Infernal Pact

H&Y Infinite Open Table Session 9 Notes (Sweetwoods Sawmill)

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Starting Date: Summer 18, 6023

Flamagio determined that today he'd go and get his stuff back from the Eaglewing Bandits (and get revenge for almost killing Eclair, but that's secondary). He gathered up the Usual Suspects and hiked out into the Sweetwoods to look for where his enemies had gathered.

Summer 19

Valerian caught sight of a glowing crystalline roach creature in the middle of the night while on watch. He lured it into his bear trap and tried to finish it off with his crossbow, but was unable to do so before the creature ripped the bear trap out of the ground and ran off into the woods. Valerian and the other PCs chased it for a while but couldn't catch up to it before it broke contact.

The party kept heading deeper into the woods. Eclair finally admitted that her hatred of Palomo and the Eaglewings was personal, she used to date Palomo and knew something of his patterns. She also knew that they camped out in a sawmill in the Sweetwoods at the border to Toad Soup east of Croakpool. The party headed for the sawmill.

They found a stone complex with a separate outdoor sawmill and log storage. The party crept up behind a standalone shed and broke in to look for loot, getting a face full of blue dye-powder and ears full of a magic alarm for their trouble. Xavos didn't want to leave the shed empty-handed so he grabbed a pair of boots and a lumber axe before the party fled back into the woods. Valerian cast his Big Scary Snake spell as the party ran, scaring the elven bandits who came to check on them back into the complex.

Foiled in their last attempt, the party spent some time camped out in the woods looking for an opening. They saw that the bandits kept a 3-headed dog tied up in the log storage enclosure and that the dog was taken for a walk every few hours. They immediately began hunting for a deer to distract the dog during its next walk.

Deer acquired, the PCs set up an ambush in the woods where they saw the last walk go towards. They were successful in luring the dog away and killing the elves, but not before one of them was able to raise the alarm inside the complex. Lorgrin spent some time earning the dog's trust by petting it, talking dwarven to it, and taking off its leash.

Seeing no other openings, the delvers waited until dark. They saw Palomo exit the complex flanked by 8 wooden construct-soldiers and his posse of elves, followed by him sending half his forces directly towards the dog. Flamagio cast one of his Chaos spells Darkening Lead to make the dog be invisible in partial shadows and the party fled even deeper into the woods, away from the sawmill. One of the elves ended up spotting Lorgrin and calling him out as a dwarf, mistaking him for one of their business partners. Lorgrin played along but wheedled out of coming back to the sawmill.

Summer 20

The party was miserable about their failed assault on the sawmill and resolved to try again later. Valerian caught sight of the crystal roach he saw the night before and chased it through the woods, this time killing it. He grabbed the whole corpse and strapped it to his mule.

The party headed south to the Puddlegrass to consult with the Purple Heron goblin tribe. The goblins didn't have much to offer regarding the bandits, but they really wanted the crystalline roach and the party ended up trading the whole thing for a magic ring from them. The goblins explained that the roaches were new appearances in the woods and that they were great eating + the glowing carapace was great aesthetically. The party quickly headed back out into the woods and hunted down another roach to bring back to the goblins, trading it for a magic spear.

Summer 21-22

The party walked back to Circlebrook. Lorgrin named the 3-headed horse-sized dog "Spot" and chose to keep it as a pet.

xp split: 234 per share, 468 per PC coin split: 0 coins

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