Session 2: Dog In A Shellevator

General Summary

Waking in the morning at the Conch & Coral Inn in Heart Of Shards, the party was informed by a Temshai Tram Network employee that it would take another day before a new tram could be sent from Eleth Lilanor, giving them the day to explore.   Doug, Rome, and Ogvai headed to the Tidewater Exchange in the Coral Ascent, a large indoor shopping area in the Gloaming level of the city, one level up from the Midnight Expanse. Doug bought a some healer's kits and a potion of healing, Rome purchased a couple more jeweled daggers and sang outside the weaponsmith, and Ogvai bartered for a feather in a pawnshop, knowing it had some kind of magical properties.   Brat and Wurst tried their luck gambling. In the Shark's Maw Pub, through rampant cheating, aided by Brat, Wurst managed to win the first two games, before intentionally losing the third. The other players had caught on, and they made a quick exit. Heading next to the Siren's Luck casino in the Gloaming level of the Prismatic Reach, Wurst tried to use Guidance before his first game. Detecting the use of magic, the triton guards kicked him out, his buy-in forfeit. Wurst escaped their clutches, using magic once outside the door to disguise himself as a dwarf, swimming down to the Midnight Expanse.   Brat, riding Schneider, quickly followed, meeting Doug, Rome, and Ogvai on the bridge connecting the Prismatic Reach and Coral Ascent. Catching notice of cloaked and hooded figures coming from both sides of the bridge, the rest of the party jumped off the bridge, swimming downwards. The hooded figures followed, firing crossbows at the party, who quickly fought them off.   Examining the corpses, the party found that each was wearing leather armor beneath their cloaks, each with a dark axe etched into the leather. Everyone in the party took a longsword, leather armor, cloak, and heavy crossbow. Wurst scraped off the axes from his and Brat's, and used mending to repair them, while Rome immediately sold hers to a nearby merchant.   Determining that the Shark's Maw Pub was the best place nearby to gather information, Doug and Ogvai went to find out what they could, challenging patrons to arm-wrestling and umber eyes while talking. Wishing to avoid the first site of their earlier gambling missteps, Wurst and Brat, accompanied by Rome, went to a local smith to observe and learn new techniques to aid in their tinkering.   Ogvai managed to get the attention of Lanatar, a male twilight elf. Unwilling to say more in the pub, he left via a back entrance and beckoned Ogvai and Doug into an alley. They learned that cloaked figures had been seen carrying crates from the tram to a house towards the north end of the Midnight Expanse.

Rewards Granted

• Two Healer's Kits and a Potion of Healing (Doug)
• Magical Feather (Ogvai)
• Two jeweled daggers (Rome)
• 100 gp from gambling (Wurst)
• Heavy Crossbow, Leather Armor, Cloak, Longsword each (Ogvai, Wurst, Brat, Doug)
• 40 gp from selling heavy crossbow/leather armor/longsword (Rome)

Notes

Takes place on YA 2269, The Panther, day 8