DM 22

## DM Prep

The majority of my notes were randomly generated names for the types of people that might be encountered in Bleakmourne. At the end of most sessions, I'd come up with ways to tie everything together that I didn't have in the beginning. By the end, the majority of my notes were:

Not allowed in the city walls unless they prove themselves- get rid of the ghost at the point. Ghost is there bc she was murdered- kill her again or bring her murderer to justice. She was tossed into the sea from here, but her body washed into a tidal cave at the foot of the cliff. They have to go down there, find the evidence, and bring it back… but there are other undead in there too. Undead who might not want to be woken. What kind of evidence does she have? The weapon that killed her?

Timeline-

Nira teleports in, drowns, swears fealty to the kraken. Sends Nira to spy on the town and see if it is an issue that needs to be dealt with. (How did Nira come in? Is there another who would vouch for her? She managed to infiltrate an incoming caravan of sorts and “decided to stay” because she has harbormaster skills. Some are suspicious, but she has proven herself in the last weeks.

Bristol realized she was pregnant. Came to Seifer bc she thought he’d be happy. His wife can’t give him kids, but she can. He’d been talking about leaving her for so long. *(This part was changed on the fly when Ryleigh went to see him, I realized last minute that I could make him more sympathetic and muddy the waters with his personal revolt against giving the kraken any of his children)* Instead he’s angry. He kills her to cover up the pregnancy. Tossed her from the cliff to hide the body. People go missing all the time. No big deal. Each night, Bristol’s cries grow stronger.

Yesterday, Nira brought the component down to hide it.

The guards brought Seifer down to throw him in the pit then left via the lighthouse.

Nira heard the outsiders had been in the caves so she came back down to move it again and to warn the kraken. Sea spawn start coming out of the pit. Nira’s in the pit, but crawls out, not realizing they’re there. She goes to grab the component. It’s a race. The component is in 4? She has to run up there to get it, uses the spawn to distract the others.

> *And pre-typed descriptions and events to make things smoother.*
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## Logs

[4:32 PM] DM: DAY SIX 3 PM BELLBURY TIME

Recap: The group, seeking out a component, teleported near a town called Bleakmourne... right into the harbor. You were fished from the sea by a crew led by Flint "The Wall" Seifer, and after some scary stories by the crew including a claim that the sea took Whistler "Swab" Arch's sister, you made landfall. The leader of the guard in Bleakmourne, a man named Huxford Drakkar, refused to allow you all within the walls. When a triton named Lord Zunis Pumanath tried to explain that you couldn't be servants of "the deep," Hux told him that he would also be cast out until you could prove yourselves by ridding the town of the constant wailing coming from The Point. You went up to the top of the cliff where you found a ghost that possessed Urrak to explain her trouble. She was murdered by none other than Flint Seifer and she needs you to bring her killer to justice so she can have peace. So now you're on your way down to the base of the cliff with Zunis and Gunnloda to see if you can find her body.

Additionally, the person carrying the component and hiding it in a warehouse was recognized by Lady Eloise Moonstream as Nira Hageder, a Bellbury harbormaster. Zunis has also offered a reward if you help him find the actual minion of the deep that has infiltrated the town.

> *They were the same person all along!*
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[4:39 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "We should just hire someone to sell us out as those weird people who find shit for you."

[4:39 PM] DM: Ryleigh and Nolanos both appeared during the trip down, but Brimeia and Urrak disappeared.

[4:41 PM] DM: For your sakes, Ryleigh is a human woman in black plate armor with a religious symbol on her shield and Nolanos is a bronze dragonborn with a mechanical raven perched on his shoulder.

[4:42 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine motions for the new companions to follow. "Welcome back, we have learned that we are unfortunately not welcomed here but this is where another component is located. Our friend Zunis here is trying to help us get into their good graces"

[4:42 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Or good places, really."

[4:43 PM] Ryleigh (Nicole): “What did you lot find at the lighthouse?”

[4:43 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Hostility and mistrust?" Seirixori shrugs.

[4:44 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "There was a spirit of a woman killed by the captain of the ship we were on. But now we are on our way to attempt to find her body"

[4:46 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Also her brother, brother?, who works on the ship, thinks it was the sea that killed her."

[4:46 PM] Ryleigh (Nicole): Ryleigh looks at Seirixori and calmly says, “I’m sure that’s true but I was looking for a more conclusive answer.” She then turns to Ravaphine and inclines her head, “a spirit of a murdered woman...at the hand of the captain who’s ship we traveled?” She says it in thought to herself, rather than a question to the others.

[4:48 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "Strange times."

[4:49 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Her cries during the night seem to be a disruption to the town. So if we are able to find her peace, they will allow us inside if we 'survive the night'"

[4:50 PM] DM: As you reach the bottom of the cliffs, Zunis says- with more cheer than should lawfully be allowed in such a dismal place- "Ah, here we are. Luckily for us, the tide is low. This is the base of the cliff." He points up. "There is where our lady the ghost waits."

[4:50 PM] DM: Everyone roll perception for me.

[4:51 PM] DM: (Do I need to roll for Ryleigh?)

[4:51 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: ((14))

[4:52 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: ((19))

[4:53 PM] Alex - Nolanos: ((5))

[4:54 PM] Ryleigh (Nicole): ((Yes you do))

[4:55 PM] DM: Ryleigh and Seirixori both spot a place in the base of the cliff ahead that might be the mouth of a cave of sorts. The water at low tide seems to be lapping at the entry, but at high tide, it might be entirely underwater.

[4:57 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Oh, hey a cave, how convinient." Seirixori points it out.

[4:57 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "Oh wow, fancy that."

[4:57 PM] Ryleigh (Nicole): Ryleigh points the what might be the mouth of a cave, “we should hurry though. We wouldn’t want to get caught in it during high tide.”

[4:59 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Shall we head in?" she says with slight uncertainty because of the earlier encounter with water

[4:59 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "What are we waiting for then? Lets go"

[4:59 PM] DM: What order are you walking in?

[5:00 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: ((near hte back for Seir))

[5:00 PM] Alex - Nolanos: ((Near the front))

[5:00 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Should we try to go there quietly just in case there are more creatures?"

