Session 12 - 26JAN2025

Attendees

• Tim ✅
• Walter ✅
• Erica ✅
• Jin ✅
  
• Nick ✅
  
• Alex ❌
  

Copy/Paste Source: ✅ ❌

Recap to Current Situation

•  We were asked by The Archivist to try to find an agent of his that has disappeared. We pursue and find Kringle Nickmas, an elf that works for The Archivist. After helping him, he gives us a senet board to hand to The Oba. Turns out that this was The Oba's personal senet board from ages long past, and her heart grew two sizes after receiving it.
  

Session Notes

• VARDIS has been hanging out outside Gulg
  
• Walter checks out a local shop, the Chronicle of Charms, a member of the glassblowing guild
  • It's an immaculate shop full of delicate, intricate pieces of work run by Ceva
  • Walter knocks over a bunch of shelves in the store
  • Walter is training for a day to learn how to create a Prince Rupert's Drop
  • Walter has not perfected the Prince Rupert's drop yet, but has learned a bit about making strong glass
• Jin decides to people watch in the city while we are stuck here. He notices that there is a rotation of three humans that do a regular rotation of patrols through the city
  • Jin decides to investigate these people to see if he can find out more or overhear them
  • Despite being unable to overhear them, Jin is able to observe their secret handshake
  • The three of them head to the Northwest
• Erica finds a place called Finney's Vault, attracting customers through street performances in front
  • Run by a person named Joyce, a very flamboyant person
  • Erica tries to negotiate over a garnet she finds in the store
  • She manages to buy it at 90 gold, despite it being worth significantly more
  • In exchange, she promises to help with the shop's application to be a guild-approved vendor
• Nick decides to pick up a Gulgian tulip to pin to his lapel
• We all rendezvous at our inn, The Hunter's Pipe, run by a dwarf named Thiarne
• One of the guys that Jin observed comes into the bar at night
  • Jin drinks some Frost Giant Icewine and suffers some cold damage as a result
  • Jin sits next to the suspicious human and revels in awkward silence
  • Jin accidentally kills the guy using Vampiric Touch
  • He decides to Weekend at Bernie's this corpse out of the bar with the help of Nick
  • Jin removes the left ring finger from the body before dumping it down the storm drain grate
  • We decide to have Nick disguise himself as this dead guy to try to provide an alibi for the rest of us
  • Upon returning to the bar, Nick offers to close out the guy's tab, at the top is the name of Ricken
  • Nick decides to spend the night in the VARDIS, located at the stables at the edge of town
  • As he is proceeding through town, he is followed by three people in town
  • These people are Ricken's friends and they decide to help him back home
  • They implore him to make sure that he makes the meeting tomorrow since it all hinges on him
  • Back at Ricken's house, Nick meets a small cat
  • Investigating the house, Nick finds a small wooden block that has a sun symbol carved onto it
  • When Nick places a small obsidian rock that was on Ricken's body over the block, a red sun appears
  • This Ricken was actually a Red Omen member
• We are adopting the cat! Moist Steven hasn't decided a name yet, so he is just calling it Cat.
• By the time he reaches the bar, Nick decides to name the cat Eknon the Cat.
• We decide to bring this information to The Oba
  
• We demand an audience and state that the information is meant only for The Oba
• She is seated atop her throne, looking the same as ever
• We demand that others leave the room, and she obliges
• Nick presents the stone and piece of wood and shows her the red sun symbol
• We explain that we found this in the possession of a guard named Ricken and that there is some type of conspiracy set to take place tomorrow
• She is able to magically merge the pieces together and they react with some magical flames
• She states that "Then, we are at war..."