Session 67: Stalkers, Mimics and Fiends, oh my! Report
General Summary
27th of Anarire 1524 continued
At 12:15 Lily arrives at the inn. She hears the apprentices and Sam struggling with Flux, who is panicking. She cast calm emotions. With this they are able to get Flux up to the magical mansion and into bed before that wears off again.
Once that is done, Fargrim and Karl come upstairs to find Lily while she is arranging for Molly to become the operations manager for the guild, which she happily accepts. Then they get the tomb diving team back together to go down for another go. Molly is given a spear and Laura a dagger.
When they arrive downstairs in the tomb, Karl identifies a trap using his meta magic rod to do it from a distance. However, the broken rod misfires and he identifies himself. He tries again and is more successful. To his horror, he discovers how dangerous this trap is. He successfully removes it, before trying the east door upon Lily’s request. However, this one he is less successful. Instead yellow mold starts to grow on him. Thankfully it doesn’t really take. However, it does enough damage to get around his stone skin protection from Sunnis. At this stage, it becomes obvious this place is much more heavily warded than the lair was.
Karl backs everyone up and tries to dispel it from a greater distance. This time he has more success and removes the trap without setting it off this time. Afterwards, instead of going through the door, the group goes back to check out the treasure room. Lily directs the group to explore and start cataloguing what’s here. However, as Lily walks into the room, she realises that the treasure isn't just treasure. Some of it is alive. She warns the group and tries to run, but it is too late.
Karl looks around the room, but to him, it just looks like treasure. However, as he backs up out of the room to try and cast a spell, it tries to grab him. Karl brings his staff up and a golden shield flashes out and blocks the slimy treasure. Now he can see it, he sculpts a fireball around Lily to hit everything in the room. Fargrim sees this and then runs in to attack the pile of coins that tries to attack Karl, but misses and hits the real coins instead. Then, the ceiling above Xeldarix falls down and attacks her, it seems to attach itself to her. Xochitl flies around the sarcophagus room, keeping an eye out for anything coming from the other wings of the tomb. A lump of treasure in the back of the room reaches from it's position at the back to attack Lily twice, however it can’t seem to get a hold of her The other side of the back of the room does the same thing and has more success. As it attaches itself to her, it drags her in before getting in a bite on a critical point.
The coins near the exit move, and a spray of acidic mist sprays down the hallway. The spray hits Fargrim, Xeldarix, Godwyn, Lancion, and the thing attached to Xeldarix. This ends up temporarily blinding Lancion, but everyone else avoids that. Godwyn raises his holy symbol as the coins bite Lily, disgusted that someone would cause Sera’s focus to become violent and rebukes them for their violence before he throws a hand out and a scintillating blanket of lights covers the ceiling. Marabel grabs Lancion on the shoulder and pulls him back, telling him to stay back until his vision clears while she moves up to Fargrim to start smashing at the coins, getting two hits in. Godwyn is a little disappointed that they woke up one of the monsters without discussing coordinating first, warning not to attack the others but take things out one at a time. Lancion grumbles and wipes at his eyes.
Molly pushes past poor blind Lancion to go attack the creature attached to Xeldarix, getting two good hits in. There’s a muffled whimper from Xeldarix as Molly attacks the creature enveloping her. The ceiling seems to fall down on Emilia and attack her but then it is revealed to be one of the things that is attacking Xeldarix. It slams into Emilia and attaches itself to her. Xeldarix pulls the creature off of herself and calls it rude. Another ceiling creature drops onto Molly and wraps her up. Gummy is shocked by the sudden appearance of the creature that dropped onto Emilia and attacks it, but also hurts Emilia in the process. Emilia pulls at the creature on her and a loud buzzing can be heard gathering around her as bees start to get aggravated by her distress. With all the little bees helping her, she pulls the creature off. Laura slips between Karl and Lancion to help Emilia, getting a critical hit on the creature with the dagger she has been lent.
