Kingdom on the Brink - Session 64
General Summary
The party sets out and spends the majority of the day traveling, they start to come across more people traveling towards Highsummit. They realize they need to disguise themselves as they are wanted by the Arbitors and the kingdom of Bralor. Merigold, Gregori, and Amber start to approach several merchants to attempt to purchase ways to disguise themselves. The first merchant attempts to sell her an elixir of beauty and a smoking bottle of meats, Merigold enquires further and finds the merchant has bottles of fire breath, invisibility and vitality. Merigold distracts the merchant and steals the potion of invisibility; she enquires further about the elixir of beauty. The merchant plays up the beauty elixir and "demonstrates" its properties on her (using it on a scar, which does nothing). She then buys an elixir of beauty and potion of fire breath. She heads back to the group and gives Duromar the elixir of beauty, saying how it would help him to be more handsome, the party asks if she got anything actually useful. Merigold realizes she only tried one and goes back out and talks to another merchant, she gets a bunch of disguise kits and different cloaks. The Merchant asks if she's a performer in the circus, Merigold says she is, the merchant says they're looking forward to the circus. Merigold thanks them for the supplies and heads back to the group, she starts to disguise the party (bleaching hair, tanning skin, using contact lenses to change eye color, handing out new cloaks). The group continues traveling until the evening, they come across the circus and decide to check it out.
Del Varis, Uriel, and Rosemary go to check out some games. Duromar, his zombie, Merigold, and Amber go to eat some fair food. Del Varis starts to juggle and does well for the first few bottles, the bottles start to form illusionary images of a puppy that eventually turns into a pack of wolves. Del Varis quickly loses his focus on the juggling and quickly catches the bottles before they hit the ground. Rosemary decides to try her hand at some bowling, not doing too well and the bumpers go up to aid her, she doesn't get a good score and gets a stress stone. Uriel decides to try his hand at bowling and makes quick work of the game and gets an alchemical jar, Rosemary tries her hand at juggling, performing very well. An illusion of a phoenix appears as she juggles, getting 8 bottles in the air at once, she can't maintain it much longer and carefully sets the bottles on the ground, getting some healing ointment as a prize. Duromar and Merigold get some food, Merigold gets advantage on dexterity checks and disadvantage on constitution. She then goes to the blink hound ring and enters the competition under the name of "Zippy do da," uses a combination of magic and agility to catch the blink hounds and ties a ribbon around them. She accomplishes this feat several times which impresses the crowd, Duromar watches and notices there are Arbitors walking around the area. The party meets back up and sees that Bob was taking part in the games as well and won a dread helm, the party decides to see one of the fey shows at the circus tents. On the way the party notices more wanted posters of them (before they disguised themselves) and see it has the current party (not the party from Kingdom on the Brink - Session 33). Uriel spends a few electrum and gets the deluxe circus package of show tickets, food, and hats that say "I love the fey circus," he puts a hat on Amber Kerogen. The party heads inside the tent, including Bob, and take their seats.
There are illusions floating through the air of the tent, providing entertainment until the show begins, the ringmaster enters and begins to show illusions of some of the more outlandish fey creatures. The show progresses into an illusion of the fey wild, they start out in a field of flowers, the flowers look like little stars, the field then erupts with few insects taking flight, the wings look like butterflies. The illusion then progresses as the ringmaster hastily moves the crowd through a forest, and they begin to ascend the elder tree. The party sees all manners of Eladrin and villages within the tree, when they reach the top, the ringmaster says they will now journey to the realm of the Seelie and the hastily move along a path, that gets brighter and brighter. They eventually reach a castle made of precious gems that shine like the sun, all manner of emeralds, opals, and sapphires. The ringmaster concludes the illusion, and the crowd finds themselves back in the tent, all manner of real fey creatures start to enter the tent. The show concludes with the ringmaster calling for a volunteer who is pure of heart, the party jokes about who should volunteer when the ringmaster picks a member of the audience; the volunteer being Reinoldus (see Kingdom on the Brink - Session 59). The ringmaster then brings in a Unicorn, Reinoldus approaches, and the Unicorn lets him pet him for a little bit. The show concludes and the party mixes into the crowd to avoid detection, Merigold has Gregori follow Reinoldus.
