Season 3: Rivain

## Synopsis

In 9:40 the Rivaini peninsula is on the brink of a civil war and a mysterious Organization is operating in the shadows at the same time. A party made out of an Antivan Merchant, A Rivaini Thief, An Elven Bard and an apostate with a secret, get mixed up in a plot that may endanger the very foundation of Thedas. Together with Mr Blue they must stop the Organization from achieving their goals while also confronting shards of their pasts. They discover along the way that the two might be more intertwined than originally thought.

## Not-So OST

“Nation Of Thieves” - Call me Joker, Hildur Guðnadóttir

“The Relation” - Chika No Sakaba Dai Hole, One Piece OST

“The “I’m just borrowing it” Guild” - The Stardust Man Appears, Jojo’s bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable OST

“Awaken My Ghasts” - Ogre Awaken, StringStorm

“Terror from the depths” - Clash of Gods, Dragon Ball Super OST

“Stranded” - I Ain't オジサン！, HunterXHunter OST

“Raise the black flag” - Sono Kyoukan, Ryoryoku Zetsurin, HunterXHunter OST

“Totally not suspicious town, please move along” - Bowerstone Cemetary, Fable II OST

“Guardian Angel” - Toxic, Brittney Spears (Cover by R3 Music Box, Edited by Simon)

“Port Royale” - Coast shacks, Disco Elysium OST

“Pirates…” - Lay All Your Love On Me, Abba (Cover by Philharmonia Orchestra)

Llomerynn - Valar Morghulis, Ramin Djawadi

“The Pirate Queen” - 奇術師のバイレ, 平野義久

“The Sunken Thaig” - Dragon age: The Descent

“Ten Thousand Souls” - Bloodborne: Laurence the first Vicar

Mr Blue (instrumental), Catherine Feeney

“Somthing is Wrong” - The Night King, Ramin Djawadi

Blumenkranz Ver I- Blumenkranz, Kill la Kill (Remix by Spro Deax)

“The Traveling Spectacularanza” - Groose’s Theme, The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword.

“The Cockatrice” - Groose’s Theme, The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword (Remix by Dj Jo)

13 KiLL La KiLL - Kill la Kill OST, Hiroyuki Sawano

Symphony No. 9 "From the New World, Antonín Dvořák

“End Of The World” -  Skeeter Davis (Cover by Matt Brown)

“El Cortaro” - “Settling in” Stardew Valley OST

“Dairsmuid” - “Light of the Seven” Game of thrones OST, Ramin Djawadi

Blumenkranz Ver 2- Blumenkranz, Kill la Kill

“The Second Relation” - Watery Grave, Dishonored OST

Holding out for a hero, Shrek OST, Bonnie Tyler (Cover by Jennifer Saunders)

Collective Consiousness, Metal Gear Rising OST

A Stranger I remain, Metal Gear Rising OST (Sly Shinobi Mix)

“The Uncertain Hour Before Dawn” - Space Oddity, David Bowie (The Classic Rock String Quartet Cover)

Wicked Games, The Weeknd (Ramin Djawadi Cover)

“Lonely Light” - Intro, Disco Elysium OST

Todd and his Sweet little lies, Fleetwood mack/Todd Howard (Remix by Crowbat)

Nuclear, Mike Oldfield.

## Sessions

### Session 1: Third Party

So. The story technically starts with Melon's hot twin in a brothel but before that Merce was doing some shady stuff that nobody will tell us about. Anyway the Open Clam is the most famous brothel in all of Rivain sporting top notch escorts of all genders and races. A man who looks like the king of Ferelden, Gaston but with his pants off... there were some others but Gaston kind of distracted me. So anyway Melon's hot twin went into a brothel and slept with an elf, he also got a job from Leben and some dwarf. I was too distracted by Gaston. Sorry. Erik - Melon's hot twin who everybody likes then went on his way to Minrathos.

Cut to Emily visiting the Archon also getting a job. The Archon of tevinter of course showing off with a very "special" receptionist which whom Emily exchanged a few words on career choices. Then Anais showed off her shelf of skulls of her enemies shaped like a pyramid. She also asked her to transport a Carriage full of gold to Rivian. Emily took the job and set off to the docks.

The party meets at the docks. Merce throws side eye at Erik for looking like his less beloved twin. The carriage is put on the ship and it is revealed that Quintus is working for Emily now as the sole crew member of "The Relation". He tells Emily of an opportunity to transport a criminal from Mirathos to Rivain. They party quickly gets acquainted with each other and the ship and set off.

The journey was uneventful for most of the way. Merce acted shady, I Eve the player figured out Erik is Melon's twin the moment I asked about his background. And Emily bought a guide book on the brothels of Rivain because Tyra never gave hers back. She also decided to poke the qunari prisoner who wasn't very chatty.

Once they finally started to reach the coast of Llomeryn where their destination laid pirates showed up but it was okay because it was Merce's brother, Zoe and some guy who Erik instantly made a connection with. They chat for a bit, drink laugh and hug. Zoe tells the story of how Sperare was sunk by a sea monster who killed Blackie ;-;. It was heartbreaking (also some other ones died too idk). Merce got alone time with her brother and Erik decided to go for a smoke and totally not eavesdrop. When they decided to part ways almost immediately a giant sea monster attacked.

The sea monster decided to go for Merce's brother's ship. Emily however considered the fact that literally everyone on the ship got attached to someone on the other ship so letting them be sunk would piss off everyone except the qunari. That was however a very bad idea as the monster yeeted Erik's soulmate away into the waves and took Quintus and Zoe out. It also tore Emily's ship into pieces. Drowning Merce's brother and the qunari. The party ran onto the life boat and the waves got pushed to the shore. The session ends with everyone in the party losing something important. Merce - her brother, Erik - his soulmate, Emily - her ship and crew, and Tyra - her girlfriend. Tyra didn't even take part in it and she lost someone.

### Session 2: Of Fish and Men

So the party is stranded, they've lost their ship, crew, family and the money. But do you know what they still have that's more important than all of that? friendship :)

They also have some tracks leading into an ancient (absolutely not elven who said anything about elven) ruins. The inviting aroma of fish lures the party inside where they encounter a totally innocent little salt-water ghast kid. So, like the heros they are, the party slaughter him in cold blood. They also kill some more ghasts who were just standing guard and rob a grave.

They venture through the ruins and come across a really strange bondage session in the middle of a large chamber. Zoe and Quintus have been tied up by an alpha ghast and are dangling them over a watery grave. The ghast has also captured the money carriage and has killed one of the pirates from Darius' crew: Mali.

The party spring into action, taking out the other guards and freeing the tied up friendos. They push the money carriage off of an altar and the floor of the ruins gives way and sends the party crashing into a lower chamber. Erik gets impaled and just as he's about to die, he hears someone speak to him, asking him if "He wants their help". Considering all of his many, many options: Erik accepts and is healed of all damage.

Seeing that the Alpha Ghast also crashed through the floor, Emily throws one of her murderknives at the beast and sends it tumbling into the water where it's devoured by it's kids. Zoe and Quintus catch up to the party and shows them the way out. Emily discovers the remnants of The Relation and takes the name-plaque to remember it by.

Traveling down a random road, the party arrives at the village of Innsmouth where they immediately see a man commit suicide. Totally not susp. Two masked doctors come and take the body, explaining that a plague is going on that mostly affects women and that there's a quarantine. Totally not susp either. The party explore an inn and find a gray warden backpack on a very dusty bed. Very much not susp what are you even talking about who's susp I don't know her. The party, like the murdurers that they are, decide to kill the two doctors. The doctors turn out to both be darkspawn! woa. The party are not super into the idea of darkspawn so they get the absolute fuck outta there and instead head south to the other nearest town.

