Category:Adventures in Laneet

From Enlil

This includes all the party's recorded adventures in the trading outpost, Laneet. It may be incomplete, because the party just started keeping the journal mid-adventure.

[edit] Collected journal entries

Having already gained entry into Janus's manor and subdued a number of guards, the party moved through the manor's basement and attempted to rescue Yarin Thornwood. Aaron, Beatrix, and Solomon proceeded toward the cell block, and were successful in freeing Yarin after some extremely skillful lockpicking and trap-bypassing by Aaron. Liesl and Laucian found themselves beset by a number of guards from the nearby barracks, and the band faced and vanquished about eight soldiers in varying stages of sleepiness/readiness. Yarin, meanwhile, locked some stirring soldiers in another barracks and Solomon broke off the key.

Yarin appears to know where the treasury in the manor is located. This information could prove important.

to be continued...

Ben and Conner got the beer and food was provided by everyone.

The story resumed as Solomon had just successfully broken off the key for one of the barracks after Yarin Locked it. Aaron then proceeded to lock the doors to the remaining unopened barracks while Liesl broke off the keys. Yarin then ran to the far end of the hallway and began searching for the secret door to the manor's treasury. Solomon joined him in the search and found the door. Aaron set to work on disabling the almost certainly trapped door. After disabling the trap, Aaron picked yet another exceedingly difficult lock and entered a dark hallway while the rest of the party stood guard in the hall, hearing the men in the locked barracks stir and attempt to break the doors down.

At the end of this hallway, after searching for traps along the way, Aaron found several chests full of money and treasure as well as some special items on shelves. Laucian detected faint magical auras in a crossbow and small stone cube. Upon picking them up, the cube started to make a horrible, piercing shrieking noise, which Solomon identified as the result of a minor wonderous item, known apropriately enough as a Stone of Alarm. He told the party that the noise would be audible up to a quarter mile away if out in the open, and will last for a full hour. Laucian dropped the stone, cast a silence spell on it, then hurled it down into the main hallway so he and Aaron could discuss how best to make off with Ungerholt's treasure swiftly.

All the while, Yarin, having yielded to Aaron's superior lock-picking skills, ran down the hallway to better equip himself at the manor's armory. After hearing the shrill noise, he returned to the hallway to warn the party that others would soon be coming to respond to the alarm.

While all this was taking place, one of the doors broke open and Beatrix and Liesl vanquished the four pajama-clad soldiers inside while Solomon fired his crossbow with futility. As the now silent cube rolled to the end of the hallway, Solomon realized everything around him was silent as two more doors broke open. Battle-weary, Beatrix and Liesl did not look forward to dealing with the eight new reinforcements.

To be continued...

Beer was provided by David and food was bahn mi.

Examination of the chests in the treasury revealed a large stash of coins, gems, and magical items--some of which proved to be more useful than others. Aaron and Laucian discovered several boxes filled with silver and gold, and two smaller boxes of interest, filled with platinum and gems individually. Aaron cleared out around 2 lbs. of gold to make room for one of the weights the PCs had purchased to substitute for the orcish bribe money.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the silenced alarm stone, just as the remaining PCs finally defeated one room of guards, the imprisoned guards managed to pound down the doors that had locked them inside their quarters. Liesl sprinted down the passageway to the treasury and warned Aaron and Laucian of the approaching threat, and dropped a weight, which Aaron placed into the box of gold coins and covered up as quickly as possible. Aaron and Laucian grabbed the boxes of platinum and stones, respectively, and followed Liesl back down the hall.

The scene in the hallway had become one of carnage, as many unprepared, doughy guards had fallen to the PCs attacks. Two guards bargained with Yarin for a 10% cut of the spoils, which the PCs hurredly agreed to.

The three horses in the barracks were saddled, while the two guards and Aaron, Laucian, and Beatrix sprinted to the stables and saddled their own horses. After gathering up as much feed as possible, Laucian freed the other horses and shooed them out of the stable. Aaron threw approximately 10% into a sack and gave it to Sonja and her silent companion, who seemed happy with their take. The PCs rode out of the gate one by one, towards their meeting point with Jacob Applebottom.

Steve purchased beer and David provided Pio Pio.