We found another green fish and a map to Windrest in Southern Dagra
Nim has a PhD in archaeology with an emphasis in ancient civilizations and the gods that they worshipped
Sarah learns that Bloo is a parasite and Yul (Banana) has an orb in their chest and would really like to remove it and see what happens.
Important Points
Tripped up and stole from 3 goblins in a trench coat who were bothering Derrick Fiskov, the weapon shopkeeper
Stole a key with the Fusillan flag, teleport scroll, and some gems
The 3 goblins gave Derrick a fake LoL calling card
Learned of a rumor that LoL is going to attack Parli, causing a lot of imitation leagues to show up
The Fusillan flag key unlocks a vault in Parli, which requires 2 keys, one of which was entrusted to the Fiskov family
Derrick is cursed and stabs himself as a result, and then Sarah cures him
Derrick joins the party, looking for his sister, who lost this important silver key and may be in danger
We travel to Parli
Find a cave with a buried treasure chest, find a blank note inside, illusion magic
Then attacked by the adopted son of Count Canonbury, Jeice and Petra von Alspar, members of the LoL
It appears the LoL stole from the Count and the Count doesn’t work for the League
The LoL wants fish crystals
Jeice and Petra both warp away before we can kill them, but they drop a card with the LoL callsign and the fish emblem on it that simply says “The Order will Prevail”, as well as a yellow fish
Sarah asks for Potion of Greater Restoration, alchemist dude can’t make it
Could find it in the capital, supplier is a dude named Fiskov
People walk into the store, we walk out
Lots of food, a library, bakery, restaurants, primarily food in this area, weapon store, antique store
Go into weapon store
Gigantic ass axe (cardboard) sign painted and slightly vandalized, to which Yul vandalizes it more
Can’t look out through window, feel like being watched, massive gallery, no one in, stuff on walls, stuff on counter, bucket of coins and stuff is falling down, hear voices in the back, no magical weapons, kinda rusty weapons
“I told you I’d get the money in”
“Just cough it up” kicking and slamming the door
The door slams open, see 3 diff. figures, one halfling with a mean stern look, one tall lanky elf guy with a mace, the tallest person is wearing a trench coat,
Lyra is walking out, Nim casts invisible mage hand, whips the tail of the trench coat over, and causes the tall figure to trip on themself, it’s 3 goblins in a trench coat, they come tumbling down
“What’s the big idea here?”
Goblins: “SHIT” scrambling around
The one who said “what he said” Has the strongest leg muscles and he’s the bottom
The trench coat has a silver key in it, that fell out
The other 2 guys are like, this goblin isn’t with us
Yul walks in, runs at goblins yelling “GOBLINS” and hugs one
Lyra: I can hold up a sign that says “deez nuts” random IRL dude walks in and leaves promptly
Bloo prestidigitations a fake silver key, and Nim switches the silver keys
Also find other things in the trench coat pockets, find a couple small gemstones, two rubies, a small diamond, a teleport scroll
The silver key has emblem of fusillan flag
Goblins: “We’ll be taking our leave here”
They all leave
The storeowner looks disheveled, also a halfling
Nim: “Do you have cool shit here”
Storeowner: “most of the cool and good weapons were taken by local military ”
Nim: “who were the angry goblins and their ‘friends’”
Storeowner: “I think they’re part of some part of gang, I received one of these” : pulls out calling card of The League of Larcenists
Storeowner: “told them I didn’t have the gold, the guild and military needed weapons”
Yul looks at the card, “the dot isn’t in the right place, it’s a fake”
Sarah walks in
Nim: “It’s probably not the actual league or larcenists, according to banana”
Nim looks outside, sees that there are a lot of footprints
Goes to the antique store
Talk to the storeowner
Nim: “do you know where the gang is”
Sarah: “I heard a rumor you were in the gang”
Bloo cats Detect Thoughts,
Storeowner isn’t a part of a gang, he’s very stressed
Wood floors, pretty basic, sanded wood, lower-end
Storeowner: nerding out about crock pot
Nim: “Do you have any glowing fish”
Bloo takes his crock pot and puts it upside down on Sarah’s head
Storeowner: looks for glowing fish, “don’t have any”
See gardening instruments (shovel, watering can, rake)
Kitchen supplies (rubber knife)
Wands, shaved down, not magical, supposed to look cool
