Adventure Recaps
We are reliving our adventures here. Mainly because SOMEONE fell asleep during the last session and missed all the really important bits. (You know who you are...)
Recap 1: Sailing to Laskun.
When last we left our heros, having just taken over The Speedy James, a ship under the command of Pirate lord Suljack, the party began questioning the young lady by the name of Helen, a lady from Antonio's past who he rescued from a tower that was guarded by three brothers with valuable glass eyes. Shift, Captian Zardo's first mate, arrived on the other side of the from Pirate lord's ship to help finish the pirates off and secure the ship in their hands. Zardos quickly sending the two prisoners down below to be held on the hellraiser the company began exploring the ship, finding not only Helen's stuff but various silver and trinkets that the pirates had held onto, but in the loweer part of the ship, the company found about a dozen slaves from Zakhara, an arid continent down way south. Shift quickly knew that these were highly valued, going several thousand gold pieces given the right buyers and circumstances. With only speaking English, Shift only promised to get them to safety if they were willing to cooperate into getting there safety. Afterwards there was a long talk with Helen and another old prisoner, Helen eventually spilled that the slaves are going to Renthor, the lowest of the Pirate lords and going to the buyer from there. With quick planning from Shift, and with the help of the refugees and the characters take the Speedy James and sneak in by night into Laskun. But not before Helen was made to swear loyalty to Captian Zardos and Shift recieving a Blunderbuss, a gun that Guile was all too familiar with.
After the meeting, Captain Zardos asked to have Helen to be brought to him and in the meantime questioned Antonio to make sure he would not be turned by a pretty head. Later Antonio and Guile have a heart felt conversation on how she was once a Hunter herself, all the while Guile is trying to keep his demon mouth quite, who had chuckled earlier, during the meeting. Through a series of awkard hand holding and confusing conversation, Antonio asked for Helen's pack and found a secret compartment of her backpack and found a poster wanted for Nilsa, 5000 gold pieces for her reward. A valued slave that got away from the Red Brands.
With the trip there being uneventful and able to sneak into the harbor, Salin snuck out to scope the area, after seeing what looks like just normal guards, Salin stops by and catches some conversation of a couple of the guards, finding that Tearl and Renthor is at odds with each other as Tearl took a job from Renthor, leaving to go back to the ship, but not before an invisible Salin took the advantage to screw with the dice, causing an uproar. Going back to the ship and giving the information, the players wait till morning to make their next move.
When last we left our heros, having returned to the Speedy James and filling in on what was found. The crewmates decided to wait till morning, sending Rolly (Roellina) to find scout ahead and see the happenings going on in the The Cutlass. The only Tavern in town, or the only good one anyways, ran by Arthur, he runs the place by his own set of rules. No weapons are allowed and no magice works inside it either. On her way there she attempted to cross the bridge only to be discouraged by the high fee to cross, opting rather the swim across the river itself. Though some bruises was dealt along the way, Roellina being an adept swimmer made it across the river with fair ease. Meanwhile back in the Speedy James, people were grabbing breakfast, with what was on the ship. As to which this time there was some discussion as to what to do once on off the ship, but more importantly at the moment, what went down at breakfast. Due to the awkardness that had happened the night before, Antonio was avoiding Guile, unsure if he had made her mad or not, opting rather to sit with with Helen, a once again dasmel in distress, who has gone down a very bad path. Guile getting upset shouted, "Antonio can be turned by any pretty head that looks at him just right," it made Antonio throughly upset and to make matters worse, Salin was turned into Antonio's mini crewmate, further mocking him. It was not too long after this that Pellanistra rounded up the characters to head over to The Cutlass. Meanwhile at The Cutlass, Roellina began scouting as she went in and discovered Renthor at the bar, talking with another bald fellow with and ugly mustache. Once sat down and listening, Roellina gathered enough information to find out the the bald man is the guy buying the slaves from the pirate lords. Not too long after the rest of the characters arrived, but not before Pellanistra had a little chat with Baram, the 2nd pirate lord, and picked up on information about the party Kurth is throwing for the town for the start of the new year, and gaining free access across the bridge, where Antonio robs one man blind. At the Cutlass, when the characters arrived, people spilt off in different directions, Antonio heading to the bar under the guise as being Philip. This is when it is discovered that the bald man is Jasper, the huntsman of Antonio's father, who has quite often brought Antonio back to Eversult when Antonio has run off. With Pellanistra's quick thinking (And sudden new girlfriend of Antonio's), she was able to talk Jasper down a little, at least giving Antonio enough time to run out and leave. In the meantime, Salin and Guile was irking for trouble to boil over that was already brewing, when in a deck of card game Salin suddenly jumped up and shouted, "You fool, Taerl is not an Ork, she is a very beautiful woman!" loud enough for the whole Tavern to hear, with a good moment of silence, the cursing of one woman could be heard across the room after several minutes of shouting back and forth, and beer flying, and chairs and tables flying, men of both Renthor and Taerl are being thrown out as Arthur had his last straw, but as all this died down, it is when Guile is making aquaintence with Tearl and Suljack, that she feels a hand on her shoulder, "You have been gone for a while sister."
When last we left our heroes, an unexpected reunion was to happen at the Cutlass, Brador and Guile, brother and sister under the Legatura De Sange, Brador a bit displeased as to why Guile has just disappeared. Over drinks Guile tried to convince hime that her intentions was for the cause of the Legatura De Sange. He left with a warning that there is other Hunters wandering the city, and that he may not be so forgiving the next time they cross paths.
