Plot 4: Hook Mountains

Plot

 * We climb up the mountain to follow the tracks
 * Asana and aqua find a demi-god ghost and make some deal with him ? to get a blessing ?
 * His name is Cayden Cailiean
 * He is some god of drinking and he doesn’t remember his story too much because of his drinking
 * It is currently 4709
 * He wasn’t always a god, he was a talden mercenary, but he wasn’t very good at it
 * Him and his buddies were in absalom once and he took the test of the starstone, and he did it blackout drunk
 * He saw a bunch of gods and they all congratulate them
 * He's been wandering around drinking for around 2000 years
 * He mentions sin magic?
 * The mercenaries are only after aqua not me
 * He mentions some prophecy but were not in it
 * “Varisia is intense danger”
 * He does not know thassilonian
 * dobarchu is still alive:
 * Pretty good guy - very serious
 * Protector of magnimar
 * He's not a demi god?
 * What we saw was not his true form???
 * He is something else
 * He’s only 600 years old
 * Until I see him in his true form ? I may not be his type ?
 * Political trouble in Korvosa? He's got to go
 * Were about halfway to the top
 * We start to climb again and we see mummified bodies
 * Asana checks one body
 * High cheek bones
 * Looks like a different form of human? He looks odd
 * His armor looks antiquated
 * Hes got a sword
 * I see the other body
 * Another humanoid
 * I poke the body
 * The body shifts weird
 * A thin wisp of white smoke rises into an angry set of of ghosts
 * We kill them (sorta)
 * The bodies don't really have anything on them
 * They are not equipped to be in mountains
 * Their armor have the sihedron symbol on them
 * Thassilonian soldiers!!!
 * They have scars but no tattoos or markings
 * aqua/asana find some tunnel with a magic that looks at alignment
 * The tracks keep going up the mountain
 * Grauk makes it through the alignment check
 * He hears someone speaking in two languages - no one recognizes them (but i'm not there so idk)
 * Giant and thassilonian were spoken
 * The giant is “wrath identified what master do you serve”
 * We’ll check it on our way back
 * We see hook mountain is sorta shaped like a hook
 * We see a cave entrance with 2 ogres
 * Closer ogre is complaining about the cold and guard duty - “gotta protect the clanhold”
 * We kill them and find a giant statue
 * The statue is not made of stone
 * A perfectly petrified stone giant
 * I destroyed the stone giant to get the necklace he was wearing
 * I hear two ogres and a 3rd voice
 * “Lumbug we stand here yes ”
 * Yes we stand here
 * We see little people? We hit bell
 * The guy will smash the bell 3x then kill us
 * 3rd voice is a hill giant
 * We kill them and then in next room is blacksmiths and a shit ton of ogres
 * Barl was the leader of the clanhold
 * We kill them next - UTARN DIES
 * We loot 575 gold - 142 gold and 5 silver each
 * We heal with potions and continue
 * I use spell to map out the caves
 * We continue and we find 3 hags with an orb
 * I get stuck in cage
 * The hags are who is making the snow/rain recently in the whole region
 * We teleport back to magnimar
 * We land in front of guards
 * They take us to defiance garden to talk to haldmeer and valani
 * As we walk there, we notice a lot more guards around and people seem more nervous
 * No thieves like there were before ?
 * Aqua asks the guards about whats been going on
 * “Corsova has been making political advances against magnimar”
 * “Lord mayor has created stricter laws to present more outward strength”
 * There are more golems with the guards around the mayor
 * Valani is now armed and the lord mayor is actually doing paperwork and shit
 * We tell the lord mayor everything
 * Lord mayor sends guard to get 5 engineers to go look at the damn, and also sends a guard to the prison to get 30 more black arrows
 * He also gives us instructions to go to a potion shop and a coupon for 5000 gold at the “acid and luck” shop owned by woman named Suwell Fernsten (goes by su)
 * Receipt for reward for treasury for 10,000 gold
 * We have to come back to the mayor later for a list of contacts
 * He gives us some official wax stamp with a note so we can walk freely to the defiance garden
 * He tells us the blacksmiths that work with magical items “most excellent order of smiths”
 * We got to the treasury
 * We see someone selling boar hides
 * He is trandor sagsod
 * I buy a boar hide from him
 * We get to the treasury building and there are clerical workers inside
 * This guy has ink smudges on his face
 * He's bringing us 10000 gold ?
 * He brings us 10 pouches with 100 platinum in each
 * 2500 gold EACH
 * We go to potion shop in a quarter district
 * I leave dobarchu one last note in the docs saying sorry wrong person
 * We see Su who is a human woman that is 35 and she seems weird in half leather and half cloth
 * She releases a spell of invisibility and all her potions suddenly appear
 * She tells us she likes Mwagni Expanse men (aka black)
 * We order:
 * 4 Bladed barrier potions
 * 13 cure moderate wounds
 * 1 potion of catatonia (puts 1 creature into catatonic state)
 * We see a lighthouse called the wyrm watch on our way to the blacksmith
 * We get to the most excellent order of smiths
 * We talk about enchantments and then we mention we have iron
 * They get suspicious and we start talking in gnomish
 * Basically, we’re bad for stealing iron??
 * We give trandor a gold to deliver the message to verner to meet
 * We wait for him to get back and we go to the car-dune fishery at the bizarre of sales to meet verner
 * Fog shows up fisherman CONFIRMS SUSPICION
 * Verner shows up
 * He translates coins for me and buys me
 * Xin was only emperor/king of thassilon
 * Only one king named Xin who had a capital named “Xin-Shalast”
 * No one know where the kingdon used to be
 * Lost during the earthfall events
 * The goblet is not thassilonian make - ancient aslanti make
 * Aslanti are precursor to humans
 * Aroden was the last aslanti
 * Verner leaves
 * Grauk saw a note about a meeting between dobarchu and the lord mayor tomorrow night
 * Erasmus comes back and sees A RIPPLE IN THE WATER
 * No one seems to show up so we decide to go to the lord mayors again
 * The fog follows us to the garden
 * We see the lord mayor and a woman who will accompany us
 * Kilfa solid-feather is a full elf woman in white robes
 * Dark black hair
 * Scars on shoulders
 * Pale complexion
 * She looks like an aristocrat
 * She has no weapons
 * She cant turn into a bird, she cant teleport, she can heal, she does worship gods
 * Her conditions: upon completion of this shell go back to her wife and children
 * Well meet her at the northeastern gates at dawn - triodio gates
 * I look at his desk and see reports:
 * Report 1: Thunderstorms and high waves reported at abandoned Brinewall Castle.
 * Report 2: Farming settlement destroyed near Windsong Abbey. Surviving farmers report giants (unsupported claims, could be farmers making up stories again)
 * Report 3: Cattleband near Mosswood has not reached Sandpoint. Expected 1 week ago. No contact from the band leader.
 * We sell him 750 iron ingots for 3000$ (750 gold each)
 * We go to the tawny owl and bathe and eat
 * We teleport to the caves the next morning
 * We step in the cave and we run into two ogres - one rings the bell
 * “Klar hold the line, i'll go get more krees”
 * We fight
 * We run after we defeat the ogres and run into some more
 * In a distant room we see lamatar baden as an UNDEAD
 * We kill lamatar and put his bones in bag of holding
 * Utarn is a zombie
 * I hear barl say “enough i will help you deal with these mites, they've troubled me long enough”
 * We fight him and i do the last shot
 * He dead
 * I find
 * Wand of something (asana)
 * M.w. Earthbreaker Hammer (700 gold)
 * Headband of vast intelligence (+2 int) (asana)
 * Sihedron Medallion
 * Spellbook with necromancy spells (asana)
 * 9200 Gold Pieces(2408 each)
 * 650 gp worth of Black onyx gems (670 gold)
 * 40 garnets (3200 gold)
 * 12 emeralds (poor quality) (1200 gold)
 * 14 Malachite (good quality) (6200 gold)
 * 3 Sapphires (good quality)
 * 2 gilded horns (animal not instrument)
 * painting of a fortress
 * painting of a mountain valley
 * 32 +1 arrows (grauk)
 * 12 +1 giants bane arrows (grauk)
 * +2 light fortification studded armor (+5 AC) (aqua)
 * +1 longsword (250 gold)
 * +1 Composite Longbow (630 gold)
 * Viscous adamantine trident (2200 gold)
 * Belt with intricate details of a cougar in motion (+2 dex) (keep)
 * Cloak of Elven kind (+5 comp bonus on stealth checks) (grauk)
 * Pair of boots with snowflakes embroidered on the sides - boots of winterlands (no difficult terrain if snow/ice, up to -50 degree F, leave no tracks in snow)
 * 1 note sealed with wax (seal is broken)
 * Grauk find:
 * 432 gp
 * Small bronze hammer
 * Bottle with questionable liquid inside
 * Bottle with questionable liquid inside


