# Session S16 ← `=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: - One point of exhaustion: - Disadvantage on ability checks. - Lenore wants to send a message to Vartan with her last spell slot. - It's me. Are you safe? Different sects hunt Kassandra for different reasons. One witnessed Kassandra's escape. She knew me somehow, Vartan. Please, where are you? - She will share that both she and Hayla have a common interest: Kassandra. - Up until now, thought Kassndra had died at the temple massacre. - Hayla, book. Kassndra alive, and escaped from the cult? - She doesn't know why Hayla would share, but she knows Hayla collects people and stories. She's collected a part of Kassandra's story, but not her… and she's started collecting Lenore. %% ## Notes - We think we make it back to [[Greenest]] without being tracked. It's evening, and we see the torchlight around [[The Keep]] in the distance. - Lenore casts light on her shield for the people who can't see in the dark. - Leonard offers for Astrid to carry Mark once in town… to help her with her relationship with Marisa. - Mark looks troubled and afraid, but quiet. A little too hardened as a kid… - She declines after chatting with him. - Someone stands to the north by the bridge, in a dark cloak. - Fine silk black robes. They stand completely still. Blank eyes, clouded over. - It's [[Old Mo]], but he looks a little different. He looks more well-kept. - "Interesting how the night goes…" He doesn't seem to see us and walks away from the bridge. - Astrid approaches and sees if he's okay. He says he's alive, and just looks up, mostly ignoring us. - "You should be fine for now. I don't really see anything coming after you." - Astrid asks about the drawings in his shack. - "It's not often I have time for lucid memory." - "I was well away, I don't think they would have found me." - His visions of the future/past is jumbled. Papers from his younger years. - Lenore asks him about the sketch of Kassandra - She shows him the drawing - The drawing is decades old. - Lenore asks again about the drawing. - He can't explain in a way that makes sense. - He dreamed of a yawning pit, terrors deep below. Fire, burning. Give great heads glaring. Giants, of minds, of a land held in fog, different times, different paths. - Occassionally people before they meet them - She asks about a fortress in a cloud. Different, not all the same. - He hasn't dreamed about the girl in years. - He taps and scraps at the ground, and we hear a thunk. "I think this will be useful, serve you all well." - Astrid crouches down and digs out a small box. - "These are just things I've picked up over the years. I think you will need it." - Astrid asks him if he remembers calling us all liars. He remembers it, didn't mean it to be offensive. - It's more like we all have secrets. - Astrid asks about the item Vartan had smuggled out. - He suggests going to some city, some mage. - At this point, the moon has been covered by cloud, and Old Mo starts slouching down as though losing energy. - Lenore asks if he's seen Vartan recently, based on the sketch. She has a hard time desribing his appearance. He hasn't seen him around. - He walks away muttering… "Death travels in sixes…" - Astrid looks at the wooden box from under the ground. It's a small chest. We take it with us to look at in privacy. - We make it to [[The Keep]]. [[Fritz]] is on guard above the main gate. He lets us in. - They head towards the room where Marisa was staying previously to try and reunite her and Mark. - [[Marisa]] seems exhausted but so happy to be reunited with [[Mark]]. - Lenore drops back quietly to send a message %%to [[Vartan Silverbow]]%% - Leo, without stopping, quips asking if she's waiting for her girlfriend. - The message: %%It's me. Are you safe? Different sects hunt Kassandra for different reasons. One witnessed Kassandra's escape. She knew me somehow, Vartan. Please, where are you?%% - The response: %%I am safe now, have no fear. I have made a form of escape and am outside of danger.