Beiinors Campaign/Session 15

## [ Session 15 — 09/10/2023 ]

**The Origins of GorthBoiClique - Chapter 15**

Waddup waddup it’s ya boi, Ozy, back at it again with another wild story. We left off last time standing in an empty cave after taking care of the baddies when literally out of nowhere the entire cave starts collapsing. Thankfully we all escaped without much difficulty. Hell, CharlesGorth even moonwalked out of there.

Directly after escaping we run into a beautiful dragonborn paladin named Fionna. Now when you’re a celebrity like me, women just throw themselves at you, and Fionna was no exception. She had created this whole story about working with the Team for Information on Mysterious Experiences and researching time pockets; however, it was evident to me from the moment we met that she was a secret GorthBoi Clique groupie.

We invite Fionna to come with us back to Qendra where the party at Sempso Manor is happening. On the way back to Qendra I enact Stage 2 of my plan to get closer to Paavo. I tell the group the story of my parents’ deaths and how I have been afraid of fire ever since they burned to death that night. In return Paavo reveals that when he was younger, he accidentally killed two of his friends in a forest fire.

And this is where Paavo went wrong. He gave me leverage over him. I could now exploit this information against him. Immediately I knew this was information I could hold onto for a long time and only reveal at a critical moment when Paavo and I were on the opposite sides of something. So I lock up this information to use at a later date.

On the way back we also go over some of the items we got from the cave. There was lots of stuff on Doomsguides and Kelemvor that I didn’t really follow, but I have a feeling they may be relevant in our future adventures.

Finally, we make it back for the party that I planned so long ago. I suppose the criminals of the city somehow didn’t get my party invitation because only the city guard showed up. Well at least we can still bribe or in some other way corrupt the city guard to work with them moving forward. I get up on a table and pull out a decapitated Kuo-toa head I brought from the cave and start regaling the party with the most recent GorthBoi Clique adventure.

For some reason the other members of the party were not thrilled about me singing their praises. Katamira disguised herself as a member of the City Guard and put manacles on me and then Paavo tackled me off of the table and then held my mouth shut. After they help me up and Paavo takes his hand away from my face, I spontaneously refer to his forest fire backstory and call him a murderer.

*Shit.*

I wasn’t supposed to use this information yet.

*Shit. Shit. Shit.*

This could be bad.

I immediately regretted this decision. Whereas I do not like Paavo and have no problems calling him a murderer, this was a strategic error. I could’ve saved this emotional manipulation for a more important time. It did feel pretty good to say though….so ya know what? No Ragrets. Unsurprisingly, Paavo is quite upset to say the least.

While the city guard captain brings me to an outhouse Fionna and CharlesGorth become a little friendly and Maria catches up with Charles Sempso (wait CharlesGorth’s dad’s name is Charles? Who came up with this shit?).

Now in the outhouse I am finally alone with the city guard captain and other GorthBoi Clique members. And if there’s one thing more corrupt than a member of the city guard it’s the captain of the city guard. And if there’s another thing more corrupt than the captain of the city guard it’s the captain of the city guard when nobody else is around. Although I’m very tempted to just scream All City Guards Are Bastards, I instead decide to just bribe the captain. Unexplainably he does not accept my bribe. Are we sure this is really the city guard captain?

Somehow Katamira convinces the city guard to bring me to a hospital instead of jail and Getheron keeps me company there while I beg them not to let Paavo in, afraid that he may continue his murderous ways on me.