Lily steps closer to the pile of coins that got woken up, and summons a small hollyphant at the entrance to the hallway. Then she uses her sword to swing at the pile of coins that was already awake. Karl spins and pulls his wand out to blast the weird creature that Emilia just threw off, killing it. Fargrim will cast a mass healing word on Lily, Lancion, Gummy, Emilia, Xeldarix and Godwin. Then he turns his weapon on the coin, but again just hitting normal coins. One of the strange ceiling creatures tries to slam into Xeldarix but misses. The coins reach out for Lily and Marabel. It gets a hold of Lily and bite into her, restraining her once again. Seeing Lily in strife, Godwyn uses his lay on hands ability to channel Sera’s healing grace into her. Marabel swings wildly at the coins, at first hitting nothing but feints her attack and getting one good strike in.
Lancion grabs the creature attached to Molly and yells as he pulls it, entering a rage that releases spirits to flit around him. Molly, grateful for her companion’s help, thrusts the heated spear at the creature and does a lot of damage to it. Xeldarix tries to hit the creature, but doesn’t have much luck. The creature tries to hit Molly and reattach itself but misses. Gummy, not wanting to have the creature reattach itself to her leader, attacks, getting a few good hits in. Laura, unable to move up, fires her crossbow at the creature, getting in the little bits of damage she can. Lily attempts to hit the creature grappling her despite her more limited mobility and ends up killing it which frees her from it’s grasp before rushing over to help Xeldarix, injuring the creature she is fighting.
Karl kills one of the ceiling creatures while casting a magic missile instead of using his wand. Fargrim gets two good hits on another ceiling creature with the support of the Hollyphant. One of the ceiling creatures tries again in vain to attach itself to Molly without success. Godwyn swings his shortsword at the creature and smite it until it’s dead. All the threats that are not charmed are dead, so Marabel moves up to another pile of treasure to start attacking it. Now able to see, Lancion rages and goes to join Marabel, killing the creature pretending to be a pile of coins.
Molly looks around to see if she can spot any more unseen threats, and tells people about the coin and the patch of ceiling that look suspicious. Xeldarix is confused about the enemies not moving in the fight. Gummy stays where she is and manifests her echo in front of Fargrim, near the suspicious ceiling. Emilia slips past the group. The low buzz following her, enquiring about who they will attack as a unit. Laura moves to get a better view and readies her crossbow to attack the only creature she can spot if anyone else does. Lily takes the initiative to stab the coins in front of her, waking it up. Lily's first attack is accompanied by a blinding flash of light as she channels magic into the blade. Laura fires her bolt to back up Lily but misses even if Lily doesn’t. Karl fires a firebolt at it, while Fargrim attack with his sword.
The badly hurt piles of coins sprays the group with acid, hitting Fargrim, Lancion, the other mimic and Godwyn with only Godwyn and Lily are not blinded by this attack. Gummy’s echo is destroyed and the mimic is woken by this. Lily absorbs the acid damage to take the edge off. Godwyn finishes the creature off. The coins attack Lily and Lancion, grappling both of them while failing to take a bite out of Fargrim. Marabel gets three good hits in on the creature, goading it into attacking her. Lancion pulls himself free. Molly moves into and attacks twice with her spear. With all the people between her and the creature, Xeldarix makes a glowing beam that she sends at the coins, but it reflects off the shiny bits.
Gummy waits... there is no room in there and shooting her crossbow into a crowd seems like a bad idea. Emilia moves and uses her bees to get over the crows in order to attack with her sickles. She gets one hit in. Laura moves up to attack but can’t seem to hit the creature. Lily finishes that lot of coins off before Karl finishes off the last ceiling creature with his other magic missile wand. The Giant Fighters, Emilia (who is still literally buzzing) and Xeldarix look around, waiting to see what happens next. There is still a ton of treasure here that clearly didn't attack anyone that the group is standing on top of.