[5:01 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "Naturally,' Nolanos smiles.(edited)

[5:01 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: ((rav can be behind nolanos))(edited)

[5:02 PM] Ryleigh (Nicole): ((First in line because I’m the tank))

[5:03 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Oh uh, I can...help with that again. Probably should have waited the first time." Seirixori mutters the last bit and casts pass without a trace on everyone.

[5:05 PM] DM: Seirixori holds her staff out and mutters some words and you all feel like the shadows around you and those growing as the sun sets behind the clouds hug you closer. You all have +10 to stealth checks.

[5:05 PM] Ryleigh (Nicole): ((Ryleigh taps my shield and behold - LIGHT))

[5:08 PM] DM: Ok! So Ryleigh speaks her command word and the symbol on the front of her shield lights up like a hooded lantern, casting light in a wide beam in front of her.

[5:09 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Can you see okay, Nolanos?"

[5:09 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Shiny."

[5:10 PM] DM: The light pierces the darkness and you can see inside... the ground is underwater. You can't tell how deep it is. It's murky. There are bits of what might be tiny hills deeper into the cave where the light doesn't quite reach that indicate the floor might be uneven.

[5:10 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "Holy- wow that is bright" Nolanos is definitely impressed

[5:11 PM] Ryleigh (Nicole): Ryleigh smiles at Seirixori’s comment, “I apologize, I’m incapable of seeing in the dark, I will give some warning next time.”

[5:12 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "Ah, no worries."

[5:13 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: She shrugs, "No worries, kind of forgot some can't see well in the dark."

[5:14 PM] Alex - Nolanos: As Nolanos gets closer to the water, Reyes hops onto his head

[5:14 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "This would be a great time to have been near water in Limabey..." Seirixori says to herself.

[5:15 PM] DM: The ground you're walking on is rocky beach, basically, and the water is just washing around the heels of your feet and back out to sea.

[5:15 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Where is Limabey? is that your home, Seirixori?"(edited)

[5:16 PM] Alex - Nolanos: (the cave is partially underwater though, right?)(edited)

[5:16 PM] DM: The cave is air at the top, down to the level you're standing at, but under that lip is water and you can't tell how deep it is.

[5:18 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "In Ardabeh, which is apparently pretty far if Gunnloda and Safika's reactions are anything to go by. I didn't exactly get taught where things are in this world." She shrugs.

[5:18 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine approaches the water and sticks her quarterstaff down to test the depth of the water

[5:19 PM] DM: At the entry, it's only a few inches deep.

[5:19 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Looks like the water isn't too deep here, but I'd be cautious"

[5:20 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Sure, let's just get this going. Pretty sure we don't want to be in here for too long."

[5:20 PM] Alex - Nolanos: Nolanos nudges Reyes, who flies down the cave to see what might be in there, where it leads, that kind of thing.

[5:20 PM] DM: Reyes also doesn't have darkvision, so what you can see is effectively what she  can see.(edited)

[5:22 PM] Alex - Nolanos: Reyes returns to the perch on Nolanos' head

[5:24 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Let's head further before the tide rises" she says and she steps into the water

[5:25 PM] Ryleigh (Nicole): ((I step in first, because I’m out front))

[5:25 PM] DM: Ok, so the two of you step inside. The water comes up to just above your ankles here, and Ravaphine can see a bit farther than the edge of the light.

[5:26 PM] Alex - Nolanos: Nolanos follows

[5:27 PM] DM: If you are attempting to be sneaky, I will need stealth checks, at disadvantage for those of you wearing heavy armor.

[5:27 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "straight forward, I can't make it out entirely, but that small hill looks like clothing to me" she says while squinting slightly

[5:27 PM] DM: But you get a +10 to your rolls

[5:28 PM] Alex - Nolanos: ((35 stealth))(edited)

[5:28 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: ((22))

[5:28 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: ((20 stealth))

[5:28 PM] DM: ((Zunis got a 24, Gunnloda a 13, and Ryleigh an 21.))

[5:29 PM] DM: Ok!

[5:36 PM] Alex - Nolanos: From what seemed to be just a shadow, Nolanos mutters, "There is death in the air... how lovely"

[5:36 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "it could be the woman!"

[5:37 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Zunis, did she have a name? I seem to have forgotten if you had told us" ravaphine whispers (lol)(edited)

[5:37 PM] DM: You guys do realize that speaking, especially with an exclamation point, kinda invalidates the point of sneaking, right? lol

[5:37 PM] DM: Zunis: "I did not know she existed before your half-orc companion spoke with her."

[5:38 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Aaand of course Urrak is now gone. Awesome. So, death in the air? Many bodies, one body? Is the captain just killing people for the hell of it and hiding them here?"

[5:39 PM] DM: Zunis: "I would be rather impressed if he had managed to toss a body from the cliff and make it wash into this cave intentionally. More likely it was a stroke of luck or fate."(edited)

[5:40 PM] Ryleigh (Nicole): “What a terrible way to go, at the hands of someone you believed you could trust.”

[5:41 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "We can try to head over to the stack of what appears to be clothing over there and inspect it. But i'm not quite sure on how to proceed once we find out what or who it is"

[5:42 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "I suppose we'll just have to find out"(edited)

[5:42 PM] DM: Gunnloda: "I've... tended to my share of bodies. If that is what it is, I may be able to provide some sort of assistance in the matter."

[5:45 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "I've cleaned a bunch, but I think, possibly, water-logged bodies are out of my area of ... expertice so to speak."

[5:46 PM] DM: Gunnloda shudders. "Yes... water-logged bodies are an entirely different thing."

[5:46 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: ((can I roll perception to see if there is anything dangerous in the near vicinity?))

[5:46 PM] DM: Sure.

[5:47 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: ((20 perception))

> *Sometimes you reward really good rolls with something where there might have been nothing. In this case, even though the creatures weren't moving or making noise, and they were outside the range of darkvision, I let her see ripples from within.*
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[5:52 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "So, er... while this is happening, anyone care to fill me in on what has been going on with all this?"(edited)

[5:54 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine holds onto Ryleigh's shoulder and stops her from continuing forward. She whispers to the group "up ahead, you can see some of the water rippling deeper inside. not sure if it's anybody else but it is best we stay alert and cautious"

[5:54 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Oh, right. So we almost drowned, got picked up by some sailors. Took us to shore, we were threatened and unable to get in to find the compnent we need, also  a citizen of Bellbury, so now we gotta take care of this sad lady thing to put some people at ease? I think? Actually I'm not even sure she's who we need to take care of but, hey why not."

