Session 2

## Summary

### Conversation

Mario relaid that his happiest memory is "*drip, drip, ba-ding, ba-ding, ba-ding!*" The other member of Destiny's Children realized that his favorite memory is receiving gold from the overflowing water on the altar back in Kazakhan Spire.

Izzy reflected that she is a good friend because: "I care about people, and I want to learn about people, and I have a goat, which makes meeting people at a goat park easy."

Maya, upon being asked who on her adventures is most similar to her, responded: "I admire Izzy's outlook."

Twinkletoes hoped to steal more awesome stuff in the near future, as a short-term goal.

Enoch simply stated "...Don't forget."

### Departing Rabbit's Tavern

Destiny's Children was at Rabbit's Tavern around noon-ish. The Map of Yambo sent Destiny's Children on a more direct path than the winding road to Mariba, through the woods on an overgrown, unmarked foot-trail. The path was mostly straight, just winding around brush, and the trail is pretty obvious. Enoch, upon finding out about the deviation form the road, asked, "Do we have to go through the woods?" Izzy, and Mario immediately after in her voice, responded with "I think we should go through the woods."

Ghaleon said to Destiny's Children as they leave for Mariba, "If you happen to encounter Douvan Stahl, please let him know tat I am waiting here for him for two more days before heading westward to Sirenside." When asked about a description of Douvan, Ghaleon explained that "he is a Human man in his early 60's. He's an archaeologist, and we are research partners. There's a project that we're currently working on together, and we were going to collaborate here, but Douvan has not arrived at any of the checkpoints on their way to Sirenside."

Izzy, suddenly thinking about the time travel, asked, "Damacus, aren't you alive? ... That's a weird question."

Damacus responded, "I don't expect to run into myself."

### Campsite

As the sun begins to set, Destiny's Children spotted the telltale signs of a campfire a bit off the trail. Damacus sent his broach to record the sounds around the campfire to get a sense of the threat level. He was able to tell that there was a search party comprised of 2 voices. As the party approached the campfire, Maya put her hand up and greeted with "Hello!".

Kida, an Elf (a union between a Human and an Elf), and MKD, a human, sat around the campfire with a basic lean-to for their shelter. Kida immediately reacted by drawing her shortsword, but after Maya greeted them, MKD replied with "Well met."

Enoch leaned out from around Mario with two teacups. Damacus whispered to him, "How did you even boil the water?" Enoch answered, "It's cold." (referring to the tea) Kida then inquired about the party's purpose in the woods, and everyone discovered that both groups were hired by Ghaleon to search for Douvan.

Damacus inquired, "How much money did he offer you?"

Kida replied curtly, "Money."

Maya: "People pay you a bounty to hunt for people?"

Kida: "Yes, we're bounty hunters."

MKD: "We're actually lost, trying to find Mariba."

Izzy: "Check this shit out!" She showed them the Map of Yambo. "Isn't that the coolest?!"

MKD: "Who's the bird?"

Mario: "RRRRR" Mario is the first Kenku Kida and MKD have ever seen, but they had seen Aarakocra before.

Damacus: "You guys know what year it is?"

Kida: "1201, but i find it very weird that you don't know what year it is."

Damacus: "Well I didn't know if we had hit the new year yet or what." The calendar rolls over in winter, and this conversation took place in late summer.

Enoch asked Kida and MKD where they are from, but neither of them remember, since they travel so much. They had been on the road for a couple of months, but had given up on the latest bounty due to the difficulty and were returning to Mariba for a new job. When asked about what Kida knew about the research of Douvan, she replied "We don't ask a lot of questions. We're bounty hunters."

Damacus had heard of Mariba before: a massive trade city, specifically built in a natural harbor as well as a crossing of roads, and surrounded by plains which were used for local agriculture.

During this conversation, Mario set up the party's bedrolls, and Maya gave him a gold piece for his help.

Damacus inquired about Kida’s and MKD's network inside Mariba.

MKD: "Is everyone in your party as suspicious as the cat?"

Izzy: "He's the shadiest one!"

Twinkletoes noticed that people have been traipsing through the area recently. He and Izzy wander off in investigate the trail.

Mario and Damacus discussed his parents' death. Damacus was immediately orphaned. He didn't know how they died. In 1201 they were already dead, so he wouldn't be able to find them. They died when he was between 6 and 10 years old.

Twinkletoes told the group about 4+ medium and small creatures working in the dark, indicating that they probably weren't humans.

Enoch: "I can stay with the camp."

Damacus: "If the camp gets attacked, can you fight?"

Enoch put his head in his hands: "Oh gosh!"

### Wyvern Excavation Site

Damacus, Twinkletoes, and Mario were chosen to investigate the area, since Damacus and Twinkletoes had darkvision, and Mario could perfectly imitate natural sounds. Tree Falling: "Flee", Crow caws: "Attack", Crickets chirping: "Approach Cautiously", Frog Croaking: "All Clear".

Damacus gave Mario 1 gold piece. Damacus sent his brooch to listen to the workers, and heard Common and Goblin being spoken, mostly related to work commands and comments about bones. Mario chirped like a cricket.

Twinkletoes and Damacus headed off to the left towards the winding descent, while Enoch, Maya, Izzy, Mario, MKD, and Kida went down the more direct path, carrying a torch.

