Session 14 - 08MAR2025
Attendees
- Tim ✅
- Walter ✅
- Erica ✅
- Jin ✅
- Nick ✅
- Alex ❌
Copy/Paste Source: ✅ ❌
Recap to Current Situation
- We decide to stake out and run a trap in Ricken's house to catch more cultists. We catch a pair of them and then some suspicious kid. The Oba sends one of her top men with us to round them up, Artin. This kid, Bartin, was actually Artin's son who had been trying to blow the case open. We take him back to his house and recognize his family's butler as a member of the cult. We exfiltrate Bartin again and tell the Oba. She is going to have Artin clean things up and sends us on a quest to The Zotogeus League to find an Obsidian Orb. The Archivist helps us out by transporting us to the town of Lonte.
Session Notes
The Zotogeus League is a loose confederation of regional powers and warlords rather than an organized nation. It consists of all races, but is weighted a bit toward the more monstrous races.
We suddenly find ourselves in a Council of the Few Building and surprise the attendant in the building, Deb.
The VARDIS and Porkchop has come with us and is waiting outside the building.
She says that we should talk to Anje for help, a local "finder of things"
He is a large troll with an eyepatch
Deb gives us a hand-drawn map full of cute caricatures, turns out that she is a bit of a budding artist and likes drawing chibi-style stuff
Stepping out of the building, it is a very run-down town, smelling of sewage and buildings that are all different types of architecture styles
The weather is currently a bit chilly with a light breeze
We decide to head into the local tavern, The Rat Catch
It is run by a troll named Zolkis
Walter makes friends with Zolkis and gets some info
He suggests that Anje usually comes back each night
He also says to seek out the Packrats if you are looking for a good time
We then head to Olinfehr's Curiosities to check it out
It is run by an over-eager little goblin named Olinfehr
Erica decides to show him The Snow Globe and presents herself as a fellow collector
She says that we have come from The Grayogen Empire
Olinfehr gives Erica a small sending pebble so that he can tell us when Anje swings back by again
We head out to the Runsemith on the outskirts of town
Coming up on a tent outside of town, we see a bunch of weapons stuck in the ground around the tent. Investigating these, it looks like they are cursed magical weapons
As we approach the tent, a loud explosion occurs and a big puff of smoke comes out of the tent
Erica heads into the tent as Jin sticks head in to listen
The shop is being run by a scraggly looking human named David Tentant
The puff of smoke we saw is his finishing crafting a dagger
He says that he is worried about moving this dagger as it could potentially cut space and time
Erica, upon investigating, can only really tell that it is a magical dagger, nothing else
Jin uses his mage hand and nudges the dagger just a little bit
Nothing happens
David tosses the dagger out of the tent and declares it another failure
Jin decides to ask David about imbuing necromancy magic into things...trying to get into some of the necromancy architecture and items we have seen from The Red Orb structures in the past
He says that necromancy is a way to imbue souls into something, but that thing basically can just follow rote instructions, it can't really think for itself
We then get a call over the pebble that Anje is back at Olinfehr's
When we get there, there is a very large troll wearing an eyepatch
When we talk with Anje about the obsidian orb, he says he has a lead and that he can lead us to it, but in return, he wants credit with the Council of the Few
Anje leads us north of the town, out in the wilderness
On the way, he tells us that he saw very tiny little people with draconic features (kobolds) in a certain area and suspects that they are related to the draconic artifact we asked about