12/11/22

Q1: Can you keep a secret? A1: If his word is given, it would be trapped behind a steel gate. Q2: Do you like being the center of attention? A2: When it's practically useful.
 
BEGIN SESSION
Goal: talk to Holden and sneak Dani out of the city.
 
After a few weeks of recon, they make their move. Rorin procures a cabbage cart and the salesperson's clothing, nailing his disguise in preparation to make a distraction. Two very huffy people (Druss and Melfine) are walking along and get clocked as pissy folks, but frequent flyers that should just be left alone. Marda has to shove Dani's tiefling tail back into cover along the way too. They are greeted by Bellia Lightner (Dragonborn - bronze, engineer) and directs them to the loading dock. Bridget meets them, accompanied by Captain Velma Starmore. Dani is carted off to the elf ship bound for Le'xxaj, the other continent. The crew sticks around for Family Meal, which is spaghetti.
 
[6 MONTHS LATER]
DRUSS - He starts up a relationship with Bellia, who is now pregnant. The shop is reopened under the protection of a special-duty cop (Sammael Smith). He made my buckler, with brass scale motif in the center and with some blue dragon scales around the edges. It works like the normal shield +2 to AC. He also works to start up a resistance against Zitz, and adopts Leona. Bellia drops the egg off for Druss to handle for 6 months in the egg incubating. Actual name - Toli, child name - Who likes to listen to lightning.
 
MARDA + MELFINE + SPELEN - Goes to Dawn's Reach. They check the Sanctum there, check out and question some prisoners [DISCORD] and visit the Tipsy Tavern. A human male guard in red uniform (Crimson Dragons) eventually responds them trying to use the password. And then they can clandestine spy orders from random drops over time, as a way to test them. They are trying to do the job just enough to get by, but not hurt innocents. Their fourth target is someone Marda knows, Odiphus Longcloak. Last time she saw them, Odiphus wasn't a caster but is now under suspicion. They are friends from back home, and maybe from the military? They have tea and catch up. The girls catch Odiphus up on the infiltration of the Crimson Dragons, and tell them they've seen the magic shit Odiphus has been up to and the Dragons are on to them. Odiphus is going to prepare to flee town over the coming weeks. Eventually the Marquis calls them back.
 
MELFINE SOLO - also in Dawn's Reach, as above, now plus - study up on the book she has, The Boneturner's Tale, and learn some new spells from it. The fire in her room flares up, and her sister shows up to visit. They're catty to each other, and then the fire dies down and the sister is gone. Melfine goes to one of the suspected casters that is actually a caster, and tries to scare them out of the city for safety. She does poorly but gets the message across.
 
SPELEN SOLO - mostly a secret. Turtle-yeeting is now possible for Helen to do with the turtle corpus.
 
ME - Ambassador training. Then a publicity tour, ending in Tarrytown. Dawn's Reach is a must, I choose the others. I try to hit the other big cities. At the end of the 6-month period, I am announced formally as Ambassador and granted rights and privileges. Kel is taking over the shop, and gets a new novice. This novice is a Myconid named Cellia and lives in the undercity.
 
Rorin - he works with an old friend to get her elected to the head of the Accounting Guild, and her name is Rose Nylund. Her family was old shiner folk in the mountains, but her dad got rich creating a winery using the distilling techniques on the wine. Rose is now in charge of the family company. They concoct a plan to enact this minor coup. He engages in some planning for the wedding. He has Druss and I over for dinner, to ask us to be in the wedding party, and grants us personalized, engraved flasks as gifts. He is also retiring from adventuring to start a family.
 
As the girls get back to the city, they head to meet with the Marquis. As time has passed, the city is different at the end of spring. More myconids are out, and the city has calmed back down. The Marquis lets them in and a familiar goblin is there with important news. Undertow rumors say Druss is looking for Vandren, and their buddy knows who Vandren is. That buddy is a prisoner being transported to Cherwood, their name is Yun, a freelancer with the Bards' Guild. The crew has a big guy with a skull mask as a leader, there are about a dozen of them and they have a few of the cats that can smell magic, and the person knows about our connection to the Undertow.
 
So our new mission is to save this Bard person. We level up to 10!
 
END SESSION
Current Stats: 75/75 hp, INSP, +d6