03/08/2021 - A Banterous Breakfast, Troublesome Tabaxi, and a Scary Snake-eye

## A banterous breakfast

* Gatimigy invites us to sleep in his house.

* Narko manages to get up the stairs despite Galdors sass.

* The unseen servants make everyone’s rooms perfect – even making Narko’s bed centaur-sufficient.

* Everyone has a v. comfortable sleep

* We are woken VERY early at 6:00 am for breakfast… Elyan is not happy, he and Galdor stay asleep.

* Lovely continental breakfast courtesy of the unseen servants.

* Gatimigy rings the bell louder to wake Elyan and Galdor up. It does not work.

* Gatimigy seems out of sorts. Can barely remember what he had asked us to do. Claims he had been up all night working and had a lot on his plate. Seems to be truthful about this.

* Bayul asks how many of these insurgents were in the bay – Gatimigy says there was one sailing boat, so possibly similar to the attack on Isairne.

* Gatimigy then starts talking to himself about Bugbears – apparently it is a message from a friend, a story for another time.

* Tamsin tries to wake Galdor, he casts gaseous form on himself and floats down. Also tries to wake Elyan… he is “awake”. Prestidigitates himself into a suitable state.

* For being so late, Bayul and Narko throw porridge at him. He immediately casts prestidigitation, starts eating out of the bowl, and then uses the wand of smiles, twice on Bayul and once on Narko, but both resist.

* Gaseous Galdor floats into a chair and then turns back into his normal form.

## Troublesome Tabaxi

* Gatimigy gives the bag of freeholding to Galdor – the group are unhappy about this. Requests that if we re-design the interior of the bag we do it tastefully.

* Gatimigy goes off on one about our groups diversity.

* Start on the road – there are many insects which makes Bayul sad.

* Pass many traders on the road – some have shiny ore. Elyan plays his lute on the way, he gets 8 GP from passing merchants who enjoy his music (or want him to shut up).

* We arrive at the bays, several lagoons. Look in each lagoon as we travel around. See nothing in the first, a small plank floating in the second. Third lagoon, see a fully smashed boat, not salvageable. Fourth is empty. The final one with a beach as a damaged boat wedged in a sand bar, a few people on and around it. The people are a Kobold and Tortle.

* We (mostly) sneak down to the sand bank.

* Can see two Tortles and the Kobold who are attending to a Tabaxi.

* Ves an hear more of them arriving from the south.

* Elyan turns invisible and gets closer so he can hear them.

* Tortle is apologising for not being able to heal the Tabaxi, they look identical to the insurgents from yesterday. Tabaxi wears the same bracelet as the other Tabaxi’s.

* Elyan returns. We debate whether to talk to them or attack them.

* We decide to approach and talk to them. Ves turns into a giant eagle.

* As we approach the group, an angry fish person appears and shouts hands where I can see them! Another Tabaxi appears on a rock and asks why we are here

* Elyan says we are here to help, and want to understand more about what the Tabaxi’s people want to achieve.

* This Tabaxi has the same bracelet as the others. Elyan asks about it. The Tabaxi asks how he knows of it, and Elyan says we met some of her friends in Isairne.

* Elyan offers them healing as a gesture of good will.

* Tabaxi asks what happened to her friends in Isairne. Elyan lies and says the townsfolk killed them all and we just watched innocently.

* Tabaxi seems to believe Elyan, and lets him heal the other one.

* Elyan and Bayul sit with the Tabaxi’s and Tortle’s for a chat. The others stand around and listen.

* Tabaxi asks who we are and how we knew where to find them. Elyan introduces us, say’s we’re on holiday. Explains how we were caught in an ambush in Isairne, and following that the Senator asked us to look into the situation, and sent us here.

* Tabaxi says they crash landed here and want to go to the forested lands to the east.

* Bayul asks why the senator thinks no one lives in the east when quite clearly many people do.

* The Tabaxi implies the senator was lying.

* Narko asks how many of them there are. Tabaxi doesn’t reply.

* Tabaxi says that they had aimed to attack the town to the north, Leirminn, but failed. They want to return the island to its former glory. Says that the more “diverse” races such as themselves were moved, not violently, decades ago, they were suddenly teleported away into the forests.

* Nakro and Elyan ask if they’ve tried a peaceful approach. The other (crazy) Tabaxi firebolts them. Narko immediately places his glaive at the neck of the fish person, Bayul gets up and does the same to the Tortle.

* The Tabaxi says that this is always what happens when diplomacy happens… Bayul is like, yeah but you literally made it happen like that…

* Bayul suggests that our group try to negotiate a meeting between the Tabaxi and the humans.

* The crazy Tabaxi lights a fireball in their hands, Elyan tries to extinguish it with his mage hand but fails.

* Elyan uses his bagpipes of invisibility – the Tabaxi agree with everyone else that it is a useless item.

* Bayul asks about the lion bracelets they all wear. Tabaxi says that all of their family have one, they are all given one when they come of age, it is their crest.

* The group question why a Tabaxi would have a Leonin as their crest. Lysandre counters that he has three platypi on his crest and he isn’t three platypus’s.

