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The story so far:
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Sunday, Rova 1 (the first day of autumn), 4707 AR
The party gathered at Sandpoint for the Swallowtail Festival. The day passed pleasantly, but at dusk a horde of goblins attacked the town. They were driven back with the help of the party; three goblins were captured and deposited in the town jail for interrogation. The party also rescued a noble, Aldern Foxglove, and his dog, Towser.
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Moonday, Rova 2, 4707 AR
The party interrogated the goblins they had captured, learning that the attack had been led by a "longshanks" and that more than one tribe of goblins had been involved.
The party toured most of the town of Sandpoint with Lent as their guide. A visit to the Hagfish ended in a challenge to drink from Norah's tank, which Barthur attempted, but he couldn't keep the foul slime down. The party went to Bottled Solutions to figure out what was contained in the vial Mistral found on one of the goblins. Then, after an awkward interlude with Shayliss Vinder, Mistral found himself in a fistfight with Ven Vinder, her father.
The party accepted an invitation from Lord Foxglove to join him on a boar hunt, and they caught two small boars, which Ameiko prepared as a delicious feast on their return. Lord Foxglove gifted the group with the horses and ponies he had purchased for the hunt, as well as 50gp. He also left a scented bath for one of them, but several of them took a turn in the water.
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Toilday, Rova 3, 4707 AR
The party discovered from Nisk Tander of Bottled Solutions that the goblin's vial contained a mild potion of healing. They feasted on leftover boar that day.
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Wealday-Oathday, Rova 4-5, 4707 AR
The party stayed in town.
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Fireday, Rova 6, 4707 AR
Late in the evening Mrs. Barett and her two children came to plead for the party's aid. The party went to her house to find her husband dead in the closet, and they captured the goblin responsible. They took him to the jail.
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Starday-Sunday, Rova 7-8, 4707 AR
The party waited for the goblin to wake and the Sheriff to summon them.
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Moonday, Rova 9, 4707 AR
The evening of the full moon the Sheriff finally summoned the party. They went to interrogate the goblin. They learned it was from the Mosswood tribe, and it confirmed that a "longshanks" was involved with the raid, saying he looked like Mistral, but with long hair.
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Toilday, Rova 10, 4707 AR
The goblin was taken out to be hanged in the morning, repeating to Lent its bargain of the night before: it would tell a big secret if Lent promised to let it go; in return, it would go home and trouble Sandpoint no more. Lent healed the choked goblin under the Sheriff's nose, claiming that it was the sense of the goblin converting to the worship of Desna, and hurriedly dragged the "body" away. Lent managed to learn that the "longshanks" had "ears like a horse", pale skin and long black hair, and wore no armor. Then he created the vision of an angry, moaning ghost, and claimed that it was the ghost of the man the goblin ate, who would haunt him forever if he ever returned. The frightened goblin took off into the woods.
At noon, the townsfolk proved to be riled up about the return of Shalelu Andosana, an elven woman who roamed the region. In short order the party was summoned by the Sheriff, who introduced the party to her and the mayor. The mayor thanked the party for their efforts in Sandpoint, and Shalelu told them of trouble brewing among the goblin tribes. Sheriff Hemlock asked the party to retain a calming public presence in Sandpoint while he went to Magnimar to fetch more soldiers.
In the evening Shalelu joined the party at the Rusty Dragon, imparting information on the regional goblin tribes and their "heroes," Bruthazmos, Vorka, Ripnugget, Big Gugmut and Koruvus.
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Wealday, Rova 11, 4707 AR
In the morning the party was approached by Bethana, an old halfling maid at the Rusty Dragon. Ameiko had gone missing, and Bethana had found a scrap of parchment suggesting that she was meeting with her brother Tsuto at the Glassworks. Fearing Tsuto was up to no good, Bethana asked the party to go look for Ameiko.
Breaking into the Glassworks, the party found goblins cavorting amid broken glassware and dismembered bodies, as well as Lord Kaijitsu encased in glass. They followed a few of the surviving goblins into the basement, where they were attacked by the goblins and Tsuto. Defeating them, they found a journal written by Tsuto that suggested a much stronger attack on Sandpoint was coming, and something about a transformation into a demon for his love. It also said something about releasing someone called Malfeshnekor.
The party explored the tunnel leading from the basement of the Glassworks. The main tunnel led to a cave overlooking the bay, with clear signs of goblin habitation. The party sealed the hidden entrance, then backtracked to search the side tunnels.
The eastern tunnel proved to be collapsed not far in, but the western tunnel led to a cave where they were attacked by a hideous monster. After defeating it and removing its head, they decided to retreat to the Glassworks for rest and supplies.
