Seliph finds a deep gnome who is allied with Tabitha, the big witch who sank our ship and took Sarah’s ring (took it back?)
Turns out they’re trying to sell the ring to many people in Half Moon Bay and it’s hard to take it off and you remove its curse the wearer just dies
04.21.0347 Dusk| Desert Island
The captain is doing a bit better
Captain: what did y’all find in the temple?
Hear some waves crashing, doesn’t sound like waves crashing against the shore
See a trail of mist far off in the distance closing in on us
Feel very salty ocean mist, see something skidding across the sand, see a very exhausted Seliph
In his arm, has a deep gnome that was on the ship
Seliph smacks him, “WAKE UP!”, very very tired
Seliph: “This rat bastard, grr, he’s involved with that damn witch that sank the ship, I knocked him out and dragged him here with my bare hands, because we need him alive, to interrogate him, he’s going to give us information, and how to get the hell out of here”
Seliph pulls out a paper and small pouch, “sarah, or someone responsible, hold this for me, this is a scroll that has an incantation, and it is meant to automatically go off if he dies, after 9 days, it’s a spell scroll to revive him, probably a contingency”
Bloo casts Detect Thoughts, hears a flood of thoughts, “oh shit, oh god, where is it” looking for something in his pockets
“Oh shit, the devil is going to kill me, I should’ve never made a deal with her in the first place, Tabitha”
Thoughts about panicking with Tabitha, and how much he owes
Gnome: “Nothing is worse than dealing with that witch, I’ve already sold my soul, what left is there to give” Reaching for his pocket, hear metal clinging, thoughts of “I can end this, so I can’t speak”
Yul casts Hold Person
He’s gripping a dagger
Sarah takes his dagger, and throws it into the ocean, Sarah also takes his money
He has a business card, “Tabitha’s Witch Hut of Healing”
Seliph goes to take a walk, the captain follows
The deep gnome is paralyzed
Gnome: “I didn’t sign up for this, was supposed to bring my target to the destination, but Tabitha intervened, she said she wouldn’t”
Gnome: tall, suit of armor, Gabriel, but he doesn’t know his name, only physical description
Gnome: “I was just supposed to hand out rings, I just needed a ring”
Gnome: “I dunno what Tabitha was thinking, does she only want me to suffer?”
Gnome is a middleman
Gnome: “I didn’t ask for that spell, or that scroll, I just want this all to end, if any of you can hear my thoughts, just let me die, I don’t want to be indebted to her”
Gnome: “She gets total ownership of me, she’s trying to make Valzelia better for other people, it makes people happier, I was just a simple grifter
The spell scroll goes off automatically if the person holding it dies
Seliph tells Nim to throw the jar of purple stuff into the ocean, after we debrief him on Gabriel
Nim notices the obelisk is glowing blue, and water comes out the top
The water forms a hand, becoming like a boat
Investigating Gabriel’s helmet, feel sinister magic lurking within, feel something drawing you in, it wants to be put on
Nim subconsciously is putting it on
Yul bonks Nim on the head
Nim gives the helmet to Sarah
Sarah slashes at it with her sword, it cracks and melts/fizzles away, can still feel the presence of its magic
Yul dispels the magic
Sarah casts Locate Object, can’t detect the statuette
We decide to use the materials and the revive spell scroll to revive the captain’s second in command, Patron
Patron gets up and kicks the gnome in the balls, then shin
We get on the Thetis water boat
We update Seliph on what’s going on with Thetis and whatnot
We make it to half moon bay
We arrive at crescent boardwalk, the sun is mostly down, everything is shutting down, welcomed by a confused sailor
Tells us our lodgings by central market, taverns still open, stuff is closing though
After arguing about who’s covering for food, Seliph takes us to a nice waterfront seafood restaurant
Seliph orders hella seafood boils and stuff
Seliph and Sarah fight for the claws in the crab
Bloo decides it’s a handstand contest, silvery barbs Seliph, alas it doesn’t help
Dude is gaudy, and it’s a projection, not a real person
He’s very annoying, talks about how good purple would look on Nim
And perfumes
Very annoying
He traps us in with a barrier
Nim threatens to burn the place down
The wizard finally opens the door, pissed af at us
They tried to Hold Person us, doesn’t work on Bloo
They’re a wizard of fashion
We leave, go to blood, bath and beyond
It’s a blacksmith place,
He pulls out a dagger with divination magic?
