COS II Session 28

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## Starring...

* The Barovian Freedom Fighters
	+ Xadriel Maverran, gone fishing
	+ Tacitus, burdened by knowledge
	+ Galia Trey, won Curse of Strahd 2
	+ Marya Krezkov, looking for gods
	+ Twiggy, watching paint dry
	+ +2 shortsword, ace detective
	+ Zanna, everyone's accomplice
* The crew of the Vistage, bearing witness
	+ Faeana Taerine, ensnared
	+ Maq'kua, chaperone
	+ Lily Silverdale, helpless
	+ Viktor, wants to *leave?????*
* Detectives Wick and Scarlet Brooks, who we might be seeing more of
* Mason Stings, who probably had a really cool statblock
* Prince Matteo Ninetides, delighted to be here
* Leira, distressed
* Brinn, just checking in

Notable absentees: Red

## Prologue: The Defenestrated Turnabout

* Al wakes up on Day 1(?), handcuffed, with two detectives hovering over him.

## Day 2

12:00 PM and later

* Twiggy reads
* Tokili holes himself up in his room.
	+ He initiates a very strange conversation with Xadriel
* 4:00 PM: Stone escapes the theatre and immediately goes compass-hunting throughout Kaitbaen, to no avail. She turns her attention to the last group of Kaetbain residents she hasn't searched: those on the camping trip.

### Hostage Situation 2: Lakeside Boogaloo

* Galia and Faeana \_\_\_
* Lily falls out of the trees and reveals that she followed Galia and Faeana after they split off from the group.
* \_

* A detective leads Stone, ERA, and Lily back to Kaetbain proper.
	+ Stone tells ERA to consider lying if she finds herself implicated in a murder again.
	+ Stone asks the detective for a rundown of Stings' crimes.
	+ Stone asks Lily what she plans on doing after the Vistage's mission is resolved. Lily states that she will "die, probably", and that she knows that she and Bloodbeard are connected somehow.

### Thane's Ship Inspection

* The captain, Tokili, filled out paperwork, emptied the treasure hold, then went missing.
* The first mate, Stone, ran into the woods.
* Al is in the woods, Galia is in the woods, Xadriel is missing, Twiggy is Twiggy...
* Thus, it falls to Red to act as the Vistage's authority figure for Thane's ship inspection

### Night

* Al notices his roommate, Maq'kua, is missing.
* Stone attempts a divine intervention and fails spectacularly.

## Day 4

### Morning

* Stone casts *sending* on Xadriel, asking where he is, but receives no response.
* Al looks for Maq'kua to no avail
* Stone and ERA chat with ex-agent Mason Stings,
	+ Stone burns a copy of *spirit guardians* on to ERA's Xerax Stone.
		- That sentence is unreadable.

### Enter the Prince

* Stone, ERA, and Twiggy attend the arrival of the Imperium's Prince Matteo Ninetides.
	+ Wick is there.
	+ Prince Ninetides disembarks, flanked by guards, and greets Thane in an overly enthusiastic manner.

### Night

* (Al decides to take the rest of the week off)
* Tokili gives Xadriel a *dream*, re-using the meadow backdrop from 1043, though now with ominous clouds on the horizon.
	+ After tense greetings, Tokili asks where Xadriel is. Xadriel refuses to answer.
	+ Tokili closes his eyes and speaks Xadriel's IP address aloud. Xadriel expresses frustration with the lack of trust in the party.
	+ Unable to dissuade Xadriel from his mission against Umberlee(?), Tokili ends the dream.
* Xadriel, in a small rowboat with Maq'kua, wakes in the middle of the night.
	+ Upon casting *detect magic* to look for *scrying* sensors, Xadriel finds the rowboat is saturated with enchantment magic.
	+ Maq'kua senses that something is following them. They try calling out to them, to no response.
* Twiggy finishes his book, reaching the final page—a dangerous message on the nature of power. In order to unlock the second +1 bonus, he must forgo talking, reading, and spellcasting for 48 hours.
* Stone is inflicted with a divine intervention.
* Stone contacts Prince Ninetides via *sending*, vaguely offering to hand over a Torrent Guide. Ninetides enthusiastically offers to receive it at Katebain's abandoned theatre at noon the next day.

## Day 5

* Stone wakes up to find ERA waiting outside her door.
	+ ERA, who eavesdropped on Ninetides the night prior,
* Stone goes to the theatre at 6:00 AM.
	+ She
* Tokili returns to the Vistage to do some light reading.
	+ Three dwarven crew members (Manny, dwarf-Stone, and ????) greet their captain. Tokili responds listlessly.
	+ Tokili caves to his burning desire to know Stone's surname. He checks Xerax's Tome of Boundless Knowledge, gets brain-blasted, and receives an answer: Durov.
	+ Tokili, whose brain is now making strange noises against his skull, checks the Tome for another bit of trivia. This time, it hurts quite a bit more.
	+ At this point, the dwarves wrestle the Tome out of Tokili's hands and

## Developments

* Twiggy has gained one point of strength, and is on track to get a second.
* Stone is metaphorically insane.
* Tokili is literally insane.
* Xadriel is on what may or may not be a suicide mission.
* Red and Galia are having a great time in Kaightbaen!