# Session S15 ← `=this.prev` | **`=this.campaign`** | `=this.next` → > [!overview] > | **Session** | `=this.session` | > | --- | --- | > | **Session date** | `=this.date-session` | > | **Campaign date** | `=this.campaign-date` | > | **PCs** | `=this.pc` | > | **Active NPCs** | `=this.npc_active` | > | **Discussed NPCs** | `=this.npc_discussed` | > | **Active locations** | `=this.location-active` | > | **Discussed locations** | `=this.location-discussed` | > [!summary]- > To write. > %% > tldr:: To write. > %% %% ### Starting notes: - Snow: "Odonth. "Vor-torm?" Poisoned them. Ambushed them." %% ## Notes - Langdedrosa pulls out his giant spear and swings… and swings… and kills Fantoccio. He walks out of the tent, talks to the blackhands, and then walks back inside. - Huxley starts to dash towards the white tents. He shouts "Lenore! Lenore! Help!" a couple of times while being chased by the blackhands. - Snow and Lenore look up in the tent, and Lenore wonders if someone was looking for her. Snow tells her to stay in the tent if she wants to stay safe. Lenore asks if she can come out to see what's happening. - Snow goes fast around the tent and wonders what she can do to help Huxley. Snow gets between Huxley and the blackhand. - Lenore comes out of the tent and walks towards the blackhand and Snow with her hands up. "What is going on here?" - Huxley tries to hide behind Snow. - Lenore says that Hayla may be interested in talking to "this one" and convinces the blackhand he needs to back off. It's the same one who Lenore sassed earlier. - He says he's planning to file a report to the higher ups, and Lenore asks to know his name so she knows who would be bringing the charges. "[[Horadar]]." - Horadar had said some pretty dismissive and mean things to Snow, and Lenore notices Snow is hurt by this, even though she's trying not to react. - Lenore asks Huxley a leading question: "Did you follow me into this camp, coming to look for me?" "…Yes." - Snow appears to not be listening until Lenore says she's sorry for what Horadar said to her. It wasn't nice or fair. - Lenore then introduces Huxley and Snow, mentioning how Snow is into fashion design. - Shava goes and talks with other Cultists. "How do you do, fellow cultists?" He has blonde hair. - Camp is pretty busy today, more busy than usual. - Shava asks more about the [[Black Knight]]. "I've heard he's like half giant. He came along with that big dragonborn leadership guy, [[Odonth Darkwrath|Odonth]] (but forgets his name and sounds it out)." He thinks they're buddies, know each other. - Astrid goes to drink with the pirates and red sun mercenaries. Pirates are total sadists; red sun mercenaries are basically just people doing mercenary work for pay. - Leonard goes to talk with Cultists. He's looking for [[Ole Jack]] and finds him to talk. - "It seems like our superiors are going to move soon. I may go back to our old place to see if there's anything to do there." Ole Jack suspects they're going to take apart their items from Greenest and move them along. - Lenore. Poisoned guy. About 9 months ago. Hasn't met anyone called Vartan. The dead guy was a paladin of Torm. He was a strong fighter. Wanted him out of the way. Odonth likes duels. - Lenore asks about the man tied to the stake (Leosin). They caught him outide like the other prisoners, but he was sneaking around. They questionned and starved him. - Snow has been part of this particular group for the past year. Only the past couple months, Odonth has been higher up in ranks. He's close with Rezmir. - In that time, he had a prisoner. Half-elf man. Snow found him and slowed him down enough for Odonth found and captured him. Odonth let him go… a test. Odonth has plans within plans. He knows a lot of tactics. - Where did you find the man? They caught him NE of the camp. Not in Greenest. He was closer to Berdusk. - Hayla likes to keep people longer term after capturing them. Sometimes they seem like completely different people, talk or act different. Sometimes they get made to be part of the cult. She charms them. "Charming shows you care." - Is anyone here right now charmed? Blue dragonborn. She touches them. - Lenore is familiar with Charm Person. Monsters can charm people but aren't touch-based. Not lots of touch-based charm things that change memories. - She doesn't yet know how to help Langdedrosa, and will have to learn that knowledge somewhere. - Snow thinks Hayla wants to charm and keep Lenore. - Snow thinks they'll either gather everyone if going to a single place, or tell individual groups next steps. - Hours pass while they wait. - Astrid is drinking with the pirates and mercenaries, and a woman dressed in red as a witch (pointy hat) is there drinking from a teacup. - Astrid casts her divine sense. She's not, but there's three undead pirates because one pirate is a necromancer. - She doesn't have any pupils. Her eyes are just yellow/orange. - She's hanging out with the red suns because they