Session 4 19/01/2025
General Summary
Sunday 20/05/2345
After Rest
- M feels her hand pulsing a little as she plays and feels a little stressed but doesn’t know why
- Alaric looks a little panicked coming onto shift after knowing there was a fight
- M asks if she can pop into the kitchen to get tea and Alaric says “sure, then maybe you can tell me what happened” M asks if he would like one and he says sure
- M makes a pot of tea for everyone and gets some bread and cheese on Bs request
- Everyone gathers around the table and M asks how everyone was feeling
- S says she wasn’t expecting that and M says she doesn’t think anyone was
- S asks what that creature was, K says seemed like a twig blight, but warped and twisted with magic she hadn’t seen before, seems to be a hybrid of different schools, shadow magic and dark nature. Crab magic
- Alaric asks if people want sandwiches, B is devouring a wedge of cheese and loaf of bread, comes backs with a plate of sandwiches and sits on the chair like a bisexual
- M explains what happened, to Al, he asks why we didn’t go to the guards, we say there weren’t any around and he says that’s unusual
- B picks up Corvin, chair and all and gets ready to head off
- Al asks K if she’s seen corvin’s hair colour before, being a dark violet, K recalls a warrior race that fae were afraid of, not friendly, known for having violet hair and shares to the group that she was told of them when she was fae lost
- S tries to recall her life before she was captured and can’t bring up anything more, but she recognises what K is saying and looks her her affirmatively
- M asks S if she wants to come with to see the paladins, S says she wants to check on Todd, M says she wonders if the paladins might know about why she lost her
- M tells Al to check on
- The whole group head out to the paladins, walking through town and taking note of the shops and public baths
- Can see a large circular tower with red shingles and red banners bearing the symbol of the crimson wing
- K mentioned having had strange dreams and asks if anyone has had anything similar
- B shares that he has had weird dreams but nothing more
- M asks S if there’s a connection between the dreams and what’s going on seeing as she reached out to us in dreams
- S says she doesn’t remember just that she was able to reach glowing orbs
- M asks how many orbs there were at least 9 or 10
- K says sounds like there’s one for each god unless they had multiple champions
- M asks K what she means by champions, she says in her dream the god said they chose her as a champion
- K is able to tell that this is nothing archfae related
- M asks if the person she saw in the dream was the same she saw when she touched S, she says same vibes but not same visuals
- No one really seems to want to share further
- As everyone gets towards the eastern gate they see some guards in black leather armour with large swords and shields, don’t seem too bothered by the group
- Notice the brand of House Blackthorn on them
- K, S and M note that this is the area where the Heartspike Jackrabbit is supposed to inhabit
Arriving at The Radiant Hall
- See a grove on tall trees, the river that runs through Ravenswood bends around
- B recognises it as a paladin outpost
- Small courtyard with training dummies and targets
- Large door. looks dwarven forged with a knocker
- B steps forward, knocks and calls out “hail brother paladin, we seek your counsel”
- Person who answers the door has golden hair and looks a lot like someone from B's past, someone he meant to kill, but is a woman and the person he knew was a man. He tenses up, M takes a step back.
- Cloaked in mirror like armour, reached for her sword, kept eye contact, but didn’t draw
- Asks how she can help the group, introduces herself as Commander Althea
- B is focussing on controlling his breathing
- M introduces herself, explains the situation and Althea invites them in, Says she’s the only one there at the moment but is expecting Lady Dawnwhisper the resident healer
- Pushes the heavy door aside with ease
- M steps in first, everyone following behind her
- Modest building made of pale stone that seems to catch the light, vaulted ceilings and large windows that let in a lot of light, some statues of gods
- Althea takes the group to the war room, there are some maps of ravenswood and larger surrounding cities, New Dawnsbrooke, Feathercrest Cove, Crossroads, Khazad-Vrax, among others
- Pulls some manacles out of an armoire and asks if they will do better, and hands them to B who cuffs him
- Althea asks what they want to do M says they want answers
- She asks about the battle and why there were no guards, says it’s concerning that no one was there
- B and M grumble about nobles. Althea says none of the nobles in town are looked about very favourably by the order, but, she knows Draekos personally and likes him but he definitely has too much money
- B brings out the totems and puts them on the table asking she’s seen them before
- M asks if it’s a good idea to bring them out in daylight, one rolls through the sunlight and nothing happens
- Althea recgonises what it is, looking at the symbols on the totems but can’t quite decipher them
- Gets a large dusty book from her armoire and flicks through it, not finding what she needs
- Althea asks if he was from our plane of existence K mentions that he resembles a group she heard tales of while lost in the faewilds
- She says clearly there’s necromantic magic and a second kind that she can’t figure out from the totem, says she could figure it out if we left it with her
- Althea asks how many totems there were and what the plan was in setting them around town
- B says there was no discernible pattern in how they were placed
- M recalls the conversation she overheard to Althea,
- Althea says we might be able to switch them so go on sunlight or something else
- The group relay the information they have about the totems and summons
- Althea wonders if when the skeleton “upgraded” if the totem was momentarily tethered to another realm and siphoning power from it
- B takes out the music box and puts it on the table, saying they were placing them with the totems M adds they never got to see them in the moonlight so they don’t know what effect they would have had