### Session 3: Urca de Borgoña

The shipless crew make their way away from the creepy darkspawn filled town, quickly forgetting to mention it to anyone so that the grey wardens could take a look at it. When they made camp they decided to share stories. Emily mentioned her involvement in the Dirtharaan DLC, while Quintus recounted the events of the second part of season 2. They quickly realised they were talking about the same party of misfits. Erik had no good story instead he told a tale of a fever dream he must have had about his grandpa who turned into a pickle. At least Emily hoped it was a fever dream. Merce didn't want to talk about herself instead she read a smutty fanfic Erik wrote.

After that Quintus told Emily that hes going to take Zoe to the capital as Port Royale was under royal supervision and Zoe was a pirate. Erik decided to stay awake and guard the carriage but while doing so he ended up dozing off and in the fade where he found himself talking to a spirit in a shape of a purple flame. As any good elf Erik decided he wanted to fuck the spirit, but the spirit was too hot to handle. When asked who sent the spirit to save Erik the spirit said it can't remember.

Finally in Port Royale the party meet Eugenium. Emily recognises him and immediately mentions that Quintus said he and Anahada made a fine ruckus on Sperare. Not the finest first impression but she also shared the fact that Quintus and Zoe are alright. The party split up Erik guarding the carrige, Emily talked to the captain of Urca de Borgoña asking for passage, and Merce wondered around looking for things to steal. She didn't find anything of value except a books trader and an old woman making a doll. In a rare act of wholesomeness Merce asked if she could have that doll later when its finished. Emily meanwhile managed to convince the captain to take the party across if they do a task for them. The task being tracking down local pirates and bringing in their captain alive. She relayed the task to the party and also bought a bunch of terrible books from the merchant. She loved them all. Erik also decided to talk with the old woman asking if she could teach him to knit. They had a nice conversation and then it was time for the party to look for the pirates.

The word was that the pirate cove was to the north-west, so thats where the party went. After trucking through the woods they found a cave, in the cave was a room of someone named 'Caleb', and tracks going in the direction of the pirate hideout that looked like someone was dragged, also a rock which was probably meant to be a trap but Merce and Emily disarmed it. The party tried to sneak past the large guard but the squeeky door revealed them to the rest of the pirate crew. It was revealed that the "guard" was actually their captain Caleb. Emily with her silver tongue quickly managed to convince Caleb that he and his armour were very popular and they were merely trying to get him so he could meet his "fans" in Port Royale. Overjoyed Caleb agreed to come with the party and was rolled over to the town.

Back in Port Royale the old woman asked Merce to give Caleb to her since he was her son. She couldn't offer them passage to Llomerynn so Merce refused. Emily also was already ahead informing the guards that they brought the pirate leader in. Having completed their task the party was let on the ship. Emily marvelled at the size of it and wondered aloud how much would it cost to get a ship like that. She then went downstairs and read her terrible books, it was a riot. Erik hit on Eugenium and was told to meet him in the storage room later ;)

Merce also found Caleb's voice changing necklace and started pranking people with it. Emily was invited to have a chat with the captain which invited her and her party to watch the execution, and over all tried to intimidate her. The talk was cut short as pirates started attacking...

### Session 4: Llomerynn

Right after the captain mentions the pirates, what'cha know, five pirates swing in through the window and crash into the captains quarters. She orders Emily to defend the deck as she prepares to fight the pirates herself.

The party rush upstairs and find the rest of the crew in the middle of fighting. The captain of the pirate crew insult the party and immediately gets blinded by Mercè and pushed into the sea by Emily. The party make quick work of the rest of the pirates and sink the attacking ship. The party go back down and find the captain and her room absolutely covered in blood. She casually mentions that she remembers Mercè and that she's a thief that used to work for her family. As thanks for saving the ship, Mercè gets forgiven for stealing from her family, Erik gets a check for ten gold and Emily takes a favor. Everyone are really horny from the fight so Erik makes his move on Eugene, getting it on in the storage room, as per tradition. Mercè on the other hand goes to the captains quarters and turns on her seduction to the max, unfortunately that's not a whole lot but the captains still up for some stress relief. Emily sits quietly in her cabin enjoying her books.

After dancing the horizontal tango, Erik notices that the cabin is unusually purply. Also Eugene has been replaced by a shadow creature, this is why you wait till marriage kids. The shadow creature is the same that visited him the night before, it informs him that it's still very weak but can grow stronger if Erik fucks more people. It even offers to help him with advice and combat in the future and he answers politely by stabbing it. It's not very effective and it sadly leaves, letting him wake up. He wakes up next to Eugene who mentions his past relationship with Anahada and that he doesn't want to go through the same thing again and that their relationship can't grow further. Eugene also hands him a copy of A Travel Guide to Llomerynn.

Once everyone's awake, the Urca sails under the Titan of Llomerynn, the party looking up its skirt at its humongous dick and balls. The ship sails into port and the captain mentions that the execution will be held that sunday. Emily finds a very fancy ship guarded by a very attractive shipwright. He says that he'll sell the boat for no less than 5k gold. Mercè explores the port a bit and talks to an elf named Tallis, she mentions that she's completed a job and is waiting for her employers.

With no ulterior motives other than completing their job, the party goes to the Open Clam where it's currently theme night. Before then the party stashes the carriage in a nearby stable. The theme of the night in the open pearl is "Rulers of Thedas" and prostitute lookalikes of some of the most famous rulers come out onto the bar-floor. Leben, who the party was supposed to find, is however nowhere to be found. Emily tries to complete the deal without him but the pirate queen who turns out to be Isabella, refuses. The party asks around and the Madame tell them that someone else was looking for Leben as well, a templar with horns, a tail and a scar. Seeing as they are already in a brothel, Emily and Erik take advantage of the theme night and get it on. Emily with not-Alistair and not-Anora, and Erik with not-Anais. On the way out, Emily talks to one of the bards who she recognizes as Linda, Aka Mr.Blue. She tries to start a conversation but he insists that he doesn't know her.

With little other choice, the party moves onto the gold square, a giant bazaar with mysterious objects from all over thedas. Mercè takes the opportunity to pick-pocket someone, that someone being a very big man who grabs Mercès arm and suplexes her into a nearby stall. The stallowner blames Mercè and chops off her little finger. Not to be dettered by something like a missing digit, the party continue casually browse the bazaar. Emily gets scammed out of a priceless elven relic and a jewel encrusted dagger. Erik buys the same dagger after having sex with the merchant who bought it. The party comes across a beggar selling an old key, they buy it and Mercè steals the map to where the key leads. Emily enters a lute store to sell the lute that she looted off of the lute player back in Minrathous (I...I can't). Lastly the party encounter a mysterious egg being sold by another merchant. The merchant claims that the egg is a dragon egg :3

### Session 4.5: Back in Black

Two adventurers find a notice for a grey warden who's currently recruiting. They head to the open clam and find a very drunk, possibly brain-damaged grey warden recruiter (who absolutely didn't just steal the uniform to get laid). He pours them both a lil' sippy sip of "grey warden juice" as he calls it, and they drink it down. The lightweights pass out and wake up in Innsmouth. The recruiter explains that a couple of drunks reported in some talking darkspawn in this town and that they're supposed to investigate. Seppo and Cassandra find the rotting corpses of two darkspawn in an inn as well as the diary of an actual grey warden recruiter. All the clues point towards the lighthouse so the party bring their reluctant recruiter along to investigate.

They find a hatch leading down into the basement of the lighthouse, the basement walls appears to have been broken through leading into a larger cave system. The trio (now a duo since the recruiter vanished) explore the gross, fleshy caves, finding some weird maggot-like creatures with baby faces.

Exploring further in, the duo find more of the creatures as well as some actual darkspawn. They kill one of the hurlocks and then run back, eventually ending up in front of a weird-looking, talking, broodmother. She calls herself Ms Black and explains that she turned herself into a broodmother in order to locate the rest of the old gods for her organization and its leader "The Lady in Pink". She offers the duo a job gathering information above ground where her children couldn't go, the duo go along with it but betrays her and blows up her and the caverns on the way out with an arcane lance and a walking bomb spell.

