C1S17: The Slaver's Warehouse

  is the seventeenth session of the first campaign. Approaching the warehouse, the Stone Ocean deal with mind-altering effects and looming dangers...

Synopsis
The Stone Ocean have made their way across the Labenda Swamp to investigate a warehouse owned by the Jagentoth family. As the group made their way closer to their estimated destination, the animals of the party were struck with anxiety, where even closer to the warehouse, Che had been hit with a burst of confidence and became bombastic. Approaching the warehouse, Che was the first to take a shot alerting the compound. Ensuing was a mess of fireballs, fire elementals, and destruction as most of the building was torn asunder and was in flame.

Through smoking the guards and one pajama wearing individual out of the building, the group was able to kill all the guards and keep the pajama person knocked out. Due to the fire and destruction many containers were caught in flame which began to heat up containers full of goblins, adult males, and children. The group was too late and one child sadly perished from both malnutrition and heat along with all the goblins.

The group was able to sort through the spoils of this attack including diamonds, jewels, and several magical items including a wind-up merchant that if coins are deposited would give certain magic items. The group took time to interrogate the pajama man who was an overseer of this warehouse and offered to give up information on the Jagentoths and Shadycreek Run.

When he began to tell them about a monster the Jagentoth’s wielded, he began to be choked out by an invisible figure which then snapped his neck. Coming out of invisibility, there was a 9 ft. tall apparently male humanoid in tattered clothing with a punctured cloth mask covering his face. He gave the party the shush gesture and the party dumbfounded did not immediately attack. With that, the creature disappeared.

The party pissed about the overseerer's death revived the him who, then through coercion and deception, told the party about Jason, the monster who is the most powerful and most effective underling of the Jagentoth’s. He savors cruelty with every job performed and seeks to mentally disturb his victims before killing them. He additionally has these pervasive location-based effects causing intense anxiety when close and mind-altering effects when closer. The overseer also told the party that Jason took some of the aarcockra who were captured by the Jagentoth’s and have their wings on his wall. With no more information left to give, Che sent a final dagger at the overseerer ending his life. With that the group attempted to take a rest.

The night was peaceful and by daybreak the horse, Equis, and Thurgood were escorted back to the building by a raven familiar. At about 7AM while on watch, Badis spotted a small army of goblins heading straight for the compound. Opting to hide in the woods, the group waited for the goblins to hopefully come and go. With Che’s new transcription ear cuffs, he was able to hear the voice of a goblin leader ordering the rest of the 200 goblins to search the woods for the people who kidnapped and killed their people. As a battalion of 20 goblins approach the party who are hidden in the woods, session was called there.

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