- Resumed right after the Vanthampur battle with Skraps realizing he's been cursed by Myrkul to not be able to heal through spells
- I cut off the hog's hog in case Lily wants it
- Some manacle shenanigans ensue
- Meet, interrogate, and decapitate Thavius Kreeg
- Find the Shield, Lily talks to it and has a vision that showed her that Thavius is at the heart of the BG/Elturel downfall plot
- He says that in order to save Elturel he made a deal with Zariel. She summoned the Companion: A radiant sky sphere that scared off the vampires and undead who were currently ruling Elturel
- In exchange was a century of service of Elturel to Avernus
- Lily collects a bunch of loot from coffers, and we go off to fight a bearded fiend
- We defeat him and rescue the prisoners he was guarding. Falaster Fisk and Satiir Thione-Hhune.
- Falaster offers us a job to bring Sylvira in Candlekeep the puzzle box we found, which contains Thavius's contract.
- We leave, end up in the stables and have a hell of a time calming the neglected horses. BI cry when I fail
- When midnight hits, Lily gets real real sick and feels wildly drunk. She's been poisoned. We assume it was in the wine she had been drinking
- We all go to Aurelia's for a sleepover.
- PLAN:
- Identify Items
- Meet with Cap Zodge
- Get horses and other gear
- Go to Candlekeep
We resume during the sleepover. Aurelia puts Lily in Aurelia's bed and closes the door. Aurelia brags about her trophies and certificates. Also she has a climbing rock wall. Skraps and Tzon go swimming. Everyone makes a bunch of noise (except Balsam who is just sitting quietly and thinking). Eventually we fall asleep. Balsam and I sleep outside. Aurelia sleeps in her bed with Lily. Cassandra sleeps on the couch. Skraps take the guest room.
Lily has been drunkenly calling out for Cassandra in her sleep. Cassandra hears this and then goes out to talk to Balsam about it. She asks for my help to go check on Lily. I gently knock the door. No one answers so I go in. Lily is fully spread out across the bed, hogging all the covers from Aurelia. I hear "I'm sorry Cass." I go and gently kind of nudge her to see if I can rouse her at all. She wakes up, wraps her tail around my arm and is like "Why are you waking me up?" She gets defensive when I tell her that she was calling Cass's name. She lies and says she doesn't know what I'm talking about. I am able to infer what she really means and I tell her she should work through it and if she needs anyone she has to talk to someone else bc I'm already working with Cassandra. Eventually Lily lets my arm go. Aurelia leaves during all this as we ignore her throughout.
Cassandra paces while I'm gone and is uncomfortable with the silence. She sneakily wakes up Tzon to fill the space. They end up chatting for a bit and she asks what it means if an ex is calling your name while they are sleeping. Tzon says he thinks it means they are thinking about the other. And Tzon misinterprets something and goes to check in on Lily. He ends up going to Lily's room and runs into Aurelia. They awkwardly discuss this whole "hypothetical" situation. Aurelia is clearly annoyed by all the people going to Lily.
Tzon comes in and is a bit untactful and tells Lily to maybe suffer quieter and not embarrass herself which makes her fling an eldritch blast at him. We both leave and meet back with Cassandra. Cassandra and I talk it out. The thing that Lily feels bad about seems to be related to the specific of the divorce. Cassandra says that she's the one who left so Lily has nothing to apologize for. We talk about it a bit but for sure Lily is thinking about Cass. We eventually do fall asleep. Cass sleeps out in the lounge chairs with us.
Balsam, Tzon, and Cass get woken up around 7:30am. We wake up to spears in our faces. 2 per each. There are 6 flaming fists guards surrounding us. Standing behind them is Aurelia's dad. Wearing a well fitted black suit. Very put together. Everything in its place. Lines of disapproval on his face with a haughty annoyance at dealing with this. He asks what we are doing here. Cassandra responds "Ask your daughter." pushing against the guards spear. The guard pushes back and cuts Cassandras finger. I immediately grab his spear and snap it in half. Cassandra and I angrily tell Aurelia's dad to go inside and talk with Aurelia. The guards warily hold their spears at me.
Aurelia's dad goes in and sees everyone spread out everywhere. He eventually goes into the guest room where Skraps and Aurelia are sleeping. Tzon tries to convince the guards to let us eavesdrop on the situation that's happening inside. It works!