[5:55 PM] Alex - Nolanos: Nolanos takes a moment to process all this information. "... well alright then. Thank you."

[[5:56 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori gives a little salute.

[5:56 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "I'm glad none of you got hurt. Well. Relatively speaking."(edited)

[5:56 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Let's hope it stays that way. Shall we?" ravaphine continues to step forward

[5:56 PM] DM: Brimeia steps out of the darkness behind you.

[5:57 PM] Ryleigh (Nicole): Ryleigh draws her weapon as they move towards the rippling water.

[5:58 PM] DM: Is everyone moving forward or just Ryleigh?

[5:58 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine follows

[5:58 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: ((suuure lets go))

[5:58 PM] Alex - Nolanos: Nolanos follows behind Ryleigh

[5:58 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "godsdamn, Brimeia, did you fall asleep outside or something?" Seirixori whispers.(edited)

[5:59 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Don't be suspicious. Shhh" she whispers back

[6:01 PM] DM: As the light of Ryleigh's shield reaches the lump ahead, you see, just barely poking above the waterline, what appears to be a body. A very bloated human body that might have been the one belonging to the ghost above. Most specifically, you can see a very unique looking dagger sticking from her chest. Those of you who met Captain Seifer recognize it as the partner to the nasty cutlass he wore at his hip. Unfortunately, as you do get closer, the light seems to attract... something in the dark and those of you with darkvision can see movement at the edges of your vision.

Everyone roll initiative.

[6:03 PM] Alex - Nolanos: ((11))

[6:03 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: ((16))

[6:03 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: ((6))

[6:08 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: ((20))

[6:09 PM] DM: Ok! So from the depths of the cave, you see some ripples  and movement, those of you with darkvision do, anyway. A very wet, but not really bloated creature shambles out of the darkest corner towards you all.

[6:09 PM] DM: Brimeia!

[6:10 PM] DM: You can see the one that moved (2), and there's one standing in the back behind the body (B) as well as the body itself.

[6:24 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia steps forward to the front of the party, where she can see the bloated figures in the distance. They're too far to swing at, so she raises a fist at the nearest one. An eerie looking light bursts forth from her hand, crackling toward the enemy!

[6:26 PM] DM: The light, a dark reddish, nebulous sort of thing, streaks out from Brimeia's fist and catches the creature right in the chest. It staggers for a moment, but doesn't look like it's ready to stop.

[6:26 PM] DM: (Was that to 2 or B?)

[6:26 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: (Either one really)

[6:26 PM] DM: We'll say 2 then.

[6:28 PM] DM: Ok! B will start making its way towards you. It gets slowed down a bit as part of its journey is through waist-deep water, but it snarls as it comes closer.

[6:28 PM] DM: Seirixori!

[6:32 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: ((can I see 2?))

[6:32 PM] DM: Is it inside your circle?(edited)

[6:33 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: ((yeah, just wasn't sure if it was blocked by that... wall? curve thing?))(edited)

[6:34 PM] DM: Oh... no, you have line of sight. As long as one corner of yours can see one corner of his.

[6:35 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Oh, this is fun." Seirixori tilts her head a bit, "I do not want to be clsoe to these things," she takes a bit of the water and flings it at #2 and it forms into an icy shaped knife.

[6:36 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: ((22 attack, 9 piercing+4 cold))

[6:37 PM] DM: The shard pierces through the creature's shoulder, but it manages to avoid the subsequent explosion of cold.

[6:37 PM] DM: You see two more creatures rise out of the water at the commotion.

[6:39 PM] DM: One will take a swipe at @Kyris - Brimeia  .  She takes 6 points of slashing damage and must make a constitution save.(edited)

[6:39 PM] DM: The other will attack Ryleigh, the creature with the light., but she manages to bring up her shield to block the attack in time.

[6:43 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: ((is that 6 after dmg reduction?))

[6:43 PM] DM: You aren't raging yet.

[6:44 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: (oh yeah i forgot lol)

[6:57 PM] DM: Brimeia has no ill effects other than the slashing damage.

[6:57 PM] DM: @Alex - Nolanos !

[6:59 PM] Alex - Nolanos: Nolanos attacks (B is next to the body right? that one) with Firebolt

[7:00 PM] Alex - Nolanos: ((15 attack, 9 fire, 6 sneakbc stealth))

[7:00 PM] DM: Also, you don't get sneak attacks with spells.

[7:00 PM] Alex - Nolanos: oh

[7:03 PM] Alex - Nolanos: ((I'll stab C then, I guess))

[7:05 PM] Alex - Nolanos: ((17 atk, 7 dmg, 7 sneak on C))

[7:07 PM] DM: So Nolanos's blade slashes out and leaves a great gash across the thing's belly and some of the insides are now pushing their way outside.

[7:09 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "That's really gross, really glad I did not take a bite of that."

[7:09 PM] Alex - Nolanos: ((as a bonus action, i'd like to give light a lantern and give it to Reyes to hold above everyone))

[7:09 PM] Alex - Nolanos: ((or is that a new turn))(edited)

[7:10 PM] DM: That would take a full action, yeah.

[7:10 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "YIKEs."

[7:10 PM] Alex - Nolanos: ((ok))

[7:10 PM] DM: Another creature stands and starts walking towards you all as well.

[7:11 PM] DM: @Ryleigh (Nicole) !

[7:13 PM] DM: You can see that there are subtle differences in the kinds of creatures here. 1 and 2 seem to be bigger, stronger, and look more... intelligent.(edited)

[7:13 PM] Ryleigh (Nicole): Ryleigh strikes at the enemy nearest her (C) with her battleax ((8 to hit / 5 damage if by some miracle it hits))

[7:14 PM] DM: The axe sails towards the target, but the creature knocks your arm away, parrying the strike.

[7:15 PM] DM: Gunnloda steps forward, hand over the symbol sewn into her tabard and calls forth divine energy.

[7:18 PM] DM: The divine energy pulses out from Gunnloda and four of the five creatures hiss and recoil.

[7:18 PM] DM: @Jaymes - Ravaphine !

