Session 14: The Calm Before the Storm Report

General Summary

The fourteenth session, taking place on the 20th of January in 2024, involved the characters of Sensu (BloodMarry), Ausie (Primolasp), Cord (Mr Bibbles), Xelfy Zippletopple (Yeti), David (Bisharp) and Red (Erasmas). The session lasted from 19:17 British Time to 23:42 British Time.
The session began in the middle of Hertbury Woods, where the party were still running away after assassinating the General, whilst still being willing to carry a corpse with Plate Armour. After a rather short, although very bolt-filled, run from the camp, the party eventually neared the city of Winkwarwick. Fortunately, the camp guards chose not to pursue them, less fortunately the party saw and heard what seemed to be at least a few hundreds soldiers in the forest discussing something. Worried about being caught and killed, or worse, the party chose to safely travel into the city with word of the lurking army rather than lingering near it.
Upon entering the city, the party found it on high alert, the guards bracing for an attack at a moment's notice. Although disconcerted by the nearby army and the city bracing for assault, the party continued to their lodgings with the Goliath, David's new, legally and ethically acquired, armour (now undented) and a satiated plot-mandated thirst for violence. When they arrived, they found an anxious Lord Aymeric already waiting for them, with news of a potential job, pay for assassinating the General and grave tidings for Winkwarwick as a whole.
After a short discussion, the party learned that insider sources had revealed the incoming siege would be happening within a day or two, and that rumours of a Verloren-Pohranician alliance were true. Both unconcerned and desperate to ge their pay, the party requested the bounty for the last job and recieved 1200 gold pieces for their work. Interested in further pay, the party indulged Aymeric's offer to defend the city, and arranged to join the defence on the walls during the following day. In the meantime, however, the party elected to get some more supplies before sleeping.
Now ready, and somewhat more rested, the party set off to the East Gate, ready to meet the coming siege. Unfortunately, the approaching force far outnumbered the defenders, but more fortunately did not seem to understand the numbers ratio basics of siege warfare.
When defending the walls, the party found themselves simultaneously at an advantage and horrendously outmatched, as the army of besiegers were backed up by a duo of highly skilled spellcasters, who on a number of occasions came close to either killing or banishing party members. Despite the odds, the party and defenders succesfully beat back the majority of the enemy force, killing over half of them and preventing most of them from climbing the walls. Rather concerningly, however, the enemy's rout was timed alongside some rather unnerving magical strands appearing from the forest and leading to where the defenders stood.
Tapping into their innate desire and instinct to not be blown to hell and back, the party hastily heeded the defender's shouts to take cover, managing to flee the walls before vast streams of presumably magic struck the walls, detonating them and the surrounding buildings, destroying fortifications that had lasted almost a millenia in a matter of minutes.
Now unconscious and buried under a mountain of rubble, the unconscious and severely wounded party members agreed to leave the session for the day.

Campaign

World of Maqbara Campaign

Protagonists

Xelfy Zippletopple

Neutral Good Forest Gnome (Hermit)
Sorcerer 7

51 / 51 HP

STR
8

DEX
14

CON
16

INT
14

WIS
8

CHA
16

Eshemi Sahar

Oliver Felixis

Cord

Neutral Pox Walker (Bio weapon)
Druid 4

35 / 35 HP

STR
8

DEX
15

CON
12

INT
15

WIS
16

CHA
10

Red

David Friedrich

None Variant Human (Exiled Solider)
Paladin 3

28 / 28 HP

STR
16

DEX
10

CON
14

INT
8

WIS
8

CHA
16

Sensu

Chaotic Evil Variant Tiefling (Charlatan)
Bard 9

66 / 66 HP

STR
8

DEX
14

CON
14

INT
14

WIS
9

CHA
20

Ausie

Report Date

24 Jan 2024