Session 6: Escalating Quickly

Our heroes journeyed into town and sought out the tavern where Xavier's employer was set to meet them. Gavroche, MFS, and Nesbitt decided to stay in the tavern, where Gavroche had contacts - namely, she knew the bouncer and bartender. Everyone else camped just outside of the town in the woods in order to avoid rousing too much suspicion.

After scouting out the town and asking around in the tavern, the group has managed to learn a few things about the situation in Freyden and its nearby towns (of which this town is one):


 * Drow have been kidnapping elf families and blackmailing elven mercenaries into military service. They have imposed a pseudo-martial law on the town and control the surrounding roads.
 * The location of the entrance to the Drow Caves is a clearing in the woods northeast of the town.
 * They also suspect that another force yet controls the Drow - and that perhaps this unseen force is the female necromancer referenced by Xavier's original note.

The group also created another forgery of the evil potion to give to whoever showed up to claim it. When the time, the characters gathered in the tavern and waited for someone wearing a red hat. A half-elf named Rarunex and a group of thugs did show up, but the female necromancer the characters were hoping to meet was nowhere to be found.

The group attempted to converse with Rarunex and pick up on hints as to his motivations, but he was suspiciously tight-lipped. Eventually, the characters attempted to poison their drinks, causing Rarunex's thugs to pass out and Rarunex to shift to less diplomatic methods of obtaining the potion.