DW Session 9: Kenku Business

General Summary

10/1/896

• Party arrives in Oridelfa, capital of kuo-toa region of Elflands
• kind of run-down, but massive Temple of Seevo looms of town
• Rest of party shacks up in tavern
• Giovanni offers Amara and Veridan side job
• He’s meeting up with some people for a trade deal
• Amara meets with High Priest Yoho first, High Priest of the Temple of Seevo
• She explains her recent run-ins with Sunken God and his followers
• High Priest is shocked, offers to disenchant the spear
• Amara is unsure on who she wants to follow
• High Priest explains the Third Coming of Sunken God
• First time kick-started the Ostry Apocalypse
• Second time he was defeated by Theo Faust
• Now, he’s been awakened
• It’s up to Amara to resist temptation
• Amara demurs, says she’ll come back later for disenchantment
• That night the three of them sail to small island in Oridelfa
• A band of kenku pirates are there, under flag of the Silver Beak
• They’ve traveled all the way from Kiri-Kawa territories for deal
• There are crates of drugs (elfpowder), also an enchanted spyglass
• It shows true price of any object
• The deal is 500,000GP for it all, Giovanni tries to get it for 150K
• With Veridan’s help he gets it for 400K
• Along with a promise to pay kenku the rest at a later date
• That night Amara and Giovanni try out the new drugs
• Amara tries praying to Seevo, but she has a bad trip
• The room floods with water, but she can still breath
• Sunken God’s dark blue eyes glare at her from the room’s shadows
• The two talk more, Sunken God promises chaos and new world
• Freedom and power unheard of
• More power than Amara ever had under Tarkov
• After bad persuasion roll, Amara is completely at Sunken God’s service
• Await further instructions/plot twists
• The next day the party returns to Oridelfa
• Time for a shopping spree!
• Veridan goes to apothecary, buys some yellow shrimp powder
• It’ll cause food poisoning for hours
• Amara first checks out library for info on Sunken God
• The library’s practically empty of any good books
• Librarian says they’ve been confiscated for Imperial Library
• The kuo-toa don’t like the Elflands’ high taxes and oppression
• But they also don’t want to risk an all-out massacre
• So Amara next goes to blacksmith for a shield
• There’s a nice circular one with a screaming fish face on it
• Blacksmith wants 500GP, Amara refuses to pay that
• The two of them fight, Amara chops off blacksmith’s arm
• She cauterizes wound, takes shield and pays 450GP
• She might want to lay low from now on
• Veridan also shadows High Priest Yoho for a bit
• He’s the reason they’re in town, after all
• Gotta find a way to discredit him for Characters
• He’s preventing kuo-toa from joining resistance
• Veridan gets a good feel for his schedule

Report Date

20 Oct 2019

Primary Location

Oridelfa