Team Alfa Thirty-Ninth Session

Notes

1 New Year's Festival

• Further discussion leads to the group changing their minds and heading upriver to Monster Town instead.
• First day out they run into a patrol of goblins, hobgoblins, and worg-riding orcs.
  • While not exactly friendly they are not overtly hostile and explain they are on patrol against gnoll raiders who cross the river regularly. They warn the party against making trouble, but say as long as they pay the entrance fee they will be allowed in.
• 2nd day they hear a baby crying on the other side of the river. Owlbert flies over and lands on the basket and pulls back the blanket covering it.Causing the baby illusion to disappear. Owlbert struggles but manages to lift the basket and fly it across the river.
  • There is no immediate attack, but while Sid looks around with see invisibility he feels the attack of a powerful phantasmal killer spell but manages to pass his save.
  • The party then flees rather than wait for further attack. While the party keeps watch the rest of the day no further attacks occur.
• 3rd day the party sees a small halfling barge but does not try to stop them for further conversation.
• Overnight on the 3rd night while Thola keeps watch a small group of lizardfolk approach the camp. They want to buy the toads, but Thola lets them know they are not for sale.
• 4th day the party runs into the same patrol. They have lost a few members after fighting 3 hags. They managed to slay 1 hag at the expense of 1/3 of the patrol and now are heading back to the trading post for reinforcements and to post reports back to the city. Thola and Wolf offer to help the patrol go back and kill the remaining 2 hags, but the patrol sergeant has no desire to engage with the hags any further. The groups wish each other well and head their separate ways
  • Later that evening Owlbert gives a warning that a band of gnolls are ahead on a bluff waiting in ambush
    • Turns out to be a lot of longbow gnolls with a couple fasting running melee types, a big fiendish biting one, and an even larger one that appears to be in charge.