Session Eleven: House of Horrors
General Summary
The session began as the party was searching Frederick’s wagon. A quick search of the wagon turned up some gold and items. The party steps back outside the wagon and Cora, Valna and Nyx decide to rescue the remaining animals as Sneatcha and Friac turn their attention to help the head of the carnival guards, Len.
Sneatcha and Friac make their way over to Len as four wolves are attacking him and three other guards. Sneatcha approaches and attacks one of the wolves injuring it as Friac shoots an arrow at another. From the big top a fireball is fired at the wolves and Len.
The fireball detonates killing the guards and Len while wounding the wolves. One of the injured wolves transforms into a female elf as one of the other wolves stands between Sneatcha and the elf. The large wolf turns and runs towards a wagon by the big top. Sneatcha and Friac turn their attention to the large wolf as someone on top of a wagon fires an arrow at them. The large wolf hits the wagon growling as the circus performer fires another fireball at the wolves hurting another one causing it to transform into a male elf. Sneatcha approaches the wagon and sees a clown drawing back an arrow and firing it at him missing. Friac returns fire and hits the clown as Sneatcha, enlarged connects with the clown. The clown is sent flying and Sneatcha catches the circus performer on the back punch. The circus performer panics and fires a fireball from a wand at his feet killing him and causing the wagon to catch on fire. The large wolf turns and runs back to the wagon where Len was defending clawing at the door trying to get in. Sneatcha runs over and punches the steel reinforced door. Friac scrambles in and sees the inside of the wagon is reinforced with steel with no windows. In the front of the wagon is a wooden box with drow script on it. The box says “from my eternal homeland, I rest.” Friac was about to open the box when the large wolf transforms into a human male and stops him. He tells Friac, the mistress Briza Lueltar lies in the box. They have a short time before she can regain her strength. Sneatcha, hearing this, runs to gather the others.
Cora, Valna and Nyx arrive over to the animal wagons when several fireballs are fired at the wagons causing them to catch on fire. Nyx uses her magic to unlock the wagons as Valna runs and tries to get the animals out of the wagons. Cora runs over and uses magic to put out the fire on several of the wagons. Nyx turns her attention to healing the animals. Valna spots the source of the fireballs and sees a clown with the ringleader on top of a wagon targeting the animal wagons with a wand. Valna runs over and attempts to jump up on the wagon but fails and falls to the ground. Cora runs over to help as the clown fires at Cora. The ringleader, misjudging the distance, fires his wand at Valna causing the fireball to hit at the base of the wagon. The wagon explodes knocking the clown and the ringleader to the ground. Valna hits the clown killing him as Cora hits the ringleader with a snowball spell killing him. They turn to see Sneatcha arriving to tell them they had found Briza Lueltar, aka Mag. They return with Sneatcha to the wagon.
Inside the wagon Friac had open the box to reveal Briza sleeping on top of a layer of dirt. The rest of the party arrive and debate if they need to keep Briza alive or to kill her. The party is not sure how to kill Briza but Nyx is provided the information from Golorr. Nyx stakes Briza while Cora beheads her. They turn their attention to the human male which Cora recognizes as Darwin. Darwin tells Cora they had been tracking the carnival for several days and was glad to see she is well. Darwin tells Cora he will talk with her soon as he needs to help his fallen friends outside. Darwin runs off as the party steps outside and sees a group of soldiers arriving at the carnival led by a male gnome. Nyx heads off with Cora and Valna while Sneatcha and Friac go looking for the strongman’s wagon.
Nyx is approached by the male gnome which introduces himself as Lord Hoskin Lashti of Saltmarsh. Nyx introduces herself and tells Hoskin she is a friend of Volo and she was the one who requested his help. Nyx tells Hoskin what happened as she goes to help the rest of the injured kidnapped victims. Hoskin tells Nyx he can detain the people of the carnival under local laws but will need to request help from one of the large cities to determine who to hold responsible.
Sneatcha fails to find the strongman’s wagon but finds the Wagon of Horrors. Intrigued by it he calls Friac over to go in it. Valna tells Sneatcha she is not afraid of anything and wants to accompany Sneatcha in. Cora not wanting Valna to wander off joins them as they enter the wagon. They walk down the first hallway as blood drips on them. They look up and see a body being held by chains sliced open as the source of the blood. Friac pokes his head up to investigates and nearly gets his head taken off by a blade. Friac drops down and they move forward into a room where different creatures are killing people. They examine the people and notice they are real. They decide to move into the next room where they find a torture room. Here too were real dead bodies in the different torture instruments. They decided to move on from the room. As they move down a darken hallway, Sneatcha sets off a trap closing them in the hallway as gas fills the space. Valna, Sneatcha and Friac are affected by the gas and begin to hallucinate. Cora, not affected by the gas, fails to see the floor opening dropping them into a cage below.
