Unexpected Companions season 1

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Session 1: Timed Teleporting is not for the Feint of Heart (Leenot 8 to Leenot 11 816)

• In his effort to find and rescue the heroes that defeated Kallark, the halfling Harmon ends up teleporting all over. After he goes to Archeron and finds Razk but is unable to rescue Daane, his ability to teleport is effected. He ends up seemingly randomly bouncing from place to place.
• His first stop is in Grimhold in a cell where he encounters Cordaro. Hours later, a hooded figure enchants the guard and tries to take the magical basket. Taking the dwarf with him, Harmon magically flees. For the next several days, every almost nine hours, the hooded figure reappears and tries to collect the basket. He states that he is working for the Collector.
• The teleportation takes Harmon and the others that start to join him to the String Mountains and the giant Grognoth; to an deserted island where the castaway Wake is marooned; the a ship in the oncean where Falcon is serving; to a prison in Olan where Gmax is serving out a sentence; and finally back to Grimhold and the shop of Gnickle.
• The group as they wait in between teleportations tried to figure out what and why this is happening. The basket teleports a whole ship they are in and lands it between two buildings in Olan. They are watched by a Red Guard in Olan before taking shelter in the temple of Stasis which proves no refuge. Finally, in Grimhold, they convince Gnickle to craft a lead box to store the basket in hopes that it will prevent the agent, who is soon revealed to be Malchia, from finding them. It does not work and the group tries to fend the sorcerer off before fleeing again and immediately putting the basket in the lead box.

Session 2: From the Fire to A Pit (Leenot 11 to Leenot 12 816)

• The group appear in a burning plain and fear they have arrived back in Razk's hell. Some investigation leads them to be sure they are not and later that there was a building a grove of tress recently burned down. Falcon finds a dead body and shortly after he and Gmax are approached by three horsemen. As the others approach, Grognoth tries to speak but his appearance spooks the horsemen who retreat only to return moments later under cover of catapult shot. Cordaro is almost smashed by the shot. Razk moves into action, killing three of the horsemen in a blink and Cordaro unleashes a fireball burning up another. The horsemen flee, leaving a catapult and several crew behind.
• Gmax interrogates them, learning they had been paid to destroy a temple and grove of Habastly. The group lets the three go and looks over the bodies of the dad, finding the mark of a mercenary company. They decide to travel north towards what they hope is the Destroytian Republic. As they travel, Falcon eats some potatos they found in the basement of the temple, they grow in his stomach, making him sick and forcing the group to stop for the night. As they do, Gnickle arrives, having been transported a distance away from the group initially.
• Shortly after starting to rest, Grognoth sees a giant boar nearing, he begins to wake everyone up and they toss some potatos to the beast, which ignores them. It then snorts as it nears and reveals an unnatural set of teeth. The group begins to spread out and ready as it charges and kills Grognoth. Razk draws it away from the group as they can gather and after Razk returns teleport away. The beast seemed impervious to many of their attacks.
• They arrive next in a spider's web hanging in a pit surrounded by jungle. The deep pit is soon crawling with spiders and they try to get out of the webs. With some effort, they reach the edge of the pit and begin to light the webs which burn slowly. They do their best to grab Grognoth and the lead lined box. A giant sloth arrives and begins to help them pull. Once everyone is safe, the sloth changes into a grovetender of Habastly. Only speaking elven, he tells them they are near the put of spiders where the Spider Queen was ruled. He offers them safe haven and lets them rest as they tell him their story. After sleeping, they discover that he has reincarnated Grognoth as a Sylvan Ogre. He says he is going to take them to meet with the prince of the elves.

Session 3: The Chase Leads to Chase (Leenot 12 to Leenot 13 816)

• After being haunted by a weird dream of a Sylvan Ogre, but that was just what it was, a dream. They bury Grognoth. They collect his stuff, which included about 4K gold, and rope. The group started walking to see Dedaryl, prince of the elves. On the way, Kamari was alerted by the trees and animals and started casting, by the time he finished his spell, an anti-magic sphere. Malchia - the devil incarnate - was standing outside of it. Demanding the basket. He then noticed and recognized Wake. The killer of his only friend Nafario when he stole the Guardian of the Tide. So he demanded both, Wake and the Basket.
• Not wanting to challenge the group in the sphere he pulled out a heavy crossbow and started shooting people one by one.. paralyzing them with poison. Gnickle volunteered once in the sphere that he was Dominated, and shouldn't trust him when the sphere isn't there. That created and answered a few questions.... The group planned an escape, Kamari moved the sphere forward and they used the basket to teleport again. They apologized to Kamari for the death of a giant sloth.
• They appeared at some tropical looking resort on the beach, 1/2 in the water. A drow in lounge wear approached us from one of the tents on the beach. They had arrived in Magentia, and Chase knew the former members of the Guardian of the Tide. He did took then to a cleric of Tfop, Elaina, who broke the Dominate on Gnickle and guided us a temple of Habastly, The Great Palm and a powerful cleric who might be able to help us with the Basket, Tansin. He communed with Habastly and they discovered they need to being the basket to the city of Habastalai to restore it's connection, which was broken when it was brought to Hell. After shooting down other plans, they hope to use the basket to bounce around the world hoping at some point to land close enough to make the journey.
• Chase offered before they left to go into the city and get magical weapons for Razk to use, as he had used his powers to identify Malchia's defenses.