Dad throws the door open into the room. Skraps wakes up to him telling him "Out. NOW" He quickly leaves, still wearing Aurelia's underwear. stepping right out to Reya. Lily calls him over to gossip. Dad asks Aurelia why all of us are here and what she did specifically calling out Balsam. It's real tense and teen angsty. She tells him that we all have all been hired for a very important mission. He kicks her out of her side home. Says that she has sullied the Ravenshade name for the last time. She tells him that she spent so long pining after his approval and that its never good enough for him and it never will be. And that he will never see her again. and finishes it with a "Fuck you Bertram Ravenshade. I hope you choke. Enjoy your one daughter you have left" he responds "Go to Hell" and he leaves.
Lily comes in bringing a sack of platinum. She comforts Aurelia and says that she can stay at her's if she wants. Aurelia goes to her equipment and grabs her rapier and cuts the lines of all the medals she has on the wall. Lily tells Aurelia she is proud of her. Aurelia then collects her stuff and gets ready calm and collected.
Dad leaves the room and runs into Skraps who is drinking coffee and tells him its a nice place. Reya is in the kitchenette eating bc she's uncomfortable. We all kinda scatter when he's coming out of the house.
We depart the manor. Aurelia takes her horse, Rebel as well. Skraps left an upper decker in the toilet. Aurelia disavows the Ravenshade name. Lily gives Aurelia 100 platinum for her troubles. We stop by somewhere to identify the objects and detecting poison for the bottles of wine. We go to Wizard Denny's to get some breakfast and do this.
The Vanthampur necklace is effectively a rod of the pact keeper +1 but a necklace.
The mace is a +1 glowy mace.
The shield is the Shield of the Hidden Lord. It allows for casting of fireball and wall of fire. Requires attunement. Cass is gonna use it.
Flute is a Pipe of the Sewers. Protects one against rats and can summon some rats as well.
No poisons were detected in any more of the wine.
At this point Falaster Fisk walks in (retconned this is where we said we'd meet.) We plan out our plan. We do a quick shopping and selling montage. Potions, rations, a horse for balsam (an Appaloosa that I've named Apple) We also send Klim's tusks in a package to his family. Cassandra sends a message to her husband. We stop by people's places and whatnot. Just general getting ready to leave stuff.
The carriage we go get from Cassandra's stuff is apparently the cart from Lily and Cassandra's special date.
We make our way to meet with Captain Zodge at the flaming fist headquarters. We update him on the vanthampur shit. And also accuse them of the murder of Cassandra's family. "Sounds like 2 cases closed" We inform them that they will find Thirstwell chained to his bed surrounded by bodies. And that Mortlock assisted us in taking them down.
We are also greeted by some lady who is Aurelia's cousin. She seems to be a high up in the Flaming Fists. Captain Lliara Porter. She is there because her uncle is one of the few remaining Grand Dukes. She inquires about our plans and what we discovered. We tell her about why Elturel fell and that we are going to meet with Sylvira. She sends us off with a fully stocked wagon laden with food and wine. This accidentally starts a whole issue with the logistics of the cart. The love cart gets brought back to wherever it came from.
We make our way towards Baslisk gate. Flaming Fists hold back the tide of Elturgardian refugees. We go through the slums of the outer city. We head to a temporary residence in Old Calishan? He tells us we need to bring a book that they don't have. He takes one from his own collection. He's very intrigued about Aurelia's collection of the final fantasy books. We make our way away to two bridges. Theres a bunch of buildings and merchant stalls around them. We see a fortress with BG flags and such also.
Tzon and Cassandra are sitting up front driving the cart. Skraps, Reya, and Lily are inside. Aurelia and I are on our respective horses. One horse is white called Sakura and one is black called Nyx.
As we make our way out of Wyrm's Crossing, Aurelia finds she has been robbed of 50gp. We head out towards the open road. We see various travelers going both ways up and down the High Road. We spend a few days on the road.
The first night we gather around a campfire. Reya has been despondent since she killed Thavius Kreeg. Aurelia wants to cook us our meal. Talks about an apricot, prosciutto puff pastry. Cassandra gets a bit controlling over her cooking tools and spices. I chuck the Hog into the fire smells kinda porky. We have a whole discussion about food that takes forever and makes it so we don't get to Reya's whole moment.
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