The Party

Faction overview

• Deputized members of the Town Watch, The Party includes Ruby, Rasvantin, Lucien, Cerith, Eliza, Esquik, and River Hargreeve.
• They investigated Ameiko Kaijitsu’s disappearance, discovered a massacre at the Sandpoint Glassworks, and defeated Goblin Tribes and Tsuto Kaijitsu. At Thistletop, they killed Warchief Ripnugget and Bruthazmus, fought goblins and other creatures, healed one another, and found hidden loot.
• Their findings at Thistletop included magical dog-hide armor, a broken hammer gun from Dongun Hold, evidence of Nualia’s plans, papers by Lyrie Kenja, a book by Cerith’s father Max, and a key to a butcher room. They encountered a tentacled parasite, a war horse, a mercenary, and an invisible spellcaster who warned them about Nualia and traps.
• With Orik’s assistance, they fought four Fiendish Hounds in the temple and retrieved two glowing kukris from a statue. They crossed a trapped hall and defeated Nualia and her Yeth Hound, binding Nualia rather than killing her. They learned she planned to sacrifice Sandpoint to Lamashtu and complete her transformation into a full demon.
• Beyond a sealed passage and seven-pointed star door, they encountered an imprisoned greater barghest. After Lucien was severely wounded, they shut the creature inside and withdrew from Thistletop with Nualia and the unconscious Lucien. In Sandpoint, they brought Lucien to Hannah for treatment and delivered Nualia to Sheriff Hemlock, who held her in the Sandpoint Garrison cellar. They agreed to escort her to Magnimar for lawful judgment; Cerith continued toward the Golemworks. Before leaving, they collected two fur-lined silk sashes, sold surplus weapons and religious symbols, and redistributed their magical gear.
• On The Road, they fed River Hargreeve and fought two goblin troops beside her. After River joined them, they searched a goblin camp, found a rat-tooth pendant, and continued to Magnimar. There, Justice Ironbriar took custody of Nualia and required them to stay for forty-eight hours as witnesses. They testified about her crimes in court, avoided the Order of the Nail Hellknights, and were instructed to keep their weapons out of sight. River bought them a Varisian meal.
• They investigated a Sczarni-marked cart linked to weapon smuggling from Sandpoint, gathered information about Alkenstar-Style Black Powder Firearm, and prepared to return to Sandpoint. Sheriff Hemlock then called them to investigate murders at the town’s lumber mill. Suspicions about Foxglove Manor and Alden Foxglove led them southwest toward the manor. Near a river crossing, they encountered zombies and heard a farmer’s warning about creatures at Hambley Farm, changing their course. There they fought animated scarecrows and ghouls and found a badly wounded man suffering from gold fever who warned them about “The Blue One.” In the main house, they found blood, drag marks, a hidden chest containing 2,400 copper coins, and a skinned corpse marked with a seven-pointed star and a note addressed to Ruby—the second such note they had found. They defeated a blue ghast inside and found a key marked with a foxglove flower.
• After nightfall, Ruby and Esquik returned with a warning that dozens of ghouls were approaching and that the house needed to be barricaded. During a blizzard that made going outside dangerous, the party prepared the farmhouse against the undead. Ghouls forced their way inside in successive attacks through windows, doors, upstairs, and the chimney. After a pause, another wave arrived; later, scarecrows approached from the cornfields, and mounted people with pitchforks and torches pursued fleeing ghouls to the farmhouse with Sheriff Hemlock. Ruby killed the last ghoul in the fight. About a dozen guards arrived, and Hemlock told the occupants to clean the farmhouse and explain what had happened.