Adventure 31

**Real World Date: 9/23/2018**

**In Game Dates: March 30th, 5001 M.E. - April 6th, 5001 M.E.**

**XP: 3000 (Total: 41551)**

## Just Passing Through

The party lay low at the inn in Massara. They discuss their plans to maybe start a fight against the Gray Fox, but ultimately decide to go to sleep for the night. As they start making their way upstairs, a water Gensai monk walks into the bar, recognizes Wrax a little, then seems to get into a fighting stance. A thug gets thrown off the balcony, revealing the blue dragonborn that Wrax had seen a few days prior standing there with an axe in her hands, yelling out to the monk that they have fallen into a trap.

Several men get up, pulling their weapons, apparently with symbols of the Gray Fox. A few men step inside, led by the imposing but unnamed **Goliath** bodyguard. There is a tense standoff as the two women are surrounded by these men. Suddenly a third woman, a stealthy rogue jumps from the shadows and kills one of the men and yells to kill them all.

## I Guess We Are In This

They hesitate at first, but eventually the party slowly gets involved int the battle, helping the trio of women to defeat the **Goliath** and the Gray Fox's men. Eventually all the party got downstairs and joined in the fray, defeating all the men. The **Goliath**, sensing a turning of the tides, decides to flee. Ren keeps tabs on the **Goliath** to make sure where he flees, but they talk to the three women.

They are fugitives in this town, sworn enemies of the Gray Fox. They normally hide outside of town, but they were somehow lured into a trap here in the city. They thanked the party for their help, but don't trust them enough to show them where their hideout is. They part ways with the party, who follows the trail of the **Goliath** to the water treatment plant at the edge of the city.

## Confronting Shadows

The party reach the water treatment plant to find the gates open for them to come in. The party hesitates, but they ultimately go inside. They search the grounds to find the small office building is the only building with light. The door opens, inviting, and the party can see the **Goliath** and the **Half-Orc** bodyguards calmly sitting there waiting. Wrax stays outside, waiting up on the roof of a building nearby, but the rest of the party go inside.

Alban Hassan is sitting at his desk and signals for the party to take a seat. He seems cordial and offers the party a job. If they turn on the three women fugitives and bring them to him, they will be able to walk the streets freely in this city. If they don't, they will be wanted for the injuries and deaths of the men at the inn and will be wanted fugitives here as well. He also mentions that Talis Hightower has offered a large bounty on the party's heads, especially Wrax, but Alban won't act on it, because he hates Hightower and refuses to help him.

## Pack Your Bags and Go

The party decide to test something, and Ren tosses a small object and realize that Alban was not there at all, but it was merely an illusion of him. The party determine that he is far below them, and they can't get to him right now. Instead of trying to fight the Gray Fox, they decline the offer he is making and make to leave the plant. As they leave, the office building closes and begins to lower into the ground, a large door closing over it to seal off the underground area where the Gray Fox was currently at.

The party gather their things at the inn, pack up, and begin to head south. Now that they have solved the mystery of Aust's mother, they are now heading to **Kombray** to try and find out what happened to Omar Trickfoot, who was looking into the mystery of the **Emperor** there and why the rebels of Daeryn and Ardreth Aefaren had fled there. The party agrees to head south.

## Out of the Fire, Into the...Other Fire

They quickly headed south and reached the border of Falmar and Ulnar. The border guard checked the Wagon to make sure no one who was owned as a slave was coming across the border. They allowed the guard to inspect the Wagon and after being cleared, they headed south into the desert of Ulnar...