The duo walk away into the sunset in search of more grey wardens, having mixed feelings about their first day on the job.

### Session 5: Reunions

The party continues with their business at the gold square. Mercè steals the supposed dragon egg, by setting fire to some innocent people's roofs, and stashes the egg in her room under some blankets. Emily steals an orlesian mask (no dignity) and Erik tags along for the ride. The party suddenly hear someone gasping in surprise, it turns out to be an elf being harrased by a deepstalker with a bandana around its neck. The deepstalker bites Emily in the foot, and just before Mercè goes to kill it they hear someone scream "Apostate!" behind them. When they turn around they see a much taller Tyra with a scar across her face, charging at them. The party are fast as they try to dodge but Tyra is faster and she wraps them up in an unsolicited bear- (or rather, dragon) -hug. She's very welcoming of the party along with Erik whom she thinks is Maolen. She asks to buy them a drink and they accept, as does the elf who turned out to be Seppo.

At the open clam, Tyra explains that she met Zoe on the way here and that she explained that the party was responsible for saving her life. Tyra shows off her new templar powers and determines that Erik is in fact not Maolen who's escaped Eonar. She informs them that she was here in Rivain to guard Leben as he made the deal, however he was apparantly kidnapped so she's back in Llomerynn to look for clues. The party help and discover a red hair in Lebens room. Tyra feeds the hair to her deepstalker (who she's named Arasghilana) and it runs off towards the port. The party follow the deepstalker and they find the red-headed elf who Mercè spoke to when they first arrived in Llomerynn. After some coaxing, the party learn that the elf's name is Tallis and that she kidnapped Leben for the qunari in order to make sure the deal didn't go through. The qunari got a tip about Leben from an unknown organization and the payment for the tip was that Tallis was to work for the organization for a time. Tyra takes Tallis and leaves for Kont-Arr in order to rescue Leben. She agrees to send a letter in three days if she managed to free Leben.

The party go to sleep and Erik is once again visited by his STDemon. She congratulates him on sleeping with more people and transforms into the people that she had previously possessed. One of the transformation is a dark skinned elven woman and the other is a man who looks suspiciously similar to Erik. By the morning the party gather up and head to the spot marked on the map that Mercè stole off of the beggar. They dig a hole where the x is and find a hatch that Emily opens with the key she bought. Beneath the hatch is a pitch-black, flooded thaig. They drain some of the water and meet Shape, a golem (or Titan as he calls himself) who has seemengly been down here since a war between the ancient elves and the ancient dwarves. He informs them that the elves used a weapon he reffers to as "The Sun" to drive the dwarves underground where they found "The Titans". The titans thought them to make "Titans" (golems) and so they created a massive one to try to combat the sun. They also started to work on another one, using tens of thousands of elven prisoners. The party find the unfinished titan and pour molten lyrium into the room. Mercè find a powerful control rod and uses it on the Titan. She also commands Shape to stay behind and lock the door so that they could escape. Shape agrees and the party make it out of the thaig.

Emily and Mercè spends about half an hour trying to sell two dwarven pots to a cat person. They also go off and gives the control rod to a dwarf who agrees to try to repair it for them. Come evening, Mercè goes on a nice quiet date with Linda.

Come morning, the party discover that the Carriage has been stolen. Emily Holmes goes all detective and discover some vague clues that lead her to the western shore in a poorer district of Llomerynn. After that the party go and visit the mayor of Llomerynn: Thomas Knight and his daughter Maria. He asks them to try to keep the calm at the execution tonight and the party agree (no foreshadowing here. Nope, nothing). Mercè heads back to a totes legitimate guild that she's a part of, only to discover that they have all been burned alive. She finds a notebook that reveals that they have supposedly just had a meeting with an "Organization". She buries the bodies and find a stream of people heading towards the blood square to see the coming execution.

The party all meet up by the blood square and watch Captain Elara bring out Caleb, Arvaraad and Dario. Mercè immediately goes into super thief mode and climbs a nearby rooftop. While Elara recounts the prisoners crimes, Emily and Erik debate weather they should get involved. Emily decides to help and moves behind the executioners platform. Dario holds a speech and just as he's about to be executed, Mercè shoots a flaming arrow, cutting the rope and setting fire to the executioners platform. Elara spots her and glares. Arvaraad takes the opportunity to break his bonds and, using Caleb as a weapon, he destroys the platform. Emily grabs Dario and they all run away, leaving Arvaraad to face off against Elara.

The party cross paths as they're running and find Linda who usher them into a darkened room.

### Season 6: The Organization

Alrighty, so with half of Llomerynn out hunting for the party, they decide to trust Linda and goes with him into his safehouse. They have a fun time cutting more off of Darios leg before he gets tuckered out and falls asleep.

In the morning, a ship arrives in Llomerynn. On board is the elf Nasa, who has come from Antiva to see the world. The captain of the ship is a handsome merchant with a devilish smile who introduces himself as Antonio Hecate.

The rest of the party wake up in the safehouse, have some scones and get a huge lore dump from Linda. First of all they get a letter from T-Dog (Tyra) who very sneakily has encrypted the letter. The encrypted message on the letter tells the party that Leben is in trouble and that they should meet up with her in Dairsmuid in one week. Linda also shows off Mercè's and Emily's wanted posters from last night.

And to keep the info Linda says short, here's a tldr (For more info, please reffer to "The Organization"):

* There's these guys called the organization that operate behind the scenes in Rivain.
* There are 5 commanders all named after colors (4 now that ms black is dead)
* The leader is called the Lady in Pink and no one has a clue who or what she is
* Linda is actually the prince of Rivain who joined the organization to take down the Lady in Pink and save his mother who he thinks is being mind controlled by "Mr White", one of the commanders.
* The organization is actually the ones behind the whole war in Rivain, egging on the conflict from both sides.
* Lindas plan is to remove Mr Whites controll on his mom and stop the war.

In order to save his mom he needs an elven artifact that can banish mind controll and demonic possession. He sends out Erik to speak to the mayor in order to locate the dalish while Mercè works on a disguise for her.

In a very convenient coincidence, guess who's also looking for the dalish, that's right, the National Aeronautics and space administration. They join forces a bit and convince the Mayor to assist them in tracking down the elves. They stroll a bit through Llomerynn as Emily haggles with Dou and Mercè puts on whiteface.

While Emily's out buying Mercès disguise, she runs into The National Aeronautics and Space administration and Erik and she's really not suspicious at all in a very "Just come into my van" kinda way. Nasa follows Emily and Erik back to the safehouse where more totally not suspicios "let me just steal your organs real quick" people are staying. Linda gives her some money to help them while the rest of the party do their best to make themselves look as suspicious as possible.

Since Nasa lacks a natural fight or flight response, she agrees to help them. While they're talking she lets slip that she came here with Antonio Hecate and Dario gets all suspicious becauseeee---that's his and Mercès dad. He and Mercè talk a bunch and Mercè gets some of that sweet sweet char dev before the party heads off towards the port.

The party have a really awkward meeting with Antonio but manage to catch a ride to the island outside of Llomerynn where the dalish are located anyway. When they arrive at the camp, the party gets an arrow pulled on them by an elf who turns out to be Nasa's cousin, and they're saved by the keeper of the clan who turns out to be Nasa's aunt. They meet a guy in a cage who introduces himself as Sebastian de Calvados and Emily donates some books to a sweet cinnamon roll.

They go to some sacred hot springs, talk to Nasa's aunt, and she reveals that she and Nasa's mother was raised by an expert shape changer called Helion. He saved them once by killing some humans but had to leave with Nasa's mother. The party bring up the artifact they need and Nasa's aunt tell them that she'll give it to them if they slay the beast that is tainting their springs.

The party agree and venture into the elven ruins.