Cora stands up and examines the cage and notices three other cages in the small area. Inside one of the cages is a gnome. He appears to be under the same effects of the gas. Noticing she was in a jam, Cora sends a magical note to Nyx stating they were in trouble. A human male comes into the chamber from a side room. He walks over to the cage and notices Cora is not under the influence of the gas. He calls out to a second human male which appears. Cora tries to bargain with the men but they tell her they need fresh bodies to fill the displays above. Cora tries to stalls by playing a game of chance to determine which murder scene she is going to be displayed in. Cora wins but is surprised when one of the men casts hold monsters on them. Frozen by the spell, the men take Cora out. They go upstairs and place Cora in a rack and pull the ropes tight. They go back downstairs to retrieve Friac and notice Valna is not frozen in place. They take Valna out of the cage because she looked pretty and brought her upstairs where Cora was. They asked Valna if the scene looked right but Valna was still under the effects of the gas and told them it looked fine. The men decided it would look better with Friac killing Cora and began setting up the scene. The big man decided he wanted alone time with Valna and left the other to work as he took Valna back downstairs into his small living quarters. He pours Valna a drink as he commented how pretty she was. As the man upstairs was about to plunge a dagger into Cora, Nyx arrives with several of the soldiers and takes custody of the two men and frees the other.
The party returns to their tent where they rest from the day’s events. The party turns their attention to finding the children which could lead them in finding the book of Selu'taar. Nyx found information the children are being held at the Lilybrook Orphanage in Saltmarsh. They party leave and head to Saltmarsh. At Saltmarsh, Sneatcha and Friac decide to do some shopping and gather information while Cora, Nyx and Valna head over to the orphanage. Arriving at the orphanage, Nyx transforms into Lady Lorelei Thalavar and knock on the door. After exchanging some words with the manservant, Nyx is let into the orphanage and meets Lady Lilybrook. Nyx tells Lady Lilybrook things have change and she needs to turn the children over to her. Lady Lilybrook refuses unless Lord Egan Lassiter grants custody to her. Nyx tells her she will return with Lord Lassiter for the children. Outside, Valna is approached by a boy retrieving his ball. He notices Valna in shinny armor and asks what Valna was doing. Valna tells the boy she was just out for a walk with her friend. After some small talk, the boy leaves as Nyx comes out of the orphanage. Nyx asks where Lord Lassiter lives and Valna with Cora leaves to go to his house.
At the house, Nyx knocks at the door and asks for Lord Lassiter. She is told Lord Lassiter is at the town hall conducting business. The three leave Lord Lassiter’s home and head over to town hall. They decided to try to flush Lord Lassiter out of the town hall by having Cora cause a distraction with Valna helping. Nyx is positioned outside to intercept Lord Lassiter as he leaves the town hall. Cora enters the town hall and casts a spell which causes a bunch of monkeys to appear to cause trouble. As Cora is casting, she is noticed by one of the clerks which tries to stop her. Cora flees out the side of the hall while the clerk looses her in the chaos. Nyx finds Lord Lassiter and is able to get the manacles of Cooperation on him. She takes Lord Lassiter to the orphanage to retrieve the children. On the way Nyx asks Lord Lassiter to enter with her but he refuses stating he cannot or she will not get the children. They arrive at the orphanage where they are met by Lady Lilybrook. Lord Lassiter gives his consent for Nyx to take custody of the children. After a short time the children are turned over to Nyx. Nyx discovers one of the children is not related to the others and his name is Mazel Analith
Back in the town hall, Valna sees Friac motioning to her. She walks over and asks what he is doing. Friac tells her he was causing a distracting. Valna slightly suspicious asks Friac to leave with her so they can get Cora. As they were leaving the town hall, a person steps out of an office and convinces Valna to stop and enter the office. Valna complies and enters the office. Cora noticing Valna had not exited the town hall goes looking for her. She finds her in an office alone. Cora asks Valna what she is doing, Valna couldn’t remember and said she remembers being outside the town hall but doesn’t remember anything else. Find it odd, Cora and Valna leave and meet up with Nyx as she is leaving the orphanage with the children.
