9/16/23

Q1: None A1: None
 
BEGIN SESSION
 
In the dark of the night, we resume. Seeing all of those dead bodies harkens to our individual pasts. I've never seen corpses in this quantity. The hollow eyes and bloating corpses slowly washing out to sea is going to sit with me for a long while yet.
 
I awaken to Druss scratching away at some letters, one to the mayor, one to the guard captain, and one to the local head of Kuzco. I rummage through Lenny's outpost, and pocket a nice little metal ring. Afterwards, I approach Marda to infuse Blur into her off-hand hooksword (10 charges). Melfina Sends to Dani again to set up a meet, and it's set at the graveyard. Luckily, the Sanctum outpost is near that graveyard. Marda is going on a walk-about, and there is a full-on barrage of explosions, followed by mud rain. It's the Mud Festival! She quickly returns, only moderately bemudded.
 
We head out to the graveyard after the mud stops falling from the sky. (Passive PER - there was a tripwire, which notified Dani that we were there.) Dani emerges from a mausoleum with a new scar across the face and missing their left arm. They also managed to get the caster that we missed down in the tunnels. Dani invites us into the building, down some tunnels, and into a war room filled with a ragtag bunch of compatriots. All of them are beat to shit, with weeping wounds and missing limbs. The air in the room is somber; they missed the leader and his primary security, but got a lot of the lower level folks. The leader was only glimpsed - older, frail, presumably human male, Jonas Gillespie, a very accomplished accountant. He's well-known in high-class, shady circles. He frequents perverse establishments, making Dem Falic look tame. He runs like a bitch, but his guards (12) are muy grande and will throw down. They had fought at a club, the Yeasty Fox, which is still smoldering in spite of the mud rain. We are introduced to Masika, a Grave Cleric Tabaxi (Russian Blue). They have the same holy symbol as Melfina. No one knows where Jonas and Co. are hiding now.
 
We head off to another perv joint, the Creaky Hinges (very old strippers?), for some recon. Upon entering, the place smells strongly of Fantasy Bengay. I make my way straight to the buffet. (PER check - 22; Yun sees Jonas, who is watching the youngest performer here, a 40ish very pregnant goblin. I see this too, and am unsettled. This tableau is designed to be perverse.) Yun pulls a chair up next to Jonas, who is fat, pathetic, with a hooked nose and a sneering look about his face. Yun goes to pretend they know each other and tries to pitch some party members as sexual objects for Jonas's next show. Combat were declared - Jonas plus 12 guards.
 
I get put to sleep right away, but am awoken by a scary ghost! (WIS save - 22; it's just Helen) We knock out all 13 combatants, and plan to abscond with Jonas. Yun casts Invisibility on Druss who is carrying Jonas. Mud is raining down and collecting on top of the invisible pair. The rest of us try to exit by blending along with the crowd fleeing the location. (Group STE - 12 for me, others unknown) Druss looks to be getting away without much notice. The rest of us are seen, but not remarked, and we make it back to the tunnel into the vault. Invisible Druss drops invisible Jonas and Melfina fails to catch him, nearly killing him, but then she uses Spare the Dying to stabilize him. The tunnels are filling slowly with water, so I ritually cast Water Breathing on the group.
 
END SESSION
 
INSP Inventory: +d6