Episode 100

== Summary ==
A plan to infiltrate Deephold and rescue Anika is hatched. With the aid of a broken and rewired retriever, Barkley turning into a spider to steal a key, and Vahlka pretending to be Osyna... For once, nothing goes horribly wrong (yet). 
== Recap ==
* Lucius and Nero team up and try to hotwire the retriever. He asks Lucius to scry on Osyna, who we see walking down the hallway into her office. She sits at the desk, attempts to write something, writes a couple sentences, and then gives up on whatever she's writing and paces back and forthin apparent frustration before smashing something off of one of the shelves. Sits back down and kicks her feet up on her desk. 
* Vahlka then suggests we scry on Anika - we see her alive in a very dimly lit cell, magically darkened. Alive and breathing, chained down, but seemingly not doing well. Her hair has not been cut but we cannot tell if she has a black eye or not.
* Nero, Olivia, and Lucius set about trying to hot-wire the retriever but do a bad job. Dumbass circle.
* Godfrey offers to stay up and help Nero with the retriever and forgo his long rest since he can get most his stuff back with a short one. They finally succeed.
* Vahlka runs off to go collect the retrievers missing legs. While she's out a thick magical fog rolls in. Godfrey and Olivia try to contact her but fail. Vahlka senses a demon in the fog, and fails a madness save as she looks at the creature - presumably Obscura but makes it back to the cavern unscathed. When questioned she lies and says she is fine, but tells the others about the encounter.
* Nero and Katya each take a watch for the rest of the night.In the morning Nero informs us we need to steal a key from the nightwarden camp to get into the Deephold, and that he believes there ought to be one undefended in Kiare's tent. We scout out the camp for a few minutes.
* Barkley casts Polymorph on herself and turns into a giant wolf spider and heads into the camp alone.She is accosted by the spiders at the bridge, but she manages to disarm them with interpretive dance. She listens and hears someone talking inside one of the tents so decides to try the other seemingly empty one. She slips into a window in the side invisibly and steals two letters (1 and 2), the key into Deephold, and some of Kiare's fancy dresses. She slips out, then turns back into a spider and rejoins the party quickly.
* We discuss the letters for a bit before heading back and collecting the retriever and Katya. We head toward Deephold and are confronted with a bridge guarded by four elite guards. Vahlka transforms her armor to look like Osyna's battle regalia, loads the party into the portable hole, and then half bluffs/half intimidates her way past the guards and we end the session.
== Recording ==
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