Session 5

Sessions

Session 4

Session 5 – Look a bird!

* The team prepared to leave Vilaman’s Disgrace, Prim, Rei and Thiana send messages to family.
* The group returns to the Port of the Eye after about 3 days travel. The dock keeper is surprised to see them again, because, fox teams don’t come back. He is in the process of building a new acid-proof boat. Rei informs him that the water near the Tower of Pain may not be as acidic as it used to be.
* Since they have returned within 10 days he has held the horses for them, he mentions roc attacks toward Braymore’s Post have increased due to the fog on The Eye clearing and visibility being better.
* Rei then does a report to Drum who is very impressed they are still alive. He is told they found Queen Celestia in the tower and that due to an unforeseen circumstance rapidly aged and died, Drum asks if she mentioned the location of her son as the ritual they are gathering artifacts for requires blood of one of the royal lines.
* Tetzo and Rei hunt and catch two rabbits. (3 rations per rabbit), Prim asks at a farm house and buys 20 days of rations.
* They travel North West and on day three go through Cummings Ranch (Prim wanted to stop and pet some of the baby animals but Tetzo said no) they notice some ballistae that have been there for some time already and a lot of work on constructing several new ballistae. Looking back after they pass they see two massive birds come and attack the ranch, even though the ranchers fight back and land a hit against them, one bird flies off with a cow and several other animals are maimed.
* The group turns back and Prim asks if they can help. The party asks if they can have the carcass of one of the sheep. The rancher agrees and Rei butchered it and got 20 rations of meat. The ranchers are impressed with his skill.

Session 5 – This soup’s delicious!

* One more day of travel and the party comes to Braymore’s Post, it is very busy and everyone is very busy building more ballistae in the square.
* Thiana talks to a villager named Salia to find out where to grab some food and drink, and is directed to local tavern/inn The Rakish Hoe, Rei asks about where to stable the horses and is directed to the other side of the road. Salia mentions that her niece, Bria, was taken for purple fox team.
* The party meets at the tavern where Hilda the proprietor is very friendly and offers beef or mutton stew in very generous bowls. Prim, Thiana and Tetzo have a bowl each Rei requests one of each and dives in, literally. She mentions that they are busy because the Cummings are bringing in the cattle for a large shipment and there are increased roc attacks.
* Tetzo heads over to the general store and gets a large cow hide, Thiana followed him to the store and got her own blanket, Tetzo heads out to the warehouse for a marathon arts and crafts time. Prim comes in and gets stationary and ink, merchants here are not put off by fox teams.
* As Rei exits the tavern, just as two rocs are approaching the town and the Cummings herd is arriving. He goes to the nearest ballista to assist with loading ammo. All the civilians clear the square and the Sergeant (a tiefling), soldiers and guards either man the ballistae or prep bow and arrow. Tetzo comes out of the warehouse.
* After two rounds the birds are working on disassembling one ballista when Tetzo charms them and tells them to go away. End combat… I guess. Tetzo heads back to the warehouse to continue arts and crafts time.
* The team now meets Sergeant Vakman, the local big boss guy, and his assistant Grimsley, Vakman has Grimsley had them a very old dossier, he does some preliminary flirting with Thiana and leaves them to it.
* The record shows that this rogue showed up in town about 150 years ago and stole some gold from the tavern and was jailed in the barracks. After a while he was released, and disappeared again.
* Thiana takes the dossier back to Vakman’s office and he accepts it back, clearly finds Thiana amusing, Thiana leaves. Prim comes to the office and talks to Grimsley about if there are any shipping records. There is a dock but only a few things are shipped by sea and records are not great from 150 years ago but is told ship mostly come from Ramley’s Retreat and sometimes Amadar and Metca.
* The Rei and Thiana head the tavern and Prim checks in on Tetzo who has finished arts and crafts time and is going to sleep and then heads to the tavern to meet Thiana and Rei. Thiana is trying to get drunk again and is offered Elder Flower Scotch and drinks a half pint of it. She is now plastered, Rei also drinks a few sips, then a few more sips.
* Thiana grapples Prim in her tail while petting Rei, who has gone full puppy mode, panting heavily and barring his belly for pets, which Thiana is reciprocating.
* Prim is horrified and worried she will be crushed. The bar staff help her out and at the end of the night take Rei and Thiana to the barracks which they use as impromptu drunk tank. Prim heads back to the inn and gets some proper sleep.

Session 5 – I did what?

* Tetzo wakes up and goes to get the cart and horses.
* Prim gets up and breakfast is on in the tavern, she asks to have a table held for her party and goes to find Tetzo, she finds him with the horses, she invites him to meet them at the tavern for a meal, then goes to the barracks to get Rei and Thiana.
* Thiana wakes up on the floor her head is under one bed, her tail is under another, Rei is on bed without covers, in a most undignified pose. Rei makes a noise and Thiana tries to sit up banging her head on the bottom of the bed causing her to notice a paper wrapped packet which she takes, because why not. Thiana can’t remember anything after entering the tavern, Rei remembers everything… argh!! He resolves to not “remember”.
* The Rakish Hoe has a huge breakfast buffet, Thiana and Rei attack it. Prim keeps her distance to avoid Thiana’s tail, notices when Thiana drops the packet she found, keeps an eye on it and picks it up. Thiana, Rei, Tetzo and Prim sit at a table where Sgt. Vakman is sitting. He finds Thiana’s disheveled hangover look very charming, he wishes them well and leaves.
* The party heads to the cart. The party is thinking of heading to Metca. Prim gives Thiana the papers she dropped (see handouts) and after reading them the group decides to go to Metca.
* Four days later they arrive back at Ramley’s Retreat. The Sea Breath is expected in three days heading for Amadar.
* Prim goes to Lecka about the Potion of Yeeting. She find the recipe in an old book, the ingredients are, seshta root, cyanide, crushed moss agate, and red clay. Prim asks if Lecka has any healing potions. Lecka has a box with 10 potions in an old cupboard, she is kind of certain that most of these are healing potions.
* Thiana discovers a bottle of Elder Flower Scotch in her bag, no idea how it got there. Asks Rei about it, he gives her some story about Prim giving it to her.
* On day two they notice Bird Island is on fire. The party discusses going over to the island to see what is happening but the trip will take several days and they will miss the boat. Townsfolk are not phased and say there is an old lady, woman and little girl, they send supplies sometimes and the fires are normal.
* The next day the Sea Breath is anchored near the docks, the crew are in town, have set up a stall with luxury goods from around the isles. Thiana buys some concentrated perfume, asks Prim about how to dilute it, and mentions the Elder Flower Scotch she found. Prim has a moment of anger and runs off to shoot rocks into the sea. Thiana asks about Captain Morgan. Smee indicates it is better for Capt. Morgan to be drunk and he thinks the Captain was separated for someone/or thing that was important to him.
* Rei sees this and goes to the Library and talks to Cogswright about the teleportation circle & mentions the letter which indicates multiple locations are possible and is informed they are looking into it. Rei asks if the circle might have connected to Metca, Cogswright says many things are hidden in the abandoned North Citadel. Rei asks for a book about magic for Prim, Cogswright give him a book about the basics of teleportation circles. Rei asks about the ritual the artifacts are for. Cogswright tells him it was to maintain a protection against the elder gods the last ritual was missed and the islands have started to sink.
* The party gets on the cart to go to the dock and meet the Sea Breath.

- END SESSION 5 -

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