### Session 7: Moose and Chicken

The party gave their word to the Keeper that they would not loot anything from the temple. So of course first thing Merce does when she sees two chests is loot. To her credit Emliy notices that they seem out of place to the rest of decor so maybe someone brought them in. Emily was correct in that they were out of place however both were incorrect in the assumption that those were actual chest as the "chest" bit Merce's hand when she tried to open it. After killing the "chests" and finding they only had useless junk in them the party moved on to find the monster corrupting the springs.

Now Ghilan'nain would tell you that making creatures isn't an exact science. You just wake up one morning have an idea, torture and elf, human or maybe a moose or a chicken, and then voila. Well when Ghilly made this one she was high on elfroot and thought it was funny if she made an amalgamation of a moose and a spider that shoots webs out of its asshole. It was also eating oversized axolotl so the party knew that that creature was just pure evil and immediately attacked it. Nasa got bit and paralysed but not before messing it up with magic. Eric found out that his fists do more damage than a dagger and Emily awakened her inner badass after cutting off one of its legs and finishing the monster off after getting like really bad. After that was over Emily and Merce left Nasa to Erik while they explored and found a map which had someplace near Dairsmuid highlighted with a sun (What a coincidence). Merce also picked up and took one of axolotls with her.

Erik (and the other two which caught up later) carried Nasa to the keeper who cured her paralysis, and Nasa gave out to Merce and Emily for "abandoning" her even tho she had Erik right there. Some people am I right? The keeper gave Emily some of the spring water and said that it was what Linda was looking for. She also got Nasa some sick face tatoos which represented the elven gods. Emily recalled the smutty fanfic she and her friend once wrote about incestuous romance between Dirthamen and Falon'din and pointed the two out. And the innocent Nasa decided she liked Dirthamen so got his tattos. They spent a night at the Dalish camp and returned to Llomerynn with the Sebastian guy who got them free tickets to the carnival.

Back in Llomerynn the party did some shopping, Emily got a book for free and bought a potion because she was bound to get hurt later at some point, Merce did some shopping for her new pet with a tub and some food (she actually paid for the tub). She was also inspired by Nasa and got herself some sick face tatoos too tho hers were less elvish. The two also stole a golden peg leg for Dario with Emily distracting the merchant while Merce stole the entire display case. Erik did the usual stroll to the Open Clam. After the shopping was done they decided to visit the carnival which was basically mostly a scam with overpriced food and drinks, fake griffons and a potion brewing attraction with no one staffing it who knows anything about potions which resulted in Merce getting a baby hand when she tried to make an ageing potion. The carnival had some nice things tho. Emily won a plushie in a weapon throwing game as well as a crow mask, and all 4 got drawings made that represented their futures... maybe. Could've been a scam but the drawings were fun.

Then the party met up with the guy from the Dalish camp who turned out to have been catching and keeping all the freaky creatures he could find in the wild. And of course one of them breaks out this one a cockatrice which started flying about causing chaos eating the fake griffons and starting out eating a spider that was being cooked in the middle. The party scrambled around trying to kill it with the fireworks but Sebastian saved its pet before it could be cooked and the situation calmed down. In the meantime Merce was trying to fix her baby hand problem and made things worse ending up with both her hands being crab hands.

The carnival leader was impressed by the whole show and offered the party a job to fill in for some actors in his play. Merce too crabby about her situation threatened him but there was nothing anyone could do. He said that it should go away in a day. While Merce was going away to sulk in the safehouse probably hiding from Linda and Dario the other 3 happily agreed to help with the play which was a recreation of major plot points of the previous seasons. Based off the book written by Sarah with help of Varric Tethras. Scene 1: party(just Sarah due to shortage of actors played by Emily) vs desire(played by Erik) and Arasghilana (Nasa). Scene 2: Anais (Portrayed by Emily), Arasghilana(Nasa) vs Radonis(Erik). And might I say I think Anais would approve of Emily's portrayal of herself. Scene 3: Emily doing a great impression of Tyra (which is just yelling "Apostate" alot) and Arashgilana(Nasa) vs Cole(Erik). And Finally the scene 4 where Emily acted her heart out as Tyra killing Arasghilana(Nasa) and then facing off against Marojan(Erik). The crowd was moved to tears by Emily and Nasa's acting and few drama connoisseurs in the audience approved of Eriks portrayal of the villains. The person who hired them also was really moved and payed them handsomely. Few fans of the book were disappointed that the end of scene 1 didn't include Desire x Arasghilana sex scene. Upon exiting the theatre Erik was approached by a fellow regular at the Open Clam who said that the carriage is at the library which is great but... Erik had no clue where the library is...

### Session 8: Letters, Love and a Library

Unfortunately for everyone Erik can't stop thinking about sex so the moment the stranger left he forgot to mention that piece of information with the party. In the meantime Merce returned to the stronghold to find her axolotl Axie (Lets not forget this time) playing with Linda and Dario. As she was heading to her room her egg hatched. Sadly it wasn't a dragon, it was a cockatrice. Merce contemplated cooking it but it was too cute so she decided to keep it, she named him Dario jr. She asked Emily to find a book to take care of it and a harness. However it was getting dark so the party decided to sleep on it. Nasa found out she's into older men as a single flirt from Dario made her swoon. Speaking of horny: Erik had another dream about desire where she revealed that indeed she was the desire demon who possessed Arasghilana, she felt pretty bad about it but also suggested that Erik can put her into a dead body during combat so she can help. Demons are a mixed bag and all.

Emily woke up first to see her dad. Neither knew it but it was funny, especially the part where Zevran ended up being an assassin hired by the Archon to threaten her. Emily managed to convince him to giver her 4 days before he tries to kill her, he agreed and left. Later Emily gave out to Linda for letting a Crow in. Linda asked everyone how they like their eggs made and all gave normal mature responses... Erik. He also gave news that he managed to get the ship and also that the party needs tickets to get into the ball which are kept by Elara and ~~Joe Exotic~~ Sebastian from session 7. Emily pitched a plan to gang up on Zevran next time he shows up while Erik for a moment stopped thinking about sex and remembered the library.

So everyone went out to town to do their own things. Merce went to meet with Antonio to see what her dad was really like and to her surprise he was really sweet. They had a touching reunion where they hugged and told their stories. Antonio apparently really cared for them and made sure to send money so that Dario and his mother were taken care of but then one day they were gone and he couldn't find them. Merce promised to bring Dario with her next time, in the meantime Emily and Nasa went out to look for the library before the carnival, Emily also bought 2 books and a harness from the cat man who she started to really be annoyed at. As expected Llomerynn has no public libraries, so the two went to the mayor thinking he would know more. He didn't but he suggested his daughter might know something using her seer powers. She pointed at some spot on the map of town and said something might be there. Emily and Nasa then went to the carnival to convince Sebastian to give up is ticket. No words from Emily or Nasa worked however but Emily pointed out Dario the cockatrice and how she got a book about monsters to take care of him and apparently Sebastian wrote it. Flattered he signed the book and gave them the ticket.

While all this was going on Erik to no ones surprise went to the Open Clam, he asked about the stranger from before and he ended up not being there, also apparently he was Isabella's shady advisor who just showed up from out of nowhere. Later, after the two were done with their things Merce and Erik were attempting to get the second one from the fort in the port. The locks on the back door were so tough even Merce couldn't open them. Thankfully someone who Erik had sex with was guarding the door, it was Eugene. Erik made up a story about his house being burned down and he let them in saying that he might stay in the barracks. Merce followed stealthfully. Downstairs they found Captain Elara wasted, Merce knocked on her door and made up a story how there was an intruder and she's needed upstairs. The Captain wasted out of her mind went upstairs and didn't even notice Erik after he slipped and fell on his face in front off the door. Inside they found an envelope that could be the ticket and a picture of a woman (That was totally not accidentally revealed by the GM to be Elara's wife)

Back at the stronghold the party reunited and shared the things they found/bought. Merce still has to pay back the 7 gold and 50 silver for the book and harness

### Session 9: A Man in a Purple Dress

Before heading to the library Merce told her brother about their dad, saying that he might not have been the terrible bastard Dario thought he was. He agreed to reserve judgement and meet him unless he ended up one of the leaders of a secret evil organisation or something.

