Session 14: oh fuck OH FUCK

Saturday, July 7, 2018

Train Fun Continued
We’re pulling into the next station.


 * Skaldicomes up to the door and wants to make sure they’ll put in a good word for her. She asks Vikrit if they’re bodyguards, “no I’m a friggin’ courtesan, what do you think?” She hasn’t heard from the next stop yet, Sword Keep, and is worried something is going on there.
 * Vikrit continues keeping watch on Rio. He dozes off, Rio covers them all in sheets and goes to sleep upstairs, Vik wakes up, yells, and gets tangled in it. Everyone else wakes up, S finds him and drags him downstairs.
 * They tie him up again, Mogen and Sarienne take watch and V goes to sleep.
 * Breakfast is served. The gnome lady is there, and so is a goblin with a sherlock holmes outfit (Mezzo).
 * Mogen talks to the goblin, who asks if Davide d’Orien (Vesun) is their master.
 * Vik goes to look for Skaldi with Tork. T goes first, sees Janagoing to her room, and signals to V to hide. She goes to her room and they make it to Skaldi. She has suspicions about the other workers, stuff going on and off at last stop
 * Vesun has cast disguise self at Mogen’s behest, so M &amp; T parade him around a bit in the chair to make an appearance. The goblin notices.

Everything Is Fine

 * They arrive at the station. Skaldi announces that there’s a “maintenance issue”, suspiciously. There’s no activity on the platform… suspiciously. She comes and says someone is dead. Vikrit unties Rio and they get off on the platform.
 * The station master has been murdered - throat slit; Skaldi knows him. V tells Skaldi to get back on the train; the goblin gets off the train and investigates. ID papers and gold still there - not a robbery. Something shiny has been put in the throat, no struggle.
 * Tork spots another corpse inside the station with tons of blood. Splayed out like Vitruvian man.
 * Sarienne opens the lock to the stationmaster’s office; no entries for 2 days. Rio finds lockers: a stack of newspapers and RATS who attack him.
 * Vik finds silver dust (?) and tracks the smell of rotting flesh, hears something gnawing and breathing heavily. S comes over, V gets the others.
 * S kicks open the door and sees nothing. There are 2 beasts? breathing heavily in there… Rio starts punching the door. V opens the opposite room where there is a bugbear whose throat has been slit.
 * 5-6 corpses piled up on the bed in the monster room, stench sickens some of the party. 2 sinewy purple creatures jump out at C. One misses, the other bites and paralyses him.
 * There are 2 metal dogs running at Vikrit (“Well, shit.”). His arrow shatters against 1. Mogen comes to where V is and nisses. Sarienne slashes and gets bit. Tork magic missiles the fuck out of a ghoul (smashing his fists together)
 * Vikrit shoots 1 and then arrow bounces off–doing nothing. The 2 dogs run at Vikrit and smash into each other (1 botches). Mogen puts her shocking grasp gloves on and FRIES them. Vikrit looks at Mogen in wonder.
 * “You electrocuted the dogs, great job.” - C
 * Tork murders a ghoul. Vikrit shoots one. Mogan makes a mental note of getting dog parts and gets her crossbow, sees corpse shambling toward us. Rio punches the ghoul (poorly, yelling “pow pow pow!”) scratching at door Tork is behind. Bugbear corpse shambling up behind him. Tork slams door behind him. Vik backs up onto platform and shoots each shambler (don’t appear to react).
 * Mogan shoots a Hot Potato at the zombies (alchemist’s fire). “Time to get cremated!” One shambles into the flames and collapses. The bugbear kicks down the door and goes for Rio, missing. Rio smashes his fist into one. S slashes the bugbear attacking Rio. Tork gets attacked by the bugbear. Mogan throws an acid flask. A zombie attacks Mogan. Cornerio attacks bugbear. S slashes the bugbear. Tork missiles the fuck out of it.