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Oathday, Rova 12, 4707 AR
After an uncomfortable night sleeping on the cold stone in the Glassworks basement by candlelight, the party ventured back into the tunnels (leaving behind Jack, who had a stomach ache). They realized they were being stalked by another monster like the one from the day before. It fell to their coordinated attack, and they ventured on, discovering a shrine to Lamashtu.
Meanwhile, Jack recovered and rejoined them with a new hero, the girl Avilyn. Together they explored the catacombs beneath Sandpoint, nearly losing Mistral to an ambush by the monsters. Shaken by his near-death experience, Mistral left the party, returning to Sandpoint. During the ambush, the group freed a half-orc named Git from a cell in the prison the catacombs held, and he joined them in clearing the rest of it.
The group ran into a horrible thing that looked like two goblins mashed together, guarding a room with pits in the floor, at the bottom of which zombies wailed and cried. Unable to take even one of them down with all their arrows, they ventured on and found a spherical room where various items floated weightlessly, as did Jack when she charged in.
They returned to Sandpoint to rest and clean up. Melody changed her name to Silence.
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Fireday, Rova 13, 4707 AR
The party spends the day shopping, bringing back a wayward Shayliss Vinder, trying to get the tome they found in the catacombs deciphered, finding a room for Silence and seeing the Mayor.
That night, the party descended into the catacombs again, killing the monsters in the underground cathedral (taking the body of the quasit with them) and discovering a strange triangular pool of freezing orange water that appeared to spawn sinspawn somehow. Badly wounded and poisoned, they asked Father Zantus to heal them, which he did without charge. Silence and Jack seek a cure for the poison from "Pillbug" Podiker, but come away empty-handed.
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Starday, Rova 14, 4707 AR
Father Zantus prayed for those who had been poisoned, easing their symptoms. The party returned to the catacombs, destroying the undead in the pits and smashing the altar to Lamashtu.
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Sunday, Rova 15, 4707 AR
After praying over the poisoned again, Father Zantus and his acolytes went with the party to the catacombs to remove the evil taint of Lamashtu from the town. Then they discussed going to Thistletop to stop the next goblin assault. The Mayor implored them to remain in Sandpoint until Sheriff Hemlock's return, which they agreed to do.
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Moonday-Wealday, Rova 16-18, 4707 AR
The party recovers from the quasit's poison, the Glassworks workers and (after some trouble removing him from the glass poured over him) Lord Kaijitsu are buried in the boneyard, and Git scribes scrolls while they wait for Sheriff Hemlock to return from Magnimar.
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Oathday, Rova 19, 4707 AR
The party teams up with Andosana the elf to find Thistletop and put an end to the goblin threat. With some effort they manage to find some goblin trails leading to a warren under a massive briar patch. There they slaughter the defenders and capture Gogmurt, the Thistletop goblins' shaman. Interrogating him reveals that there may be a secret way into Thistletop, if they can reach it. They free Gogmurt, who runs off into the woods.
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Fireday, Rova 20, 4707 AR
The party sends scouts back to Thistletop, where it seems Gogmurt was at least partially telling the truth: the secret entrance may exist, but may also be guarded. They decide on a frontal assault and move on Thistletop in the afternoon.
After encountering a trap in front of the warren and shooting the goblin that peeked out, the party decided to try to avoid the low, thorny tunnels by edging along the cliff on a narrow ledge. No one fell into the water 80 feet below, thanks to their foresight in securing themselves to eachother in two groups, but as they approached the bridge leading to the island, they were seen by goblin archers in the easternmost tower of the fort.
Still tied together, the first group (Silence, Git and Barthur) crossed the bridge while under fire (while the second group and Andosana covered their rear), only to find goblins mounted on goblin dogs waiting for them. Cutting themselves loose, they killed or ran off all the goblins and their goblin dogs, then climbed the eastern tower and killed the goblins defending it (Silence turned the last of them into mincemeat). Then they walled themselves up in the tower, blocking the doors.
After a short rest, a goblin called them out, demanding that they come see Warchief Ripnugget in his throne room. They refused, telling the goblins they had set fire to the tower, then retreating to the towertop. Using a rope, most of the party made it down onto the jagged fort rooftop before goblins came pouring out of the fort and began climbing the walls - including Warchief Ripnugget on his gecko mount Stickfoot. Silence climbed the west tower while Jack and Git dealt with Ripnugget on the east tower and the others handled the goblins that had climbed onto the roof. Jack managed to knock Stickfoot clean off the tower and into the briars, but Ripnugget got the lizard to climb out and back up the tower to attack again.
Finally Jack shot down Stickfoot, and Ripnugget jumped off the roof to get away - but Avilyn jumped after him and landed on him, ending the fight.
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