Session 11: What A Pickle

Familiar Faces (of Fuckheads)

 * Oh dear. Vesun casts Make Whole on Sarienne and the cloak - repaired!
 * Plan: infiltrate the other party? Ambush when they get to Friga’s? See if we can go out.
 * We took: royal jelly, cloak, stingers, bee venom, honey
 * Vik tracks back in that direction. Smell the Stargazers!!
 * Vik and Sarienne move up in a pincer maneuver. S spots them, V tells that they’re moving away from Friga’s. They hide.
 * Front: dark-skinned gnome - that asshole from session 1 - Burhan
 * Tall blonde human woman, rich-looking: she was the one casting - Jana ir'Tain
 * 2 Cold Sun lizardfolk: 1 with scar Castor, other = Pollax
 * 1 hobgoblin, has fabric around his eyes - Yuriy
 * Large warforged - body looks like a whiskey barrel, 3 fingered claw and battleaxe - Dread
 * Burhan is complaining about Friga. Stargazers walk past the group. 1 lizardfolk sniffs around for S, but doesn’t find her. We track them for about an hour - they get to a clearing where they are going to set up camp. Sarienne is advance scout.
 * The 2 lizardfolk go search the perimeter, one has scimitar &amp; shortbow, Scar has battleaxe. They don’t notice Sarienne.
 * Yuri = hobgoblin, Berhan is complaining about food.
 * Castor &amp; Pollax are lizardfolk. Warforged - Dread.
 * Pollax tries to hit a cricket and scares it away.
 * Tork makes a fieldmouse sound to draw them near. Vik sets an Entangle trap.
 * They don’t get entangled yet (Castor is in the area); they’re more than 40 ft away from e/o.
 * Mogen and Vesun shoot Castor, S attacks Pollax and misses. Vik arrows the shit out of Castor. S attacks Pollax.
 * Castor does a shitload of damage to Vikrit (16 dmg - 4 hp left!). Tork casts Sleep… and only gets himself. Vesun nearly tackles Pollax, distracting him - S stabs the fuck out of him. Vikrit takes off and hides. S misses Pollax. Castor murders a blade of grass. Mogen shoots Castor, he doesn’t seem to notice. Pollax gets tackled, Castor runs off. Our party takes Pollax’s body and runs.

Some Flawless Planning

 * Vesun heals Vik. Vik and Sarienne scout, the others take the 2 sapphires and the quartz on the body and a wand, potion of Enlarge Person.
 * Vik &amp; S sneak up on the camp. Don’t see Warforged, Hobgoblin or Gnome. Female Human is there standing, casting something, facing away.
 * S trips an alarm. Vik crits on attacking her, S misses. She uses ice wall around Vik, who starts clambering up. S gets fuuuucked up by her familiar. S runs and hides, meets up with the rest. The woman casts a fireball and sets the woods on fire, then flees (northeast? That’s where Tork sees a bird, maybe her familiar going). They help Vikrit out of the ice wall.
 * They loot her tent. Documents, Jewelry, Robes, Spellbook, Cape with Stargazer symbol. Vik takes evidence of the fireball - smoldering grass - woman setting the Faerie King’s domain on fire.
 * Mogen looks at the spellbook.
 * BREAK… Then we go back to Friga.
 * She remarks that the other group was rude, Vik points out that they were the ones to kill the Gatekeeper.
 * She examines the cloak - not perfect but not damaged. We tell her we need audience with Faerie King. She says she needs fang of bitter leaf asp to make us big enough.
 * She finds a toad to ask to be bait.
 * Idea for trap: mangrove roots trap with Tork triggering Hot Potatoes. Hole in the side to shoot through, unseen servant. It gets stuck, blown up.
 * Snake takes a lot of damage and we kill it! She needs an evening to do the ritual. We LONG REST.
 * She gives us foaming orange stuff in tumblers. Mogen says a tearful goodbye, gives her a mask. We get BIG AGAIN!!

Audience with the King

 * Follow a light through the woods
 * See a Fae living in a tree - dryad. She makes us stop, asks why we’re there - we show tribute for King. Lots of fae around, waiters.
 * Mogen finds out what people do - Figaro and other satyrs are guardians, people coming in from other planes.
 * Stargazers show up: Castor, Burhan, woman and hobgoblin. Bringing huge gold ant, Figaro in tow. Castor and Burhan notice us. We try to tell about security issue with them, no one cares. Human looks fine, even after Vikrit fucked her up bad the day before… they are worryingly powerful.
 * Faerie King looks like a pig with human face, wings. Figaro is talking to the King, mentions tribute, Gloaming.
 * Festival of Drivago’s End - ask for boons for tribute. Vesun and Vik, brought to the back.
 * Each of us gets a boon. Vesun asks for audience to tell about Stargazers. Vik asks for something to help seal gates between worlds, he says if what we said is true he’ll give me a key.
 * Figaro is talking to Stargazers. They seem mad at each other. S slips the messenger app into Castor’s pocket and says “oh sorry, I mistook you for someone I killed” and he gets SUPER MAD BARBARIAN HRRGH.
 * S: “No more drinks for this guy!” and humiliates him.
 * Listening in: they’re looking for dragonshards, need it to get to Gloaming. They need to talk to Keller.
 * King comes out and says “one here has betrayed us”. They drag Figaro away.
 * Mogen tries to sell up the carts, but unfortunately the dryads do not appreciate their materials.
 * Figaro confirmed what we said - he made a deal w/Stargazers to get them pull with the king (presumably to get dragonshard). He thanks us and pulls out a big key - made with dragonshard (blue and white-Sibiris?). (Note that wizard’s book has a lot of spells for hiding once they got the dragonshard key) He asks us to leave the kingdom. A nymph casts a portal for us to leave. Vesun and Mogen discuss making sunglasses.
 * Back on Solomon’s Rock.
 * Suddenly feel like we haven’t had anything to eat/drink. Stuff around there is ruined - carts etc.
 * Note: The Stargazers have our other Messenger App - could hear in range if they don’t notice it… but it’s in Castor’s pocket. Theoretically they could use it to spy on us…
 * For Vikrit: Make sure to call Castor a traitor to both his race and his family (he ran away after his brother was killed)!