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Doodle missed, but Narnel put an arrow through the chest of the yellow one, taking him out of the battle.
Grog and Taidus each dispatch a hobgoblin quickly as Meran's arrow sails over Gasper's head.
Gasper closes with Grog and attacks.
The blue hobgoblin rushes up to Riceak, drawing and then swinging his scimitar.
Taidus tries to engage the hobgoblin, but misses him. Grog scores a decent hit on Gaspar, who grins and bears it.
Arrows are flying, and one hits the last hobgoblin in the belly, taking him out of the fight. Over yonder, you hear screaming as hobgoblins fall to the genie in their midst.
Gasper continues his duel with Grog, with some success.
Gasper goes down, and the last hobgoblin turns tail and runs. After taking a beating from the djinni, and seeing Gasper fall, the rest of the raiders flee as well.
As you tend your wounds, Jamila approaches you. "Thank you! You have no idea how much you have helped here."
She admits to being a janni and explains that she has known Targos Min-Katheer for over 40 years, serving as both ally and sometimes lover to the heroic Pathfinder. She states that the two of them had stumbled upon a plot by parties unknown to cripple Qadira’s economy by disrupting trade along the Silken Way. They had narrowed it down to just a few local merchants, but Targos began feeling the effects of his advanced age after suffering from heart pains and decided he would be ineffective in completing the mission. By agreement, rather than allowing Targos to slowly dwindle away from his ailments, Jamila gave him a dose of venom from a desert scorpion, and the famed venture-captain peacefully passed on to the afterlife. She and Targos felt the chances were great that the plotter would use the event of the trade route protector’s death to launch his plot. As such, she carefully ensured that all of the suspected merchants would be on the same caravan on which Targos’s body would travel with his Pathfinder escort.
Though she thought Hokama might be the plotter, it turns out it was Gaspar who murdered his partner so he could secretly pay off a pair of harpies to waylay travelers along the Silken Way in conjunction with strikes by his hired band of desert brigands. Gaspar had hoped to attract the greater harpy colonies of southern Qadira to the easy pickings of the trade route and thus seal off the route for years to come. Once Jamila realized that you were still alive and could help her, she broke her cover and moved to end the threat to the all-important Silken Way.
The rest of the trip to Katheer is uneventful. Upon arriving in Katheer, Targos Min-Katheer is given a hero’s funeral attended by many Pathfinders (including some of the Ten), as well as notables from the satrap’s court and a few geniekin from the deep desert. Jamila claims Gaspar’s wares as compensation for the danger he placed her caravan under.
I usually try to have 2 going at anyone time. I got a little swamped these past few weeks and was over committed (GameDay overload!), but I am down to only 1 now, so I am good to run another. Won't make it in time for gameday, though. I had planned to run Among the Living next, but it sounds like at least a few of you had done it already, so I am open to other suggestions.
Oh, and everyone needs to roll for boons!
None for me... But if you get a 20 or a 16, then you win one, so PM me your email address if you do.
Yes, I would. I am running a group through the crypt of the everflame right now.
Grog forgot his boon roll, so I will do it in order to report the session.
Session is now reported.