The Collective - Session 24

This is the twenty-fourth session in The Collective campaign and the third and final in the Events in Nottenhold, the Dwarven Citadel sub-arc of the Dwarven Sword Arc.

Summary
THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1000: With the Collective split up inside the grand Dwarven Citadel, Gorrn, Gnorbitt, and Badger began the search for their Halfling friend, Roscoe. While trying to find his companions himself, Roscoe stumbled upon the famous (or infamous) mead hall, King Torvus' finest. Having history with this place, Roscoe turned to flee from the establishment before being stopped by a tall man, seemingly unnoticed by the sea of Dwarves around him. Introducing himself to Roscoe oncemore as Feydrid, he bid Roscoe to return to the mead hall and to right the wrongs that he had done many years ago. Agreeing to this, Roscoe met up with his three companions and the four of them entered through the VIP entrance, guarded by a large stone golem. The four friends met with the contact they were instructed to seek out by John Gerschwin, an unbearded Dwarven woman who did not speak to them. Roscoe traded her the sealed documents for a map made from human skin. While the party drank with their contact, Evangeline stumbled over to them from across the hall and explained that she had been there for the past few hours, enjoying herself. Crying out Roscoe's name, she inadvertently alerted the hall to Roscoe's presence, where a Dwarf by the name of Geras Songheart demanded that Roscoe undergo the Gauntlet of Redemption to make up for his racially-charged comments from the last time he was in the hall.

Roscoe and his champions quickly proved that the challenges were no match for them. Roscoe defeated Geras in the first trial, the Trial of Song. Gorrn, acting as Roscoe's stand-in, defeated the mute contact in the second trial, the Trial of Strength, and Roscoe and Evangeline bested the Dwarven twins in the third trial, the Trial of Merriment. With the trials bested, Roscoe was redeemed in the eyes of the Dwarves and, to celebrate, was taken with his companions on a six hour bender across all 19 mead halls in the Citadel, being gifted the Gauntlets of Redemption by Geras as a parting gift. In the evening, the four members went to the trainyard to deal with Viteddo's job to find that Gnorbitt had already dealt with the situation, leading the Gnomish men in their efforts to loot an overturned train. They acquired Gnorbitt and snapped him out of a trancelike state before returning to Viteddo with Giacomo's seal of approval and receiving a favor from him, asking them to visit a noodle restaurant near the University of Squidsiddie if they ever found themselves there again.