Session 24: The fall of the house of Harcleave.

Amongst the chaos, we are approached by Quarter Master, Angst and Blackwood. QM also has some kind of cut on his neck that he doesn't want to talk about it. Angst is here because the RavenQueen has sent him here. He's currently here to observe.
 
A Raven lands on his shoulder and says "All will Die!" and then flies away. Angst pretends that he doesn't know what the Raven is talking about.
 
We think that the guy that Joe saved might know what is going on, and we can talk to him about what is going on.
 
Bak is here too! We took him to where the bag was that the guy dropped, but it's not there anymore. When we get there, we hear a crying sound from inside the house. Elias knocks on the door to check on her. It the wife of the halfling guy that Joe saved. We let her know that her husband is fine and where to find him.
 
as she cries and is distraught, Angst opens up a vial to suck in the misery? For the RavenQueen? What in the world?
 
She ends up kicking us out due to a misunderstanding about height with Joe. Joe says she would kill themselves too if that was their wife. No wonder the guy was so close to the edge.
 
We head to the Shadowthorne Estate, where the infirmary is. Bethany answers the door. She's excited to hear about our adventures. She serves us Beignets.
 
The guy we came to get is having esophagus problems due to the poison he drank.
 
We use parchment and a quill to talk to him. He wants to die
 
We ask him about Daals and tell him we will kill him as requested if he can tell us about Daals. We learn Daals wanted to destroy Eldoria by destroying the economy and he wanted nothing to do with it.
 
Angst is trying to check out his dick, and sees a large fairly recent scar across his chest.
 
We also see something underneath the guys's skin moving around. It's worm like. It seems like it's going to burst out of the guy, and Elias breaks the guys ribs and stabs it. It's dead.....
 
QuarterMaster asks the guy....in a distraught way....was it a rat creature? and the guy says it was. QM ran into a creature....It gave him the same wound as the guy has. He describes a red creature that did this to him. It seems to be the same creature that may have attacked this other guy.
 
QM says it was like a frog creature. He found it underground while looking for Angst. There were a bunch of people dedicated to chaos where he was at that was planning to ruin the economy. While he was spying on this cult, the red frog creature attacked him.
 
We talk about going to dinner tonight. Spite wants to go, but many of us think we shouldn't. Angst goes to punch her, and as he does, invisible demons stop the punch.
 
Elias remembers a riddle we got when we got here. Does this have anything to do with things?
 
Turn left at the spire dedicated to the fish
you'll find me on the second floor
Although, I"m not there
Instead, 'm at multiple places at various heights
 
Joe also sent an animal message to her people that states:
"I know what happened to our treasure. It was reminted and distributed to the poor among Eldoria. (Month Day). recovery is probably not possible. "
 
Spite decides she doesn't want to go with us anymore since Angst tried to punch her.
 
We go into a breadshop where a lady is choosing to give out bread for free. Elias introduces himself as Elias Harcleave. She initially wants to kick him out, but he explains that he isn't really a part of his family and has only been here for a day. She explains that his uncle wants to create elitism here so only the most powerful have control. He's trying to close down businesses. Elias tells her that he's planning to meet with him tonight and confront him.
 
He assures her he's going to change what the meaning of the Harcleve name means here.
 
We head to the dinner. The place is pretty abandoned due to all the money stuff going on. However, Alber, Passin's butler is still around helping out. He believe he'll be rewarded for everything he does for Passin.
 
We sit and have dinner. Franz recognizes 2 people who sit in front of him.....when Franz was very young, he lost his parents, but he remembers these 2 people to have been friends. The last thing he remembers is those 2 people getting into a fight with his parents, and that is the night his parents died. They do not seem to recognize Franz. They also seem like they haven't aged a day. Her name is Jezebel, and her husband is also named Franz. Franz knows that he was named after this guy.
 
Franz offers the other Franz some garlic mashed potatoes and the other Franz declines, because garlic disagrees with him. hmmmmmmm.
 
The ghost of Andromeda whispers to Elias that the OTHER FRANZ was his vampire master. Elias messages this to everyone so we all know.
 
Jezebel asks Franz if she knows him, and then recalls him being a young kid and recalls the night Franz's parents died...how sad...
 
