A Certain Kind of Person

"**A Certain Kind of Person**" is the fifth session of *Thrice Prophesied*, played on 16 April 2023.

Set in the world of Tirion, the game was DMed by Meg and conducted on Discord.

## Party

* **Valkyrie Del Vega** (Emily) – Fairy Circle of Dreams Druid
* **Vincent Reis** (Josh) – Human Eldritch Knight Fighter
* **Eleison Kyrie** (Ben) – Human Light Domain Cleric
* **Theeran Blackwood** (Anthony) – Tiefling Arcane Archer

## Summary

*continued from previous session*
After finishing lunch at The Sapphire Hostel, the party departs from the town of Kuld and travels northward along the road to the capital city of Arany. While they travel, Eli informs the group of his conversations with the Dragonborn woman and the agreement he made with her to negotiate the use of an Ekaran temple in Ariel as a sanctuary for refugees from The Wastes above Brogo; he apologizes for not telling the group sooner, but the party agrees that since secrecy was necessary to gain the woman's trust, it was worth it.

Reaching a clearing by early evening, Eli summons two animal spirits – Beatrice the mastiff and Eugene the boar – and Theeran helps him make camp while Vincent and Valkyrie attempt to fish in a nearby stream. They catch nothing, and after they return to the clearing, Valkyrie describes her recurring dreams to the group in order to Vincent to conduct a tarot card reading: he deals out the Moon in reverse, the Hermit in reverse, and the World in reverse, all of which indicate confusion, fear, misinterpretation, isolation, and incompletion.

Eli then suggests that in his experience, dreams never mean nothing, and reassures Valkyrie that she will not be alone when she faces whatever her dreams are leading to, reminding her: "It's okay to not be okay." She later returns to the stream to be alone, and only Eli notices her absence as Vincent describes the history of his tarot deck to Theeran, explaining that the artwork was created by numerous generations of his family. While demonstrating the minor magical effects he sometimes puts on the cards while dealing them, they notice that the Fool card glows for several minutes, and Vincent admits that nothing like that has ever happened before.

Eli takes the first watch, during which he ventures down to the stream to find Valkyrie sleeping; he carries her back to camp and wakes Theeran for his watch, which passes uneventfully. Theeran wakes Vincent to take third watch, which also passes without incident as well until dawn, at which point Beatrice and Eugene vanish. Valkyrie experiences a dream in which she is miniscule, following Apollo to a fortified city and attempting to fly over the wall; she finds a massive iron door that she cannot open, and wildshapes into a weasel. When she returns to her natural form, she finds herself three times her size and open the door, waking before she sees what lies behind it.

As she wakes, she falls onto the tent that Eli and Theeran are sleeping in, having tripled in height overnight to the size of a halfling. She panics, and Eli manages to resummon Beatrice to calm her as Theeran convincingly performs the verbal and somatic components of *Calm Emotions*, a spell he cannot actually cast. After another hour, the group eats breakfast and breaks down camp, continuing northward and reaching Arany by midday; while entering the city, Theeran spots a blue-skinned Tiefling among the crowd, and recognizes a distinctive bronze Dragonwing Bow slung across his back as he disappears down a side-street.

He notifies the group and follows the man as Vincent sends Heinrich toward the alley and Valkyrie flies over the traffic; Eli deftly weaves through the crowd and Theeran falls into his wake as Heinrich spots the man entering The Raven's Rest. The familiar perches on the sign outside as Valkyrie reaches the tavern, spotting the man heading up the stairs toward the second floor; she considers casting *Charm Person* on him from across the room and decides against it as Eli and Theeran reach the door, calling out to her to prevent her from following the man upstairs.

Theeran jokingly suggests that she not get so excited that she separates from the group in a new city, and the group finds a table before eating lunch and inquiring about available rooms.

*continued next session*

## Notes

* The events of the session take place on 19-20 Suen 998.