- G says she looked at it and was able to recognise a letter or two ( M previously used comprehend languages on it and got nothing resembling any known language)
- The symbols on the music box share a language with those on M’s wedding ring and whatever is empowering or infusing them seems to be the same magic that Corvin was weaving through the poppets
- Althea doesn’t recognise the symbols, but senses they are the same kind of magic
- B decides not to bring out the ring that he has been holding to protect M
- Althea has asked if anyone has tried opening the music box M says they wanted to figure out as much as they could about it before doing anything like that
- Althea says they do have a dungeon downstairs where they could try open it if needed
- B says he’s not sure about leaving any of them anywhere near Corvin. Althea says there’s always the forest but you wouldn’t want to risk anything getting away
Interrogating Corvin
- B says “I think it’s time to interrogate our friend” M asks who wants to wake him up and B backhands him leaving wounds on the side of his face from the spikes on the back of his hand, but seems to have just made him more unconscious
- M asks B if they wanna play good cop, bad cop
- B hits him again and he wakes up, groaning and spitting out blood
- M says “Good morning sleepy head” and Corvin sighs and says “Kill me now”
- M casts detect thoughts on Corvin
- Corvin is thinking “How do I get out of here? Why is there a poppet on the table? Why do they have my things?”
- M tells him he might be here for awhile, he grimaces at the group then B kicks his hair over just because
- M picks him back up and semi sarcastically says to B “Now now, that’s not any way to treat our guest” He grunts
- B grabs Corvin by the shoulders saying “So, what were you planning on doing with all your fancy dolls and music boxes?” (rolls a nat 20 on intimidation)
- M hears him recite a sylvan prayer in his mind
- Corvin says if he didn’t do this his whole village would be slaughtered and that they call her “The Shadowed Moon”
- He’s the only one who knows her real name, says they’re looking for Lunae
- Lunae provided all the items, though his magic powered them
- M hears him thinking “I’m going to die” repeatedly
- B picks him up, still attached to the chair and asks where they can find her
- Corvin says they can find her at The Iron Pit, it’s in town, and to “ask the right people
- M hears that he is being genuine and puts a had on B, giving him a look to signify that he is telling the truth, B acknowledges with a nod before shaking him again and asking “what the hell was that thing that was with you?”
- Corvin says it was his own creation, he called them Umbral Summoners and that it was something he and his (dead( friends worked on and that it wasn’t supposed to be used this way.
- B asks how it was supposed to be used
- Corvin says it was supposed to be something like a wooden helper automaton, not something that was technically alive, but would take simple commands but when he made all three of them Lunae twisted them and suddenly they could summon the nightmare creatures
- M hears him think “nightmare conduits”
- The purpose of the Umbral summoner was to produce lots of little wooden automatons which could then help with simple tasks around a village
- Corvin says he still doesn’t know what they can do, then looks at K sorrowfully and says “I don’t know what it would have done”
- Meanwhile he’s still thinking “I’m gonna die” on loop
- M looks at him, saying he doesn’t seem like a bad person and she, at least has no intent to cause him any further harm
- He thinks “you don’t know me, you don’t know what I’ve done”
- M looks him dead in the eyes and says “Why don't you tell me what you’ve done?” and he stops answering the groups questions
- M tries to pry deeper into his thoughts, he fails the wisdom saving throw and she is able to look deeper
- M sees a beautiful fae/elven looking woman with long, lustrous violet hair in his thoughts, gets the feeling that it is someone he loves and that she is either dead, or will be dead
- M says “Oh, she’s pretty! Who’s she? You seem to be awfully fond of her, and it seems like she’s in danger.”
- Corvin says “Lunae said that if I didn’t follow her specific instructions to a tee, she would kill the last person of my tribe, M says she would personally like to avoid that
- He says he had one final instruction he was supposed to carry out tonight, M asks what that was
- He says they have an accomplice named Nekros, he is what she called a “Chaos Enforcer” and Nekros had tasked them with collecting more music boxes to be placed in specific places around town at midnight tonight
- M asks what the effect of that was supposed to be, He thinks about the nightmare conduits and the music boxes getting the impression that they are one and the same
- Corvin has no idea that M cast detect thoughts and is in his mind
- M says “we don’t want any more harm to anyone, but we also can’t just let Lunae go around summoning nightmare creatures
- Corvin’s eyes dart between everyone and says in a pleading tone “Nekros is not one to be messed with”
- M points to B and says “Neither is he”
- Corvin says “never look into his eyes, there’s something he can do to you…” and he shudders
- Looks directly at K and says “You just don’t want to look into his eyes”
- M finds a memory of Corvin looking into his eyes, gets a sense of dread, utter helplessness, a feeling of complete powerlessness and inability to fight back or escape
- M acknowledges that she has been reading his mind for the first time, saying she can see the fear and the dread in his memory of Nekros
- Corvin’s manacles glow and hear a sizzle and crack from his hands and he seems more tired
- B head butts him as a way to make a point
- Althea laughs, saying he just tried to teleport
- M looks to B to say she wants to try something and can he have her back
- B lowers Corvin to M’s height and turns him to face her
- M says “We don’t want to see any more harm done, I can see in your memories that you are acting under duress…” Corvin’s eyes widen a little, possibly only just now fully recognising what’s going on.
