Session 44 and older
General Summary
21 Conditori
- Robyn met Elirith in the Smithing District coffee shop as a bedraggled dwarf; offered to meet her at Haven but no sign of her when expected
- Around lunchtime Elirith returns to Haven, in distress, needing help to find her mother
- Ambushed by Ascendent in Shepherd's Rest
- Find an old den in Shepherd's Rest, around 8-12 people, malnourished and dehydrated
- Four dead, two over a week dead
- Most delirious and unconscious
- Find an elderly elven woman in a nest in the corner with signs of being a Changeling; cloak is wrapped around her and she is given to Saman
- Note broken vials of something,
- Recover a bag from the mage, a bag of holding, multiple vials of clear fluid with a silver substance inside
- Guards arrive after disturbance, take the bag of holding (managed to steal some vials for investigating, Robyn also asks Danza for one)
- Sergeant Yakob Danza tells us enquiries into Ether source have gone no where. Robyn gives him her real name and he said he used to be friends with her father and she looked like him too
- Persuaded guards to let us take Elirith's mother to care for - took her to Malora Rockwell
- Doctor makes her take a tincture to make her vomit, said she could care for her for a day or two but would need to take her before arousing suspicion
- Left 100g to the clinic and ran back to the Watchtower
- Met Caitlynn Blunt, Watchmaster - tells us about Pavel Zekkah in the Pen Pit who 'used to know the people who are probably causing it', can find him in the Pen Pit but he won't speak to non-humans
- Leith Helathar gives us a scolding, claimed council did not care about Shepherd's Rest
Danza Meeting
- Robyn met Danza at Tasha's in the evening
- Danza wearing quite tight purple shirt
- Says Robyn looks like her father, same stubbornness and foolishness. Hands over a vial of Ether as requested
- Explains that she had an uncle, father and uncle never got along. Uncle was an idealist and got himself killed, Father couldn't bear to lose family again, trying to find out what had happened and followed a lot of rumous, wanted to find brother's wife and her daughter
- Danza tried talking him out of it but Daemon insisted the girl needs to be with her family - vaguely recalls name as Samantha
- Tried to find her but the more questions he asked the more trouble there was
- While on patrol, somoene walked up, official looking, said Daemon needed to go with them. Had heard of dissidents disappearing, father was taken the day before the Uprising
- Daemon wasn't political, brother Thomas was a martyr, leader, dissident, not a supremacist
- He wasn't part of the Crook, he was the Marshall, they were trying to turn them from secret into something open. Someone got to him and killed him
- Can see where he died on Betrayer's Way, was Brayer's Way before it all happened. Uncle was the spark that lead to the rebellion
- Described Daemon as a stubborn bastard, too stubborn to die. 1000s of exilews, some disappeared before, dozens went missing before the Marshall died
- Warforged stopped the questions
- Yakob felt he owed Robyn that much to tell her what he knew
- Robyn visited the ruined house on Brayer's Way
22 Conditori
- Rose approached us at breakfast in Smithing District, said we did good and charitable work, invited us to meet Chancer
- Let into the back of the grocers, comfortable office, Chancer getting stuck in with everyone else
- Said he started out working here when his father and grandfather ran the place
- Chancer concerned about ht election
- Elirith suggests getting herbs to the free clinic - Chancer said he knew Malora's parents and mentioned 'terrible business' but didn't dwell on it
- Bastion built to hold a certain number, can't update that balance no matter how idealistic it might be
- Briefing from the last council meeting had details of Ether, Watchmaster is dealing with it, likely tied to Tolloy's rise
- Mentioned that a 'man who is no longer here released correspondence under the name The Marshall' (no other details recorded in notes)
- Chancer said another delivery would go out to encampment later today and would look for ways to get supplies to the medical centre
- Penny and Saman went to the Archives, everyone else to the Crafter's Works
- Robyn met Elyn outside Academy, she was wearing red and gold sash, working in the Boom Lab, told her to be careful, she hadn't heard of Ascendent or Ether
- At Ale and Hearty, big man at the door, scarred man left, met Saman and Penny, Rell wasn't there - she seemed upset but didn't want to talk about it, went to Haven and got a round in. Rell said Chancer had reminded her of places and things that had happened which were upsetting
- Evening investigate Bradkirk Brewery, they set vats on fire as they left
- Warforged dropped in on Robyn and knocked her out twice - manage to escape
- Guards at guardhouse refuse to help
- Found Danza who took Robyn to Watchmaster - got bollocked for making scene
- Danza also got bollocked, owe him a night's drinks and a favour
- Go to find Elirith, she had left clinic with her mother about hour before
- Robyn returns home, apartment has been trashed, jewellery box stolen and lute broken. Leave 2 months rent and a note for landlady, head to Tasha's and stay there
23 Conditori
- Robyn conducted normal day afterwards to see if anyone had been following her - no suspicious activity. Guard deliver a note advising to go to Stoneshield's office when she can. Robyn visits Hamish and tells him everything that had happened
- Leith yells at all of us, says we have a name, Butchers of Bradkirk
- Robyn tells of situation with apartment - invited back to Haven, has a bath, wearing Rell's clothes
- Told about Elirith leaving
- Meet Peggy Sandcrawler outside encampment, said she was with the group that saved the Skirmishers - has a Thaddius altered war maul
26 Conditori
- Arrive in Purgatory - mishmash of buildings, towers with archers that are positioned to be hidden by ruins. Buildings are made from an assortment of scavenged material but handiwork is impeccable
- Penny is taken away to see the Superior
- Rell checks if Robyn is okay
- Penny eventually comes back with an older man with black hair
- Introduces Robyn and ambushed with a huge hug - can't believe Robyn is here
- Taken to Hall - Daemon commands the room immediately
- Penitence has returned to us, all is well.
- No animosity, only some curious looks
- Charlie says Artemis has been gone for 5 days, looking for water, hasn't been back
- Gwyneth says need to find new game grounds, Endira out searching, about 3 weeks
- Arta - volunteered to go out looking for hunting grounds
- Robyn and Daemon talk - learn that Purgatory has about 60 able bodied persons, settlement is 500-1000 people. More incursions from fiends lately, bigger and bolder. No stockpiles, everything is shared.
- Hundreds died to get here, watched many friends waste away
- Brother was killed by a warforged - known as the Marshall of the Crook, murdered by the Council for having a voice. Wanted to make a peaceful appeal to the Council as a political party. Half were exiled as an example to others. Thomas didn't tell Daemon the details of the Crook. Knows he had a daughter, Samantha, maybe younger than Robyn; inquisitive mind, wanted to everything.
- Tom had found a group that's everywhere and no where at once, pulling the Council's strings, called themselves the Shadows
- Learn that Endira has been gone for nearly a month, land to the north is undulating be wary of what is in each valley, hills all thrown together, sometimes you can't see what you're coming up against until you're on it.
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DATE
Bad with words, good with hugs
Report Date
10 Jun 2024
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