Session 30

Session begins.

           Note - Vjenga is communicating telepathically for the first half of the session because I forgot to change my mic input, and then when it comes back it regularly chops the ends of sentences. I don’t remember some of the things I said so we might get a lil patchwork here.

●    Elyes gives a lovely longer recap and gets interrupted by lousy backflips.

●    Ymna, Langar and Solla ask the Queen Bergljot about the history of the tunnels. They try to convince the Queen Bergljot to let the party lead, she declines. Everyone can hear this conversation.

●    I THINK Vjenga asked about the Queen Bergljot’s wife and children. She says that her family was not at the castle. They were staying at an inn whose keeper her children are fond of.

●    Venphira tries to remind the Queen Bergljot of her previous drunken outburst. The Queen Bergljot says they’ll talk about it later. (not in front of the class)

●    Vjenga asks Venphira about her contact, Venphira LIES when asked how she managed to contact her patron.

●    The Lumleys are off in a corner talking.

●    Jinx mushroom gun .mp3

○    Jinx investigates (investi-gats?) her gun, she learns that it came from Vanaheim. When she picks it up, she hears the chuckling of familiar friends.

○    She runs over to show Vjenga her new weapon, Vjenga is confused, Kijin is apprehensive. Jinx tells Kijin to put a cap in it (hee hee). She says that the gun was gifted to her by very important little people, her friends. When asked by Kijin who these people are, she ignores his question.

●    The party is arranged in a single file.

○    Queen Bergljot, Langar, Kijin, Vjenga/Jinx, Solla, Venphira, Ymna, Qo, Sylvi.

○    The Lumleys consider going by themselves, but they eventually settle on coming along.

○    Vjenga asks if the Queen Bergljot knows if the changing rooms are accessible. The Queen Bergljot says yes, and they make their way through the tunnels in that direction.

●    The party emerges from the tunnel at the other end of the collapsed room.

○    They find their way to the changing rooms, the hall containing them is locked.

○    Jinx wants to pick the lock, but doesn’t have her tools. Kijin picks the lock instead, a classic courier move. He says he has a bad habit of locking himself out of his own trunks (bologna).

○    The party gets their possessions back. Langar has the right idea in never taking his armor off I think.

○    Ymna approaches Vjenga and asks for his inlaid vial. He describes it as a “mystery tool that will Help us out later.”

○    The party leaves the castle

●    Outside, there are an array of bodies piled. The white dragon who attacked is dead, and its eyes are vacant. In the distance, the party can see the shape of Rösk, bubbling with amber, as they leave.

●    Langar reunites with Johannes, Solla looks for Eðr but doesn't find him.

●    Jinx shoots a straggler.

○    The gun is squishy and smells familiar.

○    “It’s his fault for appearing before me after I got a new gun.”

○    Everyone can see and hear as Jinx shoots this guy’s face off. Mushrooms and blooms spring from the corpse. Those who are near her can hear dissonant cheers and whisper.

○    “Tetanus shot”

●    Solla asks Guldrad, while they dig through the corpse of Jydrai (the white dragon). Guldrad is gutting Jydrai to harvest the organ that allows white dragons to chill their breaths, among other things.

○    When asked about the purpose of the organs, Guldrad says Solla “... might see. Just show up to the wedding.”

○    Ominous

○    Solla takes a scale. It is cold to their touch and just barely fits in their hand.

●    Vjenga does some healin’. In the recording it just seems like an extended period of Elyes talking to himself.

●    Langar is continuing to Help Johannes, who is periodically taking breaks from assisting in the recovery to rest. He is apparently injured.

○    He feels obligated to Help. Langar urges him to look out for himself.

○    He offers to Help Johannes -- won’t let him overdo it or strain himself.

○    Langar learns that Sihinion erected a bubble to protect some of the partygoers from falling debris, Johannes escaped with him but he doesn’t know where Sihinion went.

●    Vjenga asks Morgana about her bone stick.

○    Morgana tells her that it was a wedding gift from a time of peace and alliance between Alfheim and Svartálfar. There are vows inlaid into both parts.

○    It would guide a user to the location of a rune, used to locate one member of a couple or home.

○    When Morgana expresses interest in learning more about the romantic traditions of other cultures, Vjenga recommends ''Significance *by Dav the Lover.*

■    Morgana seems surprised by the mention of Dav the Lover, which was a joint pseudonym they used. The book was a challenge between the two, who explored (before Sylviand Kare’s time) different continents and “EXPLORED” the way different cultures love.

