COS II Session 49

### Baked Good

Maple Walnut Shortbread Cookies with light brown sugar in place of maple sugar. added a bit of vanilla extract. makes more than 21 cookies. takes longer than 12 minutes to bake. glaze made with a random ratio of icing sugar, maple syrup, heavy whipping cream, vanilla extract, and maple extract

## Starring...

* The Barovian Freedom Fighters
	+ Tokili, getting in touch
	+ Galia Trey, just like venom fr
	+ Red's last seen location
	+ Stone, charging they phone
	+ +2 Shortsword, a union man
* As well as...
	+ Aexrius
	+ Mika
	+ i guess we're calling it Sputnik
	+ Plot Available For Rent or Advertising! Contact @SyVuReBp on EZSOCIAL for business inquiries!

## Session Summary

### Hvemeecia

Successfully braving the inter-planar void, the party makes their way into hvemeecia. It is a land of awe and wonder - a massive tower surrounded by a dome plastered with advertisements for [ad 1] and [ad 2]. The lands around the tower are a reminder of what was - and what could have been. Empty waterways are lined with endless rows of dead shrubs. Dead trees litter the landscape, and the unrelenting stench of death fills the air. That's enough for some members of the party to doff their mining armour and to re equip their magic items, as foul as the stench may be. As the party approaches the tower, they find empty fountains littering the park grounds. I think this is a chekhovs gun of some sort but i don't remember anything about them. Aexrius also said something about how this was how they generated air before victor found something else but he was kind of out of it at that point so can you really trust what he said?

### Level 1

A simple unlocked door later, the party finds themselves on the first floor of the tower. After some argumentation on whether THE FIRST THING WE SHOULD DO UPON ENTERING THE TECHNOLOGY HELL SCAPE is cause chaos and destruction by breaking through the ceiling, Aexrius shells out 600 Victory Credits for everyone in the party with souls to traverse the inter tower elevator (more of a teleportation beam tbh)

### Level 2

Finally, the party sees signs of people. This being the Barovian Freedom Fighters, they of course fail to talk to any of them and instead march directly to the shiny storefronts. Ailing from Sicknesses, Aexrius surrenders his debit card to the party and ventures away to find some good old hvemeecian food. Unfortunately for Aexrius bank account, the party quickly goes ham on the two storefronts of hvemeecia. The first is a scrap for credits exchange, where the party dumps:

* 1 mining suit
* 20 daggers
* 10 gp
* 2 shortswords
* mask detector
* eye of the frost seer
* fishing hat from 1178
* heavy crossbow
* 40 crossbow bolts
* hand crossbow
* javelin
* mace
* warhammer
* 385 electrum pieces
* 100gp tooth (from the amber temple)
* 1 decanter of endless hot chocolate
* potion of invisibility (it got repossesed by tokili before the junk was sold)
* 8 ceramic statues worth 250gp each

After that ordeal, the party turns to the [store name] and makes an unprecedented amount of purchases:

Galia:

* Nanobot upgrade
* Picture of Faena (has six fingers on one hand)
* Blasphemous Book of Jokes

Al

* mask detector
* a +10 shortsword THAT TALKS⁉

Stone

* Tape for taping two magical items together so they only use one attunement slot - comes with a free d100 roll on every long rest which surely will have no ill effects

New Red

* Something? I forget

I'm pretty sure i completely forgot a bunch of items but i can smell dinner being cooked and i need to wrap up writing this.

Aexrius returns with a sandwich.

### Level 5

After making some purchases, Tokili hightails it to [costume maker? i forgor her name]'s apartment, where he uncovers a series of bound dayries (FRICK i swear i get worse at spelling the older i am). Using binary search, which shouldn't work because DAIRIES AREN'T SORTED DATA, WHICH YOU NEED FOR BINARY SEARCH TO WORK, Tokili quickly narrows down the scope and goals of the [organization name i forgot cut me a break ok this campaign has way too many names].

### Level 6

After shopping, the party and aexrius make their way to aexrius's apartment on the sixth floor. The environment here is much less hostile, with passerby, stores, and even an artificial sky. Unfortunately, some of aexrius (and mika?? how does the living arrangement work)'s house is gone because money equals property here idk how that even works.

At some point, Stone purchases a cell phone and gets ghosted by the ERA of this version and immediately blocked by Zaphora.

Some time around here, the party receives an invitation from Meni the Imp King for a meal with the other top 5 teams in the leaderboard, before the ultimate fight, which wil happen the next day. The party decides to bunk in for the night, and I think something happened during the night? but i forget??

### Level 7

After their rest, the party goes to the location and time in Victors invitation and are promptly jumped by possibly evil robots.

## Developments

* Galia's nanobots can now be jarred
* The party has been reunited with Sputnik
* No one dressed up for the party with Victor (to be fair, the last formal dinner with the BFF's did not exactly end well)

## Trivia

* A doll was lost due to its extremely high price (yes i forgot who shut up)
* Galia's pegasus does not come with a soul. (if i write the wiki article i get to include all the galia lore >:| )
* Hvemeecia is sponsored by Strahd Von Zarovich (and aexrius and zaphora)
* lysander