Daggerford: Navine Shot First

Game Date: 8/21/2021

Location: Roll20
Campaign: Daggerford, Session 19

System: D&D 5e
DM: Mike

The Party:
Azul (Cliff) Dragonborn Fighter

Nikolice Gomez (Steven) - Human Fighter (Absent)

Khemed (Rusty) Half-Elf Wizard
Navine/"Spider" (Steve) Elf Rogue
Vanya (Matt) Half-Elf Bard

The Session:

When we left off, we had separated from Khemed, and found ourselves face-to-face with the venerable Dwarven king.  We spoke to him for a bit.  Vanya managed to offend him at first, but Navine was able to recover for us.  The king told us a bit of the history of Illefarn.  He told us that the halls were plagued with both ghosts and Red Wizards.  We asked how he could help, but he didn't have much hope.  He said if we took out the wizards, the ghosts would overrun the halls, and vice versa.

We asked if we could have some help against the Red Wizards, who were also looking for the same Fire Key as we are.  He couldn't help, as he was bound by an agreement with the Red Wizards.  But a couple of his subjects agreed to help us.  We left the king to his depression, and explored more dungeon.  Our Dwarven escorts dissuaded us from the Northeast hallway, so we sent Navine to scout ahead.  The Rogue found a large empty room that looked like the site of a battle.  We saw more stairs, but decided to clear out this level first.

We kept checking out more rooms and hallways.  In a room to the Northwest, we saw a man in red robes, working on some masonry.  He was accompanied by two Dwarf assistants, and the room contained ten suits of Dwarven armor.  The wizard gestured us to wait, as he was engrossed in his work.  Navine shot the Red Wizard.

Azul rushed in, striking the wizard twice.  But then the suits of armor came to life, and surrounded the Dragonborn.  Azul used lightning breath, hurting the wizard and killing one of his bodyguards.  Azul escaped the room, but the wizard hit us with a fireball.  The suits of armor stopped attacking whenever we weren't in their line-of-sight, so we tried to stay out of the room as much as possible.

The wizard fired another fireball, then fled out the opposite door.  We spent a few more rounds  fighting the suits of armor.  A couple of Dwarves approached us from the South hallway, acting suspiciously.  Navine heard them speaking to each other using a Red Wizard dialect.  The suits of armor were immune to Vanya's Vicious Mockery, so she helped to revive one of the NPC Dwarves who had been hit with a fireball earlier.

With four suits of armor remaining, we decided to drop out of combat and leave the room alone.  We headed toward the king's chambers, but as we reached that hallway, we saw two undead creatures guarding the front of the entrance.  We sneaked past them and continued South.  We heard a commotion further South, and went to check it out.  

Navine scouted ahead.  Several disheveled people ran past her, including some Elves and Halflings.  Then she came across a chaotic scene involving Khemed, more wizards and some undead.  We're not even sure which side Khemed is on at this point, but we ended the session on that cliffhanger.