Session 5 - Faintree

We take a second to reminisce about those close but far away.
I think of my father in the library, my mother talking to and leading the guild members, and my uncle working the smithy.
Kido thinks of his brother and the journey he made to Givzie prior.
Rose has fast and unclear memories.
 
We discuss and decide on an approach to get to Chiaf. We decide to follow the coast until it curves and then start heading south. It's the easiest way to not get lost.
 
On the way we cross paths with a person standing on a bridge, asking for help to repair it so we can cross. Kido immediately steps up to take a look at the bridge, Rose notices something is off about this stranger, but before we can react he tries to strike Kido, and more bandits show up to ambush us!
 
During the battle, Kido is knocked unconscious and I was close to going down as well, but we manage to kill them all in retaliation. In the scuffle we heard them talking about a key, and find one on one of the corpses.
We take it and their valuables, and sit down to take a rest a bit further away.
 
During the rest Rose speaks to a panther that has begun eating the corpses of the bandits.
 
After the rest we track the bandits movements to their camp, I scout out and see a single bandit left guarding camp. I bring Kido and we indimidate him to give us what was in the chest the key we found was meant for. We find a lot of platinum and a Statue of Vaas, along with more weapons we can sell.
 
Cheheri and Rose talk with the bandit, his name is Glanville. Purple gubal with a big nose, balding head and green eyes. Looks pushing on 50 but is actually in his thirties. They invite him to join us to Chiaf, and Cheheri reads his fortune.
We make use of their camp for a long rest. Kido smokes some bane after a long day.
 
Me and Cheheri take the first watch. She looks sad. She is not used to being around so many people, she has been mostly alone until recently, with only me paying her a visit every now and then. She also reveals the she had been lying to me about the cards she drew when we were about to start our journey. I thought we had to wait until the right card was drawn, but she apparently drew the same card every day for those two weeks, telling her to leave comfort behind. I don't blame her, I wasn't quite ready either to be honest.
We take a quiet watch and stargaze. I still want to draw her in her star form soon.
 
Kido and Rose take the second watch. They discuss Rose's memory loss, that maybe she should keep a diary in case something happens again. Talk about people from the city, about Kidos ideas for inventions he wants to create, like shield for the wildlands.
 
At the start of the next day, Glanville asks about us and who we are affiliated with, asks if we are "Black and Whites". Could this be the knight order we heard about back in the Wererats dungeon?
 
A while into our trek towards Chiaf, we reach an invisible barrier and an illusion around us fade to reveal that we are inside a cave. A tall, slender humanoid figure emerges, a Fey creature. She wants help, but first she want to take one of our dear memories.
Cheheri is entranced by this creature and willingly gives up a happy memory from her childhood. I use my book to get information about the creature. It's a Siren.
They introduce themselves as Faintree, and want our help with two tasks. One, to remind someone of an unwise bargain. Two, help love on the way. If we don't cooperate, we will not leave this cave.
Cheheri promises to do the first one in exchange for pain relief for a friend (Kido). She needs to remind the Earl of Chiaf of his unwise bargain by being given a pouch of human teeth.
She also gets a fey fruit that tastes so good, she only wants more, and more... Until she agrees to help love on the way as well for more fruits.
Two people in Chiaf are former lovers and have now married other people, but Faintree thinks these two are soulmates and wants them to be together again.
 
After Cheheri agrees to help Faintree, she lets us go.
After that scary experience, I start inspecting the cave to see signs of a Cave Fisher. Kido casts detect magic and spots magical symbols on all of our backs except for Rose. He draws the symbol to me, and I state that it looks similar to this necklace I got from my uncle, although he didn't know what it meant. Rose explains the meaning of the rune to me, but has no memory of it. After some talking, we discover that Kido knows of my uncle Kanun, and that I have most likely seen his brother Borgor in Caz'kar'th.
 
Deeper in the cave we find traces of a Cave Fisher, and manage to find and defeat two of them! We harvest some of their blood and more importantly, their filament.