Broken Bonds: Episode 04

September 5, 2020 (Arcadum's YouTube)

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***Broken Bonds* Episode 4** was streamed on Arcadum's Twitch channel on August 2, 2020. Trouble falls over the group, as their journey towards the Ladrag's Rest are interrupted by avalanche, undead corpse, and an ambush by the hidden tribes of mountain goblins.

## Summary

Snow begins to fall as the party goes to Ladrag's Rest. The snow starts to thicken and the carriages can't get through so the party is unshackled by Jor Jor (the mercenary Lazarus hired for this mission) to trek ahead by foot.

As the party walks forward, P'mis finds a cave that belonged to a lonely Kobold named Muk Muk. Inside the cave, P'mis finds a chest with two potions and a long note portraying Muk Muk's depressing and lonely life and his inspiration to set out to Ladrag's Rest to make new friends.

After coming out of the cave, P'mis hides one bottle for himself and gives one to Li'lu who then gives that potion to Remag who recognizes it as a "potion of happiness" (it's straight up alcohol). P'mis and Li'lu each drink half of a bottle and are now smashed drunk. The party now have to carry two drunk members as they continue on their journey.

Some time passes and an avalanche falls on them sweeping the whole party, Lazarus and Jor Jor included, into an ice cave. Luckily, no one was hurt or lost and they continue on trying to find a way out of the cave. Some party members slipped into a gazing abyss nearby but are saved by other party members. Li'lu vomits the alcohol out and after some time, both P'mis and Li'lu are sober again.

Down in the ice cave, the party finds a frozen lake filled with corpses covered in moss (Michael, the player of Remag, recognizes the moss is dangerous from watching another campaign and tells the rest of the party but Arcadum marks him as senile). As E'ar tries to reach into the lake, Bryan stops her as she senses that the corpses are undead. Hashbrown tells the party to unfreeze one of the undead to get information about the cave and E'ar does so.

The undead is unfrozen and comes out of the lake but he cannot speak because his mouth is still frozen. The undead would then inform the party in charades (Arcadum literally starts playing charades with the party) that the moss will instantly kill them and there is a goblin ambush up ahead. The undead would then give the party a silver and brass key, his wedding ring, and asks the party to end his misery. They do so and prepare for the goblin ambush.

P'mis and Hashbrown scout ahead and find around fifteen goblins. Hashbrown suggests to P'mis that they should fight all the goblins by themselves and (by a dice roll difference of one) decide that that is not a good idea and go back to the party. P'mis and Hashbrown inform the party of what's ahead and they prepare to fight. The goblin party size was heavily underestimated and the party is swarmed by goblins.

The party kills each goblin one by one while Jor Jor, trying to help, is useless and Lazarus doesn't care and will only give a few healing words here and there.

As P'mis kills each goblin with the daggers he found in the tomb, a voice (Crowley) tells him to kill more and he becomes more aggressive to the point where "A dark color moves across his scales as a streak of black moves down his back. He begins to bleed profusely from his mouth and eyes and fingers."

Remag goes down multiple times, alongside Li'lu and Jor Jor but the party is able to fend off the goblin ambush. P'mis is able to calm himself but his bond to the daggers grows stronger.

As the party loots the goblins, they find lock-box and, with the silver and brass key, open the box to find a picture of the undead and his wife as well as several keepsakes they had. The party then rests to prepare for the journey ahead.

## Featured Characters

### Main Characters

* Bryan
* E'ar
* Hashbrown
* Li'lu
* P'mis
* Remag

### New

* Jor-Jor Jambis
* Muk Muk (writings and visions only)