And so finally they headed to the infamous library, Erik decided to go in first and talk to the stranger who summoned him there. Unfortunately for Erik the stranger expected Melon and Erik acted nothing like Melon so he threatened him and forced Erik to reveal that he is in fact not a Melon. The stranger told him to leave and Erik took few steps away then called for help and punched the guy in the face. Emily then ran in and decided to hit him from behind. Thing is she only had a rapier on hand so she figured she could stab him and he would maybe survive it... She stabbed a bit too hard and the stranger died before the party could interrogate him.

Thankfully they didn't need him because Melon kept a journal in which he writes **everything.** So after reading it and revealing a bit too much about Merce than she would like to everyone, the party unlocked a secret door leading to a room in which Melon was torturing his mother. What a loving son. She freaked out when she saw Erik on account of having Melons face and Merce unlocked her chains. Erik explained he isn't Melon and apologised for something his brother has done. They had a moment together and hugged. Apparently Erik's given name is Walter (Walter and Melon - **Waltermelon...** No wonder Melon tortured her) Erik's mother passed out, he healed her a bit with rugged clothes before Nasa remembered she can heal with magic.

Then from the rings everyone wore Linda's voice told them to hide. So everyone ran and hid under the table except Emily who wanted to see so she hid behind the doorway. After everyone found a hiding spot they saw 3 hooded people walk in dressed in purple, blue and red. Behind them walked in some sort of pink projection who they could recognise but then forgot immediately after. It was the Lady in Pink. She told them to reveal themselves in a dramatic fashion (she didn't actually tell them to do it "dramatically" that they just did). Blue was Linda, Purple was Melon (who because of Desire has gotten hot, tho according to his journal even desire demons don't want to sleep with him) and finally the person in red was...

Antonio. "Shit" exclaimed both Emily and Merce when they saw him. The Lady in Pink told the 3 to meet up at Darsmuid where mr White is too, she also tasked Melon with killing the Mayor. Speaking of Melon thankfully for everyone he remained an idiot as when he saw a corpse in front of his desk he didn't assume murder. He assumed the guy killed himself by stabbing himself through the back with a rapier which he didn't have on his body. Keep up those failed perception rolls mr Melon. Anyway as the lady in pink and the other 2 left Melon decided to burn down his own library for the irony of it. The party scrambled to get as much cash from the stolen carriage and to get out before it all burned down, saving 3000 out of 10000 gold. They dumped the gold at Erik's house and Erik took his mom to a healer. While he was doing that the rest went to the Mayors office and they found they were too late. They found the Mayors daughter who saw it all and calmed her down, called for her servants to take care of her. After a bit the party decided to get Mayors daughter to Linda's safehouse, while on their way there they found the other servant who was sent to alert people of Mayors death did a great job spreading panic. Merce punched the guy and Emily tried to calm the crowd but it only calmed like few people at most.

By the time they reached the safehouse the city was in chaos, Dario was made aware of the situation, Emily also tried to tell Linda by ring that the Mayors daughter is kept safe in the safehouse. Merce tried to cheer her up with animal therapy but no cute animals could cure this sort of trauma. Dario figured with the chaos its best to get to the ship before something happens to it. They agreed and left a traumatised girl and a clueless elven servant in charge of an axolotl and a cockatrice before heading off to the port. On the way there Erik kicked down the healers door and took his mother with him.

At port was a full blown battle between pirates and royalists. Merce figured it was a bright idea to ask Isabella who was leading a pirates if they can pass through a battle. Obviously she had none of that so they had to squeese through. Emily, Dario and Merce were able but Nasa and Erik got stuck and needed help getting through. Thankfully the royals retreated which allowed the party easier movement to the ship. On the way they found Arvaraads head on a pike. F. And also the cute harbourmaster dead. Everyone got on the ship and bravely ran away from the burning city. While on the ship they found it had no necessities, not even bedrolls. Merce also told Dario that their father was indeed one of the leaders of an evil secret organisation.

### Session 10: Landlocked

With Llomerynn on fire behind them the party sailed on their barren ship with nothing but each other and the sails in the wind. As night started to fall Emily and Merce agreed to sail in shifts while the others slept (except Nasa because they needed light and she was the only mage). During the Night Merce and Dario had a heart to heart about their past and parents. It turns out the ship was headed to where Merce was born Costa Luna. Meanwhile bellow deck Eric had his own heart to heart with his mom who talked about how she ended up in the situation she was in. She was enslaved and bought by a family that freed slaves and gave them a job where she was babysitting two adorable children. And of course because Melon is evil now he killed the kids when he showed up to get his mother, then acted surprised that she was mad about him killing children.

After the night was over the party docked in Costa Luna just in time to see a familiar sight of the kraken that sunk the first relation. The harbourmaster explained that it was lured in by many ships suddenly moving out as the royals left the port following the troubles in Llomerynn, now the port was closed until the monster left. Emily and Merce created a mental shopping list of what the ship needed then agreed to go buy supplies and some cargo to make up a bit of profit. On the way to town they spotted an evil man beating a dog over a piece of meat. Merce stopped him and stole more meat from him while Emily distracted him then gave it to the dog.

At the market in town Emily found out from whats profitable in Darsmuid from the local traders and haggled with them to buy wood, fruit and textiles to sell in Darsmuid later. Merce meanwhile while shopping for supplies she purchased few things that she couldn't steal like veils, and stole the rest. At one very special instance she used Erik to "distract" a merchant while she stole balista bolts. Because its Erik we're talking about, he "distracted" him by taking him into an alley and "blowing off steam" with him. While buying maps Emily found out that Nasa kept the money from the carriage she took. Hopefully Merce doesn't find out.

After the shopping was done Emily and Merce headed to the tavern while the elves stuck outside for some reason. Merce met the town's Elder Seer who recognised her. She and Dario talked about her past while Emily approached the grizzled old sailor who was said to had encountered the kraken. This sailor ended up being Anton who was glad to hear that Quintus, Zoe and Eugenium were alive. He agreed to help Emily and offered to aid the party in slaying the Kraken. He gave them a diary of an old pirate who had a powerful weapon which could slay the beast. The diary mentioned a dog which was supposed to have an unnaturally long lifespan. Emily remembered the old dog outside and asked how long he's been there. The Elder claimed he was there for around 40 years. Seeing that as very old for a dog the party chose to investigate.

They found the dog once again at odds with the vile stall merchant and saved it once again. He responded to the name in the diary "Snuffles" leading them to believe that it may be the right dog. The Party + Dario followed Snuffles to a ruin which was sealed behind a mosaic puzzle. After fiddling around with it the door opened and revealed a room with a whole bunch of skeletons and a suspicious empty coffin with snuffles laying next to what remained of his old master. He growled at them but was too weak for Emily to stop taking the sword made of lyrium from the skeleton. Merce tried to recruit the dog but he didn't want to leave his dead master. As they left the tomb sealed behind them. Emily asked the elder to at least leave some scraps for him so that he doesn't bother the evil merchant and the party returned to the ship ready to set off with Anton to fight the sea monster. Much to Merce's dismay.

### Session 11: The Thing beneath the Waves

The party sets out across the bay and immediately run into their old pal: The Kraken. After a game of ballista-tag, the kraken catches up to the second relation and holds it in place with its tentacles. Emily hands her newly aquired sword to Anton and sees it changing shape to match its wielder.

After a long battle, Emily finally manages to get a good shot off with a ballista which drives a bolt right into the creatures eye and into its brain. And so the party finally gets revenge for \*clears throat\*

* Blacky
* Ismail
* The Sperare
* The Relation
* Darios Ship
* Darios Leg
* Mali

The party tie the kraken to the ship and sail it into Costa Luna, accompanied with cheers and applauds from a crowd at the docks.

