08/03/2022 - Fancy Forging and an Auspicious Audition

## Rock cakes and shopping

* Ves eats a honey rock cake.
* Rocky eats / gives away most of the cake as Blagden won’t pay him for them.
* We go shopping, Ves needs a staff. Go to a big weapon shop. She finds a staff that creates good berries! Scribbulus is very excited
* Leo wants to buy a souvenir, gets very excited by all the metal items around. He finds a walloping arrow, which he buys.

## Fancy forging and city shenanigans

* The group decide to go to the forge. Blagden disappears and steals 3 rock cakes off the group, but Leo and Ves spot him before he can get the rest, so he runs away and steals some things off some politicians.
* The forge is massive, it is called Moradins Fire. Several dwarves and one giant inside. Leo is very excitement; he makes friends with the dwarves. They let him use the forge with them. Some of the group help him to make things (fancy metal leaves/petals/vines etc). Leo crafts a very fancy tree-themed ring.
* Lysandre and Belgear go to case the museum. Lots of interesting lore. Scopes out the entrances and layout ahead of our meeting with the king in a few days’ time. Also finds a locked door.
* Scribbulus sees a large creature with a long tail, four legs, scaled, dressed in city colours, it’s a giant salamander. They can climb up walls.

## An auspicious audition

* We all meet back up at the bar for the audition for the battle of the bands.
* We plan our performance– Lysandre will do illusionary shenanigans from the back. Scribbulus will be a songbird. The others will do harmonies / instruments. Blagden will be at the back and will use his spell sneakiness to suggest that the crowd clap loudly. Belgaer is in the crowd being a hype-man.
* The plan starts well. Lysandre makes some amazing volcanic eruption themed illusion, ruined slightly by Blagden just lobbing some oats into the air. Leo plays the wobble board. The others do singing etc. Belgaer does a good job hyping the crowd. Leo doesn’t hinder the performance, but doesn’t help much either. Rocky and Ves smash the vocals like true pros. Scribs does some majestic fly-singing. As the finale, Ves casts jump on Rocky so he can end with a massive jump during the final crescendo. Rocky’s final lyrics are on fire.
* The performance goes so well Blagden doesn’t even need to use his sneaky magics. We are offered a place in the battle of the bands, and get 10GP each in tips.
* After the performance, Ves goes off to write some letters and do some scrying on her family. Blagden goes to steal more rock cakes for the goblins.
* Blagden is the last one in. Shuts and locks the door. Goes to sleep. We all get a full night’s sleep, apart from Leo who is still cursed.

## Next morning

* Ves goes to post her letters.
* Leo goes to the hospital to get his curse removed. In the hospital he sees two guards talking with people.
* The guards say there was an attack on one of the hospital staff last night. They are alive, but grievously wounded. They were attacked with one single sharp line across their back. Sounds like Leo and Lysandre’s injuries. The guard confirms it was the same as Leo’s injury.
* Leo explains to the guards what happened to him and Lysandre.
* Turns out the guy (Alarnis) who removed the curse from Lysandre yesterday was the guy who was attacked in the night. There is no one else in the hospital to heal Leo, so someone in the group needs to do it.
* Ves has Greater Restoration, but needs diamond dust.

## To the dig!

* Some guards arrive to escort us to the dig site.
* Guards warn us that the site is dangerous – it’s in a fairly unused part of the mine.
* We are led into some mine carts. Scribbulus casts pass without a trace, and we all sneak in.
* We have travelled back under the city. We come to a large lava lake.
* Leo throws a coin into the lava and makes a wish!
* As the coin hits the lava several fire elementals rise from the lava.