OttD Session 29: Death counts as rest, right?

General Summary

Tornac and Vun Roade make it their first priority to get some rest. They are still in the bar, and Tornac asks where they could get a room. The barkeep says "rooms are for sissies", and tells them to go die instead so they will wake up fully rested. The pair actually takes this advice, walk outside, and pick another fight with Nader. Meanwhile, back in Rainy Grove, Pestle is having an epic training montage with Barry the Bee. Barry fails to lift a small glass vial, and Pestle is bemoaning that fact when Izar comes stumbling into the grove, clearly drunk. He is wearing an actual pirate hat instead of the paper one he had before, and has a sword strapped to his side. He says he was working as a medic during the siege, and afterwards four of the Kaisers took him out drinking. Pestle checks his house, and it seems his food has been stolen. He leaves strict instructions with Izar that nobody is to be let into his house while he is gone, and then travels to Ysgard to meet with the others. He arrives just in time to watch Nader kill Tornac and Vun Roade. Pestle, having previously rolled to know that Ysgard brings people back to life, goes to the bar. After trying for far too long to purchase a room that does not exist, he instead elects to sleep at the bar. Olidammara also talks with him briefly, and asks what he was up to last night. Pestle does not admit to meeting with Iapetus, but it is clear Olidammara suspects it anyway. He warns Pestle that he is doing something exceedingly dangerous, but Pestle says he doesn't care. After a largely uneventful long rest, Pestle goes outside to talk with the others, who have just come back to life. Tornac and Vun Roade inform Pestle that Adoven Woodsoul is missing, and so he asks Dave where Adoven went. The roll passes, and so Pestle learns that Adoven Woodsoul has been summoned to Vigrid by Istus. Pestle pushes further, and asks why he was summoned. This time he fails the roll, and begins attacking his friends. After this disaster is dealt with, Dave continues to taunt the party that he knows the answers. Tornac asks, and also fails a roll. He becomes paralyzed. Eventually they smack Tornac out of it Pestle tries again. They learn that Adoven Woodsoul was sent to look for his daughter. Cue the following:

Adoven Woodsoul has a daughter? Yes!

Pestle shares what he learned with the others. Dave is trying to goad the party into asking more questions, but they decide to resist and move on. Pestle then prays to Iapetus to complain about Dave and ask about Dénouement. Iapetus says:

Dave is your problem, and I made the spear.

As a follow-up, Pestle casts divination to ask Iapetus if he wants the spear back. He replies only:

I am making another one

After this, the party muses about what happened to Nader. She wakes up from her sleep and reveals that the attack brought her back to life. Her illness in the earlier encounter was actually resurrection sickness. The party discusses this, and Pestle theorizes that the spear doesn't ever actually take anything. Instead, perhaps it gives mortality to those it strikes. The party asks many questions about what the rules are for this, but ultimately get nowhere. Nader gives them a ride back to Sigil, then flies off to go eat some villager's cows. The crash landing wrecked someones petunia garden, so Pestle spends some time fixing that garden. Then they go shopping at Warehouse 19. After a considerable length of time debating mechanics and asking about options, Vun Roade purchases a +1 longbow and 80 arrows. Pestle sells Garfield his displacer beast hearts. Garfield puts it on the shelf with his heart collection, and says the only thing he is missing to complete his collection is the heart of a giant worm. Through the power of Tornac's first ever successful intelligence check, the party determines that these creatures live in the underdark and resolve Tornac, meanwhile, really wants an axe. He spends a considerable length of time attempting to sell various organs to Garfield to make this happen, but these negotiations fail. Eventually Garfield agrees to give him the axe on loan, with Tornac's liver as collateral, provided he can get Penguin to cosign the loan. He would then turn around and sell said liver to a pit fiend that just goes by "Red". Apparently his master enjoys them. Tornac rolls a very good religion check. Penguin does not respond, but eventually Ophelia does turn up with an alternative offer. She will purchase Tornac the axe on two conditions:

Tornac agrees to never leave Penguin's service, for any reason
Tornac spends a "very long evening" with Ophelia.

Tornac agrees, and leaves with Ophelia and a new axe. Vun Roade and Pestle go to visit The Window, where they find several hundred grown adult Kenku engaging in vigorous conversation. They sound like children who only just started being able to talk in complete sentences, and they just will not shut up. They are fascinated by their newfound ability to hold conversation. Vun Roade and Pestle push through the crowd to go talk to Jane. They give her a status report, and she makes a valiant, though ultimately unsuccessful, effort to talk the party out of traveling to the underdark. The party is not deterred by stories of giant worms, hordes of spiders, or Lolth, the goddess of spiders. They ask where the biggest city would be, and after some debate over how to measure "big", Jane says that would be a place called the Web Coves. After this conversation, Vun Roade and Pestle return to The Drunken Mongoose. Tornac, meanwhile, rolls three constitution saves for his time with Ophelia. He passes one save, so he takes three levels of exhaustion before she thanks him for "a wonderful evening" and goes on her way. The session concludes.