This Week's Bad Decision Guild Adventurers (as reported by Nimbat)
- Amok the Goliath Scouting Rogue (they/them) -- Amok was wandering solitarily with only Princess for companionship.
- Nimrod Crowguile, esquire. a Corporate Lawyer of Kas Enterprises,
a charismatic male Vuman warlock of Kas the Bloody Handed - Gaffy the Blue, a female Vedalken Watcher Paladin. He is irritatingly not yet on board with your priorities, master. But he remains useful for your manipulations.
- Chumbawamba, the always loyal pet wonder warg
- Nimbat/Nimowl: Me, your ever faithful servant. I continue pretending I am Nimrod's enthusiastic, ever-helpful bat/owl familiar. Please master, give me back my human corporeal form so that I may lead these bad decision makers.
- Lucinda the female Twilight Cleric Tortle -- she was hibernating as she was strapped to Chumbawamba's back. She did not wake up at any point.
- Dormin, My trusty shadow spirit, though we maintain the fiction that Dormin is Nimrod's shadow
- Princess the Tressym -- a winged cat who rides Amok's shoulder and imparted poisonous scratches on her enemies. I am suspicious of her loyalty to you, my master. This week she was off with Amok.
The party is currently at level 6. We have 3 more adventures to complete before we level up.
Today's explorations, as reported to Kas by Nimbat
Master, my humanoid adventuring servants opened a locked door as I, your ever faithful spy Nimbat, flittered nearby. Within the chamber was the upstart minor competitor to your enterprises: Camellia the Oni of the Orchid Guild. At first your humanoid servants did not see Camellia because she had made herself invisible to their pathetic humanoid eyes. But Camellia lifted her invisibility when she realized she was not fooling me or my human partner Nimrod. Camellia's room contained many magic items that were in plain sight. We coveted them greatly and I knew that more than some of that wealth had been stolen from your coffers. Whether it was stolen or not, all that wealth was rightfully yours. But Camellia told them to immediately leave her chamber and not return or she would harm them. Camellia so cowed the adventurers that they traitorously obeyed her demands. As your loyal servants, Dormin and I did all I could to goad the humanoids to sacrifice themselves for your glory by attacking the Oni immediately. I screamed repeatedly at them "Return to that room and do not come out until you have secured those treasures for the glory of our master Kas!". But as usual the humanoids pretended to not hear my high-pitched bat screaming.
Against my wishes, my humanoid servants then wandered off into another not yet explored area of the Orchid's lair. As usual, I was leading the way in the hopes that I might trick these fools into returning to Camellia. Unfortunately, I led them to a female red Dragonborn veteran fighter named Snap Dragon. Snap Dragon killed me immediately. Dormin told me all my servants united in avenging my death. Nimrod picked up Snap Dragon's torture tools for Amok to sell.
Nimrod reconstituted me as soon as possible after the defeat of Snap Dragon. The humanoids liberated two hostages from Snap Dragon's dungeon: a veteran bandit who aspired to become a florist and a son of a local merchant. Gaffy and recruited them for Kas Enterprises.
Eventually my humanoid servants found the Orchid Guild's training department. We had the good fortune to find your enemy, the vile fish person Master Sushi. He was alone in his dojo. This would have a perfect opportunity to slaughter him without mercy and drain his blood.
Somehow Master Sushi tricked Gaffy the Paladin into a non-lethal single combat where the probable loser and her companions would be forced to leave the premises upon defeat. Sushi soundly defeated Gaffy. Then Sushi compelled Jax to demonstrate her pick pocketing skills on the dojo's three practice mannequins.
Master Sushi let everyone leave the dojo after Jax demonstrated her skills. Sushi did not place any conditions on the team in spite of Gaffy's defeat by Sushi's unarmored fists.
The team then opened a door across the hall from the dojo because Nimrod surmised this door must provide access to a back way into Camille's room. Behind the door was a sleeping chamber with two young women trainees. To his credit, Nimrod wanted to kill them immediately. But that sap Gaffy insisted on sparing them in spite of Nimrod's repeated suggestion they be killed. So those annoying humanoids tried to recruit those trainees to Kas Enterprises. I was screaming at them to splash the blood of those helpless trainees on the walls. But as usual they did not hear me. Instead they left the room without harvesting a blood tithe for my master.
The humanoids then decided to return to Camellia's room to see if she had triggered the trap they had set for her and to take her loot. The trap was not yet triggered. So Jax dismantled. Then Gaffy opened the door. Within the room they saw Camellia and two trainees. A fight ensued and Camellia was killed. One of the trainees survived and revealed most of the treasure and all the Orchid Guild survivors from this location went to a location known as "the school". Masters Rose Thorn and Larkspur run the school, which is in Bright Guard.
For the future glory and enrichment of Kas Enterprises, we took a wand of banishment, a ring of mind shielding, and 10000 gold pieces. We also have a coded page from Camellia's accounting ledger that self-immolated when Gaffy opened it.
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