seem interesting for humans. She's not a human, and admits it. - The witch woman hands her a cup of tea. It's citrusy and from her home… both near and far away. - Her name is [[60 Games/62 Campaigns/2022-09 Hoard of the Dragon Queen/05 NPCs/Freya|Freya]]. Astrid gives her *her* real name. - "Chance is a funny thing. Sometimes you catch it; sometimes it catches you." - She's headed north. - She gets up, packs up her tea cups and kettle. She disappears between the tents. - The other pirates didn't notice her for a few minutes, Astrid almost has to shake the pirates to get them to notice. - Leonard does stuff, Chiko private chat. - [[Odonth Darkwrath]], [[Horadar]] and another blackhand head to the kobold camps. - In the white tents, Snow, Lenore, and Huxley would hear the crunching of grass walking westward. - Shava would notice [[Azbara Jos]] return to his tent. - The blackmarches swap out at the main gate (there were five, now there are three) - Odonth goes to the cultists to speak. - Leonard is there; Shava would see this and she goes closer to listen (nat20 deception +11). Leo got a 9; Odonth doesn't *appear* to notice Leonard. - Odonth gives a speech. Plans have gone through as he's wanted, and further laid plans are going forward… Thanks them for their hard work. Needs people to start packing. They will be travelling. Mercs are going to split up, they have more important things to do. - Odonth walks away. - Frulam approaches the white tents from the south. Calls out Snow to speak with her. (Lenore casts guidance on Snow on her way out.) - "…what are you doing?" Frulam asks. Snow is sticking her head out of the tent flap. - Snow makes an excuse that her clothes are messy. Frulam gives a heavy sigh. - Frulam tells her she needs to pack up, they are heading out in the morning. Won't tell her where. - Huxley asks who that was. - Snow says she used to rule the sect; she's a person in purple. Leadership. She and Odonth were competing, but now that Rezmir is here, Rezmir is in charge. - Snow was going to sneak them out. Lenore says she trusts her. - Snow leaves the tent to go scout where people are; Lenore motions for Huxley to stay quiet while they wait in the tent. - Odonth and co. head over to the pirates and red suns area, where Astrid is still drinking… - Odonth talks with the leadership and thanks them for their work. They've been paid in full, and will reach out if they need them again. - Red Suns have other work lined up. Leadership guy wears glasses. - Odonth heads north to the Stormblades. - Leonard found Mark, and found a way to get him out of his bindings, but needs a distraction to get him out of the camp. - Blackmarch converge with torches towards the guard tower, with a woman in purple. ([[Frulam Mondath]].) - Snow returns to the tent. It turns out "more" of her friends are there… the tall guy and tall woman. - Lenore asks about the man who is tied to the stake ([[Leosin Erlanthar]]). She doesn't like to see people hurt. Huxley offers to send Fantoccio over as an invisible imp. - Lenore sends a message to Leosin to offer their help to free him. - "I appreciate your offer, but please leave me here. I have things in hand. Don't worry about me." - Huxley sends a message to Leonard that they're safe and finding their own way out. - Leonard says to meet them by the pirates. - Lenore disguises herself as a generic cultist. - Snow, Huxley, and Lenore join Shava and Astrid while Leonard goes to get Mark. - Shava freaks out at Snow; Lenore cautions them they're okay — Snow isn't harmful. - Astrid asks if she trusts Snow, and she says yes. - The stabbing thing is a vocation. - Lenore says "oh, it's too bad… you had no idea that box was empty" - Snow had been tied to the stake as punishment. - Astrid feels bad. - Leonard goes and pays the rest for Mark. - As Fantoccio goes over to Leosin… - Odonth comes out of the darkness, and Fantoccio didn't hear him at all. - Leosin looks like he's asleep. - "Why, [[Horadar]], [[Jackal 62.04|Jackal]]… I believe we've had new guests around here. Hopefully they've heard where we're going. What do you think?" And Odonth looks basically directly at invisible [[Fantoccio]]. - "Jackal… get out the hunting dogs…" - Lenore casts pass without a trace and they head out as they can. - We make it out past the one blackmarch - Frulam is arguing with Red Sun members - Snow departs after 200 feet outside the camp. They say their goodbyes (Lenore says she'll send when she can, reminds her she has the gold for books etc). Shava hopes she never sees Snow again. Astrid and Huxley thank her for her help. - The party decide to take the road back to [[Greenest]]. - Moon is waxing gibbous. - Into the second hour, we hear a yawning squeak of a kobold with a giant backpack. There's a circle of stones around a cold firepit. And the party runs onwards. - We come across two owlbears on the road. - We make it back to the edge of [[Greenest]], though Lenore takes one point of exhaustion.