Session 53: An Encounter with Sentin (July 11, 2024)
Last session, our heroes were reunited with their old companion Rormir, but not in the form they remembered. Heph saw Rormir looking back out of the eyes of a large dire wolf. The wolf transformed back into Rormir, although in an unfamiliar form. He was wreathed in a dark light punctuated by glowing orbs in the constellation of a primordial hunter. He called Heph a Pest and Elias “Raccoonias”, seemingly seeing them in a different form than they truly were. Heph remembered that Rormir was under a similar Geas to what he was briefly under, although with a much stronger effect. He and Elias struggled to force feed a vial of blessed venom to Rormir, eventually succeeding. Heph tried to remind Rormir of his time spent with the party (specifically of falling naked through a portal in a tavern ceiling and killing Elias), and he began to return to his old self.
Meanwhile, Maho found herself alone inside a forcefield generated by a mysterious device alongside four unconscious goliaths. She struck at the device as its vibrations shook loose the edge of the nearby cliff face, quickly approaching where she was stuck. Eventually, thinking fast, she jammed her sheathed katana into the spinning bars at the center of the machine, stopping their rotation and disabling the forcefield before she and the goliaths fell off the cliff into the River Sarn below.
The venom delivered and Rormir returning to himself, he stopped attacking the party and delivered an arrow made of now white light into the elvish archer. The elvish artificer ran to hold his dagger up against the throat of one of the unconscious goliaths, but Elias Misty Stepped behind him and killed him with Jarles. Rormir finished off the archer, and the party regrouped.
A Sending Stone fell out of the archer’s robe. A voice came out in an elvish accent that Rormir recognized, saying “Lython, what is it? … I’ll come back soon”. The party decided to lay in wait for whoever was arriving. There they started to catch Rormir up to date on what had been happening. Rormir revealed that in his time under the influence of Isabella he had unlocked some druidic powers. He also mentioned that he had killed many goliaths, a revelation which caused Maho some well-founded distrust. She sheathed her sword for the moment, but resolved to keep an eye on him.
After over an hour of waiting, Karrl spotted a wagon approaching from the south. It was pulled by two beautiful white horses driven by a black cloaked figure wearing a porcelain mask. On the side of the fabric covering the wagon were the words “Lucien Dynastic”.
- Utilizing Karrl’s perception, Rormir is able to
identify 3 additional masked figures in the cart, as well a short female elf
frantically leafing through papers in her lap, and one elf looking ahead and
focused
- Rormir recognizes the elf man in the cart as Sentin Thornwillow and the woman as Alsa, his assistant
- After some discussion, the group decides to use Rormir to lure Sentin in, Elias will sneak off the to woods to be backup, and Heph and Maho will hide in the tent to carry out an ambush
- As the party approaches, Rormir sneaks out of the tent, climbs a tree and flags down Cacaw Chad
- He asks Rormir what happened, and Rormir explains that some thieves and vandals attacked, he is the only one who made it, and the vandals headed off past the river
- Chad asks if the vandals took the captives, Rormir says he isn’t entirely sure but he thinks they did
- Chad asks Rormir why he didn’t stop them, and Rormir asks him why he didn’t spot them before they got there
- Chad seems to notice that Rormir is a bit different, and Rormir reacts by trying to charm him, which doesn’t succeed, Elias also tries from the next tree but fails as well
- Rormir tries to grapple him as he starts to fly away, but he is able to slip away and he says into the wagon “The curse has been lifted and there is some sort of trap ahead”
- Rormir attempts to hide again in the tree, and group waits for them to approach
- The masked individuals arrange themselves to attack, and Maho decides to act
- Kicking off combat, Agent Mage drops a fireball on the party, taking out
Woahdoe Boedough and setting the tent and trees on fire
- Agent Rector shoots a bolt of light at Maho but misses
- Agent Sword pushes through the river and dashes up to the entrance of the tent
- Agent Armor does the same, running up to the tent
- Maho invokes her new Hill Rune and attacks Agent Armor, missing the first hit but landing a critical hit on the second, activating her Fire Rune as she does so, and restrains him
- Surging, she attacks two more times, landing one more hit, dealing a total of 41 damage in that turn
- Heph backs out of the now burning tent, Agent Armor taking an attack of opportunity, which Maho redirects with the Cloud Rune against Agent Sword, and then Heph, thinking to himself “two can play this game” launches a fire bolt at the Lucien Dynastic wagon to catch it on fire
- Chad flies up in the air and throws a javelin at Maho, which hits but only deals a small amount of damage
- Elias sneaks up to Agent Armor and lands a critical hit on him, absolutely evaporating him with 46 damage by shoving Jarles through a crack in the helmet and yelling “It’s time for blood Jarles!”, points Jarles at Sentin, then ducks into the tent and sneaks out the back to hide
- Sentin calls out from the wagon that he doesn’t want to kill us and asks us to surrender, Rormir asks what’s in it for us, and Sentin says your lives
- Heph stares angrily, and Maho tells him to shove it, to which he asks her “who are you?? That was very rude of you” and pulls out a slingshot made of sickly green wood, leaning out the side of the wagon he fires a sickly green thorn with a red tip at Maho, but misses wildly
- He then looks at Agent Sword and waves his hand, healing him, then ducks back into the wagon
- Sentin raises his eyebrows at Alsa, indicating she should put out the fire, which she manages without any real issue
- Rormir activates his starry form, firing a bolt at Agent Sword but missing, then runs away from the burning tent and hides in a tree
- The fire begins the spread further and Maho takes a small amount of
damage
- Agent Sword slashes twice at Maho, hitting her twice, but she resists a good amount of the damage
- Agent Mage causes hail to fall from the sky, over where Rormir and Maho are standing, dealing a bit of damage to both of them
- Agent Rector again shoots a bolt of light at Maho, but misses
- Maho uses Giant’s Might to turn large, and grabs the tent and drops the flaming mass of the tent on top of Agent Sword, then steps towards the river
- Heph launches magic missiles at Agent Mage, but he uses shield to block it, then Heph retreats under a tree
- Chad chucks another javelin at Maho, but she cuts it out of the air before it can hit
- Elias runs over to Agent Sword, who doesn’t see him due to the tent, and hits him pretty hard and activates booming blade, then disengages and backs away, jumping behind the crates that were previously in the tent
- Sentin again pops his head out, still doesn’t recognize Maho and casts a spell at her, but she is able to resist a good chunk of the damage from it
- Alsa pokes her head out and nervously shoots her hands forward, launching a fireball at Maho and dealing 32 damage, taking down Maho
- Rormir shoots at Agent Sword, popping up from being hidden he lands the first shot, Karrl helps him land the second shot, and then he launches a starry bolt at him, but misses the final shot
- He tries to leap over the river but lands in the middle of it, just managing to keep his footing
- Agent Sword fails to get away from the tent and the fire takes him out, but he isn’t wearing a band of loyalty and doesn’t seem to die