TNoW - Session Eight

Session #08 (28/02/2021) (07:00) NZDT.

**Location:**

Hemnon/Kieln/Guilliman/Nirn/Renoa/Raoul/Lunna.

**Session Overview.**

Blizzard (Lunna) joins the party!

**Notable Events:**

* The party heads to the house that Hemnon purchased in the Dock ward to inspect it. As the party moves past the market, there seems to have been an incident. Guards are making a “human circle” around some people that are in chains - One of which being the kid from the festival who stole Renoas money. Upon explaining to the guard our history with the kid, the guard hands over the kids belongings. Renoa gets her money back (plus extra and a free handy haversack) and Nirn gets a crab automaton that seems to be missing a key.
* Raoul starts a small moral fight with a Triton shopkeeper, he makes a bad yelp review and puts it on a sign outside the tritons shop. The triton removes it as Raoul walks away.
* Hemnon purchases metal to create extra keys of the Dock house for the party.
* The party continues towards the Dock house, noting children running around dressed as monsters and that day 2 of the festival has a lot of water events involved.
* When the party arrives at the house, a small figure is waiting for them. Lunna - a member of the Waterdeep Watch and their combat medic. She tells the party that she’s been assigned to them and will accompany them from now on.
* The Dock House has remnants of its past inhabitors, “The Summer Home of Thick and Thack'' phantom images of two past goblinoid creatures in love. In the basement of the Dock House, there seemed to be remnants of a powerful resurrection spell that to our knowledge, seemed to have worked.
* Lunna senses an undead presence in the basement area, 5ft underground and not awake or aware. She addresses it and receives no response. The undead is a male humanoid with sunken eyes, strands of white hair and an unhinged lower jaw. The undead has been cleaved in half around the belly button.
* Lunna casts “Speak with dead” and asks the following questions, receiving the following answers in return: “Who did this?” **-**  “Thay Mages.” “Why would they do that to you?” **-**  “I was a witness, I saw everything.” “Tell us of it.” **-**  “They had agents the entire time. The war out east is settling in the west.” “What can you tell me about the agents you witnessed?” **-**  “They worked with the Halfling, Capscan.” “Who were you?”  **-**  “A lord of Neverwinter. I was Darius Logihn.” The party notes that that seemed to be an elvish last name.
* We take his remains to Scruffins to ask and she mentions that the last she had heard of him, he was heading out to be an Ambassador about 8 years ago. Scruffins commissions a courier to take the remains back to Neverwinter to rest with his family.
* We tell Scruffins about the extra arm belonging to Foldgers and she smiles, telling us that she’ll have something for us to do for her once she’s better. She also asks Lunna to accompany us to Red Larch and gives her a sending stone to contact her in the case of trouble.
* The party heads back to the Inn. Raoul drinks strong liquor and becomes shiny like a disco ball. Hemnon asks Barrten to make the extra keys for the Dock House and Nirn asks him to try and make the missing key for the crab automaton.
* On the way to Red Larch, the party discovers a pair of shackles that Lunna confirms to be of Waterdeep Guard issue. There seems to be footprints leading into a dense patch of forest, growing from a small size to the size of an adult humanoid. Kieln notices a figure wearing the day mask of Thay as him but does nothing.
* Red Larch is mostly populated by Halflings. Guilliman takes the lead in investigating - finding the Mayor of Red Larch (Sir Littletall) and is told the following: Red Larch had seen no violence for the past 8 months. They had an issue with a Large man (Looking very similar to Guilliman but bulkier and with a bramble laurel) who had appeared with “crazy technology” and said he was going to “Raze the village to the ground, place their heads on spikes and rule them all.” The citizens of Red Larch repelled him with their defenses.
* Littletall mentions that Red Larch was no stranger to dealing with Orcs, but that there seemed to be a camp of them nearby that were out of the ordinary...far more territorial and bloodthirsty than usual, with a few of the villagers being taken and killed by them during their last interaction.
* Guilliman speaks of the Orcs with disdain and prejudice. Littletall also tells us that Capscan had some through Red Larch, called it a shit town and set a house on fire. He also mentions that Darius Logihn had a son, Darius Jr who was a very fine wizard and that he had seen Darius Sr about six months ago.
* The party is directed to the Orcs campsite in some local church ruins. Inside are five Orc-like figures. Gulliman warns the party that they are called “Scabies” and must be thoroughly exterminated as they have a very fast repopulation rate if left alone.
* Once combat is finished, Guilliman stomps on the heads of the defeated orcs before gathering their bodies to burn them. Renoa feels very uncomfortable about Guilimans savagery towards Orcs and steps outside. Nirn follows Renoa to see if she was okay and comfort her. Inside the church, Kieln/Hemnon/Guilliman are investigating the church and find a dead body with a book and a sceptre. The body “dressed in golds and purples and looking very familiar to Guilliman” sends Guilliman into a rage and he uses a divine smite to attack the body in hopes of destroying it. The Sceptre and book are freed, Hemnon attempts to open the book and sustains heavy damage.
* Once everybody is outside, with Guilliman burning the bodies of the “Scabies” a voice rings out from across the lake: “And you’ve taken care of a problem for me. Thank you.” then the church is hit by what seems to be a bolster-shot.