Chapter 4 – Coursair & the Coliseum

DM - Chad

As recalled by the DM

With the Windswept Wall taken care of, the mystery of the sinking ships, and acquiring some treasure, the fellowship decided to catch a ship to Coursair in order to reach Lemele Castle. After a few goodbyes and dealings on the docks, the party arranged passage on a ship heading to Coursair. During the voyage, our adventurers heard stories about a great battle that happen a couple months ago at Lemele Castle. An evil army of the undead commanded by a Vampire only known as 'Sidious'. Sidious was trying to acquire the crystals the King has in order to locate the Dragon Orbs and use them to rule the world.
After 3 days on the ship, the party arrived in Coursair; the city of the Grand Colisuem. The party was amazed at the size of the city and what was contained therein. Thrall, Lia, and Tari took some time to do some sight seeing and explored this new town. Thrall in his travels encountered his old friend JIM outside of the Coliseum. Turns out that after the incident with a ram fish JIM was washed up on shore at Coursair. The owner of the Coliseum, Rand, offered him a job barking at outside the coliseum, so he took it.
The fellowship of course checked into the Inn and discovered a very nice boxlunch store operated by a female halfling named Hero. Lia and Tari continued to explore the city, the gardens, Mr. Mystic's Magic Shop and Tari got a introduction job from a local guild. Meanwhile...Thrall met with Rand and tried to get into the colisuem to fight. He found out that Baba, a lumberjack from the TagWoods, was the defending champion and if Thrall wanted to get in he would have to talk to Baba to take his place.
So, after talking with the gate guards, Frick and Frack, our adventurers headed to the TagWoods to talk to Baba. They tried reasoning with the Bugbear Lumberjack but that didn't really work. After a heated fight, Baba lost and agreed to let Thrall take his place. Baba lent Thrall his longaxe to show he would take Baba's place. Tari made sure of course to loot Baba's hut and acquire some new items which Baba got, how? I don't think we want to know.

Upon returning to Coursair the fellowship rested and Thrall prepared for his fight the next day. He awoke in the morning and met with Rand. Seeing Baba's axe, Rand granted Thrall permission to enter the fight in Baba's place. Thrall went to the colisuem and fought a young catfolk girl named Nira. Lia and Tari watched from the stands as Thrall and Nira fought it out. Although Thrall got some really good hits in with his greatsword, Nira beat him.

In the end Thrall was stablized and gained a few fans. While Thrall rested in the Inn and recoperated at the Temple, Lia did some reading and Tari checked out the town. The next day, Thrall and Lia went to return Baba's axe while Tari went to check out a gang in a abandoned mine outside of town after she was contracted by the local thieves guild. After triggering some traps and then marking them, Tari stumbled across a man living in part of the mine named Azuka, a hunter with no home. He told his story to her and then she decided to go back and get Lia to back her up while Thrall rested.

The next day...Lia and Tari set out for the mine. They arrived and began going deeper into the mine. Between the two of them they were able to avoid quite a few traps and getting noticed by the gang but they weren't so lucky avoiding a dire rat from a shaft...or a light sensitive trap.

It was about this time that Thrall felt healed enough to try to catch up to the girls, and so he started out for the mine. Meanwhile, after getting past the light trap, Tari and Lia worked their way deeper into the cave. Avoiding more traps and getting surprised attacked by the gang they managed to kill some of the members and stay alive themselves. They journied onward until they came to grate with a door. The door looked trapped and Tari began to disable it...midway they were attacked by more gang members. Some were killed and the leader retreated.

While that was going on, Thrall had made his way into the mine, talked to Azuka, and tripped a few traps on the way. He soon found himself face to face with Lia and Tari and had missed most of the action. To make a long story short, which is kinda late anyway...Thrall, Lia and Tari defeated the gang leader, Tari disarmed the trap on the door and they found some cool loot in the shaft the door was guarding. Including the ring Tari had to retrieve for the guild.

When the FotI came to the mine entrance it was dark out and they had a feeling they were being watched from the woods. They decided to camp out with Azuka and leave for town in the morning. After an uneventful night, they left for town. Everyone got their loot identified at Mr. Mystics, Thrall took a small job from Mr. Mystic to get a book and saw Rand and got a little GP for compeating in the fight, and Tari moved up a rank in the guild.

That afternoon, after buying some boxed lunches and saying good-bye to JIM, the fellowship hit the road and headed towards Lemelle...

Chapter 5 - King Lemele & the Dragon Orbs