Torches in Twilight Session 21, Kormatin fails to kill an old lady but gains some useful intel
General Summary
Session begins with Kormatin and his allies staying in Swynfaredia's largest port city after meeting Howell par Gruffyl.
Kormatin planned to infilitrate the manor house of a Gorisonod spy mistress and assassinate her. This plan failed, but it did not catastrophically fail.
Bendek tried and failed several times to polymorph into a small bird for scouting but hadn't mastered the fundamentals of the polymorph spell and could not managed more than simple transformation.
Kormatin scouted the place invisibly with his eyes and Divination theurgy.
Brigid tried to dig up some useful scuttlebutt but accidentally tipped off their target by unknowingly asking one of the spy mistresses little (metaphorical) birds for info on her.
The spymistress sent her right hand fang warrior and many many soldiers to look for Kormatin and company but they didn't know exactly who they were looking for, only that hostile forces were near.
Kormatin and company managed to evade their pursuers and discovered that their target went her lord's castle. Kormatin and company opted to circle back and ransack her manor house while she was away and the place was minimally defended. They got away with some letters, some assorted loot, including a scrying pool.
The Fang Warrior used Detect Magic spell to catch wind of their general trail (when all four were invisible and Kormatin had a strong Divination spell up), but Kormatin and company managed to evade their pursuer and travel back to Swynfaredia's major port city about hour hours ahead of their pursuers. Kormatin and company had not yet known that their quarry escaped, so they started investigating high end inns. They discovered they were being pursued and their pursuers were investigating low end inns.
Kormatin and company opted to cut their losses and skip out of town and hole up in a Lantern safe house a few days away in a large village, in the mean time, Kormatin took a completely natural and organic detour.
He stopped by a Greymoria oracle and heard this message.
"Servant of Khemra be silent and be honored. You listen to the words not of a Messenger spirit but of Greymoria herself. Some fates are certain others are not. Rohdri will eventually die by the hand of one of his offspring. This is certain. Whether the blasphemous scheme hatched by Rohdri’s grandfather will die at the hands of one of Rohdri’s offspring. This is uncertain. Rohdri’s family was not to first to hatch this scheme and will not be the last, but the scheme must fail. GREYMORIA CHOOSES WHO HAS SORCERY AND WHO DOES NOT! I have crafted you and the Lantern into daggers not to slay Rohdri but to slay Rohdri’s mad ambitions. I prefer that you two live long enough to serve my goals but this is uncertain. If my daggers are turned against too many of my children, I will need to forge new daggers. I have spoken."Session ends.
Report Date
16 Apr 2023
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