Prying Eyes

Modokus

Monana

Ena

Minty Pineapple

Leora

Via Rose

Yoko Mashkin

The party returned to the surface, seeing the sunlight again for the first time in over a week. They stayed in town overnight and made their way toward Luracia in hopes of intercepting and delivering information before Luracia could send out their investigation taskforce. During the night, each watch was able to hear the presence of a mistwalker in the forest. Monana used the locate object spell to try to find a mistwalker uniform but to no avail. Whoever this mistwalker was though, he seemed too wary of the party to do what he came to do, and left the area without a fight.

When the party arrived in Pavone, the city was host to a battalion of soldiers from Ornatir, bearing the Green cloaks of the southern region. Luracia, still connected through the portal disk, had been elevated to a higher altitude. After making some inquiries of one of the soldiers, Leiutenant Aldon Greenbottle, revealed that there had been a massive Thri-kreen attack in the city of Millendia. He was reluctant to give more information, but when Edric revealed that Monana was the princess of Ornatir, Aldon revealed that the royal family was fine, and that Coerin Osander had taken charge of the city’s response. He also revealed that prince Jorvyn Dol Tovyn, Moanan’s oldest brother, was here in Pavone negotiating for aid from Luracia.

The party ascended to Luracia, leaving Yunet and Lykus behind. Monana and Leora met up with Monana's brother Jorvin Dol Tovin and the captain of his guard, Skip Hale, a particularly tall and dark halfling with a distinct scar on the left side of his head. Leora and Moanan knew little about him aside from his reputation as a risk taker and his efficient career record. Among the royal guard was another face Leora recognized, but she did not make any mention of this person to anyone else, and this face did not recognize her.

The Luracian high council had been given word of this attack, and were sending a taskforce of releif to Millendia in two days. The party met with Joma Begalli, High councilor of the Sacred Ring, and told him the details of their journey. As they were telling him this though, he stopped them, and grabbed his holy symbol from his desk.

He cast a powerful remove curse spell on Ena who suddenly went blind. Jorma explained that he was aware of all curses in his office, and Ena was under the effects of a Hag’s eye curse, which removing causes the victim to temporarily go blind. Meaning a hag had cursed Ena’s eyes to allow the hag to see and hear everything Ena did. This seemed to suggest that Judith was, or was at least working for, a hag. Additionally, the dye she gave Minty turned out to be dust of disappearing in a bottle that would shatter upon a command word being uttered, probably giving her a chance to escape if hostilities arose. Ena noted that while within the proximity of Aigne, Ena had sensed one fiendish presence consistently, and Night hags register as fiends. Also it was mentioned that Hag can only create hag eyes when in an active coven, and covens are always made of no more and no less than three hags, meaning there were likely more in the area.

The party mentioned a nightwalker may be the cause of the divination deadzone and their encounter with a bodak seemed to indicate it was a nigthwalker. Jorma took this threat very seriously and decided then and there that another taskforce would be needed to investigate what was happening in the Quedem mountains.

There were now 3 luracian taskfroces.

* 1st strikeforce was a small team being sent to the nation of Razmatora to try to find a way into the shadowfell to try to find the purple aether crystal. This taskforce had already left the day before.
* 2nd taskforce was to head down to Millendia to give aid and gather information on the Thri-kreen attacks there.
* 3rd taskforce was to head up towards the Quedem mountains to try to find information on the nightwalker, the Hags, the dragon, the Symic hybrids, and the limbo presence there.

The party was welcomed to join any taskforce they wished, and they almost universally chose the third.

Monana, on the other hand, joined the second taskforce, wishing to return to her mentor and trainer, Master Matoya, before returning with her brother and the royal guard to help her home nation.

The party spent the night in the Barron’s manor and met his sister, Lydia who was less than enthused but still cordial to the unexpected presence of several fey sleeping in her guest rooms. During this time, Edric forged one of the earth elemental eyes into a ring of tremorsense for Via.

The next day Edric was approached by his sister who asked him to speak with Davis Poren, High councilor of the Artificer’s guild as he was pushing to have Dastri, the cogged cathedral rushed to completion to help the second coalition and was syphoning far too many funds from other parts of the city to do so.

Edric did this and upon meeting with Davis, managed to get him to slow his role on the construction, and in exchange he would tutor some of the best artificerial minds in the city on how to infuse living steel. Davis agreed and Edric set to work teaching. One of his students was an orange falcon Aaracocra named Viari Coppertail. Viari got the hang of the infusion right away.

The next day Edric met with High councilor Anasia Merrigold of the merchant’s guild, requesting permission to take 1000 gold out of Luracia. She agreed on the condition that he deliver a package discretely for her to Ornatir, but since this was out of the way, he refused. In exchange for him helping with the Davis Poren situation, she agreed to let him take 800 gold.

Everyone met up a day later minus Monana to join the third taskforce. The leader was an elven wizard woman named Sabrielle. Other members included Galium the human cleric, Damakos the Tiefling rogue, Astor the Dragonborn fighter, Sir Graham, the human eldrich knight, and none other than Viari Coppertail, the same Aaracocra he had trained to infuse metal.

Lykus donned his sweater and joined upon Edric’s invitation.

The party set out for the Skolzhem mountains again, and on the first day, Sabrielle went to every party member with her notebook and picked their brains for every detail she could of everything about the Quedem mountains and the scrapyard in the underdark.

The second night Edric discovered a quickling sneaking up on the camp. They conversed, and the quickling took Edric to see an entrance to the feywild a short ways off the path, then immediately turned and rans back to the camp. Edric's shoes were nearly as fast though, and he was close behind, shouting to wake the camp. The quickling dashed directly into Eero's tent and sliced his skin before dabbing the wound with a cloth. He tried to make his escape, but was quickly surrounded and apprehended by Yunet. He was bound and Damakos took the cloth from him. Galium dropped a zone of truth at Edric’s request and the questioning began.

The quickling, completely surrounded, divulged that he was sent to do what the panther tabaxi failed to do: get a sample of Eero's blood for the hag coven in the mountains. Galium removed the same Hag Eye curse from the quickling that Ena had had after Edric told the hags that he was coming to kill them. Specifically, the quickling was ordered by an Annis hag that lived near the Gurruptoi stronghold in Delinos to get Eero’s blood and bring it back to her. In exchange for protection, The quickling agreed to show us a shortcut through the feywild to destroy the Annis hag who had threatened to turn him to stone if he had refused to cooperate.

After some discussion Sabrielle suggested the taskforce split, leading the heavy hitters on a strike mission to destroy the Annis hag and break the coven to weaken all three of them while Sabrielle lead the more academically minded ones down towards The Scrapyard to investigate the presence of limbo further. All of the PCs were in the strike group plus Viari Coppertail.

The research group consisted of all the NPCs including Lykus who was needed to show the rest of them the route to the scrapyard.

## Loot

* 800 Gold for Edric
* 1 Quikling