Diplomacy

Approximately October/November 2015

Session 10

Grey Fish now known as Gaspar – 5^th Level Half Orc Monk

Baphomet – 4^th Level Tiefling Warlock, 1^st Level Wizard

Hamoot – 5^th Level Dwarf Cleric

Thane – 5^th Level Human Rogue

Gabriel – 5^th Level Human Paladin (Missed Session)

OceANUS – 5^th Level Aquatic Elf Fighter

            The group ran off into the swamp to evade the second lizard patrol and make it back to their row boat so they could retreat to their ship for the night. Upon their arrival they rested and fled to the open sea. When they awoke the decided that they would sail their ship to the lizard folk lair and attempt to broker peace between them and the people of Phandalin. Once they arrived at the entrance to the lizard lair Thane and Gaspar took the row boat in where they met up with a lizard land party. They bowed submissively and asked to see the lizard chief. The lizards complied and brought them deep into their lair. Upon meeting with the chief, they also met a very old lizard named “The Ambassador” who acted a translator for the Chief. The lizard Chief spoke common and demanded to know why we were there. We told them that we were here to broker a peace treaty with the inhabitants of Phandalin. The Chief laughed at us claiming that after all of his men that we killed there would never be peace. Gaspar and Thane reminded them that they started it with their attack. This statement confused the lizard Chief as he claimed he only sent scouts who were not to attack. Further conversation lead to an armistice between the lizards and Phandalin on the condition that we pay 10gp for each lizard we killed and that the two lizards held prison at Phandalin are returned to him for interrogation. We exited the lair and sailed back to Phandalin to share the good news.

            The founding fathers of Phandalin were outraged with this news claiming that the lizards could never be trusted and that the two prisoners would face trial in Phandalin and not be released. One of them was especially pissed off since his niece was one of the townsfolk killed in the lizard attack. This lead to a standoff between the town and the party based on what should be done with the prisoners. The party retreated to their manor to let the fathers have a discussion on what should be done. At their manor they learned that two crates of their supplies had gone missing while they were away. They were unable to investigate the matter further as the lizard problem was more serious. The next morning the met the fathers who said that they decided the lizards must stand trial, but they would send a diplomat with us to the lizard Chief. We took the diplomat to the lizard Chief and after a long conversation the Chief agreed that his men should face trial in Phandalin. He also asked for our aid in assisting an alliance of aquatic races who would be launching an assault on an old lizard folk lair that had been taken over by sahuagin. The party agreed and prepared for the assault which would happen within a week’s time.

            To pass some time while waiting for the assault they decided to try and find Cragmaw Castle, an old fort which was believed to be the center of all goblin activity’s in that area. They traveled about two hours out of town to an area where a goblin ambush recently occurred. They searched the area where the found two goblins. They captured one and got him to take them to the castle. Arriving at the castle they found it to be in ruins. The goblin told them that it was attacked by a tribe of orcs who had a red dragon with them. The party killed the goblin and returned to town to find something else to do. They found a NPC with an exclamation mark over his head. His name was Daran, and he told them that he heard that someone was digging at the Old Owl Well, an old watcher, and that anyone who went to investigate was chased out by undead. He wanted us to go investigate what was going on. We set out with directions from Daran and arrived at the tower during the late afternoon. Upon arrival we saw that the tower was surrounded by 7 human zombies and 4 ogre zombies. Hamoot ran up to them and turned undead which killed all of the human zombies and caused the ogre ones to start retreating. OceANUS, Thane, and Gaspar moved up and started to pick off the ogre zombies one at a time. Baphomet however noticed that a necromancer was at the top of the tower and started to throw fire bolts at him. Hamoot cast silence on the top of the tower to keep the necromancer from spell casting. After killing two ogre zombies, Gaspar ran into the tower to try and knock out the necromancer while Thane and OceANUS went to kill another ogre zombie. After killing the third ogre zombie, OceANUS ran up into the tower to help Gaspar while Thane searched a nearby tent and found some goodies. When OceANUS reached the top of the tower he found Gaspar had already knocked out the necromancer, but he slit the wizard’s throat anyway. The party then returned back to Phandalin where they rested and prepared for their assault on the sahuagin.

TO BE CONTINUED…