Jayda Crutherford

Jayda Crutherford is a daughter of the Tracerton Crutherfords, who required orchids on her wedding day. Felicity, her wedding planner, left the ordering of the orchids up to her employee Kaarle, who bungled it up in a very Kaarle fashion by placing Jayda's name as the buyer, therefore ensuring that the Shipton crew needed the bride's signature to hand over the cargo, instead of the wedding planner.

This became an issue as Felicity explained that due to a family tradition, the bride could not be disturbed before the wedding nor would she make an appearance until the very moment of the wedding. As such, the party begrudgingly agreed to have Felicity take the cargo so long as she put in writing she would cover the amount owed to them personally if Jayda for whatever reason refused to sign.

Due to these circumstances, the party was put up for the night and allowed to attending the wedding the next day, albeit from the servant's viewing area. The wedding itself seemed very odd, as there were no professional musicians hired and instead the very wealthy families decided to use 4 servants with a barely passable ability to play violins. On top of that, the patriarch of the Gregsworth family, Kenneth Gregsworth, said a few words to begin the ceremony and then began to chant with his eyes glowing. The rest of the gathered wedding party (save the Shipton party) also joined in the weird chanting, and then everyone but the Shipton crew went unconscious. Enter Jayda.

Jayda turned out to be a demon of some kind, covered in lumps and boils. Noticing the conscious party she immediately attacked, knocking Margie (who stumbled and stammered about trying not to ruin Jayda's big day) unconscious, while also partially removing her face with her demon claws. Bo was able to turn the situation around with the successful use of a Dissonant Whispers spell, forcing Jayda to become afraid of the party and retreat, triggering both Dave and Bo's attacks of opportunity. (Plenet was asleep in the servants quarters and missed this battle.) The attacks were enough to finish off the monster, who disappeared and in her place was an unconsicious Jayda, now appearing like a regular human woman.

The rest of the wedding party was slowly roused, and a few were heard to express a note of pleasant surprise at the lack of bloodshed, noting they thought that there would be "more blood," and that the ceremony had so far started off well. The party was confused but was offered no explanation, and Jayda (in a confused but conscious state) signed the contract and Felicity ushered them out.

Who knows what mysterious secrets the Gregsworth and Crutherfords hold in Tracerton? Certainly not the party, who just wanted a chill mission for once and were pretty much not into investigating the weird rich people after a stressful bandit ambush.

## Powers and abilities

Incredible strength was evident in Jayda's demonic form, but beyond that there wasn't much of an opportunity to view any other powers she might have possessed.

The party at this time does not know if Jayda is part demon herself and this was a physical transformation of some kind, or if she was simply a conduit for a demonic possession from another plane. Either way, the wealthy families gathered seemed to have some sort of connection and expectation with some kind of demonic otherwordly force, as they were completely accepting of the demon's presence in the wedding.