Summed up story

All the session has been summed up as a short story as below. For the tales of each sessions in individuals, please check here Sessions.

For those whose mother tongue're not English, please understand that we're welcome anyone to read the story so It must be told in the common language as English so that everyone can enjoy it as well. Nevertheless, we are still Viet Namese. So only "Summed up story" would be supported in Vietnamese - English dual languages. Thank you for your understanding and joining us for the ride. See you out there, Adventurers.

*\*Summed up story will be supported in dual language starting session 11.*

## The story

Once upon a time in the world of Everglade, a groups of Yuldra, a human child monk; Valar, a hobgoblin ranger from the forest beyond and an always-angry goliath, Alistair has found each other, either by fate or by chance. They founded a team called the Entourage just to make sure no one leave the party on the way. As all of them lacked the proving paper to be around town legitimately, they had to signed up to work for a guild named Gulin, a major guild in this harbor city of Jabaweda of the Holy Empire of Taraman. On the test run quest, the were tasked to hunt down or reduce the number of attacking goblin on a nearby village. On their first attempt, while so unprepared, they still dared to walked in the dangerous forest AT NIGHT. Their plan fell miserably as the young boy got wounded so bad he almost lost his life. They had to run out of their for safety. They found a nearby church and called for aid. Luckily, the nuns there were able to brought the boy back on his feet. Since the gang were broke in the first place and all the materials used to save the boy were not cheap either, they have to do the church a favor, search for clue of the recent acts of graves robbery. They quickly found a clue but nothing more, so the high mother at the church told them to wait for her word when they'd done their current job.

They then returned to the unfinished business. Having learned the hard lesson, this time, the team decided to reach for the village in need for more supports. With the villagers' help, they enacted Valar's battle plan, the very first to combine all three as one solid team. They laid traps and barricades to slow down and reduce the massive number of the attacking horde of goblins. They brought down many goblins, one by one but lost Yuldra along the fight. The fell of his comrade made Alistair anger reached another peek and unleash such power that he soon overwhelm the goblin captain, breaking his little neck. Scared by the death of their leader, the goblin lost the will to fight. They retreated back into the darkness of the forest. The battle has won, but there were still many fallen to take care off. Yuldra once again escaped the grasp of Death. The villagers clumsy work of first aid on the boy somehow unlock his chi, which then boosted his healing to well being. Departed from the village, the Entourage return in glory at the Inn/headquarter of the Gulin Guild. They were greeted with many care from the bartender, who then gave them another quest of cleaning an old warehouse for repurposing. They spent their reward on resupply and began the new job. Helping them this time is a veteran fighter named Jisnu. They travel to the assumed spot of the warehouse but lost due to Jisnu's uncertainty of his memory about the place. Valar used his tracking skill to bring them back on course and found the place. It turned out to be an underground warehouse carved into a mound. They went in for first inspection. There were nothing much but piles of rotten corpses. When the party tried to open a locked door on their way, they were ambush by the nearby dead somehow turned zombies. With their new found power, they dispatched the zombies with ease. After that, Jisnu ran in to give them a talk on how to deal with the dead and be very careful not to bring them back as zombies. They busted open the blocking door while Jisnu continue with his body dragging. To their surprised, they encountered with a vapor-like creature. Their fight was hard but they still won anyway. Afraid of more of this creature coming in their way and they wouldn't be able to fight their way out, they decided to camp back out at the gate of the place.

