Teacups and Necklaces and Beating Sticks, Oh My!

"Teacups and Necklaces and Beating Sticks, Oh My!" is the 37th session of Campaign 2.0.
== Summary ==
* We've just escaped the crow monsters. Time to enjoy a nice rest! Just kidding, we get ambushed by a pack of wolves and beat the shit out of them before we get to chill out.
* Well, off to the Fowl Lord’s castle! On the way there, Sulelia takes the time to talk to Kian and learn more about them. She learns that Kian is in search of their lost lover, and that their kind, the shadar-kai, help advance the will of the Raven Queen and are sworn to her.
* Bryna asks Daisy if she’s holding up alright. She’s super tired. The adventuring life isn’t something she’s suited to yet, and being at the back of the pack is rough for sure.
* The next day we continue our journey to the mysterious castle. We weave our way through some woods... And find a satchel with a dress in it buried on the side of the road. Humanoid footprints are dotted around it, and then they gradually turn into beast-like footprints.
* Okay, that’s weird. Bryna glances around and spots a stick poking out from the ground. She picks it up, examines it... And Max recognizes it as the stick his old man used to beat him with!
* Each following roll for investigation is met with some item of morbid significance for the party (except Thomal, lucky him).
** Sulelia finds a gauntlet with the symbol of Helm emblazoned on its front. In it she finds a letter written to her from one of her past flings who died before they could come back to her!
** Bryna picks up a gold-rimmed teacup adorned with the Novell crest on it. It fills up with blood, more and more so until it overflows in her hands.
** Angeal spots a necklace she recognizes as belonging to her late mother.
* This sucks... We skedaddle on out of the place and reach the outskirts of the castle.