Beiinors Campaign/Session 8

## [ Session 08 — 04/09/2023 ]

**Transcription Notes from Paavo’s Recording Library, RecallBox #1.01.0024**

**\*click\*-….whirrRRR-zzt-**

*Ok, let’s get started, this has already been a long day, so-*

**\*CLUNK\***

*…That sounded… not great, but I can fix that piece later. Parts fall off all the time, and if the internal mechanism is ok it’s usable. Anyway, it’s on now, so where did I leave off?*

**(A muffled voice, apparently a visitor, can be heard across the room but not intelligibly. It’s unclear whether they’re mumbling on purpose. They seem to have doubts about the recording medium.)**

*What? No, they’re already numbered, and I have the master list, it’ll be fine. Anyway, we stopped right at the end of the Red fight, didn’t we?*

*Katamira had gone off to find the “kid” that was mentioned earlier, and she came back with this young-looking dwarf in tow. He called himself Sarkan Silksmith… quite a punch in the gut to find out Raudona had left behind a kid when she was ambushed. I guess they were on their way to Coby by way of Coteien, and the kid was supposed to be married, too… what a shame how things ended up for them to that point…*

**(The voice gets harsher, and one could almost pick up the phrase “get on with it”.)**

*Ok, fine, the short version, since he’ll come up again later. He told us about the person responsible for killing Raudona, that Arch fey I told you about before, and how he was captured by the Marble Wolves. He really wanted to get away from the action, so we hid him outside for a bit – Getheron pushed hard to convince him to join our crew, unsuccessfully – and we dragged Getheron back in with us to help once we ran into Margot. We got back to the prison room, which was next to this sort of entertainment lounge-*

**(The visitor suddenly laughs at this idea.)**

*That’s not funny, it’s weird and unnerving! Who designs a place like that?! …Never mind, I’m going to move on before I break this thing and start over.*

*So, we pass by all that and find an ornate grandfather clock that doesn’t seem to be working. On opening the clock face, we hear a voice commanding us to close it again. Strange, right? Turns out this clock is a portal to somewhere in the Fey wilds, and we need to find the key for it. Again, I’ll get back to it in more detail eventually, but let me give you a teaser: the perception of time there was… off. When Katamira went in, ten minutes passed before we pulled her back out, and she didn’t even remember going in at all. Some kind of enchantment, we thought. But that’s all for now.*

*We all head upstairs to what I assume is where I’m going to nearly die again – no, I’m not being dramatic, it almost happened once that day – and listen at the door. We can hear Margot mention something about Sarkan being shipped somewhere and getting paid for it. Yeah, trafficking, of all things, do you believe it? Even though I oiled up the door hinges and Katamira picked the lock as silently as I’ve ever seen, somehow Margot still knew we were there and had time to prep. I’m guessing the Patient Queen warned her ahead of time, because when we got in there, it was cold. Stupid cold. The kind of cold you only expect to feel if you’re on the verge of total hypothermia and about to shuffle off this mortal coil.*

**(A purposeful clearing of the throat snaps Paavo back on track.)**

*Ok, ok, sorry. We saw Margot sitting at one table staring holes through us, and a white wolf on another, the latter wrapped around this pale blue orb... Yeah, the one on the Spin Cycle. We had quite a spot of good luck this time around. Apparently CharlesGorth knew exactly what that wolf was, because he went all out, burning it to a crisp with a Chromatic Orb before it had a chance to do anything. Katamira and Maria led the assault on Margot, psyching her out badly, and she kept trying to taunt us unsuccessfully.*

*I thought there was no reason to end this fight with more bloodshed, so I tried to talk her down. Like, REALLY tried. Little did I know that the Patient Queen was keeping her from listening to reason, so that all went to waste. By the time the fight ended, I stopped watching. I went to block the door when she turned invisible so she couldn’t escape, but… I really hoped she would stop fighting. I didn’t want to see the moment she went down or even who was responsible. I did hear her say something about “Mike” being capable; at the time having no idea what that meant, I let it slip my mind. I had no idea what kind of nonsense Getheron got up to while we were exploring, but it caught us up in all that Patient Queen business down the road, so in a way I suppose it did help.*

**(The visitor gives a low whistle, followed by a question; the words “good finds” can be heard.)**

*Is that all you can think about? …Besides the gold, there were some interesting magical items, I guess: that orb, a sword that hurled insults, a sending stone, the portal key, and the ring Charles Sempso sent us out to find. But the most important thing in my opinion was evidence: the little black book Margot kept with records of her and her crew’s disgusting trafficking operation. I guess the Silksmith boy was due to be sent to my hometown, obviously it wasn’t a welcome sight to see Hypox hiding the scum of the earth within its walls. That Dragonborn I mentioned a while back was also in that book, you know.*

*We had a lot of leads to follow once we got back to Qendra: getting the Silksmith boy to Coby, finding Dragorth and the other names in the black book, and figuring out who the Patient Queen really was and why she was causing so much trouble. So, which one do you want to hear about first?*

**(The box begins to fade out before an answer can come.)**