The Eleventh Session

After discussing the people who Halrek and Haldes had followed into the tunnels with the Grey Ghost, they realized the groups were facing a common enemy. The Grey Ghost gave them coordinates for the group's hiding place in the sewers. Halrek then offered to help the Grey Ghost with the city's bounty on him in the future, before he and Shag went back to the Middlesquare Inn. Speaking with the rest of the group, they decided an ambush would be their best chance at defeating the enemy when they least expect it. The pirates stayed back to protect Darkwind and Applaudicus, while Nul stayed back to learn new spells. Navigating the sewers, they found the area that the Grey Ghost told them about, and split up to enter from 3 sides. Shag entered first from the north, turning invisible, and seeing 3 assassins and 3 basilisks. Halrek entered from the west, discovering a fourth assassin but remaining hidden from sight. He and Shag worked together once Shag made his presence known to Halrek, and stunned the fourth assassin before he could make a sound. Meanwhile, Aoth and Yief entered from the east, walking into a waiting assassin who ambushed them. While the ambush was an epic fail, he alerted the remaining assassins that the group was there, prompting one to immediately enter and engage Aoth. Two struggles embarked, and after Halrek killed the assassin they had incapacitated, Shag ran out and cast a hex followed by a Shatter spell on the assassin who appeared to be the ringleader, which hurt him as well as the basilisks in the water. The struggle continued for Aoth and Yief until ultimately Yief overcame the epic fail assassin, who was clearly new on the job, revealing that it was the man who had followed them in the city. After engaging one of the basilisks, Yief decided to then charge the leader. Aoth disengaged after missing a number of hits on the assassin he was fighting, and ran around to help Shag and Halrek, who began to get overwhelmed by 2 assassins and a basilisk. Halrek nearly died, but was brought back by Aoth, prompting an immediate revenge stabbing. While the assassins were cleared out, a basilisk turned Yief to stone, allowing the leader to retreat and jump across the water to safety. Aoth then attacked him, giving Halrek an opportunity to critically strike him. Shag killed 2 basilisks. After Yief broke out of the stone, he ran, jumped across the water, and delivered a killing blow to both the assassin leader and the final basilisk, yelling "YOU CAN'T FREEZE THE BIEF." Searching the bodies, they found the same notes on each of them listing their names and descriptions that Applaudicus had taken off the assassin earlier.

Upon returning to the Inn, Bashak was impressed enough with Yief's exaggerated telling of the story that she decided to sleep with him, due to being on land long enough to be stir crazy. Vissella discussed the next course of action with the remaining group members, and they decided to take the main road to the capital city of Akanax in hopes of losing the Ebonyborn soldiers following them in the sheer size of the city, before finally making their way to the Methwood. The following day, Shag and Halrek met up with the Grey Ghost in the tunnels again, where he thanked them for taking care of the enemy. Upon showing them the notes, the Grey Ghost confirmed that it was likely the Assassin's Guild, which had no local chapter and would likely attack them along their journey, and advised to sleep with one eye open. When Halrek proposed a plan that he would turn into the Grey Ghost to get arrested and have the group collect the bounty, then transform into someone else after he was in custody to escape, the Grey Ghost removed his mask, revealing that he looked exactly like Jeremy Irons, suggesting that Halrek purposely not use his face so they would think the Grey Ghost was someone else after the escape. He then said they had friends in the Thieves' Guild whenever they returned to Airspur.