You move out of the inn and see a small crowd. In front of the crowd is a man in a splendid uniform. Once he sees you he immediately starts talking.
“People have been talking about what you’ve doing—slaying ghosts and rescuing people. We need more folks like you. In fact, we have a few of Cassomir’s finest missing in the woods up north. When you’re finished with the work you’re doing now, I’d like you to go after a band of rangers we sent north to scout the forest. The druids are concerned for them, which worries us. And of course, good people going missing isn’t something we can let stand. If you can bring me news of our missing rangers, I can promise to make your stay here in the city a memorable one.
There’s more, too. People talk of demons and dark cults, saying it’s been going under our noses for a while. Peitra Damaken, an expert tracker, says she got attacked by a fiend not long ago; it left her near dead and took her quicksand cloak. If you find that fiend before you’re through, I’ll reward you a thousand gold pieces to bring me proof. Now there might be more I don’t know about, but I’ll give you another three hundred gold for every one you slay, as long as you bring back proper evidence of those too.
These plots have thrown lives into disarray. If you can get any sort of record of who’s been affected, let us know so we can sort through it and learn who needs justice and who needs mercy. We’ll make it known that the people of Cassomir are not to be toyed with. Let them play their games in Isarn!”
The next morning the sheriff sends you on your way after a hearty breakfast. Just before midday you arrive back at the Sword Point Inn.
The owner of The Sword Point tells you that the pair left in a considerable hurry. He confides that they purchased horses and left fully equipped, but paid for their rooms for the remaining 3 days. The departing elderly adventurers instructed the innkeeper to allow you admittance to the couple’s rooms. They also left a hastily scrawled note and some equipment.
Note wrote:
We received word that Taergan is being held against his will in the Verduran Forest north of here. We have set out to find him at a place called Tristeza House. Please bring whatever you need and join us as
soon as you can. Bring word of Dern’s safety with you.
—Branda Tulles
On the table you find 10 magical arrows, a scroll of dimensional anchor (CL 7th), and three potions of cure serious wounds.
"Thank you, but I don't feel fit to travel yet. Give me a few days. You can go ahead and tell them I am fine now. But I suggest you stay for the night, it will be dark soon."
You get back to the sheriff's office, who is busy trying to arrange food for all the elderly people that have been trust into his care. Dern is sitting in a rocking chair near a fireplace. He is starting to get some color back on his face.
Enrithel feels even more protected and cared for when he says Clarity. The sword then turns into a longsword, trident, heavy mace and dwarven waraxe before turning back into a scimitar.
It can change into most other weapons in the one-handed melee weapons group (I say most because I want to be able to exclude some of them, whip is a prime example of something that is not logical), a dagger is a light melee weapon
The scroll is a scroll of blessing of fervor. Enrithel notices tiny letters on the blade: "Clarity" and feels comforted and protected when he holds it. He remembers that the blade is supposed to strengthen the resolve of it's bearers, they stood valiantly against dragons and fearful demons while wielding the blade.
Orin picks the sword up again, but it is tough to hold onto. In addition he feels a bit weaker now that he is holding it One negative level, but the sword twitches three times.
The items are: a wand of lesser restoration with 17 charges, an unknown scroll, a scroll of consecrate, a scroll of cure moderate wounds. The watch is one of the pieces of a weirding watch
Weirding watch:
This gold-plated watch is divided into five pieces. The weirding watch keeps flawless time without ever needing to be wound or repaired. In addition, the bearer of any piece of the watch can activate it to exercise power over time for herself and her allies. Once a watch piece is activated, the bearer gains the benefits of haste and lesser age resistance for 3 rounds. Anyone bearing a piece from the same weirding watch within 30 feet receives the same effect. Each piece of the watch can be activated once per day. The price of a weirding watch includes all five pieces. Pieces are rarely sold separately.
The scimitar is something else, it seems to twitch in Orin's hands as if it does not like him to touch her. Despite that Orin recognizes that it is a +1 transformative holy scimitar.
The sheriff says he will look into it, after he has dealt with Dern and the other inhabitants of the elder's home. Can only do so much in a given day...
Dern's safe house in Hope’s Hollow is a simple affair, a modest shack intended to keep Dern’s equipment and wealth nearby if he needs it. A coffer hidden under a small bed contains a two vials of silversheen, a wand, two ioun torches, three scrolls and a scimitar. Finally, there is also a fragment of a watch mounted on a copper bracelet. Everything is magical.
the man puts down his knife and piece of wood and stands up, looking at Dern once and then talks as if the frail elder isn't hearing "and where should I put that old man, in jail?"
"She is just the loveliest person alive" they both say in tandem. Both glance at the other, fists clenched "but there must be a better way to resolve this than a duel. I am sorry we pulled you into this"
"AND IF YOU STOPPED STABBING ME I WOULDN'T STAB YOU!" the youngster retorts, while bleeding from his wound. He does lower his weapon a bit though. The other youngster moves in while yelling "NOBODY HURTS MY LITTLE BROTHER BUT ME! and hits Raymond hard!
Initiative Protective Ward: allies within 10 ft of Enrithel get +2 AC Enrithel
Hurok 46/55 hp
Orin
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Red (shaken for 1 rounds): -24 hp
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Raymond 4/41 hp
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Blue
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Hurok attempts to grab the red youngster, who counterattacks and hits! The grab attempt fails as Hurok flinches back because of the hit. Orin flies up and over the youngsters. The youngster with the red sash attacks Hurok and scores another hit "Why are you attacking us? Go away!"
