Session 4

#### Hostage Rescue

Destiny's Children climbed up the northeast corner of the wall. Mario tied off a rope to allow the others to climb up more easily. An orc on patrol discovered Izzy, Mario, and Enoch in the tower, but was quickly defeated. Izzy and Twinkletoes headed off along the top of the wall, and jumped down onto the tops of the buildings on the north side of the camp. Izzy tripped and fell between buildings 3 and 1. Mario, Maya, and Damacus jumped onto building 4. Enoch telepathically spoke to an orc standing guard, "They can't find out we're scaling the western wall." The orc ran towards the western wall. Izzy hit an orc in the crotch so hard that it died. Damacus frightened a couple of orcs, but was noticed by a nearby troll. Mario and Maya jumped to the ground, making sure they were out of sight of the trolls. Izzy and Twinkletoes take out several orcs and trolls that swarmed around Izzy. Izzy then ran around the various buildings, looking into windows for hostages. Mario ran across the camp, behind building 6, to sneak up on orcs on the southern side of the camp. Enoch jumped from the wall to the top of building 3, and telepathically told a troll beneath him, "Jewlsa is displeased with your sacrifice. Release them." Twinkletoes jumped onto the ground, looked through the window of building 5, and saw 4 trolls.

A troll threw two orcs out of the north door of building 6.

Izzy ran around the western wall, looking through the windows of building 5. Dunrak used his sending stone and asked Enoch, "What's going on in there?" Enoch responded, "It's baaad." Enoch jumped onto the ground and attempted to open building 3, but it was locked. He looked at Twinkletoes and mimed using a key and then shrugged. Mario killed some orcs as they approached him. A troll hits building 4 to try to knock Damacus down. Maya cast moonbeam on that troll. Twinkletoes unlocked the door to building 3, but it was barred from the inside. The troll from building 6 threw an empty wine barrel at Damacus, which hit him but did not knock him down.

Izzy found Ryan, a human lumberjack, hiding in building 1E under a bed. She asked him, "What's the last thing you remember?" "I don't know, I don't have memory loss!" "Okay, let's get you out of here!" "Okay, sounds good!" Izzy left Ryan in the room in order to finish scouting out the rest of building 5, where she saw a troll shaman in the southeastern room.

Enoch ran into building 5 and saw that it was full of trolls. He backed out of the building, and screamed. Damacus cast *witch bolt* on a troll until it died.

Large orc guards exited building three, dragging five unconscious hostages with them. Enoch set the doors of building 5 on fire. Damacus jumped onto the ground, kicked open the door of building 4, and was promptly trampled by a horse as it ran out of the building. Mario continued to kill orcs as they approached him. Izzy led Ryan up the southwestern tower, said "Trust me!" then tackled him off the wall, using her monk training to land unharmed.

Mario killed both of the orcs guarding the hostages. Enoch spilled ball bearings in front of the doors of building 5. He then stood in front of the doors, attempting to hold them shut. Trolls easily pushed the doors open, sending Enoch flying forward. Mario pushed the hostages back into building 3, and locked the door behind him.

A troll tried to throw Twinkletoes through the northeastern window of building 5. Izzy asked Ryan, "Do you know Balthazar?" "You mean Dunrak?" "Yeah!" "Yeah, he's my boss. Have *you* ever met him? You weren't even close!" Izzy told Ryan to regroup at Dunrak's current location. She then proceeded to fail repeatedly at climbing back up the wall.

Damacus turned invisible and ran away.

The troll shaman came out from around the southeastern corner of building 5. The troll shaman's bodyguard exited through the flaming front doors of building 5.

Mario woke up the hostage with the biggest nose, and told him "Northeast tower! Repel down rope!" using the voices of his teammates during their planning session. The dwarf left, and Mario realized that he needed the hostages to wake each other up. He woke up another and said, "Wake up others".

Damacus and Enoch weaken the troll bodyguard with magic attacks, and Twinkletoes delivered the killing blow. Enoch ran into building 5 and set fire to literally everything with grain alcohol.

