Magic Shop Owners Session 8

Session Notes

Calendar Date: 11-3-569

Stinkcat was let out of prison until the trial because they had know significant evidence that they did anything. Geog and Maia made their way to Whiterock in their own time, and everyone happened to meet in Eadan the blacksmith's shop in Whiterock. There, Maia commissioned an ignid scale shield, and both Maia and Stinkcat ordered ignid tooth daggers. Eadan said these could be collected within a week's time. They also discussed the illusionist guild that had taken over the town and how, since then, people had started to go missing in the lower docks. They also learnt about the arena tournaments that were taking place and that there were large rewards for winning them. 5000gp 1st place in the singles. 1000gp second, 500gp third. For doubles, triples, and quadruples, it was 2500gp for first, 500gp for second and 250gp for third if you survived. They then had a long discussion with Eadan about democracy, oligarchy, communism and other forms of governance.

They started discussing off-hand tactics to win in the arena, so they went to the hired room in the Gawping Cod to discuss this instead of doing it in the open. Inside, they decided that Geog would enter the singles tournament and Stinkcat, Maia, and Breadwig would do the triples. They also decided that they would do the fights legally since Stinkcat was only out on bail. On the way to the tournament, they went to the enchanter's shop. Inside Ceana, the small, old woman owner of the shop, which was stacked high with old books, told them about the enchantments she had on offer. Stinkcat had a homing enchantment and a silence enchantment applied to their bolas, Breadwig had is disintegration staff recharged, and she agreed to give them a recharge crystal in exchange for time to study the enchantments on the sword Darkfire and the Disintegration staff after the tournament.

With the bells chiming, saying that it was only half an hour until the tournament, the party rushed to enter the tournament. Geog was first fighting a powerful healer. His tactic was to throw a spear as he approached his opponent with Darkfire in defence mode and then switch Darkfire into offence mode to fight his opponent. He missed many attacks while his living armour was too strong for the healer to penetrate. Eventually, he swung around, decapitating the healer's head and killing him in one swoop. The arena announcer and crowd went wild. As Geog went to lift the head of the healer to encourage the crowd even more, he slipped the healer's wand up his sleeve. Next up, the rest of the party, who had given themselves the arena name Stagdo, was up against a trio of wood elf archer triplets. Stinkcat incapacitated one with their homing bolas, while Maia slung stones at the eye of another, and Breadwig shot a poison dart which embedded itself in the third's chest. The one with the poison dart shot back at Breadwig, landing a devastating blow. Maia used her light spell to blind everyone, both in the crowd and her opponents, but Stinkcat and Breadwig knew to look away. The triplets conceded.

For Geog's next round, he fought a well-equipped ranger who had a sword, bow and many potions. Geog skimmed him with his spear, drawing blood but doing little damage, and he shot back, but the arrow was very wide. Geog quickly closed the gap and chopped off the ranger's arm, who dropped his weapons and conceded. Next Stagdo were fighting a mage, an archer and a fighter. As they approached Breadwig, cast sleep, dropping the fighter, but everyone else remained unaffected. Maia hit another with her slingshot, knocking them over, and Stinkcat convinced them that it wasn't worth their continuing to fight.

For the final round, Geog fought a huge man called Davil the Destroyer. He had a huge axe coated in a purple corrosive poison. Geog went with his previous tactic and again missed with the spear. His first attack missed, resulting in Darkfire getting stuck in the sand. Davil swung at him but also missed. Geog switched Darkfire into defence mode, so it stopped melting into the ground, swung it over and tried to hit Davil's behind, but he was too well armoured, at the attack was deflected. Davil spun completely overreaching, fell to the floor and dropped his axe. Geog picked it up and sliced down Davil's back, corroding the armour. Geog threatened him into conceding, and Davil was happy to do so, so he could get the antidote for his poison. The announcer proclaimed him Geog the Mighty. The final Match was Stagdo vs three tanks. As they ran towards Stagdo, Breadwig used the disintegration staff, melting the leader's armour and causing his skin to begin to melt. Seeing the devastation, the opposing team instantly quit with a bit of persuasion from Stinkcat. They already had some prize money and didn't want to die for the rest.

Geog won 5000 gp and Stagdo won 2500 gp, which they split equally. Breadwig had put two 100 gp bets, one on Geog and another on their team to win, so he doubled his bet, getting 400 gp back. They went and collected the charging crystal from Ceana and gave their weapons over for study, and then began thinking about what they were going to do to get their colleagues out of prison.

XP

7900 xp Tournament Winnings
1000 xp Human kills
8900 xp total
2225 xp each

Published Content Used

• OSE (Classic and Advanced)