11.19.22 - A Train to some Traps

After the dragon attack, we decided to get to Wroat and take the Lightning Rail into Sharn as that would be faster than taking the ship all the way there. We managed to get last minute tickets on the Lightning Rail, but we ended up in a car with a large bugbear family who had two chatty children with them that were making it hard to sleep. I did my best to quiet the child with some magical tricks of mine, but that only caused them to get up and run around. Ozrus left to get some drinks and snacks for the rest of us while a mysterious web formed and stuck the children to their seats.

While Oz was gone, she encountered some difficulties in getting to the food car, but nothing that could slow her down. She did notice on her way back that there were some people following her so she told them to stop. When she got back to our car, there was a big commotion because the people had followed her back to us. They revealed themselves as the Borman Clan who were notorious bounty hunters, and they were told to keep us out of Sharn. Clearly, they had failed at their task since we were here, but they threatened to throw us out of the train if we did not cooperate. At this point, the bugbear family fled to the car behind ours, except for the children who were stuck to their seats. We started knocking the halflings out as fast as we could, and ended up with only one alive. The rest we removed from the train.

We arrived rather early in Sharn that morning, and made our way to Olaki’s Temple in the Cogs where we could go to Asherta’s tomb to lay our goblin friend to rest as per her wishes. When we asked him if he knew who would not want us in Sharn he mentioned that he knew Tikulti might not want us to come in because the word on the street was that we had stolen artifacts that the Brelands were after.

Olaki told us that the people of Sharn had been told to report us to the Breland Captain if they spotted us because we were being blamed for the theft of the artifacts, even though they had sent us to retrieve the artifacts in the first place. He allowed us to stay in the guest chambers with sanctuary while we rested and made our plans. We decided we should try to contact the Captain to discuss the situation and report Tikulti as the real thief.

We decided the best course of action was to set up an ambush and try to convince him to come to the Cogs. Lilioyasa and Fayzira set up in Hilda’s Heirloom Teas to watch from above while I set up a fake shawarma stand across from the temple. Oz and Dagii stationed themselves in the street to intercept the Captain as soon as he arrived. A magical message was sent to tell him where we are and that we wanted to speak to him. In response, he told us it was difficult to trust us when we were not bringing ourselves in. After that there was no response, until a messenger from the Captain arrived.

The note said he would meet us at the Temple of the Sovereign Host for us to subject ourselves to a zone of truth to gain his trust back. We decided we had better go, and things were looking up for us since Tikulti had missed his appointment for the zone of truth with the Captain. He believed us so we planned another ambush to try to catch Tikulti with the Captain’s aid.