Session 8: Deals Over Low Lanternlight Report

General Summary

Airam followed the Watch soldiers assigned to Amrik into the hospital, where she transformed into a cat. She hoped to reunite with the party afterwards.
Patience and Artena encountered some of Amrik's "customers" in the Low Lantern before starting the conversation. Amrik showed himself to be a good host, wanting to have an informal drink first and even insisting when Patience urgently wanted to talk about business.
Patience made an incredibly brave effort to open up to Amrik, telling him all about Mortlock and the cult, and offering the party's help in killing his brothers.
Amrik just smiled and said several times that he wasn't interested. He ended the conversation with a revelation: Mortlock was already dead, he didn't need their help.
Airam tried to get on board as a cat in the meantime, but made too much noise. She was seen by a sentry disguised as a lady companion aboard the Low Lantern, who first tried to fend the cat off the ship, and later used Skywrite to alert and mobilize the Watch. The party then departed from the boat, where Amrik sympathetically let them go.
On the run, they encountered more and more Watch soldiers on their way to the Low Lantern, but at one point they also saw a group of Dead Three cultists gathered in a square, about to sacrifice five Flaming Fist and Watch soldiers in one of the wells. They had a lot of interest from the public and even called for conversion: if the Flaming Fist and the Watch could no longer keep the inhabitants safe, the population had to rally behind the cult. Those present, who noticed in recent weeks that the Flaming Fist was engaged in their own power struggle and that the Watch only works for the nobility, could agree with this.
A chase ensued through Brampton and Eastway until the cultists and their converts were finally able to catch up and that's where we'll start next time!

Campaign

Descent into Avernus

Protagonists

Artana Dryl

Fenrir Firecam

Patience

Report Date

21 Dec 2022