COS II Session 22

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## Starring...

* The Barovian Freedom Fighters
	+ Red,
	+ Xadriel Maverran,
	+ Tacitus,
	+ Marya Krezkov,
	+ Galia Trey,
	+ +2 shortsword,
	+ Zanna,
* The crew of the Vistage, dreadfully lost
	+ Faeana Taerine,
	+ Sadie Cher,
	+ Lily Silverdale,
	+ Ully,
* Maq'kua,

Notable absentees: Twiggy

## Morning

* Al and Red have the Flix nightmare too
	+ Al asks Tokili about the dream, is told to fuck off
	+ Al asks his sword about the dream, is told to talk to party members instead
	+ Al asks Galia about the dream; she stares into the middle distance for thirty seconds before spouting inspirational quotes at him
		- She also tells him to maybe stay behind in this era please?
* Xadriel and Zanna draw
	+ Zanna asks Xadriel about time things. Xadriel is not at all in a state to answer her.
* Tokili gives Xadriel a *tome of understanding*, lets ERA002 have her first taste of leadership
* Tokili offers Ully the future position of captain after the BFF's departure
	+ Ully warns Tokili to steer clear of the other Forsaken Scales
* Stone lies transparently to Faeana, distributes diamonds
* Galia does something, rolls poorly on both perception and insight
* Red offers to trade Al his lightly-used blink spear for the nerfed sword of fire and ice, is turned down

## Godslayer

### Forest

* Dock at the island with no dock, seemingly bisected by the fog wall back when that was still a thing
* The BFF + Faeana, Lily, and Sadie head along the dirt path
* At the first fork, Al climbs a tree and disappears
* Tokili climbs after him, instructing the party to go left if he doesn't return.
* He doesn't, so the remaining party goes left.
	+ Red finds himself with Sadie, ERA001, Lily, and Faeana. They follow Red's compass.
	+ Xadriel, Stone, and Galia find a river and walk upstream
	+ Galia disappears and meets up with Al
* Xadriel's group and Red's group meet up
* Why oh why did it have to be THIS SESSION with the party splitting? Highlights:
	+ Al tries the twine thing. It doesn't help. He tries again.
	+ Al sprints into Tokili full speed
	+ Stone uses etherealness, follows Xadriel then Tokili to the cabin
	+ There is a pirate skeleton at some point
	+ Xadriel narrowly avoids having to look at Lily
* Eventually, the party that makes it to Godslayer's cabin is Stone, Tokili, Al, Red, and Faeana
* Xadriel, ERA, Sadie, Lily, and Galia are left on the beach.

### Retired Divine Champions Really Think It's Okay to Live Like This

* Stone phases in (trespasses), the material party knocks and then walks in when no one responds (trespasses as well)
* The opening room is sparsely furnished—a fridge, a chair, and an armour rack with a seven-foot-tall diving suit tricked out with lenses and tanks of magical fluids. The cabin's other room has a chair and a record player.
* The material gang goes to the second room. Stone does not intervene as the diving suit comes to life and throws an anchor at Al.
* Discussion ensues.
	+ The forest is enchanted to misdirect people, but if you just ignore everything and walk the right way you'll get there eventually
	+ Maq'kua needs their lantern to find Umberlee
		- they relinquished it in the Tomb of the Frost Seer when they gave up their revenge quest, and it's probably currently in the possession of Xerax ("that greedy weasel"), god of knowledge
	+ They make the party promise not to kill Umberlee, to which the party agrees
	+ Tokili tries to ask a couple questions after everyone else walks out. Maq'kua gives non-answers.
* Meanwhile:
	+ Xadriel and ERA walk back into the forest.
	+ Galia conjures a pegasus and crashes into the forest several times before finding Maq'kua, who tells her they were just leaving, try going south :/?

### Heading West

* Everyone meets up on the beach
* Al asks Tokili whether he should read Maq'kua's mind. This sparks a heated discussion about Al and Tokili's kill counts, which the crew hopefully wasn't listening to.
* Maq'kua sits below deck and sharpens a harpoon threateningly while giving non-answers to awestruck crew members.
* Everyone takes out their heat stones and extra clothes
* The Vistage sets sail for the freezing Tomb of the Frost Seer

## The Classic Curse of Strahd 2 Really Long Rest

* Xadriel: Flix nightmare
* Tokili: ???
* Stone: ???

## Trivia

* There is no evidence of this session ever happening.