Session 85 - April 1, 2021 Report
General Summary
1305 - 1st Moon of Summer (Fislar) 18th Day
- Merry returns to the house as the party is finishing up breakfast. She is surprised at the addition of a kitten to the household, and she is able to intimidate it very easily.
- Ari has scroll of Chain Lightening (bought from Korfel for 400g retcon).
- Roth receives a note with several investment options for Vadalia, he takes the note, the drawings for the suggested mini-mansion floorplans, and he goes upstairs.
- The party as a quite day at home while Roth spends most of his time guiding Olly towards the smoke she saw. 4 hours later and after several unsuccessful checks, she finally comes on a small group of Kobolds which are gathering stones and seeming to set up a large set of logs on which to transport them. Olly hears talk of a "New Master" and "rebuilding the castle". As large pieces of stone are being gathered, that is something for Roth to consider. They will also be "returning" in a day or two.
- Judith is asked by Ari to have 20 copies of the leveling survey written out for those inquiring about dancing lessons.
- Alethra works on Draconic, during the day.
- Merry goes out to perform and earns some funds.
- That evening, Alethra and Ari go the Secluded Garden Inn, and enjoy several nice pints of beer. Alethra is intrigued by the silver dragonborn who runs the bar and inn, and is enjoying learning about him, as there are not many dragonborn in this area. Ari then send over a male (Eli) to flirt with Alethra with no success. Ari then sends over Robert to flirt, and Alethra and Roberta get onto a conversation on climate and growing various plants. Roberta works at a green grocery shop, and thinks Alethra and she hit it off well and asks her to walk out later. Ari is pleased to hear the Alethra and Roberta got along so well, and Ari thinks that is the direction that Alethra's affections may go.
- Merry has a dream/vision that night from her deity. A beautiful female elf, holding a lyre is trapped in a deep blue sapphire. During this vision Merry hears the song of the Feywilde, the music from the famous Bard, Lady Holly, who was known to play the lyre.
- Judith gives Ari the documents she asked to have printed, 7 people have left cards (the son of a Marquess, looking for lessons for son & daughter). Ari recognizes the names of 3 others, from well to do merchant families. She will have to research the other 3 names.
- During breakfast Judith asks Alethra for an extra 5 gold, (15 gold total) to send the letter to the dwarven city, which will take about a month to arrive.
- Roth, before going down to breakfast, checks on Olly, who is pleased to have found 3 blue eggs that she wishes to play pranks on the Kobolds with. Roth is not opposed to this, but tells Olly to let him know when the Kobolds leave the area so that she can follow.
- Alethra is reading the book on Fairy and Pseudo Dragons at breakfast, and Merry notices the new book, amused by the title.
- There is then discussion on the mini-mansion and how the rooms are to be arranged. Merry and Ari offer thoughts on secret passages from the dining room to the guest bedroom, or small tunnels for passages between room. Roth is not pleased with this idea, and will need to talk to Magmabrew about size and cost options.
- Roth heads out to Korfel's to help make magical arrows.
- Merry casts Tiny Servant on a mushroom, which grows arms and legs and is told to follow the first person it sees.
- During lunch, Roth returns to the house. As the party finishes up, the new kitten Jess runs in, trying to climb up Roth's leg. Then a small mushroom with arms and legs walked in, going after the kitten Jess. Roth uses Mage Hand to pick up the mushroom, and Alethra takes the kitten to try and comfort it. More mushroom shenanigans.
- Roth returns and spends the afternoon crafting with Korfel, completing the set of exploding arrows.
- Dinner arrives, the mushroom is now guarding the rest of the mushrooms, walking back and forth with a small stick. Alethra needs to research magical mushrooms.
- Alethra seeks out Roth, and learns about what Olly has seen and updates the map on where they think they will need to go. Alethra confirms that Olly is able to report back to Roth what is seen in the swamp.
- Olly wakes up Roth to tell him that the kobalds started moving, and they are following a path. Olly flies up ahead and notices that the path splits, so she spends the day go back and forth between the Kobalds and the path split.
- Ari finds Judith before breakfast, giving her champagne and orange juice for the brunch with Gregory, as well as egg she "laid" herself to created tiefling or deviled eggs to be served at brunch. Judith is confused, but thanks Ari and continues to prepare food and drink, setting the fancy plates/tablecloth.
- Gregory is pleased to see everyone and meet Alethra. They have a wonderful time catching up and hearing what the party did in the dwarven city.
- Ari asks about a cloak that can cast an illusion of herself to fool any who would attack her. Ari shows Gregory the cloaker skin, and he will make her a fine cloak, which will take about 10-12 weeks and cost around 2000 gold.
- Ari mentions she can now teleport to the tower directly, and Gregory invites the party to visit during the winter months if they would like to spend some downtime with him in his Tower. Alethra is delighted, and cannot wait to take him up on it.
- Merry then asks about a person in a gem, revealing to the party the vision she had from her deity. Gregory mentions it is likely a 9th level spell, which means you cannot magically scry to determine where the person is. Also, it would take a 9th level spell to break the person/elf out.
- Gregory is asked about dragons, which he assumes are the mutation forms, and mentions that he does not know much, but when asked about trapping a creature, a high level spell, Force Cage, may work.
- After breakfast, Roth is asked to accompany Gregory to pick up a few items. They stop in a pottery shop, where 2 huge urns with lids are purchased. Gregory asks if Roth can pay the 4000 g for both, which he happily does. They then go to the Opal Moon, buying 2000 g of diamonds.
- Gregory asks if Roth would go the Temple of the Raven Queen and find a safe space to attempt the spell. After explaining to Katrina what is needed, she offer the central spell chamber, and stays to watch the process. Gregory first casts the spell on himself, which seems to work. The second time on Roth, with a small piece of flesh needed for each casting. On the second casting Roth realizes how high a level spell and how few people can perform this type of magic. Both Katrina and Roth are awed.
- Roth shows Gregory Death Toll, the sword, and asks about possible flying mounts like Penelope and Gertrude, but which can stay around longer. He promises to look into it.
- Merry goes on a wander about town, sadly lost in thought she does not hear many interesting rumors or play well.
- Alethra and Ari go clothes shopping for Alethra, trying to find a less fancy store, wander for half an hour, before Ari goes and buys two song birds (one blue and one green), then spends more time looking for a clothing shop. They eventually find the The Velvet Thread. The shopkeeper, Britta, finds some nice blouses and pant options for Alethra in dark green, gray, and brown. There is also a blouse and skirt combo in dark red. The outfits are far more plain and less brightly colored than Ari would like, but Alethra is happy to have some new clothes that are less monk-looking and covered in ink.
- Roth joins the party for dinner, as Gregory was going to meet Lady Marisha.
- After dinner, Roth and Alethra go to the university to take part in the study and dissection of the drop squid/dark mantle that was able to cast darkness.
- Alethra is thrilled with all the people taking notes and professional images being drawn.
- During that, Olly tells Roth that the Kobolds camped for the night at split in the trail. Olly will have to wait for morning to see which way they went.
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