Frostbite

## SESSION RECAP

***Arc 1, Session 4***

***March 3rd, 2023***

### Cask & Owl

Reid and Myrr are the first to arrive at the Cask & Owl, Reid slams Myrr down on a table just so he can have a rest, doing this pops Myrr's arm back into its socket, of which the party was unaware that it had popped out in the first place. Key, now Locke, enters shortly after, checking in with Myrr and Reid to make sure they're doing alright, plenty of time passes by the time Ace and Ambrose arrive, Ace carries Ambrose to the counter and slams him over it, the bartender, who recognizes Ambrose immediately freaks out and tells Ace that Ambrose has an apartment upstairs upon being asked if he can provide any sort of medical attention. They find Ambrose's keys and the party goes upstairs to his apartment, where everyone crashes on the floor, and a long rest is taken.

### Dream Sequences

#### Locke

Before Locke drifts asleep, he is having a brief conversation with Ambrose, recognizing that the entire time he's known them, Ambrose has been speaking in a Kapense accent. Locke meets Key in his dream, which is rare, typically for their dreams, only one is present, as it is in the waking world. The two talk, Locke trying to calm Key down as they discuss all the things they've experienced. Through this conversation, an echoing, unidentifiable voice repeating the words "Wrench" and "Pin", this angered Locke, depending an explanation and who else was there, he received no answers.

#### Ace

Sitting as the bar, looking over a wanted poster, one of which he himself couldn't identify the words or the picture, but a small, cloaked woman snatched it from his hands and headed for the door. Ace jumps up to grab the poster back from her, she pauses and lets it fall to her feet. The mysterious woman doesn't introduce herself to Ace and simply says "It's weird going after your own kind." Ace meets her with confusion, and she repeats her sentence before leaving.

#### Reid

His dream picks up in a scene similar to the flashback he had in the beginning of Session 2, but he's quickly met with an orc woman running up to him and grabbing him by the shoulders, one he recognizes as Faith Mac Aavri, from knowing her involvement in the third commerce war, and being a victim of the red petal killer. She looks at Reid and says "We've been betrayed, they're all gone" before ending his dream.

### Smelts of Roses

Ace is the first of the party to wake up, who immediately wakes Ambrose to check if he's doing alright after the events of last night, Ambrose finds two letters tucked into his hands upon waking, one addressed to him with his paycheck for the past week, and another addressed for 'Alma Costings', which he quickly pockets. Ace fills Ambrose in on everything that had happened the previous night, he proceeds to freak out over this, the rest of the party wakes up and everyone shares how horrible their nights were. Through this conversation, Reid's, Myrr's, and Ambrose's citizen union cards start to buzz with a message from Eldora to meet her at the 'Smelts of Roses', a blacksmithing studio in the Tinker's Ward. Locke decides if only those three were called, he would head to Vaidect Yard to speak with William Pin on the events of the previous night, and Ace would join him. The party agrees to split then, and those going to the Smelts of Roses would find their way to Vaidect Yard after meeting with Eldora. The three make it to Eldora's store, intrigued by strange carvings and runes on the wall, but choose not to investigate. They relay the information of all the events that had happened since they last met, and Eldora is furious, saying that the next time the party pulls these stunts, to at least let her know the plan.

### Meeting With Pin

Both Locke and Ace are surprised when upon entering Pin's office, he looks happy to see the both of them, and agrees that they must have a conversation. Pin hands Locke his paycheck for the work he's done for Vaidect Yard, and begins to address the news he heard about the group at the abandoned Embers & Ashes the previous night. Locke confirms this and goes over all the details with Pin, including the dead flatfoot. This is when we also find out that officer Merkowski's body was dragged outside of the building, and the factory had caught fire and all things inside and out burned to the ground. Pin tells Locke not to do these sorts of acts again, and how much danger he put himself through. Locke and Ace turn to leave, but are interrupted by a loud gasp, they go back into the office to find Pin holding an envelope, with red magnasia petals falling out of it, it's known all victims of the red petal killer have received this type of petal-bomb letter just days prior to their deaths.