Elias sarcastically calls out his uncle asking about his station and how it must have been so difficult to all fall on his shoulders when his father died.
 
Ashe pulls Elias to the side and asks if she can cast daylight on the mean vampires. Elias says if it comes to that he'll give her a signal. Franz then tries to charm Jezabel without success. She notices and then tries to charm him back, but hers ALSO fails. The table gets weird and tense after that.
 
Bael talks about the magic academy. He wants to learn magic, even though he's not magical at all. We end up hurting Bael's feelings when we try to tell him the answer to a test question by calling him BAT SHIT crazy and that he smells like he's been to hell. He didn't get it though and wandered off to a window to contemplate how people named Franz don't have last names.
 
Jezabel talk sabout Franz's parents and how it is a shame their bodies were never found and that they drowned.
 
Elias talks to Passin about his father. Angst brings up the question that since Elias's father died, then shouldn't everything have gone to Elias.
 
Passin kind of talks down to Angst and Elias about how things are SOOOO complicated and he should be the one to manage ALL the DIFFICULT things....he calls Elias a prince, but in a weird tone that I don't like.
 
Elias calls out that Passin didn't answer the question at all and asks it again. Passin asks Elias to join him privately in the library. He gives him a glass of wine. Elias vents to him about condemning him to a life of poverty since he never sought him or his mother out.
 
Elias says he only wants the truth from his uncle, and his uncle cannot directly answer any questions and dances around it all. In a way his uncles lies and manipulations has shown him exactly what kind of person he is.
 
While all of this is happening, Franz quietly casts magic circle around the 2 vampires and when Uncle Passin confronts Elias, Franz says it was him and it's because these 2 killed his parents years ago.
 
Ashe then casts Daylight on the room. Bits and pieces of their skin start to burn off. They charm Franz They both turn into bats to try and fly away. Ashe casts moonbeam on Franz and he falls to the floor and Jezabel flies away and leaves him.
 
Angst and Franz interrogate the other Franz. They get no information. Franz asks how it was his parents were murdered. The other Franz says Franz's father got in the way. He wanted change and that he wanted to overthrow Syrick...the king of Greatspear at that time. The other Franz keeps looking at the window.
 
Elias's uncle runs over to Elias also staring at this window and says that they need to go now. He gets Elias out of the room. Everyone else starts to float up and then the whole place starts to crumble down. Trapping everyone underneath.
 
Elias saw some guy in all black cast this spell. It was a 7th level spell called Reverse Gravity. The guy burst into shadows and disappeared.
 
There are probably only about 5 or 6 people in this whole city that would be able to cast a spell of that level. Elias's uncle is probably one of those people, but we know it wasn't him.
 
Everyone climbs out from underneath the rubble. Uncle Passin tries to get Elias to come with him, but Elias declines and stays with us.
 
We are standing in the rubble. Angst asks Passin how he knew this would happen, and he says that "They" had powerful friends. Passin then tells Angst that he talks like Quarter Master.
 
Angst asks how he knows about QM. Passin tells Angst to seek him out at the magical academy if he wants to know more. He tells Elias to seek him out too.
 
JOe does a tarot card reading and thinks that Passin was jealous of Elias's dad, and may have been in love with Elias's mom and that is why he tried to kill her?
 
Elias's dad runs up out of nowhere. He apparently saw the house come down and ran over immediately.
 
We learn that Elias's father had made a deal with mammon and didn't pay up and that is what got him killed. Elias confronts him about saving him and him immediately running off and killing Andromeda and abandoning them again.
 
Elias's dad says there is a necklace somewhere in this house that will keep him alive. He must pay tribute to mammon. He asks what Elias's deal was, and he tells him it was just his soul...he paid up front.
 
He believes that Passin has already made a deal with Mammon as well. Maybe this whole thing is a ruse for Mammon to gain power over all of them. Who knows?
 
They argue about what happened with the family years ago when Elias's mother escaped with him. Perhaps Elias mother was worried about Elias growing up in this environment.
 
Elias's father says he's going to take his estate back. He finds the necklace he was looking for. HE teleports a bag of gold he had to mammon, not that we know where it's all going.
 
This is where we end.
 
Harley still needs to hand out experience.