Session Two: "Bread, Faeries, and Maleficarum: A Confectionary Conundrum"

As we are celebrating QM, we come up with a group name. The Thorny Rose
 
QM walks up to us and as we are talking with him, QM goes on high alert as a mysterious gentleman walks through the door. He's wearing a heavy coat and carrying a staff. Brown hair and a flowing beard. Quite majestic.
 
Once QM sees him, he relaxes as he recognizes this man. He gives him a big hug. He's shocked to see him. It's an old friend of his named Franz. They talk about Captain Blackwood and talk about how QM think that whatever was going on before is going on again. Franz and he are quite cryptic about
 
Franz went up against a demon named Icealdae a long time ago. He had been consulted by city watch and were told about a cultist group commiting all kinds of crime and ended up going out and looking for the demon behind the cultists activity. Icealdae was the mastermind behind all of it. The council was taking to long to make a decision on whether they should go seek her out. Captain Blackwood told them to wait, but Morpheus wanted to go. Morpheus was another child hood friend. Morpheus, Franz and QM went into a cave searching for Icealdae. This caused a cave in that killed a lot of people. Icealdae escaped during this time.
 
This cave in killed the council including some of Blackwood's family. Morpheus, QM, and Franz persuade Icealdae by commondearing a ship. They almost one the fight, but she regained power from the rift in the ocean and won. Morpheus was lost in that fight. We also think that Avalora is actually Icealdae.
 
We decide to sober up and go back and talk to QM. ON our way, we run into Blacwood and she is happy to see Franz. We learn that the reason she banished QM here, is because of the decisions he made on the day Morpheus died.
 
We tell Blackwood that we think Icealdae is back. We go to QM and he is already getting dressed to go fight. He insists that only Franz go help, but Franz tries to enlist the rest of us. QM finally gives in.
 
We learn that there are cultists are hiding in the city. Rosalin was seen selling bread at the time that we supposedly were at the cabin or when she was torturing's Mark.
 
We learn that Blackwood is consulting with a shady person. Elias heads to Lowtown to ask some of his contacts about Rosalin as he has contacts. Emilia Nightshade is their name. She's supposedly bad news.
 
Elias talks with a guy missing his ears with letter branded into his forehead. His name is Louis Toadmine The became friends after trying to kill eachother once.
 
As Dermish and Louis literally compare balls, Elias shakes his head questioning the decisions he made in life. Toadmine leads them upstairs where a 3rd party shouts "Toadstool! He's gonna kill you" He promptly requests them for some tinder and Dermish provides some parchment for this. Toadvine then wads it up and lights it on fire. Elias realizes Toadmine is using them to smoke out someone and have them as muscle. The fire lures the guy inside out. Toadmine tosses him to the ground and demands Elias and Dermish to kick him in the face. Elias, disguised as a beggar participates. Dermish steps bac. Toadmine runs in and steals the guys money and runs out. Dermish gains the nickname "Raisin Balls" in the low areas
 
The building continues to burn as they all walk away. Because they helped Toadmine, he gives them information about Rosalin. He says "Some say she's a witch" She's been feeding people bread to make them loopy and suggestible. She supposedly makes potions in the back of her bakery. The same potions she puts in the bread.
 
meanwhile, we learn that Blackwood is on the council now in Eldoria. Emilia is on the council and got it by being corrupt. She backs the criminal underground in Eldoria. A necessary evil that Blackwood hates having to work with. QM had brought up Blackwood knowing Emelia, because she made a rude comment about Elias, and QM said she knew worse.
 
Ash slight of hands 10gp into Elias's pouch without him knowing.
 
Rosalin has been captured. Elias comes back and tells us what they learn. We head to the bakery. It is closed. Elias sneaks around back with Dermish and Angst accompany him. It's a 2 story building with a staircase on the outside. As they are creeping, a window opens upstairs and they empty a chamberpot pouring some piss onto Dermish and Elias.
 
Meanwhile, Jo asks Franz what happened when they encountered icealdae, and we learn he got pulled into the rift, but he doesn't remember what happened after that, but he was on another continent for years. He came back on a boat using a route through the rift that a tiefling instructed him about. However, they were attacked by a giant sea monster and he washed ashore, went over the mountains, and then ended up with us again.
 
