Lair of the Evil Cat Wizard

• Tortisefolk
  
• Bipedal, human sized, skinny for a tortise? Malnourished looking?
  
• Eyes: dark and a little crazy
  
• Loud twang
  
• Trailer-park trash demeanor
  
• Chaotic - Spread a new dangerous idea
  
• Seasoned war veteran and will let you know
  
  • Did not win the war
    
• Can't use his legs very well; has training wheels drilled into his shell
  
• Wears a sleeveless tunic
  
• Symbol of past sacrifices is dogtags from the war
  
• Had fire magic before the army
  
  • Came into magic young, against the will of their parents
    
• Went to war willingly when it came, but wouldn't do it again
  
• Best way he has to pay the bills
  
• Ye-ye's folk live to ~200; he's the equivalent of 60
  
• BOND: Sang stories of Teddy long before I ever met them in person
  
  • Has a high respect for other soldiers/fighters; Teddy's quest is well known, he is the dog champion of the cat people
    

• Good alightment
  
• Tall, buff, w/ a lot of floof
  
• Eyes wide and full of life
  
• "Aussie shepherd" food coloring
  
• Wears a cat collar he inherited from his adopted parents
  
• Herculean Appetites
  
  • Riches and property (treats)
    
  • Fame and glory (pets & scratches)
    
• Left home to find a mystical bone of power that can kill the evil cat wizard that killed his adopted parents
  
  • Left behind his cat siblings and his favorite toys
    
• Illiterate
  
• From Cattree
  
• BOND: Yeye is tiny and silly but amusing to me (because of their war stories)
  
• BOND: Elise's ways are strange and confusing (because of magic)
  
• BOND: Bug is always getting into trouble; I must protect them from themselves
  

• Does not have a last name
  
• Amnesia; remembers walking out of a cave as an adult, but nothing before that
  
  • Been maybe two years
    
  • Doesn't think much about her life before
    
• Loves shiny things; willing to do violence to get them
  
• Chaotic: Leap into danger w/o a plan
  
  • Very ADHD
    
• Small for a halfling
  
• Bright and big eyes (too big)
  
• Short hair
  
• Plain, blend-in clothes
  
• Super smart but impulsive and unwise
  
• BOND: Teddie has my back when things go wrong
  
• BOND: Yeye's ways are strange and confusing; war doesn't really make sense to Bug
  
• BOND: Elise knows incriminating details about me
  

• Long braided hair
  
• Bright sparkling gold eyes
  
• Basic clothing
  
• Small antlers
  
• Chaotic - "Destroy a symbol of civilization" - ecoterrorist shit
  
• Great Forest and Towering Mountains
  
  • Started in forest and moved to the mountains to get away from encroaching people
    
• Old enough to see cities take over more of the wilderness
  
• Not part of a druidic tradition, magic is from her personal link with nature/trial and error
  
• BOND: The spirits spoke to her of a great danger that follows Teddie
  
• BOND: Has showed Bug a secret rite of the land
  
• BOND: Concerned about Yeye's ability to survive in the dungeon
  

• 15 y/old kobold
  
• Armorer
  
• Was part of an army unit that was scattered ahead of the Cat Wizard when the kobold nation was broken
  

• Middle-aged elf
  
• Leader at the Adventurer's Guild's Redport location
  
• Swordswoman of some skill
  

• Human chief of the village being raided from a nearby dungeon
  

• Human warrior from Forthwind's village; gave the party info on the inside of the dungeon
  

• Also a catfolk, possessed of some necromantic power of his own
  
• Was sheltered in a dungeon after he realized he didn't have anything to bring back to the ECW from his quest
  
• Turned into the village his undead minions terrorized by the party
  

• Yeye's ex-wife
  
• Apparently a pain in the side of the ECW's forces
  

• Weaselperson
  
• Nominal leader of the resistance in
  

• One of the ECW's four generals
  
• scouting the north range
  
• Marching on Cattree; hoping to increase her own personal power, and thinks the ECW won't retaliate while he has his magic artifact hunt on
  