Sneatcha goes into the temple of Lathander asking for information about how to handle undead. He gets the cold shoulder from the priest. Sneatcha pays a small donation and grabs some holy water as he leaves. Sneatcha and Friac then enter The Curio Shop. Sneatcha asks the owner, Misha, if she had anything which would help against undead. Misha said she could get an item for Sneatcha but it is hard to come by. If Sneatcha could retrieve a necklace which was stolen from her then she will give Sneatcha the item. Sneatcha told her he would help and Misha heard someone in the Underground is trying to sell it. She gives the location and the password to get into the Underground. Sneatcha leaves with Friac and heads over to the Underground. They are greeted by a gnome named Urdjan. He ushers them into the market where Sneatcha and Friac search for the necklace. They find a half-orc his selling the necklace for 10,000 gold. Sneatcha tries to bargain the half-orc down but the half-orc gets insulted. He calls Sneatcha out on the nights honor and challenge Sneatcha to a game of chance. He will sell the necklace to Sneatcha for 100 gold pieces if Friac can remove his hand in time from his friend attempting to cut it off. If Sneatcha loses the half-orc keeps the necklace and Friac’s hand. As a tense moment, the thief brought the axe down just missing Friac. Upset but bound by his word, the half-orc sells the necklace to Sneatcha. After securing the necklace, Sneatcha saw there was a fighting pit attached to the Black Market. He approaches Urdjan and tells him he wants to fight in the pit. Urdjan gives Sneatcha an option on what to fight and he chooses to fuck something up that can fuck him up. Urdjan takes bets on the fight and Sneatcha gets in the ring. They open a crate to reveal a golem which alchemical running through it. Urdjan yells attack and the golem engages in combat with Sneatcha. After trading blows, the golem knocks out Sneatcha. Urdjan revives Sneatcha and tell his better fucking luck next time. Friac and Sneatcha leave the Underground and return the necklace to Misha. They leave the store and make their way back to the tent.
The session ended.
Sneatcha and Friac make their way over to Len as four wolves are attacking him and three other guards. Sneatcha approaches and attacks one of the wolves injuring it as Friac shoots an arrow at another. From the big top a fireball is fired at the wolves and Len.
The fireball detonates killing the guards and Len while wounding the wolves. One of the injured wolves transforms into a female elf as one of the other wolves stands between Sneatcha and the elf. The large wolf turns and runs towards a wagon by the big top. Sneatcha and Friac turn their attention to the large wolf as someone on top of a wagon fires an arrow at them. The large wolf hits the wagon growling as the circus performer fires another fireball at the wolves hurting another one causing it to transform into a male elf. Sneatcha approaches the wagon and sees a clown drawing back an arrow and firing it at him missing. Friac returns fire and hits the clown as Sneatcha, enlarged connects with the clown. The clown is sent flying and Sneatcha catches the circus performer on the back punch. The circus performer panics and fires a fireball from a wand at his feet killing him and causing the wagon to catch on fire. The large wolf turns and runs back to the wagon where Len was defending clawing at the door trying to get in. Sneatcha runs over and punches the steel reinforced door. Friac scrambles in and sees the inside of the wagon is reinforced with steel with no windows. In the front of the wagon is a wooden box with drow script on it. The box says “from my eternal homeland, I rest.” Friac was about to open the box when the large wolf transforms into a human male and stops him. He tells Friac, the mistress Briza Lueltar lies in the box. They have a short time before she can regain her strength. Sneatcha, hearing this, runs to gather the others.
Cora, Valna and Nyx arrive over to the animal wagons when several fireballs are fired at the wagons causing them to catch on fire. Nyx uses her magic to unlock the wagons as Valna runs and tries to get the animals out of the wagons. Cora runs over and uses magic to put out the fire on several of the wagons. Nyx turns her attention to healing the animals. Valna spots the source of the fireballs and sees a clown with the ringleader on top of a wagon targeting the animal wagons with a wand. Valna runs over and attempts to jump up on the wagon but fails and falls to the ground. Cora runs over to help as the clown fires at Cora. The ringleader, misjudging the distance, fires his wand at Valna causing the fireball to hit at the base of the wagon. The wagon explodes knocking the clown and the ringleader to the ground. Valna hits the clown killing him as Cora hits the ringleader with a snowball spell killing him. They turn to see Sneatcha arriving to tell them they had found Briza Lueltar, aka Mag. They return with Sneatcha to the wagon.
