relic hunters 24: Stolen life

General Summary

Session starts with the party going to find Esbjorn. Now that they have been given direcitons. Before they went to go to the place they were pointed to they quickly handled some things back on the ship. Eris gave Alden some money to go buy a ring together with Lyxsas. While the rest of the party went to see Esbjorn and hopefully free him, Thorn stayed behind and trained Willow.
While walking towards the house Esbjorn was set to be at the party decided on a plan. The plan is for Zero to go in first, to show the mark he has to distract them and gain a bit of trust. Then Deckie will be right behind him, hiding and in a moment of opportunity jump out and immediatly cut of the crystal.
As the party approaches the house they can hear 2 people arguing inside. 1 of them clearly was the voice of Esbjorn as Deckie recognized. Esbjorn was complaining to somebody else that they weren't working fast enough and that they should hury it up.
Zero and the party walk in with zero going first. Deckie was hiding behind them. As zero showed the sign both the people in the room got interested and they talked for a short bit. The orc man called Copy seemed intrigued since he didn't know him despite that he had a mark. Esbjorn was mistrusting however. This broke out into a fight, Deckie quickly rushed forward and tried to get the gem by cutting the rope. He missed however and only hit Esbjorn. Eris tried to paralyze the 2 enemies but it only succeeded on Copy.
Esbjorn fights with a anger and ferocity like Deckie knew him. But short into the fight he also actived his tattoo's something deckie had never seen him do before only heard of it. Over the fight it became clear the tattoo's increased his strength when he took damage. As copy couldn't help in the fight Esbjorn was quickly overpowered and had the gem stolen after which he calmed down. He tried not too but he broke down crying and thanked Deckie for saving him.
Copy now finally broke the paralyzation and finally seemed to be a little interested in the party. He asked why he should let the party go. When the party tried to intimdate him he just laughed and said he was immortal. While this was going on Eris was repeadedtly trying to paralyze Copy. With no success for a while. Untill eventually it worked. The party quickly ran out but they didn't get far before a wyvern came out of the house attacking the party. The party attacked it but before they could do anything all of a sudden the wyvern made it look like it would attack the party but instead it attacked Esbjorn and with 1 well placed stinger to the chest of the weakened Esbjorn, he died. The wyvern than became transluscent and ghostlike and transformed into Esbjorn. Copy who the party learned the true power of there, now could become Esbjorn. With that Copy seemed satisfied and left after first saying if the party met him again he would take somebody else for his collection.
Deckie was insanely angry. he wants to go after to kill copy. The party however talks him out of it and wants to make a plan. Zero convinces deckie to calm down a bit. The party searches the house. they find a spellcircle piece. With that piece Leo finaly realizes what has been bugging him. A circle and crystal like that existed close to his home, The crystal was said to be placed by a god to keep corrupting energy from the spell circle out.
Milum and Pipui say their goodbyes to Esbjorn too.
Deckie wants to use the large boat that esbjorn used to do the funeral. The crew talks him out of it. and will help with the funeral as they liked the man too.
The funeral is held, with the small boat they got from the elves.
the party goes to decide their next destination. Without any new lead Eris looks to her faith to lead them forward to the other 2 remaining crew members. By casting a divination spell she thinks that Beatriz Despadida is on Beorday. The party decided to set sail to Beorday again. deckie goes to the tavern to ask on information of wyverns. The barkeep turns out to be a retired dragon hunter and gives him some tips, 1. Lay out a ambush, 2. Incapcitate it's stinger, 3. Make sure it can't fly away.
While traveling, Lyxsas tries his theory of burning eris to unlock the ability, it worked and Eris gained the ability to absorb fire. Eris proposed by putting a ring around his finger which Lyxsas accepted.
the session ends as the party is ambushed in the straight between the island as the party was ambushed by a ship that knew they were coming. On the ship the party can see Iandal. Next to that Milum saw the person that put the curse on the crewmembers on the deck.
The session lasted 15 days, 2 in town and 13 on the sea again. The session ended on the 30th of Griffus year 532

Report Date

27 May 2022