KU 11 - Masaran

Setup

The party investigated Gulyar's disappearence, finding out that he had an affair with Kasto's wife Dina. Asked her about it and she sent them away. They investigated the Shadow Cave where they found a ring of Gulyar, before finding a young woman named Talori attached to a chair that they freed. She failed Amin and was send to die in the caves by Nuxiala, Amin's right hand. The party defeated Nuxiala and looted her body, before leaving the cave and going back to the village.

Talked to Kassis which told the party that Azarah would be very interested in seeing Nuxiala out of the picture.

The party is now level 3 after spending two weeks resting and training their new powers.

Locations

• Port Giza
  • Loyal Peck Inn
  • Tavaki Depot
    • A depot with a few goons guarding the entrance.
    • Inside is a standard depot with a few weapons, some supplies, what looks like drugs.
    • A backroom with an unlocked door and someone inside.
      • A half-elf male named Reza Afshar with Nuxiala's body
• Mivor
  • Walk through the Nirpa Hills. big feathers on the floor. Hear a familiar voice screaming. Onora was picked up by harpies and taken to their nest.
  • Small coastal town, one of the last to fall 2 months ago. The town doesn't have proper defences, but guards from Masaran keeping guard and moving around.
• Northern Camp
  • A makeshift camp with tents and a wooden building and simple wooden palisade.
  • Was abandoned recently (3 days ago, they knew the party was coming) and left a few hints (red herrings)
    • A list of important people in Port Giza, including Estadan, Wardina, Thea Gosin, and "Kyrion, X's son".
    • An approximate number of guards the town has (40-50)
    • A sealed letter that fell between some cracks addressed to Helen Troistorrent from a certain "Commander Kunk" about the observations of Port Giza going well and some informants in the town providing valuable information. If they need more labour, they can invade the town easily but they advise against wasting resources for the moment.
    • The seal is Masaran's Seal.
    • Lots of bird seeds that mc chicken is interested in between the floor planks.

NPCs

• Mando Kassis - male human 35 (german, smirk)
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• Wardina - female human 30 (german, tired)
  • Took care of Kyrion's training.
• Azarah Aleen - male elf criminal (french, evasive)
  • Heard that the party is proving resourceful. If they are still interested in work (he doesn't know they ambushed the cargo), he would like them to take care of a problem in his foot: Armin's Men
    • One of Armin's main goones is a dragonborn female called Nuxiala, which Azarah suspects of being involved in the attack: she's the only one who could navigate a booby trapped boat.
    • If the party talk about Nuxiala: didn't get a contract from him, so he's happy. He offers them a moment in a hammam kind of room below his bar as a thank you. Gives them +5 temp hit points each until their next long rest. They can use it more if they take care of more things for him.
    • With Nuxiala out of the way, he can set up some more interesting things. Armin has a depot in the south of Port Giza and wants the party infiltrate and deposit a sealed letter on a desk. 
• Arman Granitcloak - male dwarf, druid/healer (scottish, excited)
  
  • Nothing new for the party.
• Maurice Jasan - male human middle-aged, slight french accent
  
  • The librarian of Port Giza. Person with knowledge about the world. Works at the Kemali Library.
  • If the players come to him with the emblem of the Org, the library was sadly broken in shortly after the first attacks and they stole a lot of book. He does have a few hidden at his home, but it could get him in trouble with the mayor of this fact was known. He can be convinced if the party can do some investigative work for him.
    • His friend Gulyar was killed in the first attack on the village by a stray arrow. Maurice found the whole situation weird, he could never see the body and wasn't given much info by the guards.
    • He wants the party to investigate, or at least know where the body is buried.
      • Priest / Grave Digger Thea Golsin knew of Gulyar, didn't know he was killed, thought he left the city after the first attack. Was not brought to be burried.
      • Guards will need some bribing (why would they give out some info?) killed by friendly fire? by a rival Kasto who knew Gulyar was sleeping with his wife. Low on manpower so can't afford to lose one of their strong fighters. Body buried in a mass grave of 20 people who were killed that night outside of the village in a cave.
  • Bring back the info to Maurice, he will want justice, but he'll take care of it. The players gathered the info he needed.
    • The symbol is a military organisation, the Order of Masaran a prince Masaran bin Arslan of the Haddad family.
    • Why they would attack the island? No idea. They are powerful. If they wanted to take it over, they could have. 
• Estadan Sarlah (male firbolg, concerned)
  • After Wardina's quest: Finally has time for the party, thanks them for all they've done to help the people, the city guard.
  • Wants to hire them for scouting missions against the enemy. The guards are frightened, and the people in Sinaskari don't want to help.
  • Thanks the party for having info on the org, this will help tremendously for gathering allies.... but also scare people from helping them.
  • Wants them to map out any camps that the org has on the hill (northern) part of the island, and scout out the town of Mivor.
  • "we have to be faster and smarter than them"
• Onóra (halfling female druid, crackly voice)
  • Close to Mivor, some of Masaran's men broke into her home and stole an important item of hers, and she's tracked them back here. They stole a golden fork she found a few years ago in the jungle, and wants it back because it's "pretty".
• Likkar Whiskers (cat, uncle of Kitty)
  • Was captured and is being forced to fix boats. He gets wet the whole day and they've forbidden him from even singing while working, because it distracts the people. People are being moved around from village to village and forced to work inland and at the port. Some people are taken away and don't come back, and some from other villagers are sent here. Some folk from other villagers mentioned that the operation here is smaller but also stricter. The guards talk another language but can give orders in the common tongue.

Encounters

• 3 Harpy (mm181) attacking Onora who is hidden in a tree.
• If the party fail to find a quest, they meet a very friendly puppy. The owner lets them pet it. The owner is Saladin, a bugbear who has been taking care of the dog for a month since the owner and friend Derin (female) disappeared while hunting.

End of session

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