 * We teleport to magnimar
 * We go to defiants garden and pass the guards
 * He gives us directions to “the dragons wand” a wand shop
 * It's on the avenue of roses on the right
 * It is 2:3pm ish
 * Blaze buys a wand
 * We go to a potion/scroll making place
 * League of jewelers to sell gems
 * He gives us his card - Buurstall
 * Freegans smithy to sell weapons
 * We sell lots to freegan
 * Erasmus comes back with a note from the meeting between the mayor and dobarchu
 * We bathe and then decide to go to the shady pier
 * We order luglurch beer, but the waitress is suspicious of us
 * So we leave our weapons with grauk at the bar
 * We go over to lastric vaughn
 * We have to fistfight juka, a half orc
 * We lose and leave and go back to inn to sleep for the night
 * We teleport to white willow and give her the bones
 * She does magic to revive him, but she's gone
 * He asks where myrianna is, and when I tell him she died to save him, he is ashamed but resolved
 * He says he's going to protect white willow now
 * We teleport to the suspicious thassilonian cave on hook mountain
 * We drop inside the cave
 * We see transmutation magic, an alarm spell, and evocation spell
 * Grauk steps in and says something in a language, once we dont understand, second in giant
 * “Sin detected identify yourself”
 * Another giant set of words after grauk says wrath:
 * “Spies detected kingdom of Bakrakhan”
 * I try saying “we serve under the ruler of xin” but the robots don't care (they do understand)
 * When grauk steps off, and aqua steps on, the voice says “sin detected greed” and the portals disappear
 * I step in and the giant says “Sin detected identify yourself”, “unauthorized access spy detected”
 * When asana walks in “pride detected spy”
 * Aqua says were her minions, and the guy speaks
 * “Servant of greed you are welcome there are 3 spies kill them”
 * We leave so aqua can continue
 * Once were gone “are you delivering new subjects last request was placed 9832 years ago”
 * Aqua says “request for delivery has been acknowledged”
 * “Facilities last output was 9829 years ago, last human overseer died 9825 years go, are you the replacement?”
 * Aqua says “can you speak other languages”
 * “No”
 * Aqua says “yes”
 * “Your quarters are down the hall and to the right, i am overseer STO981 tell me what you need”
 * Aqua says “i will return”
 * Aqua says “i will return”