Hanzo makes sushi with the Meenlock meat and distributes it around.
Met Maurice, who mentioned:
- “You cannot hear the drums in your head? Why do you think the city is on fire!”
- Took a liking to Harloc, surprised he hasn’t been claimed yet. Asks if he’s seen lots of rats recently.
- Joins the party
- All along the watchtower
- “There must be some way out of here” said the joker to the thief
- “Wildcat howls, Two riders were approaching, wind picks up”
- “Looks like a businessman, the plowmen will come next”
- “There’s too much confusion”
- “Let’s not talk falsely now, the hour’s getting late”
All Along The Watchtower
The party approach the city gates. They see a 2 mounted men being denied exit from the city.
- One of the mounted men is reserved and dressed in a rich fine cloak
- The other is talking animatedly with the guard.
It is revealed that the city gates have been seized by the military in an effort to stabilize the riots.
Helia tries to sneak off to get closer and loses her footing. In her surprise, she screams her own name.
The guards ask who goes there. Hanzo recalls a side gate entrance wide enough for his wagon.
Helia backs away and the party make haste towards this gate. They hear an alarm being sounded, and guards from the battlements looking for them. They also hear dogs on their trail.
The party throws their sushi on the ground and keeps moving towards the gate. Ev eats one of the sushi and vomits it back up.
The dogs eat the sushi and suddenly start whining, rearing up and running the other way. The party realizes that the Meenlock meat was tainted with fear venom.
As they approach the gate, they see that it’s rusted over. Harloc casts thaumaturgy and manifests oiled hinges, while Hanzo casts thaumaturgy to cause the gate to fling open.
The party make their way through the gate while Maurice cackles.
Hanzo casts thaumaturgy again to close the gate behind them. The guard at the battlements is confused and looks the other way, allowing the party to sneak away.
As the party gets to the outskirts, they start setting up camp in a wooded area. However they soon hear a disturbance with howls and shaking trees.
Helia investigates and finds 3 gnolls digging into a deer corpse. They engage combat:
- Maurice casts ??? and causes 1 gnoll to double over laughing
- Helia entangles all 3 gnolls
- Ev casts fire spell in cone and does a ton of damage
As the party is fighting these gnolls, they hear a big howling and rustling coming from the bushes.
As they dispatch the 3 gnolls, a gnoll pack lord emerges.
The party takes down the pack lord, Hanzo uses his rope dart to yank him to his knees. In a flash, his tail whips out and he uses a scorpion stinger to finish the pack lord.
Helia drags the deer corpse back for stew.