The group checks in with one another and agree they need to take a break while maybe coining the coins. Karl does a ritual to detect magic while this happens. The group finds 56 items of the right quality to be magical but Karl confirms 43 are magical. Fargrim finds the most, including a few that were well hidden in some of the chests down here. Fargrim and Lily guess that there are about 23,000 coins down here. 70% gold, 30% platinum. After an hour of resting and people feeling much better. Looking over the items, Karl checks to see if any of the people from the fish recognise any of the items. Lancion picks up two items (Girdle and Horn) and says he thinks they are his. Godwyn recognises a shortsword and shield which says was his. Emilia pulls out a Sickle and speaks with the buzzes before nodding and saying this was hers. It seems not all the Giant Fighter’s things are here though. Karl takes the moment and confirms with Miss Berry that some items they are missing were possibly sold through the university. She needs to meet with the original owners to discuss and confirm.
They arrange to go see Miss Berry quickly before getting ready to leave with Sunnis, to take Molly to Poden. The next hour Fargrim and Karl go to buy 7 packs for the group and 5 sacks. Lancion, Emilia and Godwyn spend the time to attune to their items. Lily and the others count the items and take stock of the remaining items. They find:
- 20,000g
- 3,200p
- 13 non magical items
- Silver and gold brooch
- Silver chalice set with moonstones
- 2 Obsidian statuette with gold fittings and inlay
- Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems
- Silver-plated steellongsword with jet set in hilt
- Gold dragon comb set with red garnets as eyes
- Ceremonial electrum dagger with a black pearl in the pommel
- Scraps of bad poetry
- A brass ring
- A bag of carefully wrapped sweets
- A smoking pipe
- A 1-ounce block made from an unknown material
- Comb
- 43 magical items with 5 claimed by NPCs as once being theirs.
- 1 rod
- 4 stones
- 1 Morning star
- 1 Warpick
- 1 Double bladed Scimitar
- 1 Greatsword
- 1 set of pots
- 1 vial of oil
- 5 scrolls
- 2 tokens
- 1 bag of beads
- 8 potions
- 1 globe
- 1 set of leather armour
- 1 Saddle
- 1 Chain Mail
- 1 set of dice
- 1 set of boots
- 1 amulet
- 1 bottle of liquid
- 1 horn
- 1 philter
Afterwards once all the items and coins have been packed, they head back to start looking over the sarcophagus. Lily guides Fargrim as he dispels the magic over the sarcophagus, but fails the first time. Fargrim uses the wand on himself to enhance his ability on the second try which is more successful. Fargrim uses the wand on Lily to ensure she has more nimble fingers as she disables the trap. Together as a team the lid is lifted. Inside lies an old Khinasi man. Perfectly preserved as if he died today. Dressed in fine clothes.
Lily spots runes on the lid. She suspects they might have been stopping him from decaying, but Fargrim declares he is sure he dispelled them. Lily touches the corpse but it doesn’t react. Lily goes over to the door that Karl disabled before the treasure fight to continue exploring, while Karl stays to examine the body and sarcophagus. Karl’s actions make Fargrim uncomfortable as Liily takes a few goes to unlock the door.
A door on Lily's left and alcoves on her right. In each alcove there is a mannequin with a fine outfit. The Mannequin looks like a wooden Hassan in his prime. Lily uses her wand to detect magic. Only the doors seem to be magical. Each mannequin has 3 items of jewellery that are not magical but do look nice. Lily pockets each of them, giving her 15 in total.
Karl continues to look over the body and the things he has on him. Hassan is wearing his wedding ring. His clothes are of Khinasi origin. A few golden bits of jewellery adorn him but overall it's a simple burial for the body. He looks over the runes. He can’t determine their use, but does find hidden in the runes a message in draconic.
"While I cannot follow you, I will always protect you. No one will make you rise or make you fade. Love Always and Forever, Falak."
