The Devil You Know

Proper start of the session (15:44) - the group argues about what to do with the Devil Corpse, while Diedre explains what the place of horned devils are in the hells. They discuss devils and what to do while they take a short rest.

the group makes it back(34:12) to the tavern with the head as a trophy and start to ask around town about who is in charge. They find the mayor, Mayor Pondergast, and talk with him about what the devils might mean and what to do about the possibility of Devil attack. The Mayor asks them to burn the body.

the group(46:47) makes their way back to the body to burn it while pondering the Mayor’s hostility. They proceed to burn the body, head back to town and shower/bathe get some rest. Leona stays with her parents over the night.

the group(53:10) gets a long rest, Leonas mom wakes her up at their place and gives leona a very special Lyre that has been handed down through their family.

the group(58:14) comes and finds Leona at her parents house. Upon arrival there is a Raven with parchment tied to its leg addressed to Kesra. Kesra pockets the note not reading it, it is sealed with the royal quest. Kesra argues with the group about why she does not want to read it in front of them. Leona attempts and succeeds in stealing the scroll, she tells kesra that it is from Rey. Badgering ensues, Kesra snatches it back and gets snippy. Leona steals it back and reads it. The message is from Rey saying that he has removed the bounty on their heads and that he has rejoined the Military. Leona sneakily puts it back in Kesras pocket. The group urges Leonas parents to leave , but they are stubborn and refuse to leave.

The Hallowells(1:17:00) leave the house to have an argument and Leona starts to follow them. Santi is very skeptical that Leona is actually their child. He reprimands Hazel for her head over heels believing that Leona is their child. Santi does not enjoy being told to leave his home. Santi stalks off to the bar, leona talks to Hazel for a minute before going to find Santi. She apologizes to Santi for urging him to leave, and they bond over shared troubles, and have a tender moment.

we return from the break. (1:35:00) Diedre is unhappy that the Hallowells have chosen to stay, Kesra is a little clueless as to what the issue is. Diedre and Kesra have a small argument over the Hallowells decision. The group prepares to leave. Leona returns and asks the group if they dont mind waiting till she can find and say good bye to her mother.

Leona finds Hazel (1:41:30) in a small grove of trees nearby the farm, where there is a small family graveyard. Hazel and Leona have an emotional conversation, saying goodbye to each other and promising to see each other again.
the group(1:48:40) leaves the Hallowells house and heads North. They discuss where they need to go, provisions they might need to get etc. Maudit is very concerned about going to wolfcrest. He very much does not seem to want to go there. Eventually along the road Kesra drops back from the group and reads the letter. She bluffs a little about what is in the letter. Leona decides to send a message to Rey in response to his letter, and she recieves a short response.

Leona hears something(2:01:45) on the road ahead of them on the second day, it sounds like it is just a bunch of people. The group gets a little on edge, Maudit disguises himself. There are 6 mercenaries on the road ahead of them. As they approach Kesra recognizes one of them. And one of them recognizes them and does not look friendly. Kesra wants the group to just walk past. As they are walking past the one that knows Kesra makes a rude gesture, and Kesra responds. Diedre sends her familiar invisibly to taunt the mercenaries. Maudit urges the group to keep walking, while Kesra starts to argue with them. Leona tries suggestion on them to get them to leave, but the mercenary suceeds on his saving throw. He then casts suggestion back on Leona, who fails and starts to dismount. Kesra and the man start to argue, while leona starts to walk over the the mercenaries and apoligizes.

the group(2:17:30) almost gets into combat but the mercenaries dont rize to the bait. And so the group walks off. Kesra then begins to tell the group about her past with the Mercenary whos name is Alric. Kesra tell about how when she first joined a mercenary group she started to date a superior officer. He found her one night while she was on watch sitting next to another gaurd “too close” and being extremly jealous then made life hell for kesra and the other guard.

The group settles down(2:52:20) for the night off the side of the road. Maudits watch is uneventful as he goes to switch watch he talks with Diedre about his trepidation about going to wolfcrest. Diedre laments her innability to convince the Hallowells to leave their farm. Diedres watch is uneventful as she sits by the fire and stews on her talks with the day she is fairly distracted.
Kesras watch starts and she is very distracted. As kesra paces around the fire, she is held in place by a hold person spell. Out of the forest steps Alric, looking worried. He informs her that they are being followed, and that he saw something flying over head. He then leaves and releases hold person. Kesra is shocked and tries to digest the information for the rest of her watch.

Kesra wakes Leona(2:23:20) up for her watch, shaken, and Leona notices. Leona is also distracted on her watch, fidgeting, looking at kesra, etc. She wonders why Rey wrote to her instead of her.

- About an hour(2:43:30) into Leonas watch the group is set upon by 3 horned devils. Each one grabs a different party member and drags them off in different directions. The only one left is Kesra.