The DM had a cold (it was August <sigh>) and was doing a pretty good Barry White impression. Kraj turned up late, also had a cold and outdid the DM’s voice so much that the DM had to turn his bass down to stop shit vibrating off the desk whenever Kraj was talking.
A Benjamin Encounter
After defeating Captain Squint the party left the now pirate-free Port Llast and travelled down the coast where they encountered Benjamin and Lady Miranda heading north along the High Road at some speed. Benjamin explains he won a high stakes poker game which included the deed to a nearby estate ‘Craggy Bottom’ which he gifts to the party.
Benjamin also explains they are being pursued by the Waterdeep guard (“Must dash darlings!”) over a ‘misunderstanding’ involving cheating at cards and abducting Miranda and then they take off up the road.
Benjamin> Fly Fandango! Fly like the wind!
The pursuing guard captain, who seems on quite good terms with Benjamin, stops to chat with the adventurers (and Jake) and suggests they get the deed ratified in Waterdeep.
Spoiler; they forgot to do this <sigh>.
DM> The lieutenant flushes slightly and says “Sir, I think this is Avengers Anonymoose! That one is Mister Regoolus the invulnerable! <He whispers> They say he is the chosen one sir! <some sniggering occurs> That one looks like Clay the master of battle tactics and there is Mistress Elvira who they say cannot miss! We have Celdar who is only seen when he wants to be and Joffrey ‘the strange’ who does ‘things’ with dead pigeons sir! And finally that one looks to be Abelas the master duellist who has to disguise himself as a half-arsed wizerd to avoid being constantly challenged in the street!”
Craggy Bottom
They arrived at Craggy Bottom to find a bunch of dwarven caravan guards had teamed up with some remnants from the Dandy Highwaymen and had set up a still. They were using the remarkably pure water from the nearby mountain stream to brew some high-quality alcohol.
They were also under attack by an orc tribe.
The party handily defeated the orcs and came to an agreement with the dwarves, allowing them to build an inn and a brewery on the land. In exchange the dwarves will act as guards for the ruined estate and cut the party in for a percentage of the profits from the inn/distillery.
As Adam had decided he couldn’t be bothered to turn up for D&D (I don’t think I need to say any more about that) it was also stipulated by the party that, as a condition of the lease, the inn would never be allowed to sell milk.
- Clint Torres> Right, milk is off the menu lads!
- <drunken cheers>
Waterdeep
Having finally arrived in Waterdeep, Abelas gets challenged to a duel in the street! The challenger, Sinjin Farquhar, is a relative of ‘Cousin Tarquin’ whom Abelas allegedly killed by cheating in a duel on a cloud giant’s tower. Abelas attempts to duel the stranger but realises fairly quickly that his tactics are somewhat lacking and promptly goes full-Rincewind and starts thunderstepping around the streets of Waterdeep whilst damaging the hapless duellist who is fruitlessly trying to chase him down.
While Abelas was successfully “DPS running away” from Farquhar, Regulus and Clay engage in a stare off with the duellist’s guards. Having taken an Abelas thunderstep without flinching they win this mini-competition handily. A certain amount of flexing and took place and the word “Rarrr!” was used extensively.
Abelas’ thunderstepping proves remarkably effective and Farqhar gets knocked out. Abelas declines to finish him off and his guards carry the unconscious duellist away. However, one of the guards promises Abelas he hasn’t heard the last of this.
Roaringhorn Estate
The party deliver Sirac to his father’s friend, Lord Rorainghorn at his estate where a party is taking place. Lord Roaringhorn turns out to be a Harper. After some discussion of events not pertinent to this campaign Sirac joins the party as a pacifist support cleric and Lord Roaringhorn gifts the party some magic items to use in their adventures. the deputies (and Mike) rolled for these. That did not turn out particularly well.
Abelas> <mournfully> I feel it should be harder to roll 4 on a d100
The DM rolled for Joffrey and got a Potion of Waterbreathing and the party thought it would be hilarious to give it to the person who needs it least instead of the Druid, so Regulus now owns it.
<sigh> We are such a bunch of <expletive deleted>s
At the party Celdar is invited to dance by a beautiful dark-haired lady calling herself Isabella. She attempts to ascertain where the group are heading next but gets nothing out of the rogue despite Regulus urging Celdar to say “Your bedroom” <sigh>. Whilst checking his pockets after the encounter, Celdar finds a wooden coin marked with the emblem of a golden goose. He couldn’t remember if he had it before or not.
Having shopped and rested, the party reunited with Harshnag and headed back up north to the Eye of the Allfather.
End of session.