Afterwards, Karl gets others to help him put the lid back on the sarcophagus back. Lily leads the group back to the last time she fought the stalkers. They continue that way and down some stairs. There is a magical door that they walk past. At the end of the hallway, at a T intersection there is a statue of three figures. Hassan in his prime, Falak in human form and a child in their arms. The child has wings and scales but is otherwise humanoid in form. The hallway continues to the left and right.
Lily looks over the statue but it seems to have no secrets. Seeing the door to the right is magical, she goes left to find a dead end and some more invisible creatures that attack the group. Xeldarix warns the group, Karl sees them through the star, and Lily has an idea of where some are when they come in range, but most of their group is literally about to fight these enemies blind as a warning is cried once when the attack starts.
One unseen enemy tries to attack Molly, but misses both times. However, another unseen creature has more luck and hits Gummy and Emilia. Lily directs Karl and Xeldarix to community with Emilia about where most of the enemies are, remembering how Emilia could help make them more visible for the others. Then swings at the creature next to her, slicing into it twice. Another unseen creature slams into Marabel twice, knocking the wind almost literally out of her. Marabel swings at the space that just hit her, but only connects once with her battleaxe.
Xeldarix mentally shows Emilia where the creatures are, complaining that there are no big groups. Godwyn blesses Xeldarix, Gummy, Lily, Marabel and Molly. Unable to see any enemies, Laura stays alter with her dagger in hopes of attack whatever might attack her. She doesn’t have to wait long, but the creature misses and Laura spins around to try and attack it. However, she too misses her target. Karl tries to even the odds by banishing 3 of the creatures. Golden rings appear and there is a whooshing sound to indicate they are gone.
Lancion pulls out his horn and blows into it, making a loud note. Lancion, Marabel, Emilia, Lily, Laura and Molly are filled with strength, and feeling temporarily healthier. Karl and Xeldarix see one of the creatures fly over the group while one seems to specifically target Karl aftering seeing him banish the others. However, Karl deflects the attack with his staff and shields himself. Fargrim is struggling to figure out where the enemy is, so he focuses on healing those around him. He heals himself, Godwyn, Molly, Gummy, Marabel and Emilia before taking the dodge action in case something attacks him.
Emilia sighs as Xeldarix mentally shows her where two are next to her on either side. She reassures Xeldarix they are grouped enough as she casting Faerie Fire over herself and the three creatures around her. She gets all three of them and manages to avoid her own spell, showing the group where some of their targets are. Molly tries to move around to get to the visible enemies, but runs into an unseen enemy. She attacks it, getting three good hits in. Gummy attacks one of the creatures that are now visible, hitting that one three times. This creature ignores Gummy in favour of attacking Lancion, which it hits twice. Lily produces a flame at one, but it’s not as effective as she would have liked.
One of the creatures covered by Emilia’s fireflies attack her and Lancion, but only manage to hit Lancion. Xeldarix flies up and over some of the creatures, then attacks one of the glowing ones. She slices into it three times, telling others where this unseen one is. Marabel grows frustrated when she can’t get near any enemies so she steals herself with her Second Wind. The creature covered in fireflies directly behind Emilia swings at her, but only hits her once. Emilia keeps her concentration on the fireflies to make sure the enemies stay visible. Godwyn moves around Laura to attack the glowing elemental, striking it twice and smiting it. Laura focuses on trying to attack one she can see, but can’t make contact with it.
Karl points out a few more of the unseen ones to the group. Karl pulls a small rock from his cloak and tosses it behind Molly, then he throws a small red bead past Lily. Then he lets lose a fireball, sculpting it around his allies. The little rock explodes as the fire hits it, letting out a burst of red glitter like sparks that cling to two of the enemies, Lily and Molly. One of the now glowing red creatures attacks Karl but he throws up a shield with his staff, protecting himself. Lancion focuses and enters a rage, releasing spirits out from his soul to hound the enemies nearby. With two swings of his greataxe, he kills off one of the creatures.
