Save or Die: Outcasts: Episode 12

__NOTOC__
==Synopsis==
The party find that a tax wagon is being ambushed. The party defeat the bandits and take them and the tax wagon back to the local capital, Valesbrook. The party rest for a week in the city. and level up.
==Recap==
===Tax-Wagon Ambush===
14 May 1523. The party are on their way back to Valebrook to get supplies and needed funds. It is 4 days since they left the tomb. 
As they near Valebrook, Hornstead Kingdom, in the forest, they encounter the aftermath of a battle. The guards tax wagon (Baron Brick of Keygate's men) were ambushed and slain by Knights of another local town, members of the "miffed" faction. The party find four wounded knights dragging away several of the tax wagon's chests.
Grau is against getting involved, Auguste & Renatus wants to help the bandits for a share of the money. Arachis warns against drawing the ire of Magistrate Zerrah and the Voraci Empire. The party announce they don't want any trouble from the knights.
The knights are suspicious of the party. There are in no state to fight the party, but are aware that the party can report them once they get to Valesbrook. The knights say for them to trust the party, they need to finish off one of the tax-collectors who is mortally wounded but dying slowly.
The party attack the knights instead. Grau casts on 2 of the knights. Arachis casts . Auguste and Renatus go into melee. Grau takes a heavy blow. Arachis casts on a knight, knocking them unconscious. Renatus disarms the unconscious knight, and tells the other knights to surrender or he will kill the unconscious knight. The other knights all surrender, the entangled knights throwing their weapons outside of the zone.
Renatus ties up the unconscious knights, while Auguste ties up the conscious knights outside the entangle. When the entangle wears off one of the entangled knights flees and manages to escape, avoiding arrow shots.
Grau heals up the tax collector. Auguste, Arachis, and Renatus disagree on their next action. Grau doesn't care. The escaped bandit-knight is likely to come back with reinforcements so the party are limited for time.
The party decide to leave the bandit-knights alive to pull the tax-wagon back to town. Arachis loads 500 silver coins his backpack from a chest. There are also several chests missing.
Later in the day the party arrive back in Valebrook. 
===Return to Valebrook===
At the city-gates to Valebrook the party and the Tax-collector are questioned. The tax-collector explains what had occurred and the party & prisoners & wagon are let into the city.
The party & wagon are escorted to the royal castle. Lady Brick, a member of Baron Brick's family, is there to receive the taxes (she an Illumis holy symbol around her neck). The prisoners are taken into custody, the wounded tax-collector is taken in for rest. After an etiquette infused bow, Renatus asks for a reward.
Lady Brick offers to host the party as her guests, and the party accept, and go to the Brick estate in town, to the guest estate. The party settle into their rooms.
In the evening Lady Brick arrives and speaks with the party in more detail. The party give their real names except Arachis who again uses the Sihcara alias. She asks for someone to escort her people to the site of the crime, and Renatus agrees.
The party are awarded 10 pg 40 sp each. The party are also allowed to rest in the guest estate for a week.
===Week of Rest===
Auguste and Grau rest off their wounds (with Grau enjoying the room-service food delivery). Arachis researches his new magical items.
On the first day Renatus takes Lady Brick's people to the ambush spot.
The party talk about their plans. Arachis wants to go back to the Shadow-Mage's tomb to continue his research, which he estimates will take months.
Arachis get a pot and fills it with sand to sit the Shadow Mirror inside. He is unable to attune the mirror in its current spot. But Arachis discovers the Shadow Dagger does d8 damage, plus a +2 magical enchant, the weapon is heavy (feels like lead).
==Experience==
Auguste:
* 3520 exp (9,226 total)
* Level up to level 4
** +4 MAX HP (24 total)
Renatus:
* 4035 exp (10,560 total)
* Level up to level 5
** +4 MAX HP (14 total)
Grau:
* 3150 exp (9,115 total)
* Level up to level 4
** +2 MAX HP (26 total)
Arachis:
* 4898 exp (10,958 total)
* Level up to level 4
** +2 MAX HP (15 total)
Learns: 
Fails to learn; & .
Category:Save Or Die: Outcasts Episodes
Category:Save Or Die Episodes
Category:Save Or Die: Outcasts