Session 40: The Ambushers become the Ambushees

General Summary

We hear a knock at the door. It's Bethany Shadowthorne. She's here because they have a patient at their place, and this person was whispering something about the Blue Sage that was stolen. She wants us to come check them out and see if they were the one responsible for stealing it.
We go over to the Shadowthorne Estate and find that this mysterious person is a very old friend Panfyr, whom we believed to be dead from child hood. She had gotten in with a bad gang who tried to kill her when they stole some Blue Sage and they didn't want to share the profits with. We learn her family was killed by drow and she was captured by a gnome who made her a servant in his garden for years. Also she confesses to having stole Ash's marbles when they were kids, and also took a fancy Vase that her her great great grandfather's ashes in it. She dumped the ashes and sold the vase.
We decide to go ask Drew in the thieves guild if he knows who might have taken the Blue Sage. When we get down there, Drew actually recognizes Panfyr already. We ask Drew about the group that attacked Panfyr and learn there are 4 humans and a tiefling. They are called the Snake Fangs. They primarily work out of Pontemundi. We think they may still be in the city, so we go check out the Arcane Academy of Eldoria to see if someone there may have been keen to buy the Blue Sage.
There could also be some monks at the Tea Dragon Monastery that may have bought the Blue Sage. We head to the Monastery to check them out.
It's Ravensqueensea 2, roughly 11am
We get to the Moneastery. We learn they deal in rare and magical herbs. They have a hard time obtaining these herbs because the Shadowthornes buy them all up. However, they were able to find someone selling Blue Sage, there is a deal going on right now.
As we go to check it out, we learn that the thieves took the sage out of the dirt, so it's going to die soon. The monks don't want to buy it. We tell them we want to buy it and trick them into following us into an ambush. As they go and try to kidnap Ash, the rest of the group ambushes and we start a fight.
Franz just explodes all but the leader. As the leader begs for their life, Panfyr walks up and casts inflict wounds telling him that this is what he gets. It doesn't kill him, but it maims him badly. Elias knocks him out and we get him back to the thieves guild. Joe casts druidcraft on the Blue Sage and we plant it in the dirt that Franz has from Galvania.
We get this guy down to Drew and he gets thrown into a dungeon.
Elias has a letter written to the Pontemundi thieves guild to recommend death as a sentence.
It's about 12pm now.
We head to the Arcane Academy of Eldoria and Franz gets some spells. Joe helps the farmers with their crops. Ash takes a bath and talks to the Shadowthorns about maybe opening trade with the monastery and Bethany agrees to at least talk to them.
Panfyr knows who has the vase he stole years ago and he goes into their home and steals it back. He also finds a bag of holding in their trash can.
WE all get dressed up for the festival. We end up at a party of rich people. Some guy named Dorian gives a speech about New Galvania and the vampires that rule there. He claims to have escaped their alive.
We missed the whole speech except for the part where he made it out alive, because we couldn't stop talking about Franz and his fangs and vampirism and drooling.
Elias goes to talk to this Dorian person as he detects this person is somewhat deceitful. When Dorian finds out that Elias is a Hoccleve, he becomes extra interested. He learns that Dorian did go to Galvania with the Magnuses, but left without them.
HE takes Elias to a giant mirror. It's some kind of portal. It ends up sucking Elias inside. Joe, who was hidden as a mouse on Elias person. He brings Joe back out as her self and the rest of us rush in. Elias tells us we need to destroy the mirror which Joe promptly does by turning into a bull.
When this happens Elias does come out, but so do a lot of other things. Some Demons as well as a Maralith. We fight and are able to kill Dorian, but he starts crawling away as Franz Magnus is somehow still controlling him. However, our Franz is able to cast animate dead and take control over Dorian so he doesn't escape.
Since Dorian died, the Demons are no longer under his control. The Maralith says she could kill us or leave, and we're like "you're free to go" and they leave.
We almost lose Hazel but are able to get her back up.
Franz is able to speak with Dorian and we learn the Magnuses have been the master of Dorian for 18 years. He's still working for them apparently?
The Magnuses need to destroy their enemies? There is an enemy in New Galvania. A city there called Sarafin Village, the enemies are of a religious order- fanatics of the Sarafin Organization. They are a powerful foe of the Magnuses. Maybe we can recruit them to our cause. They are found on the southernmost side of New Galvania.
As we start to ask too many questions, Franz Magnus kills Dorian so he can say no more.
And this is where we end.

by Asharene Shadowthorn

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The contence of this article has been edited with corrections. For the original journal entries please see Ash's Journal entries

Report Date

23 May 2024