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Bobbie wakes up, apparently finding none of the pathfinders staying around to heal help her. The Pathfinders find a itinerant pop-up bookstore, called the Linnorm's Spine. The bookseller's pride and joy, the cornerstone of their connection, is a chronicle of the Linnorm King Ulvass. "I'm not merely going to part with this to some upjumped 'society' of graverobbers."
holy moly, there is a rare named text in this adventure as part of the faction missions. I had been ignoring them, since they no longer serve a purpose, but it is in here. Since Cayden is Grand Lodge, and that means, if I was running the faction missions just for fun, the group would have knowledge of a rare book the society is interested in... Our Dark Archive members, if you can collectively find the bookseller (Diplomacy or Knowledge Local) and then convince him to part with his copy of Discovering Arcadia: the Glory of the Linnorm King Ulvass with either a Diplomacy or Intimidate check (with a +2 bonus if you bribe him with 20 gp), I'll say that counts as a faction mission goal.
"Can we move away from the silence?" Lazar says, keeping his hands up. "Yeah, cool? Its cold out here." "Okay, listen, I'm a wizard for hire, Hjort, Runa, they had something complicated going on. I think they were together, but, uh, well, Runa was also running a con on him, I think. So, Hjort had a mad-on for the Pathfinder Society, right? And according to Hjort, Runa's a betrayed Pathfinder who's gone renegade. Except, one night, we stayed up drinking, and Hjort was out recruiting, and I think its more, she's a renegade Pathfinder who betrayed the Society. Something about a... shadow lodge? I don't know, I'm not a Pathfinder." "You wanna know something messed up? I'm pretty sure Runa was part of the Pathfinder team that raided Hjort's village." "She was working for a guy named... Caggrigar, I think she said? Never met him, don't know what he looks like. Anyways, after we got that Skagni guy, she sent Skagni with a fellow on the way to Irrisen. Vermund, that was the guy who was heading to Irrisen."
I don't think Hjort really counts as an oppressive or tyrannical leader. I don't think there's a named text in this adventure.
I'll need to write a wrap up post, and get you guys the chronicles. How we feeling? Everyone want to go into the next scenario?
None of the opposing team, save Lazar, are moving after the channel. They are deceased.
Lazar throws his hands up into the air, "Okay, I'm probably not getting paid the second half of what Hjort is paying me, and I don't want to end up dead, so... Truce?" Unfortunately, most of the Pathfinders can't the evoker. "Runa's got a healing potion on her, if you want to save your friend,"
Yes, wands are a spell trigger, which is technically different than a command word activation, but it does say in the description of a spell trigger that the user needs to speak a word to trigger the spell.
Between Cayden and Shannon, the Cheliaxian cleric collapses dead.
Round 4
Runa steps back and thick magical black that only Cayden can see slam down onto Cayden. Lazar doesn't like having a gnome tickling his backside, but he also doesn't like the idea of the big people with big pointy sticks coming at him either, so he concentrates and attempts to cast a spell carefully
He gives a shout of triumph, but only Corba can hear it.
Shannon and Bobbie cut down both Fastaxe and the half-elf monk, both lie dead at their feet.
Our gnome friend is not able to get through the monk's bulk. Runa lifts her unholy symbol, a red pentagram etched on onyx, and the forces of Hell pour out.
Lazar casts a spell, and big almost oozing blob of fire rolls into Bobbie's feet.
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Hjort parries Cayden's sword with his dagger, and steps back to try to stop the brute terrorizing Lazar and Runa. "" he shouts.
His furious attacks cut deeply into Leon. Round 3
Gyuri tries to punch the brute bellowing forward. and so does Hjort, Shannon is able to cut into Fastaxe, who looks to be not long for this world. Bobbie cuts into Gyuri but Hjort is able to deflect her spinning blow with his hand-axe and avoids being cut into. Gyuri rains several blows against Bobbie.
Bobbie's able to cut into both the bald half-elf and the red-bearded Ulfen man. And our Gnome bard scurries to join her Pathfinder compatriots. The paleskinned Chelaxian woman backs off, and casts a spell, and suddenly the noise coming from our gnome bard go away. The scraggly man slides to his left and casts a spell at Bobbie. But the blast of fire goes wide.
Hjort tries to cut a chunk of Cayden while he moves in.
Having recieved his own cut, he tries to slice into Cayden again, with a feral grin on his face. "For my mother," he shouts.
Shannon's glaive cuts into Hjort, who's feral gaze only becomes more unhinged. Corgrim's bottle breaks against Runa's armor. The half-elf steps forward and unleashes a spinning kick against Bobbie and Corgrim
Runa steps away and drinks a potion. Lazar backs up and casts a spell on himself.
Fastaxe lets loose a feral snarl, and wheels around to face Bobby.
"They're Pathfinders! They killed my village. Fight them to the last breath" Hjort Fastaxe yells. A laughing half-elf, who's speed belies his girth, bounds into place and tries to pummel Bobbie.
The Pathfinders cut down the remaining goblins, but as the sounds of battle die down, they realize that there are people climbing down the side of the armory, in a desperate attempt to escape the armory.
Nothing stops the pathfinders from continuing their assault on the goblins.
Corba (-3)
Looking at the tags, it has the repeatable trait.
Corgrim slices through the blue-feathered goblin's little hat into the skull, and the goblin crumbles to the ground. The yellow-feather capped goblin swings their shortsword on Leon.
And then skitters back away from the massive fighter.