• Overall leader of the resistance
  
• Former catfolk general, lost her entire command in the last war and retired
  

• First among equals on the King's council; effectively the power behind the throne
  

• Commander of Cattree's north gate
  
• Kobold
  

To the north of Redport

• The capital of the free cat people
  
• Teddie's hometown
  

• Party got through most of a dungeon with little difficulty, but ran into a trap on the last door and a squad of kobold constructs
  
  • They took them out with some difficulty, and secured a treasure of 400g
    

• Party exits the dungeon and it immediately closes behind them
  
• Party stumbles upon a ramshackle guardpost in the road
  
  • Teddie realizes it's bad news; they go around it
    
• Teddie meets another kobold (Clifton) for the first time at Redport, who tells him about the cat wizard breaking the kobold nation
  
  • The kobold hands him his old axe, from when he was in the kobold army fighting against the
    
  • Tells them to meet Aredhel at the AdvGuild and ask for a job
    
• Aredhel gives them a job; a village a couple days away has requested help dealing with some bandits who have holed up in a dungeon
  
  • The villagers haven't been able to break into the dungeon to get rid of the bandits, and no other adventurers have taken the job b/c it probably won't pay well
    
• Be back in 3 days, attack at dusk
  
• Arrow traps firing from each side of the first chamber, manned by bandits standing behind wood cover
  
• Dungeon is a couple hours away from village
  
• Party heads out to the dungeon; Bug tries to be sneaky and peek in the first room, but only succeeds in getting the guards' attention
  

• Party gets past the guards in the first room
  
• Make their way down the hallway; get caught in a snake trap
  
• Find a room with a healing fountain
  
• Party goes down another hallway; finds a secret room, and gets ambushed by three more undead
  
• Can clearly hear chanting coming from the adjoining hallway; the chanting stopped when the undead attacked the party
  

• Party bests the cat wizard's acolyte, Baldo
  
  • He surrenders all his possessions to them, including his diary/notebook
    
    • Party gets:
      
      • Box of arcane reagents
        
      • Cat Wizard servant pendant
        
      • Rod covered with arcane sigils
        
      • Gemstones (stolen by Bug)
        
  • Tells the party:
    
    • Rosemary (Yeye's wife) is a terror upon the forces of the Cat Wizard
      
    • The Cat Wizard has sent his acolytes out to search for artifacts of great power; he's trying to boost his personal power and achieve immortality
      
• Party turns Baldo over to the villagers, who are probably going to kill him. He's not happy about it.
  
• Bug determines that the amulet is a tracking device; Teddie convinces them to keep it
  
• The party turns in their quest at the local Adventuring Guild, then heads back to Redport to re(d)port to Aredhel
  
  • Aredhel hears the news that the ECW has started sending minions out to search for sources of power, and brings the party to the hidden basement underneath Clifton's Cuts
    
    • Turns out both Aredhel and Clifton are part of the "Resistance"
      

• Party gets told by Arenhed and Clifton that the Resistance is a small group of people who are not convinced the Cat Wizard has slowed his search for power
  
  • Offer a pair of missions to the party; one to meet with an agent who has been infiltrating the Cat Wizard's domain, another to see what happened to a Resistance cell that stopped responding about a month ago
    
    • Party takes the latter job
      
• Travel to Westow
  
  • Yeye wakes up at sunrise to see a party of undead coming over the hill
    
    • Party fights and overcomes the undead; finds that the bodies are people from the village they helped, and all of them died violently
      

• Party arrives at the village to check out what happened
  
  • Looks like Baldo killed the villagers and raised them as zombies
    
  • Get ambushed by Baldo; manage to kill him and his zombies
    
• Dain the Carpenter is the resistance member they were sent to contact in Westow
  
