Episode 2: Rizzium

== Session Recap ==
Last time in our world of Valinova, our party solidified their purposes and connections with one another, fully realizing the ways in which they were all connected to the case in Archon Plaza. Tensions brewed a bit as Hazel wrestled with her feelings and teenage angst, things coming to a head as she lashed out at new acquaintance Moon. Petra, being the mother figure she is, called the two by introducing the concept of her ‘Get Along Sweatshirt.’ Afterwards, the group left Moon’s ‘Plant Shop’ and headed to the scene of the crime, a manor under the control of Winsyll Gothbrook. There, Hazel spoke to a Knight of the Emerald Order on duty and learned that Gothbrook, and potentially the Valinova Magic Council, reported that the infiltration was a success and that several important magical items had gone missing from within. The group also looked around the perimeter, where Hazel discovered two clues: A strand of blonde hair, potentially from a wildshape, and very similar in color to Moon’s, and a footprint from a large race, potentially an orc or goliath. Feeling that this implicated the DeRozan family even deeper than before, sights became set on probing them further.
Back in the Crimson Cage, Draven met with his goblin contact Nix who informed them that Garvv DeRozan would probably be around at the same bar soon, where they planned to trick him into letting loose any information he may have. Meanwhile, the group also asks Nix to set up a meeting with someone by the name of Nytha, who had written a letter to Moon’s sister, and to score Moon a night’s worth of the drug Rizzium. While Nix went about his business, the group sets out their plan to work Garvv for information. Petra helps out getting a part time job at the establishment and assisting its busy proprietor Wolfgar, serving drinks to Garvv and his crew once they arrive and uncovering the deep-seated childhood trauma he holds towards his own mother. Meanwhile, Moon, hyped on Rizzium, flirts with Garvv and eventually gets him talking; revealing the identity of those he sent for a heist in the Gothbrook manner, including Sun. Garvv also reveals that there has been a group sent since the one the party is investigating, contradicting the report from the Knight of the Emerald Order. As the night goes on, Hazel, new to drinking, finds herself in a fight with a dwarven man named Paul and 9 members of the DeRozan family, who leave her nearly dead in a side alley.
Each member of the party find themselves engaged in various circumstances, but eventually meet back up to hold the meeting with Nytha at a bar called the Ugly Mug in The Spot. There, they meet her, a midnight blue tiefling woman in her early thirties. Nytha reveals that she knew Sun, and that she was in the heist group prior at Sun’s request, but her party failed in what was a heavily trapped and guarded dungeon beneath the manor where she almost died had it not been for Sun’s group freeing her. Nytha offers her alliance to help the party, and together a few plans of action begin to emerge, particularly:
# Hazel head to crownspire and attempt to convince the Emerald Order to raid the place.
# Look into and follow the next group to head into the manor, either helping, warning, or watching them.
# Draven contacting his mother, a mysterious figure who may have information of the tensions brewing in the Cage.
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