Session Transcripts

The text transcripts of all sessions to date.

Goblin Pickpockets arc

 * Session 1 - Characters established, several pick pocketed, meeting each other, begin investigating the gang of Granch Redmaw.


 * Session 2 - Discovery of three caves, exploration of the second one (first determined to be thief-less), encounter with a lone goblin, stumbling across an abandoned hideaway.


 * Session 3 - Moving on to the third cave, encounter with first guard force of three goblins.


 * Session 4 - Rat killing, being mistaken for customers, showdown with Granch Redmaw, surrender of most remaining goblins, mishap with a caster.


 * Session 5 - Getting (supposed) last two goblins, transferring everyone up to the surface, attempting to organize for departure, bear recruited, Terri runs into cave.


 * Session 6 -Catching up with Terri, discovery of more goblins, leaving them to march to Castleton, Barshal met, goblins dropped off at courthouse, Sszeyl and Trofim chat with Lethiriss, return to cave, moving in, encounter with two skeletons, stumble across room with cages, taking down two goblins.


 * Session 7 - freeing the captives of the goblins, taking the last two goblins captive, finally excavating the hideout, shenanigans, and a long walk back to Castleton.


 * Session 8 - Marching back to Castleton, group split up, dropping off final goblins and getting full reward, mini-dialogues abound, group reunites, sitting down in an inn, serious talk about future, silly food challenge.


 * Session 9 - Replay of serious talk for latecomers, dividing up the loot, planning the night, drow/gnome discussion, card game, shopping.


 * Session 10 - Conversing with Terri's brothers, errand running, more shopping, more talk, taking care of Fuzzy.

Necromancer Hunters arc

 * Session 11 - [Majority of transcript missing] Returning to the hideout, assault by demonic bird flock, clearing out hideout infested by animate anthropomorphic agriculture.


 * Session 12 - Planning, prepping, and resting.


 * Session 13 - Waking up, unexpected arrival, trouble with arrival, unexpected raid by rival goblin tribe, knocking out raiders, negotiating with arrival.


 * Session 14 - Short session; checking on Terri, discussions with Barbarus, talk of what to do with the goblins, playing in heatless flame.


 * Session 15 - Several members depart to find the mule, chat with the captured goblins, rushing to the mule-rescuer's rescue, brawl with Gerta Blacksword and the rest of the Blacksword tribe, poor teamwork, grim work, returning to cave.


 * Session 16 - Group talk over issues, finally dividing some loot, Gnogglebolt and Sszeyl go to town for supplies and meet Lethiriss and Zairith, getting a new lead, Barshal chats with Max, returning to cave, Sszeyl cleans out a cave, Gnogglebolt spends hours on a trap.


 * Session 17 - Negotiating with captured goblins, explaining who got Redmaw first, next day, Sszeyl cleaning up Salishea's cave, storm during the night, leaky caves, flooded room.


 * Filler 1 - Non-cannon filler, beach location. Barracuda attack, cooked seafood, making sandcastles, snow machine on the lifeguard tower, sand dragon to glass dragon, mule sets fire to snow, water cannon to put out fire, gnome home run with water cannon, gnome retrieved, gnome with a wrench again.


 * Session 18 - Next day, bailing out the the flooded room, Sszeyl and Gnogglebolt visit town again, next day, idling, next day, idling, last day of stakeout, Gnogglebolt finally explains plan for the last goblins, dividing Blacksword's loot, next day, Toris family guards excess loot, returning to Castleton, Derish and Barshal depart, reporting, going with Blacksword goblins to their den, discovering a worg skeleton and destroying it, searching around, hearing someone down in the cave.


 * Session 19 - Tathi enters the cave, zombies down the corridor, engaging the zombies, engaging a necromancer woman, bringing them all down, Trofim controls one zombie, Gnogglebolt argues with Trofim about dismissing it, Trofim heals the necromancer unnecessarily causing a short crisis, shouting match afterward.


 * Session 20 - Further berating with Trofim, discovering people trapped behind rubble, ultimatum for Trofim, knocking out Trofim, clearing away the rubble, discovering and puzzling over a suspected familiar, Tathi acting strange, discovering Tathi is possessed by dead goblin, poignant moment as dead goblin says goodbyes, Gnogglebolt explains situation to surviving goblins, hostility between Tathi and Sszeyl, preparing to depart.


 * Session 21 - Heading back to Castleton, getting through the gate, dropping off able-bodied Blackswords, Trofim, and the necromancer at the courthouse, explaining illegality of necromancy to Sszeyl, Gnogglebolt dropping off remaining goblins at an apartment, Sszeyl and Tathi discuss drow, Gnogglebolt befriends Elwick Silverscript and Ezekiel Chirehan, Elros meets a fortuneteller, Sszeyl tells Zairith the news, Gnogglebolt and Elros meet Max and Tharky at the Bronze Boot, Sszeyl arriving, last-minute loot dividing, agree to meet the next day, Gnogglebolt introducing Ezekiel to all the goblins, Sszeyl meets with Zairith and Lethiriss, Tathi arrives, familiar fight, Tathi speaks with SZ&L.