Gregori is able to stealthily follow Reinoldus back to a tent and listens, he hears a conversation about heading back to Highsummit to help with the Festival of Creation. He expresses some doubt about what his superiors have told him and how some things aren't quite making sense, Gregori returns to the group. He relays the information and then reminds Duromar he owes him some sausages, Duromar and Gregori head off to get some as the group decides what to do next. The group believes that Reinoldus is simply misguided and decide to and have a discussion with him, they plan to get him alone. Duromar and Gregori return, Gregori now has small wings, looks like a chameleon, and feels warm to the touch (the fair sausages have some gnarly effects). Gregori leads the group where he found Reinoldus, the party splits into two. Merigold, Del Varis, and Rosemary are hiding up front while Duromar, Bob, Uriel, and Amber are further back. Gregori flies over the thorn wall and peers around a wagon, he talks to Reinoldus (who is about 15 feet away). Reinoldus isn't quite sure what to make of a lizard dog with wings and wonders if maybe he's seeing things. Gregori runs up and tries to grapple him but only manages to get his sword and he runs off, Reinoldus shout that a weird lizard dog grabbed his sword and two other Arbitors go to help him find it. The forward group waits for the moment to strike, one of the Arbitors starts to hear Gregori and slowly approaches his hiding spot. Del Varis strikes at Reinoldus and attempts to stun him unsuccessfully, he goes to plan b and uses his needles to restrain him and begins to drag him to the rest of the group. Amber cast invisibility on Uriel's dragon mount, Duromar casts scatter which moves the majority of the party out of the immediate area. Gregori passes off Reinoldus' sword to Duromar, Rosemary uses dimension door to teleport herself and Merigold away. Amber misty steps and dashes out of the area and Duromar casts dimension door to teleport himself and his zombie out of danger. Gregori acts like a regular dog and runs away, much to the other Arbitors confusion.
Uriel has his mount grab Reinoldus and starts to fly straight up, removing his helmet in the process, Del Varis jump off before they get too high. Uriel tells Reinoldus to stop trying to pull the needle out, when they're 1,000 ft in the air Uriel says he wants to have a discussion. Uriel tells Reinoldus that while the party isn't the most respectable group around, they have been trying to save the kingdom. Uriel believes Reinoldus wants to do the same, he sees the corruption that's been slowly tearing the country apart, if Reinoldus wants to help they can continue this discussion on the ground, Reinoldus agrees. They return to the ground and the group starts to lay out all the information they have, going back to Gus' journal ( see Kingdom on the Brink - Session 14). As the evening gets later they move the conversation into the magnificent mansion. Reinoldus says this does a better job of explaining the last year then what he was told and wants to help the party. The party says something big is going to happen during the festival and they intend to stop it. Reinoldus says he can place people loyal to him in key areas during the festival in Highsummit. He also mentions the Royal council has been broken into three different groups of influence (loyalists, Bridgeford influence, and someone unknown). The party is aware and is trying figure out who this secret influencer is as well. Reinoldus wishes the party good luck in their mission and says they will meet again, Del Varis heals Reinoldus on his way out. Rosemary sneaks away and searches for the Unicorn, after checking out multiple areas she eventually finds the stables. Rosemary gets the attention of one of the fey bugs, when she asks about the unicorn, the bug goes on a rant about how everyone wants to see the unicorn, nobody wants to see the other creatures. Rosemary ironically says she has no idea why that would be the case given the bugs cheerful demeaner. Rosemary finds the unicorn's stall, she notices there is no way to open the lock from her side, the stall is set up to be difficult to enter when closed. Rosemary starts to speak to the Unicorn, she says they are on a quest, the Unicorn enquires about the quest. It asks if it is the just, noble, and heroic sort of quest that only the most honorable of adventurers would take up. Rosemary thinks back to her time thus far and hesitantly says that generally the sort of quest they're on, the Unicorn praises her humbleness. Rosemary asks if there's any aid the Unicorn might be able to provide, the Unicorn thinks for a moment and says that it enjoys its time with the circus and doesn't wish to leave. It gives Rosemay a statuette and says to break it when she needs help and the Unicorn will be there, Rosemary thanks the Unicorn and asks what its name is; it responds with Wind Sprinter. Rosemary thanks it and returns to the party.
