We began the session 5 as the party is meeting with the Fellowship leaders, devising a plan to take down Rolnar Ironjaw once and for all. Here is what they know; the Ironjaw raiders are magically juicing and creating super soldiers, they have a way point on the main road south out of trade town and taxing everyone who comes by for "protection", and they have a keep on the side of a mountain. So the party decided to attack the way point and cut off their main source of funds.
This part of the mission went off without a hitch. They Trojan Horsed some guys in the back of a cart, blasted the way point leader away and broke the morale of many soldiers. One surrendered and told them that Rolnar has an evil mage, Taznak the Vile, who speaks the tongue of demon-binding and has been doing all of the super soldier experiments.
Back in Tradetown,Yosper the druid, told the party of the Silent People (anyone who has read Fred Saberhagen's Empire of the East should be familiar with these guys!). They are huge friendly feathered people who are friends of the Fellowship and mortal enemies of the Leather Wings. The Silent People only come out at night, when the Leather Wings are sleeping. He also gave them a little flute and taught them the summoning tune.
Given the general direction they headed out to meet the Silent People in the hopes of getting some aerial support or at least recon. After a short trek into the mountains nearby they came across two 6-ft tall owls, Strijeef and Feathertip. They said any friend of Yosper is a friend of theirs. The party asked if they would do a fly over and gather some intel for them, so each with a party member in their claws, they flew them over the castle in the mountains to see what was going on with the Ironjaw raiders.
As they got closer they saw a three level keep jutting out from the side of the mountain with some 2000 ft drop below. (It would take about 11 seconds to splat. We had to do the math, it'll come in handy later). They flew around the upper levels, looking in windows to see what they could find. In the 3rd level of the main part of the keep they saw a hulking blue skinned bald headed man with an iron jaw sharpening his bone axe. Rolnar. Rightfully spooked, they kept flying around and went to the 3rd level of the castle's spire and found a similarly blue skinned man but this was dressed in Mage's attire and experimenting on a poor stranger.
They landed on the roof of the 2nd level and peering in the window cast mage hand and knocked on the window to get his attention. The mage summoned a demon to go open the window and with the opportunity afoot the party's wizard cast sleep. He failed his save! (Turns out these Thool are immune, but we didn't realize that until a few rounds later.), the party jumped in and grabbed him, hoping to throw him off the side of the keep. However, he succeeded his second save (2025 5e sleep is weird). He immediately Misty Stepped out of the room and onto the second floor roof, then cast Fireball. (The party is 2 3rd level characters. This is a CR 6 Mage. Oops!). They wiped. But thank the gods for Relentless Endurance and the Orc having Lay on Hands. They are back!!
The wizard cast Gust of Wind hoping to knock the mage off the side. He succeeded his save. The paladin jumped out the window and tackled the mage off the side! They are both in free fall. The wizard jumped after them, Feather Fall ready to go. The mage then Misty Stepped out of his grip and cast Fly. Our wizard immediately cast Feather Fall so the party wouldn't splat. Then cast a 2nd level Magic Missile, knocking the concentration away causing the Mage's fly to fail! He also was plummeting! They did it!!! Plummeting, just as the party was in range, mid air, the mage cast his last Fireball. They in fact, did not do it. TPK.
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