09/02/21

## SHOPS

* Offers a discount if we can pick up some ichor fungus in the forest while we're there - small brown fungus with yellow dots in shaded hollow or tunnel
* Bayul is gone shopping for weapons for ships at the Reclamation Yard; there is a decent ish thing - mangonel
* Tamsin spots some books and scrolls, basket of spell scrolls - two seem better than other - Scroll of Leo's Tiny Hut (400gp), damaged Scroll of Banishment (200gp) - chance of going wrong, decreasing with each write up; 3 books - Rise and Fall of Iysgarth (2gp); Marine and Aquatic Life - A Triton's Perspective (2gp); covered in magical glyphs - 20gp (Tamsin is buying all of the books)
* Sextant - not magic, but very nice. Old, engraving of owl of empire on the back. Relic of past empire shenanigans. Initials LG under the owl, past Emperor with those initials - Leon Garth, lost at sea many years ago (~100 years ago)
* Lots of rusty/basic weapons and jewellery
* Kunai and Lysandre have a bonding moment - gift of alacrity
* Kunai finds a map!
* ARCAYNE ARTYFACTS - dwarf lizardfolk man
	+ Ring of three fishes - Tamsin debates buying for Blagden but allows herself to be talked about of it. Azurial buys it.
	+ Orb of slope detection - it rolls
	+ Hat of disguise - has a sheet with eye holes
	+ "cap of water breathing" (a snorkel)
	+ Wand of alignment - tells you how things are aligned - centre, left or right

## NOT SHOPPING ANY MORE

* Leo and Kunai noticed a cloaked figure in our vicinity, staring at us, seeing him stretch weirdly (saying "follow" in Thieves' Cant)
* Leo+Kunai follow, with Tamsin backing up further behind
* Figure in the alley, saying "you only", Kunai says "ally", he says "you, yes"
* Lysandre and Kunai have a telepathic link and Kunai sets him on alert; Tamsin sends Ellie to follow
* Breena goes to find out where the alley comes out on the other side
* Figure goes around the alley, waiting for Kunai
* Covered in dark cloak, but lizardfolk, says "Sunlight shine"
* Kunai, "Darkness fall" - it is Kunai's friend Katana
* There's been an attack on cantina, Orkis killed, assassins dead and scattered - Breena is spotted
* Katana asks Kunai to meet at a temple north of the village at midnight. Come alone, trust no one
* Breena is looking out for Kunai!! Kunai likes Breena's hairstyle and is surprised by how affectionate he is towards her and Ellie and pleased with his friends for looking out for him, it's gross

## THE CHIEF

* Disgusting breakfast is discussed on the way to see the chief
* Military fortification - two flags; one with four fish on it, one battered Iysgarth one.
* 2 Iysgarth guards - Azurial rides up on his horse and introduces himself to Lotharr the Guard - and asks for an audience with the Chief
* Tall lizardfolk, older, bulky guy, getting on in his years - Boaz Nahor, Law master
* 5 day journey to Carrion Cliff - going alone would be impossible. No paths beyond the three estuaries, would be following animal tracks. We would need a guide.
* Please can we subcontract Khiaxi? Unfortunately she is comatose and we need her
* Nicola - fisher - disappeared without a trace. Body did not wash up. A further 8 people went missing from the village over the next week - no connection ebtween them except that they live in the North part of the village. Khiaxi and the guards searched but another 8 have gone missing, for a total of 17.
* Yesterday, Khiaxi looked in SW of village, turned up early this morning wounded, poisoned, will likely die within the day. Spoke of a beast.
* Leo offers his services of healing; Chief will allow us to borrow her if we save her life and deal with the beast

## HEALING KHIAXI

* He takes us to her, somewhere in the complex. Old woman hurrying around her - Maggy the herbalist.
* Leo notices that there are many issues with Khiaxi:
	+ Brutal fever disease
	+ At least two poisons - one is stopping her wounds from healing, another more generic and swampy
	+ Ruptured her intestines and liver
	+ Some sort of circle of death - vicious circle, needs to heal everything at once
	+ So - one disease, two poisons, lesser restoration, 3rd level healing, 2nd level healing
* Azurial Lays on Hands, Leo does 3rd level healing (Mass Healing Word), Breena does Lesser Restoration and hands Tamsin a Greater Healing potion to pour down her throat
* It works! Somehow.
* Khiaxi was out towards the West of the village - saw weird mists and followed to a clearing. Huge yellow eyes and then pain. Also a long of green, fangs? Was thrown. Acidic wounds.
* Advice: where the clearing is - follow the path north of the village, pass the temple, left at fork, follow for a few hours, find a willow tree with animal track, turn right, then the clearing is about half an hour ahead. Don't be surprised.
* Mound in centre of clearing - a turret thing. Water was heated and subsequent mists.
* Creature came from foliage, she thinks
* Nature - some powerful/old beings can be so influential on the landscape that their surroundings adapt with them

## TEMPLE

* Engraving of jackal headed human - avatar for Seth - Chaotic evil demi god worshipped by Yuan-ti
* Totems outside to protect the people (superstitious)

## STILL TRACKING

* The animal track is heavy foliage
* Tamsin starts to burn it away but it's not working so she gives up
* Bayul bashes it with his shield and Kunai helicopters his Kunai with Chain to clear a path for everyone else
* Misty after about half an hour

## THE CLEARING

* Three bodies - one lizardfolk, two human guards
* Various pools of water and an egg in the middle
* Kunai notices some recent scratches on the ground like something has moved across it - linear
* Cracks in the ground like in a desert clearing
* Lysandre sends a Major Image of himself to investigate the bodies - a giant fucking snake attacks the image
* FIGHT SCENE
	+ Hot air out of the crackslike geysers
* Ancient dinosaur snake - Mizuchi - ancient water serpent, incredibly rare