Vorgshire

## Synopsis

Our adventurers Reffins Sinep, Brig Greeble, and Equuleus Equeeleus, are a small band. They’ve met each other in Tauriel. Forming a bond, they set out in search of adventure, fame, glory, riches and purpose.

Reffins is motivated by a sense of ***(insert motivational purpose)***

Equuleus being in search of knowledge and experience, so that one day she may rebuild her lost monastery and bring justice for her master.

Brig scours the land in search of knowledge to challenge the ways he was taught. Brokering a contract with an unknown entity, he is being granted a portion of it's power in exchange for something mysteriously insidious.

Together, passing town to town in search of bounty’s and quests, end up doing medial tasks to satiate their hunger for excitement. Though it quenches some itch, they long for something more purposeful.

## The Adventure in Vorgshire - Session 0

Their travels take them north towards the mountains, into the northern hills of Daggaroth in Tauriel, to a tiny village named Vorgshire.

Approaching this tiny town, they instinctively are drawn to the towns bulletin board posted at the eastern entrance.

On the board are a few notices about upcoming events, but what catches their eye is a help wanted sign, asking for help with a food shortage, telling any passerby’s to meet Gerald, the sergeant of the towns guard, at the Copper Boar Tavern near dusk.

Quickly finding the tavern, they decipher the lone guardsman at a table to himself having a meal to be the sergeant.

Gerald, introducing himself, speaks to the players of a town food shortage. There seems to be stores of food being spirited away during the night. The mayor of the town, Mayor Harvey, is very vocal in his assertion that it must be ghosts and the supernatural. Whereas the town's guard think it’s something much more tangible.

Gerald speaks quieter, whispering that he thinks mayor Harvey might have a hand in it, but that it’s a very delicate situation, and that should the party be found out on behalf of the town's guard to do anything suspicious against the mayor, that they would disavow any actions or relations.

He hands the players a map of the town and promises 50 gold for their solving this issue and another 50 gold for the culprit alive.

Leaving the premises, the party decides to investigate a storage room together. Rolling low on investigation, they find nothing out of place and elect to split up the search in order to speed up the process.

Equuleus electing to stand guard at one of the storage rooms.

Reffins deciding to check the town hall and speak to the mayor.

Brig wanting to check out the mayors house.

Reffins has a rather uneventful interaction with the mayor, who denies any suspicious activity to be anything other than ghosts. With no evidence, Reffins leaves and find a small trail of footprints and crumbs leading south out of the town.

Brig walks to the mayors house to find his wife, Catherine, hard at work prepping an absolute feast. Not finding this strange, Brig does not press the issue and decides to hang out on the outside border of the mayor’s house’s fence.

Equuleus squats in a meditation stance for most of the night, being very uneventful.

Reffins ends up following the trail to a cave a short distance down a goat path, well hidden from view. Approaching, he begins to yell into the cave to alert any pretenses inside, seemingly oblivious and unaffected by fear of danger.

Hearing some scuttling fast approaching, he makes his stand outside the cave to see 2 small goblins exiting the cave.

Immediately upon seeing them, they attack, one missing and one stabbing Reffins with their tiny spears (2 damage to Reffins). Reffins tries to convince them that he’s friendly, and charms one with his singing (casts charm person). The small goblin, soothed by the singing, turns on his fellow goblin and stabs it fairly deeply and knocks it to the ground (6 damage).

Reffins, not wanting more bloodshed, picks up the wounded goblin as the other is trying to pry it from Reffins’ hands in an attempt to further injure it. Reffins then casts healing touch on the hurt goblin to stabilize it (3 healing but is still crippled) and casts Light on a rock and begins to descend into the cave.

In the meanwhile, Brig sees the nightfall, and then attempts to come into the mayors house once again only to see the same scene. He begins a conversation with Catherine, who wants to bring the talk to the kitchen so she can attend to the food. Brig goes to help cook and offers his help with cleaning. Not gaining the evidence he needs, he goes off in search of clues in the guise of going to the bathroom. Still finding nothing, he returns to persuade her to help. He manages to woo Catherine, who then confesses Harvey has been strange and distant as of late, and even goes to unlock his office for Brig.