When they taking their hard-earned rest, the gang was ambushed. They quickly vanquished the ambusher and got introduced to their new member, a young boy with the same height as Yuldra but much more potent with his power named Kai. When the quick introduced was done, they retreated to a higher grounds for safety and rest for the night. When daylight shone on them, they get back to work. The team quickly cleared out the rest of the warehouse with the help of this new higher rank member from the guild. They found an empty alter during the process and stopped to further investigate on the object. Their investigation lead to another encounter with said vapor-like creature but with an increased number this time when they somehow made the alter produce a tiny gem of life with the power to take and give the very lifeforce itself. The tatic and help of Jisnu and Kai quickly prove very efficient. Through many pains and blood, the party took those creatures down eventually. Now, the only thing left is to clean up every body left. Kai, however, saw the strangeness in the rune carved in the stone wall. He spent the hours to figure out what it really meant while the rest start dragging out the corpses. Kai succeeded to open the secret door that lead to another vault with many treasure and a pit fall trap. When the gang minus Jisnu discovering the vault, they encounter with an sentient vapor creature. They turned out to be an undead type called wraith. After conversation with the man, The Entourage had a quick glimpse of what should have been this place when it was still in use. The alter was more to a standing to Philosopher stone of Immortality and the sentient wraith was betrayed and trapped in this place. And with that, the team can no longer find any useful information, they backed out at the gate to investigate the last room of the place. It was a prison room with many cells and cheap loots and some weapons. They cleaned up the place and came back out to setting camp for the night. While the rest taking their break, Yuldra and Valar went for a walk as Valar had an urge to appease the boy after what Yuldra said earlier in the day when they'd encountered the talkablle wraith. They returned to camp shortly afterward for the night rest.

On the next day, the gang return to The Bitter Chestnut in to report the quest. They finishing up the report there and made a trip to a nearby clinic to check on their wound. The team then decided to have a two weeks break to recover. Kai went on to identify his new found necklace but met up with a weird being who seemed like an elf but much more powerful than what he looks on the outside. Valar and Yuldra went shopping for new weapons to aid them in the future. Fate once again lead them to a place linked to their past, Valar's past. The insignia there was a sight to Valar's sore eyes after months of having ran into a dead end to find his home. The duo stated their request and made a reserve then left for the dormitory of the Guild to rest. Later that night, Kai had a nightmare of his cat familiar being captured and judged of a crime that Kai hadn't known, yet.

When morning came, Kai's pet, to his worry, disappeared without any trace. Valar took a bounty contract to capture a conman to entertain himself on the downtime and took Yuldra along the ride. Alistair went along as well since he got nothing else to do. Valar tailed the target all the way to his area but lost track of him afterward when that man hide in the crowd. So they waited till night to find the conman again. Valar quickly picked up his track and started to chase him across the market. Yuldra got distracted by a scene that he can not stand by. A little slave girl were dragged and beat by a fat old man. Yuldra rush in the building to stop this despicable act but got attacked by the nearby building security. Alistair rushed to aid the boy. Seeing his comrades starting a fight and not gaining the upper hand at all, Valar dropped the chase and went in to help. He chose another way to access however. Valar climbed on the balcony on the second floor to sneak up on whatever the other were fighting. The room on his way in was filled with half naked women and it stunt the hobgoblin. The building turned out to be a brothel of woman slave. the team made a quick work of the fat man and the other two security but got overwhelm by the city guard soon after. They made their run but failed and got captured. But the slave girl was able to break free and ran into the night. The boys woke up in a cell three days later to find themselves covered in scar. The boy started the fight got the worst of it, he lost his leg from the knee down. To the boy, it was more than just a mere feet that was lost, his confidence and the will to fight on as well.

Back at the Guild headquarter, Kai was delivered the bad news of his team. He picked a nice suit of his and made his way to the guard station to figure things out. After a day of many honey words, lots of charming spell and much more luck, Kai was able to get the boys out of prison. When he demanded answer from them of why they did what they did, Yuldra told him more than what he wanted to here. Words're coming out Yuldra's mouth just cut into Kai heart, and he felt pity for those slave. Those words were so touching that Kai decided to rescue them all. Better yet, he made up a plan to bring that brothel down too. And the boy were to help him accomplish his plan. Later that night, the girl that got away contacted Kai. She wanted him to go with her to meet the leader of the rebel against the Empire. So except for Yuldra, the whole Entourage went with Kai to the meeting. They share about the plan of breaking out those girl to the rebel and made a deal with them to complete the next step in Kai's brilliant plan. After that, they return to the dorm to rest.

On the first day, they followed every lead they could lay hand on but nothing useful to the plan. They even get to the church in the woods to follow up with the conman lead. While the trip was not in vain but nothing is viable to their current need. So the team meet up again back at the dorm to review their plan and adjust it to what they found on the earlier of the day. When things were done, they went to sleep to keep their strength for days to come. Valar, however, started his own plan to find the brothel owner's house. With his experience of a tracker, and a bounty hunter, Valar had no difficulty in finding that house of the owner. By the time Valar got back to the dorm, it's almost seven o'clock in the morning. He threw himself on the bed and sleep till noon.

