The Bastards of Erebus - Session 5: Taking it to the Bastards

Dramatis Personae

Alizander - Human (Varisian) sorcerer – works and performs at Cayden’s Blessing
Carlos Santiago - Half-orc (Alkenstarian) wizard – works at Rhialto’s Tonics and Talismans
Nagiphax - Cyclops-kin rogue – works at the Beer Golem Tavern
Slavé – Tiefling (appears human) rogue – detective in dottari employ

Tavo - Human cleric of Pharasma – employed as a mortician and coroner
Vaeden Corleone - Human rogue – former nobleman, often seen at Alfred’s Smithy

Wealday, 11 Rova, to Oathday, 26 Rova, 4708 A.R.

The party members resume their daily lives for a time. During this period, the party members continue to meet with Janiven, Arael, and the other Returners, doing what they can to promote the group’s aims in the city. Slavé and Tavo are first to learn of the series of break-ins, robberies and murders that have occurred in the city in the last eight weeks. Slavé’s investigations and Tavo’s examination of several bodies associated with the robberies in question reveal clues that tie the break-ins and murders to a group of tiefling bandits called The Bastards of Erebus. In each case, the Bastards leave a calling card in the form of a wooden token featuring a devil’s head visage associated with the cult of Mammon.

On the morning of Wealday, 25 Rova, several party members return to the Adventurers’ Quarter from a meeting at the Returners’ safehouse to find a crowd of citizens and dottari amassed in front of the Beer Golem Tavern. Within the tavern are the bodies of three dead patrons who had stayed the night after missing curfew. Investigation of the scene points to the Bastards of Erebus as the culprits. On the following day, the party takes the fight to the Bastards of Erebus in their home turf, and tracks them down to an abandoned church of Erastil within the ruins and slums of the Rego Cader, the dead sector. The party approaches the church individually and in small groups of two. Alizander is spotted by a lookout in the church bell-tower and draws her crossbow fire while the rest of the group manages to approach the church undetected. Slavé attempts to bluff the tieflings in the church that he is there to purchase illicit goods but fails to convince those inside. A fight breaks out at this point, and the lookout rings the church bell as the size of the group around the church becomes apparent. The party does battle with two tiefling rogues who emerge from another building nearby the church; Nagiphax manages to break into the church through a boarded-up window and draws the attention of the four tiefling thugs within. Tavo breaks through the church’s front door with a makeshift ram, while Vaeden’s dog scuffles with the tiefling thugs’ mangy mutt. Several of the thugs fall under the party’s blades and spells, and the two remaining tieflings manage to escape down a stairway leading to a basement under the church.

Treasure

None – session ended mid-combat.

Experience Awards

· Story Award (investigating the Bastards) - 2415 xp

· Tiefling thugs (3) - 405 xp

· Tiefling rogues (2) - 400 xp

· Scabby (guard dog) - 200 xp

· Total - 3420 xp

· Per PC (6) - 570 xp

Current XP Totals Per PC (after session 5)

· Alizander, Carlos, Slavé, Vaeden – 3445 xp each

· Nagiphax – 2925 xp

· Croso, Orem – 2875 xp

· Tavo – 2785 xp