Session 2: It's the Randos' First B&E!
General Summary
We began this session in class. This week was an easy week in class for us, with only Cathia having a project due. It was in her Magical Auras class, which she had some touble in. She still hasn't shaken that weird cold aura around her from last week, but she did much better with the project this week and gave herself a nice buffing aura. Sounds like it's probably super useful.
After class, the Bunch of Randos met up at the athletic field. Skoldreg saw his friend Greta Gorrunn working out. He went over to talk to Greta and she tossed him her barbell. It was pretty heavy. However, she told him about a secret familiar race that would take place at the bar later this week. Everyone is supposed to BYO familiar. This sounds great except no one in the Bunch of Randos has a familiar. When Skoldreg mentions that he doesn't know find familiar, Greta tells him it doesn't matter if you don't know the spell because you can just catch a familiar. She also mentions that sometimes it impresses people at school if you catch one of the familiars assossiated with the school you want to go to.
As soon as Skoldreg tells the rest of the Randos about the race and capturable familiars, we immediately decide we should participate. We spend some time deciding how and where we should look for familiars and decide to head to the Firejolt to come up with a plan and see if we can get any info before setting off into the forest to search it for familiars. When we get there, Night That Eats Stars flirts with the bartender, Ellina Tanglewood, a bit, but Ellina is very busy and doesn't have a ton of time for chatting. Dahlia asks if they serve bile martinis, and is disappointed to learn they do not, so she just orders a vodka and writes a letter to her mother asking her to send her a keg of bile. Cathia buys shots of Whiskey for everyone but herself. Dahlia said that in the Shadowfell if you give someone a drink but don't have one yourself, its beause you're trying to poison the other person. Ellina pours a double for Cathia in response. Cillian didn't order anything, because he brougt his own booze. Ellina wasn't happy about that, so she prestidigitated his drink to make it taste like pee. Cillian noticed, and magicked the next patron's drink to make it taste like skunk smell. So, in response, Ellina made it look like Cillian peed himself. Cillian took off his shorts and just went around pantsless after that.
As she drank her second shot that was more like a pint given her size, Dahlia asked Ellina where a drunk homesick person might go to find a familiar to keep as a pet. She said she wanted to get one of the cool school themed ones and asked about various locations where one might find them. Ellina told her that Silverquill inklings could be found feral on the third floor of the biblioplex, the Quandrix fractals were usually found in the Crystal Tower, the Witherbloom pests could be found at the Segemore, and Lorehold statuettes could be found all over campus. Of course, most of the locations listed were off limits to freshman.
We decided the best thing to do was to head to the biblioplex to do some recon about how we might manage to get in late at night and how we might get up to floor three. Cillian thought it was batshit to try to break into the library and stayed outside. Dahlia flew in and hid in a flower bed and waited for the library to close. Cathia hid in a classroom on the second floor. Night hid in a classroom on the first floor. Skoldreg got caught by an automaton while looking for his hiding spot and got kicked out.
The three of us who managed to stay in the library after it closed realized we would need an access card for the teleportation circle for the third floor where the familiars were supposed to be. We searched the main circulation desk for blank passes and managed to find one. We held hands and stood on the circle holding the access card - it worked! Next thing we knew we were on the third floor.
We hadn't been on the third floor long when Night spotted an inkling. We first tried sneaking up on it and catching it, but it didn't work. So Dahlia had the idea to use disguise self to make herself look like a sexy inkling. It worked! But, it skeeted on Cathia.
Before heading back downstairs we decided to look around for a bit. And it's a good think we did! We spotted a Lorehold statue. Cathia chatted him up and he told us his name was Regret. He told us about dueling for a woman once upon a time and that it did not end well for him - is this how he ended up a statue? Dahlia immediately pulled out her notebook and immediately started writing some new erotica called Rock Hard Regret. Cathia decided to tell the statue the truth about the race and why we were there. He agreed to come with Cathia and participate if Cathia said Pazuzu 3 times. She did. Nothing happened.
In the meanwhile time, Night, being a curious feline, goes off to explore more of the forbidden third floor. Unfortunately, she runs right up on a construct guard. He demands to see her pass, but the group only has one pass and Cathia is holding it. Night tries to run from the guard, but he gives chase. About this time, Dahlia finally looks up from her erotica to realize some shit is going down. She immediately tries to save the day by creating some illusionary passes but found she was only able to create one at a time.
The construct guard is over it by this point and starts trying to kill us for trespassing. It was a tough fight. He hurt both Cathia and Night quite a bit. All three of us landed some good blows on him, but unfortunately no one remembered to make use of Cathia's magical aura buff. Still, Cathia repeatedly lit his ass on fire, Night stabbed him several times, and Dahlia insulted him and then blew his head off with a fire bolt.
So that we didn't stir suspicion the next morning when someone enters the library and finds a headless guard, Dahlia cast mending to reattach his head to his armor. Night prestidigitated him to look clean and not singed by our firebolts. Then we propped a beer in his hand to make it look like he drank himself to death in the night.
Having found two familiars and fought a construct to the death, Dahlia, Cathia, and Night decided to leave the library and find the rest of the randos.
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After class, the Bunch of Randos met up at the athletic field. Skoldreg saw his friend Greta Gorrunn working out. He went over to talk to Greta and she tossed him her barbell. It was pretty heavy. However, she told him about a secret familiar race that would take place at the bar later this week. Everyone is supposed to BYO familiar. This sounds great except no one in the Bunch of Randos has a familiar. When Skoldreg mentions that he doesn't know find familiar, Greta tells him it doesn't matter if you don't know the spell because you can just catch a familiar. She also mentions that sometimes it impresses people at school if you catch one of the familiars assossiated with the school you want to go to.
