Save or Die: Outcasts: Episode 19

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==Synopsis==
Grau has been captured and the party must team up with a member of the fireflies to save him. The party find out the Army of Voraci will be escorting their prisoners to the capital, so wait in ambush at a fortified camp some days north of the city. The party take over the camp and ambush the prisoner transport in the night, saving their friends.
==Recap==
===Meeting Bartholomew===
October 6, 1523. The party are in the tavern in Holy City Ember Stone, noticing that Grau hasn't come back yet. Renatus has grown worried and is aghast the other two are not fully concerned. An overweight a human approaches the party and introduces himself as Bartholomew the Tailor. Bartholomew says he has seen Grau. After some scepticism, the party follow Bartholomew outside.
Bartholomew leads the party to an abandoned house where he reveals that he is actually an elf named Thyrin, a member of The Fireflies. The Army of Voraci abducted some other fireflies as well as Grau. Thyrin reveals he is cousin of Forest. The party reveal they were the ones who got Forest arrested in Swampside in exchange for saving Grau's life.
Also in the abandoned building is a witness that Thyrin captured and plans to kill. The witness saw Grau enter the allyway and turn into a Gnome. Renatus is unhappy about Thyrin killing the witness, but accepts it.
The party leave Thyrin to his business and go investigate the scene of the crime. The party try to go to the firefly basement but find it is guarded by town guard. The party decide to back away from the guards.
The party meet back up with Thyrin. Thyrin explains that just outside of Holy City Ember Stone is the fort where political prisoners are held. After some time they will be taken from the fort to the capital (Valesburg). The party find out they have been already been taken out of the north gate of the city.
Before the party leave town, they assign Stacy & the other followers to escort the clerics to Autumn, the quest the party came to the Holy City for in the first place.
In the night the party head out of the north gate of Holy City Ember Stone.
===Taking over an Outpost===
The party decide against attacking the fort outside of the city, and decide to free their friends when they are being escorted on the road. 
The party walk north up the road to a fortified camp, an Outpost, used by the Army of Voraci several days up the road. They know the Voraci escort will stop here at this camp on their way north. The camp is empty except for some goblin archers on duty. Arachis and Thyrin cast at the goblins, knocking them all unconscious. The party then search the walled camp and see there are no others here save one human guard and 2 branded horses. After Auguste kills one goblin, the party decide to kill the rest of the goblins outside the camp.
Renatus and Arachis interrogate the now tied up human guard named Sergeant Sequoia from a nearby village of Silverwatch. Renatus plays the role of nice cop to get the information out of Sequoia, saying they will rough him up so the other guards will think he put up a fight. The party then kill Sequoia after getting all the information from him.
The party make plans for their ambush on the prisoner caravan. Ren waits in the loft in the Outpost Building to ambush the wizard as they sleep. Thyrin hides in a barrel in a watchtower. Arachis hides under a tarp on ground level. Auguste pretends to be Sergeant Sequoia.
===Ambush===
October 9, 1523. In the evening the prisoner caravan arrives, led by Arc Mage Unlee. Before letting them into the Outpost, Auguste asks for the paperwork since he is alone at the base, claiming the previously visitor took the goblins with him. In the 2 carts are the 3 fireflies and Grau in bear form. Also a hogoblin and some dwarf prisoners. The hogoblin was a member of the Army of Voraci until they killed their superior officer. 
Hours later after night fall the party enact their plan. 4 goblins and 2 human guards are on watch. 2 human guards, 2 wagon drivers, and the wizard go to sleep upstairs. 2 goblins sleep downstairs.
In the night Ren assassinates the sleeping wizard (named Kartmaster) and the 2 guards and the 2 wagon drivers. He then heads down the ladder to the ground floor Outpost Building. He tries to quietly go down the ladder and wakes a goblin. Renatus attacks and kills the goblin, waking the other goblin. Ren fights the last goblin inside the building, which alerts everyone outside the building.
Auguste attacks the human guards. Arachis the 2 goblins in one of the watch towers. Renatus finishes off and joins the fight outside against the 2 human guards. Thyrin fights the goblins in the other watch tower.
Arachis goes up the watch tower with the sleeping goblins and fires a at a human guard, greatly weakening them. The others continue to fight with the guards a& goblins. Thyrin kills a goblin.
The human guards surrender to the party. Arachis kills the sleeping goblins in the tower. Renatus looks for the keys to the cages on the deaf wizard. Thyrin kills the last goblin.
The party free the prisoners, which includes Forest. The elves leave, saying they'll meet up with the party again in Swampside.
==Experience==
No experience given this episode.
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