Enoch shouted to the goblins: "D-d-do you like tea?" He then whispered behind him to Izzy, "I don't have enough tea for everyone."

The party indicated that they were lost and needed directions to Mariba, and the human in charge gave them directions. Not wanting to leave without a fight, Mario shouted in Ghaleon's voice: "Dauvan!" Combat ensued between Destiny's Children and the goblins.

During the fight, Twinkletoes fought a Tiefling. Right before Twinkletoes killed the Tiefling by stabbing him in the back, the Tiefling said to him: "You fight with no honor."

Mario killed a goblin shaman. Immediately after doing so, he attacked a goblin boss and mimicked the sound of the goblin shaman's death as he cleaved through the boss. While fighting a human, he mimicked Izzy: "Check this shit out! Isn't it the coolest?!" He then killed the goblin boss with the Glaive of Ruthven, and asked in MKD's quizical voice: "Who's the bird?" He then ran over to a human attacking Maya, and killed him. He once again quoted: "Who's the bird?"

The party collected 200 GP and a silver rapier from the corpses. Twinkletoes took possession of the rapier, although Damacus heavily objected to it, since it was clearly a Tiefling object, although he had much less use for it than Twinkletoes.

### Dragon Tales

The Tiefling that Twinkletoes fought was guarding Ghaleon's research partner Douvan Stahl. He told the party that his captors had mistakenly identified the bones being unearthed as dragon bones, when in fact they were wyvern bones. "Wyverns are the result of an artificial attempt to create dragons. The misshapen creatures do not last very long." He then indicated that he had been a prisoner of the goblins for several weeks, but he had lost track of time.

Mario inquired about the earthquake, since Douvan was an archaeologist. The earthquake unearthed the wyvern site, and other interesting locations around the coast, mostly bones of ancient creatures. "[The earthquake] seems to have shifted a lot of things around." Mario then asked him about his knowledge of dragons. The focal point of Douvan's research was dragons.

Izzy: "Are the dragons dead?"

Douvan: "I can't confirm that?"

Enoch was able to tell that Douvan wasn't being wholly forthcoming.

Douvan: "My working hypothesis is that dragons don't live anywhere. They exist in some sort of extra-dimensional space. How else could these creatures of extraordinary size not have been seen? I can't imagine a creature of that size, much less four of them, could hide anywhere."

Damacus asked Douvan what he knew about time travel, and if the dragons could potentially be hiding throughout time, if such a thing was possible. Douvan did not think that was within the realm of the dragons' powers.

"Noah Dyme was a dragon master. He died many years ago. His birthplace was not too far [from here]. He grew up in Planewind, not too far from Mariba. Researching the area of his life might be interesting. Noah's father is still the mayor of Planewind."

Destiny's Children, Douvan, and the bounty hunters then slept at the campsite for the night.

### Return to Rabbit's Tavern

Destiny's Children escorted Douvan back to Rabbit's Tavern, while the bounty hunters went off on their own.

Ghaleon gave the party a Writ of Confirmation, worth 200 GP to each member of Destiny's Children. The Master of the Board in Mariba has the reward money, and everyone listed in the Writ of Confirmation must be present to receive the reward.

### Mariba

Mariba was walled, and had a long line at the gates. Guards were issuing merchant licenses, but were not confiscating weapons. Enoch was pulled aside, and guards emptied his pack to make sure he was not smuggling any illegal goods into the city. The guard mentioned that "anyone wanting to see the master of the Board will need Craig Listman," a well-dressed, polite, middle-aged Kender man. The guard then recommended The Stray Sheep Inn. Enoch noticed a shanty town popping up, and knew that in his time Mariba was about 30% bigger.

On their way to the recommended inn, Twinkletoes noticed a sign in a shadier area of town, the design of which indicated that it was a place where people like him tended to be. He successfully convinced the party to go to The Once Proud Goose, a tavern.

### The Once Proud Goose

This tavern seemed to be a place that mostly entertained regulars. Twinkletoes bought all of Destiny's Children a shot of firewater. He said to the barkeep, "May the Eyes look over you," indicating that he was a member of The Black Eyes.

Damacus joined a card game and immediately wagered 40 GP. The cost was 20 GP a hand.

Enoch sat in front of the fireplace, placing his bag in front of him and using it as a table to read a book.

Mario bought three mugs of ale, one each for him, a Kender man, and a human woman sitting at a table. The woman seemed to be annoyed that Mario interrupted their conversation. Mario sat the mugs on the table and sat with them, excitedly opening his beak repeatedly without saying anything.

Damacus: "So, what do you do for a trade?"

Bounty Hunter: "I don't have, what you'd call, a *proper job*."

Mario then quoted the guard from earlier, "Anyone wanting to see the Master of the Board will need Craig Listman."

Craig Listman: "Makes sense to me. I'm Craig Listman, the Master of the Board."

Twinkletoes overheard this, and tried to pickpocket Damacus to get the Writ of Confirmation without interrupting his game. Damacus sensed this, and held a dagger to Twinkletoes's throat. Twinkletoes says something cryptic, and the bounty hunter interrupted by saying "Son, you're among friends here, just cut to the chase."

The party brought the Writ of Confirmation to Craig Listman, and he indicated that he needed to go upstairs to fetch the money.