Session 119 - September 15th, 2022 Report
General Summary
1306 - 1st Moon of Spring - Fislar (18th Day)
- Ari, Alethra and Roth are at Lady Marisha's when the Kraken enlarges and now fills the pond, with Lady Marisha being a bit surprised. While suggesting what will happen to the body and how long it will stay in a state of stasis, Judith messages Roth about very large ravens sitting at the table in the garden. Beartrum is made a horse with the hat of disguise and the 4 go back to the house with Tristian escorting them out of the university.
- Once home, both Ari and Roth see an odd shadow in the dining room on the way to the patio with the giant ravens. First Beatrum is gifted the cantrip mending. Olly then gets the cantrip Thaumaturgy, and Ari, Alethra, and Roth each get 3 magical black raven feather tattoos, which fade after use and are each good for 1 automatic success at any DC roll, provided that results have not yet been called.
- Both Ari and Roth see the new tree in the garden with leaves more of a blue/green than a true green. After the two are confused about where a new tree came from and Ari asking Judith if the tree was planted by Scarlett and if she is back. Judith says she has not seen Scarlett and is not sure about the tree. After that conversation Roth and Ari work out the invisible person in the dining room and Ari casts dancing lights near the invisible person. Merry invisibly dances around with the dancing lights until Roth asks Merry how long she was going to stay invisible.
- Merry then explains that the tree is special and from the Feywilde and called Oakly. Olly is quite happy with the tree and wants to build a little nest in the tree and is pleased that the bark is soft and feels like moss. Roth is confused and Ari wants to make sure that the tree being taken out of the Feywilde is not going to cause any issues. Olly is told not to hurt the tree, and Alethra, once she realized it is a Feywilde tree, begins to make many notes on the tree and its characteristics and its leaves. Merry then casts tiny servants and there are many tiny rock creatures that run around the yard with Olly picking so up and using her new cantrip to create tremors and noises.
- Roth asks Merry to cast a spell and turn Beartrum into a hawk, and Roth then goes invisible and take his broom off to return Beartrum to the Barony with Olly flying behind him, which after 1 hour Beartrum went back from hawk to owlbear. An additional 3 hours after that, Beartrum, Roth, and Olly all arrive at the Barony. Sybil gives Roth a quick rundown on the status of the area and is pleased to learn that Beartrum has a new trick. Sybil will contact Roth if there are any issues, but spring seems to be going well. Roth gets some goat cheese from the goats out there, and then spends about 2 hourt getting back to the townhome in Benroth.
- Alethra goes upstairs and starts a new notebook with the notes she already has on the Kraken, starting a new notebook so that she can take it with her to the dissection when it happens. She also gets the elephant, Gertrude, so she can give it back to Merry at dinner.
- Ari then goes to Korfel to get 4 more sticks of chalk for magic teleportation circle castings. She then talks to Korfel about the spell chain lightening and how the parts of the Kraken may be able to used to make a ring or necklace which can cast the spell. Ari suggests a slightly less version of the spell which can be cast daily as opposed to a more complex item which can cast the spell every few days. Ari tries to find a new tailor in town, but is unable to find someone new. She then goes to see the head of the Weaver/Clothing Guild, Odilon Warf, and offers 15 yards of the spider silk to him in an effort to make a sale. There are a few options of how to sell the silk, which Odlion suggests he reach out to a few contacts who would like the silk and he would send notes to them with the option to buy 1 of the 3 options of 5 yards each. Odlion will send a note to Ari once he has heard back and will get some ideas of price and how long it will take to confirm buyers.
- All four of the party are now back at the townhome and sit down for dinner. Judith is delighted and when after dinner, the door bell rings and the court wizard, Arannis arrives. He wants to learn what he can about the interaction with the Kraken and tells the party the dissection will be the day after tomorrow. Arannis then suggests to Ari to clothing places in the Elvish city of Ofanbell, The House of Silk (warehouse) and the main clerk Nicholas and Threads of Time, a new clothing store with owner Ophelia. Arannis suggests that the spell Speak with Dead did not have any helpful information, as the dead creature does not want to talk and Arannis is trying to confirm where this creature came from.
