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9th of Roggi

Session #3: The Rescue

by Fidget

(It's still 9 Roggi. It's just after we lured some goblin guards into an ambush.)
 
We stormed the goblin camp. There were 2 goblins, a hobgoblin, and a wolf. It was a bit of a rough fight, but we succeeded. We freed the villagers, and they told us that Ivan (the leader--a dwarf with an eyepatch) had been removed from the group by a man in a cloak and taken up a path toward the mountain.
 
Nathaniel patched me up while the others looked around the village for anything valuable. They found some alchemist fires.
 
We followed the trail and came upon a pair of figures performing some kind of sacrificial ritual using Ivan as the sacrifice. One of them transformed into a fiendish creature--kind of like a goblin werewolf--when they saw us approaching. Gan said the creature was a barghest. He said the creature had been empowered by feeding on a corpse. It was strong against physical attacks (need to use magic to hurt it effectively). Ham was knocked out. I couldn't trick the barghest, and then it knocked me out, too. The barghest eventually fled the fight. Nathaniel treated the Nathaniel's and my wounds.
 
Ivan was unconscious and tied down but not dying. We treated his wounds as well. There was also a pendant with a symbol that looked like half circle with lines coming off of it. Ham wondered whether it's a rising sun or a setting sun. We figured it's the symbol of some cult since the cultist had the symbol tattooed on her chest, but we don't know what cult it's for.
 
We took Ivan back to the goblin village. The villagers were poking around but mostly just collecting the stuff that had been theirs. Then we all went back to Cowick. At that point, it was getting late so we rested.
 
(And we discovered new power within ourselves. Level up!)