- Resumed as Amrik threw the door open to their hidey-hole
- I immediately cast Compelled duel on Amrik
- We finally see what Thalamra looks like as Tzon tosses Skraps into the room
- There is an Altar to some Demon or something that only Lily knows who is
- Tzon covers Amrik in oil and then I light him on fire (by dragging him to a candelabra with his dagger still in my abdomen)
- Aurelia ties a rope to Lily and then everyone kills Thalamra, looting an amulet and some marlboro 27's
- Amrik tries to escape down another secret passage way but gets surrounded by halflings.
- Cassandra gets everyone saying "Doobie" a lot when she starts smoking one
- Skraps goes down. Tzon smacks Balsam upside the head before pulling Amrik off a ladder cracking his head open, defeating him.
- Myrkul makes it so Skraps gets no healing from Cassandra's healing "Doobie
Zariel is the demon of the altar. Skraps realizes he didn't get his healing because he desecrated the statue of Myrkul. It's almost certainly a curse, so we can't handle that at the moment. I mention the fiend I sensed to the south-east.
e search Amrik. 3 daggers, a smoke bomb, 200 gp, and a list of Patriar names. Not all of them but fair few. Including the party noble's families (eomane, ravenshade, cimmerian). It's titled Patriar Targets. Lily is remarkably chill about this but says she is a little in shock still and drunk. I offer to give Lily Amrik's hog. She is wishy-washy and so I go cut it off anyway so we don't have to double back.
Tzon is nervous about having hit me accidentally. He asks to check my heart. It sounds fine. We check out the vault door to the south. We will check out the fiend later. Skraps runs off as opposed to opening the door. Tzon goes and gets him and tells Aurelia to apologize to Skraps for insulting him. (I didn't catch what was said probably something about the party inventory). It's not a particularly good apologies, but she does give him the party inventory back. Tzon super speedily manacles Skraps and Aurelia together, saying that now they have to work together to pick the lock. Instead Skraps picks the locks on the handcuffs. Immediately as they unlock, Aurelia throws the smoke bomb on the ground and tries to manacle Tzon to Balsam. She succeeds. Before the smoke clears, she tries to swipe the party loot back from Skraps. She fully fails at that one though and accidentally fondles Skraps a little. Tzon and I kinda are just chilling whilst being manacled together.
Skraps is unable to pick the lock. Aurelia realizes that she probably has the key. She gives it to Lily who opens the door that way. Inside the room is 4 tables with 2 coffers on each. There is a beautiful gold shield. We also see Thavius Kreeg, but the shadow on the wall doesn't match his form. The shadow is a pudgy fiend. He doesn't register as fiendish though. Reya starts to talk to him. He asks if we've come to free him. She says she has questions. She asks what his involvement was with the Vanthampurs. He says they just captured him and he hasn't been working with them. (Thurstwell said otherwise) He says the duke needs his help to ascertain the properties of the shield. It's the one they got under the city (previously mentioned.)
We grill him on Thurstwell saying that he had been working with them. We ask what the shield does. He says that the shield speaks. It's the Shield of the Hidden Lord. It's sentient and responsible for much of the avarice in BG. It seems to imprison some kind of evil being that wants to return to the hells. The Vanthampurs wanted him to figure out how to use it to do to BG what happened to Elturel. He's unsure how that would do that though.
We ask what's up with the shadow. He says he doesn't know. Tzon unmanacles us. Thavius is unsure how long he's been down here. Cassandra shows him Thurstwell's box to see if he knows anything. He doesn't. Lily takes a closer look at it. It seems like an incredibly complicated puzzle box. Seems to be iron. She slides one piece and it moves itself with the slightest push. It's def magical.
Skraps tries to get a reaction from him by saying that we killed Thalamra. He clearly is shocked and nervous about it. Doesn't seem to be thrilled about it. I ask how Reya feels about how he's responding. She's unsure of how she feels.
Tzon taps on the shield and tries to talk to it. After first speaking, he checks over at how Thavius is reacting to this. Thavius is clearly getting more and more nervous as we poke and prod. Tzon hears nothing, but Lily does (Breakout Room). She turns around from the coffers and slowly starts gathering magic to her hands and says that there is something wrong with Thavius and that we have to get rid of him now. Thavius fairly gets defensive. Lily says she saw a vision and that Thavius is at the heart of it all. Lily readies Eldritch Blast.
He says he will tell us the whole truth and Tzon handcuffs him (willingly.) He says none understand what its like. The companion was failing, the high hall was starving. The priests had no answers. They all would die in a season. He offered a solution. He made a deal with Zariel and that he has fallen from Torm's light. Lily holds up the amulet of Torm. He says it's his but he can't wear it anymore. He betrayed Elturel at Zariel's behest. He says Elturel has been dragged to the hells. Zariel would ride into the hells with the Hellriders of Elturel. She lost more than the army on Avernus. She led an army out of Elturel amidst a throng of cheering well wishers a little more than a century ago. The hordes of Avernus proved too great so they fled. She lost her hand and her sword. She swore her fealty to Asmodeus to continue to fight. She never forgot those who ran from the battlefield. She waited until she could have her revenge. Elturel was previously conqured by a vampire lord and he appealed to any power who could help him save it. Zariel appears and offered him a deal. He accepted. In the sky above Elturel, she summoned a radiant sphere in the sky called the Companion. It bathed it all in holy light and sent the vampires and undead out. He was hailed as a saviour. This was decades ago. When he made the deal, Zariel told him the exact time the Companion would fail. He invited Grand Duke Ravenguard to visit knowing this would be the date. Made sure he wasn't there as the city was dragged down into the Hells. He wanted Ravenguard down because of long standing disputes. The price of this is a century of service of Elturel to Avernus. I ask what Reya wants to do about this, but that I'd like to pull out his toenails.. She pulls out her blade. Skraps and Tzon take the shield. They feel a chill down their spines and hear some demonic laughter. They give the shield to Aurelia. Everyone leaves except Cassandra, Reya, and Me. Reya says "He was once an honorable man, he deserves an honorable death" as she decapitates him. She puts her head in her hands and says she doesn't know what to do know. Her home is gone and the place she fled to is next. I say to her "If there is one thing I have learned, You can always make a new home. It'll be hard but life moves on. You can go with it or you can wallow." She asks after the fiend saying that killing him might help.