%% - They head to find Tarbaw next and go towards Tarbaw's private quarters. The guard stops us to know why we are there so late… - We are allowed in. He asked what we learned. - Local leaders were there. - Mercenaries were dismissed. - There are different groups within the cult and have dispersed. They have competing interests. - We were able to get [[Mark]] out. - We know they are leaving by morning. - He asks questions. - Where is camp located - We describe it south of [[Greenest]]. - Who are the leaders and groups, why they're doing it. - Leaders - [[Rezmir]] - [[Odonth Darkwrath]] - [[Langdedrosa Cyanwrath]] - [[Frulam Mondath]] - [[Hayla]] - [[Snow]] - [[Black Knight]] - [[Azbara Jos]] - 40 [[Red Sun Mercenaries]] - 40 [[Dark Sail Pirates]] - 30 [[Stormblades]] - 40+ [[Cult of the Dragon|Cultists]] - 30+ Kobolds - 30+ Blackmarch - 3+ [[Red Wizards of Thay]] - [[The White Wyrmspeakers]] - Dragon - Watchtower guy - Lenore asks about [[Elturel]] and [[Tarbaw Nighthill]] confirms he has contacts there that may be able to help. - Astrid asks about the [[Winter Garden]]. It's not a small place, but easy to find there. - Tarbaw needs to think further on this. They may go back in the morning to examine the camp. - Payment in the morning. - They may need to send an envoy to [[Elturel]]. Lenore offers as she's heading in that direction next. [[Astrid Dawngaze]] says she'll go as well. - He'll give us horses for our trip as thanks. - Leonard stays behind a moment and shares more learning… - Cultists are basic humanoids, like basic bandits - Some highter ups are cleric-like with healing spells - Stock standard kobolds, low value canon fodder for the Cult - Guard drakes are nasty and eat alot, can kill a standard guard easily - Some differences based on colouration (like dragons, resistance not immunity) - Known Wyrmspeakers - [[Severin]] (red) - [[Galvan]] (blue) - [[Neronvain]] (green) - [[Rezmir]] (black) - [[Varram]] (white) - They go find somewhere safe and private to talk, Astrid's room. - Lenore asks if they can make sure the room is secure first, free of invisible creatures. We don't see anything. - Improvize. Got caught. Avoid tent - Shava visibly unhappy with situation - "[[Geas|Geese]]" spell. Talks about Snow. - Lenore isn't familiar with this spell at all. - Lenore talks about what she leared about [[Kassandra]], and that Hayla is looking for her - ==details== - Astrid confronts Huxley about not being alive. - Astrid has an ability to sense undead… and sensed [[Faust Huxley]] - Huxley died. And then came back… doesn't really talk about it. - Are you like you are when you were alive…? doesn't remember a lot about being alive. - Where are you from? [[Waterdeep]]. - Not the fancy place where all the schools are. - From an orphanage/clinic on the wrong side of the tracks, basically. - How long have you been back? No more than 10 years… - Does continue to grow and age. - Died when they were a teenager. - Lenore learns Shava summoned demons while at the camp - …that's cool. - Lenore: …what's in the box? - 5x healing potions » One each - Spell Scroll of [[Greater Restoration]] » [[Lenore Sigyn|Lenore]] - [[Blood Drinkers Goblet]] » [[Faust Huxley]] - [[Multi-Strike]] » [[Fantoccio]] - Astrid talks about the witch woman she met ([[60 Games/62 Campaigns/2022-09 Hoard of the Dragon Queen/05 NPCs/Freya|Freya]]) - Was there to watch people watch other people - Drank tea - No one else noticed her - Orangey yellow eyes with no pupil - DM intrusion: Huxley knew someone with the name and description back in the orphange, but it was a long time ago… - Leonard pulls Lenore aside and asks why she's been hiding why she's a divine caster… - …she hasn't been. She literally talked about it the first time they met. - He walks on. Leonard is weird and rude. - We all go to bed. - Leo and Hux share a room. Leo sleeps on the floor so he can stare at the moon. - %%Lenore sleeps with a chair wedged under the door knob and a dagger under her pillow.%% - In the morning, Astrid comes to talk with Lenore - Astrid hears Lenore pull a chair that was wedged under her door knob before she opens the door. - Wants to talk about Snow - Charm person as self defence - Snow being misunderstood - Astrid wants to apologize to Snow; can Lenore send a message? - Lenore will send it tonight if she has slots. - Astrid wonders about her Interests in dreams - Had a weird dream recently, felt very real - Asks about Waterdeep, and guard's clothes… - Has dreamt about wearing a Waterdeep guard uniform, but old - Astrid shows an image of a woman in her dreams that she talked to - Lenore has no idea who the person is - She couldn't remember her own name - Astrid shows an image of "the temple" from her dreams - Lenore has no idea what this place is - If it exists, she might know where it is. (Why she wants to go to [[Elturel]].) - We get the 250gp rewards from Tarbaw - We decide to go towards the camp to investigate. - As we cross the bridge, we see [[Leosin Erlanthar]] walking up the path…