Session 19 Recap

“Warning! Keep out! Haunted!”

What a great place to hide and get rested up! The gnolls aren’t likely to go in that room. So, the adventurers went in. The meditation room was guarded by “spirits,” but they weren’t undead. They were elemental. Once slain, they melted away. And the heroes rested.

Guards the adventurers had removed hours earlier were probably replaced by now. The prison and waterfall rooms had nothing but dead bodies. Seregdur rigged a noise maker on the portal room door, and the group pressed on.

The last hallway led to a solid looking door, barred from the inside. Luckily the gnolls within were training rather noisily. Reed tried repeatedly to remove the bar, through cracks in the door. Eventually the gnolls were alerted, but Reed did manage to remove the bar about the same time.

The intruders walked into a dozen armored gnolls, weapons in hand. Oddly, a shadar-kai was here training with them. This shed some light on the gnolls’ skill with the odd weaponry, but the heroes had no time to ponder that. Instead, they cut through the recruits and engaged the gnoll warmaster & shadar-kai weaponmaster. Both were skilled combatants, but had a run of bad luck. They couldn’t seem to penetrate Kava’s defenses. So, the heroes rid the world of more evil doers.

As the group evaluated their earnings, Jimmy the bounty hunter was spotted in the doorway, casually leaning against the wall as if he had been there a while. He addressed the party with some familiarity and chatted for a moment. Jimmy had warned them back in Overlook of the bounty on their heads. “I’ll be collectin’ that bounty now. Which one of you turds is first?”

Jimmy and his pets put up a good fight, but his skills were ranged. Like so many before him, the heroes got in Jimmy’s face and shut down his offense. He slashed and shot and held strong for longer than most. In the end, he was out numbered and surrounded though, and had no choice but to surrender.

In exchange for his life, he shared some useful info. He had been here in his youth and knew the layout of the place and several secret tunnels. He described the living quarters below and the ritual room ahead. “The gnoll chief is probably in there.” He also informed the group that Sarshan (shadar-kai arms dealer) had put the bounty on their heads.

The group confirmed Sarshan’s involvement here via a note (next post) on the shadar-kai weaponmaster (dead on the floor). It seems this man has been heavily involved in the recent troubles in Elsir Vale. And he survived the volcano/earthquake in the Shadowfell. The sword Seregdur is carrying is important, as is this fortress.