In the mean time, Salin was consequently booted out for the expertise of causing the Renthor faction and Taerl faction to fight, and at the same time as the place quieted down, Pellanistra met with the leader of the secret police, and collected some information from them, most already known, except for the fact that the Legatura De Sange are zoning in on a cult group in the ruins, where undoubtly is home base for the both of them. She was also given 4 radiant shots for the pistol she carries, in case she was to ever have to deal with a frienzied Hunter.
Antonio however had different plans, after leaving the tavern and shortly being pursued by Pellanistra's clockwork companion, Antonio snuck his way through town, to find himself at Nifty's herbal and medicinal shop, the owner being a half crazed ex-cleric, whon Antonio was told was a man, but ended up being a woman, (Great Job, DM). After an extensive and rather confusing conversation, Antonio ended up with a "Health Potion" and something to help with voices in the head and hair loss? After offending the woman, Antonio was over charged and booted out. To which he headed back to the boat.
Upon going back though, he was knocked unconscious, only to wake up in the back storage of a building with Jasper being his captor. There Jasper and Antonio made a deal, if Antonio could beat Jasper in a duel, Antonio could go free, otherwise, Antonio would have to return, with Nilsa Dendrar in tow, whom is wanted at a very hefty prize. Accepting this deal Antonio easily expected to win, was humbled not in one, but two ways. First realizing he was not the best duelist on the planet, and second, the health potion was a potion of death, or that what he was thinking at the moment before falling. Only to soon be awoken back up by his companions who came looking for him after they returned to the boat. Taking him back and bringing him back up from unconciousness, the prevoius events were talked about, Guile and Antonio put aside differences and made up and assumingly will return to sword practicing. During this time Pellanistra also offered to help get rid of Jasper, who seems to be a nuisance at this point as the rest of the characters rested up and got ready to begin the break down of the current hierarchy of Laskun.
Recap 4: Slave Trade, Open lord, and Copyrighting
After resting and planning, Guile sending out paper birds to Nilsa, the group rounded up the refugees to pull out there plan. Relaying it to both Helen (whom has sworn not to betray the group) and the one young man whom can speak common. Rounding six of the best slaves the group headed to the point where the slave trade was to go down, sending Roellina and Salin ahead to lay out the land and prepare any traps. After a thieving shenanigans to get past the bridge, the two scouted out and Salin talked with the two thugs in the street while Roellina laid traps down, to which one of the thugs recognized Salin as the gnome that caused the trouble at the Cutlass.
After failed attempts to get them to go buy a beer, the party arrived with the slaves only to soon be surrounded by Renthor's men whom came to get the slaves, Roellina's trap set off and a brief fight commensed, to which Renthor's men was soon overpowered, most knocked out, one dead, and one escaping. The slaves were escorted back to the ship with Helen and Guile, to which men under Pellanistra took them down to Neverwinter. The party minus Guile headed to the Illusk Ruins, where underneath, Jarlaxle's hideout was. Party reaching it but not before running into the demon cult roaming the ruins and a fight was to go down. Guile showing up just in time for the aftermath. After brief disscusion as to what to do with the bodies, the party pushed them off to the side before finishing there way back to Jarlaxle, to which the debriefed him on all that happened. During there overnight stay there the company found two things that evening. One, the Captains were all on edge, each bickering at one another and Kurth has called them in. Two, in two nights, the party that Kurth is to hold at his castle will go down and plans to raid both were made. Part of it using the Hat of Diguise of Jarlaxle's to switch places with a Captian, one of Taerl's was chosen. Briefly afterward Guile also explained to Antonio what her tattoos were. To which Antonio had notice that they carry and uncanny resemblance to the demon cults.
The next morning the company set out with a plan to take one of Taerl's captains, minus Pellanistra who was wanted by Baram, whom the found shacked up in the Cutlass, once again running into the demon cult on the way out of the ruins, to which delay was given, for the meeting is to be had in two hours. Moving quickly the party found Taerl at the Cutlass and after some sweet talking from Guile, though some hesitation from Taerl, was able to convince that her best friend had been part of the demon cult...
Recap 5: When Things Go Terribly Wrong.
Though she was able to convince the officer to come outside, she would not go down the alley, to which plans had to be changed and the officer was jumped prematurely. Eventually being knocked out this was the time the Taerl came out herself, as the officer screamed out loud. With Antonio's quick thinking and performance he was able to make it look like Guile was the one the did the wrong, eventually convincing Taerl that he was on her side. And Antonio laid the unconscious woman upstairs in a room that Arthur coldly gave. It was not long before Antonio was going to the Pirate lord meeting, Taerl in one arm.
Meanwhile back at the inn, Pellanistra was able to sneak inside and go up and find the young lady that had been knocked out, being stealthy enough to sneak past the Bouncer, Roellina was unable to, the bouncer yanking her by her tail and throwing back outside because she neglected to hand her weapons over. A fight then commenced between Arthur, the bouncer and Roellina, to which Roellina found herself quickly losing. Upstairs a brief conversation commenced between Taerl's captain and Pellanistra, to which Pellanistra was unable to talk her into staying put, and a brief fight, left Pellanistra lying on the ground, bleeding out.
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