Sx03 - Welcome to Artemis Cove

***Welcome to Artemis Cove*** is the 3rd session of the campaign*.* It is preceded by Sx02 — Not an Adventuring Party, and followed by Sx04 — The Artificer's House.

This session takes place over a single day: Pemti the 11th of Leontes, which was also Rigani's Birthday (this was unknown to the group at the time). Notable moments of this session are meeting Odysseus and his pet Argos, arriving in Artemis Cove, the capitol city of Imperum Crescent, and for Oto, meeting Petros.

## On the Road to Artemis Cove

On the road to Artemis Cove from Posttown the group were stopped by a falling tree (that landed on Adrasteia, causing her a small amount of damage and killing Dave) and interrupted by the Rival Party and Akotel, who had been hired by the merchant Khantos had stolen from. They demanded the piece back which Khantos gave them as a way to stop a fight from occurring

At the gate of Artemis Cove the guard mentioned the party, saying they were headed towards the Terran District, which he warned us not to go towards. He also mentioned that there was a 6th member of the party with them (we would later learn this to be the rogue named Hunag) The group headed towards the docks.

## Hero's Rest Tavern

As we enter the Hero's Tavern there is a Triton Bard and a dog collecting a crowd, this is Odysseus and Argos. First we see Hooded Man again and approach him to ask why he is following us. He denies it and asks if we want our futures read. Carban says yes and draws the Rogue Card from a Tarroka deck. The man then vanishes. Then we talk to Odysseus and Khantos learned about an Artificer in the south of Artemis Cove - we don't know this though.

As Rigani goes to pay for food notices her money is gone, Oto sees who it is and pursues. We catch him and it appears to be Ebian Hobblepot but with a scar. After further investigation he reveals a big conspiracy in Posttown: This is Cassian Hobblepot, Ebian Hobblepot's brother. Mayor Hobblepot is actually Ebian Hobblepot but pretending to be Cassian. Two years ago, Ebian framed Cassian for stealing from Posttown's treasury which resulted in Cassian being banished. We promised to help Cassian get revenge on his brother and regain his position in Posttown.

Odysseus talks to Adrasteia about someone named Ezequiel who is obsessed with some kind of mystery - he is in the Artemis Temple of Artemis Cove in the Zeus District. We also learned that to get into the Zeus district we need someone to vouch for us and suggests heading to a Blacksmith as they tend to need some kind of help.

## Shopping in Artemis Cove

Entered the Jewelers and sold the 3 diamonds and 5 rubies that we found in the Tide Twins Crypt for 1,000 gp: split between the 6 of them 166 gp; 6 sp; 6 cp. The Jewelers is owned by a human woman - they are going under, not a successful business. The group also explored the magic items shop which is run by a smoke ghost who doesn't seem to care about stuff. Also seems to have little care about money.

Oto went to the bookshop, owned by an old Tortle man (Petros Macgroglou), and purchased the book: The History of Invurnes for 5 silver. He is very cute but he told Adrasteia about Oto's intentions to visit Invurnes. Everyone else visited the Blacksmith which Oto avoided - they learned that something has invested the mine that the Smith's get their steel/iron from and asked the group to investigate it - this will gain us access to the Zeus District. Oto also purchased 2 healing potions for 100 gp from the adventurer's store - run by a skinny ginger teen, seemed to be panicking.