Some robes, a nice velvet, lower quality, knock-off, old, worn, tattered
Masks
Nim pulls out a magical drumstick, Nim hypes it up, the storeowner recognizes it from the Brecht Performer’s Union, one of a kind, the first that they made, made of mahogany. but doesn’t offer enough for it, and Nim keeps it
Lyra: “do you have plushies”
Storeowner lifts a tarp, 3 small plushies under it, a black cat, a little dog, a fish plushie
We walk out
We ask random people if 3 people walked out of the weapon shop
Random dude: “This weapon shop has been failing in business ever since the new military regime has been training, they pretty much confiscated all the weapons and gave little compensation”
We walk around and ask ppl stuff
Rumors of Parli is going to be targeted by the League of Larcenists, lots of rumors that have been coming into Ashfall, ever since those rumors, lots of imitation leagues have been cropping up, lots of nobodies
Walk around to the back behind the weapon store, it’s dark and it’s an alleyway, Bloo uses Light, there’s a backdoor in one of the buildings that leads to the weapon store
Nim picks the lock
We walk in
Smell blood
In the room, very dim, see a few drops of blood on the wood
See the shopkeeper keeled over, he’s bleeding
Nim: “Hi dude did you get stabbed in the last 20 minutes by the 3 goblins in a trench coat”
Shopkeeper: “I was already stabbed when you were here”
Bloo detects his thoughts
Nim: “Where’s the dagger”
Shopkeeper: “I can’t see it’s dark”
Detected thoughts: Damn I can’t take the easy way out and feel a lot of doubt as if he didn’t want to do this
In the room see a lot of papers, there’s a note in his hands that’s been used to soak up the blood, leaning against a cabinet
Detected thoughts: Something magical compelled him to do this, to insert something into his body, not to kill himself
Yul heals him after Nim moves him over, Nim tries to open the cabinet
Nim pulls out the silver key
Shopkeeper: “How did you get that key, have they ever been to parli, do they know the fiskov family”
Doesn’t know the goblins had the key
Nim: “Where’s the key from, what’s important about it” ^06b005
Shopkeeper: “It’s from Parli, weapons dealer, had a deal with the Fusillan gov to manufacture weapons, couldn’t keep up, so eventually they found someone better, so here I am trying to sell the remnants of what they made, refused to sell it to the government, this is the key the Fiskovs was trusted with”
Fiskovs are an important family from Dagdra
Nim: “what does it unlock”
Vault in Parli, one key in Parli, the other key entrusted to important family (Fiskovs) from Dagdra
Fiskovs: know that the royal family of Dagdra are recovering from the previous emperor was assassinated, political tension between Dagdra and Fusilla, people aren’t really happy about the fact that Fusilla is sticking with the status quo (things haven’t changed int he last few centuries, ppl aren’t happy about the state, gap in economics, Ashfall is rundown, and Parli is super fancy and renovated capital city), the Hyritian alliance trades with them anyways (wants money), Margavelle vibing, holy state are assholes
Derrick: “I fear that my sister may be in danger, or smth may have happened, they had her key”
Nim: “Do u know who the goblins worked for”
Derrick: “My sister lives in the capital, she and I worked together as blacksmiths, i ran the shop, after a while, the gov. stopped wanting to ship weapons, she decided to stay, I left”
Shorter than me, older sister, dresses nice, brunette, elf
Nim: “who was demanding money”
Shopkeeper: “hell if I know, they kept telling me they know who you are, they know who you looked for”
Bloo: “why did you stab yourself” (know from Detect Thoughts)
Derrick takes off his shirt and shows us his back, see that part of his back has a scar, it glows, he’s cursed, the curse lets the intrusive thoughts win, and it injects thoughts into him
Shopkeeper: “got it while fighting someone, dunno who, just got stabbed in the back”
Sarah hates curses TM
Shopkeeper will come with us, Sarah wants to remove his curse
Bucket with 5 GP in it in the cupboard
Yul has an old pail
Shopkeeper: “This happens once a week”
Nim: looks for the dagger
Sarah uses Lay on Hands, the cursed area shrinks a little, by about 20%
Uses it 5 times
Derrick: “My shoulders feel a lot lighter”
sarah: “that was easy”
shopkeeper: “I can’t do it myself”
Sarah: “I will be using you as a favor for your family, I’d like an introduction”
Can I just get a note by you to say that we’re good friends of your family?
