Session 4: How's No'it doing? Report

General Summary

We started the session back in Oakenhost days after the party had left for Falseshield. No'it wakes up in the middle of the night looking around to see if anyone is with him in the bookstore. Getting up and walking around, he looks for a possible note; finding a journal instead. He takes the journal and sits in a chair near a candle reading a few excerpts from it. There are no markings for who has written it/who the book belongs to. He puts it back and goes to lay down, when the bookstore owner makes her presence known. She tells him to get ready and she will prepare a teleportation ring for him to get to his group.   That morning the group decides they are going to leave Falseshield after receiving a note of aid to bring back to Oakenhost. As they get ready to go, Volte decides to stay behind one extra day to speak with the acolytes at the church and try to garner favor with the mayor to set up shop there as well for his smithing. As they are about to depart a loud crack is heard and energy hums through the air. They see a blinding light from outside the gates that last for about a second; upon seeing this Moonlight (who has been affected by the weave as well) decides to move forward out the gates to see what it was. As he steps through he sees No'it and calls back to the party that it is just him. They tell No'it what had happened and that they are on their way back to Oakenhost so he had come all this way for nothing.   An encounter with an air elemental and a group of bandits rounded out the day. The trip to Oakenhost was uneventful after that. The group was looking forward to heading Northwest towards that home they had heard about, but wanted to get some provisions and check on things first before they left. It is now the 20th of Seeding start when they re-enter Oakenhost. Handing in the call to aid letter, they received coin and a bonus for additional aid given to Falseshield. Mortem headed towards the Church, Drex headed towards the thieves guild to hand in his side quest, Moonlight and No'it headed to the bookstore to speak with Gin and wait for the rest.   Upon entering the Church, Mortem was given a job by his handler Henrik. There was a woman who had done some killing and the penalty was death. They would be grabbing her tonight and she would be in the Arena underbelly waiting for Mortem to be judge, jury and executioner.   Drex handed in his assignment and was paid. He then asked about information pertaining to the abandoned house located in the forest. His guildmaster told him that was where Shilogh, his significant other, had gone and never returned. As the guildmaster got up to leave, another gnome in the guild told Drex to be careful, and that she was trying to find his family still (her name is Adriana). Drex leaves the guild hall and heads to the bookstore.   Moonlight and No'it arrive at the bookstore and talk to Gin, the owner, asking her if she had ever heard of the house in the forest. No'it sneaks coin into a bookshelf as a thank you for her taking care of him. She tells them what she knows, but that it is only rumor. She advises that the Mayors have deemed it unsafe to head to Eaglefall by passing the house and that those traveling there should head north and then west. She hands No'it the journal he was reading the other day for him to take and keep. She also requested that they find an artifact in the cave of the entombed. No set time to get it back to her, but when they could it would be appreciated.   Moonlight receives a message in his head to come to the mages guild; advising Drex and No'it that he would be right back, he heads over to the guild. A man is there waiting for him. He is human with slicked back black hair; he asks Moonlight to aid him in finding a book that is very ancient and extremely rare. He knows it is here but cannot find it. He offers to pay Moonlight 5000 gp; Moonlight decides that he will help him but will decide the gold amount upon return of the book; if it seems like it is more than 5000 gp then he will expect more. The man laughs but agrees. Moonlight heads out to the bookstore to get the others. He has 2 days to locate this book.   Mortem meets the group at the bookstore and advises them that he needs to do a job tonight and he would like Moonlight to come as he feels his talents are needed. He got the clearance to have someone else come along; Moonlight accepts and Mortem asks if anyone else wants to go as well. Drex accepts, but No'it decides it would be best if he did not. While waiting for nightfall, Moonlight enlists the help of the party to search the University and the Library for this book. He was informed by the man that he did try looking at the bookstore and the library with no such luck.   They search through the University library but to no such avail. Drex and Moonlight then dressed up as father and son trying to go through the dormitory area as well as the classrooms and teacher rooms. After a few hours they headed over to the library. They found 2 books that met the description of the book in question, but did not ping with strong magic and Moonlight was told it would show. They left the library and decided that No'it would head to the bookstore to inquire about things with the bookstore owner, while the other 3 headed towards Mortems job. No'it entered the store and noticed it was ransacked and it looked like there was a struggle. Droplets of blood were found and the pillar with the mage book on it was toppled over. No'it tries to pick the book up but suffers psychic damage while holding it. He secures the door and crawls out a window to get out. Casting Thaumaturgy, he calls out to the group. They hear and come running over to where he is. He advises them what has happened. Moonlight decides to stay with No'it and investigate while Mortem, clearly upset, goes to do his job with Drex.   Moonlight and No'it head to the mages guild; Moonlight asking for one of the books that No'it was holding from before, No'it gives it to him and as they enter they see the man sitting in the common room area. Moonlight approaches, says he found the book and then hits the man across the face with it. Asking "where is she?"; The man has no idea what Moonlight is talking about and Moonlight asks No'it to intimidate the guy. Successfully doing so, the man offers his aid in retracing her steps. They bring him to the bookstore where he casts a spell that makes her footsteps glow. As they retrace the steps of the day, the ones later on glow brighter and they see the struggle she had. Someone dragged her out of there; they follow the sparatic hand prints to a drainage area that the man said goes to the underbelly of the Arena. Moonlight excuses the mage and he and No'it sit on the steps of the Cathedral, waiting for something to happen.   Moonlight and Drex headed down into the Arena; entering a room they saw a woman cound in a chair with a hood covering her face. Her wrists and ankles were shackled with manacled that were attached to the chair and there were chains holding her midsection to the chair. She was crying as Mortem placed his tools out. Drex stood to the side as he watched mortem take off 2 toes and one finger, hearing her muffled cries that it was lies. Mortem then took the hood off of her and both stared as they saw it was the bookstore lady chained. Mortem removed her gag and she begged for him to listen to her. He told her what she was being punished for and that she would be put to death. She told him that on those dates she was here with him, with his friends. He looked to Drex a few times who kept telling him not to kill her. He prayed to his goddess who answered back with "Have Faith". As he went to kill Gin, Drex jumped in the way. Time stopped and they watched as they were slowly moved from each other. Radiant light beamed from her, fixing her wounds. She tilted her head up to the sky and more radiant light came out from her eyes. The manacles and chains fell from her and she stood up; wings exuding from her back; she was slightly larger than she had been. Time returned to normal and she shrank back down to her regular size. She smiled and told Drex to go get the others. She stayed with Mortem and when he asked who she was, she told him that he knew her as a deity; Loanlo.   The rest of the group met up with them and she brought them back to the bookstore. She confessed to the rest of them who she was and proceeded to hand them special items. 3 crafted by Millverne, who she calls Millsy, 1 crafted by Tecoliun and the final item crafted by her.

Rewards Granted

The gun Sanctuary The spell Break Mind The maul Holy Vengeance The shroud Eyes of the Night The sword Perfect Storm (for Volte)

Missions/Quests Completed

Find the book Deliver justice