Welcome to the Communion Part 1475.06

After show, Tranq notices something and runs off. Ophion makes his way through crowd back to room. Ruben starts investigating room for missing warpstone. Locates narrow secret door above the bed. Mage Hand’s door. Maebellina slips in. Seems to be a grain storage room. Finds two silk-like indigo threads, left on exiting. Heian ignores Onai to investigate shape (female elf) running from the Censer. Very light steps. Hardly any footprints left. Follows in stealth. Keeping pace at 35ft movement. Figure ‘melted’ into a compound. Kunoh looking after inured Onai. Atala investigates corpses for identification.

Ophion investigates tattoos. Look like farmers tattoos. All three with these tattoos related. Arcane symbol, highly esoteric. Rite of Passage for Ol Alem apprentices to full status.
One body is Half-Elf. Does not have farming tattoos. Only arcane symbol. Ritual scarring on back (self-flagellation).
Ophion being spied on by attractive woman, travelling with party and wolf hound. (Related to T’s party?) Ophion Polymorphs corpses into rats and dumps them into river. Long rest. Raven spies someone exit the Censer, slip note under the door to our room.

Note addressed to Ophion. Northern smells in scroll tube. Maebellina opens it.
‘Ophion, Great admirer of your performance...Love, love, love your show…Intimate breakfast (with three handmaidens)……The Lady Tali of the Great Weeping Family’
Ophion agrees. Discreetly followed by Atala.

Warpstone Amulet – Prime One of 13. OPHIONS BRUNCH - Lady Tali. Northener. Pale skin. - Sitting in courtyard. - Local bodyguard. Scarred. - The Barbary Coast – Endymion. Tiefling utopia. - Three handmaidens cast knucklebones. Tali reads and speaks. - “You’re fleeing from pain, when you shouldn’t have.” - “Two people close to you. Closer than you think. One wishes harm, the other reconciliation.” - ‘Don’t like the husband….’ - “One of your companions is a traitor.” - “We are of the moon. Meet us tonight.” - Paper flute left on table. - Atala felt hairs on back of her neck stand up. KUNOH’S TRAVELS - Pickpocketed for 30 gold. - Merchant offers 5000gc for the business. - Purchased business for 4000gc. RUBEN’S STAKEOUT w/HEIAN & MAEBELLINA - Heian points out where elf melted into wall. - No one stops at wall in question. - Maebellina rests hand on exact spot. Feels ‘soft’ for a second. - Discerns actual appearance of wall. Sees windows, sigils, phrase in Draconic ‘Starless Communion’. - Runic protection on building. - Go back at sunset to possibly see wall. Heian seeks out armour for Onai. - Finds armouring engineers. Half-plate (2000gc). Doesn’t hinder. - After negotiations, all workers prostrate themselves. - Two columns of armoured warriors appear. Woman enters after them.

Princess Oma Aliah. Fifth daughter of Oghan Karo.

Symbol of Clan Eshin marked on ledger. - All warriors in store are Level 10. Talking to old innkeeper. Ophion catches brief flash of her eyes. Knows everything. Madame Gao-type. Party, bar Ophion, go to investigate compound. Ophion prepares for meeting with Tali. MEETING Summoned by touchy handmaiden as soon as the sun touches the horizon. Follow around a corner. Room lit with candles. Sigil on the ground (Bhaal, blessed killer of the heavens). Wolfhound pacing. Sitting in pool of water. Confrontation with Taleiriah. Flute returned. Vulerai in the north ‘…pleasuring a great general who will sweep his armies eastward.’

STAKEOUT As soon as the sun touches the horizon, some of the party see the sigils. Entirely wall ripples. Names on walls. Rolls for names on walls. - Ammutseba (sees the original symbol of Ammutseba, but can’t recall later), Yog Soggoth - Nuitira (God of Apathy), Morgion (God of Disease), Chemosh (God of the Undead) 10 regular gods named on wall. 3 Eldar gods named. Maebellina sees whole wall. - The Broken Peak, The Golden Serpent, Sif the Fire Eater, The Revellers, Bereson the Youth. Constellations seen by party on the wall. Atala sees them in order. - Ruben attempts to infiltrate as a street urchin. - Circular outer courtyard. Stables, guardposts, etc. - Guards are more fanatics. True believers in Ammutseba. Splint Armour (AC 15). - One guard chasing Ruben into stables.