Session 11 Report

General Summary

Midden 5 Redfall 834EA

Early in the morning, Bain de Soleil and Suiadan Innion heard a lot of yelling downstairs where they were staying at Dve Chashki in the Doki District in Grechia. They woke up Harthe and Pōtiki with Bain playing a song in the hallway on her new bandore to wake them. They went downstairs and saw many people running out of the kitchen and out of the pub. Gruff was standing by trying to find out what was going on. He reached out and grabbed someone who was trying to run away and was told there was a monster in the sewers. Arryn asked the Venturers to help, offering to pay them. He told them that his pub was a cover for the entrance to the local thieves' guild and it was down in the Dozhdevy Sewers accessible from his kitchen. Gruff went with the party to help fight and to help them to not get lost. The group agreed and Gruff led through a trapdoor in the kitchen down into the sewers and through a series of tunnels toward the noise and the fleeing people. They found that everyone was fleeing from a very stinky Corpse flower. Bain cast speak with plants and tried to convince it to stop attacking people and suggested that they will find it a new home near the graveyard or prison where it can get food provided to it. The flower seemed to consider this option, but Gruff did not wait and ran up to attack it. He was immediately overcome by the smell and incapacitated. Shu attacked it with a fireball and a battle ensued. The venturers watched in horror as the flower occasionally regurgitated a zombie or else digested one of the people it had eaten in order to heal. Eventually they took the flower down, with Bain using some clever tricks to help Gruff overcome the smell issue by covering a handkerchief with some perfume and wrapping it around his nose and mouth, and using thaumaturgy to blow the smell away for Shu who had also approached the close radius of the monster and become overwhelmed and incapacitated by the stench. Gruff thanked the group and led them back to the Dve Chashki, where Arryn was profusely grateful and paid them each 500GP and offered them free rooms and food indefinitely. They told him they would probably stay one more night but would be moving on soon. After killing the corpseflower and getting paid by Arryn, the group returned to The World's Wonders and Pō bought another healing potion and Harthe bought some arcane ink. Bain looked again at the glasses and sighed in disappointment at her comparatively empty coin purse. Walking back out to the Rynki District, Pō returned to the pastry stall and bought more pastries. Harthe then led the group back to the Doki District to search for the tattooist he'd been told about the previous night. They found The Kingfisher and started to board to find Khorlos Vagolvath when they heard a voice behind them asking where they were going and why they were boarding the ship. Harthe told the blue genasi man he was looking for Khorlos and was told that he was Khorlos. Delighted, Harthe told him he was looking to be tattooed and had ink and the design prepared for it. Khorlos led them into a small shack on the docks. It was tidy and the area clean and sterile despite being in a shack. Khorlos told the group about other magic tattoos he can do and informed Harthe that the type of work he wanted was very rare and there are few tattooists in Iklarel that do them. Bain asked about whether he had an apprentice and Khorlos told her no and was cagey about why he would not take one. He also told them not to tell anyone that he did the tattoo. Pō left while Harthe had his tattoo done but the others stayed. Harthe found it very painful but managed to stay conscious. He got the design he'd composed from interpreting the prestidigitation scroll tattooed onto the palm of his right hand while Bain tried to ask a lot of questions about the trade but Khorlos did not offer a great deal more information. When the tattoo was done, Harthe tried his new cantrip and it hurt real bad - looked cool though as the ink lit up. Khorlos advised him to avoid using it for a day or two and maybe put ice on it if it hurt, and gave Harthe a salve to rub on it for the next week. Pō meanwhile went to the noble district to try and find a park with enough trees that they could be away from curious eyes. They tromped into a patch of trees, and, after considering the situation, took off the ring of mind shielding which Harthe had given back to them. They prayed to Te Tauheke o te Wairua and said "I know that you’ve betrayed me. Why have you done this? Should I help you, or not? How badly have you broken the balance of life and death?" Pō received no response, and eventually they put their ring back on and made their way to the temple of Kuzmjir. They didn’t go in, they sat on the steps for some time in silence. At one point the acolyte from the temple Hily Smallburrow came out and asked if they wanted to go back in, but Pō refused. Eventually they made their way back to the inn to meet up with the rest of the group. The party rested for the night at the Dve Chashki.