Session 3: Battle in the Goblin Prison

"Battle in the Goblin Prison" was the third session of Campaign 1. Having slain the shaman and captured Chief Spittlebrick, the party moved into the final chamber of the Needlefang Cave, finding the source of the scream, and encountering a strange new ally...

The Story So Far
In the town of Stonecross, the Armathainian paladin – Cedric Harold Vermilion Poppy Goodfellow, 6th Viscount of Marchamp – hired a ragtag band of sellswords – Arashi the aasimar sorcerer, Dilern the elvish druid, John the loxodon monk and Malaxus the tiefling bard – to accompany him on a clerical endeavour to Correnwald in the swamps of Alagost, a nation of storm-wracked coasts and murky marshland.

''The mission found the newly-formed adventuring party – and Cedric’s three retainers – delving into the swamp-choked Fenmarrow Forest in the back of a wagon driven by a talkative man named Arvin. The journey was dangerous, as the path grew thick with gnarled roots and strangling vines – however, it was a goblin ambush that killed Arvin and alerted the party to the presence of a tribe nearby. The party slew their attackers, but heard a girl’s shriek in the woods and rushed to the source: a cave packed to the brim with vicious goblinoids.''

''You evaded the traps, slew the guards and discovered a glowing shortsword in the rubble before being set upon by squid-like darkmantles in the central cavern. After a gruelling fight that left Cedric and Arashi unconscious, John slew one while the other escaped upstream. You took a short rest before climbing a rubble-filled passage that John collapsed with some shoddy acrobatics.''

''After battling through a bugbear and his minions, hastily reviving a fallen Cedric, you found the chief’s cavern, where the obese Almighty Girthness Chief Spittlebrick watched a trio of goblin performers alongside his pet crocodile and his shaman. You killed the shaman, but Cedric and Arashi were taken out by a makeshift bomb while the crocodile mauled Malaxus, leaving John the last man standing. He crushed the crocodile’s head with his boot, beat the goblin chief into submission, and healed his party members with some hasty potions of healing and the final serving of gobsgog. Where we left off, John stands with his newly-revived companions, with the bloodied goblin chief cowering atop his pile of loot, and holds a mysterious and incriminating letter that he found in the Chief’s pile.''

Session Notes

 * The party tied up Spittlebrick and Malaxus pushed the remaining triplet into the fire. Cedric skinned the albino croc and received a decent pelt.
 * --- LONG REST ---
 * Headed up to the prison, failed Stealth.


 * Combat: Arashi used mage armour, Mallin killed a goblin with ice knife, Malaxus' thunderwave, John killed Poog, Cedric used shield of faith + dropped Byron's cage, a darkmantle landed on John's head, Crocodile 1 attacked Dilern and was slain by his ice knife, Crocodile 2 was impaled by Cedric and attempted to flee into the water but was killed by Malaxus' dagger. The darkmantle then tried to flee (using magical darkness) but Arashi's fire bolt slew it.


 * Loot uncovered 3 gold teeth, 15sp and a keyring on Poog, 6cp and a flask of gobsgog from dead goblins.
 * Freed Byron from the cage and John, Mallin and Arashi all made moves on her.
 * Spittlebrick revealed Chancellor Luther Maldrud was making him harry travellers on the road. Byron recognised the name as that of a well-respected treasurer in service to the Lord of Correnwald.
 * The party made plans to move on to Correnwald, find their lodgings and bring the captured Spittlebrick as proof to take down Maldrud.

The Party

 * Arashi Fulgar
 * Cedric Goodfellow
 * Dilern Lousseaghymn
 * John
 * Malaxus

New

 * Alice
 * Byron
 * Mallim
 * Poog †

Returning

 * Spittlebrick

Deaths

 * Goblins: killed by the party
 * Poog: killed by John
 * 2 crocodiles: killed by Dilern's ice knife and Malaxus' dagger