 * Mini Session Marathon 1 - Next day, Gnogglebolt checks on Schink, confesses the truth about Trofim to the courthouse guard, Sszeyl speaks with Zairith about Tathi, Tathi visits the library and encounters a lycanthrope lord, Barbarus meets a friend of his brother, Elros gets involved with an escaped druid, the others meet at the Bronze Boot.


 * Session 22 - Elros arrives at Bronze Boot, talk of party cohesion, Miron and Thomas jump in, talk of who's doing what, talk of a party name, Vigilant (Guardians) decided on, investigating commotion on the street, running to the goblin apartment, furious engagement with two fiendish wolves and a dire wolf, Ezekiel, Sszeyl, and Thomas all taken down (but not dead), aftermath, bad druid-woman loose in the city, werewolf finds Gnogglebolt, Gnogglebolt hands over a code (forgot to decipher), wrapping up, heading for the Toris shop.


 * Session 23 - Chatting on the way to the shop, chatting and hijinks with Toris family, Tathi gets possessed by a hostile spirit, subduing Tathi, aftermath, checking the chest of items, discovery of a pouch with mementos from Terri, selling non-memento items to the Toris family, Sszeyl leaves to buy wood and meets Rhylinar, more chatting with the family, Thomas stumbles across the code again, Gnogglebolt asks Nathaniel about Papa, Sszeyl goes back to Zairith's place, Thomas competes in a caber-toss, Gnogglebolt asks the goblins about the druid.


 * Mini Session Marathon 2 - Barbarus rescues a chicken stall from a giant rat, goes to the Bronze Boot and reconnects with some other catfolk, Gnogglebolt arrives and asks Max about 'Mama' and Salishea, Tharky puts on his show, Gnogglebolt goes to the temple of Pelor and tells Thomas about Trofim, Sszeyl chats with fellow drow, Thomas and Gnogglebolt arrive and tell Zairith and Sszeyl about what's going on with Trofim, then retire for the night; next morning, Thomas and Gnogglebolt go to the holding cells to collect Trofim, Trofim insists on seeing Zairith, the group goes back to Zairith and Lethiriss's place, Gnogglebolt negotiates with Lethiriss, Thomas and Gnogglebolt leave Trofim with them and return to the Bronze Boot.


 * Session 24 - Everyone arrives at the Bronze Boot, Gnogglebolt gets everyone up to speed on the plans for the week, shows the others the keepsakes from Terri, a letter from Kethanis arrives saying the druid-woman has moved to the next town over, letter from the Palm arrives saying that they've uncovered the identity of several more necromancers in the "Blackskull" gang right in Castleton, group agrees to work on rooting out the Blackskulls, Miron gets a fellow Leaden Mace to help, everyone goes out to investigate, Barbarus takes the voucher from the Palm and sees what his contacts know (finds nothing), Sszeyl goes to talk to Rhylinar for advice, then goes with Elros to check out the sewers (learned that corpses can be illegally sold in places near the East Gate), Gnogglebolt and Tathi check arcane university records and talk to Ezekiel and the leader of the Society of Saltmarsh (found information on the two necromancers and name of the Blackskull leader), Miron checks the library (finds information on Francis York aka Morgan aka Zach aka Adrian), Thomas asks people around his temple (found same information as Sszeyl and Elros), Everyone meets back up at the Bronze Boot at night and shares information, Flint arrives and says he found an old Nerull temple with active zombies in it, everyone decides to infiltrate the temple the next day.


 * Session 25 - Next day, Gnogglebolt wakes up early and cobbles an electric grenade, party begins to arrive at the Clear Vial, party talks a bit about the plan, Sszeyl quickly teaches Gnogglebolt how to act like a servitor, Flint arrives, party goes over final details of the plan, party heads out to the abandoned house, party decides to enter through belowground, Sszeyl, Barbarus, and Gnogglebolt press ahead along as per the plan, encounters severe resistance, abandons plan, whole party begins plowing through several rooms of zombies and skeletons, end in a room with an altar.


 * Session 26 - Party presses forward, engages some more undead, some of the party finds Baxter and Baum Spindlethorn and engages them, Spindlethorn brothers defeated, an owlbear skeleton is dealt with, a few more undead are taken care of, tense interrogation of one of the brothers on behalf of Sszeyl, Tathi and Miron raid the bookshelves, clearing out anything useful from the hideout, taking the brothers to the courthouse, setting the bodies of the dead in order, Miron and Flint deliver some Palm armor to its proper owners, gnome tossing, Thomas speaks with Father Trebedis about the recent escapades of the party.


