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Gave the tailors 2 full days to get me an outfit. Talked to Koa about what they mean by "feeling bad" about having to hurt people. Ashtara didn't get all the documents made, so we don't have all of it. Harveen (femme) and Jaiden (masc), two former slaves who wanted to speak with us. Aldrid is one of the people they were looking for, the other is Raerin. They are important, and cannot be lost. They will travel with us to Loshev but will have to keep going west. We reported everything, Ashtara gave us the docs.

S11 - Freedom’s Price

10 Lashes were looking to expand in Westwood. They were gathering supplies, to do that and then also tunnel from this hideout to there. Nobleman Leader never ever appeared around the slaves and their name was never said aloud. Casper nearly got killed, we managed to barely get him attention fast enough to save him. He says that Ashtara is moving to surround herself with powerful people so she's harder to get to. She went to Lord Grayras. 8: Julius Angoule, he 'hooks the bait'. Owner of warehouses. 9: Cpt of Guard in Forven keeps Cpt Jack unaware of interactions in the area, keeping their goods unchecked in Harad. 10: Gleb Meadow, lives out in Veren ------way east and north. Not direct in this trade, other supplies moving for them as well. Peredhel - Meshtez is where a lot of people are brought from. Westwood has an inn where a lot of them are "stored". Meshtez is where a lot of money is laundered as well as paperwork forged. Beltran Grayras: Bankrolls this operation. Lordling. Lady and Lord Grayras are unlikely to be directly involved. If one IS involved, it's the Lord. Estate in Westwood. Going after Beltran means we go after the city, the whole council rides w/the Grayras. Beltran probably has way too much documentation about his activities at his estate in Westwood. He had a hobgoblin alchemist man (died in the cave) which he kept nearby. We ended up having to make a deal with Ashtara. Wonderful... She gets to walk but has to leave Idir. She gave us names. All of them. So that helps. We'll need to get documents to link most of them together and get those to the right people. She'll check in each day: 4 days in HG and 3 in Harad.

S11 - Freedom’s Price

S10 - Breaker of Chains Pt.2

That fight was far too close. We did fine Cullen, thankfully, but not before Torr wounded him badly. The sick fuck went out murdering innocents. Alchemy Lab: They tried to set it on fire, but one of the only guys who didn't betray us managed to put the fire out and we saved some ledgers and alchemical supplies as well. This person was...self-taught. Clearly. Unfortunately, a very nice room next to it was razed completely. It was oiled, set ablaze, and the door shut. Yellow Shirt Man likely escaped through one of the secret passages. I think he was the only one to escape. We got 6 prisoners. One man we turned at the end of the with Torr, taking a shot at him. Captain Torr's name was Walter. The org always has 10 individuals. The 9 lashes and the rest have 1. This guy has been a part of it for a few years, knows a lot of inside info. He never got yellow shirt's name. Torr wasn't actually in charge. Yellow Shirt was actually in charge. Fuck. Ashtara was the one who got buyers. Their salesperson. Different rungs of people they'd collect, people easily able to be sold back to Peredhel exploiting in clime. They also had some for ransom. Torr would sometimes target specific individuals. That torture room was for the specific individuals. Xylum is the other person with a lash we caught, Zahir (Peren) was the guy who surrendered. There's a secret area in the space with the sarcophogi. We found markings of Luthar's home and d'Oub's home, and...sigils from the planes of water, steam, and salt. There's also markings of ice and slime but they're only mentioned once. Water in basin is thicc. Ledgers: This tracked what people who were taken specifically. Torr was collecting people to get information out of them. It always lists them and what info he got out of them. Xylum also used the room, he was preparing it when we broke in.

S10 - Breaker of Chains Pt.2

S9 - Breaker of Chains Pt.1

S9 - Breaker of Chains Pt.1

I forgot to take notes.

