Monday, January 10, 2011

Rebellion! - Insurgents of Mistmeadow Storyline



Three outsiders trapped in Mistmeadow have befriended each other while enduring the occupation by Lolth's forces. They are Took, the dwarf psion, Kage the teifling bard, and Hilda the Half-Orc. Also, they know Himena, a local human, and Thorin an old dwarf who have lived in town some time.

While drinking in the tavern they get into an altercation with the captain of the guard who is drunk. They take out the captain and his two half-orc guards. Thorin is killed during the melee with the guards, but the rest of the group escapes out the back of the Singing Maid tavern and onto the street.

In the street they see mercenaries on their way out of town to train with their drow employers. A card loaded with weapons and equipment is nearby so they take some arms and Himena leads them to the desecrated temple of Ioun.

At the temple of Ioun they meet with Greg, the temple's keeper and oday, a gnome artificer. Knowing that they are now wanted and have little hope of fleeing to a safe place beyond Mistmeadow, they decide to join the temples ongoing insurgency against the occupation forces.

They initially target the most cruel mercenary working for the drow, a humanoid executioner named Judge Dread. The party plots with Oday and several other loyal resistance members to create a distraction to clear the barracks where Judge Dread lives. They capture a catapult from it's drow and spider guards on the south end of town and use it to propel several firebombs onto the roof of the heavily guarded Armory to the north. Then they use a bomb to destroy the catapult.

Mercenaries flood out of the barracks and work to put out the blaze at the armory, while the party slips out past the ruined ramparts, along the perimeter of the city, and around the back of the barracks. When they enter the barracks, which is on fire from splash damage from the catapult attack, Judge Dread is waiting for them.

The fire spreads while the party battles Judge Dread and his torturer henchman. Two spiders keep Kage tied up while the Psion faces off against the torturer. Hilda takes the main villain head to head. In the end they are victorious, and the adventurers limp out of the barracks.

The resistance members watching the armory burn release their bombs at the appointed time, devastating the local mercenary squads. In the chaos, the party sticks Judge Dreads head on display atop a pike in town square and they escape to their sanctuary at the temple of ioun. The townsfolk flood out of their homes and shops and begin to riot against the occupiers in the streets.

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