Xeldarix is slammed into by one of the unseen creatures, but it doesn’t realise she sees it coming. It also hits Gummy who is less aware of its movements. One of the creatures that was obsessively attacking Karl, continues it’s attacks. Lancion’s spirits envelope Karl briefly to try and lessen the first blow, but some of it still gets through. Karl almost loses focus on his banishment spell, but Lily helps him refocus. Fargrim squeezes through and past some of his allies to get at the creature attacking Karl, hitting it twice. Emilia turns and attacks with her new sickles that she was reunited with. She hits three times in quick succession and seems to wound it greatly.
Molly strikes at the red glowing creature and gets three good hits in. Gummy continues to lay into the one glowing from Emilia’s fireflies. Gummy is slammed by that creature in retaliation but it misses Emilia. However, the to the other side of Emilia doesn’t and she loses her focus on the spell, the enemies covered in her green fireflies fade from sight. Lily complains about the glow on her to Karl who dodged it before she heads towards Xeldarix so she can see that creature to attack it, getting one hit in. Karl reassures them that they are big and strong, so they’ll be fine as he wipes the blood from his own mouth.
Xeldarix sends a mental message to Emilia to show her where the creatures are now so she can try again with her spell. Marabel smiles grabs the back of Karl’s cloak, jerking him back to switch places with him before killing the creature doing it’s best to kill Karl. The unseen enemy directly behind Emilia takes advantage of it’s invisibility being returned to it and slashes into her, critically hurting her. Godwyn strikes out blindly and catches the creature to Emilia’s side twice with his shortsword. Laura strikes out blindly but with no luck. Karl brings his hands together as red light gathers into a bead and streaks over Lancion and Emilia’s shoulders. He sculpts it around his allies and manages to kill at least one of the creatures while injuring the others.
Lancion swings wildly at the two spaces where the creatures were last seen, striking each and leaving one unable to focus on anyone but him. One of the creatures tries to attack Xeldarix, but with no luck. Fargrim stays next to Karl, unsure if more enemies will try to disrupt his concentration. He heals though around him and is ready to dodge an attack. Lancion, himself, Gummy, Emilia, Karl and Xeldarix all get a little bit of health back from his prayer. Emilia casts Faerie Fire again, but only catches herself so she dismisses the spell. Molly is unsure if any are still around but is not ready to let her guard down. Gummy swings blindly, hitting the enemy twice. Lily continues to slash at the creature next to her. As she slashes through it, she channels her magic into the sword again to make it flare up and remove the threat.
Laura is badly hit by one of the remaining unseen creatures but it misses Godwyn. Xeldarix points out the enemies once again to Emilia before killing off one of them for her. Marabel sees Laura looking badly hurt, so she grabs her and twirls her away as they switch places and killing the creature that attacked her. With that creature gone, the group waits out the time before banishment becomes permanent and the danger is finally gone.
After checking over the area one last time, before starting to head out. Though they do stop by the sarcophagus to take the lid off and Lily uses her divine sense to make sure Hassan isn’t undead, which he isn't. Then she gives each of the people from her guild to be and her friends, 2000gp each as a reward for today. They all immediately give Karl 10g each to thank him for the packs. As they head up, Lily listens at the door before going into the sewer. She hears someone sobbing and begging, before crying out in pain.
Lily sees 5 figures. 3 of them looking and large as 2 medium ones are slowly dismembering a woman. The three large ones are muscle heads with bird masks that cover their heads, neck and shoulders. They seem to be bolted down and carry large bird like picks in their hands. The smaller ones also wear masks, but more like scare crows sacks. A face stitched one and a deadly looking knife in their hands. The three creatures seem to hear Lily, but only one sees through the illusion and moves to attack her. It signals the others by banging it’s weapon loudly on the ground.