[7:24 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine casts magic missile against C and A

[7:27 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: ((9dmg on C, 5 dmg on A))

[7:28 PM] DM: Four bolts of arcane energy shoot from Ravaphine's hand and two each collide with the undead. They hiss again, ready to attack.

[7:29 PM] DM: Zunis moves up, gripping his trident in both hands and thrusts forward at C. The trident finishes what Nolanos's blade started in disemboweling it, but it still stands, on its last legs.

[7:29 PM] DM: 2 runs as far away as it can get from the very scary dwarf.

[7:29 PM] DM: @Kyris - Brimeia !

[7:30 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia rages and swings at the nearest creature!

[7:31 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: ((19 atk, 10 dmg))

[7:31 PM] DM: Brimeia's axe swings down and thunks right into the thing's shoulder. One of its arms hangs limp at its side as she pulls the axe back out.

[7:31 PM] DM: B runs as far as it can from the scary dwarf too.

[7:31 PM] DM: @Felicia - Seirixori

[7:34 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori scrunches her nose a little at the dying fleshy things with guts and turns to the one farther away flinging another ice knife.

[7:34 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: ((22ac, 3 piercing/6cold))

[7:35 PM] DM: (At 1?)

[7:35 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: ((yes))

[7:35 PM] DM: It fails its save against the cold burst that comes after the knife digs into its chest and takes full damage.

[7:37 PM] DM: C uses its last burst of energy to try to slash at the thing that speared it. Zunis takes 7 damage, but is not affected otherwise.

[7:38 PM] DM: A attacks the thing that tried to take its arm off. @Kyris - Brimeia takes 9 damage and I need another Constitution save.

[7:38 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: ((ouch, is 9 the full or the halved?))

[7:38 PM] DM: (4 damage after resistance)

[7:39 PM] DM: Ok! @Alex - Nolanos !

[7:39 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: ((19 con))

[7:40 PM] Alex - Nolanos: Nolanos is v tired of not being able to see literally anything, so he quickly reaches into his bag, pulls out a lantern. Once it's lit, he gives it to Reyes to hold above the fray.

[7:41 PM] Alex - Nolanos: ((And that's my turn I guess))

[7:41 PM] DM: You can move or do a bonus action if you'd like.

[7:43 PM] Alex - Nolanos: Nolanos will disengage and  move back

[7:44 PM] DM: Ok!

[7:44 PM] DM: 1 skirts around the mass of people to go for the thing that chucked ice at it. And luckily for it... it has a great modifier and hits.

[7:45 PM] DM: 10 slashing damage and a Constitution save, @Felicia - Seirixori

[7:45 PM] Alex - Nolanos: (do i get attack of opportunity?)

[7:45 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: ((9))

[7:46 PM] DM: No, because he didn't leave your area.

[7:46 PM] DM: Seirixori looks like she's ready to react to the attack, but she freezes... and falls over into the water. Water just deep enough to cover her face. She does not get back up.

[7:47 PM] DM: @Ryleigh (Nicole) !

[7:51 PM] Ryleigh (Nicole): Ryleigh moves quickly to Seirixori and attempts to pull her from the water.

[7:52 PM] DM: C gets an attack of opportunity as you move away from it, but it manages to fully spill its guts and falls to the ground, under the water.

[7:52 PM] DM: You pull Seirixori up out of the water. She is still paralyzed.

[7:53 PM] Ryleigh (Nicole): ((could I use the rest of my movement to move her to shore?))

[7:53 PM] DM: Like to the door?

[7:53 PM] DM: I'd allow it, but 1 would get an AOO on you.

[7:54 PM] Ryleigh (Nicole): ((that's fine - BRING IT!))

[7:54 PM] DM: Lucky you. Ryleigh scoops Seirixori up and rushes her towards the entry of the cave. The ghast takes a swipe at the human, but her armor manages to protect her from any damage.

[7:56 PM] DM: Gunnloda! She hasn't really figured out what's happening on that side with a ghoul in her face, so she's going to hulk smash it. She kicks its knee and brings her hammer down on its head so hard it stops moving beneath the murky water.

[7:56 PM] DM: @Jaymes - Ravaphine !

[7:59 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine steps closer to the body and casts magic missile on 1 ((13 dmg))(edited)

[7:59 PM] DM: Three arcane bolts shoot forward from Ravaphine's hand and slam into the creature that paralyzed Seirixori. Luckily, because it used its reaction to attack Ryleigh, it can't attack you.

[8:00 PM] DM: Zunis will spin his trident, step forward and attempt to spear 1 as well.

[8:00 PM] DM: Again, the trident pierces the belly meat of the creature, but fails to fell it.

[8:01 PM] DM: 2 is still cowering. @Kyris - Brimeia !

[8:02 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia turns around and smacks the one behind her!

[8:03 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: ((24 atk, 11 dmg))

[8:04 PM] DM: Brimeia's axe swings forth and takes the things head clean off. Those of you paying attention can see a wisp of shadow come off the thing and wrap around Brimeia's arm, slithering up to her shoulders.

[8:06 PM] DM: @Felicia - Seirixori ! Con save, if you please.(edited)

[8:07 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: ((20))

[8:08 PM] DM: Seirixori comes to at the mouth of the cave, in Ryleigh's strong arms.

[8:08 PM] DM: @Alex - Nolanos !

[8:08 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Uuuh, hi. Thanks?"

[8:08 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia shrugs her shoulders a bit. She feels a pleasant surge and grins.

> *This is also a Thing that will become clearer in the future. Brimeia knows what it is.*
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[8:10 PM] Alex - Nolanos: Nolanos casts Firebolt at 2

[8:11 PM] Alex - Nolanos: ((8 attack 9 dmg))(edited)

[8:11 PM] DM: The blast hits the wall next to the creature.

[8:11 PM] DM: @Ryleigh (Nicole) !

[8:13 PM] Ryleigh (Nicole): ((I'm assuming that I can't get to any of the creatures with my normal movement?))

[8:13 PM] DM: Even dashing you couldn't reach.

[8:15 PM] Ryleigh (Nicole): Ryleigh wades through the water to the body flaoting just above the surface.(edited)

[8:20 PM] DM: With the things closest dead, Gunnloda glances back and sees that Seirixori is leaned against the mouth of the cave, much wetter than she should be, so she goes to give aid. And I don't know why her cure spell is all fuckered up, but you get a whopping 15 hp back as she cures you.

