Thursday, September 28, 2017

The Second Sundering - Chapter 1: Cults of the Evermother Summary

How the group met:
The party was either a new hire, a current employee, working on favors or him trying to generate a partnership with Tormund Gliviv in the town of Norringtone.

Who was in the group:
  1. Trodec, the Noble Mountain Dwarf Rogue
  2. Tomeck, the Half-Elf Hero of Sommerset
  3. Flidais, the mostly Wildwoman Ranger
  4. Varus Silvertongue, the Half-Elf Entertainer
  5. Nagi, A Devout Monk and adversary to Lycanthropes
  6. Basel, A Scholarly Paladin of Free Thought and Reason

Keypoints:
1) Tormund Gliviv came in at the middle of the night at the Defeated Pillows and began accusing the new hires for missing crates.
     a) Tormund Gliviv was discovered to have and operate with slave labor, on top of being behind on payments.
          i.) Tormund, after being pressured by Trodec, swore he would get everyone's payment in by the morning.
     b) Tormund tells the party to go investigate in the morning and make sure nothing is missing.
     c) The squire to Trodec is skilled at the Lute and was loosely being courted by Varus and Tomeck.
     d) Trodec sent his envoy to the mine to make sure nothing was altered/changed in the middle of the night.

2) When the party arrived at the Gliviv's Digsite in the morning most knew the following:
     a) The Digsite had four rooms: An entrance, an equipment room, an infirmary and cataloging room and finally the new dig room.
           i.) In the equipment room, there was a hunk of silver set up as bait for a trap, it was worth 20g.
     b) When the party encountered finally encountered the Kobolds, it was Nagi and Basel that were first ambushed.
            i.) All but one of the Kobolds was killed: Yip-yip.

3) Investigating deeper the party found:
     a) A secret trapdoor in the newly worked room.  It functioned as a slide and deposited the party on a bed of hay.  The party was then introduced to an unfamiliar bunch of robed figures.
          i.)  DM Note: Sleep spell is amazing.
          ii.) The party investigated the individuals and discovered they were cultists of the Five and
         cultists to the goddess, Tiamat.
          iii.) The party also discovered that there was an individual named: Sss'drak somewhere in this area that was running the operation.
     b) As the party pushed forward, they discovered a room with a cooking pot and did not investigate that further.  The party has had a total of three fights and required a full rest.
          i.) Luckily, no random encounters.
     c) The key was used to unlock both the door at the end of the hallway and a door in the new
     hallway.  It does not work on the door behind.
          i.) A secret door was caught ajar before the party had taken a long rest in this hallway.
          ii.) When they re-entered, it was closed.  Later they discovered a lever unlocked it.
          iii.) The party fought two more groups: a total of 4 cultists and 4 kobolds were in this pack.
          iv.) The party was very effective in this fight because of a surprise round and sleep spell.
     d) The party found two more keys which led to the room where Sss'drak laired.
          i.) Sss'drak proved to be a strong foe, almost killing Basel out right with his breath weapon.
          ii.) Sss'drak was also discovered to be a Green Half-Dragon (learned from Yip-yip).
          iii.) Yip-yip was killed by the poison gas.

4) Key treasure found:
     a) Total Chapter Coinage found: 15PP, 211GP,  346SP and 59CP & 20g chunk of silver.
     [Thanks Varus!] There was also a total of four potions.
         i.) Three potions were identified as potions of cure wounds (2d4+2 hp)
         ii.) One potion was not identified.
         iii.) There was a scroll of magic missile, but it was used.
     b) A ring that seemed to be drenched in Abjuration magic.
     c) A green gem that is fist-sized.  It radiated planar magic.

Session Wrap-up:
The party now knows that the cultists of Tiamat and Cultists of the Five are working together for potentially the same goal.  The gem may or may not be a key to this union.  Tormund Gliviv has yet to pay the party for their labor and work.  The only known Gnome survivor is Hammerfist.

Session Rewards:
The party attained enough experience to level up to level 2.
Each party member has also accrued 10 days of Downtime.

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