Session 19

Session 19

TLDR:

The session began with the party’s realization that Kare (and later Langar) were afflicted with vampirism) After resting, they discovered Langar in eternal sleep (vampire hunger coma) in his bed. They were able to feed and resuscitate him with help from Leonidas, who invited the party to accompany Sylvi and Kare back to the Oliviers.

    The rest of the session was spent shopping and reading up in the library and ended with a brief visit to The Gate of the Gods.

Summary:

·   Elyes shares his lovely KK slider song kins (only got some of them 4got to record sorry)

·   play begins, recap

·   Something is off about Kare, he feels an urge to make a meal out of Sylvi and Venphira

·   Solla laments lack of chunky horse

·   Solla tries to get Langar's attention who is (understandably) feeling like shit

o    Vjenga casts cure wounds with indeterminate results, Langar recoils, and goes to bed

·   Vjenga pokes around Kare and determines that he either has vampirism or is a zombie.

o    Kare says he wants to eat people. (very blunt) “Venphira is more edible than hateable.”

o    Vjenga asks if Kare will bite anyone, he is lying.

o    Vjenga knows that vampirism can be cured by Dying (extended periods of eternal sleep, ex. 9 years), or a cure from the creature that turned you (the flesh golem we blasted into kingdom fuck).

o    Kare pleads with Venphira for her “inside juices”. kale’s words.

o    Solla proposes that Kare should be shackled to prevent him from biting anyone, but the party refuses.

o    The party argues about who will sleep in the same room as Kare.

o    It is determined that Solla’s dragonborn blood would not be potable to vampire Kare, it is grey and sparks.

o    They decide to get another room for Kare, Solla offers to go get it. \

·   Venphira thanks Sylvi for “spotting her in the casino”

o    Sylvi says it’s fine. **INSIGHT CHECK**

o    Due to austri racism powers Sylvi gets advantage on deception checks, it is difficult to tell if she’s upset.

·   Solla gets another room key.

·   Kare is given the key to the other room and leaves to sleep.

·   Jinx is staring daggers at Solla from the top of Vjenga’s head.

·   Solla divulges the fact that they have made some Transactions.

o    Jinx is no longer on Vjenga’s head.

o    It is time to rob Solla.

·   Solla, Vjenga, Sylvi, Venphira and Jinx enter a room to talk to Solla.

·   Jinx tries to climb Vjenga’s leg, but falls off and the bag hits her head on her way down. It knocks her unconscious.

·   Sylvi is giving Venphira the cold shoulder.

·   Solla is PO’d because Jinx tried to rob her, Jinx is still unconscious a la Garfield.

·   Solla takes their share from the pot, the party splits it evenly between the last of them.

·   The party discusses why Vjenga needs pretty rocks. (for revivify)

·   We talk about the price of spells

·   Solla asks about Vjenga’s uncle, kale is going in the box for his comments

·   Venphira asks Sylvi about anything that she needs, and gets the "I just need some time"

·   Solla makes an ABYSMAL insight check and thinks that Sylvi is crying about money.

·   Venphira backs off of Sylvi and goes to sleep in the same room as Solla.

·   Jinx is still OUT COLD.

o    Solla tries to wave a coin under her nose to awaken her. (spiciest)

o    Solla leaves the room, as they are leaving they see that Jinx has awoken and buried herself in the pot of gold.

o    Jinx decides to sleep in the bag of gold, agrees to count it out for the party.

·   Sylvi and Vjenga have a short, curt, discussion about how shitty the day was.

·   Solla and Venphira have a conversation wherein it is learned that Venphira’s family was a wealthy business success. She came from The Green Lights.

·   The party goes to bed

o    Kare has a dream

o    Kare is racist in his dream

o    His dream begins with a long sequence of falling, during which he remembers his home and family.

o    He lands on a path like the one leading to his home.

o    He reaches the doors, and begins to hear his father laughing. As the doors swing open, he is blinded by an amber light, and wakes up.