[8:21 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori coughs and grins, "You're the best."

[8:21 PM] DM: Ravaphine!

[8:25 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine casts a fog cloud in front of her to obscure the view of the other undead creatures. She then looks to the floating body and pockets the dagger while yelling to the group, "Everyone! Let's take her back home and try to get out of here!"

[8:25 PM] DM: Is that it?

[8:26 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: ((I don't think I can do anything else))

[8:26 PM] DM: you can move, but i guess you wouldn't want to do that. Ok!

[8:26 PM] DM: Zunis will come up to see what he can do.

[8:27 PM] DM: He nods at the Fog Cloud. "I know that one." And he carefully lifts the body... though it's really gross and slimy and bloated and... it's mostly the clothes keeping it together right now.

[8:28 PM] DM: And I'm going to do a last call to see if anyone's going to want to do anything other than leave the cave right now?

[8:29 PM] Alex - Nolanos: (is there anything else in this cave?)

[8:30 PM] DM: Not that you can see right now.

[8:31 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori walks slwoly to the thing that paralyzed her and pokes it with her foot and then searches it to see if there's anything useful.

[8:31 PM] DM: It's just a body submerged in murky water.

[8:31 PM] Ryleigh (Nicole): ((let's get outta here lol))

[8:31 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: ((runnnn lol))

[8:32 PM] Alex - Nolanos: Nolanos calls for Reyes to return and keeps an eye on Brimeia. That wisp was right in front of his face, it'd be hard /not to notice something was weird.(edited)

[8:32 PM] DM: Ok, you all leave the cave and Zunis follows, carrying the body awkwardly. Once you're out and back on the normal shore, not in danger of being chased by ghouls or drowning due to the tide, you can return to your normal role-play gaming.

[8:33 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "I feel like I should just stand back and watch while you guys do the fighting thing..." Seirixori says, trying to wring out some of hte water in her hair. "Ugh, twice in the same day."

[8:34 PM] DM: Gunnloda: "Are you ok? I didn't see what happened."

[8:35 PM] DM: Zunis: "Not to put too blunt a point on things, but where am I taking this? It doesn't exactly smell pleasant."

[8:36 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "You know, the normal. I hit someone, they didn't like it, did something weird and I fell, unable to move, face-first into the water." She shrugs, "Strangely enough a human pulled me to safety." She jokes nodding to Ryleigh.

[8:36 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "You're one of our best fighters. Those creatures were slippery and disguting. Don't forget you've singlehandedly saved us once before" Ravaphine says to Seirixori while offering her a smile

[8:37 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: Brimeia chuckles. "We need to get you some tougher skin perhaps."

[8:37 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Do any of us have a blanket or something to wrap the body in?"

[8:37 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: ((can I look around for any large leaves))

[8:38 PM] DM: It's pretty much just rocks down here.

[8:38 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori clears her throat, uncomfortable now, "Right."

[8:40 PM] DM: Gunnloda chuckles a little. "Well I'm glad you're safe now. And thanks to Ryleigh for her quick action."

[8:40 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "How do we mention what we found to the town? What if the captain tries to hurt us for finding out what he did?"

[8:41 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "I mean, we do have a quick way out, if it comes to that."(edited)

[8:41 PM] DM: Zunis: "The word of a Lord should hold weight among the people."

[8:42 PM] Ryleigh (Nicole): Ryleigh waves off the thanks as if saving someone is just normal behavior.

[8:43 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Of... a lord? Right, are you one? because... I'm pretty sure we are not."

[8:44 PM] DM: He sniffs, indignant. "I am Lord Zunis Pumanath of Thalaria, yes."

[8:45 PM] Ryleigh (Nicole): "The Captain may attempt to hurt us, but he will not succeed." Ryleigh says cooly.

[8:45 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Oooh, right. I knew that." She coughs, she really did not know that until just now.

[8:45 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine takes the dagger out of her bag to examine it more

[8:46 PM] DM: It's of a peculiar make. Clearly part of a set, the other half being the captain's cutlass. Both have the same hilt pattern, black leather grip, and slightly serrated blade.

[8:47 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "May justice be served with their so-called captain. I wish we knew her name"(edited)

[8:49 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "If we go back to the town, they could all us liars. We need to be prepared for that. How can we get back inside?" she asks Zunis(edited)

[8:50 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori looks at the walls surrounding the warehouses. "So, would it be a terrible idea to try and ...scale the wall?"(edited)

[8:50 PM] DM: Zunis: "There are two gates to the city at the top of the hill. There is nobody in the lower city during the night. They are too afraid of the creatures sent by the kraken."

[8:51 PM] Ryleigh (Nicole): Ryleigh's eyes narrow, "Justice will be served, for his sake I hope it is his leader who punishes him."(edited)

[8:52 PM] DM: (For what it's worth, you've all heard of kraken, in bedtime stories if nothing else. World devourers that live in the darkest depths of the sea and wake every few millennia to wreak havoc on the people who live by the sea.)

[8:52 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Normally I would think you're joking about the kraken but something tells me that it might actually exist..."

[8:53 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Kraken? Cool, great, awesome. Let's not have anything to do with that. But also, any objection to me scaling the wall and finding the lady person and component?"

[8:53 PM] DM: Zunis: "Of course it exists. It is the creature they call 'the deep' that my people have come to protect your people from."

[8:54 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "I would not at all call them my people, but that's cool."

[8:55 PM] Kyris - Brimeia: "Considering they're not so fond of outsiders, why did you come to protect them?"

[8:55 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "I can have somebody go with you if you are going to sneak your way inside. I can cast invisibility on them"

[8:56 PM] DM: Zunis: "It is the sworn duty of tritons. When the dark denizens of the water plane escape to your plane, we follow to defeat them."

[8:56 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "If you can climb? I can do it easily, but I'm realizing I don't know about getting out because I'm not sure someone is going to want to possibly hold onto a giant ass spider when climbing in or out?"

[8:57 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "I'll come with you. If you'd like, I can send Reyes up first to see if anything is immediately there"

[8:58 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Oh good idea. By all means, please do."

