DW Session 4: A Sinking Feeling
General Summary
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- Party sails towards Kassadeia for next mission with the Characters
- Something to do with killing some Elflands royals
- Adam gets pestered by Cassandra for stories about Sebastian
- He tries to say Sebastian wasn’t a very political figure
- Cared more about cows and milk
- Cassandra refuses to believe that, points to actions in Avicenna where he assassinated a military dictator in a suicide bombing
- Out in the Karaga Ocean Cereus and Amara notice a herd of sharks
- It’s getting closer
- Hey, there are people on those sharks!
- A pack of Sahuagin fighters attack the ship
- -Fish people with legs, fangs, and tridents
- Boss Fight: Sahuagin Warriers and Bluefin Tuna
- Gell takes a lot of hits for some reason
- Cereus casts 'Sleet Storm', all sahuagin except Bluefin fall prone
- Adam and Amara do a good job of killing the prone fish
- Gell stabs Bluefin in the face, pack of sahuagin defeated
- One of warriors is tied up and kept for questioning
- Elan is brought above deck since she can understand Abyssal
- The sahuagin says they were doing the Sunken God's bidding
- Before long the rest of world will know the Sunken God's power
- Sahuagin’s eyes turn dark blue and he dissolves into pile of fish
- Elan, Adam, and Gell notice a book near the sahuagin’s body
- But Amara and Cereus can’t see it
- This book is about a lost guppy who’s led home by powerful creature
- A creature with dark blue eyes
- The three of them have bad dreams for rest of the journey
- Visions of underwater cities and a monster with blue eyes
- Amara finds a hot sailor to sleep with for rest of voyage
- Party arrives back in Kassadeia
- Cassandra’s forged documents work fine to get into town
- The city’s swarming with guards and police since Temple of the Ageless One explosion
- Elan, Adam, and Gella are still having bad dreams
- Cassandra has business in town, but she tells them mission details
- Time to go kill Prince Benedict and Princess Beatrice
- They’ve been holed up in Imperial Library for about a week now
- The Party goes over to Imperial Library
- Imagine Gameria’s Archives, but five times larger
- And there are ghosts wandering around
- They look like mortals, but covered in bedsheets
- Wandering around, reading books and shelving them incorrectly
- Party finds Beatrice and Benedict’s private study pretty easily
- Only problem is there are five guards surrounding the entrance
- So the party hits the books to learn more about Characters/Elflands
- First, they find a ghost to talk to about everything
- Cereus meets Mr. Ghost, an elven ghost who likes gardening
- Adam asks him how many cows the Characters has
- Mr. Ghost has precise number, Adam’s satisfied
- Mr. Ghost then goes with Gell to gardening section of library
- The rest of the group goes to read more about Characters
- Amara gets distracted by nautical erotica
- Cereus and Adam find a history of Characters movement
- It started about a decade ago
- Protests began in Noggin, spread to other provinces
- The leaders fiercely maintain anonymity/pseudonyms
- Names like Accuser, Songstress, and Mariner
- The party recognizes the Accuser’s mask from Noggin
- Cereus learns more about Benedict and Beatrice
- They’re looking for mystical ways to suppress people
- Police and weapons will only go so far
- Beatrice & Benedict are well-respected mages
- Party regroups, tries to break into study
- They convince Mr. Ghost to distract guards
- Some are playing cards, he makes cards levitate
- This gets them to run downstairs, leaving 2 at the door
- Cereus’ 'Pass Without Trace' gets them to door undetected
- Except for Cereus, but he does good job of playing dumb
- Meanwhile Adam and Gell KO the two guards
- They’re dragged into nearby study to hide
- So it’s finally time to look inside study
- Bookshelves are scratched and destroyed
- Books are scattered around the floor
- Two elven figures are crouched in a corner
- They’re chanting in abyssal/elven combo
- Party decides to have Adam/Gell grapple them to ground
- It works like a charm
- Beatrice and Benedict chatter madly about the Sunken God
- Their eyes are dark blue, gills growing on neck
- The Sunken God will usher in the age of Sea
- The age of land is soon over
- Only the enlightened will survive to see the age of Sea
- Adam, Gell, and Elan have become enlightened
- Tired of monologuing, Gell kills them both
- The party leaves mostly undetected
- The other guards return, but only notice Cereus
- Again, he’s good at playing clueless
- Party runs into Mr. Ghost again, say their farewells
- They promise to say hi again, help him learn identity
- On the way back to hotel, party notices they’re being followed
- An elf with black hair and dark clothes is tailing them
- They head into back alley, prepare to jump him
- But when elf enters alley, he deftly avoids Adam and Gell
- Elf says it’s been a long time since he’s seen Adam
- Adam’s confused, until the elf drops his glamour
- Turns out it’s Medraad Le Fay, back from the dead
- A few more gray hairs, glad to see Adam et al
- A little disappointed that Elan isn’t with them
- Medraad takes them to local cigar shop, explains how he’s alive
- It took a decade, but the Man in Black found a solution
- He wouldn’t say how, but Medraad’s free to roam world again
- They go into cigar shop’s back office
- It teleports them to the Shroud’s HQ in Kanara
- Shroud’s been using it as their HQ since the end of the Fairouz Terror
- Medraad explains his reason for reaching out to them
- Says there’s been an uptick in attacks by sahuagin and water-themed cults
- Fragmented groups organizing into Cult of the Sunken God
- Incidents began in the years after Aldo killed the kraken
- Left unchecked, they’ll usher in the age of Sea
- The Shroud and party can work together
- Party can get info on Age of Sea and how to beat the Sunken God
- Theo Faust is the last person to fight Sunken God
- His left hand went missing, so try to find him
- Shroud can help party deal with madness
- That way they won’t end up like Beatrice and Benedict
- Medraad knows a guy who can treat their condition
- Also, find out more about Characters and endgame
- Party agrees to alliance, gets contact info to treat madness
- Someone named High Priest Yoho in Oridelfa
- They head back to hotel for the night, get 500GP for mission
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