·   Kare wakes up and wanders into Langar’s room where he is still and unresponsive, Kare rolls a 1 on the medicine check to determine whether he is alive or not.

o    Thinks he’s dead.

·   Amelia has to leave.

·   Kare calls for Vjenga, says Langar is dead

o    Vjenga runs into the room and panics, rolls a 20 on her medicine check (get fucked Kare)

o    Langar is in a state of eternal sleep (comatose because no blood :( )

o    Vjenga knows that this is a state like death, vampires can be restored from eternal sleep by consuming blood. 64 oz./ 2 liters of blood.

o    It’s determined that 2 liters would kill you, but losing a liter of blood would make you woozy for the day.

o    While this is being discussed, light pours into the room from the window and burns Kare’s face. He takes 20 pts radiant damage. Vjenga closes the windows with thaumaturgy.

o    Daylight is not always an issue, but there are breaks in the clouds that make it dangerous for vampires to walk around without cover

o    Kare leaves to wake the party and get other Blood Donors: Solla, Venphira, and Sylvi. Solla is the only one that comes.

·   Vjenga sticks her wrist in Langar’s mouth to give him JUICE. In a maybe inefficient way

o    Kare whines about wanting some.

·   The bar owner brings a visitor up to the room, who tells the party to stop with the wrist Capri Sun because it won’t be effective. Vjenga steps back

o    The stranger takes out a few vials of blood and gives them to Langar. Vjenga hovers while he feeds Langar.

·   The stranger introduces himself as Leonidas Totiades

o    He is the Olivier family butler and he has been sent to bring Sylvi and Kare back to the family. They are reportedly pleased with their children and their accomplishments, and want to see them again.

o    When pressed about Langar, Leonidas reveals that he has blood vials on hand because he has done this “many times before”. He has called it a “workplace hazard”.

o    The party is all invited to a celebration of their accomplishments by the Olivier family.

§  The party discusses whether to attend the celebration, Kare and Sylvi both seem reluctant.

§  Sylvi says she is apprehensive, says their family didn’t “like” she and Kare.

§  Vjenga wants them to go visit the family to mend the ties.

§  Leonidas gives Kare two vials of blood before leaving, he tells the party they will be waiting outside Vostordon in a wagon.

·   Langar is AWAKE AND ALIIIIVE.

o    Awake as though he has a bad hangover.

·   Vjenga gives Kare her blanket, Langar says he doesn’t need coverage because the armor will protect him from the sun.

·   The party takes the money that Jinx has so generously into evenly divided piles of gold, Jinx is still asleep in her own pile.

·   Everyone in the party gets 237 GP and 7 SP

·   Vjenga immediately starts begging for diamond money, Langar gives her his portion. Says that she knows what to do with it. **DEVIN remind me to split the remainder with you**

·   Sylvi, Kare, Venphira, and Solla return to the green and white tent to go shopping for magic items.

·        Venphira takes special note of the “cloak of many fashions” 100gp.

o    She wants it mostly for the appearance.

o    It allows the wearer to change the cloak’s appearance without changing the magical properties.

o    Venphira tries to haggle the price down, and bumps it down to 85 GP. She then purchases it

·        In the meantime Vjenga is talking to Hugo

·        Kare is eyeing the halberd, he still doesn’t have shoes.

·        The halberd is 500 gp, obviously Kare doesn’t have that.

·        He doesn’t have shoes.

·        He asks for shoes and is redirected.

·        To the blacksmith that he was rude to.

·   “Sorry about him, he’s had a rough week - he’s died a couple times”

o    Solla asks about a staff which can do additional lightning damage

§  The bug cloak says that it would be best suited for Venphira, presumably because she is a warlock. It’s also detailed with black dragons - patron?????

§  The staff is 50k gp, will sell it for 5k.

§  The bug person says they acquired the staff through means that they do not recall.

§  The bug person will stay in the green and white tent indefinitely.

