The Road to Thistletop

Summary
The party went on a boar hunt with Andern and then met Shelalu. Then one of the servants of The Rusty Dragon showed a note to the party that showed that Keimo is now missing, and she has appeared to have gone to the Glassworks. Now the party has just broken into the Glassworks...


The band of adventures start the evening with The Rusty Dragon in full effect with excitement taking place everywhere. In which Andern Foxglove is fitting the bill for all the drinks and food the party can consume. Ameiko the owner of the tavern is providing special food and drink that she has in her reservoir of exotic wares.

As they sit and talk to Andern, he drunkenly proposes that the party go on a Boar Hunt the following morning in Tickwood Forest. He asks the group if they knew why the forest is named Tickwood Forest? Which elites the goblin-killing groupies that have started to follow the party around town. He answers the question, stating that the forest is named after the very large ticks that reside in the forest. And he professes that there are no goblins in this part of Varisia.

The next morning the party leave early for Tickwood Forest, in which Andern has purchased horses for each party member. As they ride out of town all the employees of the stables are out to cheer them on as they go ‘hunting’!

As they take the north east trail to the forest they get their first good view of what is called Devils Platter. A long expansive area that stretches on and on as far as the eye can see.

Then once they get into the forest they quickly encounter their first boar. Which the party kills fairly quickly, but one of the horses is severely injured. Andern has potions of cure light wounds that he gives the wounded horse after the boar is killed.

The party returns to Sandpoint without any additional encounters with the cut up corpse of the boar. Which Andern gives to Ameiko and asks for it to be cooked and provided to everyone at the tavern.

After the party has cleaned up and is ready to eat dinner Sheriff Hemlock approaches the party and asks them to follow him to City Hall. Which they agree to and find that only the city guard are on the outside of the building.

They entire and meet with the Mayor and a tall elf named Shalelu. Hemlock goes on and on about Shalelu and her recent accomplishments of taking care of goblins in the surrounding area. Once the Sheriff is done Shalelu introduces herself and talks about how she has noticed an uprising of goblin tribes in the area.

Once she is done with her report the Sheriff quickly states that in the early morning he will be leaving for Magnimar to request additional soldiers for defense from the goblins. And then he leaves, leaving the party with the Mayor and Shalelu. Once the Sheriff is gone Shalelu invites the party to dinner to discuss further the goblin tribes in the area.

What went Right

1. The activities of NPCs were alright and nothing bad happened to the party.

What went Wrong

1. GM had to work late, so there was a one hour delay

2. GM had video streaming from webcam, which impacted players ability to hear and participate. Need to turn off next time.

Chaos at Sandpoint

This time the party describes their appearance to each of the other party members. In which they are starting to learn a little about each other's back stories. But they don't provide too much information.

Cinder is a Tiefling warrior who looks to be much more then just a fighter. He has glowing eyes and an attitude of anger about him.

Charron, a Half-Orc brute that no one wants to mess with.

Davakas, a Half-Elf fighter that is always looking for the change to throw his daggers!

and Harkrug, another Half-Orc that appears to have a spiritual element about him at all times.

As the dust settles from the two fights the party had with Goblins, they hear fighting 20 yards away and a man screaming for help. They rush over to see a man lying on the ground bleeding. And they see his dog get killed by a ruthless Goblin Commando. The party runs up and takes out the commando and his goblin henchmen easily enough.

Then they finally go back to their rooms at The Rusty Dragon. In which all the occupants of the tavern want to buy the party drinks and food. Charron and Harkrug are both pleasantly surprised how much gratitude they receive from the Humans of Sandpoint, in which they are used to not receiving so much thanks in other countries of Golarion.

Then Cinder learns that one woman has a little bit more in mind. In fact she asks the group to help her get rid of some rats in her Father's General Store.

The party helps her by going down into the basement. But then they quickly find out it was actually a setup by Shayliss to get the party down there and frame them. The father comes down and tries to hit one of the party members. Fortunately they are able to dissuade him of such violent thoughts. The Father takes the daughter away and now the party has even more infamy in Sandpoint. As well as potentially some good discounts on general goods!

Then the party goes to the Boneyard and destroys two Skeletons, learning about Erekian's sarcophagus has been vandalized and the body stolen! Sheriff Hemlock and Temple Leader Zantus are both grateful for their help with the skeletons.

What went right during this game:

1. GM had macros setup for combat creatures attack

2. Story line was smoother and combat was better paced.

What went wrong:

1. GM was not fully setup with maps and NPCs for the scenarios the players were playing.

2. The 3 hour time slot that some players wanted didn't actually work with the group, in which we had a couple of people drop off around 2 1/2 hours of game time.

Meeting at Sandpoint

The estranged party do not each other yet, but they each have their own personal reason for being at the Swallowtail Festival in the early morning. They hear the presentations from Sandpoint's leaders Sheriff Belor, Cyrdak,

Then combat takes place, which Cinder, Charron, Davakas, Harkrug, and Arcyss are able to quickly kill some of the main Goblins in the festival square.

Now there is a lull in the combat and excitement.

GM Notes - What went right and what went wrong

Wrong

1. Had issues with everyone signing into Google Hangouts, some players thought we would use the roll20.net video/audio. But I know that Google Hangouts is faster on slower networks, so I prefer to use that.
2. Some players had trouble viewing their character sheets in roll20, hopefully that is fixed now.
3. Some players are confused regarding their back stories. I had purposely made the back stories a little vague so that the players need to investigate in Sandpoint to determine all the facts.
4. The rolling of initiative could have gone smoother, hopefully in future games it will be better.
5. Combat could have gone smoother with understanding of each players armor class and damage abilities.

Right

1. The initial festival maps and introduction was alright.