Players (Characters)
Scott (Rain)
Jeremy (Grokk)
Catherine (Amber)
Tony (Roland)
Rachel (Horkina)
DM: Tom (Garlen)
The talk around the town began to focus more and more on the upcoming flood festival. Skie and other merchants began to cut prices, street performances and carnival games filled the busier parts of town, and the signup sheet for the "drink down the flood" drinking contest was posted at the Tipped Tankard. Grokk, Rain, Garlen, and Horkina all entered. Rain was matched up against a surly looking human who held his liquor very well, eliminating the elf on the first day. Horkina and Garlen passed out on day three, but Grokk's angry rages gave him a strong resistance to the alcohol. Spells from Amber helped Grokk drink his final opponent, a stocky dwarf, under the table. As was tradition, Lord Vhalantru challenged Grokk to a one-on-one drinkoff for the next day, with a 500 gp prize for besting him. Despite the party's best efforts, and Roland's dispel magic attempt (Vhalantru suggested that was a bad idea), Grokk passed out after 15 drinks.
After Grokk regained consciousness, the party sat down to have some water and shake off the alcohol. Another group of adventurers, the Stormblades, who were children of the local nobility, started making negative comments. "Are you guys the trash diggers? Sure smells like it!" "No, guys, it's the Rubble Rousers. They're big heroes, they fought some goblins!" "Goblins? I've been fighting goblins since I was like, ten. These guys are considered heroes for it?" Grokk gripped his axe tightly, but decided he didn't want the legal trouble that would come with flattening a bunch of rich kids. Todd, one of the Stormblades, pointed at Grokk and said "where'd you get this thing? Looks almost... trained!" His friend Zachary shot back "he still dresses better than you, Todd." After a few more insults, the Stormblades walked away, saying "these losers are a waste of time."
The party headed over to Skie's to pick up some gear, and found Ruphus Laro waiting for them. Ruphus led them to the temple, where Jenya had an urgent message. Sarcem, head priest of the church of St. Cuthbert, had been on a mission to secure some wands of water control for the flood festival. He'd sent a message to Jenya saying he was at the Lucky Monkey, where he'd been attacked by bandits led by an apeman, and was seriously wounded. The party rented some horses and set out at once, pushing their horses to their maximum limit and giving them minor healing potions to keep them functional.
The party set out for the Lucky Monkey, about eight hours ride from Cauldron, and got there just after sundown. The inn showed signs of battle -- broken windows, uprooted plants, and even splatters of blood. Riding around to the back door, everyone but Amber noticed a pair of small dinosaurs feeding on a small pile of corpses. Rain unlocked the back door, where the party decided to enter, thinking this would provide the shortest route to the basement. Immediately inside were four baboons, one of which looked to be somewhat more powerful than the rest. The powerful baboon was looking at a tongueless human head, probably recently severed. A flurry of axes and swords took the baboons down with a minimum of effort. A thug came down the stairs at the sound of battle and saw the dead baboons. She ran away, saying "oh crap, they killed tongueeater." The party chased her down and agreed to let her go, but took her stuff first.
Rain found the stairs that led down to the basement, and immediately headed down with Horkina and Roland. The three smashed a small group of bandits who were standing over a headless body. Based on the equipment he carried, the party determined this was Sarcem, high priest of Cauldron's temple of St. Cuthbert. At the end of the hall, hiding in a frozen room was a young dark-skinned woman named Shensen. She said she was friends with Fario and Fellian, a pair of elves the party had met before, and worked for a powerful wizard named Meerthan. She requested protection and escort back to town. The party agreed to heal her and take her to Cauldron, but decided to clear the rest of the inn first. Amber, Grokk, and Rain cleared out the main floor while Garlen, Roland, Horkina and Shensen took the top floor. The drunken bandits offered little resistance.
The group headed back to Cauldron with Sarcem's body and head, and reported to Jenya immediately.
Everyone but Grokk and Rain reached level 6.
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