Inside the wagon Friac had open the box to reveal Briza sleeping on top of a layer of dirt. The rest of the party arrive and debate if they need to keep Briza alive or to kill her. The party is not sure how to kill Briza but Nyx is provided the information from Golorr. Nyx stakes Briza while Cora beheads her. They turn their attention to the human male which Cora recognizes as Darwin. Darwin tells Cora they had been tracking the carnival for several days and was glad to see she is well. Darwin tells Cora he will talk with her soon as he needs to help his fallen friends outside. Darwin runs off as the party steps outside and sees a group of soldiers arriving at the carnival led by a male gnome. Nyx heads off with Cora and Valna while Sneatcha and Friac go looking for the strongman’s wagon.
Nyx is approached by the male gnome which introduces himself as Lord Hoskin Lashti of Saltmarsh. Nyx introduces herself and tells Hoskin she is a friend of Volo and she was the one who requested his help. Nyx tells Hoskin what happened as she goes to help the rest of the injured kidnapped victims. Hoskin tells Nyx he can detain the people of the carnival under local laws but will need to request help from one of the large cities to determine who to hold responsible.
Sneatcha fails to find the strongman’s wagon but finds the Wagon of Horrors. Intrigued by it he calls Friac over to go in it. Valna tells Sneatcha she is not afraid of anything and wants to accompany Sneatcha in. Cora not wanting Valna to wander off joins them as they enter the wagon. They walk down the first hallway as blood drips on them. They look up and see a body being held by chains sliced open as the source of the blood. Friac pokes his head up to investigates and nearly gets his head taken off by a blade. Friac drops down and they move forward into a room where different creatures are killing people. They examine the people and notice they are real. They decide to move into the next room where they find a torture room. Here too were real dead bodies in the different torture instruments. They decided to move on from the room. As they move down a darken hallway, Sneatcha sets off a trap closing them in the hallway as gas fills the space. Valna, Sneatcha and Friac are affected by the gas and begin to hallucinate. Cora, not affected by the gas, fails to see the floor opening dropping them into a cage below.
Cora stands up and examines the cage and notices three other cages in the small area. Inside one of the cages is a gnome. He appears to be under the same effects of the gas. Noticing she was in a jam, Cora sends a magical note to Nyx stating they were in trouble. A human male comes into the chamber from a side room. He walks over to the cage and notices Cora is not under the influence of the gas. He calls out to a second human male which appears. Cora tries to bargain with the men but they tell her they need fresh bodies to fill the displays above. Cora tries to stalls by playing a game of chance to determine which murder scene she is going to be displayed in. Cora wins but is surprised when one of the men casts hold monsters on them. Frozen by the spell, the men take Cora out. They go upstairs and place Cora in a rack and pull the ropes tight. They go back downstairs to retrieve Friac and notice Valna is not frozen in place. They take Valna out of the cage because she looked pretty and brought her upstairs where Cora was. They asked Valna if the scene looked right but Valna was still under the effects of the gas and told them it looked fine. The men decided it would look better with Friac killing Cora and began setting up the scene. The big man decided he wanted alone time with Valna and left the other to work as he took Valna back downstairs into his small living quarters. He pours Valna a drink as he commented how pretty she was. As the man upstairs was about to plunge a dagger into Cora, Nyx arrives with several of the soldiers and takes custody of the two men and frees the other.
The party returns to their tent where they rest from the day’s events. The party turns their attention to finding the children which could lead them in finding the book of Selu'taar. Nyx found information the children are being held at the Lilybrook Orphanage in Saltmarsh. They party leave and head to Saltmarsh. At Saltmarsh, Sneatcha and Friac decide to do some shopping and gather information while Cora, Nyx and Valna head over to the orphanage. Arriving at the orphanage, Nyx transforms into Lady Lorelei Thalavar and knock on the door. After exchanging some words with the manservant, Nyx is let into the orphanage and meets Lady Lilybrook. Nyx tells Lady Lilybrook things have change and she needs to turn the children over to her. Lady Lilybrook refuses unless Lord Egan Lassiter grants custody to her. Nyx tells her she will return with Lord Lassiter for the children. Outside, Valna is approached by a boy retrieving his ball. He notices Valna in shinny armor and asks what Valna was doing. Valna tells the boy she was just out for a walk with her friend. After some small talk, the boy leaves as Nyx comes out of the orphanage. Nyx asks where Lord Lassiter lives and Valna with Cora leaves to go to his house.