Session 8: The Half-Cocked Plan

[b]5 groups:[/b] [b]Broken Daggers[/b] aka The Gutter Rats [b]Crimson Shroud[/b] - [b]Silver Web[/b] - [b]Ashtara[/b] was walking around w/a "fancy gentleman" who dressed well and smelled nice, medium height, white hair, thin build. They went to a nice restaurant last night, "The Colorstay". They charge a copper just to walk in, before you've even done anything. [b]We have 3 approaches.[/b] [b]1[/b] - Look in the general area and try to find the place where they store people ourselves. [b]2[/b] - Mess with another crew and get the info from them. [b]3[/b] - Get the location from Ashtara [b]Fawzday, 5th of Vórim[/b] Koa meets Gwynevar and they are adorable, it seems. Went to the Colorspray, met the owner Bhaltair Breacah (Derogatory term for Congressman, Spellmonger). [b]Malek[/b] -the fancy gentleman- went on a date with Ashtara and she showed him several people who also have lash tattoos and where the "goods" were stowed. After meeting him in The Colorspray, he challenged me to a duel but then outside just wanted to know what we were doing. I revealed to him what I was there for and he revealed the info above. Eventually we all get on the same page and make a plan on how to infiltrate the hideout. We were able to recruit Edrick and 4 others to help us storm the place. We're going to have Aldo disguise as Gargolith and then pretend to be taking in Malek with Edrick as his bodyguard.

Session 8: The Half-Cocked Plan

SESSION 7: Spelunking in the City

We were able to tail Aldo, thankfully. The guy he was working with apparently had some other friends check ahead. When they appeared, we were able to deal with them, but one escaped and one was decapitated (Koa is terrifying). We dragged one down into the ruins and the other was lead at sword point. Man with no head is Gargolith. He had a lash tattoo. One person with a lash had red hair, very pretty. Last seen, Willie spotted her over by the docks. It was to do a pickup. Casper knew her. Casper is the one Aldo was working with already (the one he tricked). Ashtara Wallnut - Human/Peren, dresses nice. Lives in both Haugh Gwyn and Harad. Find where Messy/Diggle holes up. Tailor shop past the blacksmith (audible), go two houses down where there's bits and bobs. That's no shop, it's a hideout. (At night) Go to the docks, market - middle of it, head north like you're heading towards the ruins. 7 streets up take a right, from there find the tailor shop, same thing from there. Diggle apparently knows Ashtara. We found him. He blew up their hideout. I hate him. Casper says Edrick knows a lot of people, he'd be good to talk to. He's in Haudh Gwyn. We let Casper free since he doesn't have anywhere else to go and will be hunted by the slavers once we start acting (since they'll know where the info had to come from). He's going off to help figure out the information on "exactly" where the "cargo" is brought.

SESSION 7: Spelunking in the City

SESSION 6: Pursuit of Freedom

Talked to Nathan Fox, he's on the council now and appreciates what we've done. Did forget to give him the notes back. I found Trinity again. So charming. Gemsmith got us the ability to shop a bit that night. We purchased some supplies and offloaded the smaller of the two gems. Herrod Guard Captain: Jack/Bernard. May know more about the slave trade. River's Edge Inn in Haudh-Gwenn. Kagi is the owner now (mother deceased). Got our rooms there, safe in a basement. We checked in at the different taverns. Someone was at a tavern that I recognized. Can't remember their name. We did manage to get some information, and Aldo got someone to expect a "shipment" of people. We have to tail him and get there without his knowing.

SESSION 6: Pursuit of Freedom

SESSION 5: Pursuit of Freedom

Stash 1: 5 gold, 11 silver, 2 moonies, 2 gems, 1 "skeleton" key. Dan's Home: Small parcel w/herbs. Loose floorboards has 4 swords belonging to the guard, worn down a bit., 12 pennies. Nathan Fox wants to join the Council, he plans to lock down regulations on trade so what is imported and exported is more controlled and helps to clean up the in Loshev. We eventually got Westwood to retire definitely without any amount of force or duress required. We absolutely didn't have to use a healing potion on him. Anyway, he died later that night after officially resigning. Constable says he can help us get a boat downriver. He says that Westwood (they/them) (one of the council) should step down from the council so he can step in, that would help us expedite our case. Alex Westwood had direct correspondence w/people in Haud Gwen who were linked to people in slave trade, who were linked to Meshtez. Apparently Trinity spoke kindly of me so I should probably talk to her at least one more time before we leave town. Someone in Haud Gwen received a shipment and is expecting it by the end of the month.

