Back at Oleg's
Back at Oleg's, the adventurers gave back the wedding ring to Svetlana. She was very happy and, in return for the ring, Oleg offered them 1000 gp in trade credit.
They also talked with Kesten Garess about their alliance with the Kobolds, and the soldier promised them he would soon have their reward (800gp).
Finally, they bought rations and mining equipment from Oleg, who also lent them some horses to carry all the materials to the Sootscale kobolds.
After having prepared as well as they could, they started their journey towards the Stag Lord's fort... would they be able to survive the dangers ahead?
Visiting Bokken
They found Bokken's hut surrounded by several visitors, who were buying some of his potions. Thanks to the characters' good job in ridding the area of bandits, many trappers, merchants and hunters were now flocking the northern Greenbelt. This had caused a boom in the potion business, but Bokken was a bit grumpy, as he had built his hut away from civilization so as not to be disturbed.
Nevertheless, Bokken received the adventurers warmly, specially since they had brought him the fangberries he needed. He offered them a 25% discount on all his potions for a month, and the showed them his stash. The adventurers chose the ones they thought would be more useful in their coming encounter with the Stag Lord.
The Fey Friends
They proceeded south and gave back his luck coin to the leprechaun. The creature changed humor instantly and started hugging the adventurers and dancing around them. He said he would go on exploring the region, and that he would love to meet them again in the future. He wished them good luck and the characters felt a strange warmth as part of the creature's luck rubbed on them.
The following day the adventurers met Perlivash and Tyg-Titter-Tut in the outskirts of the forest and proceeded towards the Kobolds' lair.
The Kobold Braves
Chief Sootscale was impressed by the equipment brought by the adventurers, and relieved to see them fulfilling their side of the bargain. He assigned Mikmek and 6 Kobold warriors to go with them and help them in the assault of the Stag Lord's fort (the adventurers thought most of them seemed to be the old followers of Tartuk).
They spent the night in the Sootscale lair and followed the Shrike river to the Stag Lord's fort.
Arrival at the Fort
The whole trip took them longer than expected, as they got lost a couple of times and were delayed some hours because of the bad weather, but all in all their trip to the fort from Oleg's Trading Post was uneventful (except for a pack horse that got lost and eaten by bears) and they arrived without any major trouble to the camp they had used in their previous approach to the fort.
They spent the next few days gathering information about the fort, their inhabitants and the bandit patrols of the hills surrounding the fort:
- The adventurers left Mikmek and the kobolds spy on the trail leading to the fort. One day they spotted a group of 6 bandits approaching the fort with a wagon full of loot. The adventurers overheard their conversation with the bandits at the fort's gate and learned the master phrase the bandits used. Nevertheless, they decided it was too dangerous to infiltrate the fort using the main entrance, even knowing the master phrase.
- They had the feys infiltrate the fort while invisible. Thanks to their telepathic bond with Cardot, the adventurers learned about the distribution of bandits inside the fort (and that they were approximately a dozen), that the bandits had a captured owlbear in a cage. As they were leaving back to the camp, they also learned that there was some kind of secret tunnel leading into the fort from the outside, almost opposite from the main entrance, and in an area that the bandits on lookout did not monitor much.
- One of the nights, during a violent thunderstorm, Kii and Gam'el'Gar explored the outside area of the fort's palisade to find the secret entrance the feys spoke of. As they were climbing the hill towards the palisade, the earth erupted and four zombies lurched to attack them (this was one obvious reason why the bandits only monitored the main entrance). The adventurers took cover in the line of trees surrounding the hill and came back later with Cardot, who used the power of Cayden Cailean to sever the undead link to the Negative Plane. After dealing with the zombies, the adventurers explored the secret tunnel during the stormy night. Gam'el'gar predicted that the weather would still be stormy the following night...
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| Zombies erupted from the earth to attack the adventurers |
- All in all, the adventurer's spent 5 days to reach the fort from Oleg's trading post, and another 4 days scouting possible ways to attack the fort. At the end, they decided that Kii would craft a debilitating poison that the feys would add to the bandits' alcoholic reserves, then open the owlbear's cage to cause a distraction that the adventurers would use to infiltrate the fort using the secret tunnel to attack the remaining bandits.
On the night of the 22nd Gozra, the adventurers, using the cover of the night and a noisy thunderstorm, approached the fort from the side opposite to the main entrance. They formed three small groups and approached the secret entrance. At some point during their approach, lightning illuminated the field just as Am was crossing between several boulders, but the Gods smiled on the Monk and the bandit on the closest lookout tower was at the time being called by some companions to join the alcohol drinking binge.
The kobolds, directed by Kii and Cardot, dug the entrance to the tunnel, and they all saw that it had not been used in a long time, though it was still in good condition. The tunnel was only 50 feet long, although enough to allow them entry to the fort... the moment was tense, and as Cardot told the feys to open the owlbear's cage, all of them held their breath for a moment... would their plan survive the clash with reality?
XP:
- 400 (completing the Svetlana's Ring quest)
- 400 (completing the Kobolds in the Hills quest)
- 400 (completing the Gathering Fangberries quest)
- 400 (completing the Leprechaun's Luck Coin quest)
- 800 (defeating 4 Zombies protecting the fort's hill)
Total this session: 2400XP
Total campaign: 20,780XP
Loot:
- 1000gp in trade credit from Oleg.
- 800gp (Kobolds in the Hills reward)
- 25% discount in Oleg's potions for a month.
- Leprechaun's Luck (may reroll a d20 once)
Spent:
- 1 pack horse, lost during the trip to the Stag Lord's fort (to be paid to Oleg).
Time Passed:
- 9 days.
The time now is 22nd Gozran (April), in the evening. The group is near the Stag Lord's lair.
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