Session 45: Adventures in Pontemundi
General Summary
It's 8pm on It's the RavenQueenSea 7 year 1093.
We've just arrived at Pontemundi. Morpheus tells us his boat is being held near a pier. We decide that we may hang out here for a couple of days.
We want to locate the thieves guild and find out if the Emilia here is the one that passed away in Eldoria. We want to find out if the fellow who tried to kill us has been tried or what we need to do about that.
Morpheus ends up taking us to an Inn called the Glazed Rose. Someone there owes him a favor, and it's the best place in the city. His contact there is some guy named Brutus.
Joe recognizes the structures and design of this city to be dwarven made, and probably around 1000 years old. STrangely, there are not many dwarves here.
Ash notices that people seem to look at her strangely and pointing. Hyadr notices to and is like "Welcome to the club"
We get to the inn and Morpheus asks for Brutus. The person there is like, Yo, Brutus doesn't want to see you man. and Morpheus is like "Come On! is that room available" This guy is like yeah, and we take a lift up to a secret door and are escorted to the room.
Hyadr learns that onions are the secret to being really strong. Not meat.
We all bathe. Ash meets a sun elf named Ithilene who is here on a diplomatic mission from Calimbar. She is with Gladrian himself and the rest of her squadron of Magic Breakers. She doesn't speak much about what their mission is here though. We know she's going back to Calimbar when she is done here.
She knows who Aezlebov is and says that she guarded outside when Gladrian was meeting with him. She has actually met Ash's sister Dusterra.
WE get her a little drunk and she tells us that Aezlebov is a really smart guy, but the rift causes him a lot of stress, because I guess Mystra chose him and he is holding the whole world together. He's holding the rift together so it doesn't destroy everything.
she tells us that there were discussions of putting mithals over the continents to kind of hold things together. this would cause problems with the weave. Wherever the mithil is would cause issues with magic over level 3 in those areas.
Gladrian is here with their town religious leader (Faenor's dad). They are discussing all of this behind Aezlebov's back. If the mithals get put up, then it will likely kill him. It's really fucked up.
Joe reminds Ash that Gladrian is Ash's father. Ash messages Lyra about what she knows and what Gladrian's plan is. Then she decides to go and talk to Gladrian about it. She doesn't think it's a good idea and worries that a lot of innocent people will die, one being the very man who has been holding the whole world together.
Gladrian tells her that there is a meeting in the morning with the council, and Ash should come speak at it.
We get some rest. Durning the night Hazel and Hyadr have a conversation and she tells him that he has an evil heart and that he should fight these instincts. She worries for the rest of our safety. She will be leaving soon to go seek out her husband Tempest in the Wasteland of Woe. She tells him that he should leave too, but he says he will not, because he believes he is not evil and would not hurt his friends.
As she walks away, he sees her talk to a group of soldiers that seem super friendly and it's kind of weird.
A couple of hours he wakes up Ash and when ash is on watch she hears a group of men outside the door talking about "it's the guy with the bandages" Did they have something to do with Hazel disappearing?
Ash wakes everyone up. Hyadr is like I"ll just set the door on fire, and kick it on them. He sets it on fire but just kicks his foot through the door and gets stuck.
Joe gets him unstuck. The men outside says they are here to escort Morpheus back to Brutus. They also mockingly say "Hazel's right here" when Panfyr shouts for her.
Franz tricks them into bringing Brutus to US by tellin them that HE himself is Gladrian.
Ash turns into a mouse and follows them. She sees Brutus arguing with the men, and he tells them to fuck him up. Someone says Gladrian is in THAT room. They run off after him, and Gladrian and the Magic Breakers just destroy them. Like it was so easy for them.
Ash goes back to their room to find her friends gone. She then goes back to Brutus's room to try and find hazel, but does not find anything about her.
In the meantime, Panfyr is like WTF is going on Morpheus, what's the deal with you and Brutus? I guess he took him on a boat ride and left Brutus with a Hag or something...He's real big mad about it.
Morpheus is like, we can just kill him...which is kind of fucked up, because Brutus is kind of justified.
Morpheus tells everyone that Brutus works with Emilia. Everyone goes to confront Brutus and Ash rejoins them. We make Morpheus go and try and make things right with Brutus.
Morpheus ends up making up a cock n bull story about having 10k gp on an island, and he'll tell Brutus where it is if he promises to take only 3kgp.....Brutus believes him?! What an idiot...Lord help us....or just Morpheus really.
We get our long rest. The next day, we are approached and asked what city we are representing at the council meeting. Elias steps up and says we are representing Eldoria, and he is on the council there.
They write us in. We ask the innkeeper to keep an eye out for Hazel. He says the clerk who was working when she disappeared will be back at 5pm so we can ask him them.
Joe fixes the hole and the burn marks in the hidden door we destroyed.
Before the council meeting, we get breakfast and go shopping Panfyr runs into Jaren Silverleaf. He doesn't have anything too good just yet. Panfyr tests him though to make sure he's honest and he pasts.
Ash gives Joe the Githyanki egg she has. Joe gets a harness to carry the egg in.
Panfyr's owl Mayhem shows up. There is a message on the owl. It says Giddlewick reported you and there are Drow after her now.
She doesn't share this with us, and can't understand why drow would really be chasing her.
Druka, Panfyr's master before was just terrible to Panfyr even though she produced the best gardens. When Panfyr left, the gardens started to die, and she thinks this may be why they want her back. The supply chain has been disrupted.
Joe goes to a book store and gets a book on Githyanki. WE get on the boat to head to the council meeting. When we get on the island, Dawles shows up with some pitfiends and takes Elias to a trial on the 6th layer of hell. Something about the money that was sacrificed didn't belong to the sacrificer, and now it has to be returned. I don't fucking know....
But now Ash has to deal with the council meeting on her own.
The meeting starts. Turns out Gladrian is here just notifying everyone of what is going on with his plans. Turns out the high elves from his land, Enegarnad will be the ones to create the the mithals, and they will be the onlyones to cast spells at all. Everyone else will only be able to cast cantrips.
They plan to have this executed within 2 months. If we can come up with a plan to solve this, we may be able to convince to stop this.
Maybe we can go talk to Aezlebov. Maybe we can find the shards and make them whole again? Maybe we could try to get in touch with Mystra?
In the end we decide to continue on our way to new Galvania.
WE run into the clerics and tell them about what is going on and where these orders came from. and ask for their help. They head back to Adenizeal to let their leaders know
Report Date
03 Nov 2024
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