When the morning came. the team started to implement the plan. Kai went to the Inn to recruit more adventure to fill the empty spot while other find ways to infiltrate the owner's house and the brothel itself. All were completed right on track. That afternoon, they went to the market to refill the supply and got Yuldra a prosthetic replacement for his leg and got to bed early to recover their strength for the night. The night fell on the city, the Entourage started their first heist together. To their surprise, the house was rarely guarded, if there were any at all. They sneaked into the building with ease. They even started to search around but non of the security of the house showed their existence. And the gang seemed not to mind it either as they kept on with their business. Suddenly, an Elemental attacked them out of nowhere. They threw their attack on it but to no avail. Kai ran away due to his lack of hand to hand combat and the disconnection to his cat brought him difficulty to use any magic. The fighting went on for few more seconds and a hitch from somewhere push the magic in Kai's mind. He rushed toward the thing and released the lightning from his finger tips along with a deafening bang afterward. Conveniently, the nearby metal was busted open as well and the gang made a run for it. They went over another traps and made it to the second floor. They started to search for the wanted paper but found a secret room containing the owner's riches and many valuables. As they were to open those boxes, another bang went off, the first box was trapped and blew up on them, knocking Yuldra and Alistair out. The second one however contained a bunch disassemble clockwork components beyond their comprehension. So Valar and Kai, the only conscious members, tied those components on their comrades, ready to be brought along. Valar then healed them back up on their feet and had them set up for their escape as the guards were closing in from the outside. Valar then went with Kai to the third level. There they found a chapel of Baphomet and a rooms with many cell blocks. When Valar tried to made a fire to see their content better, inside those cells, many women that was brought there for sacrifices or experiment started to show themselves. Many of them have deformed beyond help, some even beyond their understanding of what keeping them alive as no organ or whatsoever attached to them at all, only a few seemed recently. Time was not on their side anymore, Kai and Valar decided to save only those who just got there recently and able to run. Valar offered the rest of them a peaceful release to those who're ready to accept it. A few swing went down and it's time they all had gone out of there, fetching everything they're able to bring along. With nowhere to bring these woman to since it was the very least expected to the team, they decided to bring them to the church in the wood for help. When the talking was done and the escaped woman had found their new shelter, they began to open the last of the boxes from the house. It was all the treasures that foul man had stacked up over the years. They split the treasure evenly and ready for the last step of the plan: Breaking the slave out of that brothel.

While Kai went back in the church to sooth the deformed ladies, Valar and the others set up camp to rest. Due to having wake up all night, Kai felt tired and fall asleep on the couch of the church guest room. Seeing the boy sleeping so well, High mother Ursula didn't wake him as rule, but asked the child not to disturb him instead. Valar and Yuldra sat down together and have a zen to relax their mind. In Alistair's culture, there's no such thing quite like they did. Alistair thought they just have a weird sleep stance. He sat down and stretched his legs. A short time passed, Valar and Yuldra woke up from their zen to see Alistair has fallen asleep next to them but no sight of Kai. Well, lucky for them, the children playing around the church informed them that their partner had a couch saved for him in the guest room. So they went back into the city, not forgetting to leave a message for Kai.

On their way there, they saw many farmers came up to the city from far away. A joyful man told them of the festival to celebrate the King's birthday. And he was very excited to take part in. With the thought of that maybe there would be more to see and purchase when all these people come to join the festival, the trio went straight to the Grapes Vine Market, the largest market in the city. Yuldra resupply his potion at a local herbalism shop, while Valar stole a mysterious elixir after he deemed it not worthy to buy in full price since there's just a little bit left at the bottom of the big vial. Then they have a nice chat with the mystery man at the Jinjutsu shop. Their intention was to exploit the man's capability to work with metal and master of crafting to figure out what's all the clockwork components about. Despite not being able to reassemble the components into one unity, he told them of its identity, a clockwork golem. It high time Kai caught up with his team. So he did, along with the fresh recruit. They went to purchase more supply to aid in their raid of the brothel tonight and regroup at The Bitter Chestnut inn to review the plan one last time.

