Session One: Shadows of Deception- There's demons in town

It's been 6 years and it's the last day of 1082. Mistrasea 30th.
Tomorrow will be the first day of the year.
Weeks are 10 days long. The weekend falls on the last and 1st 2 days of the week.
1st month of the year is Tempussember
 
It's the last day of the festival of Lureumar.
 
We are in the Wyvern's Egg Tavern. They are starting a Guild hall here. Maybe we can join it at some point?
 
We talk about Elias's past. His mom and he moved here to try and pay for their debts. The crimelords ended up taking Elias as the debt payment, so he now works for them, and pays a local smuggler and does their bidding. Everytime he inquires about when he will be free, they tell him soon. Maybe another 5 years. He never gets a straight answer.
 
Dermish talks about the time he died. He says he met a devil and an angel before he came back. He must pick a path to determine where he will go after life.
 
Angst, who does a lot of work in the town and volunteers as a patrol office. Elias uses Angst's knowledge of patrols to schedule his questionable activities.
 
We see the Quarter Master of Bael and Angst drinking whisky, which is very abnormal for him. It's review time for Quarter Master. He gets reviewed every 5 years. QM did not come here willingly. QM is from Eldoria as well. He's supposed to be able to leave soon, but every review, they tell him 5 more years.
 
His review was early. He says things went fine, but he seems very down.
 
A woman walks into the bar. It's the mom of one of the other recruits, Johnathan. He's a friend of Angst. He's a young recruit who often annoys QM, but he means well. (Quarter Master's name is actually- Alestair thorn)
 
She can't find Johnathan, and is looking for him. He didn't show up for dinner today after training, and this is very abnormal. QM suggests he may be with Corrina Blackwood the captain of the guard. We offer to go look for Johnathan.
 
We go to the training grounds to see if Johnathan and/or Corrina are there. We find Corina and she is looking for Private Winston Mark (her underling). She says Johnathan and Private Mark were together a little while ago. We learn from Captain Corina that Quarter Master is being reassigned and that Angst should say his good byes. She says that QM is no longer needed here and she is disbanding the unit here.
 
Corina also tells Angst and all the trainees that she will need their badges by tomorrow.
 
We all split up to try and find Johnathan. Jo goes to the city square, Dermish tries to go back to Pete's old house while drunk, but Elias stops him. Elias goes to the slums to ask around. Bael heads to the lake. Ash heads off in a random direction and ends up at the town statue. Angst checks other places.
 
Elias approaches an undesirable and drunkenly threatens to cut a guys throat. The guy laughs at him and asks for money. Elias tries to pick pocket him but fails. However, the guy notices and laughs it off while he takes all of Elias's money. He also tells Elias that he saw Johnathan and Mark walking at the edge of town near the entrance.
 
Ash at the statue where it seems shrouded in shadows and darkness and runs into a female tiefling with ethereal dogs. Her name is Avelora. She has 6 fingers on each hand and 6 horns on each side of her head. She says she may have seen a couple of youths wandering into the forest where they shouldn't have. She alures to the fact that demons may have taken them. She has a smile that literally spreads from ear to ear. She explains that demons love chaos and are quite unpredictable.
 
She sees Bael and ask if she is Alestair's adopted son, as he is wearing soldier clothes. Bael denies this. Angst walks up and she says that he MUST be Alestair's adopted son. She's been looking for him. He knew QM back in the day as they were lovers? She says if we survive getting Johnathan back, then we can tell Alestair she said hi.
 
At that moment Johnathan runs up. He's not with Private Mark. They were accosted by cultists. He tells us where they were. We sense that he is not possessed. There were 3 cultists and they summoned demons. The head of the cultists is a commoner we know named Rosalin. Rosalin runs a bakery and supports her disabled husband and has a hard life, but she's seems very sweet.
 
We get to the river and find Quartermaster's wagon fallen over. As we run over to the horse and out of nowhere a tiny little creature appears on top of the horse. It's a bunch of quasits. We defeat them, but they do a number on Angst and and Dermish.
 
We find some foot prints and where it looks like someone was dragged away.
 
We get to a cabin in the woods. All the windows are boarded up. Elias sneaks in to lead the way while Angst and Bael stay back. Elias sees two very stubby ugly chubby monster demons in the corner and becomes very startled. He exits and decides climbing on top of the roof is better. Angst helps him climb up, but he can't get up to the roof.
 
We go in and are attacked by manes, a cultist and some abyssal chickens. We take out the cultist before she can alert anyone. Ash is taken out by an abyssal chicken, but thanks to Jo's cure, she was ok and survived.
 
We are able to defeat the enemies. Elias finds a necklace with a demonic holy sigil on the cultist. Elias uses disguise self to look like the cultist we killed who he recognizes to be 6 finger Aggie from the slums. Her sister owed him money. We found her sister 1 eyes mary in the a pile of cut up body parts.
 
We search the house and find another room with a treasure chest and other items. Angst takes some damage from a trap on the treasure chest. He also falls into a hole in the floor. We find a couple of bottles of mystery liquid.
 
We search another room and find that there is someone sleeping inside. Elias walks in while disguised and 2 quasits appear. They seem disinterested. Elias sends them away and as they run out, the rest of us attack them as they run out and we kill them quietly.
 
Elias slits the throat of the other cultist while they sleep. We continue investigating the building, and we get to a room where we can hear somebody hurt inside. We also find a single window where the wood boarding it up were knocked out. We find a small piece of cloth that looks like it was part of an apron at the window. We think this could be Rosalyn's apron. It's got a blue flower on it indicating so.
 
Elias, in disguise opens the door where the injured kid is, causing a giant bell to fall and alert the whole place. Luckily we cleared most of this place out.
 
We find Private Winston Mark in a cell. He's badly hurt. At first Elias's appearance frightens him, but Elias reveals himself, letting him know we are here to save him.
 
We find sigils used to summon demons where they were using blood sacrifices.
 
We patch Winston up as best we can. We get him on the hoarse outside and we head back to town. We get to the city gates and see that Captain Corina is standing with the Quarter Master. She runs up to Private Mark. He explains they took QM's horse originally. He explains about the 3 cultist, one of them being Rosalin. There was another person in the cell that they had cut up and they were summoning demons. He heard them praising a demon by the name of Graazit, a six fingered demon. He is a male demon and is a very powerful prince of the abyss.
 
Captain Corina decides to let the QM stay here since he has people that were willing to sacrifice themselves to help one of her men, and there is a demon issue that needs handling. QM gives Angst a knowing nod of appreciation.
 
We go to the tavern to celebrate finding Mark and saving QM from leaving, and were invited to join the Guild Hall.
 
We need to go find Rosalin, and this is where we end.
 
We need to get Elias 15GP for the guy he needs to pay. We get level 2!