### Session 12: Revengeance

We flash back a bit to our heroic(?) Grey wardens as Cassandra is trecking through the countryside looking for more wardens. She comes across beautiful small town surrounded by grand plantations with a majestic mansion overlooking everything. The town folk were all nice and the tea they brewed was the best in Rivain. The prospering town was under leadership of a noble dwarf who had a happy family, and he was expecting a baby, life for all of them was perfect. That is what in literature is called "How the mighty have fallen" trope. But we are getting ahead of ourselves.

Cassandra visits the mansion just as a retinue of totally not suspicious black knights arrived who called themselves the order of black knights, they both enter and meet Sigmund Aeducan and his pregnant wife, he decapitates the dummy he was practising on and told Cassandra that he did not hear of any Grey wardens in the area. He then went to inspect the soldiers who were super fucking weird according to Cassandra's magical senses, also according to common sense. He turned them away and their leader ominously said he's going to regret this. Surely nothing wrong could happen.

Cassandra is invited to stay and wait for Sappo Gangsta Funk ÚwÚ, at the dinner she chatted a bit about her past in that she was a mage from Tevinter who literally just became a warden. Sigmund shared his story about being the middle child of the former king of Orzammar disgraced and exiled into the deep roads, he survived for 3 years there before getting to the surface. Casandra related with being exiled due to political bs and shared her tragic backstory of how her father was offed by the Archon and she ran away. Seppo probably also has a very mysterious and tragic backstory which he would have shared. if he was there.

That night Sigmund was awoken by a servant telling them there was an elf at the door. Sigmund went downstairs to invite him and instantly his mother in law was killed, his wife was kidnapped and his town was set on fire. Cassandra was also captured while snoozing. Thankfully Sigmunds mom in law held onto the note that had instructions on where to take one of them. Before going to the rescue Sigmund made a passionate speech to the survivors of his town.

Meanwhile Cassandra was being dragged by the black knights to a very shitty fort. Their leader boasted how he was going to give Cassandra as a gift to some pink person because she did her job as a grey warden and killed some broodmother and lady in pink hates people who do their job. Also they were gathering seers for something and Sigmunts wife was one of the seers. Anyway Cassandra chilled in the crappy fort which didn't even have a roof in the cell until Seppo and Sigmunt showed up. They destroyed the wall of her cell and allowed her to get out but then Sigmunt trampled her dealing more damage to her than the enemy. Seppo got her on his horse and they bravely ran away.

On their way out Cassandra thought to look for some wildlife because she didn't have a heal spell but she did have a drain life spell, she found and killed a hedgehog for a whole 3hp, then at some village she got to see a healer and drained life out of a cow in order to get back to full health, the secondary party then went on looking for Sigmunds wife, on the way Seppo filled Cassandra in on everything.

They tracked the black knights to an abandoned mine they easily sneaked past the guards who were running MustHavebeentheWind.exe. Inside they found a whole lots of red lyrium which the wardens in the party confirmed was tainted. Also some sort of Anvil which looked like it was destroyed and put back together 2 times over no one figured what it might be though. While discussing a plan to blow the place up Linda heard them and confronted the secondary party. Seppo recognised him, he gave them his rings and a blessing to murder whoever the leader of the black knights was and also mentioned that the seers were being rounded up in the remains of the circle in Darsmuid. They did some investigating downstairs, Cassandra felt alot of suffering with her Goth powers, Sigmund found a helmet with an inscription on the inside saying "It Just Works"...

Back upstairs everyone started heading out while Cassandra was preparing her calling card - blowing up the dungeon she was in sky high with walking bomb. Problem is magic sometimes backfires and she cast walking bomb on herself. And after enduring through it and dealing more damage to herself than Sigmund ever could with his horse she cast the spell again and ran away blowing up the mine and a dam holding back a river which flooded the makeshift fort the black knights were guarding.

### Session 13: Mi Casa es Su Casa

With the Kraken slain the crew of the 2nd Relation returned to Costa Luna to meet a reception of onlookers all cheering their victory. They docked and proceeded to cut up the kraken they hauled in in order to sell its meat. It turned into a small shop as the onlookers ended up buying up a whole 2 tonnes of meat making everyone rich. After that was done the party hauled the skull and remaining kraken meat to the ship and sailed off to Dairsmuid.

The journey went by uneventfully and the ship docked in Darsmuid docks. As they were docking Erik spotted the infamous Meat Scepter. Emily tried to warn him that he's going to loose all the money he's made in a single night there, but Erik was determined. Thankfully for Erik's coin purse Merce leashed him to prevent him from making any stupid purchases. The sight of her walking around with a leashed elf however did unnerve many people, including the port authority who stopped Emily to ask about her cargo and such. Emily answered honestly and payed all the taxes that she owed like an honest merchant.

They then split off with Emily and Dario looking to sell the skull of the kraken while Merce and Erik traded all the cargo. The latter two made a good team and sold all the food to the port authority for a good profit. They then hit a slight problem trying to sell the wood and textiles to a nearby factory. It's owner was a noble. One "Sellwynne De Calvados" who was an asshole and refused to make any decent trade unless they extorted a family of poor bakers. When Erik and Merce entered the bakery they couldn't find it in them to do it and they didn't have any money to pay their debt back anyway so Erik agreed to pay it off for them. After the kraken 50 gold seemed like loose change anyway. So Erik payed off the bakers debt which made a-hole McGee very disappointed, he honoured the deal and bought the cargo for at least some profit, but Merce and Erik decided that wasn't enough so Erik seduced him as he does and Merce snuck into Swllwynne's private room behind him and knocked him out with his pants down. They took back their money and stole his safe as they weren't able to open it. Then hurried back to the ship

Meanwhile Emily and Dario went looking for whoever would like a skull. Emily thought a university would be interested in it but there were no universities in Darsmuid. Such a backwards place. There was however someone else who was interested. Xenon the Antiquarian, he sent his Urchin to give Emily a note that led her to an eluvian in a shed within an Alienage. As with Eluvians Dario felt like shit and Emily had to guide him through the short tunnel that led to the Black Emporium. Inside Xenon greeted them and offered his deal of 100 gold for the skull. There was no bartering with the corpse(?) so Emily caved in since that was still decent. While there she bought a mask and Dario bought a sword that belonged to the legendary pirate king of Rivain before also heading back to the ship. Well Emily took a detour by a book shop and got a gossip book about nobility, where she found alot of useful information. And Dario met up with some old friends.

Back at the ship Erik figured out the password by using the book Emily bought which had Sellwynne's birthday. Such poor security. Inside the safe were documents, plans for some machine, and business expansion which explained why he was so disappointed that the bakers were able to pay off their debt. The party decided to keep it for now. Shortly after Dario returned with Zoe which told them to meet up in a certain apartment. Merce called up Anton to come with to meet with Zoe and the rest and they went off. She also gave Dario his old sword back that she had since the kraken sunk the first Relation.

Once there Anton had a touching reunion with Zoe and Qintus. Tyra was also there and explained how she couldn't get into Kont-arr, and that the circle might not have been annulled as circle looking mages were being dragged to Kont-arr. Additionally a bunch of creepy, tall templars refused Tyra entry and refused to answer any questions. Emily, Merce and Erik told Tyra about Melon but weren't sure how much more to share. They decided to stay for the night while Erik went back to sleep on the ship. During the Night the spirit that inhabited Erik visited again and he blamed everything on it. The spirit was unable to explain exactly how it all worked and Erik told it to leave and so it did. That night Erik's wound opened slightly. But thankfully it wasn't life threatening. Erik and his mom visited the bakery Erik saved. It was very wholesome and she was very proud of Erik. On the way back to the ship Erik and his mom met back up with Linda who had Cassandra, Seppo and Sigmund. Lind asked if he could talk to make a plan and so Erik let them to the Quintus' apartment where EVERYONE met.