■    Vjenga is surprised. Morgana signs her book in Dav’s handwriting.

●    Jinx does a backflip. The fey twitch chat audience goes wild.

●    Qo expresses interest in rebuilding, talks to the Queen Bergljot.

●    Solla finds Eðr, who informs them of the white dragon’s name (Jydrai). Solla says they are thinking about Eðr’s desire to attend the wedding, and elaborates.

○    Solla asks before doing so whether they have any intent of harming Solla or the party. They say they do not. A pigeon reminds them to roll insight. They seem to be being honest. They have no reason to harm Solla, but they’re not sharing the whole truth.

○    Solla invites them, and asks what they hope to learn from the wedding. Eðr offers a trade in gold, Solla says they would prefer to see Eðr as an ally.

○    Solla introduces themself properly as Solla rather than Thirashtath Grekax. Eðr smiles. They say that they are the last of their kind, they don’t know where they came from or how they came to be, and so they can’t Help Solla solve this mystery for themselves.

■    Eðr was born able to call upon the aid of a drake. It has grown with them.

○    Solla tells Eðr that Esirar is marrying Rösk. They say that “sounds about right”, and advise Solla to not offend Rösk regardless of how surprised they might be.

●    Ymna asks Morgana and Ulfred if they are their parents. They seem to wonder for a little bit before saying that they think that’d be impossible.

●    LYDR AND BYRTR EMERGE FROM THE HOOOLE!

○    Their grandchild and great grandchild greet ‘em. They say they were busy talking to one another back in the tunnels.

○    Ymna asks Byrtr, as the Master of Religion, what they know about Nidhogg’s farts.

■    Byrtr tells them that they can scry, one way, into the prison of the Nidhogg. They blind Ymna and golf-style smack Ymna with their snail cane.

■    “It’s so noxious that it hurts.”

○    Ymna gets healed.

●    Vjenga goes looking for the Queen Bergljot’s children and retrieves them from the inn called the Impolite Bear (innpolite??). Vjenga regains the power of speech.

●    Langar asks Johannes if he knows about any inns nearby. They’re lookin for privacy.

○    They find an inn, get a bottle of wine and a room for a platinum piece.

○    Langar slams the door to their room so hard that it falls off the hinges.

○    THEY’RE FUCKEN!

●    Sylvi rises.

○    She talks briefly to her parents, and pets her dog.

○    They tell her about their Dav the Lover adventures, they apparently wrote MULTIPLE books?

○    Sylvi runs off and says she’ll talk to her parents later.

●    The non sex-having party goes to get a room. Vjenga crashes instantly, Venphira journals.

○    Jinx has a dream of cowboyhood, slaying ne'er do wells and do-gooders alike with her new pepperbox. Her dream ends with a hug from Vjenga and she wakes up snoozin’ in her arms.

●    In the morning, The Lumleys bid the party farewell. They remind the party of their proposition to retrieve the Valkyrie artifacts, tell Sylvi they love her, and leave.

○    As Morgana leaves, she turns to wave politely to Venphira. Venphira hates this.

●    Ymna seeks out their grandpa Byrtr, who laughs at them when they describe the effect of Lothtr’s geas. They refuse to remove it.

●    Langar rolls a con save and doesn’t take a point of exhaustion.

●    Solla approaches Vjenga to tell her about the scale they acquired and ask about frost jotunn physiology (tragically not menstruation lore. Elyes, I have questions).

○    She explains that frost jotnar have a similar organ (the illt frjósa, or frjósa) (free-osha)

○    Solla explains that they wanted to take the scale in case it was useful, and as a keepsake. They also show her the young dragon ring, because they can’t use it very well and think the sapphire would match her eyes. Vjenga sees a prankpertunity.

■    She flips up her bangs and casts thaumaturgy to make her eyes numerous and freaky.

○    Barking.

○    Vjenga is underwHelmed by her prank response.

○    Solla uses this as a segway to ask aboUT NECROMANCY.

■    “Oh, ice-y, yeah that’s funny! Could I see the sc-”

■    “My mother died. And I think she’s alive again.”

○    Vjenga says she hopes Solla will have an opportunity to talk to their mother.

○    They trade the young dragon ring for Aldrich's ruby.