When night fell, the team spread out to enact their plan. Valar went in with the recruit disguise as a group of mercenary while Kai scouted around for guards, Alistair and Yuldra waited behind the building to help the ladies get out. Right as plan, Valar group blended in the place with no troubles. When the patrons started to got into their all room for the fun part, Valar showed the lady his true intention of rescuing them out. Unknown to him, a brothel security found his empty room while he sneaked around the storage to made their way out of there. The brothel security by then has been alarmed and rush to stop Valar's doing. To prevent having to fight multiple foes at once, he put a nearby room on fire for a diversion. Though his original idea was to put on some smoke fume with bucket and towels but the fire got out of control. Just like the fire, their plan soon got out of control as well. City guards started to swarm in, all their position was spotted and have to put up a fight to escape. Fortunately, they all got out with every last of the slave prostitutes, except for Valar. He was determined to stay behind, so that the brothel security did not turn their eyes on the ladies when he ran out of thing to slow them down. He was reckless, but not without calculation. After the last slave strip down the line they had set up, Valar lead the security to the other side of the brothel, and jump out of the window to their complete surprise. Funny enough, Valar stumbled by the ledge of the window and landed on his face, and guards're surrounding him.

Hurtful and dazed by the impact of the fall, Valar took quite a time to get back up on his feet. A nearby guard saw and helped him get up. He ask Valar what the hell was going on in there and why there was a fire. Valar coughed up blood inside the mask all the while he trying to answer that he was jumped by a bandit band of some kind and they started the fire to cover for their abducting the girls. Which turned out to be quite convincing. The guard turned him to the medic team to tend to the wounds for later testimony. Knowing he would survive but would not get out of jail if that testimony to happen, Valar once again tried to sneak away by pretending to help put out the fire or even go back in to get the other threes out. Yet, the guard insisted him standing by and letting them handle things. In one moment of chaos, Valar rushed to the ladder leading back in the window he jumped out, yelling the he had got to get "his comrade". This time, he succeeded. On the other side, Alistair and Yuldra climbed in via the rope they used to snuck out the girls while Kai continued on with the task of getting the girls to safety. Their intention was to rescue Valar and the team they sent in in the process if possible. They opened the door leading to the hallway to check on the situation. But the fire flaired on them and burnt them quite bad. Could not endure the heat and the smoke any longer, Yuldra grabbed a man and got out. While the goliath pushed on a bit to at least know the whereabout of Valar. All of sudden, Alistair heard a groaning on the room next door. Since the hallway was flooded with flame, Alistair had to break open the wall to get to the other rooms. So he did, and he found what he came for, his teammate. Though he was lying unconscious on the floor. Alistair chucked a bottle of healing potion in his mouth to get Valar back up for the run. Valar, once get his mind together, came up with an idea of how to get out of their by the front door. He gave his coat and and bloodied mask to Alistair and climbed back down while Alistair went out by the way he got in. On the guards' hand, they had sent a rescue team to deal with the fire. All they can was to get two more out for the rest had been devoured by the raging fire. Luckily, those two was also the tiefling and the halfling the Entourage sent in. And by that, Yuldra and Alistair got out the old way, Valar and the others became one of the guest stucked in the incident. They all got out, safe and sound. Kai also succeeded on leading those lady to safety with the rebellion in the forest, fulfill his end of the bargain. Now that the eventful night has unfolded, the piece once again has been able to set in.

Next morn came, the Entourage find their way back together at the guild dorm. Those events alone would just another case of depredation on the guards hand. Yet, the fact is they were accidentally weaved into a whole as they happened was too close to each others and the sole victim of those attack was the brothel, Graham as if it was targeted. So the guards opened a full investigation and Graham was to be put in jail for a long long time for many crimes he discreetly committed against the law of the church and the law of the Empire as well.

Against all the odd, The Entourage had bring an end to a monster in satin lurking in the city of Jabbaweda. But once something ends, something else begins and the story of the merry band named Entourage marched on.

Stay tuned as we share on our ballad of good deeds and emtions!

(End of Session 10 and the long break due to the pandemic)