Session 20

Session 20

·   Session starts (?)

·   The party farts around because neither of the Olivier children are present. Kare waits in the caravan.

·   Jinx wants to use a chromatic orb in a cave.

·        “I have my best ideas in caves”

·   Party decides to fill the time by looking for work both to get some extra bread and to let Jinx satiate her need to destroy.

o    Party looks for a bounty board, Jinx leads the way.

o    Learns that there have been issues with bandits on the main supply road to Vostordon, there’s a lot of money involved.

o    Jinx gives the person informing the party a fake name “James McGowan”

o    The stranger is heavily scarred. They offer the party a carriage to transport the stolen goods back.

o    The stranger changes their mind and rescinds the offer for the carriage after being informed that Jinx is not, in fact, James McGowan.

·   As the first stranger becomes unwilling to cooperate, the eye of Jinx falls upon the stable

o    Jinx and Venphira resolve to steal a horse.

·   The dwarf operating the stables is closing up as the party approaches, Venphira says that the party has come to pick up their horse.

o    Guess what name she gives him.

o    The dwarf believes Venphira, asks how many horses they purchased - they can’t find the name on their ledger.

o    Jinx and Venphira try to gaslight and girlboss their way into a free horse by Karening the stable owner.

·   Solla complains of their exhaustion, and asks the party to go back to the tavern to rest. (Solla still has two levels of exhaustion from carrying the heavyass Fang of Fenrir booty.)

·   The party returns to the tavern.

o    Jinx tries to get in kahoots with Venphira to steal a room (?)

o    Vjenga offers to go get Kare, Sylvi and Langar from Leonidas and the wagon.

o    Venphira spins a wheel (??) to decide whether she wants to try to get the rooms for free or go pick up Sylvi and the others.

o    Sylvi and Venphira have been a long con??????????

o    The conclusion reached after SOME deliberation is that they are in the talking phase.

o    Venphira goes to get the rest of the party.

o    Vjenga and Jinx (sequestered by football carry) purchase rooms from the tavernkeep. They get 5 rooms with 2gp and 5sp

o    Vjenga gives Solla a key and Solla goes to bed, resting their head on the door and quickly hitting the hay.

o    Jinx wants ale. After determining that Jinx would not be harmed by ale, Vjenga puts her down and she goes to get drinks for the party

§  Jinx gets four ales for everyone awake except Kare.

§  Jinx asks the bartender about the recent supply loss, they don’t have any new information.

§  Jinx has the bartender bring ale back to the table.

§  Jinx considers buying Bramblestock wine but chooses not to.

§  The attendant asks if she works for The Warrens.

§  **The Warrens are a group of mostly rabbitfolk. It was established to help consolidate rabbitfolk interests and protect them from abuse but metastasized into a criminal organization that runs through most of Alsvartr.**

§  Jinx insists that she has nothing to do with them.

·   Venphira finds Langar and Kare at the carriage with Leonidas.

o    She tries to wake both of them, but they do not stir.

o    Leonidas advises her that it would be best if Kare was asleep.

o    Leonidas offers to bring Langar and Kare to the tavern, Venphira blows him off and goes to try to find Sylvi.

o    Venphira is unable to find Sylvi

o    She stays out looking for Sylvi through the night.

·   Riley DEFINITELY says “I don’t care if I’m exposed” and not exhausted.

·   Vjenga and Jinx are continuing to wait for Venphira, but she does not return.

o    Vjenga gets worried, Jinx gets plastered. She chugs an ale which is massive in comparison.

o    Kale wakes up.

o    Jinx is VERY inebriated after having one drink.

o    Vjenga gives the remaining drinks to the other patrons of the tavern, sticks Jinx under one arm, and leaves to find Venphira.

·   Jinx leads Vjenga, despite being piss drunk, and they find Venphira at the foot of a hill.

o    Venphira says that she could not find Sylvi, Langar and Kare are sleeping at the wagon.

o    Jinx Vjenga and Venphira talk about continuing to look for Sylvi.

·   Kare wakes up and is greeted by Leonidas who addresses him as Sir **Lumleys**

o    Kare seems disoriented, asks Leonidas where everyone is.

o    He tries to wake Langar, who is mumbling in his sleep. He does not stir.

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o    Kare decides that he does want to go back to his family.

o    Leonidas helps Kare find the other three conscious party members.

o    The horses attached to the wagon are enormous a la the Beeg horse from Breath of the Wild.

o    The party explains that they can’t find Sylvi, Leonidas offers to help them look.

o    Leonidas SNIFFS THE AIR to locate Sylvi and invites the party to get in the cart.

o    Leonidas leads the cart into the woods and locates Sylvi, who is sitting with Eikthyr and looking up at the cloudy sky

·   Sylvi apologizes for vanishing and tells Vjenga that she is alright with going to see her family, now that Kare has decided to do so.