As soon as Skoldreg tells the rest of the Randos about the race and capturable familiars, we immediately decide we should participate. We spend some time deciding how and where we should look for familiars and decide to head to the Firejolt to come up with a plan and see if we can get any info before setting off into the forest to search it for familiars. When we get there, Night That Eats Stars flirts with the bartender, Ellina Tanglewood, a bit, but Ellina is very busy and doesn't have a ton of time for chatting. Dahlia asks if they serve bile martinis, and is disappointed to learn they do not, so she just orders a vodka and writes a letter to her mother asking her to send her a keg of bile. Cathia buys shots of Whiskey for everyone but herself. Dahlia said that in the Shadowfell if you give someone a drink but don't have one yourself, its beause you're trying to poison the other person. Ellina pours a double for Cathia in response. Cillian didn't order anything, because he brougt his own booze. Ellina wasn't happy about that, so she prestidigitated his drink to make it taste like pee. Cillian noticed, and magicked the next patron's drink to make it taste like skunk smell. So, in response, Ellina made it look like Cillian peed himself. Cillian took off his shorts and just went around pantsless after that.
As she drank her second shot that was more like a pint given her size, Dahlia asked Ellina where a drunk homesick person might go to find a familiar to keep as a pet. She said she wanted to get one of the cool school themed ones and asked about various locations where one might find them. Ellina told her that Silverquill inklings could be found feral on the third floor of the biblioplex, the Quandrix fractals were usually found in the Crystal Tower, the Witherbloom pests could be found at the Segemore, and Lorehold statuettes could be found all over campus. Of course, most of the locations listed were off limits to freshman.
We decided the best thing to do was to head to the biblioplex to do some recon about how we might manage to get in late at night and how we might get up to floor three. Cillian thought it was batshit to try to break into the library and stayed outside. Dahlia flew in and hid in a flower bed and waited for the library to close. Cathia hid in a classroom on the second floor. Night hid in a classroom on the first floor. Skoldreg got caught by an automaton while looking for his hiding spot and got kicked out.
The three of us who managed to stay in the library after it closed realized we would need an access card for the teleportation circle for the third floor where the familiars were supposed to be. We searched the main circulation desk for blank passes and managed to find one. We held hands and stood on the circle holding the access card - it worked! Next thing we knew we were on the third floor.
We hadn't been on the third floor long when Night spotted an inkling. We first tried sneaking up on it and catching it, but it didn't work. So Dahlia had the idea to use disguise self to make herself look like a sexy inkling. It worked! But, it skeeted on Cathia.
Before heading back downstairs we decided to look around for a bit. And it's a good think we did! We spotted a Lorehold statue. Cathia chatted him up and he told us his name was Regret. He told us about dueling for a woman once upon a time and that it did not end well for him - is this how he ended up a statue? Dahlia immediately pulled out her notebook and immediately started writing some new erotica called Rock Hard Regret. Cathia decided to tell the statue the truth about the race and why we were there. He agreed to come with Cathia and participate if Cathia said Pazuzu 3 times. She did. Nothing happened.
In the meanwhile time, Night, being a curious feline, goes off to explore more of the forbidden third floor. Unfortunately, she runs right up on a construct guard. He demands to see her pass, but the group only has one pass and Cathia is holding it. Night tries to run from the guard, but he gives chase. About this time, Dahlia finally looks up from her erotica to realize some shit is going down. She immediately tries to save the day by creating some illusionary passes but found she was only able to create one at a time.
The construct guard is over it by this point and starts trying to kill us for trespassing. It was a tough fight. He hurt both Cathia and Night quite a bit. All three of us landed some good blows on him, but unfortunately no one remembered to make use of Cathia's magical aura buff. Still, Cathia repeatedly lit his ass on fire, Night stabbed him several times, and Dahlia insulted him and then blew his head off with a fire bolt.
So that we didn't stir suspicion the next morning when someone enters the library and finds a headless guard, Dahlia cast mending to reattach his head to his armor. Night prestidigitated him to look clean and not singed by our firebolts. Then we propped a beer in his hand to make it look like he drank himself to death in the night.
Having found two familiars and fought a construct to the death, Dahlia, Cathia, and Night decided to leave the library and find the rest of the randos.
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Rewards Granted
Inkling familiar (temporary) - Dahlia
Lorehold familiar (temporary) - Cathia
Library teleportation pass - Cathia
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Lorehold familiar (temporary) - Cathia
Library teleportation pass - Cathia
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Character(s) interacted with
Greta Gorrunn
Ellina Tanglewood
Unnamed Construct guard - now deceased
Unnamed inkling familiar
Regret - Lorehold familiar
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Ellina Tanglewood
Unnamed Construct guard - now deceased
Unnamed inkling familiar
Regret - Lorehold familiar
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Notes
Classes this Week
Skoldreg - Passes Beginning Computational MagicNight - Arcanobotany - kicked ass - was the teacher's pet
Dahlia - Inkomancy - did very well
Cillian - Arcanobotany - did not pass
Cathia - Basic Magical Auras - did much better this week. Cast an aura on herself that lets her buff the party by letting us reroll a failed attack or save if we're in 10 feet of her. .
Mission: Find familiars for the big familiar race!
Location: Strixhaven Campus
In Game Date: ????
Location: Strixhaven Campus
In Game Date: ????
Report Date
15 Mar 2022
Thanks for the re-cap!