Session 6: Up The River

Back to Frederick’s

 * Mogen’s letter from Prof. Yanger confirms a lot of what Vik thinks is going on.
 * We go back to the inn. There’s no one there. The basement has an awful sulfur-like smell.
 * Someone has smashed Mogen’s bottles and vials. Someone’s carved GET OUT on Mogen’s bench.
 * Sarienne and Vikrit go upstairs.
 * Mogen finds red humanoid hairs. There is a young gnomish woman whose legs are sticking out of a barrel–it’s her daughter. Vesun heals her, she says she must’ve fallen down the stairs, but the wound was on the back of her head. Likely an imposter.
 * V smells it - can’t smell over the acrid scent.
 * The party goes into town. Vanesse antagonizes some goblin pickpockets and mugs them.
 * Sarienne, Tork and Mogen gather information to look into someone with red hair.
 * Vesun, Vanesse, Cornerio and Vikrit want to check out Frederick’s mansion (F had red hair). Vanesse knocks, nothing else. Vanesse tosses Vik up and they all climb up. Vik hears people marching far away - a guard patrol likely. They break through one of the windows and go in.
 * Vanesse gets hit with an axe trap. Vesun finds a study (and a light stick). Vanesse sets off a lightning trap and gets 300 gp. Vesun gets an acid flask to the head. They find a bloody glove - smells like human or half-elf but something weird about it.
 * All the art on the walls has been moved the floor.
 * They go to bed, Vesun heals Vik and Vanesse.

The Assignment

 * Next morning - they lock the house and go to meet Tirah. House Lyrander buildings there. Human guards let us through to Tirah the Shark’s boat.
 * Golden Fellowship gang members escort us down. A squid tentacle reaches out of the water and grabs a barrel.
 * Old lanky elf dude outside door, checks and lets us in to the cabin. There’s a big diving bell with a shimmering piece of coral inside. She says she found it in the Lazaar Principalities when she was a pirate.
 * She tells them about the Mockery Triumphant. Wrestling: official rules - no weapons or armor. Happens in the Eldeen Reaches at Solomon’s Rock. We have to escort her peeps there and make sure they win.
 * She’s hired Davide D'Orien, halfling ranger, etc.
 * Happens in a couple days - we need to get our own supplies.
 * Mogen makes a stealth suit for Sarienne, wrestling suit for Vikrit, shiv for.
 * Next day, they go meet human with dragonmark (Davide d’Orien), halfling. He seems to like Vanesse flirting with him. He’s “kind of the black sheep of house Orien.” They decide to go along the road, encounter a guard patrol.
 * They try to convince the guards they’re on there on Orien business, and are doing well until Sarienne smacks one of them on the head. They knock her down and try to beat her into submission. Tork puts 2 guards to sleep. The rest attack.
 * Vikrit sneaks away (naked) with his bow.
 * One guard throws a flashbang minus the bang into the cart. They kill everyone but one.
 * They travel up the river, and have to cross. They caulk the wagons and float, but there’s a crocodile! It nearly kills Tork, but Vikrit saves him from drowning. They camp for the night.
 * The halfling sabotages their stuff and sneaks off in the night.
 * They make it to the competition!
 * They meet Bol, Tirah’s dwarf rep, who explains the wrestling match. He mentions Gatekeepers.
 * 7 other teams. Gotta play dirty to win. 3 vs. 3 tag team.
 * Our name: Sharkfist of Lorenzini Kalti Karts Presents Tirah’s the Ghost Sharks. First facing: Children of Winter (druids), Veridian Blade (human mercs), Wild Bond.
 * Fight begins tomorrow morning. Tonight: sabotage the other groups, plan our costumes.