22/06/2021 - Attempted Assassinations, Cataclysmic Curses and Sassy Secretaries

## THE FIGHT

* The drow tries to murder Lysandre but doesn’t get away with it
	+ Kunai yells ‘ATTEMPTED MURDER’ and Leo spots the movement so the buds in the crowd figure out what happened
* After a weirdly drawn out stabby battle, Kunai defeats the Darkness

## PRIZEGIVING

* Lord Alexei Garth is giving out the prizes, with the collector we were told about behind him (his husband?)
* Belgaer is Awkward™ when getting their prize
* Kunai asks about the Darkness, and Alexei doesn’t know very much tbh
* Kunai goes to chat to Lagatha and the Cleric who also don’t know anything about the Darkness
* Lysandre, Bayul and Kunai are in a gang now - the Platinum Warriors (Azurial is not invited)
* Bayul goodnaturedly abuses the Cleric for reasons I guess

## COLLECTING OUR WINNINGS FROM BETTING

* The people in the bar bet heavy on Lagatha and are also sad
* We pick up our winnings from Welda and for some reason Lysandre wants to see the book so we talk our way into that
* Lysandre and Kunai try to create the illusion that we bet on Kunai instead of Bayul, but it just fails and just gaslights the poor landlady
* Bayul then tries to intimidate her into giving the money back. Lysandre casts Suggestion to make it stick, but fails
* Welda offers 200gp and after Tamsin tries and fails to Suggest Bayul stand down, he accepts that

## DRAGON GODS

* Despite not wanting to bring ‘numbers’, everyone goes with Kunai to the Sanctuary of Jazirian
* Kunai and Lysandre tell the priestess about Lady Autumnleaf
* The Priestess suspects that the Darkness is a really old assassin who was very good at her job (by really old she means ‘over 80’ which is not actually really old at all for drow) and warns Lysandre that she’s probably still after him

## NIGHT TIME

* Lysandre has a really bad night’s sleep and gets poisoned while he’s asleep somehow and wakes up with bulging black veins, coming from where he got stabbed.
* He wakes up Scribbles who determines that the poison is fast acting and probably can’t suck the poison out. It is also not just the veins on one arm so cutting his arm off would not work. Unfortunately Scribbles can’t heal poison right now
* Kunai wakes everyone in the other room, but Leo also doesn’t have anything for poison tonight.
* Lysandre gets worse and becomes incapacitated
* Scribbles turns into a quetzalcoatlus and starts to carry Lysandre and Kunai to the temple but they are approached on the way by a Crimson Mage on a giant owl
* Kunai tries to explain what’s going on and gets an escort. Lysandre is paralysed as they land
* The Mage is sympathetic and Levitates Lysandre in to the Platinum temple
* Lysandre is seen to by a Cleric who says he’s not poisoned, but cursed. The High Priests are necessary. Lysandre goes unconscious and Kunai Spares the Dying
* A Senior Cleric comes in Ready for Action and manages to Remove the Curse. He says it was a very powerful curse - Curse of the Midnight Tear, ancient curse made from a flower in the Feywild with a long latency period, around 8-10 hours. Very expensive poison
* Kunai notes that he was also stabbed by the Darkness and asked the cleric to check him out, but he’s fine
* The Mage escorts them back to the Mother’s Luck and asks who did this to Lysandre as the Crimson League should investigate. Lysandre says it was the ‘edgy dark fucker’ but they were likely hired by Lord Goldcott
* Scribbles learns the grumpy Mage at the magic shop is Cyril and no one likes him.

## NEXT DAY

* Leo goes looking for a dentist and finds one eventually who can also make false teeth with healing potions etc inside them
* The dentist recommends he get implants but Leo wants his own teeth put back in, which he accedes to eventually
* It is decided we should probably go to the university to do the mission we were actually sent here to do

## BACK TO SCHOOL

* We go to the university and it’s pretty big and we’re not sure where to go
* Leo asks someone with his new teeth where the Dean’s office is
* We follow the signs in the Tower to the Dean’s Office, up 14 flights of stairs
* Elyan tries to charm the secretary to try and set up an appointment, who the undersecretary says is very busy even though we can see he’s just reading a book
* The secretary has never heard of the Archaeology Guild or Ilbidor which is very rude
* Elyan and Lysandre convince the secretary to set up a lunchtime meeting with the Dean for us, along with the Head of Ancient Literature and the Burser
* Scribbles tries to give the secretary a Goodberry and actually manages to get him to try one