One of the smaller ones, that looks like the slashing sort, is annoyed by the disruption and continues to dismember the woman. She loses consciousness. Meanwhile the large creature moves up and swings at Lily twice, doing a great deal of damage to her. Karl swears as he vanishes in a cloud of silver mist. He grips his staff more tightly as he looks around the room, and fires off a firebolt at one of the creatures attacking the woman still before running for cover. This masked creature look up and starts to walk after Karl, isolating him from the group.
Godwyn prays to Sera and blesses the group as much as he can. He blesses Fargrim, Molly, Marabel, Lily and Xeldarix. Fargrim charged up to attack the creature attacking Lily, but misses so he calls forth his spiritual weapon to attack which is more successful. Emilia runs through the group, using her action to dash to get next to Fargrim. Lily swings at the giant in front of her twice and sends out her hollyphant spirit into the room. Marabel complains that is crowded as she runs up to join the fight outside. She gets four solid hits in. The muscle creature that has been attacked returns it in kind suddenly as the floor as a scythe of shrapnel hit Marabel out of nowhere.
Xeldarix flies up the remaining stairs, ending up above Lily. She slashes at the stinky creature, but is distracted and only hits once. The other muscle creature that hadn’t moved yet moves up to attack Marabel. Hitting her twice and doing a lot of damage. Molly pulls out her crossbow and fires three shots at the creature, hitting twice and moving up the stairs where she can. The muscle that just attacked Marabel and the one that followed Karl tries to have the space around them attack the pair, but both miss. Lancion moves up the stairs but can’t get further due to the clutter of people at the top. The slasher that was attacking the victim. It moves to attack Emilia. It’s knives strike her hard and the wound seems to continue to bleed afterwards.
Laura moves up and fires her crossbow, but misses. Gummy moves up to do the same, but her aim is as good as Laura’s. Meanwhile the woman continues to bleed out. The other slashing individual attacks Marabel, causing her to bleed like Emilia when it gets a good hit in. The larger muscle creature that has been hurt significantly by the group attacks Marabel and Fargrim. It misses Fargrim but downs Marabel. Karl summons a wall of force, cutting off many of the enemies from the group and isolating the victim. The muscle creature that followed Karl is trapped and upset at this but can do nothing about it.
Fargrim prays to Haelyn to see them safely through this fight and directs healing energy at Marabel then directs his spiritual weapon to attack the muscle creature. Emilia continues to bleed as she attacks the slasher that hit her. She gets three solid hits in, but she sways as she feels the effects of continuing to bleed. Lily glances over at Emilia before stabbing the creature in front of her. She orders people to reposition as she moves up. Marabel stands up and clutches her side, swearing in Dwarvish. She tries to get at the woman in the corner, but finds an invisible wall blocking her. Xeldarix tries to fix the injuried woman with healing word, which seems to help some and bring her round. The other muscle creature near the larger group tries to attack, but the wall blocks it.
Molly runs up with her spear to join in, thrusting it at the slasher and killing it. Lancion comes up the stairs the rest of the way and runs at the nearest enemy, likely slamming into an invisible wall. Laura moves up the stairs and fires her crossbow again, keeping her back to the wall. Her arrow bounces off the invisible wall which confuses her and she accuses the monsters of putting up a shield. Gummy will run up behind Lancion with crossbow in hand, then manifests her eho on the other side of the invisible wall to attack the slasher on that side. It gets two good hits in. The woman wakes, her wounds half healed from where they had been slowly cutting her limbs off. She screams as she sees the creatures and curls up in the corner and begs for her life.
The slasher dispatches the echo before leaving, whistling for the muscle head with him to follow, which it does. Karl slips back to the group and explains they have time to heal a bit, then he will bring down the wall to finish these things off. Godwyn uses Sera’s blessing to heal Emilia with his hands, which stops the bleeding. Fargrim does a mass healing word on the group, getting Emilia, Lily, Marabel, Lancion, Laura and Gummy before taking the time to try and look over the slasher. He finds nothing outside the weapon and a string in his pocket that has ears on it.