A dagger that you’ve never missed, it’s called heart seeker
He pulls out a steel rod, slightly blue, this thing, feels very cold to the touch, 3500 gp
Has a staff, can fire magic missiles, 1200gp
His leg is prosthetic, made of solid steel
Portals in underdark opening up, the drow and deepgnome
Lots of immigrants coming from the other island
Everything’s pricey because of the Exhas Merchants and Trading Co. guild, if you’re not sponsored by them you can’t stay afloat
He hands us a business card, give to the tailor, and see a ring on his hand
Rings of Blain, very shiny, extremely polished gold ring, magic radiating from it is similar to what it feels like to be with sarah when she was wearing it
All the things he’s been saying, he’s been very empathetic, he truly does feel sorry, like he’s been charmed
Rings of Bling is a pretty new store, not endorsed by the guild yet, but he supports it, hopes it does get endorsed
Sarah goes to try to take the ring off of the blacksmith
Sarah slid it up a little, but broke his finger
Bloo tries Suggestion, it doesn’t work
Sarah threatens to cut off his hand
Sarah finally succeeds in convincing him to take the ring off, and when he tries to take it off it just snaps back onto his finger
Yul casts Remove Curse
The ring changes from polished gold to faded silver and then it shatters
Hear his voice tremble in fear, he keels over, and falls over
Hear a voice from the corpse, “Yees, keep doing this, find me if you dare, how many are you willing to kill”
The voice disappears
As we converse about wtf to do, someone knocks on the door
A deep gnome, a goatee, and a monocle, thick gloves, he’s with the guild
We try to convince him that all we did was dispel the curse
Sarah only detects divination magic
We say that all we dispelled curse, he doesn’t believe us
Sarah casts Zone of Truth
Meek half elf attendant writes everything down
We tell this guild member everything, including the witch and everything
He tells us to go to the cathedral to try to save this guy
Reverand Doctor Arlo Meadow, cleric of Lumus, I will report to this guild, please refrain from going into the ring store, and I’m keeping an eye on you
I trust you only because of zone of truth
His attendant hands us this card: Metalwork Keyholder Wilfred Dongle
Keyholder is title of one of the 5 most important people in exhas merchant guild
Each keyholder is in charge of a different domain of expertise, fashion, food, metalworking, and alchemy
We decide to go get the reverand and bring him to the store
He locks up the store
As we walk through the alley, Nim checks the fletcher store, Bloo and Yul go to the cathedral
Nim notices that the fletcher has a ring
Nim shakes his hand, he tries to slide the ring off, his eyes tilt at you, fade black, and glow with a glint of red, his hand follows the ring, hear another voice “another one??”, his neck cranes to the left, snapping 90 degrees, as you let go of the ring, the ring snaps back to his hand, the fletcher keeps going about the arrows
Nim and fletcher talk about arrows
The blacksmith coupon is good for 2 arrows only
Bloo and Yul go to the cathedral, we observe how many people have rings, we see 17 people with the ring, 150 people were might’ve seen total
People with rings appear to be relatively rich, the very gaudy ones have rings, can only tell they’re wearing rings in a similar fashion, can’t tell which one is cursed
See a very beautiful building, looks almost intimidating how beautiful and devout people are entering here
Talk to the attendant, about wilfred sending us for the reverand, and the murder, and he agrees to let us see the reverand after his sermon, in about 15 minutes
For nim and sarah, nim is asking sarah some questions about how we want to remove the ring, but neither Nim or Sarah have remove curse
Talk about the wares, bows and arrows
We decide to wait for Bloo and Yul with the reverand to the fletcher