- M says “Yeah, sorry I cast detect thoughts on you, but you know, not sorry..” He grinds his teeth
- Althea says they can borrow the manacles and cut the chain if they plan on taking him with them
- M says “we’re just trying to figure out what is going on and don’t want to see any more people come to harm, and that includes you and whoever the girl in your memories is, if she’s still with us”
- Corvin says he doesn’t know where she is but she’s definitely in danger
- M offers to help him if he helps them, he agrees
- M hears the name Lady Jineyih in his thoughts
- They exchange sad looks, and he closes his eyes, thinking of memories of his village and the people who lived there, looking up and Lady Jineyih from below he balcony, M gets the sense that the town is named Embervale
- M says “We can’t bring back what’s already been lost, but we can at least try and stop anything more from also being lost”
- Corvin says “you need to save her. I don’t care what happens to me now. I’ll help in any way I can” Looks at B and says he won’t run
- B places his hand over Corvin’s head and uses Lay On Hands
- M says “Just one more thing, does the name Mildmore mean anything to you?” She gets the faint feeling her may have heard it before but it’s not important to him
Wrapping up
- M asks the group if they want to keep him here for the time being, B says he thinks he still needs to be contained for awhile
- Althea says she’s fine to look after him and asks what kind of accommodations they had in mind, B says “your most comfortable prison cell” M adding that he at least deserves some modicum of comfort
- Althea asks the group if there’s anything else she could help them with, M asks her to take a look at the ring and the page from the book she copied of the mask and symbols.
- M looks to B to present the ring and he does so begrudgingly
- Althea says it’s not her area of expertise, but if they head to The Enchanted Trinket in town, they should be able to tell them more
- M lets B takes the ring back
- Althea says she gets a really bad feeling from it and would suggest no one wear it, M assures her that she has no plans to ever wear it again
- M shows Althea the copied page and Althea is about to speak when Corvin, peeking out from under B’s hand and says “That belongs to our other accomplice, Nekros’ second in command, Zalthea, she frequents The Silver Hourglass Bathhouse”
- B asks Althea if there is an armoury, she says he may have noticed that they’re a relatively small chapter, B says a broom closet with swords will do
- She tells him about some of the things that are there, including a sacred artifact called The Light of Justice. They also hold regular vigils where they meditate and share stories as they seek divine guidance for upcoming missions.
- She says the really don’t have much more than he may already have
- Says her armour was a custom job in town
- Althea puts a hand on B’s shoulder and looks into his eyes, asking “why were you so mad earlier?”
- B takes a deep breath, exhaling slowly, saying “It’s a long story, but answer me one question. Do you have a brother?”
- Althea says she’s an only child but does have several cousins and asks if he knows someone who looks like her, B says yes he has met one man who looks very similar to her
- Althea says she never got his full name and asks what it is, he tells her and she asks if he knows of “the crossroads” His eyes widen, and freezes momentarily
- M casts detect thoughts on B and sees a memory
- B whispers “crossroads” and she gives him a knowing nod
- M switches detect thoughts to Althea and hears her think “He better not be mistaking me for Riordan” (she does not share this)
- Althea says “Trust me, I’m not part of the noble family”
- B quietly regains his composure and Althea extends her arm for a forearm handshake and says “Are we square?”
- B hesitates but does grab her arm in return and says “For now. But I have questions”
- Althea says that the food was always great with a smile and B sheds a single tear. She notices and says nothing more
- M sees some Dragonborn faces in a tavern and feels good, warm vibes, senses of good food and nostalgia in Althea’s thoughts
- M is suspicious that B is going to go to the Magic Shop about the ring without her, panics and decides to try pickpocket the ring from him
- She fails and he catches her, grabbing her by the arm, giving her an intense stare, she switches her detect thoughts back to B, senses strong annoyance
- M looks at him pleadingly and says “I need to know”
- He says “Let me check first, sister. You’ve been injured enough by this”
- M shakes her head, emphatically stating “I need to know. Just let me come with you”
- B sighs and says “You can come with, but I keep the ring the whole time”
- M agrees saying “that is all I ask”
Character(s) interacted with
Althea
Corvin
Report Date
19 Jan 2025
Primary Location
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