●    Solla and Vjenga split, Vjenga to look for Langar and Solla to be on vegetable patrol.

○    It takes Vjenga the better part of an hour to find him. When they do reconvene, she asks him where he was.

○    Langar introduces Johannes in name only, Vjenga says they met and Solla interrupted her teaching him about knock knock jokes.

○    Langar wants to know more and I cannot lie it kinda sounds like he’s ready to kill Solla for interrupting knock knock joke lore.

○    They head back to the barracks.

●    Back at the barracks, Venphira kicks Kijin under the table. Kijin uses uncanny dodge to half two damage to one?

○    The party asks Kijin what he’ll be doing next. Solla is passive aggressive.

○    The party REALLY doesn’t trust Kijin. Qo becomes nocturnal and then immediately not nocturnal. Solla asks what he REALLY does.

○    Venphira tries to intimidate Kijin.

○    Vjenga casts zone of truth, Langar, Kijin and Solla fail their saves.

○    Vjenga asks how Kijin met Eðr.

■    They say they were acquaintances through work, and Eðr purchased some of their goods. Kijin grew up in the Ashen Shore, near the docks, as Solla did.

■    They have stolen items to sell. Kijin says they don’t murder to steal their items, and they hurt people as rarely as possible. They say that they are not a petty street thief.

■    Kijin asks for Solla’s name, even though they’ve already been called by name at this table.

■    Kijin has more questions and gets rudely ignored. Guldrad “told you so”’s Tordla.

●    Guldrad asks if they know anything about “the other Solla  *or Esirar.*

●    She did die, which will make for an *interesting* wedding.

●    Tordla says that the ability to bring someone back from the dead is usually in a trade with Hel. They exchange their own life or a period of their lifespan to do so :gaunt:.

■    Guldrad doesn’t know of any other Dragonborn named Esirar.

■    The Entry Fraggers will leave separately from the rest of the group but will be at the wedding.

○    Kijin requests to join the party, he says that the world is dangerous and the party seems capable.

■    Ymna asks if Langar trusts him, he says no. Audibly.

■    Kijin says under Zone of Truth that he doesn’t intend to harm or steal from the party.

■    Solla apologizes for giving Kijin a fake name. Kijin says in joining the party he is looking for safety.

■    Vjenga is accidentally offensive in calling him a little kitty cat.

■    Kijin is accidentally offensive in calling himself a member of the almighty tabaxi race.

○    Solla says they need to talk to the party, but before (and after) that happens Venphira goes to speak to the Queen Bergljot.

●    Gonna put it in an appropriate order in the doc tho.

○    Solla leads the party to a relatively quiet place.

○    They recount the wedding situation.

○    They say that they are the offspring or embodiment of Solla (dragon version).

■    Vjenga asks what they are hoping to do at the wedding, whether they want to stay with this dragonborn group.

■    Solla is confused. They have partially dropped their goal for revenge and just want to understand. They don’t want to live in a dragonborn culture, they prefer the monastery and the party.

■    Langar tells Solla he’d go to the END OF THE EARTH for them.

●    They have a very awkward handshake.

■    Solla asks about the newer members of the party’s intentions at the party, whether they’d be okay with danger.

■    Qo says it depends on what he feels at the moment. Brutally honest.

○    “As we say in The Deliberators…” Solla gets up and leaves.

○    Knock knock joke FAILURE shame on the Theodorson bloodline.

○    Session ends.

●    Venphira leads Vjenga Jinx and Sylvi to the castle again for an audience with Queen Bergljot.

○    Outside the gate, two guards are sitting on a rock. When they see the party approaching, they get up and ask for their business.

○    Venphira gives them her name and one of them walks inside to check for an appointment.

○    Venphira is IMMEDIATELY suspicious in asking Vjenga to distract him. Goddamn rich kids can’t wait for a minnie. As Vjenga asks what she intends to say to the Queen Bergljot, the guard comes back out and they beckon Venphira inside.

○    Before she leaves, Vjenga casts enhance ability - eagle’s splendor. Venphira reassures her that she knows how to talk to women. Puh-lease. U murdered the last milf you talked to.

○    The castle is guarded as she enters, she passes into a war room. It is dimly lit with the same birdcages as before. There is a map and miniatures on the table. Behind the desk, the Queen Bergljot is overlooking notes and papers. She seems stressed.

■    The guard introduces her and leaves. Pickin up here next week.