Mario, Maya, and Twinkletoes continued to kill orcs and trolls. Maya was surrounded and became demoralized. Izzy finally climbed the tower, and jumped from the wall onto building 5, then dropped onto the head of the troll shaman. Damacus dealt the killing blow to the troll shaman. Izzy killed the last troll by hitting him "in the dick" with her quarter staff followed by a punch "in the left nut."

#### Calm Before the Storm

Dunrak and Ryan entered the camp from the southern gate, and Dunrak returned Enoch's bag to him. Dunrak asked, "Did you see why they might have done this?" Enoch answered, "I-I-I saw a lot of fire and-nd-nd a strange symbol on the ground. Maybe for some sort of sacrifice?"

Mario and Twinkletoes found 400 gold pieces among all of the trolls and orcs. Dunrak gave Enoch 2 restoration potions, which have the effect of a long rest. Izzy gained the troll shaman's +1 quarterstaff. Damacus gave his share of the 400 gold to Enoch for a restoration potion. Enoch gave that money to Mario, and he gave the other restoration potion to Maya.

Ryan fell over, foaming at the mouth. #kevinkilledryan

The corpses of the trolls and orcs were piled up in front of the gates as a troll army approached the lumber camp from all sides. Enoch drew an X inside of an encircled triangle on the west door of building 6. He then poured some rice in front of the door and set the rice on fire.

### Kazakhan Spire

The hourglass was flipped over, but Twinkletoes and Enoch were out of range and did not return to Kazakhan Spire. Mario deposited one of the troll's large battle axes (too large for him to use in combat) and all of his gold in his room. The hourglass was immediately flipped again, but while they waited to return to the battle they investigated the two rooms in the Hall of Wonders.

#### Room of Azuloth

The center of the room contained two large gold plates that seemed to be scales. A ring around the room allowed one to walk around the scales.

#### Room of Astro-Oh

A glowing blue cape floated 60 feet away from the door in infinite sky.

Mario initially did not want to return to the battlefield, but Damacus poured birdseed within range of the hourglass, tricking Mario into returning with the rest of the party.

### Reinforcements Arrive

The Diamond Dogs and the Arclighter brothers entered the camp through the eastern gate. Only a couple of minutes passed for Enoch and Twinkletoes, while 10 minutes had passed for the rest of Destiny's Children.

### Return to Kazakhan Spire

All of Destiny's Children returned to Kazakhan Spire. This use of the hourglass was a test to see if their role in this time period was satisfied, or if they still had more work to do. Damacus sent his hawk familiar, Trixie, to retrieve the Mantle of Astro-Oh. The Room of Azuloth locked again. Mario replaced his cloak with this cloak.

### Saved by the Ox

Destiny's Children returned to the lumber camp. Not time had passed. The hourglass seemed to work differently depending on if all of Destiny's Children are in the tower together or not.

Dunrak, Maya, and Mario defended the southern gate while everyone else prepared to funnel the trolls through the eastern gate. Dunrak's eyes glowed as he inspired Maya and Mario, granting them advantage on attack rolls and damage rolls, and giving them 20 temporary hit points that stacked on temporary hit points they already had. Dunrak seemed really excited. Dunrak then laughed, and pointed through the gate at Siggard Runestrum, also known as The Ox, who was cleaving his way through the army to get to the lumber camp.

Enoch draws another X in an encircled triangle on the southern wall.

The troll army was defeated. Everyone returned to Mariba, took a long rest, and gained a level.

### Banquet

Destiny's Children discussed what happened to them when they split the party. Twinkletoes and Damacus went to A Lad's Inn, which is run by a genie. Maya shared that Andrew Buckman is her brother. Twinkletoes and Damacus shared that they fought someone who fit Andrew's description, he attempted to steal information from Galleon's laboratory.

