31 Uktar 1490
Session 2 (Nov 29, 2024) - Level 1
- Our Party follows the trail and saves Sildar in Cragmaw Hideout
Session 2 Recap:
We started our session by taking a short rest, restore some HP. Haesten did some foraging and found some tea and food spice ingredients but more importantly some whitethistle berries which when consumed give you instant explosive shits.
During the short rest Adar gushes about Gundren’s friend and fellow Goblin victim. He is well versed in all thing Sildar Halwinter and clearly has a poster (tapestry I guess) of him shirtless riding a griffin in his bedroom at home. Sildar holds an honored position on the griffon cavalry in Waterdeep. A group of knights that serve the realm and the greater good and are known for riding Griffon’s into battle. He is retired from the force now bit is still a valiant fighter and a good friend to the Rockseeker brothers.
Above the table we learn that when Haesten gets high, he rolls wisdom checks with advantage and dexterity checks with disadvantage.
We begin following the trail where the two bodies were dragged. Enthir is in the front followed by Adar, Sir Chetwynd and Haesten in that order. Enthir successfully spots a trip wire that we all carefully step over; this path is heavily booby trapped. We proceed with caution and Enthir promptly steps on a patch of leaves and falls into a pit, taking 6 damage. Haesten casts Goodberry, producing 10 magical berries that restore 1 hp each and gives 6 to Enthir leaving Haesten with 4 berries. We move on (all silently judging Enthir) until we come to a clearing.
We look around and notice a river coming out of a cave mouth and across the river, some kind of man made (goblin made) outpost. We all see goblin tracks and a unique set of tracks. Adar astutely proclaims, “those are boots”.
We decide to sneak along the edge of the bramble/ forest towards the cave but first we come across a path that breaks away from the main path into the bush. The “boots” 👢 head down this path. We all quickly notice a halfling man hiding in the bush trying to hide from us. We call him out and Enthir draws on him. He quickly introduces himself as Greg (just Greg) a 28 year old halfling that stands 3’4” tall, weighing about 170Ibs with a shock of wild flame red hair, emerald eyes and a extremely dark tan. Greg is a big boy for such a little boy. He explains that he was traveling with Gundren and Sildar but managed to escape the goblin attack and followed them this way. He has been here for about a day and noticed 15 creatures. 13 for sure Goblins, the other 2 he wasn’t sure about.
After some mild interrogation, we ask Greg to join us and we proceed across the river to a clearing where we suspect a small camp or outpost to be stationed. We sneak up and spot two Goblins on watch. Sir Chetwynd draws his arrow and kills 1 Goblin. The second Goblin doesn’t notice. Enthir hides the body and then Haesten runs and grapples the second Goblin restraining him and covering his mouth. He also sneaks a whitethistle berry into the goblins mouth who eats it by accident and promptly starts painfully shitting his pants.
Greg ties him up and Haesten threatens to kill him if he screams then takes his hand off the goblins mouth. The group interrogated the Goblin who is named Bill. We find out that there are two Bugbears Yeemik (2nd) and Klarg (1st) in the cave (the two larger creatures Greg saw). One of the captives has been taken away to Cragmaw Castle where King Grol, a bugbear, rules. The castle is 20 miles north of this outpost. We can’t get anything else out of Bill so Enthir drives a spear through his throat and Haesten cuts his ear off. Enthir hides this body.
The party enters the cave stealthily, using members with dark vision to guide those who can’t see. They encounter two chained up Wargs. Haesten uses animal handling and feeds them some rations with whitethistle berry in them. The Wargs do not get the shits but they are pacified and let the party pass. They spot a rough passage off to the west (left) and a bridge with a goblin strait ahead. They decide to take this west passage and at the end they see a cavern with cookfires, torches, 4 goblins and 1 bugbear.
The Party plans a surprise attack, all running into position, making attacks one after another. Fat Greg runs in and strait up kills a goblin with one attack then turns and misses the second goblin, Enthir casts hunters mark on the bugbear doing a shit ton of damage, Haesten casts Ensnaring Strike which restrains Yeemik, Sildar and one goblin, Adar casts Bless on Enthir, Sir Chetwyn and Greg. Haesten takes a bunch of damage down to 1hp and Greg takes about half his hp in damage. Sir Chetwyn takes out a goblin then shoots the bugbear, splitting Enthir’s arrow robinhood style. Adar casts toll the dead and fucks up Yeemik who then tries to negotiate.
He holds a knife to Sildar’s neck and says he will let him go if we kill Klarg so he can take his place as number 1. We take a risk and decide to let him slice Sildar’s throat in the hopes we can revive him. Greg winds up and throws a spear at Yeemik, at that same moment Yeemik slits Sildar’s throat auto-criting. The spear kills Yeenik by ripping his dick off and pinning it to the cave wall. Sildar slides down the escarpment with his leg still caught in Haesten’s vines. Haesten scrambles up the slope and shoves a goodberry in Sildar’s throat slit healing him to 1hp then runs over to a goblin on the stairs and shillelaghs him taking his head off, leaving it skewered on the end of his staff. He carves off an ear. The party finds 2 health potions, Haesten takes one and gives the other to Greg, the party takes a short rest to restore some HP before ending the session.