Players in Attendance - Jason Jurisch (Froimos), Chris Rocco (Pendrynn Hamut), Erik Rehpohl (Kailithe Solace Guard), Greg Sallee (Davros), Dustin Haugen (Barack Tenderfoot), Paul Brazelton (Poe)

DM Notes:

• Everyone can identify a specific knowledge skill that their character is proficient in that is not currently covered in the rules. (Personal history..)
• Clarification of prices on last adventure: Barack and Davros paid Nim to craft a dagger for them of their Dragon’s tooth incisors, they still owe 2 gold, paid on completion in a weeks time. Pendrynn already paid Nim 75 gold for a custom crafted suit of plate armor, completion expected in a month’s time (The 16th of Tyden).

Date: Bahmsday Morning, the 19th of Rouenne, 617 S.R.

Location: The party on the last day of their 3 day leave located in their barracks at Blackfield

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During their time off:

• Barack donated 27 gold, to his young allies on the street, increasing their awe of him exponentially.
• The cohort spent their last night of their leave out at Sooties (tavern/inn) drinking, listening to bar songs and playing Bar Games, specifically, “Sabotage the Dig”

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• Everyone earned 20 XP for learning a new game, Davros received a bonus of 10 XP for winning the game.
• (Davros won 3gp in the game of Sabotage the Dig, Froimos won 1 gold, and Barack and Kailithe split a gold each.)
• Barack played a prank on Talon cohort by sneaking into their barracks late at night, barely avoiding being discovered and successfully replaced Talon’s Cohort Banner with a new banner emblazoned ”The Ratslayers”. After returning to the barracks, he handed the banner off to Pendrynn, who ducked out to drape it across the roof of the well in Town Square.

The next morning, (19th of Rouenne) the team woke early and prepared themselves for their mission briefing in the muster room. Several members of Talon cohort gave the Dragonslayers the stink eye as they entered the room, it seems they have a good idea as to who pranked them the night prior. Sharp eyes could see that that Talon’s resident scout Desand was noticeably absent.

While Dragonslayers were in the mission briefing, it’s highly probably that Desand snuck out, tossed the cohorts barracks and filled Barack’s bed with horse manure.

After the briefing, Barack returned to the Talon barracks with his stinky bedding and found Durgan (The dwarven fighter) sitting outside with his ankle wrapped up and peeling vegetables. Barack was hoping to steal some clean sheets, but was engaged in an exchange of missiles comprised of potatoes and souled linens. (There were no victims..)

Pendrynn Suggested to the group that they take up collection amongst themselves to help out the bereaved family of Breann Finst (her Husband and two children aged 9 and 4). The cohort and gathered 25 gold, which Pendrynn planned to drop off at the Finst household later in the day.

Be midday, the Dragonslayers began their patrol and checked in at the towns three gates. They were told that there were no recorded visitors, aside from the Hylean Trade Ambassador Aaaden Wisdorf, (Elf) and his 2 aides/guards.

Pendrynn went to talk to his father for advice, who was embroiled in a card game with his veteran buddies, and ;eft feeling a tad disappointed. His father wasn’t exactly forthcoming on suggestions on how to do his job. (It seems he’s going out of his way to not show his new recruit son special favors.)

Froimos, Davros and Kailithe patrolled the city multiple times, on one pass, they managed to startle a boy (Tim) who was staring in a house’s window from the back yard, potentially contemplating breaking in. (The Pie cooling on the table inside being a potential target..) Froimos’ imposing presence and the diplomatic words of Kailitie managed to route Tim’s energies into more meaningful work. The Wizard paid the boy 2 coppers to track down Barack and relay a message to him,

Pendrynn showed up at the Finst household, he offered up the 25 gold to Stafan Finst along with his condolences. He also distracted the saddened children a bit by giving them several dragon’s teeth from his necklace and relaying the epic story of how they slew the foul beast.

Barack spent his day tracking the Hylean trade ambassador, who spent the majority of his day in the Town Hall, before heading directly to the Wayhouse. Barack spoke to the desk clerk at the Wayhouse to see if there was anything suspicious about the ambassador’s visit and found that Aaden was a regular customer who returned to the Wayhouse about 4 times a year.

The members of the Dragonslayer cohort regrouped slightly before sundown in order to prepare their plans for keeping the town secure in the evening. The second shift at The Dig was about to end, and Finst’s wake at Sooties was about to begin. The group planned to fan out across the town, covering the ground between the mine entrance, Sooties and “The Tailings” (the poorest part of town, home to many of the miners). Pendrynn and Kailithe planted themselves outside Sooties, observing the flow of traffic. Several uneventful hours passed.

The sound of smashing dishes alerted the Paladin and Wizard to the beginnings of a bar fight, and as they pushed their way into Sooties, they overheard several dirty miners shouting at an injured co-worker, “It’s your fault she died! You knew you shouldn’t have been working in that tunnel!”, followed by a the launching of a mug at the victim, Jaron Wisdorf’s head where it smashed open a bloody wound. A loud bellow from the paladin of, “Fight’s over, step back!” and the fight was promptly broken up. Kailithe and Pendrynn gave the the drunken fighters the bums rush out the door. Penndrynn checked on Jaron’s status, laid his hands on the miner and prayed for his wounds to be healed. He then walked the inebriated victim back to his house to be sure he made it home safely.

After the bar settled back down and the music started up again, Barack settled into a dark corner of the bar keeping an equally sharp eye on the wake goers and his pint of ale. It was getting very dark outside, candles and lamps were lit and the sorrowful miners continued with the wake for Finst. A loud thud and sounds of a thumping struggle  from upstairs launched Barack into action as he literally launched himself out of his stool in the corner, rebounded off the side wall and vaulted over the stair railing in an instant.

There he witnessed an assailant hunched over the bloody form of the drunk who was ejected from Sooties earlier that evening. The attacker was a dark hunched humanoid form with red/green eyes. Barack, without hesitation, whipped out a well worn throwing star and hurled it at the assassin. A meaty thunk and a muffled cough let Barack know that his weapon had found it’s mark. Surprised by the ferocity and speed f the response, the dark form bolted into a nearby room, slamming the door shut behind him. Davros scuttled up the front of the building and in the window at the end of the hall, just in time to see the assassin duck into the room, . Barack kicked in the door, and was greeted by an explosion, followed by billowing clouds of obscuring smoke. During the confusion, Pendrynn rushed up and laid hands on Jaron to heal him. The fact that he wasn’t getting up and looking worse gave him the idea that he was poisoned and he used divine mettle and laid hands on him while praying loudly to Erathis to stabilize him. Meanwhile, Davros climbed back down the side of the tavern to land out in front of the bar. Seeing Kailithe walking slowly around the corner (who was previously guarding the back door) Davros shouted at the wizard to be on watch for a shady assassin. At that very moment, a second story window shattered outward in a sparkle of glass and the dark assassin leapt onto the window frame, gripped the top of the window frame and began to flip himself around onto the rooftop. Kailithe, uttered a quick word of power and launched a bolt of buzzing dark energy at the form, and blasted him with a sleep spell. The assassin continued his slow rotation in the air and went crashing onto the ceramic tiles of the roof.

Final DM Notes: More cleanup to the story is coming, also, if you want to ask questions feel free to do so in the comments below.

• I need to hand out and have everyone pay for the whistles that you purchased. I’ll have them pulled aside for the next adventure.

Tags: Assassin, Civic Duty, Jaron Kerr, Sabotage, Sooties, Stafan Finst, The Dig, Tim