- After a good beer and a chat, Arannis leaves and says he will see the party the day after tomorrow. Roth then contacts the magical tattoo artist, Fenna, who will be in town next month.
- Merry goes to the clothing warehouse and gets a large amount of wool in a blue/green color and 25 yards, for a total of 250 gold. She then returns to the house and spends most of the day in the garden, playing the panpipes and created a new tiny servants made of rocks and they run around the garden for a while.
- Alethra begins to set up a small lab in one of the basement rooms with a small table and set of shelves set up and all the alcohol being moved to a different storage room and she goes to Korfel to find out what she needs. She gets 2 continual flame lanterns (60 gold total) and Korfel begins to work on a plan for ventilation with bottles so that if there is smoke it can be taken out of the workroom. Alethra than picks up a manual on how to make the explosion arrows for an future battles. She then spends some time with the puzzle book.
- Ari and Roth teleport to the Elvish capital, Ofanbell, with them landing in the garden of Ari's grandparents. After a nice breakfast of many pastries Ari and Roth head off to The House of Silk and speak with Nicolas about selling the other 15 yards in 3 sections of 5 yards each. Since Nicholas will be doing the work and reaching out to his contacts, he offers a 5% brokerage fee on the sale of each cloth section. He will reach out in a week or so to Ari's Grandparents if Ari has not contacted him yet. Roth agrees that this seems to be the best option for the sale. After lunch with her grandparents, Ari give Roth a tour of the city and see the library. Going inside, Ari sees Birell, who was her under common instructor, and Roth gets to learn how to request access to the library and is given the paperwork to complete. Ari then learns about 2 of the people who may attend the Kraken dissection, Navarran and Rolan (a druid) who may have a bunny companion. Ari finds the shop Threads of Time and gets a new style short dress in bright teal from Ophelia (30 g) while Ross goes down to the Broken Path and gets in touch with the bartender, who he drinks an ale with and chats in thieves cant. Ari then joins him before dinner and planning what to do the next day. Long rest.
- Roth and Ari teleport back into Benroth for the morning. Merry is going to stay at the house and has no interest in the Kraken, as she was not a part of the process of tracking it down.
- Upon arriving Ari, Alethra, and Roth see the usual druids from the university as well as Arannis. There are also 8 other small groups which seem to be the head of the schools of nature magic from the other human kingdoms.
- Ari sees the two elves, Navarra and Rolan, sitting with them during the dissection, offering them treats her grandmother made, and generally being a wonderful host. After the main event Ari offers to take the two and their party out to lunch to discuss the findings. They happily accept.
- Ari takes a moment before lunch and holds the small lightening sphere in her hands, trying to get it to work and make magic, but it does not seem to be able to be controlled by someone outside the Kraken. She will have to work with Gregory and Korfel to create an item.
- Tristian sits down next to Alethra and Roth during the dissection and observe the findings, mainly that this is an adolescent Kraken, not a full grown one. Roth then remembers the encounter he had with a Kraken during the adventure to Brell, and he speaks with Arannis, who suggests a discussion with Lady Marisha after the official display is complete.
- Many notes and drawings happen. Roth and Alethra meet the dwarf druid from Blazenthrone, Ushra, who is pleased to speak dwarvish with people and has heard about The Gold Room and is planning to eat dinner at the restaurant that evening. He has not had much chance to study sea creatures and was delighted to see this demonstration. He mentions a day pass to visit Blazenthrone and Alethra is delighted to try and figure out how to get one.
- Tristian introduces Alethra and Roth to Zedaar, a brass dragonborn druid who is from a small arid mountainous dessert near the southern coast of the continent. He mainly deals with succulents and other alpine plants, but is excited to hear about the more lush forest nature. Roth mentions he would like to visit and Zedaar suggests that a visa be considered for a visit. Roth asks about druid tattoos and Zedaar is amused by the cactus druid idea, Zedaar tells Roth about the tattoo all druids are given when they pick a land to bond with, but he does not think the tattoo is magic.
- Lady Marisha and Arannis will have to work with divination magic to confirm that the Kraken that Roth saw has departed from the plane and the Bay of Songs.
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