 * DrowTalk 1 - Beware the drow who has been challenged.


 * Session 27 - Everyone gathers at the Bronze Boot, decides to head to the Leaden Mace compound instead, the spoils gathered are divided, some decided to head to sleep, Tathi gets drunk and causes shenannigans, Miron chases a rat, next day, a letter from Kedthanis arrives, everyone takes care of personal errands.


 * Goblin Trial - The goblin arc finally comes to its conclusion as their trial gets underway, and a verdict is passed.

Witch Hunters arc

 * Session 28 - Next day, more personal errands, next day, the goblin trial, next day, everyone meeting up outside the Bronze Boot, messenger for Tathi, departing for Redtree, party is observed by fiendish ravens on the road, party engages the raves, one escapes, party is assaulted by fiendish wolves during the night, one escapes again, next day, continuing to Redtree.


 * Interrogation 1 -


 * Session 29 - Elros meets back up with the party with a companion, arrival in Redtree, appears deserted, villagers actually hiding, talking with lead village archer, telling party's reason for arrival, asking about Jonah Restren, going over to Restren's house, finding petrified people, engaging Restren, finding a cockatrice, killing the cockatrice and capturing Restren, finding more petrified people (including Kethanis), using found potions to free Kethanis and three others, handing Restren over to villagers, taking remaining petrified people back to the village, talking with important villagers about plan to take on the rogue druid.


 * Session 30 - Gearing up for the journey, heading out, seeing yet more ravens, all ravens taken down, finding a pit trap the hard way, noticing two Briarclaws and a large fiendish wolf, engaging and killing them, camping for the night, next day, proceeding forward again, coming to a fork in the path, noticing an assassin vine down one path, going the other direction instead, seeing a massive pack of fiendish wolves outside of a cave, wiping out said pack, noticing someone in the cave.


 * Filler 2 -


 * Session 31 - Meeting with an elf and lizardfolk in the cave, bringing them along, getting them equipped, proceeding forward, encountering Pumpkin Heads, Tathi momentarily possessed, engaging vegetables, river of doom, continuing to search for Brairclaw's hideout.


 * Session 32 - Scouts proceed forward, find a group of ravens, party catches up, engaging the ravens, finding the Briarclaw spymaster at the mouth of a cave, defeating the spymaster, figuring out how to get into the cave, entering the cave, seeing Brairclaw ahead on a pillar, tense dialogue with Brairclaw, engaging Briarclaw and her remaining lackys, long intense battle, Brairclaw attempts to go invisible to escape, capturing her anyway, Kethanis takes away her druid powers.


 * Session 33 - Securing Briarclaw in the side cave, Barbarus moves ahead, Kethanis secures another still-living druid, Barbarus notices voices in a cavern, party catches up with him, seeing caged people, Veinfrost bursts out of his room with a pack of minions, desperate fight, miraculously no casualties, freeing the captives, moving back to the side-caves, trying to settle everyone down, Brairclaw awakens, Gnogglebolt interrogates with her, argument wih Miron over Briarclaw's fate, Tathi ends the argument (Briarclaw dead), everyone turns in for the night.


 * Session 34 - Next morning, storm still raging, tending to a sick Aelian, clearing out the rest of the cave, pumpkinheads and fiendish beasts destroyed, one trained fiendish wolf taken alive and given to Kethanis, caring for the captives, learning from Zylaro about David Morian, fat rat shenanigans, Miron and Tathi talk about Briarclaw, next day, storm ended, Kethanis departs, walking everyone back to Redtree, reuniting everyone, reporting to the mayor, Thomas and Gnogglebolt look into the matter of Jolenta, Tathi and Aelian get it on.


 * Lootsplitting 1 - Dividing up massive backlog of loot.


 * Session 35 - Moping around the village, Khada 10th of Ehlon, Festival of Restoration, villagers prepare for the feast, little gifts and offerings of food left for the Guardians, everyone has a good time at the feast, Loda 11th of Ehlon, party packs up, messenger from Reyen arrives with news and mementos for Jolenta, heading back to Castleton with Zylaro, Jolenta, Edaric, and Aelian, some of the party go with Zylaro and Jolenta to the Leaden Mace headquarters, Commander Ashmore scries Jolenta's necklace, discovering she is Planetouched by the heavens. SKIP to Loda 17th of Ehlon, party heads to Sszeyl's cave for the party, the Mysterious Messenger intercepts with a warning, party arrives at the cave, Thomas gets pulled away by the mercenaries, everyone else settles in and starts a tour, Thomas rushes back in and warns the party of a breach, eeryone rushes forward to attempt diplomacy, Gnogglebolt meets with Rin Brenin again, she and other mercs are unreasonable until Edgar arrives, everyone returns to partying with most of the mercs accompanying, the rest of the guests arrive, drinking contest.


 * Mini Session Marathon 3 -