  • Weaselperson
    
  • Tells them that the local resistance sort of fell apart after Rosemary decided they weren't being proactive enough and went off on her own
    

• Party asks around about Rosemary; finds out that there are ECW raiding parties attacking a fort a day and a half east of Westow
  
• Party heads out to the fort
  
  • Gets attacked by the ECW's raiding party
    
  • Party assists in the defense
    
  • Rosemary comes crashing out of the woods on her cabin with legs, stomping the zombies
    
    • Yeye tries to wrestle back control of the house back from Rosemary
      
  • The party manages to fight off the raiding party; Yeye manages to take (some) control back of the house
    
• Rosemary lets the party know that one of the ECW's generals is getting ready to invade the area; she's unsatisfied with the prolonged armistice
  

• The party sets off to the cat nation's capital-in-refuge, Cattree, to see if they can do anything to head off the approaching army
  
• On the way they encounter a catfolk who begs for their help–his friend got caught in the dungeon nearby and he can't get him out
  
  • The party investigates the dungeon; they fight their way through the first room, and end up in a pitch black basement with spooky sounds all around them
    

The party finished their investigation of the dungeon. Along the way, they ran into a party of the ECW's minions, who were there to loot the dungeon for themselves; they managed to take out most of them, and discovered a diary on one of the soldiers that contained some details on troop movements.

After some rooting around in the depths, they managed to rescue Delmak, and sent him and Salvadore off on their way. They also found some money, along with a couple of magical items.

All of that taken care of, they're now back on their way to Cattree, hoping to help head off the approaching army.

The party arrived in Cattree, the capital-in-exile of the catfolk and Teddie's old stomping grounds. Though they encountered many refugees fleeing from Arabella's army, the size of the city and the scale of its population still dwarf anything they've encountered until now.

Rosemary offered to make introductions, and took the party to the Drunken Barrel. That turned out to be the hiding place of the Cattree Resistance cell, and she introduced and endorsed the party to Pawmira Blue, the overall leader of the Resistance.

Pawmira was grateful for their offer of support, as well as the intelligence from the diary they found. Though she didn't have anything for them right away, she wrote them a letter of recommendation to get them an audience with His Royal Meowjesty, and tasked Purrcy Cinnamon to act as their guide to the palace.

He took to that task dutifully, but on the way the party was sidetracked. Bug spotted another halfling pilfering a piece of jewelry and decided to try and pinch her score, but Purrcy's sense of justice got her caught. The confrontation quickly turned hostile, then confusing as another catfolk showed up and let Bug know that–for reasons she can't remember–she is no longer welcome in "his town". Unfortunately (depending on how you view it), both he and the halfling retreated before Bug could get any answers.

Pawmira's letter got the party in at the palace, but instead of King Clawdius the Puur'd, they were met by Cattherine Sealpoint, a member of his council. She allayed the party's worries that they had been brushed aside. First, by informing them that she and the rest of the council constitute the real power behind the throne. Then, by asking them for help–reports were coming in about guards on the wall going missing, with no bodies found to explain the disappearances. Though the matter seemed minor, it concerned her, especially this close to a major battle, and she wanted them to investigate.

The party accepted the task and headed off to meet Captain Clawford, commander of the north gate. The captain was clearly not pleased to see them; though he agreed with Cattherine that a defensive strategy was best, he thought that her "disappearances" were simple cases of desertion that needed no investigation. Still, with little other choice he allowed the party access to the walls and his papers, so long as they don't interfere with the preparations.

No sooner is that done than Bartholemeow, second in command of the local resistance, lets them know that Pawmira also has a job for them. Apparently the diary makes mention of some kind of special siege engine which Arabella thinks will let her immediately breach the walls of Cattree. Details are sparse; the party decides to split up and try to handle both threats, with Bug, Yeye, and Teddie searching for the missing guardsmen, and Elise headed out into the maw of Arabella's army to scout out the mystery weapon.