Relocating families and a pet assassin

by Marya Silverstring

So we start in the shit, well kind of
After some back and forth we decide I'll sneak to Mali and inform her

I then turn into cat with pass without trace
Get there safely and tell her what we know
Pay 350gp for a better ring of mind shielding I guess, okay more like a special rare ring thing
She also is willing to help and comes with me with some other stuff

Get a greater healing potion when back
And we start going over possible plans
We go over to the other room

We ask Silver regarding the poison
Silver : "I only know that it is deadly and that I possess no resistance to its effects."
Some more talking and planning
Melech is concerned regarding his family
The other contraption gets the answer:
Silver : "If I speak, I will lose my tongue."

Sooo we go up against the trap
We manage to partially jam the poison mechanism
Less bad, but still potentially bad
The tongue trap is also just decently enough jammed to not sever the tongue
Silver : "Any significant motion of my tongue would trigger the mechanism. We are trained to still our tongues while masked."

With a metal file we properly block the poison part
We start gathering the poison in a vial
Meanwhile we consider how we can disable the mouth trap
Silver : "There are two thin, curved pieces of metal within my mouth. One is above, one below my tongue. They are situated near the base of my tongue."

At the same time K'van brings a letter from Zintris to Molly
Then it goes to removing/triggering and blocking the tongue thing
I try to support with a well timed teleportation step thingie
Aaand it works out
Yes!

Silver is decently baffled by it
Just standing there in Seb's old clothes
Gets some food and drink
Zintris offers her a hug ô.o
Silver tells us reinforcements might arrive via magical means
In this town locally there were 6 of them
Only 2 of them were in training
Her instructor being one of the 6
Also there might be many more if they think we're worth the trouble
They're in most of the empire and probably 'know everything about us'

She doesn't know where the information comes from
But the elders have magic and reveal little stuff
They were assigned to watch an individual that no names or info was spoken

The one that took the job on Melech's family is called Luck
He left two nights ago
He should be replaced and gain some more education
Though he might still be in the city
No records, though the elders know

Okay we have one vial of very deadly poison
We think about the destruction of the mask, we definitely want to, but think on how to split up the mask
Melech brings up the Cobalt Soul
There are multiple locations of this assassin cult
She visited 4 of them

The elders are at home
She grew up there
But it was via magical transportation
They mostly report out of the empire and did a couple of jobs in the south
While we talk there's suddenly Marloth/Molly in the room

Silver also doesn't clearly know whether the assassin order will go after our families
That's something at least, so my family is most likely safe
Them going after my sister and her husband... nope don't even want to think about it
Though... damn I really at least write a letter home
For all I know I might've become an aunt in the time I was away

We talk about getting families out, namely the one from Melech, but maybe also the one from Zintris
Okay definitely also gonna get the one from Zintris
And then we teleport to Roshona?
The mask quickly gets disposed on the ethereal plane

We make our way to Tourmaline's shop
We easily and safely get to the shop
Both of the families arive safely

Melech trades in his custom magic item for the cost of the spell

One teleportation later we are in a stone cellar
When we go up the sun is super dimmed
Oh great, very Halfling friendly
Anyway it's a very big city, far bigger than Zadash

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