* Tabaxi asks the group if they’re going to help fix their boat and / or set up a meeting for them. Looking at Elyan, Tabaxi says he doesn’t believe his story about how they came here. Elyan says its true that they were sent by a senator, senator Gatimigy.

* Gives us terms to give to Gatimigy. They will agree to meet with him at their home, he knows where to meet him. Bayul is like, why not meet in neutral land, or on the boat.

* Elyan sends a message to Gatimigy. He replies, with an exasperated voice, yes he agrees, asks if they’re wearing the bracelets? Elyan says yes, and asks what they mean. Gatimigy says: shit, send them home, come back immediately, speak to no one.

* Elyan tells the Tabaxi that he agrees their terms and that he was interested in the bracelet.

* Tabaxi doesn’t want to tell them about the bracelet, says that Zorrah Sunshadow sends her regards to Gatimigy. Then all four of them take off and fly away.

* Elyan tries to fly after, the Tabaxi try to counterspell him. This causes a counterspell domino effect that results in a wild magic surge that does nothing.

* Elyan asks for an answer on the bracelets. Tabaxi says it is the Sunshadow crest. Elyan asks why Gatimigy was so upset by them then? They don’t reply and fly off.

* Bayul fires a cheeky warning shot at them as they fly away (and the Lacatha flop-swims away).

* The Kobold (Splot) wants to come with us, asks Bayul to pick him up. Bayul does. Elyan ties a rope around him and casts levitiate so that Bayul has a kobold balloon for 10 minutes.

* We go back to town.

## Chatting with Christo

* Go straight to Christos office. A lot of snake related ornaments and a map of the island.

* Bayul is cross he didn’t tell us everything he knew

* Gatimigy asks us to tell him everything. He confirms the Tabaxi are the Sunshadow family.

* Gatimigy explains that one of his senatorial aims is to make the island develop and grow as a civilisation with all races, but the rest of the government want to keep the civilisation human, on this side of the island at least. The status quo of all humans is prosperous, everyone is happy, everyone has jobs etc. There has been no conflict for a century.

* He says that he has no idea what caused the Tabaxi to disappear all those decades ago. Admits that he sought out the Sunshadow family to try and negotiate with them to try and see a peaceful re-integration of all peoples on the island.

* But he hadn’t expected the Tabaxi to react the way they had. He seems to be telling the truth.

* Explains that none of the islanders remember the times when the other races lived with them.

* That he only knows of the races on the other side as someone introduced him to them. He went to Merchendale, and was introduced to the co-governors of Merchendale, Vassilis and Vanessa Venusto. The group are somewhat perturbed that he is working with Venusto. They have a contact that sails between Echs and Merchendale called D’Esterre – ships can actually land on the east side of the island, the human governors just pretend they can’t.

* Gatimigy doesn’t know who else in the government knows of the people to the east.

* Gatimigy asks us to accompany him to his meeting on the east – says he will give us the bag of freeholding permanently in exchange, and do his best to get us free access to the rest of the island.

* Bayul asks what his plan for the meeting is. Gatimigy says at the very least he wants to persuade them to stop attacking Isairne, and start the ball rolling on re-integration of some sort (though he knows it’ll be a slow process).

* Gatimigy sasses Elyan so he goes to the Tavern.

* Bayul suddenly remembers he is carrying a Kobold.

* Gatimigy says he has been called to the capital, will return later and then tomorrow we will all accompany him to this meeting with the Sunshadow family.

* Gives us 10 Platinum pieces for today’s reconnaissance mission.

* Before he leaves, he asks us again why we were on the island in the first place. Bayul says it is not often that a hitherto unknown island is discovered… Gatimigy seems a bit suspicious.

## Going into the one place we’re not supposed to…

* We immediately go to look at the room in the bag we were explicitly told not to go in. Bayul goes to get Elyan first.

* Elyan casts faerie fire, and he sees the unseen servants.

* Galdor asks the unseen servants to go away. There is a small gap under the door. We discuss the morals of going in, and decide we don’t care if Gatimigy is pissed with us.

* Elyan can’t see any traps. Galdor opens the door. See a shelf with snake ornamentals a wooden plinth with a support holding up a 5 inch scale model of a trident. Next to this is a small model of a construct type thing, and a framed canvas that we can’t quite see. Snakes are not ouroboric.

* Galdor walks in, goes passed the models, sees a portrait of a half-elf woman, a plaque with a mounted hammer, a bed, and a room beyond.

* Belgaer casts detect magic, but everything is super magic courtesy of us being literally inside a magic item.

* Gatimigy’s bed looks super comfy. Galdor goes for a nap and Bayul tells Splot to get on the bed.

* Bayul touches the door handle, opens it, and takes 17 points of fire damage. Comes to a right-angled corner.

* Galdor goes around the corner, followed by everyone except Elyan. Lysandre goes in and sees tapestries on the wall with many snake motives and a large reptilian eye in the centre, braziers burning without any fuel and a large mirror above a plinth of tributes that contains a huge snake eye that is darting around as if looking for something.

* Everyone else takes 10 psychic damage and hears “who dares offer me tribute!!”