The MacGuffins (History)

Session 1-5 (Level 1 > 3)
Our group of adventurers are at a bay, by the docks. A boat arrives and the captain happily lets them aboard without a payment, but to their dismay, the boat is attacked by a tentacled creature. After some bloodshed and an angry saved captain later, they decide to stay at the local inn by Hol's Harbour, The Dizzy Fish. They meet the bartender Beatrice, and her patrons for the night, Ruk, Gluk and Bruk. They stay the night and Gronk decides to help out Beatrice in the morning with breakfast.

Food in their gut and adventure in their heart, Questa finds a political poster for the city of Hol, she puts it in her pack and they head towards the city. During their stay they meet the duke, Ulakrek Vallery. He takes a cut of their gold (for tax purposes) and Wellington tries to take a cut for himself, he is caught and marked as a thief by the guards. They are (luckily) still invited to lunch and are hired to free Ulakrek Vallery Jr. from prison by any means possible, the duke says to accept the quest or suffer the consequences.

The group heads south and meets some bandits, murdering them in cold blood and inglorious combat. Afterwards they go to the police station where Wellington threatens the chief to give them info about Ulakrek Vallery Jr. (via knife-point). The chief isn't threatened and warns them to leave, they forget why they were there in the first place and give up, heading north to the prison. They take a detour into an abandoned windmill which they briefly explore before fleeing out of fear, as they do a police cart drives by with prisoner passengers heading to where they need to go. Gronk does some quick thinking and throws Questa under the bus, claiming she tried to mug them. They board the cart, Questa bound and de-geared, off on their way to have some fun.

After heading north for 4 hours, the cart stops besides Krakaset, and the party sets out to explore the town. Wellington is robbed of some jewels he found killing the bandits, and chases the old womanly thief to her house. She is blown up in a fantastic cloud and the gems are retrieved. Some more exploring and Gronk finds the dragonborn are up to no good here, Rygon is invited into the leaders home, Thacondrish Nesguard. Rygon is told to kill the citizens and make Thacondrish more powerful, Rygon, says he needs some thinking time and alerts the party of what happened after the meeting.

The party decides to head back to the cart and make their way to the prison. The bridge is collapsed so they must go through the caves, the party is split, Gronk stays in Krakaset, as the rest trek forth. But even in the caves the party is split yet again, Questa and Rygon manage to escape through a secret tunnel, and Wellington gets distracted by an ogre but soon follows suit. Here, the group of prisoners and police are found dead, being mangled by giant spiders.

After arriving at the prison, Rygon and Wellington create a toxic stew to feed to the guards, because Questa was brought in and locked up. They were suspicious of her after she was handed in by Gronk, and the party abandoned the cart in the caves to explore. But because a police officer managed to escape the spiders and return to the prison, the plan was disrupted.

With Questa bound, the guards poisoned, and Gronk still in Krakaset, it was up to the underdogs to save the day. Rygon and Wellington put in their best efforts and broke out Questa, Ulakrek Vallery Jr., and a dragonborn named Dagma. They return to Hol and claim their reward (a house, 100gp each, and a token of gratitude). The party groups up again, Rygon and Wellington threaten Grole of Grole's Hole to keep down the noise, he agrees and they get a bit of gold and a discounted room at Grinn's Inn. They all enjoy a nice festival in celebration of the return of the duke's son.

Session 6
During the festival, there was an attack by a small troop of paladins which were defeated. They turned into strange beasts during the fight, made of black blood and disfigured tentacles. Straeta asked what was going on and was left confused, she threw her badge away and disowned her rank as a paladin telling the party she was headed north, and asked them to go to Mt. Juniper.

Session 7
The MacGuffins decided it would be a good idea to do some less emotionally bearing questing. Rygon and Wellington took care of the noise complaints coming from the tavern, and did a little shopping and speaking to Dagma, who they learned changed his name to Vagabond.

Session 8
A few days break form helping the town reshape and regroup, the party is reunited (that's a lot of "re"). Wellington and Gronk go exploring south west of Hol to collect wood for their house. Rygon and Questa do some fixer upping around their new home. Wellington and Gronk have a little encounter with an owlbear who is taken down without a sweat (but a lot of blood :I), Gronk taking the head as a trophy. They discover a small hideout and after some investigation discover an invitation to the group Fighting Against Rival Teams Club. They couldn't find enough invites for all of them, so Gronk ventures out alone to meetup with this club and find out what's going on.

Meanwhile the rest of squad MacGuffin investigate the abandoned windmill south of Hol, they uncover many secrets and mysteries before leaving early to find Gronk. It turns out Gildahl was behind the rambunctious acts against the market owners, and the shop keepers get the jump on the little ones after a barrel of ale is replaced with a plant to finally catch F.A.R.T Club in their act. The group is jumped by wolves and a distressing fight later, Gronk walks all of the children home, giving Gildahl a small gift, and telling him to keep being adventurous and having fun :)

Session 9 (Level 3 > 4)
The MacGuffins head back to the abandoned windmill and continue to uncover secrets. A strange beast looks into the mind of Rygon and sees his past, getting a glimpse of a horrible event. Rygon does not tell anyone about what happened, nor cares. The rest of the party slays the creature and goes searching for loot dismissing all the strange ongoings and not investigating anything unless it looks like it has treasure.

They release a creature and it escapes without them seeing, they know it's out but they don't know what it is

Session 10
The party leaves the windmill and find a talking cat that explains it has amnesia, it needs to go exploring and recover it's memories. They head to Hol and find a crying woman asking them to go to Druid's Tree to find her husband and children.

