Session 18: Forging a New Path Report

General Summary

16th of Roiler 1524   The group have breakfast in the private meeting room of the inn as served by Lin. In the meeting room they discuss what their options are and prioritise as a group. They sort their options out as below:

• Decipher more pages, possibly from the other books,
• Investigate the docks ourselves,
• Search for Dill's missing staff,
• Try to question Dill and the pirate again,
• Research orb,
• Buy magic items from mage guild,
• carefully investigate Avani's temple,
• Use sewer scrying room to search for Dreads.

Upon leaving the inn they head to see Galloway to get the key for the sewers so they could consult the scrying mosaic to see if Dread was in the sewers, while Fargrim to check in with Paladin Salma. There Fargrim mentions they will be leaving town in the near future and the fact he will continue to monitor the situation when it comes to parties of interest for the church. The rest of the group spoke with Galloway who gave them a key to the sewer. Fargrim met them at the Mage Guild before heading down to the sewers.   Sewer trip 1:

• 277 was empty from the Stormgate entrance near Galloway's home
• 183 had a rat swarm in it that the party quickly dealt with.
• 64 Someone has scrawled "Death comes on silent wings" in draconic script on the east wall, and a metallic odor fills the room
• 347 The party had visited this room before and had labelled it "The Mirror of Treachery" room due to the graffiti.
• 536 had the scrying mosaic

At the mosaic the party experimented with how the mosaic worked in terms of the limits of its power when it did not show the location of Keith or Kate Dread. Simone checked for Levi. Afterwards the group heads back up to go to the mage guild.     At the mage guild Lyra and Lily went to talk to Steve about the Ever Chill orb. Karl went to talk to Wellmore who ended up coming downstairs to meet Simone. She was fascinated and went up to the testing room where Simone tried out some of her spells, some on Karl. Meanwhile Reign tried to find some information on her weapon, but the library sadly didn't have any. Fargrim, Reign and Xeldarix worked on decoding more of the book.   Simone comes back down and the group learns that once a day she can say a specific question rather then having images forced upon her. The group discusses and decide to ask Simone to see if she can see where Keith Dread is.   Simone focused and completed her ritual by shuffling her tarot deck that she had made herself. She drew three cards:

• Queen Mab Your Ancient Wisdom is Awakening 11: A very wealthy looking woman with a crown sits upon a throne. She seems very elegant and graceful. There seems to be someone with a dagger lurking in the curtains behind the throne.
• Grandmother Magicks I Comfort You 6: You see a kind grandmother sitting there knitting. However, you see a skeletal hand on her shoulder and… is that blood on her knitting needles?
• Drystan Look Beneath the Surface 28: There is a jester with black wings bowing with his masked face looking at the viewer. The mask itself is smiling smugly. On the wall behind him are many different masks.

And said:   His decision to leave by boat has shaped his future as he heads towards a rocky situation His role changes from guardian to protected He is currently beneath the surface of Saarmen not realising his guardian’s true intent   After this the group left to go and search the park for Dill's staff but it sadly meant it was not there. The group searched Keith's room to learn of his dead wife and the fact he had left quickly but not panicked. After that the group bought passage on a boat (The Black Sphinx) to Saarmen for the next day before going back to see Galloway to update him on what they had learnt. Afterwards they headed to the Longrove to take the sewers to get to Avani's temple.   Near the Broken Wand Inn they found the entrance:  

• 34 A large kiln and coal bin sit in the north-east corner of the room, and several adventurer corpses are scattered throughout the room.
• 156 Someone has scrawled something in goblin runes on the north wall, and a rusted iron box lies in the south-east corner of the room
• 595 Unit candles are scattered across the floor, and someone has scrawled "Sharpen thy sword and ready thy shield" in blood on the north wall
• 328 Several corpses are impaled upon iron spikes on the ceiling, and a shattered hammer lies in the north-east corner of the room
• 538 Empty
• 98 Empty
• 8 Various torture devices are scattered throughout the room, and the ceiling is covered with dripping stalactites with some rat humanoids waiting who pounced on them.

Roll initiative!!!!

Missions/Quests Completed

Save the Seer, Save the World - Simone is almost officially apart of the party The Dreadful Search - Confirmed he is not in the city

Created Content

Brechlen Sewers (update), The Black Shinx.

Notes

Name	XP	Running Total	Level at the end of the session
Fargrim	800	23,060	7
Karl	800	23,060	7
Lily	800	23,060	7
Lyra	800	15,400	6
Reign	800	23,060	7
Simone	800	4,700	4