The party long rests, Merigold attunes to her luck blade and makes a wish. The party sets out, during this time Duromar gets his new rapier, around noon the party notices something off the path. They investigate and Gregori picks up a scent, after following it he says it appears the trail is paralleling the party.
Del Varis, Uriel, and Rosemary go to check out some games. Duromar, his zombie, Merigold, and Amber go to eat some fair food. Del Varis starts to juggle and does well for the first few bottles, the bottles start to form illusionary images of a puppy that eventually turns into a pack of wolves. Del Varis quickly loses his focus on the juggling and quickly catches the bottles before they hit the ground. Rosemary decides to try her hand at some bowling, not doing too well and the bumpers go up to aid her, she doesn't get a good score and gets a stress stone. Uriel decides to try his hand at bowling and makes quick work of the game and gets an alchemical jar, Rosemary tries her hand at juggling, performing very well. An illusion of a phoenix appears as she juggles, getting 8 bottles in the air at once, she can't maintain it much longer and carefully sets the bottles on the ground, getting some healing ointment as a prize. Duromar and Merigold get some food, Merigold gets advantage on dexterity checks and disadvantage on constitution. She then goes to the blink hound ring and enters the competition under the name of "Zippy do da," uses a combination of magic and agility to catch the blink hounds and ties a ribbon around them. She accomplishes this feat several times which impresses the crowd, Duromar watches and notices there are Arbitors walking around the area. The party meets back up and sees that Bob was taking part in the games as well and won a dread helm, the party decides to see one of the fey shows at the circus tents. On the way the party notices more wanted posters of them (before they disguised themselves) and see it has the current party (not the party from Kingdom on the Brink - Session 33). Uriel spends a few electrum and gets the deluxe circus package of show tickets, food, and hats that say "I love the fey circus," he puts a hat on Amber Kerogen. The party heads inside the tent, including Bob, and take their seats.
There are illusions floating through the air of the tent, providing entertainment until the show begins, the ringmaster enters and begins to show illusions of some of the more outlandish fey creatures. The show progresses into an illusion of the fey wild, they start out in a field of flowers, the flowers look like little stars, the field then erupts with few insects taking flight, the wings look like butterflies. The illusion then progresses as the ringmaster hastily moves the crowd through a forest, and they begin to ascend the elder tree. The party sees all manners of Eladrin and villages within the tree, when they reach the top, the ringmaster says they will now journey to the realm of the Seelie and the hastily move along a path, that gets brighter and brighter. They eventually reach a castle made of precious gems that shine like the sun, all manner of emeralds, opals, and sapphires. The ringmaster concludes the illusion, and the crowd finds themselves back in the tent, all manner of real fey creatures start to enter the tent. The show concludes with the ringmaster calling for a volunteer who is pure of heart, the party jokes about who should volunteer when the ringmaster picks a member of the audience; the volunteer being Reinoldus (see Kingdom on the Brink - Session 59). The ringmaster then brings in a Unicorn, Reinoldus approaches, and the Unicorn lets him pet him for a little bit. The show concludes and the party mixes into the crowd to avoid detection, Merigold has Gregori follow Reinoldus.