Emilia is unhappy about letting the creatures leave, she she throws her weapon over the barrier. She hits once and the weapons always magically return to her. Lily casts Aura of Vitality, using it to heal Emilia a little. Then suddenly, the larger muscle creature that fell first blows up, hurting everyone within 10 ft. Only Laura and the victim seem to be spared the explosion. Everyone else starts to back away from the other body now. It seems to be a smaller explosion from that body and everyone was safely away. Karl brings down the wall and fires at the remaining muscle creature that had been trapped, letting the other two continue to walk away. He moves over to check on the victim who continues to coware. The now freed muscle creature hits Molly twice hard.
Godwyn tries to attack it with his sword, but misses both times. Or so he thought until Fargrim channelled Haelyn’s favour into Godwyn and managed to get through the creature’s defences. Godwyn takes the opportunity to smite the creature when his sword connects. The creature responds with shaping the spaces around Godwyn, to hit him with a shrapnel scythe. Meanwhile Fargrim using the moment of distraction to attack with his spiritual weapon and hit him critically and healing Molly a little. Emilia throws her weapon at the creature, getting two good hits in as they magically return to her.
Lily uses her aura of vitality to continue to heal Molly before trying to hit it with a Guiding bolt, but missing. Marabel moves up and unleashes her attacks, getting three good hits in. Xeldarix also lets lose a guiding bolt, but she does hit. The creature is now lit up. Molly calls upon her Giant’s Might to fill her with strength as she swells slightly in size. She gets a good hit in, but only one. Lancion rages and nearly brings the creature down with his attacks. Laura tries to finish it off, but misses with her crossbow. Gummy does get a hit in with her crossbow, but the creature stays standing. The woman on the floor continues to sob incoherently. This upsets Karl and he is done with the fight. He lets lose a 2nd level magic missile and finishes the creature off.
The group stops and Lily heals some people up a bit. They look over the woman, and see how grave her injuries are. Fargrim contacts Steve to ask him to come help and he promises to as soon as he is done, but it will be an hour and a half wait. They learn the woman had a daughter. The Giant Fighter’s volunteer to go look once everyone is out of the sewer. Thankfully it doesn’t look like a child was killed down here. They get a board to carry the woman out of the sewers on from the carpenters upstairs. Karl is able to clean it off once they get the woman settled in the magical manor.
Simone is waiting there with Abigail, playing poker. This upsets Fargrim a bit as he demands to know who taught her to play poker. She reminds him that he did and they’re playing with tokens. No real money. Fargrim stays with the woman who slips into unconsciousness while waiting for Steve. Karl and Lily both leave to run quick errands. Fargrim quickly goes to see Montagor to give him the shield. While it was not his one, due to lacking his crest, he is happy to accept it as a replacement. Molly and Laura return the weapons they were lent by Lily.
At 3:30pm Lily arrives at the Bank. She finallises some details about that and makes another deposit into the bank. The Adventures Forged gets 30,000gp in platinum deposited. She makes sure Molly will have access to the account. Then makes sure Dwyane has access to the Forged Path account, and Lyra for the manor account.
At 3:30pm Molly returns to Fargrim with a screaming three year old. However, Fargrim and Molly are both out of their depth with trying to talk to the child. Instead, Molly recruits Marabel to help wrangle the child and distract her while they wait for Steve.
At 3:40pm Karl arrives at the manor and grabs the list he needs to try and figure out whose items might belong to who from what they found today.
Lily goes shopping to buy some equipment, tools and equipment for pottery. This includes two kilns that will need to be installed within the next week. She also gets some Smithing tools before heading back to the inn. When she returns to the inn, she speaks with Dwyane to store the tools and let him know about the kilns. She also gives him his key for the bank.
Steve and Karl arrive at the inn at 4:40pm just after Lily arrived. They head straight up to the manor. They speak with Fargrim. Steve gets the pair of them to help him with the healing process, holding wounds together and such while he casts regenerate on her. She heals up, but sleeps on. Afterwards, Steve stays with her so Lily and Fargrim can go see the child.
