Session 74 - October 22, 2020 Report
General Summary
1305 - 3rd Moon of Spring (Fisen) 21st Day
- The party explores the cave, finding nothing of value, and that the cave smells unpleasant, as orc are now known for being very clean. Li, Alertha rolled hit dice, with Ari singing a song of rest. The party walks for the rest of the day, around 5 pm Ari and Roth notice something flying overhead. He uses the spyglass to see a chimera (3 headed beast being ridden be a red creature with horns). He tells the party is a chimera, but not mentions much about the rider. There is then discussion on taming a chimera and what it could eat, and how that would work.
- The party sets up the mansion for the evening, with discussion on reaching the trading post outside the city, going into the city, the visitor center, and how she would like a guard during the 5 days of political meetings that start on the 1st day of the 1st Moon of Summer, and how it likely just 1 person guard per time, and how they will now have 6-7 days of downtime before the political agenda starts.
- The night, Scarlett has a dream of being underwater, seeing a large sea turtle approach, as it gets closer, she hears a voices saying "Help it", and she realizes it is huge and not a regular turtle, but a dragon turtle. The same night, Roth is pulled out of a trace by 6 ravens surrounding him. One raven goes to Olly and gives her a small tap on forehead, then all 6 ravens bow to Roth and vanish. Roth and Olly chat, and Olly can now speak as a Roth and Roth can see through her eyes over great distances. Olly is very happy.
- Calm day of travel. Li and Alethra are now level 9. Scarlet has the same dream, only this time the voices says "Go with the trading party tomorrow." Scarlet is a little sad about this, but does not mention the dream to anything.
- The party approaches the trading post outside of the gates to Blazenthrone, and Roth sees two of himself sitting outside a tavern, the Juggling Dwarf, having beer. Roth sees through the illusions, recognizing Merry and the spell image. As the party gets closer, Ari recognizes the gates and area as where she was stopped last time. Magmabrew is confused about Roth's "Siblings" as are Li and Alethra.
- Ari sits at the table, catching up with Roth #2, drinking a beer. Magmabrew realizes it is good time for lunch, and goes inside to order beer and lunch. Disguise is dropped and Merry is introduced to Li and Alethra. Magambrew is unsure how Merry was able to beat the party there, but does not press too hard. After some discussion the implication is that she came via a FeyWilde portal.
- Scarlet then tells the party about her dreams, hearing a trader call for those who are leaving to follow him and gather up their items. Ari orders a small goat filet for everyone, and the whole party enjoys a 'Goat of Friendship' before Scarlet thinks she has to leave. Alethra is confused about the process, but slowly eats the goat filet, which Merry was unimpressed with. After eating goat and talking about dreams, the party agree that Scarlet needs to travel and answer the call of her deity, and tend to the dragon turtle. Merry gifts Scarlet a small harp made of holly, and Scarlett leaves Merry with Holy Water, a casting of Healing Word into Roth's ring, and colored pencils for Alethra.
- Magmabrew bribes the trading party to depart a few hours later, and set up their arrival into the main gates for later in the afternoon. The party sends the next few hours drinking, eating and relaxing together. During this time, Alethra has one of her braids undone by something invisible, which is Merriweather the pixie who came with Merri.
- Scarlett is paid 5000 gold in platinum, and she goes with a tall blonde human male who is leading the trading group, Cedrick Blockhammer. They will go overland 2-3 days then go by river for 2 weeks until they reach Vernazza on the coast. From there Scarlet thinks she can find the dragon turtle in need of her help. She waves goodbye as she rides the cart away. Scarlett will look for a sending stone when she reaches Vernazza so she can keep in contact with the party.
- The party, minus Scarlett and with Merry, approach a giant 4 story gate set into the side of the mountain. Magmabrew presents her clan stone, Roth and Ari watching carefully, then the party is taken to a small room to be looked over. Roth drops his disguise, and now is full elf with black hair and black eyes and Olly is in pet-space. A catalog is made of all their weapons and magical gear before 6 dwarven guards ceremonially escort the party to the second gate into the city. A records keeper records Magmabrew's information and the inner doors were open into the main cavern of the city.
- The large cavern is fully covered in stone, yet in full daylight. Full of buildings, shops, and a huge fountain feed my a small river running through the main cavern. The rear of the cavern is covered in a massive building complex, with the main feature being a huge over-arching dome covered in gold. The party in in awe at the scale of the cavern. They group is escorted by the 6 guards to the left of the main cavern into a residential cavern, then through a set of closed doors with guards into the Visitor Cavern.
- At the entrance, 4 of the guard wait outside, which two of the guard escort the party to the Heavenly Gauntlet, a tavern/inn in the visitor quarter. The inn keeper is there, as well as a large mastiff, and a gnome in a fedora with crossbow, whip, and tons of papers is sitting main seating area. Ari recognizes him as Professor Boondiggle, someone who once gave a lecture at her bard college. Alethra and Merry go with Ari to see this new character.
- Magmabrew gets the keys to the 4 tower rooms where she will be staying, the innkeeper is Rubric Thornheart, and he affectionately calls her 'Maddy'. The 4 rooms are on 2 stories of the tower, the 1st story storage/empty, 2 rooms on the 2nd and 3rd floor. Each floor has a small common room between the 2 rooms per floor. The party goes to the 3rd floor, and hands out keys, discusses where the mansion will be cast that evening.
- Mamgabrew calls a meeting to consult with everyone, discusses a dinner that night in the Lovely Ax, which will be just the party and a full on display of everyone, letting the curious get a good luck before rumors start to spread too far. The decision is to mix up who escorts Magmabrew to the official meetings each day, keeping the clans on their toes. While Mamgabrew did not expect violence, mostly political maneuvering, but she still feel better with someone from the group there just in cast. Li can borrow the helm from Roth to understand the discussions.
- Alethra then decides she needs new clothes and takes Li with her to go get appropriate dinner clothes. Rubric directs them to the IronClad Bowl. Ari wants to sell some items and get a whip made, so Rubric directs her to the Brass Cape.
- Merry then sneaks off to a empty room and lectures Merriweather about playing pranks, and telling her not to do it again. Merriweather reads the name on the letter, "Alberich Thornheart of the Lovely Ax". The plan is to deliver the letter that night during dinner. Merry asks if Merriweather will get in trouble for taking too long and it is met with a shrug.
- The cavern is still in full light as the party relaxes and starts some shopping around 4 pm. Magmabrew relaxes, and tells the party of a bakery with some good treats in the visitor quarter.
- Roth takes a moment alone and casts a message to Fenna, the magical tattoo artist, letting her know that he has another client for her, and asking when she will next be in Benroth. The reply is at the end of the 1st Month of Summer, and she will need 2-3 weeks to gather materials if she needs to provide them, and asks what kind of tatoo.
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