SESSION 5: Pursuit of Freedom

Crappy notes today. Dock, hollow hole, Dan keeps his cut. Fishing spot, log w/mushrooms, keeps his second stash (keef) Got paid off the last catch that was made. One of the crew came by, found a couple people travelling this way, grabbed them. Gemsmith's son outside of haud gwen, for trading Outside of a cave, underground. One of the warehouses, take payment to not ask questions. Some just pay, just store. Head south to Meshtez Captain Torr, Sumir, Deccan (dropped off the Amultese people) works the mountain trails, most recent "shipment".

SESSION 3: Dan's Darkest Secrets Pt. 2

SESSION 3: Dan's Darkest Secrets Pt. 2

SESSION 3: Dan's Darkest Secrets

SESSION 3: Dan's Darkest Secrets

Session 2: Lost in the Woods

Session 2: Lost in the Woods

18th of Lindra, AYR 671 ^ same day as the finish of previous notes. On the papers there are 3 masc and 2 fem, 1 is [b]Malik[/b] who Koa has already killed. He's got a bit of a reputation in Loshev -his hometown it seems- as a troublemaker. Mid-to-late 20's. The other 4 are people he's known to have spent time with. They are not native Loshevi? [b]Jasir:[/b] Tradesman [b]Samir:[/b] Hunter/Trapper [b]Zahra:[/b] Hunter/Trapper [b]Layla:[/b] No known profession. Layla, according to Aldo, is Dan's paramour. At the very least he saw her with him. He didn't elaborate but that makes her a bit more valuable to capture. I revealed to the other two that I can use magic. We passed through a region of the woods that seemed to dampen our gear and our rations. Thankfully, our papers stayed dry in the scroll case. It has become obvious that that area has something going on with water. Our waterskins were filled with water that reminds me of the fresh mountain spring water back home. Amazing. 22nd of Lindra, AYR 671 We've found a camp where the bandits were, thank goodness it's actually warm! They're close. We managed to push on during the night and found their most recent camp. Four of them. Layla apparently spotted one of us and ran off early. Koa took down the archer as they wouldn't surrender and [b]Zahra[/b] tried to lash out. Aldo...is a very good shot. She's dead and so is [b]Samir[/b]. [b]Jasir[/b], it turns out...is good old "M'boy". Koa and Aldo got [b]Layla [/b]to surrender. Now we've got some time to talk.

Travellers from Forven to Loshev are a bit spooked. I met Vira, another guard -apparently a leader I'd later learn was named Tariq al-Mahir-, and Khalid. I was able to speak with Khalid for a while, apparently a bandit attack occurred recently. 4th one in 2 months. A good guard with the crew killed one of the assailants. Khalid tells me more about Loshev, lots of commerce and trade deals with much larger settlements. I'm able to make a bit of a deal to play during the evenings to reduce the cost of rooms. Even better, Khalid says around noon I have a reason to visit the council, they'd be interested in knowing what I saw on the road. The council meeting went...interestingly. A man accused of being violent and disturbing the peace was on trial, Aldo, was speaking to his encounter with corruption. He mentioned tattooed men, I was able to speak up after some time and press that information. The men he saw meeting with the guard, Dan, were the same that abducted Kliven Gemsmith. I decided to speak up on his behalf and then speak with Kliven's father. He's asked me to join Koa to root out the bandits to the east to gain some trust with them. After which, if they prove to be competent, he'll hire us (or perhaps just me?) to try and rescue his son. Aldo is going to be a handful. Clearly he has a drinking problem...or we can call it a stopping problem. He drinks very well. While I'm not so convinced about Koa's ability to navigate the woods, he got a flawless compass. I feel better about that. We head south now to go after the bandits in the east. Five of them maxiumum, one gold each and then one gold per head if we capture them alive. To keep Aldo on, I had to offer half my spoils, but that's not such a terrible price. I've made do with less.

Session 1: Awakening in Loshev

Session 1: Awakening in Loshev

Session 0 - Notes in the Wild pt. 2

Session 0 - Notes in the Wild pt. 2

Session 0 - Notes in the Wild

Session 0 - Notes in the Wild