[8:59 PM] Alex - Nolanos: Nolanos gives Reyes a nudge and she flies off.

[8:59 PM] DM: The raven flies up over the wall. Like Zunis said, it looks absolutely deserted. The windows are shuttered, the doors are shut, and there's no movement at all.

[9:00 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "The coast seems clear. Let's go"

[9:00 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: Ravaphine casts invisibility on Nolanos

[9:01 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Good luck you two"(edited)

[9:01 PM] DM: We're going to follow Nolanos and Seirixori in this room, so if anyone else is sticking around, you guys are going to move to sidegroup 1

[9:01 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "Thanks. Hopefully, we won't need it."

[9:02 PM] DM: Before you leave, Gunnloda says, "Be careful. Both of you."

[9:02 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Honestly, this is probably another teriible idea," Seirixori says to herself before turning into a giant spider, similar to the one she saw in the creepy ass spider prison.

[9:02 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "Eh. All the more reason to come along."

[9:03 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "Though to be honest, I am pretty curious."

[9:04 PM] Jaymes - Ravaphine: "Do you have rope or pitons to scale the wall" ravaphine asks the air

[9:04 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "Yes, both."

[9:05 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori motions Nolanos with one of her creepy legs, or at least in his general direction, so she can climb the wall and hopefulyl get them both over.

[9:05 PM] Alex - Nolanos: Nolanos pulls them out and climbs the wall(edited)

[9:05 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori nods her head and climbs up the wall.

[9:06 PM] DM: Zunis puts the body down and uses prestidigitation to cleanse his arms.

[9:06 PM] DM: Ok! Splitting the party now.

((((((((side))))))))))

*[*9:08 PM*]*Jaymes - Ravaphine*:*"Prestidigitation. Impressive. We should find someplace safe to keep her while the others come back"

*[*9:08 PM*]*Jaymes - Ravaphine*:*((are there any large rocks or places to hide her?))

*[*9:08 PM*]*DM*:*Zunis: "Is there a reason to hide her? Nobody from the city leaves the walls at night."

*[*9:11 PM*]*Jaymes - Ravaphine*:*"I suppose not. We can set up camp here while we wait then" Ravaphine says while sitting next to the body and covering her with the spare set of clothes in her pack(edited)

((((((((end side))))))

[9:06 PM] DM: Let's see an athletics check with advantage from Nolanos just in case.

[9:07 PM] Alex - Nolanos: ((18))

[9:07 PM] DM: You make it up and over easy enough with your rope.

[9:08 PM] DM: Ahead of both of you is a block of warehouses surrounded by the walls. All the windows are boarded, all the doors are shut. You don't even see the rats and cats that are common on the docks down here. It's deserted.

[9:08 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "Its quiet..." Nolanos mutters. "Too quiet..."

[9:10 PM] Alex - Nolanos: He presses forward. "What are we even looking for anyway?"

[9:11 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori glances in the direction of Nolanos' voice and quietly heads towards one of the buildings to see if there's anyway to tell if it's the one they saw from the portal.

[9:11 PM] DM: They all look pretty much the same.

[9:13 PM] Alex - Nolanos: Nolanos approaches the closest one and cautiously cracks it open. "What's behind door number one...?"

[9:14 PM] DM: It's locked!

[9:14 PM] Alex - Nolanos: (can i pick it?)(edited)

[9:14 PM] DM: If you have thieves tools, sure.

[9:14 PM] DM: Oh, right. rogue. Duh.

[9:14 PM] Alex - Nolanos: ((16))

[9:15 PM] DM: With a faint click you hear the latch release and you can easily push the door open. Inside is what you would expect from a warehouse. Crates, boxes, sacks...

[9:15 PM] Alex - Nolanos: (LOOOOT)

[9:17 PM] Alex - Nolanos: Nolanos goes inside to inspect the  boxes and such for anything useful or nice. He also looks for a blanket.

[9:17 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Serixori makes her way in to see if the component or the resident of Bellbury is hiding in here.

[9:18 PM] DM: Roll some investigation checks

[9:18 PM] Alex - Nolanos: ((11))

[9:18 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: ((10))

[9:19 PM] DM: You can find some canvas possibly for sails or something and some heavy, utility blankets... the kind that are too rough to be comfortable but are cheap and easy to make. You don't find the component or Nira.

[9:20 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori heads back out and towards the next one, waiting for Nolanos' handy lockpicking.

[9:20 PM] Alex - Nolanos: Nolanos takes the sturdiest looking blanket and stows it in his bag. "This ought to make carrying that woman a bit easier"(edited)

[9:21 PM] Alex - Nolanos: Nolanos exits and moves on to the next door and attempts to open it

[9:22 PM] DM: Tools check?

[9:22 PM] Alex - Nolanos: ((14))

[9:23 PM] DM: Again, the door unlocks and swings open. You see much the same stuff in here.

[9:23 PM] DM: Investigation checks?

[9:23 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: ((19))

[9:23 PM] Alex - Nolanos: ((16))

[9:25 PM] DM: You notice something weird this time. It's not that anything's different from the last building... it's that there is no foodstuff in any of these crates or barrels or sacks. It's mostly just materials. Wood, iron, fabric, and things made from them. No grains or seafood or otherwise.

> *This is just a mention of how the city itself works. They don't keep any food items down here. Anything fished up gets taken to the upper city right away and all imports/exports go through the other gate over land. Nobody that isn't local comes through the harbor anymore. Mostly, it's for siege purposes though. It doesn't do any good to get caught behind walls that are different from the walls your food is behind.*
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[9:29 PM] Alex - Nolanos: Nolanos moves on to the next warehouse and tries the door once Seirixori is there

[9:29 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori hesitates at the materials, but not finding Nira or the component, heads back outside to the next place.

[9:29 PM] Alex - Nolanos: (also locked i presume?)

[9:29 PM] DM: Indeed.

[9:31 PM] DM: Go ahead and give me two different investigation checks, each of you.

[9:31 PM] Alex - Nolanos: ((17 lock))

[9:32 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: ((10, 18))

[9:32 PM] Alex - Nolanos: ((15, 11))

[9:33 PM] DM: Ok, you spend the next thirty minutes going into the warehouses one by one by one by one.... and in each of them you find the same thing. A varying collection of things in crates, barrels, and sacks. No foodstuffs, no component, no hidden people.