"Out of way, longshanks, we need to kill the gnome!" Green-feather says as he tries to stab Cayden
Round 4
The blue-feather swings his shortsword at Corgrim wildly and then scampers back behind a chair.
Red staggers back to a chair, and pants resting against the chair, looking at their wound in shock.
"You made Triok sing! Triok worst singer! You go bleed now!" The one with a yellow feather shouts as they try to stab Corba in the face.
"No singing, Triok!" The one with the green feather shouts as he tries to stab Cayden. But he isn't able to get through the half elf's armor.
The fur-clad goblin is able to slide into place without an issue and gets Leon with his fire spell, but Shannon cuts into the goblin just after and he crumbles unconscious and bleeding "Longshanks coming in through window!" the one with a blue feather in their cap shouts and runs forward, stabbing wildly with their sword. But he gets stuck in the windowsill! Hearing this, the one with a red feather runs across the hallway to help their comrade. Both Leon and Shannon miss. Purple-feather swings her longsword at Leon.
"No, not our window! I wanted to break windows!" She yells as she two runs into the other room. Shannon's able to get her glaive down the back of the goblin, and the goblin hits the bottom of those steps unconscious.
Neither Shannon or Bobbie get their blades into the scurrying goblins. Corgrim stabs into the yellow-feathered goblin. "You stab me? I stab you!" He shouts as he tries to go short-sword-a-short-sword with Corgrim
He then backs away from the window The goblin with the grey snow leopard furs runs forward and tries to plaster Leon's face with fire.
With a swing of his scythe, Leon cuts a flap of skin from the goblin, who definitely could not survive another blow like that.
None of the Pathfinders are able to connect with the wily little goblins. Blue juts their short sword at Leon's belly!
Then Red tries to jab her short sword into Bobbie!
Purple leaps up the stairs and tries to jab her shortsword into Leon!
Round 1
The goblin with his leopard skin cloak moves up a little and hurls a bit of fire at Bobbie.
And is able to singe Bobbie's surcoat. The goblin with a yellow feather in her cap sees Corgrim coming up through the window and rushes up to stab at him through the window.
But she's just too short to get a good angle!
Green can't get to pathfinders. "Be a door, not a wall!" she shouts in goblin/
Spoiler:
The guards look to one another. You get the sense that none of them really seems to know what is going on. None of them have any indication that the name Hjort means anything to them. Skaldic:
"They seem to know what's going on. I say we let 'em in." They enter the building and there are shouts in goblin, and its not hard to see one dash across the entrance way. 5 of them are wearing hats with different colored feathers in them. They call it macaroni. The last one is wearing a grey snow leopard-skin fur coat
Some of the goblins notice the longshanks and get their shortswords up and ready. The ones with the red and blue feathers get to the front first!
The blue's short sword can't find a weak spot in Shannon's bulky armor!
Nor can Red's find purchase in Bobby's heavy armor. "Hey get outta way, I can't reach!" Purplefeather shouts
so sorry, I was having issues connecting for the past few days.
The group of guards spot the Pathfinders, and shout something in Skald. Skald:
"Hey, move along. Nothing to see here." "Look at them, they're not locals. Try Taldane, Skiv." [b]"We've received reports of suspicious activity in the area, and under the authority granted to us by Castellan Darkwine, we humbly ask that people of upright character leave the area."
There were three guards outside talking.
Corgrim does not hear the name Hjort.
The armory is a purposefully nondescript building with no ornamentation or really any indication of what's inside. However, a few guards, bearing the badges of the Castellan Darkwine stand outside, talking in Skald.
GM SCreen:
The guards don't seem to notice the Society-trained thief skulking in the shadows. If Corgim speaks Skald: "I don't hear anything." "People have reported screams. We should go in." "We're guards, they're the garrison. If we intrude on their headquarters on a false alarm, they go whining to the Castellan, and we'll get in trouble." "We should at least see if anyone unusual comes or goes." "We should have gotten one of those meat pies from Hrilga's stall."
GM Screen:
He seems to be genuinely afraid of the Pathfinders and wants to his wash his hands of this whole thing.
"I didn't hire them, Hjort gave them a few coins to beat up any nosy foreigners who came in and bothered me. He paid me to sit here until some nosy foreigners came in and bothered me," the redhead says, "It was like looking into a mirror, looking at that guy."
The look-alike turns to Bobbie, "I've no goblin dog in this fight, but Hjort claims his village is one in a series of villages scoured by a group of Pathfinder agents, with the little magical compasses jangling from their belts." And he will, again, give directions to the armory.
"I don't know where Hjort is right now, he keeps on the move, but I know where he's probably going to be. He's probably there right now, if he knows that the Pathfinder's are in town. He's bringing a team of thugs to the armory here in Trollheim. He figures that between the Pathfinder raids on the fishing villages, including his home village, and his false-flag, he can get the Linnorm Kings to throw the Society out." He then gives directions to the armory. DC 10 Knowledge Local: The Linnorm Kings don't have the state capacity or the ability to unite to completely ban the Society, as they are quite a fractious lot. The best Hjort could do realistically, is get the Society on bad terms with Trollheim, which would be bad enough.
For some reason, Gorum's might doesn't manifest as none of the Pathfinders fall victim to the bane. Surely this isn't a portent about the future.
As the fight winds down with the Pathfinders victorious, the man who claims he isn't Hjort peeks out from beneath the barstool. "Please don't kill me."
Our battle-scarred priest says a prayer to Gorum. "Our spirits, like our god, will never die!" He tries to call upon Gorum's power strategically. Gorum's Power washes over the party, and seems to instill some self doubt.
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