Session 16

Session 16

https://youtu.be/lke3UC8VmG4

Session begins

·        Jinx looks around and sees the signs

·        The party discusses how to get out - Solla seems to want to leave

·        Sylvi investigates a body on the street, it is a tiefling who has pretty much been stripped bare of all valuables. Dead for a few hours. We saw a mote of light rise up from the body and zip off to the center of the city.

·        The party sees a pyre of smoke rising from a building, Vjenga wants to check it out and extinguish it.

·        As the party draws closer, they see that it is not a burning building - it’s a tavern.

·        Solla insists again upon going to the center, Sylvi and Vjenga want to stay away from it.

·        The party enters and sees a fight happening between a bone devil and a very burly half-orc, Vjenga tries to cast calm emotions and is counterspelled by the bartender.

o    The bartender is a goblin who tells them not to spoil the fight and calls them over for a drink.

o    The bartender says that there are patrons with money on the fight.

o    Solla asks the bartender about the center of the city, advising of guards, death, festivities and good food.

o    Kare asks about the obelisk in the middle, the bartender says that information will cost them

§  The party pays her four gold, she tells the party that the obelisks takes the souls of the dead and collect them, she doesn’t know why. She also says that it’s not easy to get to the center without the blessing of one of the “families”.

§  Vjenga asks about the families, and is told that information is worth 10 gold.

§  Kare decides to threaten the bartender. Always goes really well.

§  The half orc “is this guy bothering you”’s the bartender and drags Kare out of the bar and yeets him.

§  Solla leaves

§  Kare ROLLS 2 NATURAL ONES. For a dex save and a con save

§  Kare is stabbed and poisoned by a tiefling, **TAKES 82 DAMAGE**

§  Kare is knocked unconscious (fucken obviously) and robbed blind. He loses his shield, halberd, and boots.

§  Solla decides to lean against the door and Not Get Involved WHILE KARE BLEEDS OUT.

§  Vjenga shoes away the tiefling and succeeds on a death save, Vjenga heals him for 8pts. Kare bemoans his loss of a halberd.

§  Solla insists again that they spend as little time as possible here. She hands a potion of healing to Kare who drinks it instantly.

§  Tiefling watches from an alleyway.

§  Vjenga insists that they stay, Langar tells Solla he won’t leave without a crystal.

§  Solla is on high alert and rolls perception, but sees nothing exceptionally out of the norm (for a city that is constantly in a state of nightmare)

o    The party looks for a tavern to rest. The street they find themselves on is darker and wetter than usual, there is a growth of slippery fungus everywhere here and it smells foul.

o    Vjenga sees a tavern with a sign that says “Tavern” in giant. Solla sees another with a title in draconic “The house of fortunes”.

o    As the party walks into the giant (language) tavern, all activity stops and the party gets a room for 5 silver.

o    Solla pulls her hood further over her head.

o    The party enters the room, the place is very barren. There is a table with two chairs and a bed. The door does not lock and swings both ways. Solla steps in front of the door to guard it.

·        Solla and Vjenga take first watch

·        Langar wants to sleep outside in the corridor to protect the party, Vjenga insists that he comes in and he eventually concedes.

o    Andrew takes a hall pass and goes pee pee

o    Foreshadowing.

o    Andrew comes back from pee pee.

o    Solla and Vjenga get into an argument over whether this quest is worth it

§  Vjenga gets PO’d that Solla would suggest they leave before helping Angelina

§  Solla explains what they and Langar saw when he busted down the door.

§  They suggest name dropping Hugo to try to get connections and information about the crystal

§  Vjenga doesn’t want to do that out of concern for his safety

§  Solla suggests that after they rest, they check out the “House of fortunes” for information

§  Vjenga asks if that has anything to do with the sign being in draconic

§  Solla says they want to leave without seeing any dragons or dragonborns, they think that a place to do with fortunes will have something to do with crystals, and want to check it out for leads.

§  The two of them analyze the amulet, which is glowing like a beacon.

§  It works almost like a flashlight, shining in the direction that the amulet is pointed.

§  Solla asks about whether the amulet is hurting Vjenga, but she declines.

