Game Log 2022-06-02

Woke up in the bolthole. Emaline is there with us. Mimmay also there.

Me suggests we find documentation, in the vault maybe and use that to discredit rather than kill Lisim, and Get it to the black crow.  The vault is locked, passcode needed to open the lock.  Suggests we could try to interrogate someone.  His offices are on the top floor, vault is on the basement.  There is a basement below the bottom floor, sewer mostly, small rooms off of it, may be approachable through the sewers. Also, the roof may be approachable with the right preparation, and team.

The group decides to deal with Vaughn first. and decide to Stealth across the city, which goes very poorly.  Green clad rough men stumble out of a bar, dressed similarly to Ash's old ship, some pirates flying different insignia, but the same colours that Ash had fought and sailed under.  These are Men from Ash' boat the crossfire.  They see us and say "it's them, the ones they were talking about last night.", and they take off in a full drunken sprint.

Swearing, the group decides they cannot get into a chase across the city, and go into Inn, it's a nice very nice inn.  The Tribe goes in to a front desk, and Persuade the concierge to send a message upstairs to Vaughn.  Ash wants to make sure we are safe, and goes to look out the back to see if anyone is trying to escape. Almost immediately, Ash sees some of Lisim's guards rushing down the street towards the group.  Ash ducks into an Alley, watches guards running, not sure where the guards are going, but they appear to be running past?

Back inside, the concierge says Vaugh waiting for us on the top floor on one of the nicest rooms.  Jacob leads us up some dark stairs, mahogany walls everywhere.  Other floors had multitude of rooms, Top floor has only 4 rooms, larger and clearly nicer than the rest, with one final room at the very top, largest at the Inn.  Hear some clamoring inside.

Back to Ash, the guards are searching the neighborhood, they don't have a straight target but are doing a general search.  Ash goes into the building, talks to the concierge and runs up the building.

Back to the rest, the door opens, standing before the group is Vaughn standing in a wrecked room has not been kept up, ransacked, maybe a struggle inside the room at some point, table and chair knocked over blood stains on the floor, residue of a circle made of something, bedroom door is cracked slightly, separate side room attached, sitting room or some sort of office, shadows moving in this room, and there may be people moving in that room.

Me notices the blood appears to be some sort of summoning mechanism and asks Vaughn what or who were they summoning, Vaughn melts and cracks to Gray.  Gray says they have a lot of children in the room and doesn't know what to do with them.

The group then asks what is happening, and learns that Gray killed Vaughn, took over his persona because there is a thing that Lisim has that Gray wants.  After more discussion it was agreed that Mimmay will try to deal with her mother's children, will take the children to the bookstore.  Send Mimay out now with the fur living children in Vaughn's room. One sadly had passed between the previous night and now.

Arkenite gives a glow desert to Mimmay to give to the children when hidden.  Gray further details that they are looking for a particular artifact they have been trailing, knows it is in Lisim's vault, even saying that they saw it in the basement.

Coming up with a horrible and clever idea, Gray melts Vaughn's body in acid in the tub, Entropy goes around using the cleansing stone, to clean up the stuff blood stains and other dirt marks around the room while Arkenite puts a pentagram mask next to the melting corpse, mask was from Ankiel.

Gray changes back to Vaughn, Me asks Gray about the Phoenix attack and they say thatduring Gray's research they may have bothered the Phoenix on its plane of existence, it has come after them a few times. With that the group leaves the inn and the Conceirge sees us leave, Gray says they have business to attend to, Gray tells Conceirge that we are all allowed to go to Gray's room if we are not with them.

Before the group left, Gray does disguise kit work on ME, Arkenite and Ash.  Entropy changes self to look like a female half elf with long brown hair. Me - Commoner, working class maid outfit, Arkenite - Look like Half orc, Ash - Quasimodo face, all done masterfully by Gray with their disguise kit.

The Tribe then decides to walk down as two groups, Entropy and Me as two relatively simple folks, and Arkenite and Ash and Vaughn, the ugly crew.  We make out way to Gilmores glorious goods, Stilben Branch, and seeing that the store just opened we all go inside the store. Inside the awnings just opened up, dragging out the tables, no shoppers in yet.  Ash stays outside front door just guarding for a moment.  Inside a Halfling woman comes up to the group, and the group asks for Talendar, and closes the door for a private sale session.

Me tries to look tough and menacing, rolls a 6, does NOT look tough and menacing, falls over onto an umbrella rack and hits the final umbrella, top pops off, rain spews out the top, cloak starts billowing out

Me closes the umbrella, makeup starts to run.

With that, we are shown to a set of stairs, lead up towards the balcony, Talendar taps on balcony, stairs fold out, rail pops out.  We are led down the hall to the showroom down and to the right.  As we all go in, she pulls Entropy back a second, for a quick discussion about what happened and then we all entered into a velvet curtained room for our shopping session.