Session 6 - Prison Breaks and Life on the Lam

Following the unsuccessful attack on the Temple Of Bane, the entire party found themselves imprisoned in the Manshaka Gaol. Locked in with a variety of miscreants, some sinister, some benign. The group quickly found that the jailer took pleasure in using his exhausted and malnourished prisoners as sport, which Roggo learned the hard way, forced to wrestle a hulking, simple minded murderer. Placed in the stocks to “face the city” for their crimes, in addition to the typical thrown fruit and “other” materials the group had three singular interactions. The mother of the unarmed acolyte of Bane they murdered in the temple through her curses and sorrow upon them before hobbling off in her misery. A hunched and frail looking cloaked figure visited and swore revenge upon the group’s souls for what they had done to them. To everyone’s shock they realized that this individual with dead seeming eyes and gangrenous flesh seemed to be Titus Saranto, who the group had last seen burned and beheaded after attacking them in the Bearded Mermaid. Finally, Hands came to visit and managed to pass a note offering to help in their escape.
With the aid of lockpicks provided by Hands and a serving slave, Mythdanor managed to free the group, and they quickly overpowered the guard on their prison level. His “mage gloves” removed, Garrak quickly simulated an earthquake in the prison and Akir caused a stir by shouting very convincing warnings that the building was collapsing. Freeing all of the prisoners to cause further chaos the group fled through the sewers, with a new friend “Old Getty” an experienced smuggler they on the waterfront below the Strand and fled Manshaka, Getty going his own way back into the city.
Rested and recovered the group ventured to Titus Saranto’s tower, but found no sign of any recent habitation. After several days of additional rest, they returned to Manshaka and took shelter in the “Darkened Lantern” a seedy inn that Hands used as a residence. As the city prepared for the Festivus celebration the group eventually met again with Vestra, who withdrew her offer of membership into the Good Folk given their high-profile activities. She did go on to share her goal. She wanted to completely upset the institution of slavery in Manshaka. Vestra felt that this could be achieved by the acquisition and very public destruction of the “The Book”. The tome containing every slave’s name, number and status. She emphasized that it must be very public so everyone knew the book was truly gone. She went on to share that such an act would draw the ire of not just the Pasha but the Sultan himself, and it would be impossible for the perpetrator to remain alive in the city, even one such as herself. Given that the group was already under a potential death sentence and now fugitives, she offered a boat purchased by the late Crazy Sven for their use to escape the city if they undertook this task.
As a sign of her goodwill Vestra presented Akir with the second of the two maps to the Sun Shield that he sought. Akir, engrossed in every detail discovered that his father’s key, when laid upon the maps appeared to provide directions to a location in Chult, a jungle region for to the southwest.
During this time the group also began hearing tales of a fight involving the Good Folk and another gang which apparently left a number of innocents, including children dead. A group referring to themselves as Hawk Masks, and apparently sponsored by Jubal responded to this by starting to patrol Cheapside, beating down criminals and liberally passing silver out to the residents.
After some discussion the group agreed to seek The Book and located Old Getty to provide a map through the sewers to the shrine of Waukeen on the Palace grounds where The Book was stored. The party now awaits Gettys report.