§  Vjenga says she doesn’t know the reason for the black marks on her back, but has seen them again.

§  Solla gives Vjenga a ring of protection, raises AC by one and gives +1 on saving throws. Vjenga begrudgingly accepts it

·        Kare and Sylvi take watch

o    Amelia is playing cookie run.

o    The two of them hear someone who tried to climb the wall unsuccessfully outside.

o    Sylvi and Kare talk, Kare wants to sneak out into the streets to find his stolen stuff.

o    Sylvi shoots that down, and tells her brother that he should look forward to getting a new halberd.

o    Eikthyr keeps barking and someone bangs on the wall to get him to stop.

·        Venphira and Langar take a watch

o    Venphira assures Sylvi that she’ll come back to bed.

o    Langar and Venphira talk while they have their watch, Elyes starts rolling more fucking dice.

o    Vjenga gets stabbed in the throat and fails her con save, taking 67 points of damage. She is unconscious

o    Eyy the amulet doesn’t hurt her anymore tho huge W thanks Hugo.

·        Initiative.

o    The (conscious) party sees their attacker, a goblin rogue who climbed in through the window.

o    Kare summons uses lightning lure, summons echo knight.

o    The goblin scurries out of sight, either under the table or the bed. The party can’t tell. Sylvi and Kare get attacks of opportunity.

o    Kare gets shot with a crossbow, takes 20 piercing damage, 28 piercing damage. Down - obviously.

o    Vjenga crits on her death save and gets up with 1 hp. Throat stab no biggie bro

o    Solla closes in on the goblin under the bed, tries and fails to grab the goblin, tries to block the goblin from attacking Kare.

o    Venphira casts hexblade’s curse and two eldritch blasts at the goblin.

o    Langar throws the bed with blue blood rush and reveals the goblin.

§  Action surge, hits the goblin once.

o    Kare fails a death save

o    Sylvi uses her warhammer to hit the goblin.

o    The goblin stabs through Solla’s legs and hits Kare for two death saves.

o    Kare dies

o    The goblin disengages and leaves.

·        Vjenga tries to find the diamond on Jinx’s sleeping body, but can't find it.

·        Solla tries to help find the diamond, but does not find it.

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·        Venphira also tries to find the diamond, but can't.

·        Langar looks for the goblin outside, but can't find them.

·        Sylvi tries to heal her dead brother, but it does not revive him.

·        Vjenga casts locate object on the diamond, it is floating a few feet outside the tavern we left. We got robbed as fuck

·        Solla moves to the door to block it.

·        Kare sees a bridge of ice and snow, guarded by a giant. He sees souls of people shifting around him before the vision changes and he sees a desert of black sand. A scaly worm peels out of the sand and Kare gets a good look at its toothy tunnel ass mouth. Everyone else sees Kare’s soul start to leave his body.

·        Vjenga revivifies with the amulet, and Kare gets his ass up. Kare tries to explain what he saw but his description is indistinct.

·        Langar puts Kare on the bed to rest.

·        Solla wants to leave.

·        Several hours later, the party stirs and sees a red clawed hand curl around their door. It is a pit fiend, like Hugo. It has an amulet with a design that matches the Oakwood Family Jewels and Angelina’s.

o    They want the party to come with them, namely the people with amulets.

o    Vjenga insight check reveals that the creature has bad intentions, but it’s not looking to act on them right now, it wants to figure out how we got into this situation and “correct” it. It doesn’t like us.

o    Mentions that “The Lady” wants to see us.

o    The pit fiend escorts the party through the streets, the people on the street avoid the party.

o    The pit fiend is rushed as they lead the party through the inner gates, into the crimson square. The party is not met with resistance.

o    The party continues through the area into The High Halls.

o    The party enters a bitchin house with a sign out front that none of us can read.

§  Inside there are people having a wholeass devilman orgy and doing mad drugs. The pit fiends are there as bouncers. People are actively dying to the pit fiend bouncers in the orgy. Everyone is splish splashing in their blood, some nasties eatin’ it.

§  The pit fiend leads the party upstairs and tells them to wait in the hallway while they walk off into a room.

§  Session ends