Embers of the Wilds: Episode 19

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==Synopsis==
In the town of Ipsum the party ambush the gang leader Opal and her 4 thugs. The party end up knocking out Opal, with the other thugs retreating. The party deliver the bandit leader to Maven the Arc Wizard and he agrees to send a group of solders back with the party to help protect Trog Canyon and the source of magic there.
==Recap==
===10th October, 20 (Age of Iron) - Bar Fight===
The party are in the town of Ipsum in an innroom of the "Sit-On-It" Tavern. In the small room is an unconscious thug and Pearl is invisible. In the bar downstairs is the leader of the thugs, , as well as 4 other thugs. The party tie the unconscious thug to the bed in the innroom.
Pearl suggests using Tristelle's new vase in a spell to distract the thugs in order for the party to escape. Kyra heads downstairs first to lures a pair of customers away from the Shatter blast zone.
Tristelle heads downstairs and gives a toast. As the bandits cheer, Pearl casts , throwing pottery shrapnel from their mugs into their faces. Pearl calls out for the civilians to flee the room. The bandits draw their weapons.
:Combat: Bandits vs Party
Tristelle runs towards the stairs, but gets caught up in the crowd. Tristelle casts on 3 bandits and Opal. A thug swings at Tristelle with their club. Kyra charges and attacks Opal. Another thug knocks out a civilian in the way.
Opal stands up and attacks Kyra with her magical swords. A thug hits Kyra in the back of the head with their club.
Pearl, from the balcony above, casts at Opal.
A Thug calls out it is a trap, and goes to protect Opal. 
Tristelle casts , knocking out a Thug and 2 civilians, then runs up the stairs. The thug stops to wake up his colleges. 
Kyra cuts off Opal's escape path. One thug jumps out a window to escape. Opal sprints out a different door, taking an attack of opportunity from Kyra.
Pearl drops down to the floor and gives chase after Opal using her feline agility. Pearl tries to stop Opal with Reckless Casting . Instead of Hold Person, Opal's feet enlarge by 40% instead her boots painfully. Opal orders her thugs to go after Pearl in revenge.
Tristelle goes back down the stairs and casts at Opal, knocking her out.
The last thug inside the tavern flees by jumping out a window. Kyra rushes over to where Opal is and fights the awake thug guarding her. The thug kicks Opal awake. Pearl flees into a tree, with one guard chasing after her.
Tristelle throws daggers at a thug who is outside. Another thug outside rushes over to attack Kyra with the others.
Kyra attacks the prone Opal, stabbing the Bandit Leader in the gut. The last thug rushes over to Opal now.
Opal stands up and awkwardly moves with her magically big feet, using a thug as a human shield. 
Pearl casts to defend herself from the nearby thug as she climbs the tree. Then she casts at Opal, dropping Opal to 1 HP.
Tristelle casts at Opal, knocking her out, as well as a nearby Thug. The thugs attack Kyra as she gets back to the sleeping Opal to knock her out entirely.
Pearl casts at a thug, killing him. The wild surge gives Pearl a spell slot back.
Tristelle picks up a dagger and stabs a nearby thug. Kyra attacks a prone guard. The prone guard gets up and attacks Kyra back.
There are 3 thugs left standing. The party is getting low on health.
Pearl casts at one of the Thugs, damaging them greatly. Tristelle casts on the thug near her, calling him stinky.
Kyra puts a dagger to Opal's throat, threatening to kill Opal if the others thugs don't stand down. The thugs hesitate, one holds a club at Tristtelle, threatening to club her if Opal isn't released.
Pearl climbs down the tree and walks confidently towards the others, trying to intimidate the thugs. Tristelle casts , making a tiger roar.
The 3 thugs flee from the party, leaving Opal behind.
:End of Combat
Pearl stabilises Opal then at Kyra's suggestion, finds a cart. Tristelle takes Opal's magic swords, Jade & Topaz. Kyra grabs a blanket from the inn. Kyra wraps up Opal in a blanket and puts her in the cart. Tristelle goes to the other tavern to collect their belongings and alpaca.
The party make their way to the old city. The guards let the party inside and escort them to Maven's Keep.
===10th October - Back to Maven===
The party and Opal are taken to the same room in the keep then arrives. Maven says he will now send some guards to Trog Canyon to help protect it. Pearl offers homes for the family of the guards in Trog Canyon. Maven says he'll leave such things to the Captain of the Guard to decide.
Kyra requests that Opal be imprisoned instead of executed. Maven agrees, saying they need to interrogate Opal. Maven thanks the party for their service to the city. Maven suggests the party stay in the Old Quarter to rest as the guards are organised.
While the party rest for the week, Pearl works with the Captain of the Guard to help choose which troops go. Pearl targets solders wish to leave more than others. 8 solders and an officer are chosen.
Tristelle casts on the 2 magical shortswords, Jade & Topaz. The swords are at least 500 years old, predating the Ferrin Empire influence in this world. The weapons teaming with necromantic magic. They pull out of lifeforce of a target when it hits. The weapons were created in tandem. They are +1 Weapons. Jade drains strength, Topaz drains dexterity.
Tristelle takes Topaz, Kyra takes Jade.
The party ask Maven about the elementals. Maven is impressed the party was able to speak with the Water Elemental peacefully. Elementals typically do not like being in the Prime Material Plane instead of their home Elemental Plane and lash out violently. Maven posits that it is the nearby source of magic that is keeping the Water Elemental happy, and Maven warns that moving the elemental too far from the source of magic might cause it go grow angry. Maven says that if it were anyone else, he would suggest just killing the elemental, but he understands the ground tries to avoid those solutions.
Tristelle returns to the elderly vase merchant, Old Man Potter, to purchase a new vace to replace the one destroyed in the tavern fight. 
==Experience==
1150 exp each (total now 7116 exp each)
Party level to level 5
* Pearl HP +2 (16 Max HP)
** New Spell: Fireball
** Swapped Spell: Comprehend Language with Tongues?
* Tristelle HP +3 (32 Max HP)
** New Spell: ?
** Swapped Spell: ? with Hypnotic Pattern
* Kyra HP +10 (48 Max HP)
==Recap==
===17th October - Traveling home from Ipsum===
The party leave Ipsum with the solders and the officer named (Young Human Female, 4'8", 88 lbs, Right Handed). Venat wears a holy symbol to Matrigal (God of Hope), but is a fighter and not a cleric.
The presence of the solders keeps the monsters at bay on the way southward though the Ipsum Valley. During the journey, there is a rainstorm.
3 days into the journey, a day west of Fairport, there is an earthquake that lasts a few minutes. Venat is torn between returning to Ipsum to help with the aftermath of the earthquake, or continuing the mission to Trog Canyon. 
===24th October - Return to Trog Canyon===
The party return to Trog Canyon and hear a bell ringing from the graveyard. They are bells on the gravestones connected with the corpse to alert in the case of a false burial. Kyra assumes it is the necromancer 's doing.
The party trace the sound of the bell to 's grave. She has been dead for a month. Tristelle calls down the pipe and Eva replies to her. Eva calls out for help and panicking. 
The party decide to dig up the grave, despite the risk that Eva is undead. Venat is against the digging up, and agrees with Kyra's suggestion it is the necromancer. The party return to town for shovels. 
==Experience==
Experience given during the episode.
Category:Embers of the Wilds Episodes