This is part of a series called "Tales of the Magaambya," and is in my set of TTRPG Wrap-Up fiction. I am in several TTRPG groups, whether it be D&D, Pathfinder, or something else, and to keep track of the plot and keep myself on my toes, I write session wrap-up notes in the form of in-character journals. In this case, this is the grand tale as told by a bard of their personal adventures and exploits. It is based on the characters in a Pathfinder 2e game of Strength of Thousands that I run, which takes place in the world of Golarion. Consider this your warning that THIS SERIES WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR THE STRENGTH OF THOUSANDS ADVENTURE PATH FOR PATHFINDER SECOND EDITION. All within is personally written by me personally, summing up the exploits at my personal table, and are not at all considered "canon" to the adventure, and ABSOLUTELY contain deviations from the published adventure that I put in myself. But it will spoil the story, so beware.

Part 3

Gremlins in the Barn!

Toilday, Arodus the 4th, 4720 Absalom Reckoning

The Cohort awoke to the rain on their windows once more, ready to take on a Tempest-Sun Mage challenge on their first Toilday at the Magaambya. Kudra was the first to rise, bright and early, and she met with our friend and quest-giver Esi over morning tea to discuss their next assignment.

Your humble narrator, the stunning and exquisite X'olani, was called to visit with Teacher Ot, not only our mentor but a friend of my people, and in fact my sponsor to the school. While I spoke with him, catching him up on my travels, sights, tales, and knowledge (which I assure you was quite interesting at the time but of no interest to the on-going story of this band of heroes) the rest of the cohort were tasked with clean-up duty. To assist the most defense-inclined branch of the school, focused on both martial and diplomatic prowess, the party would be taking care of a group of gremlins that had infiltrated a storage barn on campus.

Esi revealed that gremlins had been popping up from place to place on campus, and that they hoped to resolve the situation soon, but in the meantime, she sent them to remove the gremlins in a non-lethal manner, getting them off of campus and out of town. Thanks to Ignaci correctly predicting the task, however, our heroes had prepared!

With the combined knowledge of all the members, and the studying of Jhaan, they parsed out that these gremlins, (Pugwamis to be specific) were natural trouble-makers, small and easy to deal with. Pugwamis, they found, were terrified of silver bells, and had a fascination with Kholo.

Between the insistence of Jhaan and the diplomacy of Kudra, the team successfully recruited Anchor Root, their anxious Kholo companion, to assist, while Oyana and Kahara retrieved supplies from The Powderpile. Ready to take on the task, the Cohort spoke with the kitchen staff, determined where these gremlins were, how many awaited them, and set off, hoping that their Kholo friend would be enough to get them to leave town peacefully.

They arrived at the barn, finding an old wooden building, thatched roof, with a door ajar. Inside, upon the stone floor, four rooms of accoutrements stacked upon shelves met them, along with a door at the far end, barred closed with a broom handle.

The party entered carefully, stalking the floor and checking each room until they arrived at the far end. Jhaan carefully drew the broom back from the door as Kahara rushed in, finding an empty storage room consisting of shelves, barrels, and work tables.

Upon closer inspection, however, Jhaan's eye for the odd and unseen caught something strange beside a trio of lit sunrods: a trapdoor hidden by the dust and straw! Beneath the door, our heroes found a dirt tunnel, winding further underneath campus, surely the way the gremlins got in.

At that moment, four Pugwami gremlins revealed themselves from their hiding places among the shelving. The beagle-esque creatures and began to throw jars and bottles at the heroes, who fought back with all the restraint they could muster. Moving quickly, Jhaan pulled Anchor Root into the room to admonish the pugwampis in her tongue, and like magic, they calmed and walked to her, entranced.

The Cohort joined Anchor Root into the jungles outside of town, guiding the gremlins far from the city before she demanded they stay out, which they agreed to do in her tongue, though warned that they were not the only gremlins at the school, telling them that their leader, Kurshkin, was determined to face off against the school and get revenge for slights the school enacted, and that they had the blessing and help of "something far greater."

Exhausted from the task, concerned at the gremlins' story, and wounded from the thrown jars, the party returned to campus with Anchor Root, where I rejoined them. To celebrate another task complete, we took dinner, drank from our personal stores, and rested our weary bones (or wood, as the case may be) in the dormitory's baths.