At the house, Nyx knocks at the door and asks for Lord Lassiter. She is told Lord Lassiter is at the town hall conducting business. The three leave Lord Lassiter’s home and head over to town hall. They decided to try to flush Lord Lassiter out of the town hall by having Cora cause a distraction with Valna helping. Nyx is positioned outside to intercept Lord Lassiter as he leaves the town hall. Cora enters the town hall and casts a spell which causes a bunch of monkeys to appear to cause trouble. As Cora is casting, she is noticed by one of the clerks which tries to stop her. Cora flees out the side of the hall while the clerk looses her in the chaos. Nyx finds Lord Lassiter and is able to get the manacles of Cooperation on him. She takes Lord Lassiter to the orphanage to retrieve the children. On the way Nyx asks Lord Lassiter to enter with her but he refuses stating he cannot or she will not get the children. They arrive at the orphanage where they are met by Lady Lilybrook. Lord Lassiter gives his consent for Nyx to take custody of the children. After a short time the children are turned over to Nyx. Nyx discovers one of the children is not related to the others and his name is Mazel Analith
Back in the town hall, Valna sees Friac motioning to her. She walks over and asks what he is doing. Friac tells her he was causing a distracting. Valna slightly suspicious asks Friac to leave with her so they can get Cora. As they were leaving the town hall, a person steps out of an office and convinces Valna to stop and enter the office. Valna complies and enters the office. Cora noticing Valna had not exited the town hall goes looking for her. She finds her in an office alone. Cora asks Valna what she is doing, Valna couldn’t remember and said she remembers being outside the town hall but doesn’t remember anything else. Find it odd, Cora and Valna leave and meet up with Nyx as she is leaving the orphanage with the children.
Sneatcha goes into the temple of Lathander asking for information about how to handle undead. He gets the cold shoulder from the priest. Sneatcha pays a small donation and grabs some holy water as he leaves. Sneatcha and Friac then enter The Curio Shop. Sneatcha asks the owner, Misha, if she had anything which would help against undead. Misha said she could get an item for Sneatcha but it is hard to come by. If Sneatcha could retrieve a necklace which was stolen from her then she will give Sneatcha the item. Sneatcha told her he would help and Misha heard someone in the Underground is trying to sell it. She gives the location and the password to get into the Underground. Sneatcha leaves with Friac and heads over to the Underground. They are greeted by a gnome named Urdjan. He ushers them into the market where Sneatcha and Friac search for the necklace. They find a half-orc his selling the necklace for 10,000 gold. Sneatcha tries to bargain the half-orc down but the half-orc gets insulted. He calls Sneatcha out on the nights honor and challenge Sneatcha to a game of chance. He will sell the necklace to Sneatcha for 100 gold pieces if Friac can remove his hand in time from his friend attempting to cut it off. If Sneatcha loses the half-orc keeps the necklace and Friac’s hand. As a tense moment, the thief brought the axe down just missing Friac. Upset but bound by his word, the half-orc sells the necklace to Sneatcha. After securing the necklace, Sneatcha saw there was a fighting pit attached to the Black Market. He approaches Urdjan and tells him he wants to fight in the pit. Urdjan gives Sneatcha an option on what to fight and he chooses to fuck something up that can fuck him up. Urdjan takes bets on the fight and Sneatcha gets in the ring. They open a crate to reveal a golem which alchemical running through it. Urdjan yells attack and the golem engages in combat with Sneatcha. After trading blows, the golem knocks out Sneatcha. Urdjan revives Sneatcha and tell his better fucking luck next time. Friac and Sneatcha leave the Underground and return the necklace to Misha. They leave the store and make their way back to the tent.
The session ended.
Rewards Granted
Experience for the session: 2,400xp. Party's total experience to date: 20,296xp.
Party share of the treasure from the carnival 4,000gp.
Party share of the treasure from the carnival 4,000gp.
Related Reports
Notes
Key Findings:
- Frederick and Jorg left the carnival during the fight.
- The Dermont children and Mazel Analith were at the Orphanage.
- Lord Lassiter could not enter the Orphanage for some reason.
- Lady Lorelei Thalavar was missing when the party went back to locate her.
Report Date
21 Jan 2022
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