Post date: Sep 01, 2016 8:20:47 PM
This session summary was originally posted to The Piazza in January 2013, and has been edited to remove spoilers for future sessions.
Session 12 (1/5/2013)
The party has taken a month to repair and rename the ship they stole last adventure; it's now The Half-Pint, named for its small size (it's a cog) and the group's love for booze. Harissa (the corsair) paid a cleric of Harrimast to bless it, and then they went to a tavern to celebrate. Very shortly after arriving, they noticed another party across the common room. Two of them were halflings, which irritated Inacio--the hadozee's introduction to Freeport was being taken prisoner by the halfling pirate, Barty the Small [Inacio's player's PC in my last Freeport game]. Harissa also recognized an azhari in the other group as a priest of the Eternal Flame who she saw once back in Kizmir (her family is very traditional--a life she fled years ago). The other two strangers were a dwarf and a goblin--who, miraculously, weren't at each other's throats.
Just as Inacio was debating picking a fight, one of the halflings began to sing a rousing ballad about the amazing adventures of her hero, Barty the Small. This incensed the ape-man, and he hurled a mug at her. This started off a brawl between the two bands, which quickly escalated to blades and spells. The other halfling, a rogue cohort to the bard, fell almost immediately, and the woman herself nearly got away but was overwhelmed by Larkspur's creeping cold spell. By then, the heavily armored dwarf warrior was dishing out mighty hits with her warhammer and the goblin necromancer was using spectral hand and chill hand to good effect.
Harissa had noticed that the other azhari had only grudgingly joined the fight. She distracted him from finishing off Inacio after his hold person took effect, yelling, "Back off! We only wanted the halflings!" The cleric had already taken a stunning bolt from Marisol and a creeping cold from Larkspur, so decided that discretion was the better part of valor and withdrew. He briefly passed out before reaching the door, but the now-invisible goblin fed him a healing potion, and they fled.
That left only the dwarf, who was in no mood to back down. Between her prowess with the hammer and a streak of good dice luck, she took Harissa out of the fight for a while, and nearly did the same to Larkspur and Inacio (whose paralysis finally wore off). The only thing that saved them was Marisol's grease spell early in the fight, which prevented the dwarf from attacking a couple of rounds until she gave up and simply fought while prone, and a couple of healing spells from Larkspur. They finally wore down the fighter, and slew her. Then they dragged the three bodies out of the tavern to dispose of them (and their gear).