10/14/2023

Q1: Who is the most important person to you outside of the party? A1: My mentor, Maurizio Cuore, in guarding the naval caravan trade route to Dragon Island.
 
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We take a few hours to make our way back through the flooded tunnels, and Druss nearly chokes out Jonas trying to keep him from regaining consciousness. Back in the cemetery, most of the healing folks have scattered. Masika sets us up with snacks and a table to which we can strap this fuckboi. Druss vacates the area to help with snacks. Melfina casts Zone of Truth, hitting everyone but Druss. When the magic hits Jonas, they scream and turn into a jackal-like humanoid, indicating a failed save.
 
Questions: 1) Where is livestock and how many? Jonas answers with another question. They've got some foam building at the corners of the mouth. This is a Jackal-were, and being forced to speak the truth causes them physical pain. 2) Who is your boss? "Our master" to Melfina, which means Asmodeus, but she's the only one who understands. "He'll be waiting for you in Davenport. He's looking forward to the reunion." She even resisted the mask, and promises she'll wear it again soon. Then she pops her holy symbol knife, and rolls some saves. The magic cuffs start to melt and I stall them with Mending. 3) What is Asmodeus' plan at Davenport? To come through the veil. They want to come corrupt as many souls as they can. 4) How do you identify your partners/underlings? Nothing much to go on. Marda snaps and tears the prisoner apart, quite literally. When it's fully dead, the corpse is fully a jackal, as Jackal-weres were jackals first and gained the human side later. I smell some cheese in another room and float away cartoon-style towards the food. I don't have as much blood on me due to Melfina actively moving into the blood streams.
 
Masika helps dispose of the body and is jazzed to study the blood with Melfina. We are going to view the Grand Finale fireworks from the top of a mausoleum. I elect to use the night studying the cuffs to try to repair their magic, and think I can remake them, with a forge. Sleep comes for us all. My dreams are stressful. I'm back in the tunnels full of water, no wait that's blood, Mikey is falling to pieces. I awake, drain the snake, and return to sleep and better dreams. I awaken and learn Bellia is bringing someone to us that she found, played by Cogan. Their character wants reparations for the SS Garfunkel doing damages to their cave or hole or whatever.
 
Vern is the visitor's name, and they seek compensation for the damages, but won't take the magic solution. Vern is wanting to accompany us to Davenport on the airship. He acquires a mount, in the form of a screaming goat. We wait for Dani, who shows up with a skeleton hand. Dani doesn't think we can square up with a Prince of Hell, and we ask about what friends we have in the area. We do have the Black Legion outside of Davenport, as well as another Bard's Tower near a tavern called the Dog's Breakfast, owned by someone called Drax. Drax is an old friend of the Bard's Guild, but cannot activate the sigil in the Tower.
 
The airship prepares for takeoff and the hot air segment inflates. Day 1 in the air goes smoothly. The captain is keeping us above the cloud cover as we fly over Lark's Peak. During the evening, during the singing kumbaya, a wyvern appears. COMBAT WOMBAT. We murder most of them.
 
Day 2: We're going to sleep the day away after being up a large part of the night. Vern is scrawling notes on the walls of the ship like a madman. A thunderous crack emanates from the girls' cabin, something small flies against the wall, then Melfina emerges looking disheveled. We learn from Vern that the Soulstone we are looking for was last seen in Davenport 300 years ago, when he was there for his cousin's bachelor party. Vern is from Lewisville which was SW of Shadowacer, before the Dragon Island split off from the continent. It was probably intentionally destroyed by the dragons as they fucked off. Vern has an old map of the area which he and Yun try to decipher.
 
Resume in Davenport.
 
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INSP Inventory: +d6