By Fair Means or Fowl?

"**By Fair Means of Fowl?**" is the 39th session of Campaign 2.0.

## Summary

* After having rolled for initiative, we all ready ourselves for an EPIC BATTLE… Before Angeal acquiesces to stand down and not fight. We don’t know what we're up against, and it's clear he's exceedingly powerful - *"I can't leave you all to die in this cold, dark place,"* she tells us.
* The Fowl Lord graciously accepts this and praises the bravery that comes with… y'know. Actively going against your goddess' wishes. He gifts her his cape as an apparent trophy won from this battle, should anyone ask.
* Kian Gy'Zel is summoned inside of the chamber, and recognizes the Fowl Lord as a solar. After hearing his story, they surmise that there's no way he couldn't be telling the truth, and decides to stand by as well.
* He summons a portal back to the area where we first stepped into the Shadowfell. As we all file out of the chamber, Bryna turns to him and asks whether he was telling the truth. *"A solar cannot lie,"* he affirms, and with that ushers her out onto the other side and closes the portal behind her.
* Damn. We all stand there for a bit, reeling over everything that's happened. Kian assures Angeal that despite everything, she will always have a place among their flock. They take the Fowl Lord's cape with them, and bid everyone farewell (but not before Sulelia reminds them to come back sometime to try cheesecake with her).
* Everyone is quick comfort Angeal, who blubbers up in tears and is swept up in a giant group hug by the party. That was some pretty intense shit back there, and she went above and beyond in the name of her goddess, regardless of what happens. Time to head to Sulelia's village.
* Night watch highlights include: Heart wrenching Bryna and Thomal bonding hours, in which they lament over their shared struggles and burdens. Bryna divulges a lot of the truth about her wife to him. She trapped her in this awful circumstance that she had learned of through the Slapdash Sphere, and was at one point willing to do whatever it took to bring her back, but… her newfound friends - her family - have compromised this resolve and makes her unsure of whether she should go through with… well, bridging an extra-planar portal from the Material Plane to who knows where.
* Thomal sympathizes, and lets her know that despite whatever's happened before, that he always has her back and will fight for what she needs done for the sake of her wife. In return, he sheds more light on his past: because him and his wife were unable to conceive, he turned to alcohol and became a straight up mess. He supposes he doesn't blame his wife for doing what she did, although he is, of course, still distraught over what had happened.
* At some point a winged freaky-looking egg head demon is found by Sulelia perched on one of the tents and lays a pile of small, engraved bones in front of her. And then it just dips. What the heck, man.
* Over the course of the journey, Daisy expresses frustration in being… well… rather infantilized by the party, who's super protective over her. We suppose we can let her do more dangerous stuff, if that's what she wants…
* On the way back we come across a giant tower sitting in the middle of the forest, and decide to investigate it. With time, we find its entrance, and one by one step in to see what lies inside.