Session 5 - The Apprentice of Tyral Dashar

## Recap

After much discussion, the party decides to split. Ebinir and Tranquility head back to the “Eye of the Beholder” to purchase supplies and rest for the night. Anika, Creep, Aldren, and Toussaint remain in the church with the gnoll prisoner. Ebinir and Tranquility journey back to the Underlook and spend the night at the inn.

Late in the evening, the gnoll prisoner awoke. Aldren, waiting for the gnoll to wake up, uses his psychic powers to interrogate the gnoll. Aldren learns the gnoll, part of the Dosk, was hired by the shadow man to attack the group, kidnap Bennet, and take him back to Tyrial Dashar’s Workshop somewhere deep in Kyber’s Gate. After the interrogation, Aldren releases the gnoll, and goes back to sleep.

In the morning Ebinir and Tranquility go shopping and acquire supplies, and then grab a sky coach headed back to The Fallen. During the ride, an artificer riding a large mechanical bird with dragon shards lands on the sky coach. He demands that they return the book, “The Littlest Moon” to him, or he will attack and toss them off the boat. Ebinir tosses the book “On the Divinity Within”, over the edge of the coach, and the artificier dives after it thinking it's the book he is seeking. The sky coach takes off fast as it can, and they escape.

The rest of the party wakes up and has breakfast at the church. During the meal, Toussaint reveals that while fighting in the pit last week, he found a man strangled in the bathroom. Guards came and accused Toussaint of committing the crime. He convinced them that he did not do not do it, but he learns that this is not the first murder.

Ebinir and Tranquility return and tell the rest of the party how they were attacked on their way back, and that the artificer appeared to work with Karola. Aldren recounts what he learned from the Gnoll. The party decides to pursue Karola and Bennet into the cogs.

They find a utility shaft with some sort of elevator platform. Nervous about a possible trap, the party nevertheless takes the contraption down into the cogs. As they descend, they are attacked by the artificer who flies in from above and several thugs dropping in via rope. The party make quick work of the thugs who mostly surrender after watching their comrades being beaten to a pulp. The artificer attempts to escape on his mechanical bird, with Tranquility on it. Anika takes a final shot knocking out the artificer, who only survives the 80 foot fall, because of Tranquility’s last minute dive to save him. The mechanical servant dives down to protect its master, but the party manages to destroy it. The elevator reaches the bottom and the party has descended into the Ashblack. The thugs run away.

After a short rest, the artificer wakes up, and Aldren uses his psychic talents to interrogate him. He reveals that this master Tyrial Dashar, sent him for “The Littlest Moon” book, which apparently has some hidden knowledge within it. Tyrial Dashar an artificer of apparently great knowledge and power is also taking care of Karola, and is at his workshop. He also reveals that the workshop is near Shamukar, a large inn which acts as a neutral ground for all in the cogs.

After the psychic effects work off, the party argues what to do with their prisoner. After a fierce argument, they decide to let him go with only a single dagger. Anika shoots the mechanical bird, to make sure that it cannot be repaired. They knock him out, and head out into the Ashblack.