Friday, April 8, 2016

Lost Mines of Phandelver - Session 3

We picked back up about half a day outside of Phandalin after clearing out the Cragmaw Cave. The party awoke in the morning and decided that they needed to discuss the plan going forward with Gundren. The 3 went off on their own to discuss. Gareth and Nefresil wanted to know what Gundren's plans were for the mine, and if he was going to need them for anything. Gundren told them that he and his brothers would need help clearing the cave out based on their last venture into the cave. Gundren's two brothers are supposed to be at the cave guarding it, lest someone else discover it and attempt to claim it. Gundren offered the Nefresil and Gareth a 10% share of the wealth produced by the cave (5% each) in perpetuity. The party decided that they would need help to go into the cave and sweep it clean, based on observations from Gundren's previous ventures into the cave. Gundren offered to fully fund a base camp outside of the cave, and to fund the provisions they needed, but insisted that the party pay anyone they were going to hire to help with the cave. Nefresil and Gareth agreed to this after some discussion.

The party made its way back to Phandalin with no troubles. Connal, Dhugal, and Nigel left the party and went their own way. Gareth and Nefresil made their way to Barthen's Provisions to collect payment for taking Gundren's goods to the town. They then moved on to the Lionshield Coster to sell a jade statue they recovered from the Cragmaw Cave. The owner, Linene Graywind, told them it was worth 40gp. Gareth was able to persuade her to pay 50gp for him, and the party left happy. Upon returning to the inn, Gundren gave each party member 25gp for rescuing him. By the evening they noticed that the people in town that know Gundren, had a lot more respect for the PCs.

The party decided to recruit some fighters, and, in addition, see if anyone approached them hoping to gain some renown by helping. During this time they were approached by Anlow, a woodsman in the area that was willing to help in order to help remove any threats from the area. The bard, Cale, that was in the Stonehill Inn performing approached the party saying he wished to join the venture as it would make a good story. Finally, a young woman approached the party, sneaking up on them, and expressed an interest in joining. Nefresil expressed his interest in not hiring her. She was unwilling to give a reason for wanting to join the party other than for gold, and that did not sit well with him. Gareth agreed and they politely declined her services. In addition to Anlow and Cale, the players were able to hire 2 fighters; Daylen and Feck.

DM Recap
This session started out with a discussion about the world change that I sprung on the players last session. I won't get into that, see the previous post entitled Change and New Worlds for more information. Once it was decided to move back to Forgotten Realms and retcon the previous session away things went smoothly. I was not really prepared to run anything, but since it was mostly planning that occurred, I decided to go ahead and wing it. Once again the players have decided to employ hirelings to help them clear out Wave Echo Cave. After some discussion, we decided to have the players each run 1 of the hirelings, specifically the 2 fighters. This was to prevent my as the DM monopolizing the combat.

Loot and XP
No loot or XP was awarded for this session. The players were awarded some loot in game for clearing out the cave. The received 600cp, 110sp, and a Jade statue.

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