Beiinors Campaign/Session 5

## [ Session 05 — 02/26/2023 ]

**From the Journal of John Dark, Cleric of the Church of Kelemvor**

*"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment."*

— Dominus Anulorum, Scriptvm Fati Omnibvs XLVIII:33:110

We engaged "Agatha Ardwen" the sea hag, with Katamira and Getheron both rushing up and attacking her. We then noticed, behind the hag, a small gnome wearing iron boots and a red hat and armed with a sickle. The hag retreated and shouted to the gnome, "Kill them, this is what I hired you for you idiot!" As the hag dropped her illusory appearance and the full extent of her ugliness was revealed, an icy terror gripped my heart and kept me from joining in the fight (other than to cast Bane on our two assailants).

Charles and Maria fired at the hag with spells (Chromatic Orb and Tasha's Mind Whip) while Paavo, Katamira, and Getheron fought with their weapons. As Katamira stabbed the killing blow, the hag let out a death wail which dealt considerable damage to Getheron, and Katamira was shortly afterward dropped by the gnome's sickle. The gnome was knocked prone by Paavo's glaive and grabbed and questioned by Getheron, but the gnome then took down Getheron as well before being knocked into the water by Paavo. As I healed Katamira and Getheron, we saw that the gnome was close to drowning due to being weighed down by his iron boots.

It turned out that the thing that I had taken to be a gnome in a red hat was, in fact, a small homicidal fey creature called a Redcap. The Redcap mentioned to us an association with someone called the "Patient Queen", which Charles surmised might be an arch fey. Katamira asked if there was any link between the Patient Queen and the Marble Wolves Gang, and the Redcap said that he thought that he remembered something about a wolf having something to do with the queen. With the Redcap openly rambling about how much he liked killing and watching people die (including excitedly wanting to follow us in order to be there when we encounter the Patient Queen), the party decided that the creature was too dangerous to be left alive, and killed him. We investigated the Redcap's belongings and the sea hag's corpse, and Charles kept the Redcap's red cap.

We continued traveling along the shore road toward Coteien for another day and half, before reaching the cube-shaped stone that marked the point where we were to turn off of the road to find the Marble Wolves Gang's hideout. We felt the weather get noticeably colder, and saw a line of pine trees with leaves that matched the samples which Bolt had found back in Qendra. Shortly afterward, we found something truly astounding: A rift between planes. Though the rift was only a few feet wide, we could see gray emanations coming out which killed the surrounding vegetation. Finding a rift between planes where none ought to be had much more serious implications for the world and its inhabitants than a simple criminal gang, and I made up my mind to split from the group and return to Qendra to report what we had found. Bolt suggested that it would be dangerous for me to travel this road alone, and offered to accompany me. We also took with us the ring belonging to the dead Raudona Silksmith, to give to the Qendra city guard who had been searching for her.