Team Spy Kids, Parts I & II: Return of the Dagger (Session Summary)

**Team Spy Kids, Parts I & II: Return of the Dagger** details the events of the January 5th and 12th, 2022 sessions where the team's endeavors see them in Cleiya, meeting new friends along the way.

## Session Notes

*In the January 5th session, we introduced the members of Team Spy Kids*:

1. **Cromwell Cruach** (a.k.a. Crom, or Crom the Undying): a tall, older gentleman with flame-red hair and scars to match his years of service.
2. **Tieve Nolan**: a lanky woman with dark hair and a penchant for snark.
3. **Cyra Margolis**, a short, less than charming woman with strawberry-blonde hair.

* After having suffered through ceremonies to commemorate their travels, Theo and Chae are back in the palace to finish packing for their trip. Once Chae has everything she needs, the pair take their leave.
* Anastasios is pleading his case to stay home and forgo his lessons with Lady Dove.
* Sorni reminds him that this trip is an opportunity for the two of them to spend time alone, but he bristles – complaining that they won’t be totally alone. Sorni assures him they’ll find ways to enjoy it. When the two leave, Simon asks Aedryan if they’ve bought Cecily and Talos enough time to get out of the city.
* They did: Cecily and Talos are already off on their adventure through the mountains, with Cecily complaining about the horrors of wearing trousers and not being able to travel in style. Despite her frustrations over the inconveniences of stealth travel, she cuddles up with Talos as they walk, and the two discuss taking a more lavish trip when everything settles down.
* As Talos tells Cecily he’s been told about the other suitor vying for her attention, members of the spy team begin to show up and make their introductions.
* After some banter resulting in Tieve stomping Crom’s foot, the group heads for their safehouse along the Cleiyan border at the edge of Lake Somberloch.
* The next morning, the group wakes up and begins readying themselves for their day when they notice that Cecily is still asleep. They encourage her to get out of bed and, after she readies herself for the day, it’s revealed that there aren’t servants or carriages available to make her tea or deliver her to their next destination. Cecily leaves the safehouse.
* Outside, Cecily spots a carriage coming down the road and, as it passes, she falls to the ground and begins screaming, prompting the carriage to stop and those within to climb out to check on her.
* Crom and Talos run outside to help Cecily and though she is doing a wonderful job of acting terribly hurt, it’s apparent to both that she’s lying. She asks the carriage driver if she can be taken to the city to seek medical care.
* Talos tries to remind Cecily that a carriage is not the best idea for keeping a low profile while Crom fixes his gaze on the men in the carriage to see if he recognizes them. He doesn’t. When Cecily introduces herself as Cecily Conroy, a lady whose family has land to the North, Crom bristles – but takes the opportunity to introduce himself as Cecily’s father to the man in the carriage, Master Archer of Halcythorn.
* The driver insists on taking Cecily, her father, and her servants to town as penance for the accident, so the group climbs aboard. As they’re settling in, Cecily begins working on an embroidery project, and Archer discusses the details of his trip: after hearing about the scandal with the King rumored to be Fateless, he decided to leave for Cleiya.
* Cecily shows Archer her progress and as the man is enthralled in the finer details of the roses, she shoves a dagger through the piece and stabs him in the face.
* Crom immediately joins in on attacking Archer, while Tieve and Talos begin to fight with the driver.
* After brief scuffles, both the driver and Archer are killed and thrown onto the road. Cyra wonders if Archer was a hypocrite, given he almost certainly wasn’t Fated to die in such a manner, but Cecily cryptically says “no” and that she will be sick soon. True to her word, she vomits on the side of the road.
* Talos, Crom, and Tieve search the bodies, finding letters in Archer’s pockets and coin on the driver.
* Once everything that could be found was discovered, the group climbs back into the carriage to make their way to Hadleigh.