·   Vjenga asks Leonidas if there would be a problem with the party staying another night to rest, he says he does have a deadline to bring the Olivier (Lumleys) children back but another night is not a problem.

·   The party returns to the tavern.

·   Leonidas helps (throws) Langar into bed after being given a room key by Vjenga.

·   The party has three more keys.

·   Venphira holds out her hand for a key

o    As she leaves, she brushes her hand against Sylvi’s and wishes her goodnight.

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·   Vjenga gives Kare a room key after giving him a hard time for his previous behavior and briefly threatening him.

o    Kare promises not to “”””””ENSLAVE””””” her uncle. Vjenga calls him a waste of a charge and gives him a key before telling him to skedaddle.

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o    Leonidas seems okay with Kare being harangued, but says that he can’t sit aside if he and Vjenga get into a fight because he is on the family payroll.

·   Jinx asks if Sylvi wants a new girlfriend, and they go to bed.

·   Overnight - Solla thinks of their future, and dreams of their home and their parents. They see an amber light that grows larger and larger, ultimately engulfing the entire scene of the dream. The eyes are described as mothlike. They then see the silhouette of a dragon in the amber haze.

o    Solla wakes up first and meditates on their dream. They take out their pipe and staff, and eventually head outside to continue meditating.

o    Solla goes to the general store, which is opening up as they come to the door. They approach the store attendant, a gnome, and purchase a box of tobacco.

o    They find a clean spot of snow outside the tavern, and sit down to continue breathing meditatively.

·   Vjenga sends four letters the night prior.

o    Two fail to fly, and crash down into the snow.

·   That morning, Solla finds the letters buried in a thin layer of snow, reads them, and holds onto them to return to Vjenga when she sees her next.

·   Vjenga and Jinx bathe.

·   Kare wakes up and instead of drinking the blood given to him by Leonidas, decides to try to find fresh blood.

o    Kare scouts the bar area and avoids it despite people sleeping there.

o    He goes back to the rooms to find an unsupervised victim and knocks on a door

o    The person who opens the door is a mountain giant. A thin layer of dust covers him, and he wears a very small towel around his waist. He is accompanied by a dwarf lady who doesn’t reach his hips. HE IS PACKING!!!!

o    Kare is intimidated and gives up his search for a victim.

·   Langar has a sip of Leonidas’ special sauce.

o    He is invited by Vjenga to accompany her to the smithy to pick up some armor right quick.

o    Exchanges her current armor (scale mail) and 25gp for chain mail

o    Kale leaves to go to work.

o    Langar is salivating at the platemail in the store.

·   Solla and Langar, Vjenga and Jinx reconvene outside the tavern.

o    Solla returns the letters

o    Solla and Vjenga have a conversation, Vjenga apologizes for being curt with Solla in the past.

o    Kare rounds the corner, argues with Jinx and Vjenga and he leaves to get in the wagon.

·   Venphira is still sleeping

o    Solla and Vjenga go to fetch her.

o    She is still sleeping when they find her, she asks them for a moment to get ready and they wait outside.

o    Venphira dresses and gets her armor on, stares out the window, and slices a chunk of her hair off with the dagger. Her hair is now cut below the ears.

o    Venphira discards the hair and rejoins Solla and Venphira.

o    Solla struggles to understand how hair works. “Are you going to put it back on?”

·   The party boards the cart and gets on the road to leave Vostordon

o    On the road (halfway through the day), they cross paths with another cart FULL OF FIRBOOOOOOLGS.

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§  The one at the front of the cart has purple-ish hair that flourishes behind their ears.

§  Pierced. Warm clothing. Was leading the wagon when the party first met them. They wear a lapel pin that says “BS”

§  They ask the party if they are on the right way to Vostordon.

§  Vjenga confirms that they are and immediately compliments their hair.

§  They relay this to the other Firbolgs in the back, 6 in total.

§  They are a band, they say that they have a style unlike other bards. Self-described as alternative.

§  They give the party a pamphlet. Their band name is BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD and I’d die for them.

§  Chip

§  Sir Loin

§  Vegas

§  Biscuit

§  George

§  Rambo

§  Chuck - manager?

§  They offer to sell the party some of their merch.

·   Jinx has to bounce.

·   Vjenga and Sylvi are enamored.

o    Vjenga buys a shirt with album-adjacent art, continues to chat up Chip and be chatted.

o    Venphira laments “losing all her girls”

o    As Vjenga introduces the party, Chip recognizes the name Eikthyr. Says it’s “probably a coincidence” (it isn’t)

·   They part ways and exchange “good luck”s with Buffalo Springfield

o    Vjenga continues to fawn over them to Solla as they leave.

o    Solla laments that they haven’t been able to play the flute.

o    Venphira is staring off into space, notices Sylvi watching the firbolg boy band leave.

o    Vjenga and Sylvi touch the very very soft shirt.

Session ends