Mefighter beta team seventeenth session notes

Grannet

After finishing up some shopping and selling of accumulated gear, the party set out for Grannet.
The 2 day journey was uneventful.
Grannet was originally a Gnomish settlement; the Dwarves have maintained it's unique architecture and canals (which are maintained by Halflings).
The group heads to the Military Supply Centre to meet with Hirian, the Quartermaster, at Kleptinax's suggestion.
After introductions, Hirian shares that their are organized Servitor raids coming from the Scar. Some raids are on the road to the capital; others are directed towards New Laketown.
These raids are being conducted by a mix of Orcs, Kobolds, and Goblins. This is not normal behaviour and Hirian believes something is forcing them to organize in this way.
Hirian also provides information on how to deal with the Wild Gnomes who live in the Scar.
The group forms a plan for investigating the Scar.

After journeying five days to the north along the road, the party heads into the Scar.
Two days into the Scar, a representative of the Wild Gnomes appears in camp.
Using some careful diplomacy and the trade goods purchased in Grannet, the party establishes a friendly relationship.
The Gnomes confirm that the Servitors are more active, and that they have been forced from the interior hunting grounds.
There is a new tribe of Servitors nearby - highly organized, mix of Orcs, Kobolds, and Goblins - that sends raids to the south.
Directions are provided to their fortress - built with wood brought from the West (New Laketown).
Torekk converses with a Wild Gnome druid and learns that giants have moved down from the mountains and into the valleys.
Servitor "army" seems to have a "do not initiate engagement policy" towards to local Wild Gnome tribes, while the Giants are indiscriminate in their violence, up to and including other non-Giant servitors.

The next day, the group journeys in the direction of the Servitor fortress.
Close to evening, an abandoned farmhouse is discovered. In one of the trees outside it, bodies are dangling. In other tree, smaller objects are dangling.
Veem is sent to scout - one tree has six orc bodies, the other three heads. Veem refuses to approach the heads.
When the party approaches the tree with the orc bodies, the bodies begin to jerk and move when scanned with Detect Magic.
The bodies - actually ghouls - drop from the trees and attack the party.
Through use of a Stone Fall spell (Torekk) and Drem's Channel positive energy ability, the ghouls are dispatched in short order.
The party is then attacked by three Vargouilles who were in the other tree.
While one Vargouille is swiftly dispatched, the other two use their paralysis attack to paralyze everyone in the party but Torekk and Drem.
Torekk (in mountain lion form) and Drem are able to kill the remaining two Vargouilles before any more damage is done.