# Session S33 > [!overview] > [campaign:: [[60 Games/62 Campaigns/2022-09 Hoard of the Dragon Queen/Hoard of the Dragon Queen|Hoard of the Dragon Queen]]] > [session:: S33] (prev:: [[2023-11-19_S32|←]]) (next:: [[2024-01-14_S34|→]]) > [session date:: 2023-11-26] > [campaign date:: ] > [pc:: [[Lenore Sigyn]], [[Astrid Dawngaze]], [[Faust Huxley]], [[Gomash]], [[Ryk]]] > [npc_active:: [[Thomas]], [[Ferias]], [[Snow]], [[Ackyn Selebon]], [[Langdedrosa Cyanwrath]]] > [npc_discussed:: [[Luise Starhold]], [[Icelyn]], [[Odonth Darkwrath]], [[Yimmon Tsari]], [[60 Games/62 Campaigns/2022-09 Hoard of the Dragon Queen/05 NPCs/Freya|Freya]], [[Treya Oakhallow]]] > [location-active:: [[Triel]], [[Baldur's Gate]], [[Ackinsaw]], [[Black Gate]], [[Shrine of the Suffering]]] > [location-discussed:: [[Elfsong Tavern]]] > > --- > > (tldr:: Summary.) %% ### Starting notes: - %% ## Notes - Ryk starts by looking for pictures of the family, but there are none. No additional context from an insight check; [[Thomas]] just seems awkward. - Astrid questions him. Why doesn't he seem happy to see her? It seems disjointed from the fact they keep her room intact and clean. (He says he's overwhelmed.) - Wife should return later tonight. - [[Luise Starhold]] works on the farm (occupation). - Astrid lectures Thomas. - They decide to go see the cows while Thomas goes back to talk with Kassandra. ("Roll for milking!") - The animals are well taken care of. - Gomash names a cow Etta. - Astrid convinces [[Ferias]] to come outside, to give [[Kassandra]] and [[Thomas]] some space. - He doesn't go over to the cows, but instead is 100 feet back and writing in a black book. - Kassandra dries her eyes in her bedroom, and reapplies the mask of many faces - Thomas is facing away from her. His body language seems off. - I rolled a 30 for insight. - Kassandra realizes he has been acting weird since they arrived. - She realizes he doesn't match her memories. - He doesn't seem pleased she's here, but pleased she's safe. - She coughs to get his attention. - "I'm glad to see you well again." - He walks closer towards her. - Should leave before dinner. There are friends of your mom she shouldn't meet. - They are new friends. Just came into town, and hit it off. - Her siblings don't know about her mom's new friends. - She waits a moment, and gives him a hug. - She puts up her hood before she leaves the house, and doesn't look back. - "We have to go. Now." - First to Ferias, then to the rest of the party. - Kassandra dips into a wheat field and puts on her circlet, and then reapplies her Mask of Many Faces to look different than Lenore. - We go into the barn, and Ferias starts putting together a teleportation circle. - A woman walks by the barn with pale white hair - She has a red scarf and white hat. - We manage to teleport away to outside of [[Baldur's Gate]]. - Wood cabin in the woods. - She reveals she's actually Kassandra to Ryk. - They talk about her captivity. - We are 3 hours away from Baldur's Gate south, with the road to the east. - Kassandra takes a moment to collect herself, but sends a message to Snow. - "Do you know anything about Triel? Do you have family in the area at the moment?" - Doesn't know much about Triel. Her sister, [[Icelyn]], has been there lately. - Ferias mentions we need to talk to [[Ackyn Selebon]] about any caravans that have come in and out of Baldur's Gate. They are at [[Black Gate]]. - (retcon; [[Ontharr Frume]] was supposed to tell us about them…) - We approach Baldur's Gate via [[Rivington]] (which is the opposite side of the city from [[Black Gate]]) - Huxley unsummons his familiar before getting to the city, since he would. be a problem. - We enter into the Lower City through Basilisk Gate - Kassandra keeps her eyes peeled for any signs of the cult as they walk, while Astrid watches for anyone watching them. - She only spots normal shady people, not Cult shady people - The buildings get nicer as we walk north, and the fog dissipates - There are a lot of cats in the city. - We finally make it through the Black Dragon Gate to the [[Blackgate]] - We meet up with [[Ackyn Selebon]] in [[Blackgate]] at his shop, [[Ackinsaw]] (he was formally a carpenter). - Asks him to keep his eyes peeled for a caravan from Elturel - Leah mistakening thinks it's been confirmed that Odonth will be a part of it. It's unconfirmed. My bad! - We get basically nothing out of Ackyn, and instead Kassandra sends a message to [[Langdedrosa Cyanwrath]] to find out where he is. He's at the [[Shrine of the Suffering]] so we head there. - At the [[Shrine of the Suffering]] - Has a symbol, white hands bound with red cord, which is a church for [[Ilmater]] - Lang isn't in his heavy armour, but is in a black tunic and long pants. - Kassandra gives Langdedrosa a hug, while Lang smiles at. (And then Gomash does, too.) - We go further in for a safer small room to talk. - Fill him in about the temple to [[60 Games/62 Campaigns/2022-09 Hoard of the Dragon Queen/05 NPCs/Bahamut|Bahamut]] near [[Elturel]]. - [[Odonth Darkwrath]] has mentioned it in the past. He has been interested in dragons. - The mountain was a burial ground for dragons. - Think of it like factions: - One group set up a shrine to dragons or to Bahamut - One group burned it. (Fae not known for fire.) - Kassandra filled him in about her parents and [[Icelyn]] - Lang had got into a disagreement with the Flaming Fist, but otherwise has been around the Shrine of the Suffering. - Gomash blurts out that his father was a rebel in Baldur's Gate. - Kassandra wants to meet [[Yimmon Tsari]] - Langdedrosa suggests Evan and Tiana wouldn't be safe if Kassandra does or doesn't meet them, so suggests giving them a warning. - [[Treya Oakhallow]] disappeared once they arrived - Huxley wants to find both [[60 Games/62 Campaigns/2022-09 Hoard of the Dragon Queen/05 NPCs/Freya|Freya]] and [[Treya Oakhallow]]. - Huxley messages [[Treya Oakhallow]]; they are at the [[Elfsong Tavern]]. - Ryk suggests we have non-verbal signs if something is wrong. - They get out a piece of paper and coal to write out the signs. They are written symbols. - We also decide to tug our left ear it something is wrong.