While Linda and the others were still on their way however. Merce woke up first and gave some of the break she bought from the bakery to share it with Dario. They had breakfast when Merce through some introspection noticed that the weird monsters that no one has seen before started showing up around the time she, Melon and Tyra freed Ghilan'nain. The two quickly put 2 and 2 together and figured that Kraken was likely Merce's and the others fault. They argued and Merce took Dario's peg-leg and darted towards the other end of the room. The ruckus woke up Emily who was still dazed and didn't quite understand the whole argument yet. However everyone started coming back in fro breakfast and soon after Linda's party arrived making the room quite crowded. The council of the square table put everyone up to the speed on the plot and shared whatever each of them knew that others didn't, then they started planning their next moves which were to:

1. Infiltrate the party with 2 people being guests and one being brought in through as a servant. - This part of the plan Emily, Merce and Erik agreed to do with Emily and Merce coming in as guests and Erik as a servant. They figured that Merce could get in with an excuse that she's from the circus and Sebastian sent her in his stead because he didn't want to go. Emily would meanwhile have to figure out a way to look like Elara.
2. Investigate the circle - Which Sigmund and Cassandra agreed to do
3. Save Leben - Which Tyra, Zoe and Seppo agree to do

They also make a plan in case the party went up against the colours on who takes on who.

Mr White: Tyra, Zoe, Cassandra,

Mr Black: Sigmund, Seppo

Mr Purple: Erik, Mercè

Mr Red: Dario, Emily

undecided: Quintus, Linda, Anton, Nasa

With the understanding that likely when push comes to shove this might change.

The day before when Emily bought that noble book she took a page about Linda off and now she asked him to speak privately as she was curious about what she found. The page mentioned that Linda was a princess not a prince so Emily questioned Linda about it and he said that yes he was born a princess and started passing as a man in order to hide but while doing that he felt that was more right. Emily understood, pushed no further and gave Linda the page which he burned.

In preparation for the ball Emily and Merce visited the black emporium. There Xenon told them of the mirror that changed their appearance by rewriting history itself to make it so the person using it always looked like that. Not wanting to look like Elara for the rest of her life, Emily noted down her current features so that she could have some note to remember the look she wants after the party. While noting it down she asked Xenon if he's heard any stories about the Kraken and he listed many including one where Ghilan'nain was indeed the one to create it. Merce still continued to claim it was still a coincidence. And just a story.

The mirror worked as intended and they all figured Emily always looked like Elara, the two of them then went back to Sellwynne's shop, thankfully finding he was still recovering from being knocked out. Emily picked up Elara's dress and came back to bring in Merce as a mute Orlesian servant who had similar measurements to Elara's associate who she needed to order the dress for. The dress will be delivered to the Second Relation which Emilara claimed to have been a "rented vessel"when completed

Then after the shopping Merce returned to the apartment to have a chat with Linda. There she found what Emily did and also made an attempt to start a relationship with him, after a bit of awkwardness Linda picked up on what Merce was saying and said he also liked her and that maybe after all of this is over they might have something.

### Session 14: Blueblood

The party gets ready to go to the ball. Mercè and Erik get new outfits in order to blend in and hopefully not die. Mercè hides a small arsenal under her clothes before heading to the library with Emily to do some riveting *R E A D I N G !* Meanwhile, Erik has a lil' hug fest with his mom while he reveals the convoluted story going on and that Maolen is a member of the organization.

The party head to the Ball, separating and heading through their respective entrances. Mercè gets stopped inside by Sellwynne who questions her and proposes a trade, she helps him kill his step-mother Maeve (who is allegedly poisoning his father to gain control over his company) and he helps her on whatever mission she's on. Mercè considers the deal, talks to her little sister Murka as well as her mother Maeve who turns out to be a real piece of shit. She tells her mother who she is and Maeve responds with a "Get the fuck away from me" Mercè finally decides to go through with it and gets Erik to deliver a poisoned cup to her mother. Meanwhile, Emily (disguised as Elara) practices her acting skills for the next time the theater rolls around.

Maeve chokes to death which causes the royal guards to gather around. Emily convinces Ximena to go into her room to talk. Ximena brings along a guard (who's actually Linda in disguise) and walks upstairs to her study. Upstairs, Linda throws the magic spring water on Ximena who acts like she's been freed. Linda, who's extatic hugs Emily before being stabbed in the back by Ximena. Linda dies and Ximena turns out to be a shapeshifting mage in disguise: Mr White.

Emily gets captured but Mercè and Erik manage to jump out the window. Emily is taken down into the dungeons where she's greeted by Mr White. He reveals that his real name is Helion and that he is the high priest of Elgar'nan, the elven god of Vengeance. He mentions that he recognizes Emilys sword, he says that it was "There when he first woke up too". Lastly...

### Session 15: Madrugada

Later that night Absolutely nothing happened either. Nope. Nuh-uh.

After changing out of their ball outfits Merce and Erik went to meet up with Dario and the circle party to tell them what happened, they then came up with a plan on what to do next which was to save Emily and then infiltrate the circle. In order to do that Merce and Erik went over to Sellwynne to ask if he can help. Over at his shop he said that he can get them in but also that Ximena and Elara were leaving the castle in the direction of the circle. The Golem rod also started vibrating as Merce left Sellwynne's shop when she touched it Merce could see Llomeryn through the Golem's eyes. She then flipped off Erik when he asked about the Open Clam which made the Golem flip off the entirety of Llomeryn. Merce kept the titan in that position then went back to the new hideout. Over there Cassandra and Sigmund then spotted the two entering, confirming where Emily was.

The plan then became breaking into the circle which involved making the Titan run all the way to Darsmuid (While still flipping off everything it passed) then use it somehow to break in. Merce figured she'd need lyrium for the rod so she sent Erik and Cass to fetch some (they didn't really need any lyrium in the end). They asked Sellwynne where they could find some and were led to the port. Cassandra then tried to convince the port authority that they need the lyrium for the grey wardens but he wasn't convinced. Thankfully Erik's smooth tongue got the port authority to share some lyrium with them. On their way back they found a bunch of black knights guarding the second Relation so Erik like a dumbass just approached them and asked them what's up? But because they are Todd's Black Knights they don't really talk so they just attacked, Cassandra ran away while Erik ran on board to get his mom. Then Todd's bucket heads set the ship on fire, making Erik jump into the water and swim away with his mom. The party reunited and decided to wait a couple of hours for the golem to come. Meanwhile in the circle Emily was told that in a few hours "the dawn will come". Ominous AND convenient.

As the Golem showed up, the hill the circle was on started flying with some sort of glowy orb shining at the bottom, having no time to waste The Merce got the Golem to pick them up but as it ran to the circle the glowy thing shot lasers at the golem. So instead it threw everyone at the circle before being destroyed, everyone was mostly unscathed. Emily then filled everyone there in on what she found \*breathe in\*

- Lady in Pink is from Anderfells and Mr White "Helion" and her formed the organisation together (Anders nobles ruin everything)

- There is an elven temple bellow the circle which is why all of it floats now and the glowy thing is a weapon they call "the sun" which is the weapon ancient elves used against the dwarves, and might also be the reason dwarves fear the sky

- The goal of the organisation is to stop Fen'harel from doing something bad, also elven gods are real for those who haven't gotten that information yet

- Everyone in the organisation hates Melon so no one will care if we kill him

- The seers are being gathered because they descent from elves that ancient elves used to see anything, anywhere, anytime and so their powers was going to be used to focus the power of the sun and aim the laser.

After being filled in the party decided to pretend Merce, Emily and Dario switched sides and captured the others. After descending down a very looong staircase they came across 4 doors each corresponding to the colours except pink and blue. Everyone went through the white one hoping to be able to get close to him. Unfortunately he was hiding and said he'll reveal himself if Emily proves her loyalty and kills one of them. Anton subtly volunteered but Emily hesitated and Merce made the choice for her killing Anton. Helion satisfied let everyone else go and said that it's fine if they were to kill the other colours if anyone in the party had business to settle with them.