Shopkeeper: “Yes” gives note
We decide to book it to Parli
Derrick comes with to look for his sister
Derrick: “As forward pre-payment, I don’t have money, but as thanks, I know the people at the stables, I’ll get you a reduced rate”
Keeper of the stables, discounted rate, need a deposit that we get when we return to Parli
The trip is 10 GP and security deposit is 20 GP
Sold Mar’s helmet, got 30 GP, used to pay the carriage
Please sign here: Ashfall Carriage Services, keep it, give it to the stables in Parli, here’s the key, keep the horses fed, etc. etc.
Stable owner: “Derrick are you sure you want to leave”
He nods seriously
On the way to Parli
We leave Ashfall at 3pm
Pretty flat terrain, just going straight to the left from Ashfall to Parli
The sun has gone down
See a series of stony hills and a cave entrance
We set up camp, find a nice area, flat and wide
Before we sleep, Sarah casts detect magic, and does not detect magic excluding the things she already knows
We long rest, Sarah casts Alarm
Over the night, in the middle of our sleep, all of a sudden can smell banana smell, it comes from Yul, her head feels warm, her hat is getting kind of hot, Yul takes off her hat, a banana falls out of her hat onto her head, and this is one of the bananas she already has, it’s a Banana of Holding Bananas, capacity of up to 30 bananas, the bananas will not rot
The sun rises
Nothing weird happens, no alarm went off, see the cave
We go investigate the cave
Cave
It goes in 10 feet then goes straight down
Cast a light into it
See something metal and wood sticking out of sand
A 10 feet pit with sand
Sarah flies down, it’s covered in sand, slightly rounded
Buried chest, sarah touches it, it feels cold, she picks up the chest and flies up, lands on the edge
Yul is near the carriage and wants sand
Nim opens the chest, there’s a note and filled with sand, the note is blank
Nim knocks it over and pours everything out
Sarah casts Detect Magic, the note feels damp, detect illusion magic on it
The note was probably pretty recent
The chest is a couple years old
Hear a crackle in the direction of the carriage, Banana sees a black flash of blast, doesn’t hit anyone, does hit the logs in the middle of the campfire, it came from an area off in the opposite direction
COMBAT?
Yul and Derrick are at the carriage, rest of us at the cave
We go over and see 2 figures standing opposite of us, so cave 120 ft campfire 120 ft the 2 figures
See two imposing figures
Man: “Don’t get any closer to that carriage”
Sarah: “Who tf are you”
Man: “You’re going to give back what you stole from us, we’re here to take some crystals from you”
Nim: “We’re not meth dealers”
Man: “You killed my father, Count Canonbury” “You stole his crystals, we want it”
Nim: “A bugbear murdered him”
Sarah: “Who tf is Count Canonbury”
Nim: “Y’all should talk to the Bugbear”
Man: He has an interesting gauntlet, has 3 gem slots in them, circular, very large black magical aura, points hand, shoots 2 eldritch blasts, one which strikes banana, the other hits the carriage wheel
Man: “I was instructed not to kill you”
Nim: “Instructed by whom”
Woman: throws a card at Banana, Lyra and Bloo’s Mage Hands sandwiches the card between them
Man: “I’m trying to return what you stole from me”
The League stole from the Count, the Count didn’t work for the League, they want the fish crystal, did the count steal from the league?