They head to the tree and discover the citizens are dazed and confused. It's discovered that a succubus has taken control of the tree and the dryads inside, so a battle ensues to fight off cultists and the evil Magna. They won battle and finished the quest. Questa died quite easily and was 1 roll away from her character being erased from history! Sketchington (Wellington) did very well in reviving Questa. Rygon was his usual best at the combat and won Man of the Match. Gronk nearly killed everyone in the party after a spell was cast on him turning friend into foe. If it wasn't for the consistently low attack rolls, it would have been Game Over for everyone, because Gronk is a strong Half-Orc. They collected a strange relic and were told to head to Bronhataan to get the relic crafted into a grand weapon.

Session 11
The party decides to trek through the Caves and head north towards East Wykle. On their way they decide to stay overnight at the town of Flussdorf. They venture in to town and Questa insists on finding an inn to stay the night. She locates a building called Hermit's Rest. Questa is very exhausted and immediately has a Long Rest. Rygon discovers a map of the caves and also challenges a chess champion to a quick game, losing miserably.

The party join up and head towards the North Road with their 2 rented horses, who appear to be very calm, and Questa has the unenviable luxury of riding in the cart for the duration of the journey. The team decide to set up camp for the night not too far away from the road. Questa volunteers to stand watch for the night, so they all feel reasonably safe with their current circumstances. It's about 3pm so Questa goes a-hunting. She notices that the animals are scarce and can't seem to find any. She looks harder and goes deeper in to the forest, which is quite thick and combat with a pair of camouflaged goblins ensues.

Meanwhile, back at the campsite, the other two notice a stranger (a gnome) walk passed.

Gronk manages to strike up quite an interesting conversation with the gnome who has made himself quite comfortable at the camp. Gronk suspects the gnome looks a little too comfortable for his liking and questions him further. The gnome gives Gronk an explanation about being a merchant and such, but that night, he is caught looking through their bags by Rygon. In the morning, the gnome is gone, along with Rygon's coin purse, but he mentioned he was headed to Glorgamool.

Session 12
Wellington manages to rent a horse and is reunited with the party after 3 days of travel, now that the bridge over Fishdrop Cliff is complete. He did some quick exploring in an unnamed town which seemed abandoned and overgrown by nature. He dismissed this quickly and left bored out of his mind.

The party meets up in East Wykle where a tremendous storm has taken place, they hear it's gone on for almost a week straight without any sign of stopping. Rumor has it, there was a 2 month long drought and the local church prayed hard for it to rain, little did they know it would be this much. They explored a little and picked up some supplies deciding to head through The Magnetite Mountain Range to make their way over to Bronhataan. As they were shopping for goods they stumbled across a closed shop and decided to explore. Going inside they saw it was thick with dust and cobwebs, and the only thing left was a bell on the desk. Wellington decided to ring it, and from the backdoor emerged... Berwin.

Session 13
The party learned that The Chateau of Charms was a magic item shopped that only closed 4 months ago, due to Berwin's friend going missing 1.5 years ago. He's done everything he can to track him down and has given up all hope, especially since his other friend Theo Warchester, dabbled in strange magic and went insane. The description seemed to match that of the creature that attacked Rygon in the abandoned windmill. The party agreed to help him and he told them of a secret path that the hags of Hoglin Bog knew about to cut through Glorgamool and go to Bronhataan.

Another quest popped up as the party ran into Straeta and Cyrus, who mentioned they were cleansing the town of something of called "night-crawlers". The party asked around and found out these "night-crawlers" were coming from a cave in Scuttlecove Woods, so they used the advantage of the dark to get the jump. They arrived at the woods and mounds started appearing which they attacked, and it turned out to be frightened and defenseless kobold families. Gronk having no mercy, slaughtered as many as he saw fit, the children looking in horror as parents were sliced to death in front of them in the heavy rain of that cold night. Wellington, having some decency about him, convinced a drunk mob of villagers to leave as there were no "night-crawlers" here.

As the kobolds were fleeing in pure terror and trauma caused by Gronk, the ground began rumbling, and out burst a basilisk. Rygon was left turned to stone, the rest of the party entering the basilisk tunnel to search for it's eggs, the only known cure for petrification caused by this beast.

Session 14
Wellington decided to head out of the tunnel and protect the poor petrified Rygon, while Questa and Gronk continued to delve deeper. They found the eggs guarded by another basilisk, and it was a close fight, but the creature looked weaker than it's partner so the adventurers laid waste to it. They also came across some other petrified adventurers but didn't have enough potions to free all three of them (one was used for Rygon). After some confusion trying to identify what they were, even though the Dungeon Master made it quite clear multiple times, they decided to save the elven woman (who they kept referring to as a male).

She told the party her name was Tebalia and gave them an amulet that looked semi-expensive. She also mentioned that her two decades of monk training still weren't enough to keep at peace when dealing with the two idiots she was adventuring with (who were luckily still petrified otherwise they would have been very upset). So Gronk decided to save the one remaining potion in case they came into contact with another basilisk. They told the townsfolk about their adventure the next morning, which to their surprise, the hungover bunch weren't happy to hear (the party was quite loud, and it made the villagers' heads throb).

The MacGuffins told Straeta and Cryus (who they keep forgetting exist and forgetting they ever met even though they've seen them half a dozen times) to help them tackle "Dragon Hitler" in Krakaset. After some thinking they agreed to help out; the party has promised poor little Roshan that they will have a revolution by tomorrow about four times now so let's hope they actually pull it off this time.