Adventure 22

**Real World Date: 2/4/2018**

**In Game Dates: January 25th, 5001 M.E. - January 31st, 5001 M.E.**

**XP: 1830 (Total: 18851)**

## Chase Sequence

The party races through the streets on their Wagon, Valya guards and clerics of Gallant hot on their tale. Dhamon takes the reins as they navigate the city streets and fight off the pursuers. They manage to knock out the city guard and the clerics, but more clerics and guards follow in pursuit. The party needs to lose them before they can hide in the warehouse that is their ultimate destination.

However, when moving through a major intersection, the Wagon hits a large bump and dip, sending the wagon soaring. The Wagon turns on it's side and crashes in the middle of the intersection. The guard surround them and many citizens in the nearby streets crowd around to witness the events. The guard ask the party to surrender peacefully, but eventually clerics of Gallant show up with Cedras leading them.

## Conflict

 **Location** | City Streets - Valya

Cedras orders the city guard to slaughter the party, but their leader wants to resolve this without killing them. He wants them to stand trial. Cedras insists, maybe a little too much, that he just kill them. When he realizes the guards aren't going to kill the party, he takes matters into his own hands and puts the Crown of Olum on. He immediately uses the magical influence of the item to convince all the citizens in the gather crowd to swarm the party and kill them.

The city guard are unaffected, probably because of their helmets. They realize that Cedras is the real threat and that they are in trouble. They turn their backs to the party to stop the incoming crowd. They are now the party's allies in this fight. Suddenly, chaos erupts as the crowd charges in.

## Tides Turning

The party and the guards are overwhelmed as they try to fight off Cedras and his men. Wrax notices Brutus Mardale is moving just a little too fast, and his patron suddenly expresses an interest in the boots that Brutus is wearing. As the battle continues, reinforcements arrive in the form of Dover Fellman and **The Invisible**. Still, many of the guard go down as the crowd overwhelms them.

Suddenly, the tides turn as Ren casts a successful suggestion spell on Cedras for him to help them instead of hurt them. Suddenly the crowd turns on the bad guys and they begin to start winning. Clerics on either side of Cedras try to dispel the charm but to no effect. Korra Greybridge and the rest of **The Resistance** show up and begin helping as well.

## Finish Him!

Despite this advantage, they can't stop one of the clerics from getting off a successful dispel magic on Cedras to restore his mind and the crowd turns on the party again. Many of their allies go down, like Dover, many members of **The Invisible** and **The Resistance**, and even Aust. However, everything changes when suddenly Lady Elaine Colburne burst into the battle with her followers surrounding her as she charges right at Cedras.

The party manage to defeat all enemies except Cedras. Wrax takes the **boots** from Brutus' corpse. Elaine charges into battle with Cedras and manages to defeat him. After he goes down, the charm effect on the crowd seems to end. Elaine doesn't leave it there. She quickly attacks Cedras while he is down, finishing him for good.

## Denouement

The chaos subsides as everyone collects themselves and heals their wounded. The party is okay, and so is the city. Aust makes sure that Maevis sees to it that the guard they blackmailed because of his debt in **The Pit** gets taken care of. Maevis says he will look into it. They also find out after being tortured at the hands of clerics of Gallant, he is now leaving the church and joining **The Invisible**. He is also able to consummate a relationship with Morgan that he couldn't before with his vows.

The party's name is cleared and they are rewarded for their bravery and for saving the city. Korra gets promoted to run her own church. Shay gets a promotion, but requests a position at an observatory outside the city instead of in the city. Jalen uncovered evidence that the previous head of his church was murdered and identified those that helped Cedras pull it off, which earned him a promotion as well. Morgan was promoted and is now the right hand of the leader of her church. **The Invisible** become an active political party when they are recognized by the **Holy Conclave**.

## Party Goes West

After everything settles, the party get several signs to move west. Wrax gets a vision of a small library where he talks to a strange man drinking tea. He soon realizes that this actually is a anthropomorphization of the Sword of Unholy Purging, who is visiting him and not sure if he wants Wrax to wield him. He also warns Wrax that he is safe, but won't be for very much longer. Factions are moving to a war and he might get lost in the shuffle. Wrax ends his vision and tells the party that he needs to head west as quickly as possible.

Ren also experiences a vision. He is visited by a mysterious humanoid of unknown origin. This man claims that he was the man who cursed/blessed Ren with his visions. He works for someone, though, and that boss is unreachable, and he is desperate for help so he is calling on Ren. He says he is in danger, but he is hiding for now. He needs Ren to head west and find him, and he promises to explain everything in return. Ren suddenly has a reason to head west as well.

## Travel West

The party see several things on their way west. The reach a bridge that is out and see a large **Cloud Giant**, a benevolent creature who is helping people cross the river while they are repairing the bridge. They exchange pleasantries as the giant helps them move their horses and their Wagon across the river. The party thank him and move on their way. They eventually get close to the city of **Cairdor** but must cross the Valu River just to the east of it and they discover that their is a crowd gathered around at that bridge.

Apparently a toll has been enacted at this bridge by order of the Emperor of Teth. Many families and even some merchants are sitting on the one side of the bridge, unable to pay the toll. In a big "fuck you" to them, Wrax takes his pteranodon and flies to the other side without paying the toll. Aust decides to pay the toll for the party, and for everyone of the families on this side. As they cross, Ren steals the money back from the guards plus more. On the other side of the bridge, after they make camp, all the families and merchants camp together and make the party a nice potluck meal as a thank you.

## Cairdor

The party arrive in the city, which is a trade hub of the region, being right on the edge of the Valu River. They try some local cuisine and head to the docks to find a ship. The docks are divided into a western and eastern section. The party head to the western docks and ask the harbormaster there if there were any boats that could take them and their wagon west down the river. They find a couple ships, but one was too full to take them, and another had a mostly female crew. After some deception from Ren, who didn't want to be on that ship, the party agrees to keep looking.

The head to the eastern docks and find there are several ships that meat their criteria. The first one, though, the **Iron Martyr**, seems to be good so they book passage on the ship heading west. The captain, Shen Tavros, says they will be departing the next morning and it will cost them 35 Sanctums. The party rest and leave in the morning...