[9:34 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "Are you sure what you're looking for is going to be here?"

[9:35 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori comes out of her spider form, "Ugh that's annoying. I mean, not 100 percent? We just saw this lady, Nira, hiding a component. Figured it was worth a shot."

[9:35 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "Do you want to keep trying?"

[9:36 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "For a little while longer, I don't exactly want to stay here for too long, it's pretty creepy this quiet. Kind of like Bellbury, honestly."

[9:37 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "Hard to argue there."

[9:37 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "So. On to the next one." Nolanos opens the next door

[9:38 PM] DM: Another fifteen minutes goes by before Seirixori finally recognizes something. It's not much... but you think maybe this was the shelf Nira had stashed the component on... only it's empty.

[9:39 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Crap. I'm pretty sure this is it, but it's not here."

[9:40 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "There has to be some indication of where she went, where the component might be..."

[9:40 PM] Alex - Nolanos: (investgation?)

[9:41 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "I mean, I just figured we could get this part over with but, maybe not."

[9:41 PM] DM: If either of you were a ranger that could track, maybe. You can try though. Survival or investigation.

[9:41 PM] Alex - Nolanos: ((24))

[9:41 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: ((13))

> *My plan was to have Nira move the component around because she was paranoid, and also to force them to find out about the kraken's sacrifices and stuff... but a good roll and some good thinking (the bear) means I changed the plan. Originally, the tunnel was going to be a single tunnel, not forked, and it came straight out of a warehouse in the upper city that Nira had found.*
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[9:43 PM] DM: Nolanos catches a torn bit of fabric that caught on a nail on the shelf. The object was likely pulled off the shelf in a bit of a rush... but between all the other foot traffic in the area, you can't tell where it might have been taken to.

[9:44 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "Seiri... I just had an idea."

[9:45 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "Can you turn into a wolf and track her down using her scent from this bit of fabric?"

[9:45 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: She scrunches her nose a bit at the nickname. She remembers the halfling Andry using it to, she's not sure how she feels about it yet. "Uh... oh. Well yes, the only issue then is getting back over the wall."

[9:46 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "Uh, sorry. Got excited."

[9:46 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: She shrugs, "It's a good idea, up until the getting out part."

[9:46 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "And we can figure that out when we get to the wall. It's worth a shot though, right?"

[9:47 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Oh! Wait, I can still do it, just not as a wolf."

[9:48 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori's for shifts into a brown bear and she sits and waves, grinning.

[9:48 PM] Alex - Nolanos: Nolanos laughs with her, "Perfect."

[9:49 PM] Alex - Nolanos: He picks up the piece of fabric and hold it out for her

[9:50 PM] DM: Ok. Moment of truth. Give me a perception check with advantage.

[9:50 PM] DM: You get to use your +6 because it's better than the bear's.

[9:50 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: ((19))

[9:53 PM] DM: There's something... it's faint... but you catch the slightest hint of... is that mead? It's out of place since there's been no sight or scent of anything food-related, but you think you definitely smell the honey-based alcohol on this rag... and you can follow it.

[9:54 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori gives Nolanos' hand a little nudge and follows the scent.

[9:55 PM] Alex - Nolanos: Nolanos does a little fist pump and follows behind her

[9:57 PM] DM: You follow it back to the door and the trail splits. There's a faint bit going back the direction that you think you saw her come in the portal, and there's a little bit stronger scent out the other way, back towards the lighthouse side of the warehouses.

[9:58 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori stops and paws at the ground for a second before turning and heading back towards the lighthouse.

[10:01 PM] DM: You had climbed the fence on the lighthouse side, but you'd gone down the line of warehouses until you'd reached the other end. The trail now leads back to an un-checked warehouse, in the northwest corner.

[10:01 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "What do you think, 500th time is the charm?"

[10:02 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori snorts and laughs, forgetting for a moment that she can't actually talk or make normal people sounds.

[10:03 PM] DM: Matt!Trinket noises

[10:04 PM] Alex - Nolanos: Nolanos approaches the door (in stealth) and cracks the door open

[10:05 PM] Alex - Nolanos: ((28 stealth))(edited)

[10:06 PM] DM: Nice! Ok. You manage to pop open the lock (cause honestly unless you're in a rush, you can just take 10 on it) and slide inside the door as your invisibility fades. It looks, at first glance, just like every other warehouse you've been in tonight.

[10:08 PM] Alex - Nolanos: (investigation?)

[10:08 PM] DM: Sure. Is bear coming in too?

[10:09 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori wanders in.

[10:09 PM] Alex - Nolanos: ((11))

[10:09 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: ((18))

[10:09 PM] DM: You don't immediately see anything that looks off... but Seirixori tracks the smell to a stack of crates against the middle of the back wall.

[10:10 PM] Alex - Nolanos: Nolanos keeps an eye out for anything suspicious, esp traps or any sign of the woman

[10:11 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori let's out a little gruff sound getting Nolanos' attention.

[10:12 PM] Alex - Nolanos: He follows close behind

[10:13 PM] DM: Seirixori sticks her nose between two of the crates, but they're in the way.

[10:13 PM] Alex - Nolanos: Nolanos moves them out of the way

[10:14 PM] DM: There is a trap door hidden underneath the crates.

[10:14 PM] Alex - Nolanos: Nolanos opens the trap door, like always, cautiously(edited)

[10:16 PM] DM: It opens to a tunnel underneath the walls that, at least from what you can see from above, heads north towards the city.

[10:17 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "What do you think, should we get the rest of the group?"

[10:17 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "Or should we just go down before the trail gets cold?"

[10:21 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori sits and grumbles to herself. She shrugs and points to the tunnel.

[10:22 PM] Alex - Nolanos: Nolanos pulls out the lantern again and gives it to Reyes, who flies down the tunnel to get a first look

[10:26 PM] DM: Deciding that maybe a light would be the next addition to Reyes, she flies down the tunnel. The tunnel itself seems to go straight north towards the city with block walls before abruptly turning into a more natural, carved out texture, more like dug with a pick than carved. It also narrows to what would be a tight squeeze for most humanoid people (and definitely a bear) and starts winding its way west and upwards.

