Heretics resistance 8: Ethain secrets

General Summary

new person joines, grimes the half-orc bard. The party gets a letter informing somebody new will join their team. 2 days later a bombastic and larger than life orc bard named Grimes joins the group. The party gets to know Grimes a bit.
The party has a large amount of downtime (2 months), where they do some minor missions for the Ethain untill a more important mission comes up. Benj gets a tattoo of his axe on his chest.
Grimes, Benji and Killian get a rat tattoo (each one of them is also personalized in a way), Orion refuses to get the tattoo.
At some point in the downtime Sir Trevor is coming over for dinnner because the party invited him. Benj spends all day preparing himself and the house. Throughout the night the group talks with sir Trevor and plays drinking games, they all get incredibly drunk. The drinking game eventually leads to Sir trevor kissing Benj as a action for the drinking game, both are incredibly embarrased by it.
A week or so later the party gets a letter to meet an Ethain family member for a mission, they will also lead them to a location to explain the mission. Dagnia is at the location and explains the situation: a key location important to the Ethain family is about to be discovered by the witchhunters. Dagnia reveals a tiny cluster of houses on the city outskirts, where a group of people live who worship the fey, it turns out the Ethain family have long been part of those fey worshippers but had hidden that relationship. Now with the witchunters about to find out its likely it would also lead back to revealing the Ethain family
The party makes plan, which takes them a while to do. As the party tries to do their plan some things go wrong and people start to improvise. Naran the witchunter captain is there, who they have to hide from. They manage to convince the witchhunters to go into the forest chasing some vague magic spirit. Grimes manages to leade them further in the direction of a fake shrine the party set uo, he does this by making a vague humanoid shape of magical lights. After that at the shrine Killian is there invisible chanting in Infernal. Naran destroys the shrine and Killian stops chanting. Naran believes he destroyed the spirit with that and now has to find whoever made the "shrine" putting him back at square 0 and thus taking them off the trail. Mission success.
After this the druid from the community thanks the group and introduces them to the ancectral tree, Mathrell. The tree has a spirit alive in it which creates a barely humanoid shape in the bark that can talk slowly and with much trouble. The spirit thanks the party and also asks the party to do something else for them and the community. The tree asks the party to go into the spirit world to figure out what's upsetting the balance. They promise magical gifts in addition to money from Dagnia.
The party accepts, particularly Orion seems interested after hearing magical gifts and asking the old man what kind of gifts the tree can bestow. The session ends as a person leads them to a cave where they say the other side ends in the spirit world. The session lasts about 2 months of time due to long downtime waiting between missions.

Report Date

01 Jun 2023