Gregori is able to stealthily follow Reinoldus back to a tent and listens, he hears a conversation about heading back to Highsummit to help with the Festival of Creation. He expresses some doubt about what his superiors have told him and how some things aren't quite making sense, Gregori returns to the group. He relays the information and then reminds Duromar he owes him some sausages, Duromar and Gregori head off to get some as the group decides what to do next. The group believes that Reinoldus is simply misguided and decide to and have a discussion with him, they plan to get him alone. Duromar and Gregori return, Gregori now has small wings, looks like a chameleon, and feels warm to the touch (the fair sausages have some gnarly effects). Gregori leads the group where he found Reinoldus, the party splits into two. Merigold, Del Varis, and Rosemary are hiding up front while Duromar, Bob, Uriel, and Amber are further back. Gregori flies over the thorn wall and peers around a wagon, he talks to Reinoldus (who is about 15 feet away). Reinoldus isn't quite sure what to make of a lizard dog with wings and wonders if maybe he's seeing things. Gregori runs up and tries to grapple him but only manages to get his sword and he runs off, Reinoldus shout that a weird lizard dog grabbed his sword and two other Arbitors go to help him find it. The forward group waits for the moment to strike, one of the Arbitors starts to hear Gregori and slowly approaches his hiding spot. Del Varis strikes at Reinoldus and attempts to stun him unsuccessfully, he goes to plan b and uses his needles to restrain him and begins to drag him to the rest of the group. Amber cast invisibility on Uriel's dragon mount, Duromar casts scatter which moves the majority of the party out of the immediate area. Gregori passes off Reinoldus' sword to Duromar, Rosemary uses dimension door to teleport herself and Merigold away. Amber misty steps and dashes out of the area and Duromar casts dimension door to teleport himself and his zombie out of danger. Gregori acts like a regular dog and runs away, much to the other Arbitors confusion.
Uriel has his mount grab Reinoldus and starts to fly straight up, removing his helmet in the process, Del Varis jump off before they get too high. Uriel tells Reinoldus to stop trying to pull the needle out, when they're 1,000 ft in the air Uriel says he wants to have a discussion. Uriel tells Reinoldus that while the party isn't the most respectable group around, they have been trying to save the kingdom. Uriel believes Reinoldus wants to do the same, he sees the corruption that's been slowly tearing the country apart, if Reinoldus wants to help they can continue this discussion on the ground, Reinoldus agrees. They return to the ground and the group starts to lay out all the information they have, going back to Gus' journal ( see Kingdom on the Brink - Session 14). As the evening gets later they move the conversation into the magnificent mansion. Reinoldus says this does a better job of explaining the last year then what he was told and wants to help the party. The party says something big is going to happen during the festival and they intend to stop it. Reinoldus says he can place people loyal to him in key areas during the festival in Highsummit. He also mentions the Royal council has been broken into three different groups of influence (loyalists, Bridgeford influence, and someone unknown). The party is aware and is trying figure out who this secret influencer is as well. Reinoldus wishes the party good luck in their mission and says they will meet again, Del Varis heals Reinoldus on his way out. Rosemary sneaks away and searches for the Unicorn, after checking out multiple areas she eventually finds the stables. Rosemary gets the attention of one of the fey bugs, when she asks about the unicorn, the bug goes on a rant about how everyone wants to see the unicorn, nobody wants to see the other creatures. Rosemary ironically says she has no idea why that would be the case given the bugs cheerful demeaner. Rosemary finds the unicorn's stall, she notices there is no way to open the lock from her side, the stall is set up to be difficult to enter when closed. Rosemary starts to speak to the Unicorn, she says they are on a quest, the Unicorn enquires about the quest. It asks if it is the just, noble, and heroic sort of quest that only the most honorable of adventurers would take up. Rosemary thinks back to her time thus far and hesitantly says that generally the sort of quest they're on, the Unicorn praises her humbleness. Rosemary asks if there's any aid the Unicorn might be able to provide, the Unicorn thinks for a moment and says that it enjoys its time with the circus and doesn't wish to leave. It gives Rosemay a statuette and says to break it when she needs help and the Unicorn will be there, Rosemary thanks the Unicorn and asks what its name is; it responds with Wind Sprinter. Rosemary thanks it and returns to the party.
The party long rests, Merigold attunes to her luck blade and makes a wish. The party sets out, during this time Duromar gets his new rapier, around noon the party notices something off the path. They investigate and Gregori picks up a scent, after following it he says it appears the trail is paralleling the party.
It is noon on the 40th day of Leranth 2517 AGF
Rewards Granted
Party is level 17
Character(s) interacted with
Reinoldus the Patriot
Report Date
29 Jun 2024
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