Session 16 - An Eggcellent Performance

With just a little over a day left until the day of the big performance, the party rushed to track down Nathan Lowduke and the stolen dragon egg. Splitting the party in two, one group sought out his tent, while the other started scouring the refugee camps. Oddly enough, it's not the party who found Nathan, but the other way around. A Michelle-length (low hit, literally) man approached the group and drunkenly invited them to touch his egg (ew). Turns out the rumors were true and Nathan had actually somehow managed to steal an actual dragon egg. Siveril switched the egg with a mossy stone (Indiana Jones and the raiders of the lost ark style) and sent Nathan home to his tent to sleep it off. Having procured the egg far earlier than anyone could have hoped, the party decided to seek out Naizelasa and perhaps strike a deal with the dragon, and still return back to Seaquen in time for the grand performance.

With Marxiros as our guide, we ventured forth to brave the wet swamplands of southern Dassen. A night was spent under the stars, during which Siveril fell asleep during his watch; an impressive feat considering elves don't actually sleep. The following morning we set out after some quick planning over breakfast and eventually managed to locate the dragon in an old Colosseum next to a lake. Naizelasa had made a nest in this Colosseum and we found her curled around her two remaining eggs. We returned the stolen egg to Naizelasa, who was very happy to reunite with her unborn child. The dragon was hesitant about lending us her Lyre of Fabrication, but was willing to do so against a safety deposit. The deposit she had in mind was either Mergrim (a craftsman for a crafting tool), or the thief who stole her egg in the first place, who she promised wouldn't be killed and be returned "mostly" intact when we returned the Lyre. We agreed to bring her the thief, bid our adieus, and returned to Seaquen to prepare for the grand performance the next day.

Before traveling to Naizelasa, Louie paid a visit to the Ragesian Philosophers and asked Yuggug for a favor: Louie wanted the philosophers to research the name "Trilith". Louie told Yuggug that a dream-creature (indomitability) had been called "A child of Trilith", but that is the only concrete thing we actually know. The same day as the performance, Mergrim paid a similar visit to the Dasseni Dwarves and asked them to finish building and furnishing our house. They were happy to do so and two dwarves followed Mergrim home and started working (in exchange for fish soup with a hint of crab).

With those affairs settled, and some additional fishing out of the way, it was time for the big performance. Along with the other guests, we were ferried onto the Wayfarer's Ship and led down a spiral staircase below deck. We exited into a theater hall far larger (like three times as large) than what could possibly have fit inside the ship (magic) and guests started heading to their seats. As very important people and guests of honor, we were given the best seats in the entire theater: at the very last row. The performance began and the audience quickly became enraptured by the story unfolding before them. Everyone sat in silence as if spellbound by the performance. Nothing could break their silence, or the spell cast upon them... except for Katrina. The fire sorceress was so overjoyed to watch the Wayfarer's performance that she was unable to contain her excitement and it spilled forth into words as she began narrating into poor Saphire's ear, much to the dismay of other audience members. Perhaps Siveril was looking over at Katrina in annoyance, perhaps Zunigri was picking at her teeth with a handaxe during a boring part of the performance, and perhaps Louie was simply looking around bored while stifling a yawn as he had already seen rehearsals. Regardless of why it happened, the three of them managed to catch Giorgio red-handed (HAHAHA get it? Since his hands were covered in blood) trying to sneak out of the theater hall. They immediately stod up to follow, but Louie did so much less nimbly than the others and alarmed Giorgio that he had been caught. Confusion was quickly followed by chaos in the theater hall as most of the party chased after Giorgio onto the deck above.

Giorgio was not working alone. Waiting for him on the deck were Brutus and Setales. They quickly took up arms to defend Giorgio and clashed with the party. During the fight, a third accomplice Nira snuck up on Zunigri and Marxiros and joined the fray. Below deck, Mergrim called out for anyone injured and used a spell to turn into Moregrim (Big boi, Mostgrim when?) so he could get to an apparent stab-victim backstage and subsequently heal him. Panic ensued in the nearby Wayfarers as the stab-victim said that Giorgio had stolen "the ring". Up on deck, the fight was going great as some faerie fire had painted the bad guys easy targets (Thanks Louie). Giorgio was trying to cast spells and escape the ship, but kept getting counter spelled (Thanks again Louie). With nowhere to go, it was only a matter of time until Siveril managed to land a killing blow. With some (un)lucky rolls, Giorgio's accomplices were incapacitated by a charm and bound tightly by rope before they regained their senses. Some important people were allowed onto deck, but the rest were kept below deck to avoid utter chaos. The Wayfarers retrieved the stolen ring from Giorgio's dead body and explained that the ring was the "key" used to teleport their entire ship. With it, Giorgio could have teleported the ship and everybody onboard an unknown distance. However, with the burning sky, such a teleport would have incinerated every single person on the ship. After some threats from Zunigri, Brutus told us that they were working for Lee. Torrent as devastated by this and threw up over the railing off the ship. Simeon was very impressed by how effectively we had handled the situation. He tasked us with finding Lee and bringing him to justice. As soon as the Wayfarer's Ship returns to the docks, we are to go immediately to Lyceum and pick up a bunch of spellcasters to wreck Lee's shit. With a strong wind buffeting the ship, ended the session as we were heading back to the docks.