The old gang back together again

So Monday was no good for me or Oscar this week. So we gamed last night (Wednesday). The previous Monday Tim had made it along and they had played some D&D so my guys were behind on the xp, which is particularly harsh on James since he was already a level down after being resurrected. In the session I missed they had caught up with Sushi and Ash, fought some rabid rats, found a pregnant lady wandering around in the woods and picked up a little of a the strange local language.

It turns out we are in Ravenloft. Not Barovia, thank god, or Darkon but in Torgorack. A City at war with its neighbor, Cavitis. Anyway we escorted the pregnant lady to the city and took her to her uncle’s house. He pointed us to a wise man that might be able to help us with our questions. On our way to the wise man we were jumped by the local law enforcement, known as the daggers and question by their local captain. Sushi antagonized them as usual and it nearly came to combat but a really really old guy saved us. He said something that convinced them to let us go.

We then learnt that this guy runs the local mad house and can talk directly to our minds via a magic headband he inherited from his father. He told the daggers we were his assistants and sushi was a patient. He then invited us to dinner at with his helpers and a few of his less mad inmates. One of which was a Kobold Cleric with soul melds, named Frang or Tim's new second character. We then spend the night in the madhouse and wake up to find a shriveled human finger hanging on our door knob. We ask our host about it but he is even more surprised than us.

We then head off to see that wise man. We had to hide Frang in a wheel barrow of dirt laundry because any non humans are arrested on sight as enemy spies. We reach the wise man and do the knock and password and head on inside. We ask him every question we can think of and discover the following-

The Torgorack is ruled by Lord Cass,
Cavitis is ruled by The Whispering Lord,
People in Torgorack age far faster than anywhere we have been before (most men are grown at around 7-8),
Cass is seeking his lost sword and finding it is the primary responsibility of the Daggers,
The heraldry of Cavitis is a hand with an eye in it's palm (sounds like Vecna to me),
Cavtis' armies are primarily undead and contructs,
The wars front is the mountain range between the two lands,
Torgorack is surrounded on three sides by the mists and Cavitis on the fourth,
The severed finger may be part of a ritual to use us as sacrifices,

At This point the guy from the madhouse comes in and asks us to find the self styled king of the madmen who has gone to see his fellow king, we assume this to be Cass and he asks us to help him recover his lost loon. If the Daggers catch him they will use it as an excuse to shut down the asylum. Since this guy is our only ally in this screwed up city and the daggers were super dicks to us we head off to help. We find the 'king' be man handled by some daggers.

There is no way to resolve this except combat so we get stuck in. Things start to go bad right from the start the Daggers have high AC and many of our attacks simply miss. They maul sushi and James in about 2 rounds and James has to retreat so he ran use his rifle again. Ash get a bit beat up but mostly held his own. He hits them a bit, but not much. We take one down then two more show up. Everyone starts pulling back but sushi gets caught up and killed. The jester is almost caught as well but we all make it out safely and back to the madhouse.

The game session ends there. We also played a really long game of EDH, four way magic before we started D&D. But I didn't really know what was going on but Oscar won. Hopefully we can play more often on other nights of the week since Monday is now the worst day off the week for me to do gaming.

Matt