Meanwhile, the coast is clear as we get the cooing sound from Elias. Angst tries to sneak back, but is very loud. A window opens and it's the husband of Rosalin. He is promptly pissed and affter a shouting match, Angst goes back to the front of the house.
 
Jo and Ash turn into rats and go to the back. of the house. They climb up the stairs and check out the room. There is a guy in bed and a wheelchair. He is trying to sleep. There is no entrance to the downstairs portion of this house. Just the stairs outside. There are no ramps.
 
Jo and Ash find a hole in the floor and go down stairs and unlock a window and the front door and let everyone in. Jo sniffs out the bread and finds a tin covering some bread. It smells different from the other breads. Elias picks it up and finds it smells delicious. They put it away.
 
Jo finds a trap door to beneath the floor. There are supplies for baking bread. Fruit and meats and stuff. There is a barrel of liquid with a smell coming from underneath it. As everyone starts investigating the area beneath the barrel. Bael loudl moves the barel. meanwhile Angst hears someone approaching the bakery and sneaks inside and closes the front door. He tries to quietly call out to us, but who ever is approaching starts to unlock the door. Angst sneaks to the back window, exits and closes it.
 
Whoever is unlocking the door is having trouble figuring out which key it was, but they do get in. It's 3 women. Ash crawls up through a hole and goes outside to see who is in the house. She does not recognize the women.
 
Meanwhile the group finds that there is a cage of lights in a hole under the barrel. It's "hello" fairies.
 
The 3 women grab the tin that the bread was in and then grab an apron. They go over to the door and leave. Angst intercepts them pretending that he is on guard duty, and he heard someone breaking in. They tell him that they were checking on Rosalin's husband and try to just leave.
 
Angst recognizes the women as the local book club of the town.
 
Ash starts to follow them in rat form leaving little druid symbols on the ground so they can be followed.
 
Dermish finds out that the bread does have magical properties. There is also a flask of opalescent liquid in a bottle that appears to be magical and it smells like the magical bread. It's extremely sweet and exotic smelling that is fermented.
 
meanwhile, Ash is following the women, and they find a pale that they throw the apron into. They then cast firebolt on it and watch it burn away. This apron had a missing piece from it. They then say that they are going to kill the QM first and call him a medaling piece of shit.
Ash follows them to a house. There seems to be a man that is very angry as one of them says she was just out with the girls. They get into an argument. She walks up to him and says shhhhhhhhh and he starts to calm down a bit. The 3 go inside and they talk about the cult. they talk about getting Rosalin out, because they have plenty of folks vouching for her. They talk about Icealdae. (Isolde)
 
Meanwhile, the rest of the gang investigate the hello fairies in the cage. Bael gets triggered as the sound they make remind him of the mindflayer incident from a few years ago.
 
These little faries make them feel very fey like. Similar to the feeling you get when you are next to the statue in the center of town. The group take the potion, the bread, and the fairies from the bakery. When they cover the cage of faeries they quiet down.
 
Elias takes the faeries to the QM. Everyone finds the trail that Ash left behind and follow it.
 
Meanwhile, Ash spies on the 3 women. They talk about dealing with the captain of the city watch (Blackwood). They talk about poisoning her. They decide they want to call a meeting tomorrow as they are exhausted. They talk about getting the other ladies together and meeting in their usual place. Luckily one of them couldn't remember where it is, It's the old abandoned house. They argue about it being haunted. They do not mention a time. They decide to go to bed.
 
Ash meets back up with the group, and they run back towards QM. As we approach the barracks we hear a horrible wailing coming from inside. Mark is tied to the bed shouting obscenities' in Abyssal.
 
QM and Blackwood had to tie him up so as not to hurt himself or others. Mark has black veins. Ash tries to healing word Mark to no avail. Angst tries to divine smite punch the demon out. We find that something is in his arm and it seems to be the root of this possession. As Angst tries to use his faith to suck out the blackness from his veins, a horrible room smells the room damaging Elias.
 
Out of Marks veins forms a goat creature. As this creature appears in front of us, we end session.