#this may or may not be about grimgor

[wraith-of-thiodolf]

love when the barbarian rabble no-one pays attention to turns into a bigger threat than the 'main' bad guy and his plots and schemes

[khrow-shinku]

The Great War S7

D&D 5e Campaign

The Great War

Session 7

The party is awakened by loud vibrations coming from somewhere outside the Inn. The Party quickly rushes outside to see what all the ruckus is about. Once out there they meet a large somewhat furry creature that sort of resembles Grim. He is being held in a stockade and swearing his innocence. Believing the man’s story the party wants to free him so Paul quickly picked the locks on the stocks and freed Rooklus. Once free Rooklus then says he was here to find his younger brother, a man named Grimgore. The party makes room so that Grimgore can come forward and the party does notice a distinct resemblance between the two. Rooklus sees Grim, and boldly states to him and the party, “My name is Rooklus Troompalin, and Grim you are my younger brother. Our parents and I have been trying to find you for years.” Rooklus then gives his brother a giant hug and continues, “It is so amazing to finally find you after all these years. Now please we must get you home to see our parents, there is much to fill you in on.” Grim pauses for a minute and responds, “While this is amazing, I am afraid I can’t. I have prior duties I have sworn to fulfill. Paylor would not be happy if I abandoned the task I was given to help these people in their journey.” Rooklus smiles at his brother, “You have indeed turned into the noble man I had hoped you’d be lil bro. I shall take your charge in your stead so that you may go to your rightful home and learn about your true family and get acquainted with your new life. I swear to you brother I will assist this party and risk life and limb for these people as if it were my own charge. You have my word as prince and heir to the throne of Uthana “ Grim can’t help but believe this man as this feeling of warmth and uncanny familiarity comes over him. He agrees to this then, quickly says goodbye to the adventurers and thanks them for the good times however brief they were and leaves to finally meet the family he has been searching for. Rooklus then looks to the party, “Now let me officially introduce myself again in proper, I am Rooklus Troompalin, a Loxodon Barbarian, heir to the throne of Uthana and I hereby offer my services to this party to prevent this war from breaking out.” During all of this, Biska and JJJ overheard the guards talking about a standing contract from the local assassins guild. The contract was to deal with a clergy of pedophiles at a local church. The party rushed to assist in taking down these vile people. When they arrived  there were bodies of dead clergy everywhere and a message sprawled on the wall in blood, “If I find you play with the kids, then I will play with you.” As the party continued into the main room where they would meet Angra Myu, High King of Clocienti and accomplished assassin. They walked into the sight of him cleaning the blood off his blades when he uncloaked himself. He looked at the party and said, “That’s what I call dead on arrival, you’re late.” It was at this time before anyone could figure out what was happening, a man in red and black leather armor appeared and said “Finally, there is the target I was hired to kill. You know DM you sure made this one hard as fuck to find. I mean seriously, ever hear of google maps?” He then rushes Lolxsis grabs him and blows them both up. He then reforms, looks at Angra, “Thanks for the tip buddy, assassin to assassin that is. Well I’m Outty 5000, C-y'all!” and vanishes as quickly as he appears. Angra then approaches the party and explains that he is joining them as he sees the need to assist in stopping the things that are going on. Now with the third person of royalty from yet another nation with the party, Rin said that she felt it was time that they gathered a few of others of the council together for another meeting to discuss what she found out.

However as soon as the party left the church and before the arrangements could be made Ara stopped everyone and told them that while she understood this was important, she had to leave for a while.  “I don’t know if I have a brother or not. I mean, I don’t remember ever having one but I can’t just ignore what Alfonse said. Given the nature of this possibility I feel this is something I need to look into alone. I will need time to process if this turns out to be true.” Ara explained. Rin and the rest of the party asked her not to do anything rash, like attempt to see him alone. Ara reassured the party that she had no intention of doing anything like that. She just needs the time alone to process it all if it's true, plus she may have to go visit her family she has never met before and she would rather face her family’s past alone. With that Ara went and used the free pass the council had given her to go to anywhere at least once using the train, she went back to Urildyr, to the town she was born in to begin her search.

At the meeting Rin announced that she had found out that the one queen was in fact a spider demon and told them about how the party was attacked by archnae last night. Rooklus saw that his delegate that represented him at the council was acting a bit twitchy and nervous upon this news, once he was called out on this behavior and threatened, he spilled the beans. Confessed that he had been working against their country. After confessing he attempted to take his own life with a poisoned dagger. Rooklus however stopped him in time and removed the blade from his hands. However in the process it nicked a guard who suddenly dropped and was slowly dying. However Paul had somehow made his way into  the room and shot a dart into the guard from under a table that stabilized the guard. Rin then healed the guard and the traitor was taken off to be dealt with. JJJ then walked in to rejoin the group after he had wandered around town with Biska eavesdropping on random people. He informed them that he had heard about a cult that is nearby that needs to be dealt with and a cave that may have some interesting loot. About that time an owl phased through the wall during the meeting and it left a feather that turned crimson and drew a map that showed an island, one unknown to the world and not charted on any maps. In the end they decided it was best to hold off on making any moves on the spider demon queen. Let her get back to her own country before making any moves in order to avoid an international incident.

After the meeting the party followed Angra to the assassins guild hall he runs in Ashenport. There the party just kind of glanced around as Angra asked for any high profile four star contracts and all five star contracts from the vault. He received them and then everyone went back to the inn to rest for the night. Meanwhile Ara had finally gotten back to her hometown where she crashed at her room in the brothel. Soon her search for answers would begin.