General Summary
Wait, there's a money god!?
Money Plans
- The crew of the divine retribution were payed the money they were owed as well as a 1000gp bonus each.
- Finn the Green set aside the appropriate funds for ship maintenance.
- The party split the remaining of the initial funds.
- Sen and Donnie were left with instructions to divert future funds to the construction of Harold's Landing, until the completion of the work.
Dordan's Fate
- Harold attempted to convince Sen to watch over vamp-holder.
- Sen was very reluctant if not outright opposed to this. He was eventually convinced to take care of vamp-holder for three months. However, he made it clear that should Harold not return within three moons, he would bring vamp-holder to the sun.
- Sen was even more perturbed when Harold pulled out Dordan, the tiny sky elf previously rescued from Nedyanna's Tower. Dordan was clearly bloodlusted and shoved back into the bag.
- Farren proposed sending Dordan to Lys, but Sen denied having a way to contact the vampire lord. He also implied that Lys would likely kill Dordan anyways.
- After hearing how Dordan had assisted the party, Sen took the tiny vampire elf into another room to ask what he wanted.
- At Dordan's request, Harold flew him away from the outpost. He coated himself with Alton's ethereal oil and set Dordan free as he vanished into the ethereal plane. Dordan requested Harold bury the other body with the rest of the Remnant and then flew north, east, and down, towards a pinprick of red light in the distance.
Harold's Landing's Neighbours
- Still in the ethereal plane, Harold noted many shadowy beings lurking about Sen's tower.
- Gantar's light was bright in the ethereal.
- When Gantar's light hit one of the shadows, it revealed a more physical appearance. Most were armed and armoured. Many were human, or formerly human.
- One of the shadow/ghosts spoke with Harold. He claimed he would be there watching so long as any were alive on the island. He claimed he would outlast Harold's Landing. Harold claimed otherwise. He mentioned that the dead were not known to be talkative.
Sailing South
- The party chose to travel south to Caiaryn the long way, saving their next jump to return to the surface.
- Along the way, the party, with the assistance of Gim, Fernando, and Ryltar (who it was revealed had 7th level spells), used the knowledge of the runes revealed to Farren by Luin and Rust's enchantment expertise to meld the two swords of sunlight together.
- The party sought the assistance of the gods, except Rayne, who Luin and Thor may not have appreciated and who denied having assisted Rust in the making of his scythe.
- The party was successful in this.
- As the magic completed, the party was shrouded in darkness. There was the sound of a hammer on an anvil. There were fires in the distance. There were shadows and things attacking the forge. The blacksmith was a woman. She was killed. Her shadow took the sword she had been crafting which burst forth with sunlight. The captain and his allies saw glimpses of hundreds of individuals wielding the sword. One of these was the ghost whom Farren and Alton had seen at the Circle of the Sword.
- Farren meditated on his next course of action. He saw a vision of the hags. Where they passed, he saw fiends and undead in their wake. In Vickie's footsteps, he saw water and tentacles and skulls.
- Fernando revealed he had used the tome of legendary lore to find information on Zed. Looking at Zed's now modified red string wall, the party noticed a section on winter fashion, and places with snow. Fernando seemed to suspect Zed was in a cold place.
Idano goes home
- Idano claimed that she could find her own way home but the party insisted on escorting her home, just in case it turned out her family was dead or vampires...
- Idano did not remember how she arrived in Haryk's Retreat. The last she recalled was a party with the satyrs, where she had been dared to best a pterodactyl.
- Idano's family was alive and well. They were delighted beyond belief to see her safe and also alive. She had apparently joined a dinosaur hunt and was reported missing and presumed dead. She was greeted with a tackle and then a serious of hugs and tears.
- Idano was a designer. Some of her formalwear designs were produced and sold by Different Strings. She knew that Nerfyll, the cloakmaker Alton was looking for, worked in the store.
- Idano's family also produced wine. They gifted the party with the last of the green vintage. It was delicious.
- Idano and her family were immensely grateful to the party and horrified to learn of the vampires.
- One dark elf expressed his thanks to Farren. Rust seemed to suspect he wanted to get the captain to marry his daughter.
Harold's Quest Begins
- Harold wanted to enchant his helmet with mind blank and protections spells. He was on the hunt for a high level caster.
- There were many shops, as well as restaurants, a theater, and other recreational facilities, but Harold did not track down a powerful enough enchanter.
Rust is Distracted and Wyn is there
- Rust wanted to find a magical tool to allow him to communicate with the locals in the land below.
- Harold cast a spell on him so he could speak elvish.
- He was not immediately able to spot such an item.
- Wyn appeared by him and pulled him to a restaurant. She wanted ice cream.
- Rust was able to understand Wyn's babbling thanks to Harold's spell.
- Harold enjoyed the food.
- Wyn admitted that she had lied to her mother, claiming to go visit an aunt in Kelpeiros. She expressed concern... not wanting to get in trouble... holding out on whether she knew any powerful casters to help Harold because she didn't want to go home and get in trouble...
- Wyn also admitted to adopting Alton as her brother with magic to force Vaena to look after him. She was worried because the party were going to go into dangerous places, first saving Ryltar and then their plans for the great beast, something about hags, something about spiders, something about the circle on the ship... She thought that the captain could take care of himself but Alton was the kind of person to stick his head into dangerous places. She was concerned she would get in trouble for doing this also.
- The food was fried dinosaur.
- Also, Wyn admitted that she lost Teeny/Tiny the teacup t-rex but Pup assured her he would track the dino down. She apologized for hiding this from Rust.
Alton Tries to Track a Cloakmaker and Forgets his Shoe Quest
- Alton tracked down Nerfyll in different strings.
- She was selling cloaks, similar to his own, though he could see there were some differences. It seemed like it could have been inspired by the same fashion though.
- Alton asked if she had ever hear of his home. Nerfyll was very polite and smiled, but claimed that she had not. She did not seem to have been lying.
- Alton did get directions to the guild from her.
Alton Visits the Theives' Guild Central Guildhouse
- Alton received a note from "Rolim", explaining his offer to ferry some of the guild to the land above.
- There were multiple entrances to the guildhouse in Caiaryn, one from the waterfall. Alton instead entered via Different Strings, beneath a painting.
- The walls were filled with treasures.
- The hallway was only visible when Alton pulled up his hood. "No faces shall see beyond this point"
- About fifty individuals, all cloaked, showed up to hear Alton's proposal. They said they would deliberate.
- Alton learned that Ryltar's mother, Lady Rillae, had returned to the city only about a week ago, and was angry about something. There was no word on Ryltar or Wyn. It was implied that they had one or more other siblings.
- The thieves guild informed him that Lady Rillae was a member of the council of ten and one, led by king Daejor. They counselled him not to make an enemy of her.
- Alton asked for the guild to find a caster to assist Harold with his endeavour.
- Alton noticed a dark haired, buff, dark elf lady staring him down in one of the Different Strings hallways when he left the guild. He thought nothing of it at the time.
In the Restaurant
- Harold and Rust discussed possibly making the translation item themselves.
- Alton joined them for dinner, and noticed a female dark elf with dark hair and a red cloak glancing at them. Wyn identified the individual as a neighbour. Alton wanted to leave.
- Wyn insisted they stay for dessert. Harold and Rust were in favour of this. Alton was stressed.
Krumbleton
- Krumbleton spent this time trying to reconnect with Kurgrirlun.
Rewards Granted
- a bottle of fine wine from Idano's family
Report Date
23 Mar 2023
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