As expected with the session 13 recap plans did change. Sigmund and Quintus went to beat up Todd since Seppo wasn't there, Cassandra was asked to help fight Melon along with Merce and Erik, and the only party set up which was same as planned was Dario and Emily going after Mr Red.

There was only time for one fight in the session which was Erik, Merce and Cassandra vs Melon. Being an abomination or an idiot or both he didn't recognise Merce because of her disguise, nor did he figure that this person looking like him might have been his twin brother. He didn't know who Cassandra was but he was about to find out. Through some magic stuff Desire fought the party at the same time as they fought Melon in the real world. In the fade Erik's shard of desire showed up to help in Arasghilana's form. Finally Cassandra used her calling card and ended the fight on her terms. Walking bomb(Technically Erik landed the killing blow but he did blow up). And the mystery of whether Melon's legs grew back or was he floating died with him because there was nothing left of him to be able to tell. Merce quickly ran to the red door and Cass to the black door hoping that they'll be able to help with the fights there.

### Session 16: Daybreak

Turning back time a few minutes, Emily and Dario enter the red door. They find Antonio, gazing out from atop a balcony. They talk for a bit until Mercè's done with her fight, she enters and Antonio spills his proverbial beans. When he first started as a merchant in Antiva, his father and grandfather were assassinated by crows. He gave away a huge amount of his inheritance to help the poor of Antiva but he found that the rich were quite adept at keeping the status quo between the classes, and so his money fueled the rich instead. Out of frustration he joined the organization, convinced that they had the means and will to actually make changes. Their relationship turned sour when he had Dario and decided to retire with his family, the organization wouldn't let him and threatened his family. Antonio, determined to see things through with the organization to guarantee the safety of his family, left Dario and Maeve with a good amount of money and went back to his old life.

He begs Dario and Mercè to reconsider but they manage to talk him into joining their assault on Mr white and The Lady in Pink.

Turning back time again, Sigmund, Quintus and Cassandra go up against Mr Black (Todd Howard). They beat him up (after a couple of misses from Sigmund) and Mr White chimes in to roast him a bit, calling him a slave for turning into a golem. Mr White freezes Todd in place with a control rod and drops a big forge on top of him. Lyrium starts flowing in so Cassandra does her speciality and casts EXPUROOOSION on the lyrium latches, throwing the forge aside. Todd is still frozen in place so Sigmund casually strolls up and slices him up, hopefully killing him for good this time...hopefully.

The rest of the party arrive and head downstairs, finding a red lyrium forge for creating Todd's black knights and they nudge the red lyrium crystals from their pedestals. Further downstairs they find the kidnapped Elders in a cage. Granny Maya reveals that Sigmunds wife Meera was taken away along with Maria Knight, the Mayor's daughter.

The party head into Mr Whites room and have a slightly awkward conversation with him. He does reveal that the pool at the bottom is actually called the Well of Vengeance and that it contains the memories of the servants of Elgar'nan. The well is empty of substance at the moment however since it was used by The Lady in Pink. Quintus shoots an arrow at Mr White and he transforms into a giant Phoenix. A fight ensues and Dario is badly burnt and smushed. Eventually the party manage to pull Mr White into the Well of Vengeance and he is pulled down and melted. (Although no one present could have known this, but across Rivain in a temple by Costa Luna, a lonely dog took his final breath, his master finally being avenged)

Mercè wastes no time and swan dives into the well, shlurping up all that Mr White juice. She has a brainblast and suddenly knows everything about Mr White and his true plans for the organization. She sees Mr White's journey from high priest of Elgar'nan, through the Elven-Dwarf war and him waking up in present day, she sees him mentoring Nasa's mother but eventually abandoning her and traveling to the Anderfells. In the anderfells he sees an extrememly abused and malnourished street urchin, he ignores her and days later finds her dead. Then one day she's alive again, he feels that something is special about her and takes her in, grooming her for decades to be the inheritor of the sun. He lets her build her own ideology while subtly manipulating her to achive his own goals of stopping Fen'Harel.

The party now stands before the pink door, ready to end this.

### Session 17: New World Memes

Before stepping through the pink door, Antonio gives Mercè and Dario an envelope and instructs them to open it if he doesn't make it. The party steps through the door into a huge throneroom with a great concave dome at the bottom. They finally see The Lady in Pink (or as Mercè knows from Helions memories: Iris Augustin), she is cradling and humming to Sigmunds child. Meera (sigmunds wife) is laying dead on the floor nearby. The Lady in Pink gives him his daughter and says that she is beautiful. The Lady in Pink goes into a long monologue about how she is going to use the sun to destroy both armies of Rivain and cement her status as a meme to change the world for the better, getting rid of all injustice in the world.

The battle eventually start and the party has to face off against the super powered Lady in Pink. She drops her sunglasses revealing a bright light shining from her good eye. Every bit of damage she takes causes more of the light to leak out from her. After a bit of fighting, Sigmund uses Elgar'nans foci to turn the power of the sun in on itself, breaking the dome underneath. Everything in the room is sucked towards the wide open hole, Mercè manages to grab Sigmunds daughter in the nick of time and Antonio sacrifices himself to save them both. The battle rages on untill Cassandra uses the foci directly on The Lady, weakening her for Quintus to finish her off with an arrow. The foci is thrown overboard as is The Lady who disintegrates into light.

The party aboard the sun rush away from the room as it crashes towards the ground, everyone making it to safety except Sigmund who stays with his wife in his final moments.

The sun creates a huge crater as it smashes into the ground. The party wake up and find a child that seems very similar to The Lady in Pink. They give her a health potion and get captured by Elaras army nearby. They are taken to the royal dungeons to await their fate. They are escorted to the royal palace the morning after. They are greeted by Quelarra, Sellwynne and Elara who bow to them and call them heroes. They'd heard the entire story from the Elders and Tyras freed mages from Kont-aar. They are tasked with choosing the next leader of Rivain and make a deal with Sellwynne to make him King.

A few hours later, Sellwynne is crowned and the party are honored as heroes of Rivain. Statues of Linda and Sigmund are erected in Dairsmuid and El Cortaro respectively. When leaving the ceremony, the party are ambushed by Sandia, Tyra and Zevran. Zevran demands the book and Tyra just so happens to have it on her. Zevran slinks away and the party go their seperate ways.

After becoming king, Sellwynne makes peace with the pirates and transforms Rivain into an industrial power, building up factories in every major settlement in Rivain. A dalish from the clan outside Llomerryn finds Emily (who previously gave her a couple of books) and asks if she can take her with her on her journeys. Iris Augustin is found by her sister who adopts her in order to give her a normal life free from Mr Whites control.

Tyra is promoted to Knight Commander and is given the task of rebuilding the templars in Rivain along with housing the rescued mages, she is granted the mountain fort in El Cortaro as a new circle. Zoe joins her efforts as an advisor. One morning she is awoken by someone apologizing to her in a dream.

Mercè adopts Sigmunds daughter who she names Meera after her mother. She rebuilds the thieves guild in Llomerryn with Linda's safehouse as a base of operations eventually taking on Murka de Calvados as an apprentice. Emily continues her merchant business in Rivain while also attempting to root out the crows in Antiva, she adopts the name Arinai after her father. Erik takes his mother to Orlais where he continues working as a bard (and maybe gets employed by a mysterious gentleman?) Emily finally managed to make it back to the Archon with the tome of koslun in hand. Her mission accomplished.

In a forgotten glade in a mysterious forest, Nasa (or rather Fellassan) is talking to Fen'Harel. She reports that

her mission was a success. It turns out that the Titan and The Kraken were both part of his plan to use the party in order to take down the sun. She hopes that his plan with Dirthamens foci and a certain conclave goes as well as this mission did.

And finally a kinder sun rises, signifying the dawn of a new day.

THE END