The Twice-Damned Prince - Session 50: Assault on the Safehouse

Dramatis Personae

Alfaren “Alfred” Eredel – Elf transmuter

Alizander Carmelizzia - Human (Varisian) sorcerer

Boecca – Half-orc inquisitor of Erastil

Carlos Santiago - Half-orc (Alkenstarian) evoker

Slavé/Jancen – Tiefling (in guise as a human) rogue/assassin

Tavo Dechirent - Human cleric of Pharasma

Toilday, 3 Gozran, 4709 A.R.

After apprehending the Blacknapes and returning the kidnapped Wiscrani to their proper homes, the Returners each attend to their own matters. Tavo gathers several of his errant followers and begins scouring the southern section of the Rego Cader, looking for undead menace to eradicate. Carlos checks in on Rhialto, the dwarf tinkerer Rolan, and the young Returners holed up in the safehouse at the old Shrine of Aroden. Boecca returns to the safehouse to continue his regular discussions with the vulpinal Jezeltrix. Slavé pays a visit to the nobleman Eirtein Oberigo in the Parego Regicona, where he finds the situation to have deteriorated considerably – the streets of the Regicona are devoid of citizens, and Slavé catches sight of a group of four erinyes devils piloting a barge through the canals of the district, replete with captured Wiscrani elite used as slaves and entertainment. He finds Eirtein holed up in his vira, afraid to venture onto the dangerous streets. Eirtein accompanies Slavé out of the Parego Regicona and into the relative safety of the Adventurer’s Quarter. From Eirtein the Returners learn that the group of Hellknight heretics first mentioned by Paralictor Gonville Chard of the Order of the Rack has a base of operations in the Parego Regicona, mere blocks from Eirtein’s own vira. Eirtein knows nothing of the heretics’ leader, Ara Verennie, but suspects if anything of her is to be found, the heretics’ hideout is where it will be.

The Returners reconvene at the Shrine of Aroden safehouse later that night to discuss their next steps. The Shrine of Aroden: the Returners’ place of refuge since that fateful day they were pursued by Hellknights through the sewers of Westcrown, led by the brash Janiven. Alas, the refuge is attacked in the early morning hours of Wealday. A gang of Council thieves led by two Council captains breaks into the safehouse while most of the Returners are asleep. Carlos, Tavo, Slavé, and Boecca manage to repel the attackers with the help of Jezeltrix and Janiven, but the effect on the mood of the Returners is significant. Efforts to secure the once-safehouse against further incursions begin at once. From one of the captured Council thieves, Boecca learns that they were sent from a Council cell located in the Parego Regicona, led by a particularly foul tiefling torturer named Skarx Veskandi.

Wealday, 4 Gozran, 4709 A.R.

The next morning, the Returners plan their assault of Skarx’s Council house. They find the location with relative ease, based on the captured thief’s directions. Slavé scouts the area invisibly, noting that the stone structure, a former dottari bunker, is windowless and seemingly unguarded. Reporting back to the rest of the group, the Returners hatch a hasty plan. Slavé, still invisible, breaks into the structure’s single door, stepping into a large common room repurposed into a torture chamber. The two Council guards inside leap to attention as the door opens. Boecca, Carlos, and Tavo rush in to attack while the entrance is still open. Just before reaching the door, a small bead comes hurtling from somewhere above the structure, exploding into a sphere of force as it hits the ground and nearly encapsulating Carlos and Tavo within it.

Treasure

· From the Council thieves:

o Potions of cure moderate wounds (12) (worth 1800 gp total)

· From the Council thief captains:

o +2 Studded leather armour (2) (worth 4175 gp total)

o Short swords +1 (2) (worth 2310 gp total)

o Composite short bows +1 (+2 Str) (2) (worth 8525 gp total)

o Human slaying arrows (3) (worth 3433.5 gp total)

o Blue whinnis poison (6 doses) (worth 360 gp total)

Experience

· Council thieves (12): 9600 xp

· Council thief captains (2): 19,200 xp

· Total: 28,800 xp

· Per PC (5): 7200 xp

Fame/Popularity

· Fame Check bonus: +32

· Fame Points Spent (spreading word of the attackers’ defeat): 4

· Fame Points Remaining: 16

· Popularity Points (defeating the attack on the safehouse): 1

· Total Popularity Points: 12

Current XP Total per PC

· Carlos: 186,329 xp

· Slavé: 182,329 xp

· Tavo: 178,884 xp

· Boecca: 169,554 xp

· Alfred: 168,374 xp

Alizander: 150,000 xp