Session 15: End of the Line


 * Mezzo says he needs to talk to Davide. Vikrit comes up with magic fungal dysentery that is gonna kill him later - needs to act deathly ill. Vesun rolls a nat 20 on Disguise Self.
 * We bring Mezzo in. He wants to talk to Davide alone. We listen in.
 * He mentions the fairy kingdom stuff, asks if we can be trusted. Vesun says he trusts us with his life.
 * He asks where he was going, says Sharn deliriously.
 * Mezzo leads us to Jana’s room. Rio opens the door and an alarm spell goes off. Ficus comes to investigate and Sarienne pushes him out.
 * Sarienne goes in. There’s lots of magic setting the Geiger counter off.
 * On the desk there are 2 books. 1 is about Sharn’s history, with notes in the margins about the lowest level of Sharn (cogs). The other is by Ernest Leadbearer - 4000 years ago the Dalkyr were kicked out, it argues that this was a devastating mistake. Sarienne looks at some unintelligible papers and makes a will save… Mogen fails and has to leave and try to forget.
 * Sarienne finds a newspaper clipping talking about Houses Cannith and Orien settling Last War obligations, by Pippo of Korranberg
 * Underlined: “recently announced as the consensus choice to resolve the split among House Cannoth and the brother of Baron Kwanti d’Orien, Adnan”. Note: “How?”
 * Circled: Jinnah of Revan (of House Sivis), note: “invite to gala”
 * Mentions Lord Darro
 * Sarienne looks around. She finds a 15’ length of silk rope. Rio climbs it and finds darkness - extradimensional hiding place. Rio takes it and brings it back to the room where Vikrit and Mogen are with Sarienne.
 * Mogen, Sarienne and Rio are up in there when Rio pulls up the rope. Mogan punches at Rio and misses. They seem to be stuck. Mogen eventually figures out how to get the rope down, right above Vesun’s bed. Vikrit is asking Vesun for help and told him what happened, he says “I’ll take care of it” and closes the door. Mogen says hello and falls onto the bed, breaking it. The other 2 follow.
 * Vikrit asks S about the blue book and she gets it. Has a name/location in Sharn - Lower Menthis. Vikrit tries to explain that it’s blasphemy and how things tie together.
 * The train pulls into Hatherill.
 * Rio decides to go get a corpse to switch with Davide and murders the guy in the town sheriff office. She goes to the general store where everyone else but Vikrit and Vesun are and tries to rent “a wagon and a sheet”. Vikrit freaks out about imitating the dragonmark, Sarienne and Mogen dump the body.
 * Skaldi and Mezzo make their report to House Orien? and are whispering under their breath.
 * The party debates how to make Davide go missing.
 * The plan: Davide is going to try to instantly get to Sharn from our next stop (Rote) by teleporting and disappear. NOT while the detective is around. Want at least 3 witnesses. The next morning…
 * Rio finds Ficus in the dining car to draw him out.
 * We pull into Rote. Vesun has the magic rope and messenger app.
 * Skaldi is waiting on the platform, wants some of us to come to talk about the report with the House. Disguised Vesun bursts onto the platform and teleports–we don’t know where. Vesun goes invisible, flies off, and hides somewhere. We pretend to panic and go looking for him in the teleportation room at the station, gnome clerk there didn’t see anything. Vesun goes to take a bath.
 * Skaldi tells the House Orien people and they say they’re going to look into it, not as worried about it as the warforged attack. We tell her we have a job here and get off the train, then will head to Sharn.
 * We spend the next day preparing.
 * Tork gives Vikrit 10 white magical arrows that do ???
 * People go shopping.
 * Vikrit buys a map and goes to ask around at House Orien about the gryphon. Village is on border of Droam and Breland. Caravans haven’t been coming back, got message from clerk in Corinth, people have been losing animals. Some kind of flying beast.
 * Gryphons LOVE horses to eat and are very territorial, usually in pairs or alone.
 * Tork and Vikrit go to a wizard store and buy some books on killing monsters (25 GP).
 * Rio buys a magebred donkey for 50 (Dominic). Mogen and Vesun buy light horses (Radish and Smug), the other 2 take Diesel.
 * The party sets off. 9 days uneventful, then 10th day, hear a scream. There’s a feathered creature menacing 2 people (old man, younger woman ~17 y.o.) with an overturned cart and 2 dead horses.
 * An owlbear is attacking!!
 * Tork scorching rays the fuck outta the owlbear. Vikrit kills it with an arrow. Vesun heals the old man’s clawmarks. Man is named Garen, granddaughter Brynne. They hook up the animals (Vikrit is rude when the man is curious about Rhavi) and go in for dinner.
 * Something has been mutilating cows, goats, and sheep (NOT HORSES…). They’ve been dealing with orc band attacks. Brynne looks away when he’s talking about that.
 * We have a drink with Brynne.
 * We go to bed. Vikrit sets an alarm around him, Vesun and the animals. The 2 outside wake up and see a band of orcs raiding the house. Vikrit yells at them to stop, they break the door down and start attacking the party. The orcs yell in orcish.
 * Mogen gets greataxed, Sarienne gets hit badly the others narrowly avoid attacks. One drops his axe. Vesun commands one to flee, but they seem to resist. Vikrit shoots the one in back. Tork mage armors himself. Rio leaps on one’s back and digs his fingers into his eyeballs. Sarienne gets hit again.
 * Mogan electrocutes an orc. Vesun bullrushes the guy in the back. Vikrit shoots again. The raging barb in front of Vesun knocks Mogen out. Tork magic missiles the barbarian to death. Rio hangs on to the disarmed orc and punches him in the head til he falls. Sarienne runs upstairs, where the old man gives a dagger to her.
 * Vesun runs to protect Tork and Sarienne. Vikrit snaps his bowstring trying to shoot one, who axes him bad. Tork missiles that orc to death, leaving one. Rio kills the last one. Vikrit fails at stabilizing Mogen, then Vesun heals her.
 * Rio finds money and a map on the orcs. Local area with houses with little xs on them. They want us to escort them to our destination. Vesun heals all of us up and we rest.
 * The next day, we set off. We chat with the old man.
 * We make it to the town. There’s an inn, a temple, a stream. There are walls around the village.
 * Guards open the gate doors. A man rides at us, a boar and bear cub dragging behind him, yelling that he’s the hunter. He spooks a couple of our horses but we’re ok.
 * The guards let us in once we show them our House Orien papers. Inside they have a mural of Dol’Arrah.
 * We go to the House Orien place and tell the woman there we’re here to help with the gryphon issue. Caravans have been disappearing. 2 weeks ago half-orc mercs showed up from House Tharashk saying they’d help. They disappeared - bits of broken armor and horse bones were all that was left, she thinks it was orcs.
 * Everyone’s on edge bc of orc raids.
 * Her name is Selah. She says they’re offering a ruby in exchange for dealing with the problem.
 * Rio (talking himself up to Selah): “I killed two of them, you know.” Tork: “Me too!” Rio: “Don’t brag.”
 * Athone (with guard) shows up, immediately calls Vikrit “little guy”. We ask about the orcs, he says they’re closer than ever. Mogen gives him the map, makes a copy. He’s very excited to have the map.
 * He thinks the attacks are organized, and that the griffon is just to scare the townsfolk.
 * Asks us to go to the inn and meet the constable.
 * There’s a young halfling boy outside who hitches up the horsies.
 * END OF SESSION! 14000 XP