The start walking a bit closer
Sarah: “Don’t walk any closer, I have all the crystals, I’ll 1v1 you, whoever wins gets the crystal”
Petra (the Lady): “Can I”
Man: “No idiot we’re not supposed to kill them, just give us the crystal and no one will get hurt”
Sarah: “If you can kill me in single combat you get the crystals”
Man snaps his fingers, red and green glow from the crystal, bright red flash from person holding the red flash, “I can tell it’s not on the paladin”
Sarah walks towards them, spinning hex under his feet, man: “don’t walk any closer”
Sarah does Channel Divinity
Gauntlet is glowing
Bloo sneaks closer, wind whizzes past Bloo, a dagger flew right by
The woman says “not one step closer”
Sarah reaches for the javelin, get ready to throw it, throws it, while it’s airborne, the hex circle glows and spins faster, the man shoots two eldritch blasts from right beneath you, one hits Sarah, and then he gets hit by the javelin
The woman walks by: “don’t push your luck, you have one last chance, give us the crystal”
The League has a strict no killing policy, but can get close to killing
Woman: “Surely you would know, professor, if you don’t know you should change your job”
Nim: “I think my college had a secret fish cult I didn’t know about”
Bloo casts Tasha’s Mind Whip, woman succeeds on saving throw, and move to be behind the carriage
Human is warlock, elf threw a dagger
Nim peeks, Nim misses her bow shot, goes behind the carriage
Yul heals, casts Guiding bolt on the lady, hits, walks up closer
Sarah moves towards the mage by 30 feet, throw a bag of caltrops at the feet of the mage dude
Lyra hits the rogue lady with chaos bolt, psychic type, and then tbags
Petra (the rogue lady) and holds out her hand. silvery dagger, red, throws it at Yul, misses, then forms a yellow dagger, aims at Sarah, throws it angrily, MISSES
Sarah: “AIM LABS IS FREE”
Petra: “Jeice if you kill them I won’t tell the higher ups, Jeice don’t be afraid to kill them”
Jeice: meanders closer, walking through the caltrops, 15 feet from Yul, the gauntlet glows yellow, a lash of yellow zaps towards Yul, who gets pulled closer towards Jeice, Yul hellish rebukes him, Jeice gut punches with the glowing red gauntlet, Bloo silvery barbs, hit gauntlet counterspells, Sarah silvery barbs, still hits Yul, who flies back towards the carriage
Bloo: twins tasha’s mind whip, hits both Jeice and Petra
Nim: moves out from behind the carriage, shoots Jeice sneak attack woot
Yul: heals self, Sacred flame Jeice, Bloo silvery barbs, he still hits, gives advtg to Nim
Sarah: misses with the flail
Lyra: casts Chromatic Orb on Petra, thunder type, she’s knocked back
Petra: walks up to Jeice, “better not die”, touches one of the gemstones on the gauntlet and gets warped away
Jeice: turns to Sarah, gauntlet glows, Sarah silvery barbs, doesn’t work, gauntlet glows even brighter, a bit of black and red, does hella damage, knocks Sarah back
Bloo: Mind Slivers
Nim: shoots with the bow, sneak attack!!
Yul: hits guiding bolt on Jeice
Sarah: moves closer to Jeice, divine smites Jeice, Bloo silvery barbs, he’s knocked back and prone
Lyra: Firebolt, misses
Jeice: middle fingers us with the gauntlet, snaps, glows, warps away, and leaves behind a ton of blood, and a yellow fish, and a little pouch ^961ee1
Bloo opens the pouch with mage hand, see a little note, see the league of larcenists callsign on it, and also the fish emblem on it, cardstock, half soaked in blood, like an index card, it just says “The Order will Prevail”
Petra dropped a dagger on the ground, it is a purple dagger
Lyra investigates the dagger, it appears to be metallic, also shiny like glass, it appears to be made out of glass, but if you press on it and give it heat and pressure, it can turn into metal
It is magical, need to attune to it to find its properties
Some parchment paper fluttered down, one has instructions for a certain spell circle, but with symbols and language we don’t recognize, like the circle that Jeice cast on Sarah on the ground
and the other paper has, in thief’s cant, it has the motto of league of larcenists: “we steal but we do not kill, we do what’s right for the world”
There is a counterspell spell scroll (which Nim will save for Mar)