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Saturday Night Pathfinder: Sandpoint Days 3 and 4

A brief report from Crayla:


  • I found out a lot at the local brothel.  The Kujitsu family is an interesting bunch with some dirty laundry.  The old man and wife had a half-elf son (both of them were human).  He was sent to the orphanage; the mother was kept away.  The father later pushed her off a balcony.  They have a duaghter who was a former adventurer and now runs a local inn.  The family made their money locally through glass making.  Also I got the name of the goblin tribe expert.  Man, I wish she were back in town about now.  Sheriff says several more weeks.
  • The drawback of the brothel is now that Kooper visits there all the time.  He is just one vice on top of another.
  • Met up with Mr. Foxglove who paid us a bit for saving him and took us hunting in the Tickwood.  We were able to take down a wild boar and a dire boar fairly easily.  It got us a feast back at the Rusty Dragon.  Foxglove was all over me with complements and free drinks.  The evening got interrupted briefly by old man Kujitsu who came to try to drag his daughter away.  He was drunk and left after she walloped him with a big ladle.
  • We checked the Kujitsu estate out with Pleon's assistance.  I didn't mention the robbery portion of the heist to him.  We got 300 gold thanks to a nice distraction from Kooper.  Pleon got me in nice and invisible.  There were guards about but we made a clean getaway.  I also grabbed some contracts for Pleon to look through -- looking for who knows what?  Follow the money, so Kujitsu is a place to start.
  • We stopped by to visit the sheriff and got paid for our little skeleton job.  100 gp is nothing to sneeze at.
  • We got to go grab a goblin that had holed up in a house.  Pleon worked his voodoo and got him to surrender.  Fairy dust or no, I slapped manacles on him and we took him back to the jail for questioning.  He still has my arrow in his shoulder and I really want it back.  I wonder how much yanking it will take to get him to take me to this 'longshanks' in charge.
  • Once this goblin thing is over, we need to head to the glass makers -- I think Kujitsu probably has his money mostly there.  We've drained the local invisibility magic dry, so I guess I am sneaking on my own from here on out.
  • 4 days gone and I think we've got some time to go.  I was really hoping to get back to the home plane to show off the breach in the guard for the dragon eggs before they hatch.  I'm not sure that is going to happen.
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