs several hit and run attacks on the Warlord, Merigold enters the melee against the Warlord and lands a sneak attack. The Warlord responds with more swings with his great sword, but they get slower and easier to dodge, the Warlord falls shortly thereafter. The Alchemical Archer knocks another concussive arrow and fires a volley into Merigold, landing two devastating strikes, but she remains saddled on Gregori. The party breaks off with Rosemary and Uriel moving towards the Golem and Duromar and Merigold moving towards the Archer, Del Varis breaks free and saunters towards the Archer (with a determined fire in his eyes). Rosemary lands several critical strikes on the Golem and Uriel follows it up a sacred flame, the Golem moves around Uriel and absorbs Rosemary's shield of faith and lands a slam attack on her. Duromar casts finger of death on the Alchemical Archer, greatly weakening him, The Archer gets one last shot off on Merigold, Merigold moves in and strikes the Archer down. Rosemary and Uriel continue to strike the Golem, the Golem releases the stored spell energy, hitting both with lightning damage, then it absorbs Uriel's shield of faith. Duromar rides up and shoots 5 scorching rays at the Golem, Rosemary and Uriel continue to strike the Golem, which finally falls apart after being smited.
The party begins to search the bodies, Merigold finds some gold and electrum on the Assassin and Archer, she also finds a wanted poster of the party and some alchemical vials. Uriel casts revivify on the Warlord and tells him to swear his allegiance to Uriel, The Warlord attempts to resist the intimidation but Uriel uses his fear aura to impress on him the gravity of his situation. Uriel explains that the party has cleansed the Lakecliff Ruins and belongs to them by right of conquest, but his needs competent people if they are to rebuild. The Warlord seems bewildered by this and asks if it's true what the Arbitors have said, that the party means to make a grab for the throne. Uriel doesn't outright deny this, just says how he's here on a mission that doesn't currently mean ascending to the throne of Bralor. With a little more forceful convincing the Warlord says he'll swear allegiance, Uriel heals the horse the Warlord killed and tells him to apologize to his new steed. The Warlord clumsily mounts the unsaddled horse and trots towards Lakecliff, Uriel summons a new steed.
It is the morning of the 19th day of Leranth 2517 AGF
Rewards Granted
200,000 electrum
Missions/Quests Completed
Completed the sloop race
Report Date
03 Feb 2024
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