Jade Rivers Play Report 08
This is a play report for Sessions #53-54 of a Pathfinder 2E Kingmaker campaign being hosted via Startplaying! If you are Interested in joining the the Jade Rivers Kingdom, please reach out! We could desperately use a healer.
Dramatis Personae: Jade Rivers
Sarenith 21-24, 4710
Pushing onward into the Hooktongue Slough the following morning, the Jade Rivers Adventuring Company came across a group of bogstriders fishing in the water ways. Gorzo used several scrolls of a translate to be talk with them. The bogstriders seemed amenable to peaceful alliance with Jade Rivers and explained that the Boggards of the area were violent and that the Slough had been a constant state of war between the two factions—according to the striders, all due to the Boggard’s aggression. The group declined to return the many days travel to the south to speak to the bogstrider’s chief opting to continue forward to investigate things at the Boggard City of M’Botuu. The Bogstrider’s informed the players that the Chief’s son, Ka-kekt, had been kidnapped by the Boggards and also warned them to steer clear of the ‘Swamp Scar’ a large area marked by a massive pile of logs.
The Jade Rivers Adventuring Company cotninued onward towards M’botuu where they saw a massive 500-foot long, 40-foot wide pile of logs and curiosity beat out caution and Princess Bea moved up to investigate, quickly retreating when she saw some sort of giant humanoid shape climb up top and look off in their general direction. After that, the group gave it a wide berth as they continued exploring but noticed soon they were being followed by what turned out to be Marsh Giants.
After dispatching the Marsh Giants, the group kept moving where they discovered an abandoned Boggard homestead-settlement. Investigating the area turned up nothing of use, but did seem to indicate that fighting occurred here and seemed to be between Boggards.
Pushing onward, the group entered M’botuu where they were confronted by sentries who only stayed their hands because of the presence of Variks. The Boggards had always had a tentative peace with the Fenstalker Iruxi tribe and thought that their priest king Sepoko should decide what happens with the presence of the Fenstalker. They were escorted through the village to speak to Sepoko, being prodded down a muddy hole into caverns beneath the town. As they were marched through town, Nix noticed the bogstrider prisoner—presumably, Ke-kekt—imprisoned in a tent. They also recognized, a massive idol of Gogunta, the demon god of Boggards, though it seemed that it had been long since the statue had been used for it’s customary sacrifices.