Lily starts opening coffers during this. The first one has 30 gold ingots worth 10 gold each. second one has 100gp. next 2 coffers have 100gp each. next 2 have 100 pp, and 20 azurite gemstones worth 10gp each. last 2 has another 100pp, and 2 pieces of a broken ceremonial dagger. Curved, ivory blade, with draconic runes. It spells out "Fang". Bone hilt wraped in leather strips and studded with gemstones.
Reya cleans off her blade as we walk out. Skraps starts heading the other way than the fiend. Others follow. They come back and we head towards the fiend. I use the key to open the lock and then kick the door open. Inside we see a big ass dude with snakelike beard. There is a ring of keys hanging from his belt.
There are a bunch of prison cells lining it. There are a couple people in the jail cells. Aurelia rushes in and starts the BATTLE!!
Cool fight stuff happens while I was distracted. One of the people in the cells cheers us on (the other might have too idfk) Aurelia narrowly misses getting an Infernal Wound whatever that means. Tzon sweeps his leg knocking him prone and then does a sick flipping heel kick on him. Reya walks in in a bad mood. She calls the devil "disgusting." Skraps taunts him and stabs him. I fully whiff my attack. Aurelia gets the final blow and just fully severs this guys tentacles and then follows it up with a slice through the neck. Aurelia pukes, and tzon follows.
Falaster Fisk (one of the guys) a short, erudite, male human in his 50s congratulates us! He also introduces us to one Satiir Thione-Hhune who is a female human who doesn't speak much. He asks if we were sent by the flaming fist or if a specific person who I missed the name of. He asks if we've overthrown the Vanthampurs. I tell him we have killed 3 of them. He says he works for someone who works at Candlekeep she is a researcher and a sage. She's been monitoring baldurs gate and elturel for months. There is apparently a copy of thavius's contract in a puzzle box. Sylvira is the person. She will pay for the puzzle box if we are willing to deliver it to her. Candlekeep is about a 5 days journey. I get excited about the possibility of getting to ride horses out there.
Aurelia picks up the keys and starts unlocking the cells. The nobles recognize Satiir. She's a fit aristocrat in her 70s. Born into the rich and powerful Hhune family. Skraps cross references the patriar list. The Hhune name is deff on there. The Ravenshades and the Hhunes ran in diff circles. The Hhunes have holdings in a lot of other cities, distant and close. The Ravenshades are more industrious.
Aurelia goes and introduces herself and makes note that she knows of her. Satiir calls Aurelia the youngest Ravenshade (she's the eldest.) This obv gets Aurelia a type of way. Aurelia lets her out anyway. We start to head towards the secret passageway Amrik tried to escape through, walking past his dick-less corpse. They spit on him.
Lily notices that she feels more drunk than she probably should be. She feels like she's getting drunker but she hasn't drunk anything in a while. We ascend the ladder and come out. We come out in the stables. Inside there are 4 horses. They are a little agitated. I attempt to calm the southernmost horse. I am unable to calm the horse. The horses have not been well treated it seems. I take a few steps back and start crying. The others try to comfort me. I try to gather myself. Lily ignores my request for her not to try to comfort them. She fails but doesn't make it worse at least.
There is feed around and Aurelia goes and feeds them. Skraps links his mind to a specific horse. He also links me to it as well. He tells it that we mean it no harm and we will try to get them out of here if they want to. It doesn't respond well. It doesn't seem to understand whats happening. It panics fully.
At this time Lily's vision gets blurry and she sways to the side feeling unwell. "Something is wrong." We hear the clocktower strike midnight. Lily takes a shit ton of poison damage and is poisoned. She feels CRAZY DRUNK and can't stand. Aurelia asks for my help. I get up and wipe the tears from my eyes. I pick Lily up and hold her. Skraps is able to tell that this is some kind of latent poison (probably from the wine.) Skraps checks one of the bottles of wine we have using his poisoners kit. This poison is specifically Midnight Tears. It doesn't show any effect until the stroke of midnight. We assume its the vintage wines.
Aurelia feeds her a potion of healing and then I told you so's her for getting drunk like she told her not to. We start heading off out of the Vanthampur area using a close tree to hop over the wall. It's very late. We all go towards Aurelia's personal to get Lily to sleep and have a sleep over. She has a hotsprings and other nice things. Skraps asks to bring Bugsy. Aurelia says he can as long as he brings snacks.
Aurelia brings up being called the youngest and is clearly still upset about it. We make our way to the Ravenshade Villa. Everyone's asleep. We go to the Casita (sp?). It's rebeliously colorful. The rest of the villa is classic architetcture. Aurelia's is covered in colorful murals. Inside is neat and organized and minimal. Very clean. Take your shoes off type of place. I place Lily in Aurelia's bed.
ALSO we escorted the old lady to her place. Fisk stays with us.
PLAN:
Identify items
Meet with Cap Zodge
We need to get horses. Aurelia already has one named Rebel that she's comfy with.
We need to head to Candlekeep.
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