Interlude - Part 3

So ends the third part of "Rise of the Runelords" adventure path called "Hook Mountain Massacre". The party are now all 10th level and each of them has a cohort at 8th level. Here is what the party looks like now:

Xantumal - 10th Level Druid of Gozreh
Mogart - 10th level Shoanti Barbarian of the Skoan-Quah clan.
Phain - 6th Level Sorcerer/ 4th Level Rogue
Khazen Dren - 1st Level Ranger/5th Level Wizard/4nd Level Eldritch Knight

After the events at the end of Hook Mountain Massacre, the party traveled back to Kaer Maga to pick up some of the items they had purchased or upgraded, and also spent some more of their money buying additional items. On returning to Fort Rannick, additional recruits had arrived from Magnimar to become rangers. Needing to clean, repair and rebuild the fort would take time, but now they had plenty of help.

Here is a list of Fort Rannick troops:

Khazen Dren - Commander of Fort Rannick
Vale Temros - Officer
Xantumal - Officer, Coordinator of security in the forest around the fort
Shalelu - Officer
Jakardros - Officer and Chief Trainer of recruits
Mogart - Shoanti Ambassador at Fort Rannick
Preacher - Shoanti Ambassador at Fort Rannick

Each of the three players with leadership has followers manning the fort or the area. Khazen has a group from Magnimar of mostly criminals or down on their luck individuals looking for a second chance. Mogart brought a group of barbarians and rangers from the Storval Plateau. Xantumal has a contingent of forest animal to scout and report to the fort in case of any threats in the area.

After about a week, the party traveled back to Magnimar to report their findings and progress on rebuilding. Phain demanded and received a parade in his honor. Each of the players were rewarded with one magic item of 20,000 or less of their choice.

Everybody but Phain and Orik returned to Fort Rannick. Phain returned home to greet his wife, but now as a goblin instead of human. Assuring the town that he was not a goblin, but the hero that had saved them numerous times, the town came to accept him again. Phain and his Vinder in-laws worked to expand their business in town and in Magnimar.

Things were peaceful for awhile until rumors of attacks on villages and farmsteads began to surface. Magnimar sent out some patrols to find the bandits, but with no luck. Fort Rannick patrols started seeing increased stone giant activity and Magnimar's mayor specifically asked that the heroes that helped him go and find more information.

Khazen, Vale, Xantumal, Shalelu, Mogart and Preacher all headed out searching for giant raiding parties. Tracking some west of Sanos forest and North of the Malgorian Mountains, they eventually came to Wolf's Ear where their patrols had encountered some southwest by the Fogscar Mountains. Scouting around those mountains they headed south until they picked up a trail heading southwest. Soon the discovered that the raiding party was heading towards Sandpoint so they headed there straight away to warn them.

With Phain and Orik they asked for as many volunteers were willing to help defend the town. They also called in the militia. They evacuated as many people as they could into the smuggler's tunnels and the catacombs, and any other place they felt people could be safe.

In the morning....they came....

The next game will be the Battle of Sandpoint. It will take place at one of the player's houses, and the town will be built from miniature terrain. Pictures will follow!