Initiative Protective Ward: allies within 10 ft of Enrithel get +2 AC Raymond 27/41 hp
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Blue
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Enrithel
Hurok 46/55 hp
Orin
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Red (shaken for 1 rounds): -6 hp
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Enrithel, you had already acted for the round, so no daze this round
The youngster with the red scarf yelps out in pain as Raymond pokes a hole in him. The other one tries to break the whip, but fails to do so. He then moves back, to get away from Orin and finds that the whip disappears once he is far enough!
From behind you you hear Dern "Easy lads, it is far easier to take a life than to preserve it"
Initiative Protective Ward: allies within 10 ft of Enrithel get +2 AC Hurok
Orin
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Red (shaken for 2 rounds): -6 hp
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Raymond 27/41 hp
- - -
Blue
- - -
Enrithel
The youngster with the red scarf trembles, but still manages to poke a hole in Raymond!
Initiative Protective Ward: allies within 10 ft of Enrithel get +2 AC Raymond 27/41 hp
- - -
Blue
- - -
Hurok
- - -
Enrithel
Orin
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Red (shaken for 2 rounds)
- - -
Just like the youngster Raymond also fails to find his mark. The other youngster now draws his rapier and shows how it is done. "She is mine!" he shouts.
Hurok attempts to shout some sense into the youngsters and Raymond. The one with the red hat seems impressed.
Initiative
Enrithel
Orin
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Red (shaken for 3 rounds)
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Raymond 33/41 hp
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Blue
- - -
Hurok
The two youngsters turn towards Raymond "And who are you to tell us to move out of the way!? You probably want to steal Debra away from us, we will kill you first and then fight it out between ourselves!"
Having said that he draws his rapier and attempts to stab Raymond. The rapier fails to penetrate Raymond's leather armor.
Initiative
Raymond
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Blue
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Enrithel
Hurol
Orin
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Red
Hurok, Raymond's attempt at diplomacy triggered the fight, so I ignored your post. If you want I can use that as your action though
With Dern on the floating chair you move out of the building and move towards the west, where the town hall is located. You near the square and
hear an argument, with two young people shouting over one another. Both have their hands on the pommels of their rapiers, and look ready to draw steel at any moment. Of course they block your way...
Dern sputters a few seconds, working his dry mouth and choking out a rasping cough. “There’s no time,” he says in a hoarse whisper. “Taergan Flinn keeps me here. He plans to murder Crandel and Tulles. Don’t let them go to the woods. Fiends and nightmares lurk there.”
The elderly priest struggles visibly, as if forcing memories to the surface of his mind. His eyes widen momentarily. “A house in the Hollow. My strong box. My old treasures, and my piece of the watch. Take them to Tulles. She will know you speak for me.”
He breathes heavily for a few seconds, then continues, struggling against his weakened his body. “Find Flinn. Make him confess. And tell the town about this place so these families can save their own.” Dern Fosimuth closes his eyes, exhausted by the effort. His breathing slows but appears even.
Dern's eyes flutter open and he stutters the inevitable "Where am I, who are you?" while his hand goes to his neckline, seemingly in search of something that isn't there.
“I never should have listened. My fiancée was as beautiful as sunset over the sea. I had everything I wanted, until that other woman convinced me to leave my love. I tried so hard to resist, but how can you escape the one you’ve dreamed of all your life? I told Bethany before the wedding that I had met the girl I’d always dreamed of. We argued. I told Bethany to leave, and to throw her ring into the river. She stole my carriage and fled north. I never saw her again. I never saw the other woman again, either. I drank my sorrows away till my health failed. Been here almost forty years now. Forty lonely years.”
The man seems to mutter to himself as you approach him “I never should have listened. My fiancée was as beautiful as sunset over the sea. I had everything I wanted, until that other woman convinced me to leave my love. I tried so hard to resist, but how can you escape the one you’ve dreamed of all your life? I told Bethany before the wedding that I had met the girl I’d always dreamed of. We argued. I told Bethany to leave, and to throw her ring into the river. She stole my carriage and fled north. I never saw her again. I never saw the other woman again, either. I drank my sorrows away till my health failed. Been here almost forty years now. Forty lonely years.”
The man is rocking back and forth, back and forth, and again... from where you stand he seems normal.
Raymond detects no traps and is able to open the first and the last cabinet without any issue. The second one takes some more attempts but eventually he also opens that one. Enrithel helps him to identify the items within.
Contents:
First Cabinet: Basic medical supplies (such as bandages,
cotton balls, and syringes), 4 doses of alchemist’s kindness (Ultimate Equipment 183), and 2 doses of wismuth salix (Ultimate Equipment 101).
Second Cabinet: Three doses of meditation tea, 1 dose of padzahr (Ultimate Equipment 100), 12 doses of indigo dreams poison (Ultimate Equipment 111), two potions of cure light wounds, and one potion of lesser restoration.
Third Cabinet: One dose of antiplague, 1 dose of antitoxin, 1 dose of twitch tonic, and 8 doses of smelling salts.
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No DR against spells (it was an inflict). Those three CLWs where needed to bring Hurok back to full (he was at -11 hp from max)
You have defeated these demonic creatures and investigate the rest of the building. The last room you enter is a nursing station. It holds a bed, chair and three locked cabinets.
You look through the window and see a lone man in a wooden rocking chair positioned on the dead grass of the outdoor grounds.
The monster touches Hurok and the barbarian feels his life force ebbing away. However he is man enough not to flinch and deals a devastating blow in return.
Initiative Everyone is shaken Orin
Enrithel
Raymond
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Blue -31hp, -2 AC
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Hurok -21 hp Will DC17 for half
