Session 5: Tracking the Raiders Report

The group woke up after a long rest and are greeted by Governor Nighthill who came to them with a proposal. If they locate the raiders’ camp and find out certain information, he offers to pay them 250 gp per person. He wants to know where the camp is sited, how many raiders are there, who their leaders are, what’s motivating these attacks, and where they plan to strike next. If characters recover valuables that were stolen from the town, he would like them returned, but he does his best to arrange a reward from what’s left of the town treasury. Recovering treasure, however, is a lesser goal when compared to the other objectives.   Lorilla started cooking up some food for the group with Tanaelia while they discussed their pasts and families with the rest of the group. Lorilla introduced her new steel defender (Tibetan Mastiff) named Tales. Mitzu shared his history of belonging to a cult before escaping from it to the snakewood, where he found the druids who took him in and were kind to him. The party had an encounter with Nesim Waladra, a monk from Rahl's past and rival.   He told them that his master had been taken to the raider's camp and asked that you help him and bring him back. He's been investigating the raiders and cultists for months and probably got caught on purpose to find out more info. The information he has would be invaluable. They came upon a group of four cultists and eight kobolds arguing and completely annihilated them, but kept the last one alive for questioning. The party tied up the kobold to question it. Tanaelia cast Friends and he was more friendly for a while until the spell wore off and he was angry that his head was being messed with (and because of his dead friends and family around him). He was smart enough to know he was outmatched and couldn't attack anyway since he was still tied up. The group decided to let him go provided he ran the other way rather than warn the other raiders. Continuing following the trail the party eventually came across a more disciplined group of raiders apparently waiting as a rearguard. Jameak spotted them the same time the group was spotted by them and he also noticed trap waiting to drop boulders on the group. The raiders immediatly sent a runner back in the direction the characters were heading. It was a more difficult battle than the last with Jameak and Rahl going down briefly and others being injured, but the party prevailed and took out the enemies (except for the runner who got away.