Lily is very quick to show the child magic to distract her. Fargrim sees this and does the same with slamming the door shut when the child tries to leave. This then becomes a game until Lily distracts her with cats sounds coming from random spots in the room. While the child is distracted Lily turns Fargrim into a cat. The child is so very excited about the cat and scoops Fargrim up, who is a very grumpy cat. They go to see the mother who is very tired, but happy to see her daughter. Steve leaves once everything is in hand. When the little girl is distracted, Lily allows Fargrim to stop being a cat and they leave the pair to rest.
During this time Fargrim leaves to do a few errands while Lily and Karl start identifying things. Karl focuses on the items that might match what people are missing. The morning star is the Frost Star Morning Star that Jysdar was missing. The warpick was the Vicious Warpick Meira was missing. The leather is the +1 Leather Armour that Montagor was missing and comes with his family crest on it. Karl goes round to see these people and give them back.
Jysdar is highly suspicious of why Karl would just give this back to him and seems unsure, but does take the weapon back. Meira is very grateful to have her weapon back and promises to stick to help out a bit in thanks. Montagor is very entitled about the return of his item but seems a bit disconnected from his current situation.
In the meantime Lily identifies four potions while Karl does that. She identified:
- Potion of Gaseous Form
- Potion of Psychic Resistance
- 2 x Potion of Healing
Meanwhile Fargrim is donating food to the Broken Wand and restocking his bag of colding in preparation for the trip ahead.
With that done, Karl goes back to identifying one more object and Lily gets one potion done before Fargrim returns.
- Rod of Security
- Potion of Greater Healing
When Fargrim returns, Karl and Fargrim end up talking to Queg and learn that Flux is still acting crazy. After the description of the symptoms, Karl suspects that Falak’s wards are affecting Flux. They go and see him and ask many people to try and dispel the effect. In the end it is Khee who is able to remove the effect. Flux is very grateful for the help, but his behaviour still unnerves Karl. They ask him if he is missing items. He is missing a Black Phial and a tentacle. Fargrim and Karl head back to the manor after that.
During that time Lily identifies one last potion as a Potion of Poison. Then she shows Molly where she will store them all, except the Potion of Poison that she pockets. There are two potions left to look into. After that she hurries to catch up with the others for dinner. Saryea is already there, as Karl had invited her so he could give her something.
The cookbook is brought up with Caramella. She insists it’s Halfling in language, but Fargrim insists it’s Dwarven. Lily goes to look at the book but sees it in Rjuven and then Elven. Then claims she can’t read it. Fargrim warns her about using the recipes, but reveals they have been eating the recipes since she returned from the tent, which leaves the group unsettled.
Karl talks with Saryea and gives her the items before saying he was leaving again. She is very grateful for the maul and platemail. They hug and she seems to be doing a bit better. She gently reminds him to let their family know since she won’t be home to do so.
After dinner Lily starts teaching Xeldarix Elven after making sure Lyra knows she can access the money in the bank for the manor. Fargrim unattuned the luckstone and instead attunes the gauntlets that Lily doesn’t need anymore. He tries to uncurse an item but fails. Karl starts identifying items for an hour before doing 2 hours of scribing before bed. He identifies:
- Scroll of Protection from Celestials
- Scroll of Protection from Fiends
- Spell Scroll (Goodberry)
- Spell Scroll (Purify Food and Drink)
- Spell Scroll (Gaseous Form)
- Dark Shard Amulet
Karl believes the globe to be like his driftglobe since it is so similar. Everyone heads to bed in preparation for a long day of travel ahead of them.
Related Reports
| Name |
XP |
Running Total |
Level at end of session |
| Fargrim |
5,730 |
146,515 |
14 |
| Karl |
5,730 |
146,515 |
14 |
| Lily |
5,730 |
146,515 |
14 |
| Simone |
230 |
63,835 |
9 |