Time to Go

 * A monster composed of just 2 eyes floats out (from Khyber). A huge 7’ warforged follows it - metal connected by sinewy wood, holding a massive mace. Vikrit screams run. It says “BEAR WITNESS TO ME. BEAR WITNESS TO WHAT YOU HAVE DONE.” It runs at Mogan, who leaps out of the way. It maces Vikrit in the face with electricity (mmm, fried lizard) doing 21 points of damage.
 * Cornerio runs away. Sarienne tries to shocking grasp it but grabs wood. Tork pulls out a ram’s horn and covers the place in fog. Vikrit scurries through the warforged’s legs and dashes to the exit, screaming “RUN!”. Goblin is on the train, helps Cornerio up. They all get back on the train.
 * Skaldi announces the next stop. Goblin is “Mezzo Jobizen” (?) and asks us to report to him. He is doing a Poirot reveal. Ficus is there and speaks with Rio.
 * Goblin says: something unexpected happened, wants to interview everyone. Jana and Hazel are called first. Tork causes a screech so they look away. Sarienne listens in on them.
 * Mezzo asks what she was doing; Jana deflects questions. Mogen tries to convince Vik to name Jana. Skaldi is very worried she’ll get blamed. Mogen and Vikrit convince her it will be OK.
 * Mogan detects magic (Abjuration) outside Jana’s door, including illusion &amp; powerful transmutation. Jana and Hazel were interviewed. Mogen goes in first - she says she knows her. 2 weeks ago Jana tried to kill us. Mogen mentions the wrestling match, explains what actually happened. She shows him geiger counter, they bond over tinkering.
 * Vikrit says he met him on way to wresting match, basically tells the truth. Vik says not to trust Cornerio. Cornerio goes in next and tells him we were at an opium den but that Jana was suspicious. Tork goes in next, we are “honest but angry, a little confusing but helpful.” Sarienne goes after him.
 * “Would you say they’re FREQUENT users of opium?” S says fae kingdom was maybe not true.
 * They go back to our cabin.
 * “Yanger, Yanger please don’t be anger.” We tell him about Warforged, he thinks it’s bad. Mogen mentions Cornerio acting weird. Yanger might go to Zilargo to do research on demon (Brazen). Yanger something to do with ’s sister?
 * Sarienne pries into crates - black metal, similar to what we found initially. “Mogan?” “Yeah?” “We’ve got warforged parts aboard.” “Fuck.”
 * The metals are NOT made by an amateur. The train is bringing them toward Sharn.
 * Sarienne find on Soladork written on one. Mogan knows they’re dwarves - custom forged in minds in the Morholds, VERY far away. Forged for this purpose, traveled a long way. Mogan takes some of the materials and lashes them to her shield. (rare metals only found in the Morholds)

Jana Comes Knocking

 * Cornerio is bound and wiggles his way out. Someone knocks on the door - a tall blonde woman with fancy white robes. “Let’s talk. Get your friends.”
 * Cornerio thinks of Ficus and goes to get him but runs into, Jana mind controls Tork, Sarienne and Cornerio. Vikrit hisses at her but says there’s no need for sleep. Jana casts sleep on Tork, Mogen and Vik. Cornerio and Sarienne attack her (enchantment ended).
 * Rio falls off the train charging Jana. S shoots her raven familiar, Jana is heartbroken and disappears.
 * They wake the others up. The familiar is dead, Vik bites its head off.
 * Vik busts past through the first class cars. Mezzo is on the way, they tell him to look for where Jana went. Vik and Mogen go to Skaldi and ask for her help finding her. Mezzo goes back to the back. Skaldi opens the door to Jana’s bedroom (sleeping on rightmost bed).
 * Bed - blond hair (and smell of juniper), table has hourglass on top of it, bedside table has tiny magnifying glass with ruby; parchment with string. House Kundarak(banking): dear lady Irtain&quot; needs permission from (?) her patriarch to withdraw money.
 * They try to get into her other room and it’s magically locked. They pull into Hatherill.