Session 6

**Real World Date: 1/3/2021**

**In Game Dates(x): 13th of Lencten, 5151 M.E. - 14th of Lencten, 5151 M.E.**

**Party Level: 2**

## NPC's Met This Adventure

* Harrison Wright - member of P.O.R.T.A.L. and Otterfolk responsible for the murder of Fenton

## Summary

### Moving Forward

The party discuss their next steps. They can try and seek out Fenton and hopefully utilize him to try and lure out the people stealing Rylee's blood, but he doesn't work at the theater anymore and they don't know where he lives. They can ask around at the **Lionheart Theater** and maybe they will have that info. Their other strategy might be to investigate the other six drops sites that are on the map given to them by Fenton. They decide that the remaining four sites they can divide up.

As they emerge from the bakery to the intersection, they see across the street a book and curio shop putting out a sandwich board advertising for a new book coming soon. It is entitled **Forbidden Love** and, as the party heard from a publisher previously that passed on the novel, is about some yet untold story about Nagaazut or Zuke, one of the members of the famous **Wizlocks**. The cover art on the sandwich board depicts a crude drawing of what is probably Zuke and a Elven woman.

### Crash Course in Lycanthropy

Suddenly a taxi carriage comes careening down the street, loses control, and the carriage itself flips over and crashes in the middle of the road. The driver flees as the back of the carriage tears open to reveal that the passenger in the back has transformed into a Werewolf. The party engage in battle and even though Bashan does drop for moment, they manage to defeat the beast with no one cursed by the beast.

Bashan tells the party he has something important to because of this. He orders the party to leave and continue with their work and he will stay behind when the authorities get here. The party see him wave the town guard over as they leave. As they leave, the remaining four decide to split up and check out the remaining four drop off sites. Cue and Quintus pair up while Poem and Baka pair up and they explore the district.

### Same Story, Different Corner

Cue and Quintus explore two different stores and discover they have basements similar to the other drop off sites. These two men in green robes, presumably wizards of some sort, and members of P.O.R.T.A.L., pay for the basements to be built and for exclusive rights to use them certain days of the week. After they find nothing new as far as information, they head back to the **Gilded Forge Inn**.

Poem and Baka head to two other locations and hear similar stories. They do hear about the pair of wizards waiting down in one of the basements playing cards, but other than that they hear the same story from both locations. As they are leaving the last location, Poem hears a woman call out: "A Man is hard to track down." She has been looking for Poem since Coppersdale(x) and she has a beef with him. She does some sort of necromantic transofmration and attempts to attack Poem, telling Baka to stay out of the fight as she has no issue with him. The pair fight her off and flee into a nearby crowd. After they feel like they lost her, they head back to the Inn.

### Night in the City

The party run a few errands, including Poem heading the the city hall and submitting a request for a sewer maintenance key. After some coins are exchanged, the bureaucrat moves the form to the top of the stack so it can be approved immediately by his supervisor. Poem is then given a key but he must return the key within a couple days. Quintus submits his own request to send a message to his fellow monks in Coppersdale, but is told that he might not receive approval to send a message outside the city and he might not know for a few days.

The party recollect at the Inn and and sleep for the night. They are noticing that the patrons of the Inn are starting to get rowdy and testy being locked up in this city with very little space to sleep. Some people must be thrown out of the inn if they aren't customers with a room to sleep in. Baka allows a single mother with two kids to stay with him and Poem for the night so they aren't on the streets.

### Apartment Hunting

In the morning they decide to go with plan B since they didn't gain any new information from the drop off sites. They head to the **Lionheart Theater** and updated Rylee, who pays them for another days work, insisting they continue searching for these wizards. Poem heads up to Diego's office and inquires about a home address for Fenton. He gives him the address and while he is alone with him, inquires about Kendarah Silkwood and if Diego knew her or her family name. Diego doesn't seem to recognize the name, so Poem leaves downstairs with the address.

The party head to the apartment complex where Fenton stays. It is run down and decrepit. Staying in apartment 427 on the second floor, the party split up and two stay downstairs while the other two head up and knock on the door. They hear noise inside and presume Fenton is avoiding them. They try to convince him to come out, but to no avail. They open the door and see the two wizards they were seeking out in the apartment. One of them teleports quickly off the second floor balcony and falls into the courtyard below and battle ensues.

### Can't Trust Anyone

Cue and Quintus down below manage to knock the one wizard on the first floor unconscious while Poem and Baka do the same upstairs. Baka decides to heal the wizard so they can talk to him, but doesn't think to tie him up before he does. When he regains consciousness the wizard flees and cast fly, flying out of the complex and away. They tie up the other wizard they still have and bring him into Fenton's apartment to interrogate him. It is then they realize the human form the wizard was taking has faded to reveal him to be a humanoid otter or Burrowling.

They also discover that Fenton is dead as they all close the door and hide up in the apartment. Apparently these wizards were tying up loose ends. They wake up the Burrowling, who identifies himself as Harrison Wright. He says is an Burrowling from the material plane known as **Silva**. He works for **P.O.R.T.A.L.** but he only knows what he needs to know to do his job. He needs samples from Rylee to test his blood, and he was told to be on the lookout for someone matching Rylee's age and ethnicity that has a twin, so they wanted Cue's blood as well. They don't know what the samples are for, but every sample has failed the tests they are told to run.

### Justice and Reunions

After they realize they aren't getting anything else out of Harrison, they knock him out and leave him at the crime scene. They give an anonymous tip to the city guard about Fenton's murder and let the law sort out what happens to Harrison. They all return to the inn empty handed. The customers and patrons are getting even rowdier as the tension in the city from the lock down is becoming palpable. The party secures their room for several more days so they don't have to deal with that situation.

Later that night, as they drink and eat their supper, Bashan returns to the Inn...