Sanguine Sunrise #8: Welcome to Aldreivetur

General Summary

The adventurers had to think about what to do next as they stand outside the keep with their gear ready. As far as they could tell, they had three options to choose from. They could head south, towards Waterdeep and see what happens. They could head east, traverse through the Sword Mountains and move onward to Silverymoon. Finally, they could head North, towards Aldreivetur. Due to wanting to remain on the road and not wanting to return to Waterdeep, they decide to head North.
They travel for multiple days, watching as Rastra's condition slowly gets worse. At one point, they come across a small town where they buy a map and move on. During this time, Skek and Rastra stay out of the town and Rastra recounts how once she is cured, with or without the help of the others, she plans on going to continue fighting the Duergar. She also informed Skek that they were perverting the land that Rastra and Skek once lived on, and he promised to aid her with the help of the others when this time came.
The group then make it to Aldreivetur after failing multiple times to cure Rastra of her disease through magic. They travelled through the city first seeing a large trade area where they saw a shop called the armorer. They then travelled through an area that held an arena called the Destlands and had many areas where people seemed to be training to be fighters. Finally, they traversed through an area heavily populated by northern architecture and containing many shipwrights. Through here, they made it to one of the COW's clinics.
In the clinic they learn that there are new supplies arriving in the city in a couple days. After some well placed bribes, they manage to learn that Peren, a fighter in the Hnefi arena.
They leave Rastra there as they head to the Destlands to find the Hnefi arena. There they learn of four arenas in the area. Hnefi: a street brawl with fists and clothes. Lest: A sparring match that uses non-lethal weapons and armor. They also learn about the Daud and the Allur arena, but decide not to investigate them.
Afterwards, the party heads to the Hnefi arena and enter Grimace into the fights after hearing Peren is fighting next, allowing the others to enter the arena for free. The ring instructor then leads Grimace to a room where she places his gear in the corner. The fight starts with her introducing Grimace and Peren.
As Peren steps in the arena, he is seen with obvious bruising and scarring throughout his shirtless body. His very short light brown hair sticks to his head as if it is glued. His face down to his back is covered in strange ritualistic tattoos of many colors. He says, "I'm going to rip every hair off your body and shove it down your throat" whilst Grimace continues to act kind. The fight ensues in which Grimace holds Peren to the ground and beats him unconscious.
After this, Grimace is payed and they wait as the people move on to the next fight. Once that is done, Peren finally comes out of the hold in which he was healed. They meet up with him and try to convince him to give up trying to seek medical aid. He refuses and attempts to run when Luthrin attempts to use his fiendish charm on him.
They catch him before he can get outside, calm him down, and bribe him fully to convince him. He gets 300 gp from a combo of Grimace and Skek paying and he walks away. To confirm he will do what he promised, the party sends Kiwi to tail him.
Grimace and Skek then go to the Gamal Hylja district to find things to buy. They entered the Armorer shop, and there, they found it was a custom design shop for simple clothes and armors. It had designs for many things. At the shop, Skek and Grimace are led around by a figure in a shoulderless pink dress. this figure offers many things for them to buy or order as far as clothing is concerned. Eventually the figure convinces Grimace to get a design on his greataxe. He has the name Rick etched into the greataxe and has handles added to it. The figure then asks the two if they are part of the Family or have any knowledge, but they seemed to answer negative, so the two left. From there, Grimace bought jewelry from a salesman.
At the same time, Luthrin goes looking for drugs. He goes to the Bluelake District where he finds a dwarf with a brand make seared into his forehead working on ships. He points Luthrin in the direction of a tavern known as the fallen tower. He goes to the tavern to find a location of people held in the air falling completely still. He looks in awe and walks into the raucous tavern and saunters up to the bar. He speaks to a half orc and buys some mugs of ale before asking for something stronger. The half-orc tells him that the Gamal Hylja district is known to have some guilds that operate outside of the law that might have their hands on something. However, he doesn't find anything.
Finally, the group rent off a section of the fallen tower to stay in for the night. Everyone makes their way to that section and go to sleep, barring Kiwi. In the morning they go to the COW clinic, and their they find the clinic has heard nothing from Peren.

Character(s) interacted with

Peren, The Pit Fighter
The Clinic Worker
The Zhentarim salesman
The Branded Boat Builder
The Bartender

Report Date

13 Jul 2020