§  Solla buys a pole of collapsing. It can grow up to 10ft and be as small as 1ft. It’s 150 GP

·   Kare goes back to the blacksmith he insulted.

o    Kare tries to haggle a 30 gp halberd down to 10 gp, obviously that goes poorly.

o    The half-orc smith sells him a pair of shoes for 7 silver, the shoes have no bottom.

§  “No refunds”

o    The soles have been removed, the smith offers to fix it for 3 more silver.

o    Kare blows them off and leaves the store with shoes raggedy.

·   Vjenga goes to the green tent as sweet Miss Golding is no longer there :’(.

o    Vjenga acquires a diamond worth 300 GP for revivify, a dark turquoise marquise cut, gets it for 280.

o    “I’ll throw in the doll for another 20gp” fuck no

o    There is a 10ft leaf behind the seated vendor, it is a vehicle that can float on water, swim, fly, and walk at 20ft per 6 seconds.

o    Vjenga asks about components for Clairvoyance and Augury.

o    Doesn’t buy the Horn (clairvoyance) but does buy a stick that grafts into bone for Augury.

o    (we wind up getting off topic and learning that Daelkyr is spoken by the beings that live on the branches of Yggdrasil and between the realms)

·   Kare buys shoes from someone who he does not see as other and this isn’t a complete monster for a whole 5 minutes.

o    These ones are normal.

·   Vjenga is pointed in the direction of a general store by the cloak person.

o    Buys a healer’s kit, herbalism kit, and materials to make a potion of healing.

o    The store is temple-adjacent so Vjenga gets a **sick** discount. thanks Freyja.

o    The shopkeeper is a worshipper of Hel(Helr? My pronunciation is dog water)

·   Kale has to leave to go to work

·   The remaining gang goes to the library.

o    Solla asks about books regarding vampirism, gets redirected to the fourth floor.

o    The party is attended to by three monks, a gnome, goliath, and a mycanid (TOAD!!!)

o    We talk about the reason that the library is guarded. The library is powerful and protects secrets of all kinds. The monks do not swear fealty to either Hanlon are Gudrick, they are neutral

o    The party tries, but does not learn anything new about vampires.

·   We learn that Helis mostly worshipped for her part in death as a natural facet of life/ passing of life. People avoid taking the side of Aesir in worship. Worshipping Helis making a statement.

o    Hel’s branching mark is a “you owe me” or a mark of transaction between the marked person and Hel.

o    Spells that retrieve souls from the afterlife (i.e. not revivify) require a visit to Helto make an exchange for the soul you want to revive.

·   Venphira researches warlock patrons.

o    Venphira learns a book about the [[Denizens of Yggdrasil]], the most noteworthy of which is Niddhog, a black dragon trapped under the roots of the tree to prevent a calamity. :eyeball emoji:

·   The party looks for information about the [[Oakwoods]], there is no mention.

·   Vjenga looks for mentions of the Trondand Lumleys

o    Only finds brief mention of the Trondfamily as a player in the sugar and spice trade.

·   Solla looks for books on dragons,

o    Solla finds a book written by KEEEVIIIIN AAAASHTOOON about different varieties of dragons.

§  The bronze dragon is coastal

§  There are dragons in The Underdark but not much is known about them.

o    I can’t really hear Andrew during this part because he fell down a well or something.

·   Vjenga asks the mycanid monk (who delightfully sounds like toad) about The Gate of the Gods.

o    The gate has been there for as long as anyone can remember, it was a way for the Vanir gods to enter Svilland

o    People avoid passing through the gate

o    mostly a place of worship.

o    Their name is Agaricus

·   Vjenga visits The Gate of the Gods.

o    The columns are about 15 ft. high and have a diameter of 3 ft.

o    The gate was built by the Vanir, represents both Aesir and Vanir and the passing of seasons. Seasons pass through the gate (has been in disuse for a very long time)

o    Past the gate there is another moth-like statue/pillar. On its head is something like a crown. It is made of a different stone than The Gate of the Gods.