faealchemist

First was a period where the party tended to wounds, and began identifying their hoard of magic items. The former went well, the latter went badly. They rescued some prisoners who gave them some supplies.

Then they went into the tunnel, finding themselves at an ominous rusted door. They ignored it in favour of surfacing. They came up inside a tent, and heard cultists chanting outside. They quickly hatched a plan fo distract the cultists by lighting the tent on fire, using some wine they had as accelerant. It... actually worked okay? It was funny to have the one player roll survival for initiative, as they lit the fire. The fight was an interesting one. The cultists released their demon from its cage purely on the basis that the tent was on fire. The players only knew something metal had opened, not having heard it over the sounds of the ritual, or spotted it because it was beside the tent when fhe swashbuckler peeked out the front.

The swashbuckler did end up taking a lot of aggro, on the basis of being the first to leave the tent and nobody wanting to go inside a burning tent. He stayed up on 3 HP though, and the gunslinger got him some heals mid-fight. The demon tried to flee, but the gunslinger for a snipe off ~90 ft. away.

Next session the door will be revisited, as it's their only lead. We're looking forward to their exasperation as they fight an enemy that has hardness reducing all damage by more than their average hit :3 (A crit will break that down, so it should be fine?)