Session 10

## Session Notes:

### Session 10 - Bare Faced

Trip wakes up on the floor with an incredibly sore head, and Master Egoram steps up, wiping wine off his moustache and sends the other guests off to dine. He has a short conversation with us and we are sent off to a waiting room. The Necromancer, the Bard and Master Egoram stay and have a short conversation before the Necromancer leaves and rejoins the party. The Bard asks Master Egoram to allow our group to still perform, and be her warm-up act. Whilst in the waiting room, the Bard comes in and seems very interested in the items we stole. Sge tries to convince us to give her the wine, to keep the paints and to hand back the bust. However, in a moment of honesty, we decide to give back the items. We sign a contract with a kinda sus clause that states we aren’t allowed to speak about the fatal event that occured within the tower, and are given the neckerchief off the bust, which we give to Ejholan. The Bard somehow gets the bottle of wine, and gives Trip the paints. We find out that we aren’t going to Jail, and Telmund convinces Miss Chavalet, the Bard, to share the bottle of wine with us. Thus, antics ensue of the group taking sips of this important wine, holding it in their mouths, and then spitting it into a different bottle to give it to Shady Sam. We give a great performance, and then are allowed the opportunity to mingle, as guests are asking after us.

Xia goes to find Tanx Wistophertle to beg her way into the school, and is met by a strange tortle man who definitely isn’t just a Grung in a Tortle shell… He tells her to ‘just carry on with what you’re doing bro.’ and she learns that Professor Wellingsworth is a teacher at this school who has gone on a mission over to Feathertop. Melchior and Trip have a conversation with a group of obnoxious gnomish scholars, and Melchior ends up going to the room of a gnome who is a self proclaimed Burns Expert. Melchior believes he is going up to the room to have sexual relations, and has completely miisread the situation. He does get to bottles of body oil out of the situation though. Ejholan speaks to a couple of scholars who give him some information about the Soul Bag. In their sketch book, he sees drawings of a candle, a cauldron pot and the Soul Bag. He sees matted hair, and a filthy body, and is warned that the creature is dangerous.

Trip shows the Trenchcoated Necromancer her crystal eye, and he refers to it as vulgar work. Trip says that an ‘old friend’ did it, and we learn that the trenchcoat man is called Viscale. He touches it, and then immediately moves his hand away and tells her that it has potential, and that ‘if she would like it to benefit her rather than kill her, to come find him’.

We leave the party, and head to the post office to have our meeting with Shady Sam. We find the post office unlocked and he is skulking around in the shadows. He tells us that he comes from a realm beyond the maps. We tell him about the wine problem, and that we have brought as much of it as we could. As soon as he hears that the bottle of wine was uncorked, he falls to the floor and starts sobbing. Ejholan, Telmund and Xia try to comfort him, but his is inconsolable. He removes all of his items of importance from his body and states ‘I deserve my fate. My master deserved better than me.’ He twists the bangle around his wrist that had a red stone inlaid into it, and he disappears. Left on the side are his belongings:

An Orangey-Red Quill

A bottle of ink

Some Sand

A scroll of Dragon’s Breath

Dice

Xia identifies a couple of items. The dice are lucky dice that always land on the number seven, and the ink is a fountain of ink that never runs dry. Xia identifies Ejholan’s eye. She finds that it is a Puntor Emerald, and learns the name Lauralyn Arajor from it. She also identifies the neckerchief, and learns that it can be used either as a neckerchief or as a sling. If used as a neckerchief, it reduces one instance of lightning damage during the day. If used as a sling, it will charge one projectile with lightning damage.

Whilst in the post office, Xia and Maggie send a letter to their home addressed to Xia’s moms. Before they leave the post office, Trip holds Xia back for a conversation and shows her the crystal in her eye. She has a mildly threatening conversation with Xia, where Trip gets Xia to put her hand on Trip’s crystal eye and cast a magic missile at a post office desk. Xia reluctantly does this, and has her hand burned, and then immediately healed by Trip. Trip says she is glad to know that Xia is on her side, and the group flees the post office and heads into the woods.

Once we get to the forest, Melchior grabs Trip for a chat and Trip tells him that she had the crystal shoved into her eye. The gnomes are planning on killing everyone that she knows. Melchior shows Trip his face under the helmet. He has olive skin, and is a muscular half elf with blonde/brown hair and a chiselled jaw. One eye is hazel and one eye is a crystal. He also has a green gem inlaid into his throat. He says that he was taken as a special talent and operated on, enhanced and given a gift he didn’t ask for. Trip and Melchior decide to play a prank on the group, and Trip shouts that Melchior is missing. The group scatters into pairs and runs in opposite directions to try and find Melchior. All of the groups come back after five minutes or so, and find Melchior sitting in the camp without his helmet, except for Coda and Ejholan who are somewhere in the forest… And that's where we finished the session.

### Quotes:

‘Are you absolutely wrong in the head?!’ - Telmund, at Melchior.

‘If multiple people talk, it echoes in my helmet.’ - Melchior

‘Take if off then…’ - Eva

I can’t… It’s chilly.’ - Melchior

‘I’m already a wanted criminal.’ - Melchior.

‘I just so happen to be an expert in… burned armour.’ - Sam Brown as obnoxious NPC #21

‘Are any of you other fellas feeling loose?’ - Trip

‘It’s nice to look up at someone. I feel like I’m on my knees…’ - Trip

‘I’m clearly indicating that I want intercorse with you!’ - Melchior

‘Melchior, can we see your horse feet?’ - Maggie

### Point of Inspiration:

At the end of the session, we decided that Melchior should get the weekly point of inspiration.