Session 09

## Session Notes:

### Session 9 - Trippin' and Fallin'

We have a short conversation with the shady figure, who tells us that because we apprehended the Arnold Cappella’s, that we would have to complete the job he had hired them for instead. The party is mainly against helping him, but we take time to deliberate and tell him to meet us at the Post Office. Telmund tells us that he is from the Glacial Paddock, and sends a letter home to his family. We find out that to send a letter it can cost:

6 Gneoll - for the letter to arrive in 4-6 weeks time

5 Vodine - for the letter to arrive in 2-3 weeks time

The post office assistant places a stamp shaped like two wings on Telmund’s letter, and tells him it will be posted. The cloaked figure meets us at the Post Office, and moves smoothly, standing at about 5ft tall. He’s terrible at acting tough and shady, but he really tries his best to be mysterious. He asks us to enter the Egorum Tower, and find an item that used to belong to his people. He wants an old bottle of wine. It is a wine that people like and is sought after. The Head of a Wine family died, and they stopped making the wine, instead opting to make whiskey. Their whiskey was a total flop, and there is only one bottle of this wine left - the bottle inside the tower. It used to be inside of a museum, but was stolen. The shady figure refuses to give us his name, so we settle on giving him an acronym. Shady Ass Man, or SAM for short. He offers us 20 platinum to do this job for him, and we agree. We notice that he has hairy hands.

In preparation for our performance, we went to stay in the forest, and Trip and Eva created costumes and props for our performance, Telmund and Ejholan wrote a script and the rest of us just chilled. We decided to do a Maggie Biopic, the story of Maggie from birth until now.

We then headed to the Abjucations party, and upon entering we’re told we can only use Abjuration and Evocation within the walls of the tower. We wait inside a waiting room and figure out a plan to find the bottle of wine. Telmund asked to be escorted to the bathrooms, and discovered a lot of items inside crates, so we then all decided to go to the bathroom together. We start opening crates, and Eva finds the bottle of wine. As people go to take items out of the crates, they come to life and start swallowing people inside of them. We battle a number of these chests, and unfortunately, Xia casts Magic Missile in close range to Trip, unknowingly causing Trip a great amount of pain and damage. During the scuffle of battle, Trip dies, uttering her final words, ‘Save the Pack. Kill the Gnomes!’

Inconsolable, the group shout for guards, who don’t move with any sense of urgency, branding us as thieves (which we kinda are), and drag Trip’s body up to the floor of the party, in front of everyone. We see a woman in a blue dress and corset, carrying a violin. A bard named Miss Shiralaye (sp?). We also see Master Egoram, a gnomish man, and a human man with a bare chest, black trenchcoat and an amulet with the symbol of an eye named Mr Delarosa. The Bard decides to heal Trip, and resurrect her, but it is very clear that she is showing off, and not doing it as a kindness. Trip awakens on the floor, surrounded by a room full of Gnomes.

### Quotes:

‘I don't want to go to Wizard Jail.’ - Telmund.

‘Female. Chainmail. All the same.’ - Dootson, imitating Melchior.

### Point of Inspiration:

At the end of the session, we decided that Telmund should get the weekly point of inspiration.