Finding a locked desk, he manages to blast it open and find some letters detailing missing food supplies given to someone named “T” as a barter as well as the location for the food drop. Taking this information, he heads off in the direction located on the map.

Equuleus, at the same time, having gotten no where by sitting, decides to go off in search of Reffins, quickly finding the same trail Reffins took. She spots Reffins approaching a cave, goblin in hand and light stone in the other, with another small one clawing at the injured one in his arms. She takes this moment to use some acrobatics and gymnastics style flips forward and bounces off the cave walls several times to land in front of Reffins.

Unimpressed, Reffins dismisses her antics and continues to descend. Brig also manages to catch up and produces forth the evidence from Mayor Harvey’s house.

Party Reformed, they descend together down the cave in search of the culprit or other.

As they head down, Reffins decides the goblin buddy he gained needs a name, and dubs it “Pins”. Pins takes a liking to the name, and rest upon Equuleus’s shoulders.

Reffins taking the lead, notices a cloth on the ground with footprints leading around the cloth. He uncovers the cloth to reveal a pitfall, and ends up keeping a keen eye to the ground to avoid further traps.

Eventually reaching a fork in the road, Pins beckons the party to take the more southern path. The party attempts to take the other path to the west but Pins steps in front and strongly urges the party not to go this way with gestures and unintelligible noises.

Heeding Pins’s advice, the party venture south, passing smaller tunnels along the way. Goblins walk cautiously out of the tunnels, but seeing Pins and a fellow injured goblin being carried, they curiously follow as a small horde begins to form.

The group make their way into a clearing which they perceive to be a dining hall of some sort. At the far back side of the room, a goblin with a headdress speaks up in human asking what’s going on.

Reffins returns the injured goblin to which a few others take to be treated. The goblin chief introduces himself as Bongo, and that the injured goblin was an asshole. After a short conversation, Bongo reveals it was they that stole the food but not for themselves, as a Troll has recently entered this territory and taken over this area by force and is making the goblins fetch the food. The party convinces the goblins to team up with them and goes to confront the Troll.

Approaching the western path, the party see a similar open clearing with a throne chair at the back with stores of food piled behind.

The troll, seeing a giant crowd, gets up and demands a response from the goblins. Reffins speaks up and tells the Troll to leave, which prompts the troll to attack.

A handful of goblins and Bongo go to intercept the Troll and poke at him to very little effect, though Bongo does assert that the troll hates fire to the party.

Taking the goblins initiative, the party begin to assault the troll, spells flinging and martial combat away.

Reffins takes a piece of cloth and wraps his arrows in them and uses a nearby torch to light it ablaze before firing, negating the trolls healing.

Angering the troll, he rages at Bongo for revealing his weakness and critically punts him across the clearing and against a wall, leaving him to crawl away to safety.

The troll doesn’t put up much else of a fight, making swipes at several goblins and Equuleus, but the group manage to whittle down the troll and Brig blasts it’s head apart with Eldritch energy.

Victorious, the party has a few parting words with the goblins and makes their ascent. Reaching the mouth of the cave, they find mayor Harvey and a score of town’s guard including Gerald.

Seeing the party leave the cave, Mayor Harvey is quick to point the blame on the adventurers.

The quick banter between both the party and mayor Harvey to sway the town’s guard ensues. Even with the party producing the document of food shipments found at mayor Harvey’s house as evidence, they have a hard time convincing the town’s guard as mayor Harvey manages to sway them as a doctored parchment.

It’s only when the goblins make a timely entrance and display their friendliness with Bongo able to translate do the town’s guard finally act, taking the mayor away to be held for his crimes.

## Epilogue and Aftermath

In the aftermath of the slaying of the troll, and the arrest of Mayor Harvey, the town of Vorgshire enjoy what seem to be a very prosperous symbiotic relationship with the goblins.

Splitting the surplus harvest, the goblins no longer pillage and the citizens of Vorgshire have quelled any dissent.

Using Bongo as a translator, the hardworking goblins learn to tend crop and educate themselves with human culture and language. The goblin children teach the human children their simplistic games and how to hunt and sneak.

Pins, no longer being effected by the charm human spell, still sticks closely to Reffins and highly reveres him.

Brig takes Mayor Harvey’s place as Catherine’s boy toy.