[10:31 PM] Alex - Nolanos: Nolanos makes Reyes return. "It goes on for quite a ways, and narrows down a lot."

[10:32 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "Onward?"

[10:34 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori shrugs again, dropping the bear form. "Well, if need be we could possibly hide out here for a bit before I can do that again. So sure, let's go find out where this thing goes. Probably best I'm not a big bear if we find who we're looking for anyway. Pretty sure a tiefling and a dragonborn are going to be enough as it is."

[10:34 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "Agreed"(edited)

[10:35 PM] Alex - Nolanos: Nolanos gestures to the path "Ladies first"

[10:35 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: Seirixori snorts, "Yeah ok." and heads down into the tunnel.

[10:36 PM] Alex - Nolanos: Nolanos shrugs and heads down the tunnel as well

[10:36 PM] DM: Ok! You start walking. Do you have a distance or time that you'll spend walking before heading back or are you going til you find something?

[10:37 PM] Alex - Nolanos: (Finding things)(edited)

[10:37 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: ((or like another way out lol))

[10:37 PM] Alex - Nolanos: ((that too lol))(edited)

[10:38 PM] DM: Ok! So the beginning of the tunnel is well-crafted. Block walls, 90 degree angles, paved floors.

[10:39 PM] DM: It quickly changes, though, to rough floors and rougher walls dug straight out of the rock. Roll a wisdom check (not save).

[10:39 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: ((17))

[10:40 PM] Alex - Nolanos: ((..5))

> *This check was just to notice that this tunnel isn't well used. Unlike the one from the upper city that the guards use (as well as people bringing babies), this one was only really used by the scion.*
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[10:41 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Hm, no one really uses this...wonder what it's for. This place just keeps getting sketchier by the second."

[10:42 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "But it wouldn't be as interesting if it weren't as sketchy."

[10:43 PM] Alex - Nolanos: Nolanos is only half kidding

[10:43 PM] DM: The steady  north bearing eventually starts to shift, evident by the way you can't see in both directions very far, and Seirixori can tell it's starting to turn west towards the lighthouse and your calves tell you you're also on a bit of an incline.

[10:44 PM] DM: You just... keep on walking. Walking, walking, walking.

[10:44 PM] DM: Perception if you please.

[10:44 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Ugh, I might be regretting this decision."

[10:45 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: ((12))

[10:45 PM] Alex - Nolanos: ((8))

> *This was to notice the illusion/secret entry to the tunnel to the upper city. But they both failed.*
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[10:46 PM] DM: You keep walking, walking, walking. You think you've probably been gone from your group for a good... two and a half hours or so.

[10:46 PM] DM: But another ten minutes and something's changed. The air is different. Cooler? Almost salty.

[10:46 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "We must be getting close to an exit"

[10:47 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Smells like we're by the sea. Finally, this is taking a lot longer than I thought."

[10:48 PM] DM: Up ahead, as you come around a final curve that points you south, the tunnel opens up into a cave... or at least part of one.

[10:48 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Oh look, a cave, how... not surprising." Seirixori groans and looks about.

[10:49 PM] DM: There's no light other than the one Reyes carries. The cave moves out towards your left into a bit of a cavern, then another larger natural cave tunnel further to the south west.

[10:52 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "So, go back to our friends and bring them here, or see where this goes? And possibly run the hell away if there are more creepy dead things?"

[10:52 PM] DM: Neither of you has Poni, right?

[10:52 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "We've come this far, haven't we? Let's see where this goes."

[10:53 PM] Alex - Nolanos: ((I know i don't))

[10:53 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: ((I actually don't know who has Poni, cuz I thought Urrak did?))

[10:54 PM] DM: Continuing on then?

[10:54 PM] Alex - Nolanos: (i vote yes)

[10:55 PM] DM: Perception checks.

[10:55 PM] Alex - Nolanos: ((17))

[10:55 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Alright." Seirixori says a little reluctantly. She's pretty sure she told herself to stop doing things like this, but here she is.

[10:56 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: ((20))

[10:56 PM] DM: You both notice decently fresh footprints in the cave ahead. It seems dust is able to collect a bit better in the open space, and someone's walked through here in the last day or two.

> *Nira did, to report about the newcomers to town and to relocate the component.*
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[10:57 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Ooh something looking up." Seirixori whispers and follows the tracks.

[10:58 PM] DM: Ok. You enter the cave proper and ahead you see that the little cavern room you came into is connected to a tunnel between two other caves. More than that, though, you see more footprints intermixing with the ones you saw. Perception again.

[10:59 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: ((21))

[10:59 PM] DM: Look at you go. lol

[10:59 PM] Alex - Nolanos: ((13))

> *This check was to identify the footprints and determine a direction. The tracks included little circles like peg legs and bits of dragged something... like tentacle legs. The sea spawn that have been gone long enough have mutated partially into sea creatures and sometimes wander the tunnels down here.*
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[11:02 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "Uuuuhhhhhhhhhhhh...." Seirixori takes a little step back. "You know, this is not looking like the best place to be. We were following boots and now there's... it looks like something was dragged through here."

[11:06 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "You're probably right... We should regroup with everyone else."

[11:06 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "Before we go, can you tell what might have done the dragging?"

[11:08 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "I'm not entirely sure I want to be right about what I think it is, because right now my mind is definitely going towards big and tentacle-y."

[11:10 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "Like... like the Kraken that supposedly lives around here?"

[11:10 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "We.. yeah we should definitely go..."

[11:12 PM] Felicia - Seirixori: "I mean, not entirely because that's... really big, but my mind went there and now I just want to leave." Seirixori says, looking again just to see if the tracks maybe go in different directions. "Honestly if Nira went this way... she's either really brave, or just really desperate or... drunk?"

[11:13 PM] Alex - Nolanos: "Now that'd be a sight"

[11:14 PM] Alex - Nolanos: Nolanos heads back to the tunnel entrance, "Come on, let's get out of here."

[11:16 PM] DM: So you head back and an hour later you're back at the wall after replacing the crates and locking the doors. Nolanos's rope gets you back over and voila. We can end here and wait for Tuesday. You were gone four and a half hours.

[11:16 PM] DM: I think you might get lectured.

[11:18 PM] Alex - Nolanos: Nolanos sheepishly gives Gunnloda the tarp he brought. "Got you guys this?"