I'm a little nervous about running my own stuff, but I'm doing it. We'll see how it goes.
After character introductions, I told everyone that they were in The Feasting Dragon and trying to decide how to spend the night before the gates open in Cael Vista. Anjelle wanted to know if there were other options and I said there would probably be someone around Camillune could stay with if she'd rather.
Everyone else opted for rooms, with Ardour taking one of the three available nobility rooms. Innkeeper introduced himself as Winston Chalker and the evening passed.
In the morning, Camillune went to the gates directly from wherever she was staying. Winston and a newcomer named Rickard told them Grund's Vale had been overrun by goblins and they were requesting help. While everyone else debated, Winston went to the gates into Cael Vista and asked the people there waiting for the gate to open if they would help. Camillune was obviously the only one willing.
They traveled the roads south to the Vale and found the goblins. The villagers were holed up in the grange and the goblins were looting. Kaupu snuck forward while everyone was trying to decide what to do. Eventually everyone else decided to move up as well, and Peltogyne (if I'm remembering correctly) was the only one to fail the stealth check.
They destroyed the first group of goblins with Ardour shouting during one of his spellcastings. This alerted other goblins and they stomped through those just as easily. I had enough goblins here that dndbeyond declared it a deadly encounter, but as easily as they went through things, I clearly need to figure out encouter balance a little more.
Kaupu went into one of the nearby houses to look for a way onto the roof. Found nothing but rolled a nat 20. I put a sack with 75 gold in it under a floorboard for her to find. I wanted to see if it was going to be something she kept or what she'd do. This was via private message so no one else knew what she'd found.
We were close to end time so I narrated the end of the goblins fight as they'd dealt with the two groups so handily. They asked to spare two goblins for questioning. Privately, Caiti said she wanted to find out which villager owned the house where she'd found the money.
The goblins explained that they had lived in a nearby cave but had been driven out by gnomes. The group decided they wanted to go talk to the gnomes.
That's where we ended the session.
DM Note: Phil had to bow out due to work but asked the group to play anyway, with the DM running [[Ardour]] as a "battle bot". So, Phil's character was present for combat but otherwise uninvolved. The group continued on, passing through ranch country. 2nd DM note: I had intended for this to take a couple of days, but they were on the road and I forgot to mention it. Which probably has a lot to do with why they didn't end up interacting with any of the ranch people I had been thinking about. Oh well. Getting into the foothills of the mountains, they noted a very contained set of stormclouds. Early spring, storms are not unusual in the moutains, but the sky was otherwise clear. [[Lorrin]] recognized this as a sign of a dragon lair. Once under cover of the stormclouds, the group was attacked by an entity formed of dust and air. Having defeated it, [[Camillune]] said that they should expect others. Far ahead, they saw bonfire smoke and she began rushing in that direction...
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