Slaughterhouse Five

Slaughterhouse Five is the 43rd Chapter in the SKT Saga.

Short Summary
The Wayfarers fight for their lives. HD tests out her new blade and earns one more. Crab Fenris rampages.

Long Summary
(to be added)

Characters

 * The Wayfarer's Guild
 * Almond
 * Benedikt
 * Lox
 * HD
 * Yenedril
 * Yakfolk
 * Kartha Kaya
 * Imberu
 * Nahala
 * 13 Yakfolk
 * 2 Yakfolk children
 * 4 Slave Halflings

Timestamps from Recording
00:01:44 – Battle begins. Lox, Yen, HD and Ben are attacked by Kartha Kaya and his companions, which include two shamans who summon earth elementals. Yaks in other huts take notice of this fight and start killing their slaves. Everyone is getting badly beaten by the Yaks, with the entire village soon joining the fight. The party is in danger of getting killed or enslaved.

00:51:36 – Ben summons Fenris and turns him into a giant hulking crab*. HD uses her new short sword (Aramis) for the first time. The blade looks as if it is made from glass, and has a line of mercury down the middle. It somehow sets itself on fire. Crab Fenris wipes the floor with the Yaks and distracts the enemies. The entire party drinks potions of invisibility and try to run away and hide. Ben uses Kalika’s exploding rat.

01:52:10 – The party realizes that it’s not really possible to run and hide, so they decide to go all out and attack the Yaks, killing them all. More reinforcements come from the other side of the village, but the party doesn’t hesitate to kill them. Yet again, the party hears a screaming coming from the cloud giant castle. The party figures out that the sound is coming from a dragon in pain.

03:07:28 – The party takes two of the Yakfolks as prisoners and take them into the main hut. They tie the prisoners up, and they bring up that there are two children in the other section of the village. Yen forces one of the yaks to eat the drugged food and charms it, and Lox talks about how children will be easy to kill. The Yak try to negotiate their freedom by offering the children. Disgusted, the party asks them why they killed the slaves. The Yak tells them of how Duke Zalto took most of their slaves, which is why they attacked the party. They also say that killing slaves during confrontations was standard procedure to make sure they did not revolt. Yen and Lox demand the Yaks to show the party where the villagers keep their magical artifacts.

03:16:20 – Yen takes the charmed Yak to go find some treasure, while Lox and Al go to find the children. Ben and HD interrogate the other Yak about the sound of the screaming coming from the cloud castle. The Yak says that the screaming has been going on for a few weeks, and that the Yaks didn’t alert the giants about the party in hopes of enslaving them in secret. He also says that the giants come into the village whenever they need to go out of the mountain, due to the entrance being at the top.

03:21:26 – Al and Lox find two Yakfolk children in a hut, and are asked whether they are slaves. Lox tell them that they are friends of the children’s parents, but they don’t believe him as they view Lox as “lesser folk”. Lox asks the children why they were in this side of the village, and they tell him that they were going to be sent to another camp for education, though they don’t know the location. The children call Lox and Al slaves. The children introduce themselves as Yik and Yak. Lox asks them if they have another place they can stay at, to which the children respond “Lady, we are on the top of a mountain”. When Lox corrects them and tells them he is not a lady, they call him a wench. Lox loses his patience and backhands the kid right in the face, and Al fails to stop him. Lox lectures the children about how their parents suffered because they tried to force the party to do things for them, and that if the kids live their life with such arrogance, they are also going to go down the same path as the adults. Al agrees with Lox.

03:29:47 – Lox asks Al if he thought Lox would be a good father, to which Al replies “I think you will be a wonderful dad, as mine was to me. Some lessons cannot be learned if not without some force”. Lox pretends that he hit the children to teach them a lesson instead of just hitting them. Yen joins the conversation and says that his father taught him a lot of lessons too, and high-fives Al. They all decide to ask Arthas to send someone to pick up the children and the two prisoners. They bury the slaves and lock the gates. Lox sends Arthas a message telling him about a situation, and Arthas replies and asks the party to not make this a habit.

* A few weeks after the session, the players and the DM learned that Fen can’t be polymorphed into a creature with a CR higher than 1.

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