The party starts in a night market. The head of Vasara Adventuring Company, Seliph Orsterra, says there are people that need saving in the coal mines and will head out the next morning. All 4 characters meet / find each other. A couple eccentric characters were met along the way. We end at night.
Seliph: “On behalf of Vasara Adventuring Company, of who I represent, tomorrow we will be setting out on expedition, deep in the mines, there’s been a bit of trouble, need adventurers like you”
A woman with gigantic disproportionately sized battleaxe
Tall lanky eyes w/round glasses and black soot
Holding tiny eldritch cannon, petting softly
Eldritch cannon has anatomically correct human legs (what??)
A woman that looks hella smart, pointed glasses, wand, just juggling a ball of fire, being showy
Seliph: “We need adventurers tomorrow morning, as we fear, there’s an infestation in the mines, we need competent fighters and intelligent navigators. Unfortunately, we won’t be let in because there’s a cave in, and too dark to blast in, need to rescue those ppl, because tomorrow, right after we get out, the arena duels start, and I want to be there for that.”
“The sooner you help us rescue them, the sooner we can have a damn good time tomorrow. Food will be served in banquet hall, if any of u would like to come with us, come with me, I’ll be meeting at the tavern”
Seliph has fanboys in the crowd
Observations on Seliph:
Can hear uncertainty in his voice, he’s confident but he’s not perfect
Has a little doubt in his ability
Has a little suspicion, who could’ve caused this
Questions left lingering in air
Seliph marches over to tavern
General 1
Skaga and Quill are questioning it, the fanboys are gone
Others went to get free food
Tall women with wand showing off, deep in thought, mumbling to herself
Man petting his cannon, he’s lost in thought, a little nervous
Tiny gnome with massive axe, not properly balanced, looks enraged, she believes this was intentional but doesn’t know who/what it is
Night market has thousands of people
Man with cannon. visibly stressed: “I want to help but I am a little busy”
Women w/wand: Lost in thought, completely ignoring everyone else, unfazed, as if out of it
Tiny lady: Hear axe grinding on ground as she marches to catch up to Seliph fanboys
Skaga approached by cannon man
Cannon man: “Say you look competent, are you gonna go? I’m feeling rather uncertain”
Cannon man begins pacing around Skaga
Skaga: “Why of course I’m going, it seems glorious!”
Cannon man: “Seems glorious , wonders of logistics, if I go, who runs, I just don’t know” hella nervous and petting cannon “at least I don’t have to worry” nervous ramblings
Starts pacing around woman w/wand
Quill: “Are their ducks stuck down there?”
Man with cannon starts thinking about ducks and wildlife
Infestation, dragons (how did he get there lol), and now he’s panicking
The woman mage w/wand snaps out of it, mage hand (the spell) floating by, as the man paces around, the women swipes the cannon with mage hand, “what an interesting specimen, anatomical deformity, unaware cannons had biological life”
Man is still pacing: “WAIT WHERE’D MY CANNON GO”
Sits down, grabs dirt, starts grinding fists together, as he does this, the cannon begins to fade away from the mage hand, he begins making a new one
He’s an artillerist
Quill walks toward free food
In the Tavern
In the tavern
Skaga flies towards Seliph fanboys, overdramatically, swoop over, land in middle of crowd
Attempts graceful landing, swatted a couple ppl, tavern doors are closed, ppl don’t pay attention
From within tavern, hear clanking boots, see someone trying to lock pick the tavern door, but failing, piles of broken lockpicks on ground
As soon as the doorknob twists, ppl flood into tavern, all seats at bar taken
Seliph is not inside, some others from vanguard tho
Tall half-elf women, similar plate armor, also big ass sword
Looks like she has authority
Tavern is well-kept, despite intense floodgates
Bartender (well-dressed), already working tirelessly
Everyone’s drinking beer, occasionally some elegant ones with wine
Skaga struts towards women with big ass sword
About same height, eye to eye,
Lady: “Hello, can I help you?” etc. “Are you interested in joining”
Skaga: “You have my blade”
Lady: “A fine blade indeed, could always use ppl with fine caliber, have any other skills?”
Skaga: “I can adapt :)”
Lady: “I’ll put you on the vanguard, (whisper: cause the vanguard pays the most hehe). We depart right at morning. I’m staying on 2nd floor, can’t say where Seliph is staying cause otherwise he’d never get any rest from the fanboys”
She leaves
Quill dashes towards free food simultaneous to Skaga talking to the lady
Giant banquet hall, there is a massive line, but pretty fast cause they’re serving food like crazy
Quill gets food, take out obviously, but don’t see any seats, just sit on the sidewalk somewhere, just happens to see Amoiváda and Bloo, who is enamored by strawberry yogurt
Bloo totally ignores Quill’s angy comments about earlier run-in (shouting match here)
Amoiváda morphs into large-ish duck, gets face squished by Quill
Quill: “Tavern sounds like a bad place, alcohol sounds bad for you, bad memories associated with alcohol”
Amoiváda waddles to tavern, Bloo follows her
See Owlin standing on table, right in the center, majority of ppl are just drinking and not paying attention, see couple other faces seen before and acknowledged it but not doing much
Very noisy
Amoiváda is here on a quest?
Bloo bows to the Skaga cause they’re on a table and tall, we talk, Skaga likes Bloo’s taste
Man with cannon walks in
Cannon walks in with anatomically correct elf arms (wot)
Very protective
Amoiváda morphs finger arms to shake the cannon’s arms
Cannon man: “You seem to get along quite nicely”
Amoiváda: “I like creations by nature”
Cannon man: “Dunno if this is nature but I did create this myself”
Cannon man reaches in back pocket for wood carving knife, “I compress ground and dirt to make them, here lemme demonstrate”
He kinda shy tho
Plops cannon on ground outside
“FIRE”
Shoots little flames in conical shape, 15ft. far
He’s so proud
Snap of fingers, cannon collapses into dust (Noooo)
People in tavern are betting on arm wrestling
See one person undefeated, seems rather weak / frail looking
Thin almost bony arms, how is he winning, does not discriminate, get coin and glory
23 GP just sitting on the table beside him
Seems rather confident
“Challenge, challenge, challenge”
Skaga hops across on tables, just swoop into the chair
Bloo follows
Skaga pulls out a bag of 20GP, dumps out on table, frail arm wrestle man’s eyes widen
He feels it’s a difficult battle
Skaga slams his arm down, and now the illusion is fading, the scrawny man is actually hella buff
Skaga: “did u see that did u see that”
Everyone yelling at fake scrawny man: “FRAUD” “FRAUD” “FRAUD”
Half a mug of beer flies straight at his right eye
Hear him curse, he gets out and walks out
Bloo tries to trip him, but he lands gracefully and does a somersault on the way out
Skaga gets 23 GP
Everyone is praising Skaga for beating the dude and for just being cool
Drunk crowd surveying Skaga, who’s preening, hear heavy metal clamping down the stairs, see women in plate armor craning over, she has a smug grin
Quill 2
Quill is completely unaware of what is happening, “Mmhm soup”
In the torchless dark alleys, Quill climbs into someone’s house, decides to sleep under bed by spreading mass out flat-ish