Banquet Attendees: Dan, Destiny's Children, Diamond Dogs, Emilio Dyne, Craig Listman, Borgan Kahn, Marcus Antorus, Arclighter Brothers, Dunrak, Sara Antly (a friend of the Arclighter brothers, also from Bellingham), Arthur Dane (a minor noble), Lady Prestor (advisor to the King, member of Benefactors club), the King, Gelzario (promiment merchant, member of Benefactors club), Promise (tiefling, captain in Maribian army, member of Benefactors club).

Sara, to Maya: "It's impressive, you put your life on the line for our defense every day."

Damacus, in response: "Well, not *every* day."

Dunrak: "Lotta killin' that day. But we're alive! Gotta party so we don't get sad." He also said that the camp was overrun for an hour before Destiny's Children arrived. Twinkletoes noticed that Lucius Yorha sent them to the camp the day before it was overrun. Twinkletoes noted that Lucius was working with Gallean to make magic soldiers. Damacus remembered that the Mariba of his time was very well defended. Twinkletoes suspected that Lucuis orchestrated the attack on the camp in order to build support for his project.

Mario attempted to tell Dan the story of their heroic battle, but yet again the language barrier got in the way, and Mario left dejected again.

Damacus: "Hahaha, go fuck yourself Craig."

Dan played "Band of Heroes", which listed historic heroic figures such as Llorell Evergreen as the first Dragonmaster, a pair of twin sorceresses, an king under a mountain, and many more.

Lucius unveiled "The Spellbinder Project", which would infuse elite knights with magic to make them omnipresent and omnipotent. "The Spellbound will be our last and only line of defense. ... I hope tomorrow we don't need heroes."

Destiny's Children overheard an awkward conversation between The Ox and Dan. The Ox asked Dan if he had made it into the song yet, and Dan explained that the song was really more about dead heroes than live ones.

Damacus, to Lucius, complementary, " The guards look 'guardy'."

Mario stood in the illusion of The Spellbound, pretending to be an elite knight.

Damacus tried to spread false rumors of tax increases among the people at the party through Enoch.

Enoch: "They're creating a tax to make Spellbound."

Rorin: "I have basically infinite money!"

Enoch: "You think you have infinite money, but you don't!"

Rorin: "Our money is in liquid assets!"

Enoch: "You're going to lose your liquid ass!"

Mario sat next to Arthur Dane, who proceeded to talk nonstop about his financials involving the city guard and his worries about how The Spellbound will affect his bottom line.

### Kazakhan Spire Again

All of Mario's gold is missing, but the axe is still there. Mario got really sad, since 20GP of that was intended to go to the person who gave him his "cursed" glaive.

### The Once Proud Goose

Izzy set the destination of the map to "Gallean's lab", and the map showed that it was located in Lucius's mansion.

At the tavern, Maya talks with Malcolm Graves, a bounty hunter. Andrew Buckman's bounty is worth 20,000 gold.

Maya: "Who's your 'white dragon'?"

Malcolm has been searching for Tobias for many years. Twinkletoes and Damacus actually saw a man fitting Tobias's description in A Lad's Inn. Malcolm tells Maya that if she can bring Tobias to him, he'll hekp her find Andrew for no charge. "It ain't figurin' out where Tobias is, it's figurin' out where he;s going to be."

Enoch talks to Lil' Saint, who asks about the progress on the Andrew Buckman agreement. Enoch gave him 100 gold to keep the peace, as they hadn't made any progress yet. Damacus, drunk, pulled a dagger out on Lil' Saint, demanding that he return Enoch's money. Lil' Saint kicked Damacus out of the tavern.

#### Ambushed in the Alleyway

Nine thieves from The Once Proud Goose ambushed Destiny's Children for disrespecting Lil' Saint. During the fight, Rue tapped Maya on the shoulder, "'Scuse me love, mind if I cut in?"

Mario tried to use the cape to grapple a guy in the air by jumping off a building, but failed. Instead, he hit that thief so hard that he threw him off the building. Mario was working through his disappointment in losing the magic money he was going to give to that guy.